HP-UX 11i December 2003 Release Notes

What’s New at a Glance

What’s New in the Original 11i Release?

Chapter 2

• STREAMS/UX enhanced. (See “STREAMS/UX” on page 246.)

• Low Bandwidth X Extension (LBX) improves performance on wide-area networks

and on slower speed connections. (See “Low Bandwidth X Extension (LBX)” on

page 247.)

Chapter 13: Security (see page 251)

• Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface (GSS API) introduced

to provide security independent of underlying security mechanisms and

communication protocols. (See “Generic Security Services for Developing Secure

Applications” on page 253.)

• Program stacks can now be execute-protected to guard against buffer overflow

attacks. (See “Execute Protected Stacks” on page 255.)

• New, convenient way to customize security features enabled. (See “Configurable

Security Features” on page 258.)

• Password history enabled to discourage users from re-using previous passwords.

(See “Password History Feature on Trusted Systems” on page 259.)

• Kerberos Client Software now provided to enable integrating HP-UX into a secure

enterprise environment. (See “Kerberos Client Software” on page 260.)

Chapter 15: Programming (see page 281)

• HP-UX Software Transition Kit (STK) aids in transitioning software to 32-bit or

64-bit versions of HP-UX 11i. (See “HP-UX Software Transition Kit (STK)” on

page 282.)

• New ANSI-compliant Standard C++ library included. (See “aC++ Runtime

(libCsup*, libstd*, libstream*, librwtool*)” on page 283.)

• System library libc enhanced, including performance improvements to ftw(),

nftw(), and malloc(). (See “Changes to libc” on page 284 and “Overall libc

Performance Tuning” on page 285.)

• The libcres.a library, a small archive library, added to provide customers running

performance-critical applications with the benefit of a static link. (See “The libcres.a

Library” on page 290.)

• Linker and Object File Tools enhanced. (See “Linker and Object File Tools (ld, crt0.o,

dld.sl, libdld.sl, chatr, and odump)” on page 292.)

•The linker/dld interface enhanced. (See “Changes to the linker/dld Interface” on

page 294.)

• HP Distributed Computing Environment (HP DCE/9000) version 1.8 provides

framework to develop, administer, and use distributed applications. (See “HP

DCE/9000” on page 295.)

• Extensions to pstat() system call enables system management and measurement

tools to eliminate dependency on the /dev/kmem pseudo-driver. (See “Extensions to

pstat()” on page 296.)

• New parameters for confstr() defined. (See “Machine Identifier Changes to

confstr” on page 299.)