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In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture of how the June 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2 differs from the March 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For further information, see the indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2006 Release Notes, available in its most current version at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iV2/.

The following summaries are not exhaustive, so HP strongly recommends that you consult the HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2006 Release Notes for information that is not included here.

June 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 4: “Hardware-Specific Information”. 

  • New Bundle: CommonIO: Contains common files that are used for multiple drivers. Currently contains infrastructure components for SerialSCSI-00.

  • Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2 (HWEnable11i): Includes patches for HP servers with the Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors.

  • HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition: Updated to version A.03.95.057 to incorporate defect fixes.

  • Networking and Mass Storage Drivers

    • FibrChanl-01: Includes fixes and support for the newly released AB379A card.

    • GigEther-01: Includes changes to Checksum Offload. Supports PCI Error Handling.

    • IEther-00: Includes changes to Checksum Offload. Supports PCI Error Handling.

    • RAID-01: Updated with quality and diagnostic improvements and defect fixes.

    • scsiU320-00: Updated with quality and diagnostic improvements for Ultra320 SCSI solutions. Now always-installed.

    • SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality improvements.

  • Utility Pricing Solutions

    • HP Instant Capacity: Updated to version B.11.23.08.00.xx with support for Global Instant Capacity, terminology changes, command enhancements, and other changes.

    • HP Pay per use: Updated to version B.11.23.08.00.xx with terminology changes, support for HP Integrity Virtual Machines, command enhancement, and other changes.

June 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General System Administration”. 

  • Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Added new patches for HP Integrity Virtual Machines (HPVM).

  • HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VMProvider): Updated to version A.01.20 with build and MOF changes to work with the latest WBEM Services, a new interface to get only the IDs of the VMs, and additions to get more VxVM information from each VM.

  • HP Integrity VM Support Library (VMGuestLib): Updated to version A.01.20 to incorporate a very minor packaging change.

  • HP Partitioning

    • HP Global Workload Manager: Updated to version A.02.00.00.x. Now part of the HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) Management Software suite, can now manage virtual machines created using the HP Integrity Virtual Machines software, and has other changes.

    • nPartition Provider: Updated to version B.23.01.06.01 to resolve problems and limitations.

    • Partition Manager: Updated to version B.23.02.01.03 to resolve problems and limitations.

    • vPar Provider: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

  • New Product: HP Serviceguard WBEM Providers: Will provide current Serviceguard cluster configuration, membership, and status information to Common Information Model (CIM) clients using HP WBEM Services on HP-UX platforms.

  • HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version A.2.2.3 to incorporate defect fixes.

  • HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.00.10 to incorporate defect fixes.

  • HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

  • Ignite-UX: Ignite-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) installation kernel now includes the 4 GB patch to support files on ISO9660 media (CDFS) that are greater than 2 GB in size. SAS support is introduced, as well as the use of ssh for the creation of recovery images, providing enhanced security.

  • Online Diagnostics

    • OnlineDiag Bundle: Updated to support AD279A, AD278A, AB345C, and AB286C cards, as well as pre-enables future cards. The new Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) Mass Storage Adapter Monitor (dm_sas_adapter) is included for Itanium®-based systems.

    • SysFaultMgmt Bundle: Updated version introduces new indication provider SFMIndicationProvider, which replaces some EMS monitors; provides LED reporting on Field Replaceable Units; and other changes, including defect fixes.

  • Quality Pack Patch Bundle: Not updated in June 2006 release. March 2006 QPK was carried forward into this release. Next QPK update will occur in the September 2006 release.

  • Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

  • Update-UX: Updated to reflect defect fixes. No new features or functionality.

  • Utilization Provider: Updated to version A.01.03 to include defect fixes.

June 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File Management”. 

  • EnableVxFS Bundle: Now a customer-selectable product in the June 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2 (formerly, was always-installed).

  • VERITAS File System (HP JFS/HP OnlineJFS): HP OnlineJFS 4.1 (B3929EA): Updated to incorporate a defect fix. Base-VXVM 4.1 is now a prerequisite for HP OnlineJFS 4.1.

June 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 7: “Internet and Networking”. 

  • GTK+ Libraries: Updated to incorporate a packaging change.

  • HP-UX Web Server Suite

    • HP-UX Apache-based Web Server: Updated to v.2.0.55.03 as primarily a security/bug fix release.

    • HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine: Updated to version 5.5.9.04 to incorporate defect fixes.

    • HP-UX Webmin-based Admin: Updated to version 1.070.07 as primarily a bug fix release.

  • Mozilla Web Browser: Updated to version 1.7.12.01.01 to incorporate a packaging change.

June 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 8: “Security”. 

  • HP-UX OpenSSL: Updated to provide more stringent error checking and general defect fixes.

  • HP-UX Role-based Access Control: Updated with a usability enhancement known as “Hierarchical Roles” that allows you to define relationships between roles. Also includes defect fixes.

  • HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.20.009 with High Performance Enabled SSH/SCP and Auth Selection patches, new configuration directives in the server, increase in the default size of RSA and DSA keys, delayed compression, and other changes.

  • SecurityExt Bundle: Updated to version B.11.23.02 with update of HP-UX Role-based Access Control and new manpages. Available on Software Pack.

June 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and System Calls”. 

  • No changes in this release.

June 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming”. 

  • HP MPI: Updated to version 2.2 with C++ bindings, new mpirun command line options, MPI-2 supported ROMIO, CPU bind support, signal propagation, scalability, and new environment variables.

  • Java 2 Standard Edition Platform

    • HP-UX Java Development Kit and HP-UX Java Runtime Environment for the Java ™ 2 Platform Standard Edition (JDK/JRE): Versions 1.4 and 5.0 (1.5) of the JDK/JRE, Add-ons, and Plugins updated to incorporate defect fixes as well as packaging changes.

    • Java Out-of-Box: Updated to version 2.03.05 to incorporate packaging changes.

  • Perl: Updated to version 5.8.3 build 809. Includes changes to the hash code, to the Perl API, and to some C macros, as well as other changes.

June 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization”. 

  • No changes in this release.

June 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other Functionality”. 

  • No changes in this release.



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