HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

• Micro Focus OO COBOL 4.2 Run-Time Libraries: Deprecated. Will not be included in future
HP-UX 11i releases for Itanium®-based platforms.
• Object File Tools (elfdump): Option introduced to print out the version string of the symbol
when printing the symbol table.
• Perl: Corresponds to Perl 5.8.0 source code release. Changes include better Unicode support,
new IO implementation, new thread implementation, better numeric accuracy, safe signals,
and many new modules.
• Source Code Transition from HP-UX 11i v1.6 to HP-UX 11i v2: Software Transition Kit 1.9
updated to support source code transition from HP-UX 11i v1.6 to v2.
• Thread Context: Changes include: Protection Key Registers saved/restored on context switch;
lazy FP implementation; new scratch registers supported; save_state, pcb, and label structures
changed.
Initial Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Internationalization”
• Simplified Chinese Input Methods: Intelligent ABC now available to support characters
defined by the GB18030 standard. T-C and T-C Rapid input methods obsoleted and removed.
• Mainframe iconv Converters for Japanese Characters: Changes include numerous fixes for
mapping errors for JIS standard characters, as well as a fix to handle an incomplete shift
sequence at the end of an input buffer.
• Printing Using Asian TrueType Fonts for HP PCL5 Printers: Larger set of Asian characters
available for printing using Asian UTF-8 locales.
• System Support for Latin and South American Locales: Total of 51 new locales provided to
enable system-level support for Latin/South American geographies. Includes support for
the input, storage, retrieval, display, and printing of characters encoded in ISO-88591,
ISO-885915, or UTF-8 character sets.
• Unicode 3.0 Support: Now included.
• Deprecated Functionality: Several commands, library routines, and lp model files deprecated.
Will be removed in next major release of HP-UX.
Initial Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Other Functionality”
• ccNUMA: Changes include: greater performance for some work loads; ability to configure
systems for optimal performance with regard to interleaved versus cell local memory; ability
to give guidance to OS for most appropriate memory allocation according to an application’s
usage model; ability to control how processes are distributed among localities.
• Common Desktop Environment (CDE): Changes include: IPv6 support; greater accessibility
for physically challenged users; dtlogin does not start X server when the mouse is not
connected; large file (greater than 2GB) support provided by dtfile; and other changes.
In addition, CDE requires a number of services and resources; if these are disabled either
manually or with Bastille, there are several impacts on CDE.
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