HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

• swapon and swapinfo Commands: swapon command enhanced to support setting/unsetting
of primary swap device for next boot; swapinfo command supports new -s option to display
settings of the primary swap for next boot.
• sysdef Command: Deprecated. Reports incorrect values for some tunable parameters such
as msgmap, sema, and shmem.
• syslogd Command: Enhanced to log multibyte message strings correctly.
• usermod has been modified to selectively prevent the movement of home directories with -m
option.
• UNIX 2003 Compliance: All commands are modified/enhanced to conform to UNIX 2003
Standards. The UNIX 2003 changes which do not affect HP-UX compatibility are available
by default. Otherwise, in order to get UNIX 2003 behavior, the variable UNIX_STD has to
be defined in the environment.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming”
• Bundled C Compiler: Updated to version A.06.12 on Integrity Servers and B.11.11.16 on
PA-RISC. Highly compatible with previous versions; diagnostic messages have changed; more
erroneous and suspicious source constructs are diagnosed.
• aC++ Run Time Library: Includes the -AA -D_HP_NONSTD_FAST_IOSTREAM performance
improvement macro, C++ Standard Library TC1 compliance change, and USA 2007 Daylight
Savings Time legislation support.
• FirstBoot: As part of Transition links (a.k.a. Upgrade), HP used to create a symbolic link
/etc/set_parms —> /sbin/set_parms. Transition links are obsoleted in HP-UX 11i v3
and set_parms is available to the user as /sbin/set_parms. So HP-UX 11i v3 will not
support the symbolic link /etc/set_parms.
• HP MLIB: Updated to version 9.5 with the addition of two new libraries, VECLIBSC8 and
LAPACKSC8, which are 64-bit address libraries with 64-bit integer values that use calling
conventions similar to those found in Cray’s SCILIB math library.
• HP-UX C Library (libc)
HP-UX C library (libc) - UNIX 2003 Standard Compliance: libc library enhanced to
comply with UNIX 2003 standards. A number of APIs have been added, while some
APIs have been modified.
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◦ HP-UX C library (libc) - Other Changes: New features include Tru64 API migration,
malloc(3C) thread local cache enhancements, long username and groupname.
◦ libc(1) Library: Deprecated. Is a HP-UX 10.20 compatibility “C” library available in HP-UX
11i. No immediate impact in HP-UX 11i v3. When the libc(1) library is obsoleted, all
programs linking to this library will not work. Hence you are encouraged to start migrating
your programs from libc(1) to libc(2) library.
◦ Networking libc APIs: The return value of the gai_strerror(3N) API has changed from
char to const char. Includes other changes as well.
• HP-UX Color-Curses: libcur_colr Library and Commands: Obsolete. Were declared
deprecated in HP-UX 10.30 and are not available in HP-UX 11i v3 PA-RISC.
• Java 2 Platform
Java JDK/JRE for HP-UX: HP-UX 11i v3 does not include Java 1.3 and Java 3D (J3D 1.4).
SDK/RTE version 5.0 has been updated to incorporate defect fixes.
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◦ Java Out-of-Box: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• New: libIO Library: libIO.so (for Itanium®-based systems) or libIO.sl (for PA-RISC
systems) is a shared library, which provides APIs for accessing the HP-UX I/O subsystem
What is new in the initial (February 2007) HP-UX 11i v3 release 99