Today, Oracle announced the general availability of Solaris 11 Express, which appears to have a build number somewhere in the 150’s. The last regular release of OpenSolaris (which is the new Solaris 11 Express) was dated 2009.06, and carried a build number of 111b. This should be leaps and bounds over that stable build – and since it’s been nearly a year and a half since the release, it damn well better be.

Currently, I’m upgrading my backup file server from b124 to b134 (the last of the OpenSolaris development releases), and then going from there to the new, shiny hotness of Solaris 11 Express. Once it’s up, I’ll pound on it for a few days, make sure it doesn’t kill me, and then move the main server up as well. Sometime in there, a bunch of new hardware will also show up (likely before this weekend), so I may have some new kit to play with as well as I bring the new OS online.