What is New in the Initial (October 2003) HP-UX 11i v2 Release?

Always-installed Network Drivers:

Mass Storage Drivers:

Selectable Network Drivers:

ATI FireGL X1 and ATI FireGL Z1: Provide compatibility with, and performance increase from, ATI FireGL4 card. Appropriate drivers shipped with the products.

Instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD) 6.0: Now always-installed and supported on HP Integrity Superdome, HP Integrity rx7620 and rx8620.

Pay Per Use 6.0: Available as a selectable product. Supports HP Integrity Superdome, HP Integrity rx7620 and rx8620.

Technical System Configuration (TechSysConf): TC-OpenSource tools removed. Remaining TC-SysSetup alters kernel configurable parameters, as well as selected system configuration files, for improved system performance.

Compressed Dump: New feature. Speeds up memory dumps.

Diagnostics:

Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit version B.01.08: Supports the Oracle 9i database in MC/ServiceGuard clusters.

Event Monitoring Service A.04.00: Framework and GUI available as 32-bit native applications on Itanium®-based platforms. HA Monitors available as 32-bit native binaries on Itanium®-based platforms. New command line utility, EMS CLI, available to configure and manage persistent monitoring requests for EMS monitors.

File Systems Tunable Parameters: HP-UX File Systems now has 13 dynamic tunable parameters available in HP-UX 11i v2. In addition, the MAXSYMLINKS literal traditionally included in the <sys/param.h> header is being deprecated in HP-UX 11i v2 and should not be used by applications. MAXSYMLINKS was defined as the maximum number of symbolic links that may be expanded in a path name. This limit is now a tunable parameter: fs_symlinks.

GlancePlus Pak C.03.71.23: Incorporates defect repairs and enhancements, including enhancements to OVPA and GlancePlus.

HP Caliper 3.0: Incorporates enhancements, including full multi-process support, ability to attach to a running process, new report and info modes, and usability improvements.

HP Partitioning:

HP WBEM Services for HP-UX version A.01.05.05: Supports strong SSL encryption; simultaneous support of both SSL and non-SSL connections; local connections enhanced to use UNIX Domain Sockets; four additional providers added.

HP-UX Kernel Configuration: The kcweb application incorporates changes and new features. The maxusers tunable obsoleted. Kernel Configuration (KC) commands replaced by a new set of commands. Changes made in kernel location, boot-time selection, and automatic backup creation.

HP-UX Peripheral Devices: New tool; replaces the peripheral devices functionality of SAM and introduces two new commands, pdweb and waconf.

Ignite-UX version B.5.0: Supports the new HP-UX Service Partition, incorporates enhanced support for dual media recovery, and incorporates enhancements to support new /stand/system syntax.

Interrupt Migration: New feature; can be used to view and modify the interrupt configuration of the system.

MC/ServiceGuard version A.11.15.00: Updated with new features, including support for VxVM 3.5, Quorum Server 2.0, ServiceGuard Manager 3.0, and IPv6 (with restrictions). Operation with IPFilter requires specific IPFilter rules to ensure proper operation of ServiceGuard clusters.

MC/ServiceGuard Extension for SAP R/3 version B.03.09: Provides same functionality as B.03.08 for PA-RISC. B.03.09 also provides means to use Secure Shell as a communication method between nodes running mySAP components.

MC/ServiceGuard NFS Toolkit version A.11.23.01: Enhanced for better performance and easier troubleshooting. NFS-related control functions and variables now in separate NFS-specific control script. Supports VxVM 3.5 and NFS high availability over NFS TCP and NFS UDP.

MC/ServiceGuard Quorum Server version A.2.0: Runs on both HP-UX and Linux. Supports multiple HP-UX and/or Linux clusters. Can be configured in a package in a cluster.

MySQL version 3.23: Used instead of NDS by Servicecontrol Manager 3.0 for the repository.

SAM - Nodal Network Communication: Supports DHCPv6.

Scalable Boot: Reduces boot time by 5 to 95%, depending on the I/O configuration.

Servicecontrol Manager version 3.0: Provides new features, including Linux-based central management server, certified HP ProLiant Linux agents, XML file format, and improved user interface and ease-of-use.

ServiceGuard Extension for RAC version A.11.15.00: Provides new features, including fast detection of Oracle instance crash and rolling upgrade. ServiceGuard Manager will show RAC instances in property sheet.

ServiceGuard Manager version A.03.00: Provides new features, including availability in five languages, support for clusters on different subnets, ability to display several sessions, and Alerts icon to show the most critical problem.

Software Distributor: Runs in Intel® Itanium® as a native application. Supports DLKM software packaging.

