Marcel Hofstetter Solaris Blog
News, Tips & Tricks and Ideas about Oracle Solaris.
15 May 2026
New postgres packages are ready for Solaris 11.4 SPARC
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You don't need to download source and compile yourself for Solaris. We provide compiled postgres as Solaris 11.4 SPARC IPS pkgs. Current...
04 May 2026
Oracle changes Solaris 11.4 SRU delivery
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In the past Oracle provided Solaris SRUs (Support Repository Updates) each month. This does change now. The types of SRUs are reduced from 3...
23 April 2026
Oracle provides JDK17 for Solaris 11.4 SPARC now!
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It is free for personal use and development. Download here: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/#java17-solaris The installa...
03 April 2026
Solaris 11.4 Updates/Patching Overview
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CBE (Common Build Environment) For developers Oracle provides a free version for software development and testing. No patches are available ...
31 March 2026
Solaris 11.4 / iostat latency reporting
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The iostat command is used for IO performance reporting and has a lot of options. Since Solaris 11.4 it includes the -L option to display t...
04 March 2026
The Next Oracle Solaris 11.4.90 CBE is available for Developers
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CBE is the Common Build Environment The first release 11.4.42 was made available by Oracle 03/2022. Last year 05/2025 the version 11.4.81 ...
27 February 2026
New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU90 (Feb 2026)
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Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features devnm -s beadm preserve policy ls -sh output change bootadm GRUB unrestricted property ...
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