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In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture
of how the May 2005 release of HP-UX 11i v2 differs from the September
2004 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For further information, see the indicated
chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 2 May 2005 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 May
2005 Release Notes for information that is not included
here. May
2005 Release Notes, Chapter 2: “Introduction to
HP-UX 11i Version 2”. HP-UX 11i v2 Minimal Technical
Operating Environment (MTOE): HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 is the last
release that will include the MTOE. After May 2005, the MTOE will
no longer be delivered. HP-UX 11i v2 Technical Computing
OE (TCOE): The HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 TCOE is the last release that
will be supported on Itanium®-based
workstations. It will continue to be updated for servers. Software Pack: SPK media
with optional core enhancements now delivered for HP-UX 11i v2.
May
2005 Release Notes, Chapter 4: “Workstation- and
Server-Specific Information”. Hardware
Enablement Patch Bundle (HWEnable11i): Diagnostics qualified with new DAT and LTO tape drives,
and updated for new I/O cards. Updated I/O driver bundles noted. HP Instant Support Enterprise
Edition (ISEE): Updated to incorporate defect fixes and few feature
enhancements. Networking and Mass Storage
Drivers: New Product: 10GigEthr-00: Adds support for the AB287A PCI-X 10 Gigabit Ethernet
card. Now available as a selectable product in the OEs. FibrChanl-01: Now supports the AB465A card. GigEther-01: Now supports the AB465A card. IEther-00: Now supports the AB290A and AB545A cards. RAID-01: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. scsiU320-00: Supports the A7173A card and now, the AB290A card. USB-00 version C.01.00: Enables USB DVD boot support for future
HP servers. Now an always-installed product for Itanium®-based servers.
Utility Pricing Solutions: HP Instant
Capacity (iCAP) (formerly Instant Capacity on Demand, or iCOD): Updated
to version B.11.23.07.00. Can now be used in an integrated virtual partitioned
environment. E-mail connectivity no longer required and boot-time compliance
check now performed. HP Pay per use (PPU): Updated
to version B.11.23.07.02 to support HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars)
and the Node and Host Name Expansion product.
May
2005 Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General System
Administration”. Enterprise
Cluster Master Toolkit: Updated to version B.02.21 with scripts
for Oracle 9i and 10g database applications, HP Apache, and HP CIFS,
as well as enhancements to the Oracle Toolkit. Event Monitoring Services:
Now supports the Node and Host Name Expansion feature that is available
on Software Pack. New
Bundle: Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Consists of patches required for HP-UX Virtual Partitions
(vPars) functionality, USB-00, and future products with new features. GlancePlus Pak: Updated to
version C.03.86 with new parm file parameters and new metrics, as well as enhancements
to gpm and glance. High Availability Monitors:
Now supports the Node and Host Name Expansion feature. HP Partitioning: New Product: HP Global Workload Manager
(gWLM): Allows you to centrally define resource-sharing policies
that you can use across multiple HP servers. Now delivered with
HP-UX 11i v2. HP Process Resource Manager
(PRM) version C.03.00: Includes integration with HP-UX 11i Security
Containment and HP Systems Insight Manager, as well as support for
256 PRM groups and other changes. New
to HP-UX 11i v2: HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) A.04.01:
Will be available as a separate product that can be purchased at
http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=T1335BC. The vPars product enables multiple instances of a
selected HP-UX 11i v2 OE to run simultaneously on one server or
within one nPartition, with each OE instance hosting its own set
of applications in an isolated environment. The FEATURE11i patch bundle, delivered on the OE media, includes required
patches for the installation of this product. HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated
to version A.03.00 with more flexibility in resource management
and more secure environments. HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits:
Pay Per Use Toolkit and its utilitydc command now deprecated. nPartition Provider: Upgraded
to version B.11.23.01.04.00.x to incorporate defect fixes and performance improvements. Partition Manager: Now runs
as an application under HP System Management Homepage, which has
several effects. PRM Libraries: Bundle updated
to version C.03.00. PRM-Sw-Krn fileset updated to version C.01.03. When upgrading HP
Process Resources Manager, you will need to reboot the system. New
Product: vPar Provider: Extracts information about virtual
partitions on a system. Now delivered with HP-UX 11i v2.
