HP-UX 11i v3 March 2014 Release Notes

• 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.
• Asian Printing: Asian lp model files and filters have been enhanced to support important
Asian national standards and ISO 10646.
• TrueType Fonts for European Codesets: Provides additional TrueType fonts support to cover
the glyph patterns for ASCII, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin-Extended-B, Greek,
Cyrillic, and currency symbols.
• Asian TrueType Fonts: Enhanced to support the latest national standards and ISO10646. New
typefaces are provided for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese fonts.
• Asian Bitmap Fonts: Enhanced to support the latest national standards and ISO 10646.
• Fallback Font Support: For text-based GUI applications, in the event there are no glyphs, the
application will display “?” or “::” characters.
• Asian Functionality (Obsoleted and Deprecated): Several legacy functions are obsolete and
have been removed. Also, certain Asian printer lp models, utility/library routines, and dot
bitmap fonts have been deprecated.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other Functionality”
• Common Desktop Environment: Updated to version 2.1. Now includes native Itanium®-based
32-bit and 64-bit X/Motif libraries; delivers 64-bit PA-RISC and Itanium®-based libraries for
the first time in HP-UX 11i v3; supports Node and Host Name Expansion feature and expanded
username feature; and includes many other changes.
• Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Client and Integrated Login: Default permissions of
3 files have changed; several new filesets are available on PA-RISC and Itanium®-based
systems; several products are not available with DCE Client; Integrated Login has 2 new
filesets.
What is New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006
In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture of how the initial (February 2007)
release of HP-UX 11i v3 differs from the June 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For further details,
see the indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes, available in its most current
version at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs-11iv3.
The following are not exhaustive lists, so HP strongly recommends that you consult the HP-UX 11i
Version 3 Release Notes (February 2007) for information that is not included here.
In addition, you may want to review the list “What is New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX
11i v1 September 2005” (page 96) for a general picture of how the initial (February 2007) release
of HP-UX 11i v3 differs from the September 2005 release of HP-UX 11i v1.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 4: “Hardware-Specific Information”
• Enhancements to IO Forwarding: The IO forwarding interrupt comes under the purview
of Detect & Strobe and is enhanced.
• New: estape Tape and eschgr Autochanger Drivers: New with HP-UX 11i v3. ssrfc driver
no longer available.
• HP-UX 11i v3 Driver Development Kit (DDK): Enhanced for HP-UX 11i v3. Provides
documentation, sample code, build environment and development tools for 3rd-party
developers, ISVs and IHVs to develop and test drivers on HP-UX 11i v3 PA-RISC and
Itanium®-based platforms.
• Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA): There is an issue with LUN WWIDs and HP-UX 11i v3.
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