Solaris[tm] 8 Operating Environment 4/01
Description and What's New
This release adds selected product features and updates to the functionality
originally provided in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment; Solaris 8 6/00,
10/00 and 01/01 update releases, enhancing its capabilities and reputation
as the scalable, available, manageable, trustworthy, connected and comprehensive
platform of choice for the Net Effect -- while continuing to maintain compatibility
with previous releases of Solaris.
Key Features:
- WebStart Flash: Faster! Provides functionality to create
a single reference installation of the Solaris Operating Environment.
- RCM(Reconfiguration Coordination Manager) Public API: Perl
scripting interface to Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) operations allowing
third parties and system administrators to customize on DR operations.
- IP Multipathing Module for RCM: Enables easier Dynamic
Reconfiguration (DR) operations on Network Interface Cards.
- System ID Default Router: Allows systems to be automatically
configured with a specific router gateway.
- Enhancement to Mobile IP: Mobile IP now allows system
administrators to set up reverse tunnels.
- J2SE 1.3 : Java 2 Standard Edition version 1.3 utilizes
HotSpot technology and performance tuned run time libraries to
achieve the fastest Java platform to date.
- Sendmail 8.10: Upgrade to latest version from Sendmail,
Inc.
- Berkley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 8.2.2:
New revision includes bug fixes and security fixes, specifically
for CERT advisory 99.14. In.named configuration operations. Extension
to the
resolver (3RESOLV) interface that are safe to use in multithreaded
applications.
- Apache Web Server 1.3.12: Updated version.
- Netscape 4.76 : This version of Netscape incorporates
the latest fixes for security vulnerabilities.
- Appcert : This popular ABI testing toolset is now integrated into
the developer metacluster
- Driver Hardening Test Harness: It tests the resilience
of a SPARC-based device driver.
- Sysevent Public API: This initial API allows for programmatic
reading of system event buffers.
- mp Print Filter Enhancement: The mp print filter can now
act as a X Print Server client, this means that it can support any
Print Description Language which the X Print Server supports.
- CDE Desktop Enhancements: Graphical Workspace Manager and
the windows list GUI. Includes new features that enables easier application
navigation, access, customization, and viewing.
- UTF(Universal Transformation Format): Turkish UTF-8 Codes
and Russian UTF-8 Codes are added to a table of already existing
Eastern European locales.
- Language Support: The File System Safe Universal Transformation
Format, or UTF-8, is an encoding defined by X/Open as a multibyte
representation of Unicode
- Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM): The Sun WBEM Software
Developer's Toolkit (SDK) enables software developers to create
standard based applications that manage resources in the Solaris
operating environment.
- Java 2 SDK Standard Edition v1.3.0: Java HotSpot
technology and performance-tuned libraries make J2SE 1.3.0 the fastest
Java platform to date. The J2SE 12._07a contains fixes for bugs
that were identified in previous releases in the J2SE 1.2 2 series.
- Writing Device Drivers - SPARC: The driver hardening
test harness is a Solaris device driver development tool.
- Reconfiguration Coordination Manager (RCM): Scripts
enable a Solaris system administrator to use a script that
cleanly shuts down devices and applications during a dynamic reconfiguration
operation.
- Web Start Flash installation: Enables you to create
a single reference installation of the Solaris operating environment
on a machine and then replicate that installation on several machines.
- System Identification Utilities: Automatically
attempts to determine the default router during installation.
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