Software Package Builder: New product; provides a visual method to create and edit software packages using the HP-UX Software Distributor package format.

System Administration Manager: Introduces the HP-UX Kernel Configuration and HP-UX Peripheral Devices tools. SAM is available as PA-RISC binaries on HP-UX 11i v2 and requires the Aries translator.

System-V IPC Kernel Tunable Parameter (semmap)(Obsolete): The memory allocation of semaphore sets previously controlled by semmap is now done dynamically by the kernel. The semmap kernel parameter is no longer tunable.

System-V IPC Kernel Tunable Parameter (semmsl): Minimum value now 1; default value 2048; upper limit remains 10240.

The update-ux Command: New with HP-UX 11i v2. Allows update of the HP-UX operating system from HP-UX 11i v1.6 (11.22) to HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23).

AutoFS: Upgraded to include the features of the SUN ONC AutoFS version 2.3 product, as well as performance enhancements, including on-demand mounting. The system C library, libc, changed to improve AutoFS performance.

Automounter: Obsoleted. AutoFS is the recommended replacement.

HP CIFS Client version A.01.09: Provides defect fixes and new features, including Kerberos authentication, integration with the system Kerberos cache, and improved interoperability with third-party CIFS servers that do no support older SMB infolevels.

HP CIFS Server version 2.2e: Based on Samba version 2.2.5. Incorporates new tools and new configuration parameters.

Logical Volume Manager (LVM): Supports SLVM in configurations of up to 16 nodes. LVM powerfail message changed.

VERITAS File System (VxFS/HP OnlineJFS/JFS) 3.5: New version contains new and changed features, including new and/or enhanced tunable parameters, enhanced VxFS commands, new I/O error handling policy, new default intent log mode, new default system block size, VxFS system activity reporter, forced unmounts, and more. Enables creation of file systems up to 4 TB (maximum file size is 2 TB).

VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) 3.5: New features include VERITAS Cluster Volume Manager 3.5 for HP-UX (purchased separately); Device Discovery Layer; SIG Licensing Product; and VERITAS Enterprise Administrator. VxVM 3.5 offers significant enhancements over the previous VxVM 3.1, which speed transactions, reduce processing time, and improve bandwidth usage.

HP OSI Transport Services/9000 version C.12.00: Provides otsshownsaps (lists NSAPs configured on OTS/9000) and expedited data transfer on RFC1006 subnet.

HP-UX Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI): Includes enhancements to the Streams interface; new third-party interface for non-native Streams drivers; updates to the native Stream driver models; obsolescence of the dump read capability of lanscan; status logging for DLPI through nettl; and other changes.

HP-UX Web Server Suite: Includes HP-UX Apache-based Web Server, HP-UX Webmin-based Admin, HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine, and HP-UX XML Web Server Tools. Each component includes fixes and/or enhancements. Installation changes have been made.

Internet Services:

IPv6 Support: IPv6 support by Transport, Internet Services, DCE, DLPI, FDDI, SAM-NNC, libc, HP-UX commands, Desktop (CDE), X11R6-based applications, C2 Audit, EMS, Online Diagnostics, SNMP, NetTL, IPSec, Kerberos Client, ServiceGuard, GlancePlus Pak, HP-UX Secure Shell, HP-UX Web Server Suite, and the Runtime Environment (RTE) for the Java. 2 platform.

IPv6 Network Transport Software: Features include IPv4/IPv6 dual stock support; enablement of IPv4/IPv6 host and router connections over existing IPv4 network; Ethernet and FDDI links; IPv6 stateless address auto configuration; IPv6 Neighbor Discovery; network configuration and troubleshooting utilities; name service switch, and more.

IPv6 Support by Common Desktop Environment (CDE): CDE 2.1 supports IPv6, in addition to IPv4.

IPv6 Support by HP Openview Emanate Agent: Relevant MIB support with the IPv6 subagent, ipv6agt. RFCs supported as part of the IPv6 stack.

IPv6 Support by HP-UX libc and HP-UX Commands: While providing support for IPv6, new solution addresses previous performance and feature scalability problems. New daemon and library introduced to manage user accounting. Various commands modified and options added to support IPv6. Solution speeds response time for users to log in to large server systems which support a large number of users/login sessions.

Kernel Logging: Deprecated. Will not be supported post-HP-UX 11i v2.

LAN Commands

Network Information Service Plus (NIS+): Deprecated. HP-UX 11i v2 is the last release to support NIS+. HP will introduce a migration strategy to facilitate move from NIS+ to LDAP.

Network Tracing and Logging (NetTL): Supports tracing and formatting of IPv6 packets. Improved performance. GUI nettladm added. Options added.

