New release schedule for Solaris 11.4

I would like to draw your attention to a blog post by Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen: “Announcing a new simplified Support Repository Update (SRU) schedule for Oracle Solaris 11.4 and ZFS Storage Appliance software”. Up to now, Solaris 111 had three SRU releases per quarter: one in the “Critical Patch Update (CPU)” timeframe containing mostly security fixes2, one with all the new features2, and one in between with regular bug fixes only. So a new SRU was released every 4 weeks. In the future there will be two releases per quarter, one with the security fixes2 and one with the new features2. The cadence of new SRUs will be 6 weeks. If you go from CPU to CPU3, nothing changes. There is one every quarter as before. And the ZFS Storage Appliance Software (albeit under a diffent name) ↩ … and normal fixes ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 Which is in many cases my practical recommendation for production systems. That said, i’m a big fan of “Patch early, Patch often”. ↩