HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

• 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.
May 2005 Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization”
• No changes in this release.
May 2005 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other Functionality”
• Common Desktop Environment (CDE): X11, Xt, Motif, and Audio support for expanded
nodenames and hostnames now available on Software Pack.
What is New in the September 2004 Release?
The following summaries pertain to the September 2004 HP-UX 11i v2 release. For further
information, see the indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 2 September 2004 Release Notes,
available in its most current version at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iV2/.
The following are not exhaustive lists, so HP strongly recommends that you consult the HP-UX
11i Version 2 September 2004 Release Notes for information that is not included here.
The summaries for the September 2004 release are divided into two lists:
• “What is New in September 2004 for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1?” (page 64)
• “What is New in September 2004 for Existing Customers of HP-UX 11i v2?” (page 72)
What is New in September 2004 for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1?
In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture of how the current release of HP-UX
11i v2 differs from the June 2004 release of HP-UX 11i v1. For further details, see the indicated
chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 2 September 2004 Release Notes, available in its most current
version at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iV2/.
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