HP-UX 11i September 2005 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance
What is New in the September 2005 Release?
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• New Product: HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.00.002 with many new
features, including address binding for port forwarding connections, remote binding
control, hashing of host names and addresses, among other features. Also includes
features provided in version A.03.81.000. (See “HP-UX Secure Shell” on page 147.)
• HP-UX Shadow Passwords: Available on Software Pack. Provides fixes for two
defects. (See “HP-UX Shadow Passwords” on page 148.)
• OpenSSL: Updated to version A.00.09.07e.012 with automatic generation of a
self-signed host certificate and private key. (See “OpenSSL” on page 149.)
Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming” (see page 153)
• EnhancedCore: Now available on Software Pack. Allows a setuid program to be
dumped if the request is from a debugger. (See “EnhancedCore” on page 154.)
• HP MLIB: Updated to version 9.4 with quality enhancements. (See “HP MLIB” on
page 154.)
• HP MPI: Updated to version 2.1.1 with several enhancements, including additional
supported interconnects, Visual MPI, and improved gather performance for TCP/IP,
alltoall performance and other improvements. (See “HP MPI” on page 155.)
• Java 2 Standard Edition Platform (see page 157)
— HP-UX Software Development Kit and Runtime Environment for the Java
Standard Edition Platform (SDK/RTE): Versions 1.3 and 1.4 have been updated
to incorporate defect fixes. Version 5.0 added and updated to incorporate defect
fixes. Version 5.0 includes Java Webstart and the Runtime Plug-in (JPI) for
JDK/JRE 5.0 for HP-UX.
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SDK/RTE version 1.3 deprecated and planned for
future obsolescence. (See “HP-UX Software Development Kit and Runtime
Environment for the Java Standard Edition Platform” on page 157.)
— Java for HP-UX Add-on Standard C++ Runtime libraries: Updated to support
update of SDK/RTE and JDK/JRE. In addition to versions 1.3 and 1,4, now also
includes version 1.5. (See “Java Technology for HP-UX Add-on Standard C++
Runtime Libraries” on page 158.)
— Java Out-of-Box: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. (See “Java Out-of-Box” on
page 158.)
— Runtime Plug-in (JPI) for HP-UX: Versions 1.3 and 1.4 updated to be compatible
with SDK 1.3 and 1.4. Netscape no longer supported. Version 1.5 incorporated
into JDK/JRE 5.0.
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Version 1.3 deprecated and planned for future obsolescence.
(See “Runtime Plug-in (JPI) for HP-UX” on page 160.)
• Perl 5.8.3 build 809: Includes better Unicode support and numeric accuracy, new I/O
and thread implementation, and other changes. (See “Perl” on page 161.)
1. Starting with version 5.0, the name is J2SE Development Kit and Runtime
Environment for HP-UX for the Java Platform.