HP-UX 11i v3 September 2011 Release Notes, Edition 2

• HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.05.00.026. Based on OpenSSH5.1p1 and includes
several new features and defect fixes.
• New: HP-UX Security Containment Extensions: Simplifies the configuration of application
containment and enables compartment login restrictions for enhanced application stacking
and workload consolidation.
• HP-UX Software Assistant: Updated to version C.02.11. Now allows you to select the analyzers
to be used when generating reports within HP SIM and now supports Java™ SE6. And more.
• New: Kerberos Client (KRB5CLIENT): Helps to provide Kerberos authentication and strong
cryptography for secure communication over the network. Software Pack product.
• OpenSSL: Provides enhanced security features, additional public-key encryptions, additional
hardware ENGINES. Includes defect fixes.
March 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and System Calls”
• New: CpioCmdEnh: Can archive and extract files with UID and GID > 60K. Software Pack
product.
• diskowner(1M) Command: Enhanced to identify the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) partitions
present on the disk. Enhanced to list all subsystem names that are all using the specified path.
• ioscan(1M): New option can produce a compact listing which includes alias_path property.
• mediainit(1) Command: New option, -S, scrubs the disk media content with a set of patterns
so that retrieval of its content becomes more difficult.
• New: PAX-ENH: With this enhancement, the pax(1) command supports backup of ACLs and
usage of graph files. Software Pack product.
March 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming”
• Java 2 Standard Edition Platform
JDK/JRE 6.0 (including add-on) updated to version 6.0.02 for defect and security bulletin
fixes. Allocation Site Statistics and Zero Preparation Verbosegc features are implemented.
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◦ JDK/JRE 5.0 (including add-on) updated to version 5.0.14 to include the Sun 1.5.0_16
drop and incorporate defect and security bulletin fixes. Allocation Site Statistics and Zero
Preparation Verbosegc features are implemented.
◦ SDK/RTE 4.0 (including add-on and plug-in) updated to version 1.4.2.21 to include the
Sun 1.4.2_18 drop and incorporate defect and security bulletin fixes. SDK 1.4.2.21
designed to take advantage of more efficient memory management algorithms being
implemented in HP-UX.
• New: Libc Enhancement: Contains new APIs to get instantaneous thread time consumption
statistics for bound threads.
• Perl: Has moved from ActivePerl to OpenSource Perl on HP-UX.
• pthread Library: New API, pthread_yield(3T), is provided. Enables the unbound thread to
yield in user space (yielding between user threads).
• MallocNextGen: Applications that allocate many large blocks of size greater than 128 KB
may see improved memory utilization.
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