下面列出了Solaris发布的主要修订版本的图表. 没有包括一些不重要的发布版本.

The following OS revision chart maps the major Solaris releases. Not all HW releases have been included as some are relatively unimportant.

Solaris    SunOS      OpenWin               Comments
1.0        4.1.1B     2.0
          4.1.1_U1   2.0           sun3 EOL release (not named Solaris)
1.0.1      4.1.2      2.0           6[379]0-1[24]0 MP
1.1        4.1.3      3.0           SP Viking support
1.1C       4.1.3C     3.0           Classic/LX
1.1.1      4.1.3_U1   3.0_U1        4.1.3 + fixes + Classic/LX support
1.1.1 B    4.1.3_U1B  3.0_U1        1.1.1B + SS5/SS20 support
1.1.2      4.1.4      3_414         The "final" 4.x release (SS20 HS11)

2.0        5.0        3.0.1         sun4c only
2.1SPARC   5.1        3.1           Dec '92
2.1 x86    5.1        3.1           May '93
2.2SPARC   5.2        3.2           May '93
2.3SPARC   5.3        3.3           Nov '93
                            OpenWin 3.3 is X11R5 based: Display
                            PostScript instead of NeWS, no SunView.
                            It is still primarily OPEN LOOK.
                            The Spring 1995 OpenWin will be Motif
                            and COSE-based.
                            Statically linked BCP support
2.3 edition II SPARC         Special Solaris 2.3 distribution for
                            Voyager and SparcStation 5
2.3 HW 8/94 SPARC            Supports S24 (24 bits color for SS5),
                            POSIX 1003.2, Energy Start power management
                            and SunFastEthernet + patches.

2.4       5.4      3.4       From this moment on, the SPARC and x86
                            releases are in sync. Q3 '94
                            Adds motif runtime and headers (not mwm).
2.4 HW   11/94                 First SMCC release of 2.4
2.4 HW   3/95                 Second SMCC release of 2.4 (includes support
                            for booting from SSA)

2.5       5.5      3.5       UltraSPARC support, PCI support.
                            NFS V3, NFS/TCP, ACLs, CDE, Sendmail V8
                            name service cache, dynamic PPP
                            Posix threads, doors (new IPC mechanism)
                            many "BSD" type functions back in libc,
                            many "BSD" programs back in /usr/bin.
                            mixed mode BCP support (e.g., apps only
                            dynamically linked against libdl.so)
2.5 HW 1/96                  Creator3D support (Creator3D/FFB+ is not
                            supported in 2.5 11/95, though the files
                            are present but of unsupported,
                            "mostly works", beta quality)
2.5.1                        Ultra-2 support, Sun Enterprise
                            server support.  Large (32bit UID)
                            support.  64bit KAIO (aioread64/aiowrite64),
                            3.75 GB of virtual memory.
                            Pentium/Pentium Pro optimizations.
                            (upto 25% for certain database apps)
                            Ultra ZX support.
                            Initial and last PowerPC desktop release.
2.5.1 HW 4/97                Support for Starfire (E10000) and Ultra-30
2.5.1 HW 8/97                Support for the Ultra-450
2.5.1 HW 11/97               Support for Ultra-5, Ultra-10 and Ultra-60 as
                            well as Elite3D

2.6       5.6      3.6       Largefiles, JVM + JIT, Hotjava, X11R6,
                            Web based answerbook, BOOTP/DHCP, SNMP agents,
                            VLSM, in-kernel sockets, XNTP, PAM,
                            CDE 1.2 as default desktop.
2.6 HW 3/98                  Support for Ultra-5, Ultra-10, Ultra-60 Elite3d
                            and Starfire (E10K)
2.6 HW 5/98                  DR Support for Starfire

7         5.7     3.6.1      64-bit OS support, logging UFS.
7   HW 11/99                 Added UDF filesystem, consadm, X11R6.4 server

8         5.8     3.6.2      Dropped support for sun4c and Voyager;
                            added IPv6, IPsec, modular debugger (mdb), high
                            granularity interval timers, consadm, /dev/poll,
                            MAP_ANON, forced unmount, extended memory for
                            Intel, in-kernel mnttab, audio mixer, NFS
                            server logging, Starfire Interdomain networking,
                            Kerberos v5 client support, /proc tools core aware,
                            prstat (like top), perl and other free utilities
                            included, Apache, apptrace (symbolic library
                            call traces), loopback file mounts (lofi),
                            Intel CD boot, Intel large IDE disk support,
8  06/00
8  10/00                     Sun Blade 100 & Sun Blade 1000 support.
8  01/01
8  04/01                     Sun Fire server support, cdrw