HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2007 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance
What is New in the September 2004 Release?
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• 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/.