Sun Update Connection 1.0.4 Now Available
The Sun Update Connection Client, Version 1.0.4 is now available as software update121118-05 (SPARC version located at http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-121118-05-1) or 121119-05 (x86 located at http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-121119-05-1). This client software update is a minor maintenance release that accumulates numerous fixes that have been reported in previous versions. Improvements introduced in the version 1.0.4 client that are worthy of note include:
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<li>The Update Connection client has been modified to be fully operational in the global zone on systems configured with Solaris 19 Zones.Support for patching specific non-global zones will be available in a future update. (6302734)</li>
<li> The 'smpatch download' command has been modified to retrieve any revision of a patch whether current or obsolete. This capability allows us to use smpatch as a complete functional replacement for ftp as a general patch download tool. (6283475)</li>
<li>Similarly, the 'smpatch download" command can also retrieve patch README files for any revision of a patch, current, obsolete, and even withdrawn. (6283475)</li>
<li>The Update Connection desktop notification/launcher icon is disabled by default for Sun Ray users who should not have patching privileges (6338619)</li>
<li>The Update Manager will report "Pending restart" instead of "Successful" on for patches that require system restart (6338511)</li>
<li> Update Connection clients Update Manager and smpatch have been made more tolerant of delivery server hangs (6335197)</li>
<li>Minor performance improvement were achieved by removing unnecessary internal calls to "smpatch list" at the end of patch installation (6336195)</li>
<li>We have corrected the case where a Solaris host appears as a managed asset in the hosted web app but could not be analyzed or updated. All systems that appear in the hosted web app can now be analyzed and updated. (6341454)</li>
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Updates to the Sun Update Connection server-side "Hosted" application and infrastructure will also be deployed on February 25 to add infrastructure changes needed to support the My Sun Connection portal. In addition, several minor user interface enhancement have been made to improve ease-of-use. No new features are being added to the Hosted application in this release.
For a complete list of the defects corrected in this release please
refer to the patch README file for this patch. Additionally, the Sun Update Connection Release Notes have been updated (see http://docs.sun.com/source/916-1619/index.html). Note also that this update includes fixes that were delivered in prior releases of the Sun Update Connection client software. By installing this update you may be getting fixes that were previously available but not present on your system.
Thank you,
Kayo Granillo
kayo.granillo@sun.com
