The Solaris Recommended Patch Clusters contain the following Solaris Operating System patches:

• The latest revision of the patch and package utility patches to help ensure correct patching operations.
• The latest revision of any Solaris Operating System patch which address Sun Alert issues. These are patches which fix Security, Data Corruption, or System Availability issues.
• Any patch that is required to correctly install the above patches.

The clusters are updated whenever a patch meeting the above inclusion criteria is released.

The Solaris Sun Alert Patch Clusters contain the following Solaris Operating System patches:

• The latest revision of the patch and package utility patches to help ensure correct patching operations.
• The minimum revision of any Solaris Operating System patch which address Sun Alert issues. These are patches which fix Security, Data Corruption, or System Availability issues.
• Any patch that is required to correctly install the above patches.

The Sun Alert Patch Clusters provide the minimum amount of change required to obtain all available Solaris OS patches which address Security, Data Corruption, and System Availability issues.

The clusters are updated whenever a patch meeting the above inclusion criteria is released.

These Solaris Patch Bundles contain the equivalent set of patches that are pre-applied to the corresponding Solaris Update image. They are provided for customers whose Change Control procedures make it difficult to upgrade but OK to patch. Applying these Patch Bundles is not equivalent to installing or upgrading to the corresponding Solaris Update as these patch bundles don't typically contain any new packages contained in the corresponding Solaris Update. If you require the functionality provided in such new packages, you must typically install or upgrade to the Solaris Update image. Applying these Patch Bundles will however bring pre-existing packages on a system up to the same patch level as the corresponding Solaris Update, providing customers with a more homogeneous environment, and providing customers with all functional enhancements to features which are entirely contained within pre-existing packages (such as Zones and ZFS functionality). Since Solaris Updates are intensely tested, standardizing on the same patch level as a Solaris Update provides a well tested baseline. Solaris Update images contain some "Special" or "Script" patches which are only used to correct issues during the construction of the Solaris Update image. Such patches have no function outside of the Solaris Update release build process and therefore are not released to SunSolve or included in these patch bundles. These Patch Bundles are chunked into several parts to aid download. Please read the download instructions. After applying one of these Patch Bundles, please apply the Sun Alert or Recommended Patch Cluster to obtain all available Solaris OS patches which address Security, Data Corruption, and System Availability issues released since these Patch Bundles were created.

These Patch Clusters contain the latest revisions of Solaris patches required by Java Enterprise System. If you are running a recent Solaris Update your system may already contain the patches necessary to install Java Enterprise System.

These Patch Clusters contain the latest revision patches for the Java Enterprise System Release 5 (including Update Releases) on the target operating system version.

These Patch Clusters contain Solaris Operating System patches considered the most important and highly recommended Solaris Operating System patches that avoid the most critical system, user, or security related bugs which have been reported and fixed to date for J2SE customers.