Network Transport (ARPA): Support for enhancements of HP-UX DLPI. Enhancements to CKO interfaces between HP-UX transport and DLPI. Removed support for dump reading by netstat and arp. IPv6 transport supported.

Networking libc APIs getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo(): Both functions have additional lookup.

Networking libc APIs getipnodebyname() and getipnodebyaddr(): Deprecated. Both functions not supported post-HP-UX 11i v2. In applications, the APIs getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() functions should be used instead.

The nslookup Program: Extended to follow the configured host name resolution algorithm and to query NIS, DNS, and host tables.

Router Discovery Protocol Daemon (rdpd): Obsolete. Functionality has been subsumed in gated.

Web Browsing:

Boot Authentication: Now available on all Standard Systems. Standard Mode Boot Authentication feature can be configured by two parameters.

Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface (GSS-API): Now delivered as part of HP-UX 11i v2. IPv6 enabled.

HP-UX Auditing System: Several system call options and event type options are accepted, but will be obsoleted in the next release.

HP-UX Bastille 2.1: Now included in HP-UX 11i v2. New version adds finer granularity of configuration, improved question flow, better input validation, and new lockdown features.

HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) 2.2: Maintenance release with defect fixes and a few enhancements. No new functionality in this version.

HP-UX IPFilter A.03.05.06: Supports HP-UX 11i v2 on Itanium®-based platforms. Automatically installed with all OEs. Using IPFilter and ServiceGuard requires specific IPFilter rules to ensure proper operation of ServiceGuard clusters.

HP-UX Secure Shell A.03.10: New product. Based on OpenSSH 3.1p1, provides a secure channel for remote communication by transparently encrypting network traffic. Uses hashing to ensure data integrity and supports several authentication methods.

Install-Time Security 1. x.x: Adds a security step to the install/update process that allows you to configure the Bastille security lockdown engine during system installation.

Kerberos Client (KRB5-Client): Now delivered as part of HP-UX 11i v2. Changes include support for appdefaults section in the /etc/krb5.conf; multidomain support; IPv6 support.

PAM Kerberos: Supports both Itanium®-based and PA-RISC applications in 32-bit mode. Now prevents a user from changing another user’s password.

Security Patch Check 1.3: Now included in HP-UX 11i v2 OEs. Simplifies the process of determining whether you have all the relevant security patches on your system. This version does better corner-case handling; incorporates a number of defect fixes and clearer wording.

Shadow Passwords: New feature enhances system security by hiding user-encrypted passwords in a shadow password file.

Strong Random Number Generator: New feature provides a secure, non-reproducible source of binary sequences for applications that generate encryption keys and other cryptographic quantities.

The envd Environment Daemon: Now supported.

The groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, useradd, userdel, usermod commands: In trusted mode, the commands now write audit records into the audit subsystem’s audit trail. New option added to set or unset useradd behavior of changing ownership of an existing home directory.

The psrset Command: Enhanced with new options to manage the RTE processor set.

The setboot Command: Support for setting the HA Alternate boot path now added. SpeedyBoot option for next reboot now available.

I/O Commands:

The mmap() Function: Now possible to perform mappings between a process's address space and I/O device registers or memory.

The pstat_getfile() Interface: Obsolete. The interface pstat_getfile2() should be used in its place.

Transition Links Commands: Deprecated. The tlinstall, tllist, and tlremove commands will become obsolete in post-HP-UX 11i v2 releases.

Usage of Capacity-related ioctls DIOC_CAPACITY, DIOC_DESCRIBE, and SIOC_CAPACITY: Applications that use the DIOC_CAPACITY or DIOC_DESCRIBE ioctl calls should be rebuilt because capacity_type and disk_describe_type now better represent the size of newer, larger devices. Applications that use the SIOC_CAPACITY ioctl for devices that may become large at some point should now use the new SIOC_STORAGE_CAPACITY ioctl.

Usage of ustat(), statfs(), and statvfs(): When old binaries that still use ustat(), the various forms of statfs(), and the various forms of the 32-bit flavor of statvfs(), are exposed to a truly large file system, these calls will return an EOVERFLOW error that the binaries have never seen before, resulting in misinterpretations.

400K File Descriptors: The maximum supported number of file descriptors per process raised from 60000 (60K) to 400,000 (400K). Precautions apply to this new functionality.

Adaptive Address Space (AAS) 1.0: Allows you to create binaries that provide you with a large address space and more control over it.

Aries Binary Translator: Changes include support for MxN threads, support for Itanium®2-based processor, and an optional, experimental implementation of a new dynamic translator with improved performance.

