What Is 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 included as part of the HP-UX operating system or one of the four new Operating Environments. Operating Environments are discussed later in this Chapter under “Overview of the HP-UX 11i Release”.

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 located in the /opt/dce/newconfig/RelNotes directory.

The purpose of HP-UX 11i Release Notes is to explain the major differences between HP-UX 11.0 and 11i. For information on changes to HP-UX that occurred at 11.0, consult the archival release notes located in /usr/share/doc/11.00RelNotes or at the http://docs.hp.com web site. For information on changes to HP-UX that occurred at 10.30 or before, also see the docs.hp.com web site.

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.