HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

March 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File Management”
• ONCplus: Updated to B.11.31.02. Provides defect fixes and new features, including full NIS
2.3 client functionality (with the exception of password.adjunct support); full CacheFS
2.3 functionality; optimized performance in several areas of NFS; and more. Note: ONC
fixes were delivered in patches prior to HP-UX 11i v3.
March 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 7: “Internet and Networking”
• Firefox, FirefoxSrc: Updated to version 2.0.0.4. Fixes several security vulnerabilities reported
by the Mozilla Foundation.
• New: HP Auto Port Aggregation: Added to as an recommended product to the BOE, HA-OE,
VSE-OE, DC-OE. Is a software product that creates link aggregates, often called “trunks,”
which provide a logical grouping of two or more physical ports into a single “fat pipe.” This
port arrangement provides more data bandwidth than would otherwise be available. In
addition, HP APA provides automatic link failure detection and recovery, and optional support
for load balancing of network traffic across all of the links in the link aggregate.
• HP-UX Web Server Suite
HP-UX Apache-based Web Server: Updated as primarily a security/defect-fix release.◦
◦ HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine: Updated to version 5.5.23.00. Implements the Servlet
2.4 and JavaServer Pages 2.0 specifications.
◦ HP-UX Webmin-based Admin: Primarily a defect-fix release.
• Internet Services: Select Internet Services now updated through OEURs.
HP-UX FTP Server (WU-FTPD): Updated to version 2.6.1 to incorporate defect fixes.◦
◦ HP-UX Mail Server (Sendmail): Updated to version 8.13.3. Incorporated defect fixes.
New command-line option, -T, included in identd(1M).
◦ HPUX-Nameserver (BIND): Updated to version 9.3.2 to incorporate defect fixes.
• LDAP-UX Integration: Version B.04.15 provides new LDAP user/group command-line tools.
• Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX: Version B.07.10.30.01 mainly provides a SD defect fix.
• Thunderbird, ThunderbirdSrc: Updated to version 2.0.0.6. Fixes several security vulnerabilities
reported by the Mozilla Foundation.
March 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 8: “Security”
• HP-UX Auditing and Security Attributes Configuration: You will have access to both the Audit
Configuration functional area of legacy SAM and the auditing functionality in the HP-UX
Auditing and Security Attributes Configuration tool in HP SMH. Includes defect fixes.
• New: HP-UX Auditing System Extensions: Provides enhancements to the existing HP-UX auditing
system, audit(5). Offers tools to configure and enforce the data filtering policy for auditable
file operations on your system. Policy is rule-based and can be customized for different file
system partitions. Delivered as an optional product on all OEs.
• HP-UX Bastille: Updated to version B.3.0.31 incorporate defect fixes.
• HP-UX IPFilter: Updated to version 15.01 (A.11.31.15.01). Support for IPv6 interfaces;
Dynamic Connection Allocation (DCA) feature and ipftest utility now support IPv6 rules;
and more.
• New: HP-UX Role-based Access Control Extension: Introduces a set of privilege shells, allowing
a non-root user to automatically invoke privrun when needed by simply configuring a
privilege shell as their default shell. Includes integration with HP System Management
Homepage and integration of access control logic directly into select commands. Delivered
as an optional product in all OEs.
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