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In September 2006 ftp access for Solaris patches was turned off. After that date downloading patches required a SunSolve account and accepting a license agreement and access to recommended patch clusters (rather than individual patches) required a paid support contract. As a result, this page only covers Solaris patches made freely available by Sun prior to the discontinuation of ftp access.
As Solaris 7, 8 and 9 didn't leave support until after this policy change if you've got a paid Oracle support contract you can likely access more recent patches than those listed on this page. For everyone else, support for all versions of Solaris died in September 2006.
For individual patches see here (warning: big page) but note that they're not sorted by relevant Solaris version so you'll need to know the number of the specific patch you're looking for. If you're not after a specific patch, just install the latest patch cluster from the table below.
| Latest Recommended Patch Cluster | ||||||
| Release | Architecture | Date | Download | Readme | Notes | |
| 2.0 | SPARC | ? | ? | If a recommended patch cluster ever existed for Solaris 2.0 I can find no trace of it. | ||
| 2.1 | SPARC | ? | ? | If a recommended patch cluster ever existed for Solaris 2.1 I can find no trace of it. | ||
| 2.2 | SPARC | ? | 2.2_Recommended.tar.Z | A recommended patch cluster for 2.2 did exist but I am unsure when it was last updated or when it was removed from the Sun FTP site. No archived copies have been found so far. | ||
| 2.3 | SPARC | 25-JUN-2001 | 2.3_Recommended.tar.Z | Readme | Y2K Patches: Y2K All, Y2K All Readme | |
| 2.4 | SPARC | 9-JAN-2002 | 2.4_Recommended.tar.Z | Readme | Y2K Patches: Y2K All, Y2K All Readme | |
| x86 | 4-JAN-2002 | 2.4_x86_Recommended.tar.Z | Readme | Y2K Patches: Y2K All, Y2K All Readme | ||
| 2.5 | SPARC | 9-JAN-2002 | 2.5_Recommended.tar.Z | Readme | Y2K Patches: Y2K All, Y2K All Readme | |
| x86 | 10-DEC-2001 | 2.5_x86_Recommended.tar.Z | Readme | Y2K Patches: Y2K All, Y2K All Readme | ||
| 2.5.1 | SPARC | 15-SEP-2004 | 2.5.1_Recommended.tar.Z | Readme | ||
| x86 | 15-SEP-2004 | 2.5.1_x86_Recommended.tar.Z | Readme | |||
| 2.6 | SPARC | 14-FEB-2005 | 2.6_Recommended.tar.Z | Readme | ||
| x86 | 3-JAN-2006 | 2.6_x86_Recommended.tar.Z | Readme | |||
| 7 | SPARC | 7-APR-2006 | 7_Recommended.zip | Readme | End of support was August 2008 so newer patch clusters should be available via a paid Oracle support contract. | |
| x86 | 19-APR-2006 | 7_x86_Recommended.zip | Readme | |||
| 8 | SPARC | 18-SEP-2006 | 8_Recommended.zip | Readme | End of support was March 2012 so newer patch clusters should be available via a paid Oracle support contract. | |
| x86 | 18-SEP-2006 | 8_x86_Recommended.zip | Readme | |||
| 9 | SPARC | 14-SEP-2006 | 9_Recommended.zip | Readme | End of support was October 2014 so newer patch clusters should be available via a paid Oracle support contract. | |
| x86 | 14-SEP-2006 | 9_x86_Recommended.zip | Readme | |||
| 10 | all | n/a | No worthwhile patch clusters (or individual patches) were made openly available. Only option is to obtain a newer install DVD and do an upgrade install (or live upgrade). | |||