HP-UX 11i Version 2 May 2005 Release Notes

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