HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013 Release Notes

• New: libIO Library: libIO.so (for Itanium®-based systems) or libIO.sl (for PA-RISC
systems) is a shared library, which provides APIs for accessing the HP-UX I/O subsystem
information. The library will reduce the dependency on other HP-UX commands for I/O
information.
• libpthread Library: Added new API, pthread_setschedprio(), to set scheduling priority
of target thread.
• Link Editor (ld): Additional options and other changes since patch PHSS_32864, September
2005.
• New: Mercury Library (libhg): Provides high performance interfaces between the user
programs and the kernel making it possible to transfer key pieces of information back and
forth at high speeds.
• Software Transition Kit (STK): Designed to help transition HP-UX applications from earlier
versions of HP-UX to the latest version of HP-UX. Will not be available for HP-UX 11i v3.
• Threads Renice facility: Two new pthread APIs to change nice value of a thread in a
multi-threaded process.
• UNIX 2003 Standard Profile Conformance: New functions and compiler conformance as
defined in Single UNIX Specification version 3. The Precision Architecture (PA) systems will
have most of the UNIX 2003 features available for applications. Since the C99 compiler will
not be available on PA, full UNIX 2003 branding is not supported. Itanium®-based systems
will fully conform and will be branded to UNIX 2003.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization”
• Unicode 5.0: Now supported. Unicode 5.0 is an extension to the previously supported Unicode
3.0 character set standard.
• New: JISX0213 Standard: Now supported.
• New: KS X 1001 Standard: Now supported.
• New: Big5-2003 and CNS11643 Standards: Now supported.
• New: HKSCS-2004 (Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set): Now supported.
• New: Locales - Baltic/Russia/Ukraine/Latin America: Now supported.
• New: Locale Versioning: localedef/libc UNIX 2003-related I18N changes. New locale version
“locales.3” has been generated for all system supported locale binaries. This has been provided
to protect older PA-RISC-based archived applications from unexpected systems behavior in
order to fully support the UNIX 2003 standard.
• UNIX 2003 Support: The localedef, locale and iconv commands and the associated
C library APIs, locale databases and iconv converters have been updated to align with the
UNIX 2003 standard.
• Alternate Width Properties for Unicode Codesets: Now supported for Asian locales.
• New: Messaging Commands: mkcatdefs, dspmsg, and dspcat . Added to HP-UX for
compatibility with Tru64 UNIX.
• New: Iconv Codeset Converter Config File Changes: system.config.iconv. New
system.config.iconv file provided to separate the HP-UX core OS iconv mapping table
information from the layered third-party and user-specific iconv mapping table information.
• Japanese Mainframe Character Set: iconv now supports an extended area of Japanese
mainframe character sets.
• New: Internationalized PostScript Printing Support: psfontpf: New PostScript printer filter
psfontpf enables printing of non-English international characters in text files and web pages.
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