In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture
of how the September 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2 differs from the
June 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For further information, see the
indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 2 September
2006 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 September 2006
Release Notes for information that is not included here.
September 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 4: “Hardware-Specific
Information”.
CommonIO Bundle: Updated with packaging
changes.
Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2
(HWEnable11i): Includes future HP-UX support for
PCI-Express I/O adapters, in addition to the latest changes for the
new Dual-Core Intel ® Itanium® 2 processors in the following HP servers.
Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
FibrChanl-01: Updated with quality
and diagnostic improvements.
GigEther-01: Updated to version
11.23.0609 to pre-enable future technology.
IEther-00: Updated to version
11.23.0609 to pre-enable future technology.
New Product: PCIMUX-00: Supports the AD278A and AD279A cards.
RAID-01: Updated with quality and
diagnostic improvements, and defect fixes.
scsiU320-00: Updated with quality
and diagnostic improvements for Ultra320 SCSI solutions.
SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality
improvements.
USB-00: Updated to version C.01.04.01
with quality improvements. Now supports the A6869A and A6869B cards.
Utility Pricing Solutions
HP Instant Capacity: Updated to version B.11.23.08.00.01
to incorporate defect fixes related to powered-off cells and remote
complexes.
HP Pay per use: Updated to version B.11.23.08.00.0.01
to incorporate a defect fix.
September 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General
System Administration”.
Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Updated
to V1.2 with updated and enhanced features to csync_wizard, enhanced consolidated logging, and a new command, cwall, as well as other changes.
Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Added new patches for HP Integrity Virtual Machines (HPVM), HPDesktopDev,
and Veritas products.
HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VMProvider): Updated to version A.01.20.69 with support for Windows on Integrity
as well as HP-UX guests.
HP Integrity VM Support Library (VMGuestLib): Updated to version A.01.20.69 to incorporate defect fixes.
HP Partitioning
HP Global Workload Manager: Updated to version A.02.50.00.x with ability to nest partitions (with gWLM managing
resources for all the partition types); ability to display and compare
previous configurations; and ability to use Java JRE/JDK 1.4.2 or
Java 1.5 (5.0); as well as other changes.
HP Process Resource Manager: Updated to version C.03.02
with HP System Management Homepage integration, ability to map UNIX
groups to PRM groups, and extended regular expressions in alternate
names for application records.
HP-UX Virtual Partitions: Provides tape device support
on version A.04.03. Purchased separately.
HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.02
with ability to map UNIX groups to workload groups, extended regular
expressions in alternate names for application records, and other
changes.
HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits: Updated to version
A.01.10 with the removal of Pay Per Use Toolkit, including its utilitydc command. Bundle name has changed from T1302AA to WLMToolkits.
nPartition Provider: Updated to version B.23.01.06.02
with the ability to enable and disable Hyper-Threading for nPartitions
whose cells have processors that are Hyper-Threading-capable.
PRMKernelSW (formerly PRM Libraries): Name has changed
from “PRM Libraries” to “PRMKernelSW.” No
other changes.
PRMLibraries: Updated to version C.03.02. Now contains
the PRM API. Bundle name is PRMLibraries. Previous
content now in the PRMKernelSW product.
HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Updated to version A.11.23.06
with a fix for a problem with the HA-NFS File Lock Migration script, nfs.flm.
HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version
A.2.2.4.x to incorporate defect fixes.
HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated with support for
HP BladeSystem C-Class blade and enclosure, delivery of the HP BladeSystem
Integrated Manager 2.1, and defect fixes.
HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.00.11
to incorporate defect fixes.
HP-UX IPQoS: Will be removed by the Obsolescence Bundle
upon update from HP-UX 11i v1 to HP-UX 11i v2. To continue using,
you can download the HP-UX IPQoS product for HP-UX 11i v2 free from
Software Depot.
HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Updated to version
11.23.0609.02 to incorporate defect fixes.
HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider: Updated to version 11.23.007
to incorporate defect fixes.
HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Updated to version 11.23.050
to incorporate defect fixes, as well as new functionality to provide
more management information to the upper layers.
Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.6.9.x with support for system recovery and system cloning of systems using
VxFS 5.0 and VxVM 5.0 (cold install of systems with VxFS 5.0 and VxVM
5.0 not supported); compression of install kernels on B.11.23; support
for new hardware enabled by the HP-UX release.
Online Diagnostics
OnlineDiag Bundle: Updated with
support for legacy functionality of PCI-express host bridge adapter
on Zx2 platforms, as well as support for other, future cards.
SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management:
Updated with support for new platforms and to incorporate defect fixes.
Quality Pack Patch Bundle: Included in this release
as a superset of the March 2006 HP-UX 11i v2 Quality Pack. Not updated
in June 2006.
System Administration Manager: sam(1M) command has been deprecated and is planned for future
obsolescence.
Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect
fixes.
Update-Ux: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. No
new features or functionality.
Utilization Provider: Updated to version A.01.04.x to incorporate defect fixes.
September 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and
File Management”.
Disks and File Systems: Updated to provide defect
fixes and an improved GUI.
EnableVxFS Bundle: Now supports
VxFS 5.0 as well as VxFS 4.1.
HP CIFS Client: Updated to version A.02.02 with support
for MS Distributed File System (DFS), the HP CIFS Client DLKM feature,
and new configuration parameters.
HP CIFS Server: Updated to 3.0e (version A.02.02.01)
with minor enhancements and defect fixes.
HP OnlineJFS 3.5: Updated to improve product quality.
Now customer-selectable on all OEs.
HP OnlineJFS 4.1: Base-VXVM 4.1 is no longer a prerequisite
for HP OnlineJFS 4.1. Now always-installed on the EOE and MCOE only.
September 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 7: “Internet
and Networking”.
New Products: Firefox/Firefox
Source: Web browser includes Firefox 1.5.x changes from the Mozilla Foundation. Fixes several security vulnerabilities
reported in Firefox 1.5.0.0 from the Mozilla Foundation.
New Products: GTK/GTK
Source: Added to support FireFox/Thunderbird.
GTK+ Libraries: Updated to incorporate a packaging
change.
Mozilla Web Browser: Updated to version 1.7.12.01.x to incorporate a packaging change.
New Products: Thunderbird/Thunderbird
Source: Supported email client on HP-UX, provides online browsing
and searching tools for HP-UX Integrity and PA-RISC customers.
September 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 8: “Security”.
PAM Kerberos: Now delivered on the HP-UX 11i v2 Operating
Environments. Version 1.24 includes a new error message for pamkrbval(1M), better troubleshooting, and other changes. Bundle
name has changed from J5849AA to PAMKerberos.
HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.30.007
to incorporate defect fixes.
September 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands
and System Calls”.
No changes in this release.
September 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries
and Programming”.
Java 2 Standard Edition Platform
HP-UX Java Development Kit and HP-UX Java Runtime
Environment for the Java ™ 2 Platform
Standard Edition (JDK/JRE): Versions 1.4 and 5.0 (1.5) of the JDK/JRE,
Add-ons, and Plugins updated to incorporate packaging changes.
ObsJava12 (Obsolescence for Java
1.2) and ObsJava13 (Obsolescence for Java 1.3):
Updated to incorporate packaging changes.
Java Out-of-Box: Updated to version 2.03.07 to incorporate
packaging changes.
Perl: Updated to version 5.8.3 build 809 to incorporate
defect fixes.
September 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization”.
No changes in this release.
September 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other
Functionality”.
No changes in this release.
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