HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2006 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance
What is New in the Initial (October 2003) HP-UX 11i v2 Release?
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• Java 2 Standard Edition Platform:
— HP 3D Technology for the Java 2 Standard Edition Platform 1.3: Two new,
identical Java 3D products now install: one into Java RTE 1.3 and the other into
Java RTE 1.4.
— Runtime Environment (RTE) for the Java 2 Platform 1.4: New features include
nonblocking I/O APIs, IPv6 support, new garbage collectors (parallel, and
concurrent mark and sweep), Java Web Start application deployment technology
now bundled with the RTE. RTE for Java 1.3 still included as well.
— Runtime Plug-in (JPI) for Netscape/Mozilla for the Java 2 Platform 1.4: Now
added, providing the latest Java technology. JPI 1.3 still included as well.
•Link Editor (ld): New functionality includes lazy loading of shared libraries (+[no]
lazyload) and direct binding support.
• Micro Focus OO COBOL 4.2 Run-Time Libraries: Deprecated. Will not be included in
future HP-UX 11i releases for Itanium-based platforms.
•Object File Tools (elfdump): Option introduced to print out the version string of the
symbol when printing the symbol table.
• Perl: Corresponds to Perl 5.8.0 source code release. Changes include better Unicode
support, new IO implementation, new thread implementation, better numeric
accuracy, safe signals, and many new modules.
• Source Code Transition from HP-UX 11i v1.6 to HP-UX 11i v2: Software Transition
Kit 1.9 updated to support source code transition from HP-UX 11i v1.6 to v2.
• Thread Context: Changes include: Protection Key Registers saved/restored on
context switch; lazy FP implementation; new scratch registers supported;
save_state, pcb, and label structures changed.
Initial Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Internationalization”
• Simplified Chinese Input Methods: Intelligent ABC now available to support
characters defined by the GB18030 standard. T-C and T-C Rapid input methods
obsoleted and removed.
•Mainframe iconv Converters for Japanese Characters: Changes include numerous
fixes for mapping errors for JIS standard characters, as well as a fix to handle an
incomplete shift sequence at the end of an input buffer.
• Printing Using Asian TrueType Fonts for HP PCL5 Printers: Larger set of Asian
characters available for printing using Asian UTF-8 locales.
• System Support for Latin and South American Locales: Total of 51 new locales
provided to enable system-level support for Latin/South American geographies.
Includes support for the input, storage, retrieval, display, and printing of characters
encoded in ISO-88591, ISO-885915, or UTF-8 character sets.
• Unicode 3.0 Support: Now included.
• Deprecated Functionality: Several commands, library routines, and lp model files
deprecated. Will be removed in next major release of HP-UX.