HP-UX 11i December 2006 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance

What is New in the Initial 11i v1 Release?

Chapter 3

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

performance-critical applications with the benefit of a static link.

• Linker and Object File Tools enhanced.

•The linker/dld interface enhanced.

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

framework to develop, administer, and use distributed applications.

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

tools to eliminate dependency on the /dev/kmem pseudo-driver.

• New parameters for confstr() defined.

Chapter 15: Internationalization

• Improved interoperability enabled through system level support provided for the

Unicode 2.1/ISO-10646 character set.

• Improved interoperability enabled through corrected character converter mappings.

• Enhancements provided to allow Euro display, input, and processing capabilities.

• Asian enhancements provided, including new Asian code sets, UDC (User Defined

Characters, or Gaiji), printing, and code set conversions with mainframe code sets.

• Enhancements provided to the printer capabilities of Japanese System

Environment; Korean System Environment; Simplified-Chinese System

Environment; Traditional-Chinese System Environment.

• New set of multibyte APIs added to libc to follow C99 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999) and

Unix98 specifications.