HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
- Legal Notices
- Publication History
- Typographic Conventions
- 1 Overview of the Release Notes
- 2 Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 2
- 3 What is New at a Glance
- 4 Server-Specific Information
- What is in This Chapter?
- Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle
- HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition
- Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
- Always-Installed Networking Drivers
- Selectable Networking Drivers
- Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers
- Selectable Mass Storage Drivers
- Supported Systems
- Finding Firmware Information
- 5 General System Administration
- What is in This Chapter?
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
- Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit Version
- Event Monitoring Services
- Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (Feature11i)
- GlancePlus Pak
- High Availability Monitors
- HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider
- HP Integrity VM Support Library
- HP Partitioning
- HP Serviceguard
- HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit
- HP System Management Homepage
- HP Systems Insight Manager
- HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
- HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups
- HP-UX Kernel Configuration
- HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool
- HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider
- HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces
- HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider
- HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider
- Ignite-UX
- Obsolescence Bundle
- Online Diagnostics
- Quality Pack Patch Bundle
- Software Distributor
- Software Package Builder
- Update-UX
- Utilization Provider
- 6 Disk and File Management
- 7 Internet and Networking
- 8 Security
- 9 Commands and System Calls
- 10 Libraries and Programming
- 11 Internationalization
- 12 Other Functionality
What is New at a Glance
What is New in the May 2005 Release?
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•The setuname Command: With installation of the Node and Host Name Expansion
product (available on Software Pack), setuname now able to modify the value for the
system and/or node name to up to 255 bytes.
•The uname Command: With installation of the Node and Host Name Expansion
product (available on Software Pack), uname now able to set and display the current
system and/or node name to up to 255 bytes.
Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming”
• HP MLIB: Updated to version 9.0 with new features, including support for arbitrary
length FFTs, FFT performance enhancements, and support for VMATH, CXML, and
BCS.
• HP MPI: Updated to version 2.1.1 with support for InfiniBand on Intel Itanium,
HyperFabric2, and TCP/IP on clusters. Includes improved gather performance for
TCP/IP, and other improvements.
• Java 2 Standard Edition Platform:
— HP-UX Software Development Kit and Runtime Environment for the Java 2
Standard Edition Platform: Updated with later versions of 1.3 and 1.4 to provide
the most current Java technology. Version 1.3 deprecated and planned for future
obsolescence.
— Java for HP-UX Add-on Standard C++ Runtime Libraries: Updated to coincide
with the updating of SDK and RTE.
— Runtime Plug-in (JPI) for Mozilla for the Java 2 Platform versions 1.3 and 1.4:
Updated to be compatible with SDK 1.3 and 1.4. Netscape no longer supported.
Version 1.3 deprecated and planned for future obsolescence.
— ObsJava12: Added to remove previously-installed Java version 1.2.
• Perl 5.8.2 build 808: Includes better Unicode support and numeric accuracy, new I/O
and thread implementation, and other changes.
• New Product: Portability Package (version B.11.23.0505): Now available on
Software Pack, provides select Tru64 UNIX Application Program Interfaces (APIs),
as well as enhancements to existing APIs, to ease the migration of code from Tru64
UNIX and Sun Microsystems Solaris OS to HP-UX 11i v2.
• Software Transition Kit: Provides tools and documents to help transition
applications from various operating systems, such as Tru64 UNIX or Sun
Microsystems Solaris, or from earlier versions of HP-UX. Available on the
Application Release media.
• Termcap and Curses Interfaces: Termcap (libtermcap, libtermlib) and HP curses
(libHcurses) interfaces deprecated in HP-UX 10.20 and to be removed in a future
release. Applications utilizing these libraries should migrate to the standard X/Open
curses interfaces.
Chapter 11: “Internationalization”
• No changes in this release.