HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013 Release Notes

3 What is new
This chapter provides a quick overview of what is new, changed, deprecated, or obsoleted in
each HP-UX 11i v3 release.
NOTE:
About defect fixes and patches
In general, detailed information about defect fixes is not provided in the HP-UX 11i v3 Release
Notes. For details of defect fixes, refer to the product's own documentation, such as product release
notes.
The HP-UX 11i v3 Quality Pack Patch Bundles (QPK) deliver highly qualified defect-fix patches and
are included with each Operating Environment Update Release (OEUR). For more information,
including the location of QPK documentation, see “HP-UX 11i v3 Quality Pack Patch Bundles
(page 120).
Patches might be released between OEURs. HP recommends you register your product with
Subscriber's Choice at http://www.hp.com/country/us/en/contact_us.html. (Under “Self Help,
select Subscription services.) After registering, you will receive email notification with driver, support,
and security alerts, plus software updates customized to your HP products.
About known problems
For information about known problems related to the installation and update of HP-UX 11i v3, see
Appendix A: “Harmless messages and known problems in the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and
Update Guide at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs-11iv3. Be sure to select the appropriate
version for your release.
For information about product-specific known problems, refer to the product's own documentation,
such as product release notes.
About manpages
The most current HP-UX manpages are installed with the product or patch and can be viewed using
the man command. In addition, starting with the HP-UX September 2010 release, most manpages
are available on the BSC in the following location:
http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs (select HP-UX Clickable Index of Manpages)
What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013 release
The following summaries provide a general picture of how the March 2013 release of HP-UX 11i
v3 differs from the September 2012 release of HP-UX 11i v3. For further information, see the
indicated documents or the sections in the remainder of this document.
March 2013 Release Notes, Hardware-specific information
CommonIO: Packages multiple products which support SAS and Fibre Channel adapters, and
is always installed. Updated with quality and performance improvements. See HP CommonIO
B.11.31.1303 Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/common-io-docs.
Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3 (HWEnable11i): Includes new HP-UX
11i v3 (11.31) patches for support of the current HP Integrity systems with the latest I/O
adapters, networking, and storage products. New patches were also added for support of
larger than 2 TB disks by bootloader, crashdump, swapinfo, swapon and efi_utils, as well as
other performance improvements. See “Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3
(page 115).
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