Re: New Solaris CBE release available

On 3/7/26 01:12, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> first of all, thanks a lot for providing another CBE release within such a short
> interval after the last one! I have already updated Debian's SPARC servers without
> any issues.
> 
> Being able to run a recent version of Solaris puts peace to the mind as we don't
> have to worry about potential unfixed CVEs. Plus, there are users who have reported
> issues with the previous CBE release on their SPARC S7, so I hope that issue will now
> be fixed as well.
> 
> So, huge thanks to you and your colleagues for making this possible!

You're welcome.

> I think that date was also pushed into the future already, wasn't it? I think the
> original plan foresaw the end of the service life in 2034, didn't it?

Yes, it was pushed out from 2034 to 2037 by request of customers who plan their
IT infrastructure many years into the future.  Whether it gets extended again
is still TBD.  (And to be pedantically correct, the original plan for Solaris 11
had a support life ending in 2024, which was then extended to 2034 when it was
decided to turn our Solaris 12 work-in-progress into an 11.4 release and stay on
Solaris 11 for the long term.)

> Btw, there are some open-source projects involving SPARC that Oracle previously worked
> on but that never got upstreamed. For example, there is an incomplete port of libunwind
> to SPARC [1] that I extracted from the Oracle Linux 6 sources. I would love to get these
> upstreamed and have been trying to reach out to Oracle engineers to make this happen. If
> you have the possibility to talk to some people, that would be great.

Unfortunately, the Linux engineers no longer work on SPARC ports, and the 
Solaris engineers mainly work on things we need for Solaris, so things like
that may fall through the cracks.

	-alan-