HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

March 2010 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and file management”
• HP-UX Disks and File Systems (fsweb): Delivers defect fixes and new features: the ability to
create a root VG of disk layout version 2.2, as well as the ability to rebalance allocated
extents for free space.
• MemFS: Delivers defect fixes.
• ONCplus: Delivers defect fixes and new features: The NFS mount structure nfs_args is made
public and asynchronous NFS Direct I/O performance is improved.
• OnlineJFS: Delivers fixes for internally found defects.
• Veritas File System (VxFS): Delivers fixes for internally found defects.
• Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM): Delivers fixes for internally found defects.
March 2010 Release Notes, Chapter 7: “Internet and networking”
• Firefox and Thunderbird: Firefox is unchanged in the March 2010 OEUR. Thunderbird
2.0.0.19.02 includes changes from the Mozilla Foundation, as well as fixes for several security
vulnerabilities reported by the Mozilla Foundation. FIREFOXsrc has been removed from the
OE. Mozilla is no longer supported by HP-UX 11i v3.
• HP CIFS Server: Supports Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista operating systems.
Dynamic DNS update option is available. Defect fixes are made.
• New: HP-UX Directory Server (HPDS): Version B.08.10.01 replaces the Red Hat Directory
Server for HP-UX (RHDS) product line. Several enhancements improve manageability of users
and ease of administration of Directory Server.
• HP-UX Mail Server (Sendmail): Delivers defect fixes.
• HP-UX Web Server Suite
HP-UX Apache-based Web Server: Updated to v.2.0.59.12 as primarily a security/bug
fix release.
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◦ HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine: Upgraded to 5.5.27.03. Implements the Servlet 2.4
and JavaServer Pages 2.0 specifications. Designed to run on JDK 1.5 (5.0) and later
versions.
• IPv6 Upgrade for HP-UX 11i v3: Version B.11.31.0907 provides Advanced Sockets API for
IPv6, Configurable Policy Table support, and Anycast Address support.
March 2010 Release Notes, Chapter 8: “Security”
• HP-UX Auditing and Security Attributes Configuration (secweb): Delivers defect fixes.
• HP-UX Bastille and Install-Time Security: Provides improved usability through assessment
reporting that evaluates the security status of the system.
• HP-UX IPFilter: Version 17 provides Rate Based Filtering, Address Pooling, State Aging, Rule
Tags, Sticky NAT Sessions, Checking Connection Health with l4check, and more.
• New: HP-UX LongPassword for HP-UX 11i v3: Increases the maximum password length to 255
characters. Only available on HP-UX 11i v3 systems with shadowed passwords. Newly added
as optional (selectable) software.
• HP-UX Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Version B.11.31.05 enhances logging capability
with keystroke and alternate logging.
• HP-UX Secure Shell: Version A.05.30 includes new option to ensure logs are directed to
syslog instead of stderr; acceptance of command-line arguments for the internal-sftp server
by the sshd_config(5) ForceCommand directive; support of command-line runtime creation
of the dynamic (-D) port; support for the SOCKS4A protocol; support of remote port-forwarding
with a listen port 0; and more.
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