The Purpose of HP-UX Release Notes

HP-UX Release Notes describe what is new, changed, or obsolete within an HP-UX release as compared with previous releases. HP-UX Release Notes apply only to features that are part of the HP-UX operating system. For information on product-specific release notes, see below.

Release Notes for HP-UX 11.0 is primarily to explain the major differences between HP-UX Release 10.30 and 11.0, with a summary of information on what changed between 10.20 and 10.30. For full information on changes to HP-UX occurring at various HP-UX 10.x releases, consult the archival release notes located in: /usr/share/doc/10.xRelNotes for information about the HP-UX Releases 10.00, 10.01, 10.10, 10.20, and 10.30.

Release Notes do not completely document all of the features of a release. Instead, they contain high-level information and provide pointers to more detailed operating system and product-specific documentation.

Where appropriate, release notes also tell you about changes in the support of products.

Additional product-specific release notes files are located in the /opt directory, in sub-directories named /opt/product name/newconfig/RelNotes (where product name represents the name of the product for which those release notes apply). For example, Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) release notes are loaded in the /opt/dce/newconfig/RelNotes directory.