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"Solaris 9 - released May 2002 - support ended October 2014"

The last patches for Sol 8 and 9 that I've seen were released 2 months ago. They were hidden in a Zones or Live Upgrade patch, but they where there. There were Java for Sol 9 patches released 28 days ago. The last Sol 9 kernel was Feb/26/2015. Of course those all require an expensive support contract to even find, but they are and supported for some definitions of supported.