HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2006 Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2006 Release Notes
- Legal Notices
- Publication History
- Typographic Conventions
- 1 Overview of the Release Notes
- 2 Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 2
- 3 What is New at a Glance
- What is in This Chapter?
- What is New in the June 2006 Release?
- What is New in the March 2006 Release?
- What is New in the December 2005 Release?
- What is New in the May 2005 Release?
- What is New in the September 2004 Release?
- What is New in the March 2004 Release?
- What is New in the Initial (October 2003) HP-UX 11i v2 Release?
- 4 Hardware-Specific Information
- What is in This Chapter?
- Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2
- HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition
- Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
- Always-Installed Networking Drivers
- Selectable Networking Drivers
- Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers
- Supported Systems
- Finding Firmware Information
- Utility Pricing Solutions
- 5 General System Administration
- What is in This Chapter?
- Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i)
- HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider
- HP Integrity VM Support Library
- HP Partitioning
- HP Serviceguard WBEM Providers
- HP System Management Homepage
- HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
- HP-UX Kernel Configuration
- Ignite-UX
- Online Diagnostics
- Quality Pack Patch Bundle
- Software Distributor
- Update-UX
- Utilization Provider
- 6 Disk and File Management
- 7 Internet and Networking
- 8 Security
- 9 Commands and System Calls
- 10 Libraries and Programming
- 11 Internationalization
- 12 Other Functionality
What is New at a Glance
What is New in the May 2005 Release?
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Chapter 9: “Commands and System Calls”
•The hostname Command: With installation of the Node and Host Name Expansion
product (available on Software Pack), hostname now able to set and display the
name of the current host system at up to 255 bytes in length.
•The setuname Command: With installation of the Node and Host Name Expansion
product (available on Software Pack), setuname now able to modify the value for the
system and/or node name to up to 255 bytes.
•The uname Command: With installation of the Node and Host Name Expansion
product (available on Software Pack), uname now able to set and display the current
system and/or node name to up to 255 bytes.
Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming”
• HP MLIB: Updated to version 9.0 with new features, including support for arbitrary
length FFTs, FFT performance enhancements, and support for VMATH, CXML, and
BCS.
• HP MPI: Updated to version 2.1.1 with support for InfiniBand on Intel Itanium,
HyperFabric2, and TCP/IP on clusters. Includes improved gather performance for
TCP/IP, and other improvements.
• Java 2 Standard Edition Platform:
— HP-UX Software Development Kit and Runtime Environment for the Java 2
Standard Edition Platform: Updated with later versions of 1.3 and 1.4 to provide
the most current Java technology. Version 1.3 deprecated and planned for future
obsolescence.
— Java for HP-UX Add-on Standard C++ Runtime Libraries: Updated to coincide
with the updating of SDK and RTE.
— Runtime Plug-in (JPI) for Mozilla for the Java 2 Platform versions 1.3 and 1.4:
Updated to be compatible with SDK 1.3 and 1.4. Netscape no longer supported.
Version 1.3 deprecated and planned for future obsolescence.
— ObsJava12: Added to remove previously-installed Java version 1.2.
• Perl 5.8.2 build 808: Includes better Unicode support and numeric accuracy, new I/O
and thread implementation, and other changes.
• New Product: Portability Package (version B.11.23.0505): Now available on
Software Pack, provides select Tru64 UNIX Application Program Interfaces (APIs),
as well as enhancements to existing APIs, to ease the migration of code from Tru64
UNIX and Sun Microsystems Solaris OS to HP-UX 11i v2.
• Software Transition Kit: Provides tools and documents to help transition
applications from various operating systems, such as Tru64 UNIX or Sun
Microsystems Solaris, or from earlier versions of HP-UX. Available on the
Application Release media.
• Termcap and Curses Interfaces: Termcap (libtermcap, libtermlib) and HP curses
(libHcurses) interfaces deprecated in HP-UX 10.20 and to be removed in a future
release. Applications utilizing these libraries should migrate to the standard X/Open
curses interfaces.