HP Servicecontrol Manager:
Replaced by HP Systems Insight Manager. HP Serviceguard: Unchanged
for this release. Support for HP-UX Virtual Partitions and HP-UX
11i Security Containment tested and confirmed. Current Serviceguard products
certified by HP for coexistence with Shadow Passwords. Limit of
31 bytes for hostname within Serviceguard clusters. Compatibility issue noted
with certain configurations of Bastille. HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit:
Updated to version A.11.23.03 with improved failover performance
for rpcbind failures, as well as defect fixes. New
Product: HP System Management Homepage (bundle SysMgmtWeb): A Web-based interface that consolidates and simplifies
single system management for HP servers, now available for HP-UX
11i v1 and v2. New
to HP-UX 11i v2 OEs: HP Systems Insight Manager: Replaces
HP Servicecontrol Manager. Updated to version 4.2 with support for
System Management Homepage and other products. HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool
(pdweb): Updated to version B.11.23.04 with support for the
Node and Host Name Expansion, as well updating of the waconf command. Ignite-UX: Updated to version
C.6.2.x with updated documentation, defect fixes, and enhancements. Kernel tunable hdlpreg_hash_locks: Deprecated and planned for future obsolescence. New
Product: Node and Host Name Expansion (NodeHostNameXpnd) product bundle: Provides the ability to set node and
host names up to 255 bytes. Now available on Software Pack. Obsolescence Bundle: Now
removes ObAM 5 and HP-UX Software Development Kit and Runtime Environment
for the Java® 2 Standard
Edition Platform (SDK/RTE) v1.2, in addition to other obsolete products,
upon installation of HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005. Online Diagnostics (OnlineDiag): Now includes support for HP-UX Virtual Partitions
(vPars) A.04.01 and Node and Host Name Expansion, as well as other changes. Quality Pack: Once again
HP-UX 11i v2 includes Quality Pack, as will future releases of HP-UX
11i v2. Software Distributor: Updated
with new versions of the gzip and swpackage commands to provide added capability and increased performance. Software Package Builder:
Updated with product enhancements. Update-UX: Updated to reflect
defect fixes. No new features or functionality. Upper Layer Module (ULM)
Services: Deprecated.
May
2005 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File
Management”. 32 Terabyte
(TB) File System Support: VxFS 3.5 file systems of up to 32 TB now certified. HFS: HP-UX’s implementation
of UFS, now deprecated and planned for future obsolescence. HP CIFS Client: Updated to
version A.01.09.03 to incorporate defect fixes. HP CIFS Server: Updated to
version A.01.11.04 with security patches. Also now based on Samba
2.2.12. VERITAS File System 3.5 (HP
JFS / HP OnlineJFS): Now provides permanent licenses for HP OnlineJFS.
Support for 32 TB file systems now certified.
May
2005 Release Notes, Chapter 7: “Internet and Networking” . HP WBEM
Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.00.07 with numerous
defect fixes, as well as support for CIM Process Indications as
defined by the DMTF WBEM Specification. HP-UX Web Server Suite: HP-UX
Apache-based Web Server: Updated to v.2.0.53.00 as primarily a security and
bug fix release. HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet
Engine: Updated to v4.1.29.04 as primarily a bug fix release, with
Commons-DBCP upgraded to 1.2.1. HP-UX Webmin-based Admin:
Updated as primarily a security and bug fix release.
Netscape Directory Server
for HP-UX: Updated to version B.06.11.30.001 to provide defect fixes
and a minor packaging change.
