Post ArU7H9fWbioNeWF5JA by alanc@fosstodon.org
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 (DIR) Post #ArU7H8Z6i65GEKERfM by alanc@fosstodon.org
       2025-02-25T17:17:39Z
       
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       Today we've released #OracleSolaris 11.4.78, our quarterly feature update.  The announcement is at https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru78 and lists the new features and software upgrades included.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArU7H9fWbioNeWF5JA by alanc@fosstodon.org
       2025-02-25T17:33:40Z
       
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       In #OracleSolaris 11.4.78, the iostat command now accepts fnmatch(7)-style patterns for matching disk device names, such as "iostat -xnb  c1t[0-2]d\* 1 1"" (the \ is to avoid your shell trying to expand by itself).  Also, the new option '-b' to iostat displays backend statistics for virtual devices assigned to guests (Kernel Zones or LDom guests).
       
 (DIR) Post #ArU7HAfurkicm1QuYa by alanc@fosstodon.org
       2025-02-25T17:37:39Z
       
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       The IPS pkg command in #OracleSolaris 11.4.78 was fixed to pick a uid over 100 when creating a user without a uid specified, to avoid conflicts with uids reserved for OS packages.useradd(8)/groupadd(8) were changed to allocate the first free uid above 1000 when no explicit uid is given, to keep them out of the space reserved for packages.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArU7HBFiidMIZ4BVMe by alanc@fosstodon.org
       2025-02-25T17:42:37Z
       
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       The cpio command in #OracleSolaris 11.4.78 will no longer extract files to outside the current working directory unless the new -x option is provided, making it safer if archives contain files with absolute paths, or relative paths containing '../' in them.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArU7HBlymhAAB7HGe8 by alanc@fosstodon.org
       2025-02-25T18:03:26Z
       
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       FOSS additions in #OracleSolaris 11.4.78 include MySQL 8.4, Python 3.13, and Ruby 3.3.FOSS removals include GCC 11, GTK 2, Node.js 18, Perl 5.36, and Python 3.9.FOSS upgrades include ansible-core 2.18, GDB 15.1, Mercurial 6.8, Meson 1.5.2, PSUtils replaced with PSPDFUtils, and Samba 4.20.5.(See the README for the much longer complete lists for FOSS changes.)