Solaris 10 9/10

What's New:

• Installation Enhancements
• SPARC: Support for ITU Construction Tools on SPARC Platforms - In this release, the itu utility has been modified to support booting a SPARC based system with the install-time updates (ITU) process.
• Oracle Solaris Auto Registration - before you ask ... you can disable it
• Oracle Solaris Upgrade Enhancement for Oracle Solaris Zone– Cluster Nodes
• Virtualization Enhancements for Oracle Solaris Zones
• Migrating a Physical Oracle Solaris 10 System Into a Zone - cool, my RfE found its way into Solaris 10
• Host ID Emulation
• Updating Packages by Using the New zoneadm attach -U Option
• Virtualization Enhancements for Oracle VM Server for SPARC (formerly known as LDOMs)
• Memory Dynamic Reconfiguration Capability
• Virtual Disk Multipathing Enhancements
• Static Direct I/O
• Virtual Domain Information Command and API - the virtinfo command
• System Administration Enhancements
• Oracle Solaris ZFS Features and Enhancements
• ZFS device replacement enhancements - namely autoexpand
• some changes to the zpool list command
• Holding ZFS snapshots
• Triple parity RAID-Z (raidz3)
• The logbias property
• Log device removal - at last
• ZFS storage pool recovery
• New ZFS system process – In this release, each storage pool has an associated process, zpool-poolname
• Splitting a mirrored ZFS storage pool (zpool split)
• Fast Crash Dump
• x86: Support for the IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS MSR
• Support for Multiple Disk Sector Size
• iSCSI Initiator Tunables
• Sparse File Support in the cpio Command
• x86: 64-Bit libc String Functions Improvements With SSE
• Automated Rebuilding of sendmail Configuration Files
• Automatic Boot Archive Recovery
• Security Enhancements
• net_access Privilege
• x86: Intel AES-NI Optimization
• Language Support Enhancements
• New Oracle Solaris Unicode Locales
• Device Management Enhancements
• iSCSI Boot
• iSER Initiator
• New Hot-Plugging Features
• AAC RAID Power Management
• Driver Enhancements
• x86: HP Smart Array HBA Driver
• x86: Support for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC Driver
• x86: New SATA HBA Driver, bcm_sata, for Broadcom HT1000 SATA Controllers
• Support for SATA/AHCI Port Multiplier
• Support for Netlogic NLP2020 PHY in the nxge Driver
• Freeware Enhancements
• GNU TAR Version 1.23
• Firefox 3.5
• Thunderbird 3
• Less Version 436
• Networking Enhancements
• BIND 9.6.1 for the Oracle Solaris 10 OS
• GLDv3 Driver APIs
• IPoIB Connected Mode
• Open Fabrics User Verbs Primary Kernel Components
• InfiniBand Infrastructure Enhancements
• X11 Windowing Enhancements
• Support for the setxkbmap Command
• New Chipset Support
• ixgbe Driver to Integrate Intel Shared Code Version 3.1.9
• Broadcom Support to bge Networking Driver
• x86: Fully Buffered DIMM Idle Power Enhancement
• Fault Management Architecture Enhancements
• FMA Support for AMD's Istanbul Based Systems
• Several Oracle Solaris FMA Enhancement
• Diagnostic Tools Enhancements
• Sun Validation Test Suite 7.0ps9
• Enhancements to the mdb Command to Improve the Debugging Capability of kmem and libumem

You wil find a more in-depth description at docs.sun.com.