A Sun Microsystems bejelentette a Solaris 10 operációs rendszerének 5/09-es változatát. A kiadás főbb jellemzői:

• Performance, energy efficiency and reliability enhancements for the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series (Read more about how the Sun Solaris Platform Advancements Unleash the Power of the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series)

• The Power Aware Dispatcher, which automatically monitors and optimizes a company's system to maximize performance while minimizing power consumption. For example, it can be used in conjuction with Intel's new Deep C-States to dramatically reduce power consumed by idle
  cores.

• Solaris Containers updates including the ability to leverage ZFS filesystem cloning as the basis for
  container cloning - to provide significant speed and efficiency improvements

• The Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) suite of security protocols integration with Solaris Service Manager, allowing simplified management of overall security functions. IPsec is also now usable as the interconnect for Solaris Cluster, to manage fast, secure failover of session information among nodes of a cluster

• Logical Domains (LDoms) enhancements including virtual disk updates to streamline performance and extended VTOC (virtual table of contents) support for very large files, as well as VNET and VSW support for jumbo frames

• SSH performance enhancements on CMT systems, such as the ability to leverage hardware crypto acceleration on UltraSPARC T2 based systems

• Sun Validation Test Suite (VTS) updates to support diagnostics of new Sun systems

A Solaris 10 5/09-ben megtalálható technikai újdonságok részletes leírása itt található.