Update: Downloads should be fine again

Update: we’re having a software configuration issue on the SDLC and so the downloads may not be available at the moment. They should be working soon.

Today Solaris 10 6/06 shipped, marking the first supported release to include ZFS, Sun’s new filesystem.

For a engineers like Jeff, Bill, Matt (and many more) who have spent years perfecting ZFS, today marks a big milestone on a long road. Congratulations to Jeff and the whole team!

A What’s New guide is available and downloads of S10U2 are available immediately. A brief summary of some of the new features:

• ZFS, Sun’s revolutionary new filesystem
• Predictive Self Healing for x64 systems
• Predictive Self-Healing SNMP trap support
• Postgres bundled
• vold service conversion to SMF
• IPv6 for IPFilter
• More UDP and TCP/IP performance improvements
• In-kernel SSL proxy for SSL performance
• PCI Express support on x86 systems including hotplug
• Native SATA framework
• gnome-pilot support for PDA synchronization
• Xorg 6.9
• Realplayer