HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

• PAM-Kerberos v1.23: Supports both Itanium®-based and PA-RISC applications in 32-bit
mode and 64-bit mode. The pam_sm_acct_mgmt function returns PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
instead of PAM_SUCCESS when the user is not present in the Kerberos database.
• Security Patch Check 2.0: Now provides update and manual action analysis, whereas prior
releases only analyzed patches.
• Shadow Passwords: Now supported by SAM.
What is New in September 2004 for Existing Customers of HP-UX 11i v2
September 2004 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and System Calls”
• The fuser Command: Performance improved.
• Post/Wait: New. Provides a fast, lightweight synchronization facility for user applications.
• The ps command: The default width now set to 128 characters and a default file provided
to define the length of the command field.
• The rc Shell Script: When a system needs reboot for some reason, messages in the file
/etc/rc.bootmsg will be displayed before the system is rebooted.
• The scsimgr and scsiscan Commands: Deprecated. Planned for obsolescence in HP-UX
11i v3.
• The settune and settune_txn System Calls: Post HP-UX 11i v2, tunables set using these
kernel system calls will not be persistent across reboots.
• The sfd Daemon: Deprecated. Planned for obsolescence in HP-UX 11i v3.
• The sysdef command: Deprecated. Reports incorrect values for some tunable parameters
such as msgmap, sema, and shmem.
What is New in September 2004 for Existing Customers of HP-UX 11i v2
September 2004 Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming”
• HP aC++ Compiler for Itanium®-Based Systems: No changes except for defect fixes.
• HP aC++ Compiler for PA-RISC Systems: The new placement delete feature now
supported.
• HP Fortran for HP-UX 2.8.2: Includes performance tuning enhancements.
• HP MLIB 8.6: FFT routines support data sizes of any positive length.
• HP MPI 2.0.1: InfiniBand interconnect on Intel® Itanium ® supported.
• HP-UX Buffer Cache Tunable Parameters: All tunables associated to the sizing of the buffer
cache (nbuf, bufpages, bufcache_max_pct, dbc_min_pct, and dbc_max_pct) have
been deprecated and will be obsolete in HP-UX 11i v3.
• Java 2 Standard Edition Platform:
— HP 3D Technology for the Java 2 Standard Edition Platform: Only for Itanium ®-based
systems. PA-RISC-based systems not supported.
— HP-UX Software Development Kit and Runtime Environment for the Java 2 Platform
Standard Edition: For this release of HP-UX 11i v2, the full SDK as well as the RTE for
versions 1.3 and 1.4 are being delivered.
— Java for HP-UX PA-RISC Add-On C++ Libraries for SDK and RTE: Now included in
HP-UX 11i v2 for Java developers on PA-RISC.
— Java Out-of-Box 2.03: Includes defect fixes.
• Math Library (libm): Current release includes Math Library Cumulative Patch, which contains
new functions, performance and accuracy enhancements, and minor defects.
• POSIX Threads: Defect correction applied to Itanium®-based systems to make the thread
library, source and relocatable compatible with release HP-UX 11i v1.
• The Software Transition Kit (STK): Available on the Web or Application Release media is a
collection of tools and documents designed to help transition HP-UX applications from
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