HP-UX 11i Version 2 May 2005 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance

What is New in the May 2005 Release?

Chapter 3

• HP MPI: Updated to version 2.1.1 with support for InfiniBand on Intel Itanium,

HyperFabric2, and TCP/IP on clusters. Includes Visual MPI for debugging and

analysis, improved gather performance for TCP/IP, and other improvements. (See

“HP MPI” on page 171.)

• Java 2 Standard Edition Platform (see page 172)

— 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. (See “HP-UX Software Development Kit and Runtime

Environment for the Java 2 Standard Edition Platform” on page 172.)

— Java for HP-UX Add-on Standard C++ Runtime Libraries: Updated to coincide

with the updating of SDK and RTE. (See “Java for HP-UX PA-RISC Add-On C++

Libraries for SDK and RTE” on page 173.)

— 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. (See “Runtime

Plug-in (JPI) for Mozilla for the Java 2 Platform” on page 173.)

— ObsJava12: Added to remove previously-installed Java version 1.2. (See

“ObsJava12” on page 174.)

• Perl 5.8.2 build 808: Includes better Unicode support and numeric accuracy, new I/O

and thread implementation, and other changes. (See “Perl” on page 175.)

• 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. (See “Portability Package”

on page 176.)

• 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 CD. (See “Software Transition Kit” on page 178.)

• 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. (See “Termcap and Curses Interfaces” on page 178.)

Chapter 11: “Internationalization” (see page 181)

• No changes in this release.

Chapter 12: “Other Functionality” (see page 183)

• Common Desktop Environment (CDE): X11, Xt, Motif, and Audio support for

expanded nodenames and hostnames now available on Software Pack. (See

“Common Desktop Environment (CDE)” on page 184.)