May
2005 Release Notes, Chapter 8: “Security”. New Product: HP-UX 11i Security Containment:
Provides the next generation of security features. Available on
the Web at http://hp.com/go/softwaredepot and expected to be released in the near future. HP-UX Auditing System: Upon
installation of the HP-UX Standard Mode Security Extensions bundle,
can now perform audits without converting the system to trusted mode. HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection
System: Upgraded to release 3.1 with better performance and CPU
utilization, as well as many enhancements and defect fixes. HP-UX
HIDS v2.x deprecated and planned for future obsolescence. You
are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of HIDS. HP-UX IPFilter: Updated to
version A.03.05.11.01 with defect fixes and performance enhancements. HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated
to A.03.91.009 with new features, including sshd re-exec for each new connection, permission and ownership checks
for program configuration files, sftp(1) interface improvements,
and several other features. New
Product: HP-UX Security Attributes Configuration (bundle
SecConfig): Used to configure systemwide and per-user values of
security attributes of local users and NIS users. Now delivered
with HP-UX 11i v2. New Bundle: HP-UX
Standard Mode Security Extensions: Enables new security features
to be used in standard mode. Now available on Software Pack. OpenSSL: Updated to version
A.00.09.07e with automatic generation of a self-signed host certificate
and a private key.
May
2005 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and System
Calls”. The
hostname Command: With installation of the Node and Host Name
Expansion product (available on Software Pack), hostname now able to set and display the name of the current host
system at up to 255 bytes in length. The setuname Command: With installation of the Node and Host Name
Expansion product (available on Software Pack), setuname now able to modify the value for the system and/or node
name to up to 255 bytes. The uname Command: With installation of the Node and Host Name
Expansion product (available on Software Pack), uname now able to set and display the current system and/or
node name to up to 255 bytes.
May
2005 Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries and
Programming”. HP MLIB:
Updated to version 9.0 with new features, including support for
arbitrary length FFTs, FFT performance enhancements, and support
for VMATH, CXML, and BCS. HP MPI: Updated to version
2.1.1 with support for InfiniBand on Intel® Itanium®, HyperFabric2, and TCP/IP
on clusters. Includes improved gather performance for TCP/IP, and
other improvements. Java 2 Standard Edition Platform: HP-UX Software Development
Kit and Runtime Environment for the Java 2 Standard Edition Platform:
Updated with later versions of 1.3 and 1.4 to provide the most current
Java technology. Version 1.3 deprecated and planned for future obsolescence. Java for HP-UX Add-on Standard
C++ Runtime Libraries: Updated to coincide with the updating of
SDK and RTE. Runtime Plug-in (JPI) for
Mozilla for the Java 2 Platform versions 1.3 and 1.4: Updated to
be compatible with SDK 1.3 and 1.4. Netscape no longer supported. Version
1.3 deprecated and planned for future obsolescence. ObsJava12: Added to remove previously-installed Java version 1.2.
Perl 5.8.2 build 808: Includes
better Unicode support and numeric accuracy, new I/O and thread
implementation, and other changes. New
Product: Portability Package (version B.11.23.0505):
Now available on Software Pack, provides select Tru64 UNIX Application
Program Interfaces (APIs), as well as enhancements to existing APIs,
to ease the migration of code from Tru64 UNIX and Sun Microsystems
Solaris OS to HP-UX 11i v2. Software Transition Kit:
Provides tools and documents to help transition applications from
various operating systems, such as Tru64 UNIX or Sun Microsystems
Solaris, or from earlier versions of HP-UX. Available on the Application
Release media. Termcap and Curses Interfaces:
Termcap (libtermcap, libtermlib) and HP curses (libHcurses) interfaces deprecated in HP-UX 10.20 and to be removed
in a future release. Applications utilizing these libraries should
migrate to the standard X/Open curses interfaces.
May
2005 Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization” . No changes
in this release.
May
2005 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other Functionality”. Common
Desktop Environment (CDE): X11, Xt, Motif, and Audio support for expanded
nodenames and hostnames now available on Software Pack.
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