Sunsolve Support

• Sunsolve home page - for all your support needs
• Sunsolve patch page - Find a specific patch or get more information about patching
• Patch access changes - Are you running the Solaris 8, 9, or 10 OS? If yes, find out more about the latest patch access changes.
• Free Patches? Learn Which Patches Are Free or for a Fee
  The following lists note which patches are free or require a support contract. The "key" icon in the left corner denotes that the patch requires a support contract to download.

  SPARC Patch Lists

  • Solaris 10
  • Solaris 9
  • Solaris 8

  X86 Patch Lists

  • Solaris 10
  • Solaris 9
  • Solaris 8

View Lists of Patches For Each Solaris 10 Release

• Solaris Release Notes - Contains the patch lists through the Solaris 10 5/08 release
• Solaris Patch List - New document that contains the patch lists starting with the Solaris 10 10/08 release

Note: Patches released after each of the following releases can be found in the SunSolve patch lists above. The SunSolve lists contain patches for the entire Solaris 10 release.

Differences between the lists below and the SunSolve list above might occur. Some of the patches in the SunSolve list might be new patches or later revisions of those patches included in each release list below. Also, any patch that is in a particular Solaris release that was subsequently withdrawn from SunSolve will no longer be in the Sunsolve list.

• Solaris 10 10/08 pre-applied patch list
• Solaris 10 5/08 pre-applied patch list
• Solaris 10 8/07 pre-applied patch list
• Solaris 10 11/06 pre-applied patch list
• Solaris 10 6/06 pre-applied patch list
• Solaris 10 1/06 pre-applied patch list
• Solaris 10 1/06 pre-applied patch list

• Solaris 9 9/05 pre-applied patch list
• Solaris 9 9/04 pre-applied patch list
• Solaris 9 4/04 pre-applied patch list
• Solaris 9 4/03 pre-applied patch list
• Solaris 9 8/03 pre-applied patch list
• Solaris 9 12/03 pre-applied patch list
• Solaris 9 9/02 pre-applied patch list
• Solaris 9 12/02 pre-applied patch list

Solaris Patch Policy Entitlement Implementation Changes

Patch policy hasn't changed, but implementation has changed to reflect the policy. You need a support contract for timely access to patches.

• For an explanation, see Gerry's blog
• Read the offical Patch Policy

What Level of Support Is Right for You?

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Get Solaris 10 OS support and services

Get Solaris 8 OS Vintage Support

You can now use Solaris Live Upgrade to upgrade from the Solaris 8 OS to the Solaris 10 OS. For details, see SPARC: Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Upgrade From Solaris 8 to Solaris 10 05/08 (or Later Solaris Releases). For more upgrade resources, see Solaris 10 Upgrade Resources for System Administrators on BigAdmin.

Solaris 8 OS release begins Phase 2 of End of Service Life on April 1, 2009. If you are running Solaris 8 and want to continue patch support after April 1, read Solaris 8 Vintage Support.

Get Patch Management Tools

• For the Enterprise: Sun xVM Ops Center
• To manage a single system locally: Update Manager