HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

• HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.70.023. The sshd daemon defaults to SSH
Protocol 2 in new installations; SSH channel window size has been increased; ssh command
and sshd daemon now preserve MAC contexts between packets; new MAC algorithm has
been added; and more.
• HP-UX Software Assistant: Has replaced Security Patch Check. Messages indicating the
deprecation of Security Patch Check will be displayed when the Security Patch Check tool is
invoked. Support for Security Patch Check will be terminated on November 1, 2008.
• OpenSSL: Contains some important defect fixes.
March 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and System Calls”
• intctl(1M) and intrbald(1M) Commands: Enhanced to allow manual and automatic interrupt
balancing based on user configuration files, with a choice of balancing algorithms.
• ioscan(1M) Command: Enhanced to show a new driver property that indicates if the driver
supports online instance number replacement.
• mpsched(1) Command: Enhanced so you can now change the affinity of a thread/light weight
process to a particular SPU or locality domain. You can also query the binding of a light-weight
process or unbind the same.
• rmsf(1M) Command: Enhanced to support Critical Resource Analysis (CRA) on a node or
special file before deleting it, and to support specifying a stale I/O node by hardware path.
• rtsched(1) Command: Enhanced to allow the change of the real time priority and/or scheduling
policy of a thread/light weight process with the -G option.
March 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming”
• New: aC++ Linker Driver (aCC_link): Invokes the HP-UX linker. Command is made available
for linking aC++ objects for deployment on end-user systems. Explicitly disallows certain
aCC(1) options used to compile. Newly delivered as a recommended product on the BOE,
HA-OE, VSE-OE, and DC-OE.
• New: Copy-On-Write Functionality for Private Memory Objects: Provides copy-on-write
functionality for privately mapped files, private segments of child process after fork(2) and
private segments locked by mlock(2).
• New: getenv Performance Enhancement: Enhances the performance of the libc API
getenv(3C) for threaded applications. Delivered as an optional product in all OEs.
• New: HP MLIB: In TCOE, V9.5 includes a defect fix. HP MLIB is newly delivered as an optional
product in VSE-OE, HA-OE, and DC-OE.
• New: HP-MPI: Newly delivered as an optional product in BOE, VSE-OE, HA-OE, and DC-OE.
• New: HP Wildebeest Debugger: An HP-supported implementation of the Open Source GNU
debugger (GDB). Enables you to debug C, C++, and FORTRAN applications (32 bit and 64
bit versions) on Integrity and PA-RISC systems. Newly added as a recommended product to
the BOE, HA-OE, VSE-OE, DC-OE.
• New: HP-UX Atomic APIs (libatomic): Usage of these APIs avoid the use of mutex locks or
semaphores in certain scenarios. Delivered as an optional product in all OEs.
• New: Improved Support for Multi-threaded Applications: Extends the mpctl(2) API and adds
several new APIs to improve HP-UX support for multi-threaded applications. Provides the
capability to have finer-grain control.
• Java 2 Standard Edition Platform
Java JDK/JRE for HP-UX: JDK/JRE version 5.0 and SDK/RTE 1.4.2 have been updated
to incorporate defect and security bulletin fixes.
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◦ Java Out-of-Box: Updated to version 2.05.00 to incorporate defect fixes.
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