Solaris 10 Update 8 (10/09) is coming

Another release of our workhorse Solaris 10 is near completion. I have dug up some of the enhancements from what's available outside of SWAN. There seems to be quite a bit of new stuff going into this release:

• Turbo-charging SVr4 packaging (speed enhancements for install/patch/upgrade)
• Zone parallel patching (already available by patch 119254-66)
• Interrupt resource management
• ZFS L2ARC
• ZFS user/group quota
• Wicked fast memstat
• Extended VTOC (for booting from > 1TB disks)
• NTP version 4
• FMA support for intel Core i7
• MPT driver enhancements

This will also be the first release that will be transferable into a S10 branded container in Solaris.next.

All this is of course my own educated guesses based on what i could find outside of Sun, but I would be surprised if it is much different from what will be released.