New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU90 (Feb 2026)

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features

devnm -s
beadm preserve policy
ls -sh output change
bootadm GRUB unrestricted property
ikev2cert PIN from SMF
nscfg check
new smf svc:/system/check/name-services:default

FOSS: BIND 9.20
EOF: GCC 12

New postgres packages are ready for Solaris 11.4 SPARC

You don't need to download source and compile yourself  for Solaris.

We provide compiled postgres as Solaris 11.4 SPARC IPS pkgs.
Current versions are 18.2, 17.8, 16.12, 15.16, 14.21

Free download and no registration
https://www.jomasoft.ch/downloads/#js-opensource

The State of Oracle Solaris - Jan 2026

Oracle Solaris is not much in the press anymore, but used
for critical systems around the world.

Solaris 11.4 was launched in 2018. Oracle provides updates/patches
every month. Every quarter (Feb,May,Aug,Nov) the update includes new features.
Oracle will provide this monthly updates till at least November 2037.

Documented in:
http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pdf

Oracle is working to make sure Solaris will run properly after 2037 for example
with changes in SRU72 delivered in August 2024. It would be no surprise
if the updates will continue after November 2037.
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru72

For developers a pretty current version (CBE) is available
for free to develop and test software.

Solaris CBE Download:
https://www.oracle.com/solaris/solaris11/downloads/solaris-downloads.html

Oracle even provides patches for the older releases Solaris 10
and Solaris 11.3. The last patches are expected by January 2027.
We highly recommend to migrate to Solaris 11.4 and we are
happy to support you with our very experiences engineers.

Oracle's Management and Monitoring tools (OpsCenter and VM Manager for SPARC) 
reached End-Of-Life. No patches are provided anymore. 

We at JomaSoft continue to enhance our VDCF management and monitoring tool 
for Oracle Solaris and Linux
https://www.jomasoft.ch/vdcf/

If you don't have a SPARC server yourself, maybe the JomaSoft
SPARC cloud could be helpful for you.
https://www.jomasoft.ch/services/