The State of Oracle Solaris — Jan 2026

Oracle Solaris is not much in the press anymore, but used for critical systems around the world.

Solaris 11.4 was launched in 2018. Oracle provides updates/patches every month. Every quarter (Feb,May,Aug,Nov) the update includes new features. Oracle will provide this monthly updates till at least November 2037.

Documented in: http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pdf

Oracle is working to make sure Solaris will run properly after 2037 for example with changes in SRU72 delivered in August 2024. It would be no surprise if the updates will continue after November 2037. https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru72

For developers a pretty current version (CBE) is available for free to develop and test software.

Solaris CBE Download: https://www.oracle.com/solaris/solaris11/downloads/solaris-downloads.html

Oracle even provides patches for the older releases Solaris 10 and Solaris 11.3. The last patches are expected by January 2027. We highly recommend to migrate to Solaris 11.4 and we are happy to support you with our very experiences engineers.

Oracle’s Management and Monitoring tools (OpsCenter and VM Manager for SPARC) reached End-Of-Life. No patches are provided anymore.

We at JomaSoft continue to enhance our VDCF management and monitoring tool for Oracle Solaris and Linux https://www.jomasoft.ch/vdcf/

If you don’t have a SPARC server yourself, maybe the JomaSoft SPARC cloud could be helpful for you. https://www.jomasoft.ch/services/