HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

• HP CIFS Client A.01.09.02: Provides 64-bit PAM-NTLM libraries support and defect fixes.
• HP CIFS Server 2.2i (A.01.11.01): Provides new LDAP support functionality, as well as other
new features and defect fixes.
• Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and MirrorDisk/UX: Performance improved. LVM no
longer performs software bad block relocation. Defects fixed.
• Network File System (NFS): New option added to the umount command. Compatibility
exception noted.
• Network Information Service Plus (NIS+): Deprecated and planned for future obsolescence.
Valid modification requests to update NIS+ tables will now fail if the size of the request is
larger than 9000 bytes.
• Portable File System (PFS): Obsolete.
• VERITAS File System (VxFS/HP OnlineJFS/JFS) 3.5: Contains new and changed features,
including new and/or enhanced tunable parameters, enhanced VxFS commands, new I/O
error handling policy, new default intent log mode, new default system block size, VxFS
system activity reporter, forced unmounts, and more. Enables creation of file systems up to
32 TB (16 TB has been certified).
• VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) 3.5 for HP-UX (Base): Includes new versions of VEA
and SIG Licensing, as well as defect fixes.
What is New in September 2004 for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1
September 2004 Release Notes, Chapter 7: “Internet and Networking”
• HP Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI): Includes enhancements to the Streams interface;
new third-party driver interface for non-native Streams drivers; consolidation of .h files;
obsolescence of the dump read capability of the lanscan(1M) command; support for TCP
Segmentation Offload (TSO or Large Send), InfiniBand technology, and 64-bit MIB.
• HP Openview Emanate Agent 15.3: Agents are now SNMPv3 compatible. IPv6 agent added.
• HP-UX LAN Provider: New with this release of HP-UX 11i v2. Client applications can use
this Provider to determine 100bt and Gigabit links available on the system and collect
information about them.
• HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.01: Offers the same functionality as A.01.00, but delivery method
has changed.
• HP-UX Web Server Suite:
— HP-UX Apache-based Web Server 2.0.50.01: Primarily a security, bug fix release with
enhancements.
— HP-UX Webmin-based Admin A.1.070.01: Primarily a security, bug fix release.
• Internet Services:
— BIND 9.2.0: Includes incremental zone transfer, DNSSEC, dynamic DNS update,
TSIG-based security, lightweight resolver library and daemon, improved logging
mechanism, and other features.
— BOOTP and DHCP: Both implement a new tag to configure the IP address of the tftp
server. Two new options included in the /etc/dhcptab file.
— DHCPv6: New product with HP-UX 11i v2.
— The inetd daemon: New variable and new command-line option added.
— IPv4 Address Display: The IPv4-mapped-IPv6 address display is now changed to display
an IPv4 address.
— IPv6-enabled Internet Services products: Several products, including inetd, telnet,
and R-commands, are IPv6 enabled.
— Logging User Accounting Information: The telnetd, rlogind, remshd, rexecd and
ftpd utilities now use the new scalable utmps/wtmps/btmps interfaces to log user
accounting information.
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