@c0t0d0s0 We added a sysattr(7) man page in #OracleSolaris 11.4.45 to make it easier to find out about attributes like this.

In addition to security fixes, updates for all three #OracleSolaris versions include time zone data updates (2025a for 10 & 11.3, 2025b for 11.4).

The Solaris 10 patchset also includes an update to mkdir to use lstat64() instead of lstat() so it works on filesystems with inodes outside the 32-bit range. This was fixed years ago in 11.3 & 11.4 by converting the mkdir program to be 64-bit, but Solaris 10 still supports 32-bit x86 systems, while Solaris 11 only has 64-bit kernels on SPARC & x86.

More information on the changes in #OracleSolaris 11.4.78, and some tips on things to do to prepare for future SRUs is now posted on the blog at https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-114-sru78

Diffs of the core OS man pages between #OracleSolaris 11.4.75 and 11.4.78 are at https://gist.github.com/alanc/c84be87ced541796db4da92fa41cbe68 so you can see more about what changed in the software, as well as some of the documentation cleanups we did.

My big man page projects for the quarter were cleanup passes across the i18n and SVR4 pkg man pages. I also added History sections on a bunch of man pages, including big sections on getconf(1), confstr(3c), sysconf(3c), libc(3lib), proc(5), mount(8), and especially zfs(8).

#OracleSolaris 11.4.78 also finishes the migration of all the packages included in the Solaris repo to use OpenSSL 3.0 instead of OpenSSL 1.0.2, clearing the way to allow the removal of OpenSSL 1.0.2 in a future SRU (probably not until our May quarterly feature update though).

If you still have any other software that depends on OpenSSL 1.0.2, now is the time for you to work on finishing your migration.

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, webkitgtk, and yelp.

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.)

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.

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.

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).

More information on the changes in #OracleSolaris 11.4.75, and some tips on things to do to prepare for future SRUs is now posted on the blog at https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-114-sru75