Chapter 1. What's New in this Release

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Major New Features/Improvements

Major New Features/Improvements

The major new changes introduced in this release are:

  • Minimum version of Solaris on SPARC [Effective with 10.1.1-H8 and later] Solaris on SPARC is supported on Solaris 10 U11 and later. Earlier versions of Solaris are no longer supported. See Supported Systems for details.

  • Remove Support for Solaris 32-bit on X86 [Effective with 10.1.1-H8 and later] Solaris on 32-bit X86 is no longer supported. Only Solaris 64-bit is supported. See Supported Systems for details.

  • Support for Linux on ARM64 [Effective with 10.1.1-H5 and later] Support has been added for Linux on ARM64 systems. See Supported Systems for details.

  • Configuration File Installed in /etc [Effective with 10.1.1-H5 and later] During installation the primary SysInfo configuration file will be installed into /etc/mcsysinfo/mcsysinfo.cfg and a copy will be placed in config/mcsysinfo.cfg under the install directory. The /etc file is required when SysInfo is installed setuid to root in order to prevent the ability for a local user to gain root access.

  • Added support for Amazon Linux 2 This release introduces support for Amazon Linux 2 on x64.

  • Added support for MacOS 11 (Big Sur) This release introduces support for MacOS 11 (aka Big Sur).

  • Added support for ARM64 (Apple Silicon) based Mac Systems Mac systems based on ARM64 (Apple Silicon) processors are now supported.

  • Remove Support for Linux 32-bit x86 Support for 32-bit x86 Linux has been removed in this release.

  • Remove Support for Solaris 2.6 and 32-bit sparc Support for 32-bit sparc has been removed in this release. Solaris 7 64-bit and later are now the minimum version supported for sparc systems.

  • Deprecated nafiler driver The NetApp driver (nafiler) has been removed in this release.

  • Deprecated GUI The SysInfo graphical user interface (GUI) has been removed in this release as its death was a mercy.

For a complete list of new features and bug fixes in this release, please read the doc/CHANGES.txt file found in the distribution.