C99 Support for HP-UX System C Library (libc): A set of 8 new APIs introduced, making it easier to convert strings to the “long long” data type.

Debugging:

	NOTE: The HP Wildebeest Debugger (WDB) has been updated since the initial release of HP-UX 11i v2. For the most current information, visit http://www.hp.com/go/wdb.

Dynamic Loader (dld.so) B.12.20: Changes include support for applications built with +[no]lazyload and -B [direct|lazydirect|nodirect], lazy loading of shared library, and direct binding.

File Descriptor Allocation: The behavior of the file descriptor allocation changed to prevent security problems such as unauthorized modification of root-owned files.

GTK+ Libraries 1.2.10.2: Added; required for Netscape 7 and Mozilla. Consists of the component libraries GLib, GDK, and GTK.

HP aC++ Compiler: The functionality of Tools.h++ now available with the Standard C++ runtime (-AA). Transition Links product deprecated.

HP C Compiler: The legacy_hpc/ subdirectory no longer provided. C-Analysis-Tools product obsoleted. The tools cb, cflow, cxref, endif, lint, protogen no longer shipped. Transition Links product deprecated.

HP Fortran v2.7: A new feature is binary I/O conversion. New or revised directives/options include optimize openmp [on|off], +Oautopar (revised), +Ofast (changed implied options), +DOosname, +O[no]rotating_fpregs, +O[no]preserved_fpregs, and +O[no]no_return.

HP Math Library (libm): Changes to libm, math.h, complex.h, tgmath.h, fenv.h, cmath, and complex components, including new and changed functions. Major performance upgrade for power functions: pow[fwlq], pown[fwlq], and powlln[fwlq]. Switch introduced into math.h to support a strict C99 namespace.

HP Message Passing Interface (MPI) 1.8.3: New features include additional launch utility mpirun.all, HyperFabric/HyperMessaging Protocol (HMP) functionality, stdio not processed by default, argument error checking turned off by default.

HP MLIB 8.4: Major enhancement is performance tuning. Incorporates algorithmic improvements. Several tunable parameters adjusted for improved execution performance.

Itanium®-based Unwind Library (libunwind.so): Changes include a new set of “Unwind Express” APIs that perform stack unwinding considerably faster, and new header files <uwx.h> and <uwx_self.h>.

Java 2 Standard Edition Platform:

Link Editor (ld): New functionality includes lazy loading of shared libraries (+[no] lazyload) and direct binding support.

Micro Focus OO COBOL 4.2 Run-Time Libraries: Deprecated. Will not be included in future HP-UX 11i releases for Itanium®-based platforms.

Object File Tools (elfdump): Option introduced to print out the version string of the symbol when printing the symbol table.

Perl: Corresponds to Perl 5.8.0 source code release. Changes include better Unicode support, new IO implementation, new thread implementation, better numeric accuracy, safe signals, and many new modules.

Source Code Transition from HP-UX 11i v1.6 to HP-UX 11i v2: Software Transition Kit 1.9 updated to support source code transition from HP-UX 11i v1.6 to v2.

Thread Context: Changes include: Protection Key Registers saved/restored on context switch; lazy FP implementation; new scratch registers supported; save_state, pcb, and label structures changed.

Simplified Chinese Input Methods: Intelligent ABC now available to support characters defined by the GB18030 standard. T-C and T-C Rapid input methods obsoleted and removed.

Mainframe iconv Converters for Japanese Characters: Changes include numerous fixes for mapping errors for JIS standard characters, as well as a fix to handle an incomplete shift sequence at the end of an input buffer.

Printing Using Asian TrueType Fonts for HP PCL5 Printers: Larger set of Asian characters available for printing using Asian UTF-8 locales.

System Support for Latin and South American Locales: Total of 51 new locales provided to enable system-level support for Latin/South American geographies. Includes support for the input, storage, retrieval, display, and printing of characters encoded in ISO-88591, ISO-885915, or UTF-8 character sets.

Unicode 3.0 Support: Now included.

Deprecated Functionality: Several commands, library routines, and lp model files deprecated. Will be removed in next major release of HP-UX.

ccNUMA: Changes include: greater performance for some work loads; ability to configure systems for optimal performance with regard to interleaved versus cell local memory; ability to give guidance to OS for most appropriate memory allocation according to an application’s usage model; ability to control how processes are distributed among localities.

Common Desktop Environment (CDE): Changes include: IPv6 support; greater accessibility for physically challenged users; dtlogin does not start X server when the mouse is not connected; large file (greater than 2GB) support provided by dtfile; and other changes. In addition, CDE requires a number of services and resources; if these are disabled either manually or with Bastille, there are several impacts on CDE.