What is New in the December 2004 Release?

New Product: Enhanced NPartition Commands (NParCmds) added.

New Product: The nPartition Provider supports WBEM version 2.0.

Partition Manager updated to version 2.0 with several significant improvements, including a new, more graphical user interface and configuration of nPartitions on remote complexes.

Graphics Hardware Support now includes the ATI FireGL X3 (basic 2D functionality) graphics cards.

Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle updated for diagnostics to support latest PA8800 processor modules and 4GB DIMM; also enables and ATI FireGL X3 adapter for C8000.

New Product: HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition now available in the Operating Environments.

Codeword iCOD upgraded to version 6.50 to include better integration with partition management by using WBEM for data discovery. iCOD now has a software dependency on the nPartition provider and WBEM.

Enterprise Cluster Master (ECM) Toolkit updated to version B.02.20 with scripts for Oracle 10g database applications, enhancements to the Oracle Toolkit, and support for the Tomcat Servlet.

GlancePlus Pak updated to version C.03.86.00 with new parm file parameters and new metrics, as well as enhancements to gpm and glance.

GTK+ Libraries updated to version 1.4.gm.46.9 to support changes to the Operating Environments. No new functionality added.

HP 3D Technology for the Java 2 Platform updated to incorporate packaging changes.

HP MLIB updated to version 9.0 with the new features VMATH, SOLVERS, and CXML.

HP Process Resource Manager updated to version C.02.03.03 with changes in usage of /var/tmp/, and changes to the products available in the bundles.

HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit (formerly MC/ServiceGuard NFS Toolkit) updated to version A.11.11.04 with improvement to the failover performance for rpcbind failures. In addition, version A.11.11.04 specifies that the length of the NFS_FLM_SCRIPT variable is limited to 13 characters in the nfs.mon script.

HP WBEM Services for HP-UX updated with defect fixes as well as support for CIM Process Indications as defined by the DMTF WBEM Specification. A version of the OpenSSL software is no longer packaged with the product software.

HP-UX Apache-based Web Server updated to version 2.0.52.00 as primarily a security and bug fix release with Apache and mod_perl upgraded.

HP-UX IPFilter updated to version A.03.05.10.04 to incorporate defect fixes.

HP-UX Software Development Kit and Runtime Environment for the Java 2 Platform updated to version 1.4.2.04 to provide more recent Java technology.

HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine updated to version A.4.1.29.04 with upgrades to Tomcat and Commons-DBCP.

HP-UX Webmin-based Admin updated to version 1.070.02 to incorporate defect fixes.

HP-UX Workload Manager updated to version A.02.03.03 with new options for wlmaudit and wlmgui.

HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits updated to version A.01.07.03 with modifications to PPUTK’s utilitydc and updated example configurations.

Ignite-UX updated to version C.6.1.x with enhancements to the make_net_recovery and make_tape_recovery commands. The impi and impi_psm drivers added to the 11i v1 and 11i v2 WINSTALL and IINSTALL installation kernels.

Java for HP-UX Add-on Standard C++ Runtime Libraries for the SDK and for the RTE updated to version 1.4.2.04 to incorporate defect fixes.

Java Out-of-Box updated to version 2.03.01 to provide enhancements and defect fixes.

Mozilla Application Suite updated to version 1.6.0.01 and contains full Japanese localization as well as other defect fixes, security fixes, and enhancements.

OpenSSL updated to version A.00.09.07-d to eliminate extra messages at installation time.

Perl updated with two installation-related changes.

Plug-in (JPI) for the Java 2 Platform updated to version 1.4.2.04 to provide more recent Java technology.

PRM Libraries added to prevent reboots when upgrading HP Process Resource Manager.

Servicecontrol Manager (SCM) updated to version B.03.00.09.02 to incorporate only minor updates. SCM has been deprecated; its replacement is HP Systems Insight Manager.

Software Package Builder updated version A.02.00. to allow for the display of the current policy file being used for validation and to incorporate defect fixes.

FibrChanl-00 updated to version B.11.11.12 with support for Sequence Level Error Recovery (SLER) based on FCP-2 standards. Support added for the A6795A PCI Tachyon XL2 Adapter Card in the C8000 workstation.

FibrChanl-01 updated to support the to-be-released AB465A card.

GigEther-01 updated to support the to-be-released AB465A card and to incorporate defect fixes.

Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle updated to provide an OLA fix for A9891A, AB286A, and future I/O adapters.

IEther-00 updated to version B.11.11.07 with support for the to-be-released AB290A and AB545A cards, and to incorporate defect fixes.

RAID-00 supports the A5856A card, which has been discontinued. RAID-00 will remain in HP-UX 11i v1 to support previously purchased A5856A cards.

RAID-01 updated to support the A9891A Smart Array 6404 card and to incorporate defect repairs. In addition, the RAID-01 software has been changed from Selectable to Always-Installed.

scsiU320-00 updated to incorporate defect fixes and to support the to-be-released AB290A card. The scsiU320-00 driver bundle also supports the A7173A card, which has now been released.

Software Distributor (SD) updated with new versions of the gzip and swpackage commands.

Update-UX updated to incorporate defect fixes.

EnhancedMMAP now available on Software Pack.

MtIOscan11i now available on Software Pack.

NEWFUSER11i now available on Software Pack.

HP-UX Shadow Passwords now available on Software Pack.

HP-UX Strong Random Number Generator now available on Software Pack.