HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011 Release Notes (Edition 3)

March 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and System Calls”
• New: CpioCmdEnh: Can archive and extract files with UID and GID > 60K. Software Pack
product.
• diskowner(1M) Command: Enhanced to identify the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) partitions
present on the disk. Enhanced to list all subsystem names that are all using the specified path.
• ioscan(1M): New option can produce a compact listing which includes alias_path property.
• mediainit(1) Command: New option, -S, scrubs the disk media content with a set of patterns
so that retrieval of its content becomes more difficult.
• New: PAX-ENH: With this enhancement, the pax(1) command supports backup of ACLs and
usage of graph files. Software Pack product.
March 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming”
• Java 2 Standard Edition Platform
JDK/JRE 6.0 (including add-on) updated to version 6.0.02 for defect and security bulletin
fixes. Allocation Site Statistics and Zero Preparation Verbosegc features are implemented.
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◦ JDK/JRE 5.0 (including add-on) updated to version 5.0.14 to include the Sun 1.5.0_16
drop and incorporate defect and security bulletin fixes. Allocation Site Statistics and Zero
Preparation Verbosegc features are implemented.
◦ SDK/RTE 4.0 (including add-on and plug-in) updated to version 1.4.2.21 to include the
Sun 1.4.2_18 drop and incorporate defect and security bulletin fixes. SDK 1.4.2.21
designed to take advantage of more efficient memory management algorithms being
implemented in HP-UX.
• New: Libc Enhancement: Contains new APIs to get instantaneous thread time consumption
statistics for bound threads.
• Perl: Has moved from ActivePerl to OpenSource Perl on HP-UX.
• pthread Library: New API, pthread_yield(3T), is provided. Enables the unbound thread to
yield in user space (yielding between user threads).
• MallocNextGen: Applications that allocate many large blocks of size greater than 128 KB
may see improved memory utilization.
March 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization”
• iconv Codeset Conversion: Supports more varied forms of user or third-party codeset
translation tables for MFCONV.
March 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other Functionality”
• New: HP-UX Parallel Umounts (UmountallEnh): A multi-threaded umountall feature that
unmounts all or selected filesystems in parallel. Software Pack product.
• Locality-Optimized Resource Alignment (LORA): Patches have been delivered in the March
2009 FEATURE11i patch bundle to enable future support of the Locality-Optimized Resource
Alignment (LORA) feature. Some patches also include changes for other features and defect
fixes.
What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 September 2008 release
The following summaries provide a general picture of how the September 2008 release of HP-UX
11i v3 differs from the March 2008 release of HP-UX 11i v3. For further information, see the
indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2008 Release Notes, available in its
most current version at
http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs
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