HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

• HP-UX Role-based Access Control: Allows you to distribute administrative responsibilities
by creating roles with appropriate authorizations and assigning them to non-root users and
groups. Now available on Software Pack media.
• HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.00.003 with address binding for port forwarding
connections, remote binding control, hashing of host names and addresses, and other changes.
• New Product: HP-UX Security Attributes Configuration tool (secweb): Provides a GUI and
TUI for configuring the system-wide and per-user values of security attributes of local and
Network Information Service (NIS) users.
December 2005 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and System Calls”
• No changes in this release.
December 2005 Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming”
• HP MLIB: Updated to version 9.4 with quality enhancements.
• HP MPI: Updated to version 2.1.1 with several enhancements, including additional supported
interconnects, and improved gather performance for TCP/IP, alltoall performance and other
improvements.
• Java 2 Standard Edition Platform:
— HP-UX Software Development Kit and Runtime Environment for the Java ™ 2 Standard
Edition Platform (SDK/RTE) v1.3 and v1.4: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
— New Product: HP-UX JDK for the Java™ 2 Platform Standard Edition and HP-UX Java
Runtime Environment (JDK/JRE) 5.0: New with the December 2005 release of HP-UX
11i v2.
— Java Out-of-Box: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• Judy Libraries: Updated to version B.11.23.04.17 to incorporate packaging changes. Also
now removes empty MANPATH file that was created at product installation.
• Perl 5.8.3 build 809: Includes better Unicode support and numeric accuracy, new I/O and
thread implementation, and other changes.
December 2005 Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization”
• No changes in this release.
December 2005 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other Functionality”
• No changes in this release.
What is New in the May 2005 Release?
In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture of how the May 2005 release of
HP-UX 11i v2 differs from the September 2004 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For further information,
see the indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 2 May 2005 Release Notes, available in its most
current version at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iV2/.
The following summaries are not exhaustive, so HP strongly recommends that you consult the
HP-UX 11i Version 2 May 2005 Release Notes for information that is not included here.
May 2005 Release Notes, Chapter 2: “Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 2”
• HP-UX 11i v2 Minimal Technical Operating Environment (MTOE): HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005
is the last release that will include the MTOE. After May 2005, the MTOE will no longer be
delivered.
• HP-UX 11i v2 Technical Computing OE (TCOE): The HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 TCOE is the
last release that will be supported on Itanium®-based workstations. It will continue to be
updated for servers.
• Software Pack: SPK media with optional core enhancements now delivered for HP-UX 11i
v2.
May 2005 Release Notes, Chapter 4: “Workstation- and Server-Specific Information”
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