HP-UX 11i December 2006 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance

What is New in the Initial 11i v1 Release?

Chapter 3

Chapter 9: Disk and File Management

• Striping and mirroring for shared volume groups enabled.

• Journaled File System (JFS) upgraded to version 3.3.

• Network File System (NFS) now supported over TCP/IP in addition to running over

User Datagram Protocol (UDP).

• Also added to NSF are loopback transport support, user-space threads, and

enhancements to NFS server-side performance.

• New daemon, AutoFS, mounts and unmounts NFS file systems automatically with

more reliability than automount.

• HP Fibrechannel High Availability Disk and Closure added.

Chapter 10: Internet and Networking Services

•New version of sendmail, sendmail-8.9.3, included.

•New version of BIND, BIND 8.1.2, included.

•The rexecd and remshd services now use Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)

for authentication.

• Dynamic Host Protocol (DHCP) enabled to perform updates to DDNS.

• Network Transport (including ifconfig, ndd, nestat, virtual IP (VIP) address,

setsockopt, T_OPTMGMT) enhanced.

• New version of FTPD enhanced with new features.

• STREAMS/UX enhanced.

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

and on slower speed connections.

Chapter 11: Security

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

to provide security independent of underlying security mechanisms and

communication protocols.

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

attacks.

• New, convenient way to customize security features enabled.

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

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

enterprise environment.

Chapter 13: Programming

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

64-bit versions of HP-UX 11i v1.

• New ANSI-compliant Standard C++ library included.

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

nftw(), and malloc().