What is New in the December 2005 Release?

Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle (HWEnable11i): Added support for hp BladeSystems Itanium BL60p servers. Several I/O driver bundles added or updated.

HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE): Updated to incorporate defect fixes and feature enhancements.

Networking and Mass Storage Drivers

Supported Systems: HP-UX 11i v2 not supported on HP Workstations.

New Product: Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Improves manageability of distributed systems and Serviceguard clusters.

Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Updated to version B.03.00 with defect fixes and Support for Cluster File System (CFS) in a Serviceguard A.11.l7 environment.

Event Monitoring Services: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. Will be deprecated post HP-UX 11i v3.

Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Provides new patches required for vPars, VERITAS products, Infiniband, and Serial SCSI functionality.

GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version C.04.50 with elimination of the dependency of ttd to have rpcbind or portmap running: support for both HTTP and HTTPS-based single port communication; replacement of perfalarm by DCE-based alarm management daemon, alarmgen; new metrics and other enhancements.

High Availability Monitors: Updated to support the update of Event Monitoring Service (EMS).

New Product: HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider: Allows HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) to display information about HP systems that support HP Integrity Virtual Machines. Not invoked directly by the user.

New Product: HP Integrity VM Support Library (VMGuestLib): Subset of the HP Integrity Virtual Machines API Library used by HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider.

HP Partitioning

HP Serviceguard: Updated to version A.11.17 with support for HP-UX 11i Security Containment, HP Fabric Clustering System for Infiniband, and Distributed Systems Administration Utilities. Includes enhanced security, a new command option, and a change in memory allocation, as well as other changes.

HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Updated to version A.11.23.04 to incorporate fixes for two defects.

HP System Management Homepage (SysMgmtWeb): Updated to version 2.2.1.x with integration of SAM Web-based applications; support for legacy SAM X Launch; WBEM-based property pages for OS and software information.

HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated to version 5.0 with numerous enhancements, including the ability to view more information and perform more tasks; new CLI commands; a First Time Wizard; support for Oracle databases; and other enhancements.

HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.00.08 to incorporate defect fixes.

New Product: HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: Web-based tool (ugweb) allows the user to manage the local user accounts, NIS user accounts and groups.

HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Now a plug-in tool in the HP System Management Homepage. TUI changed from previous ObAM-based TUI.

HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool: Updated to version B11.23.05. The waconf(1M) command and the WEB-ADM fileset now obsolete and replaced by the HP System Management Homepage, which now integrates the HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool.

New Product: HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Used by client applications to determine information about Fibre Channel HBAs and their properties.

New Product: HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces: Used by client applications to determine 100bt and Gigabit links available on the system and collect information about them.

New Product: HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider: Used by client applications to determine information about the LVM via HP WBEM Services for HP-UX.

New Product: HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Used by client applications to determine information about SCSI HBAs present on the system.

Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.6.5.x with updated documentation, defect fixes, enhancements, and support for VxVM 4.1. No longer supports HP-UX 11i v1.6 (B.11.22). For December 2005, available only on the AR DVD; it is not included in the December 2005 Operating Environments.

Obsolescence Bundle: Upon update to December 2005, now removes MySQL in addition to other obsolete products.

Online Diagnostics: Updated to include HPVM enablement, as well as integration of slview with HP System Management Homepage.

Quality Pack Patch Bundle: Included in this release as a superset of the May 2005 HP-UX 11i v2 Quality Pack.

Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

SysMgmtBASE bundle: First added to the HP-UX 11i v2 OEs in May 2005, provides the TUI framework for HP-UX Security Configuration tool and HP-UX Kernel Configuration. Updated in December 2005 to incorporate defect fixes.

Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

Update-UX: Updated to version B.11.23.0512.033. No longer supports update from HP-UX 11i v1.6 (B.11.22) to HP-UX 11i v2 December 2005 or later releases.

New Product: Utilization Provider: Lightweight daemon (utild) records system-utilization data on a 5-minute interval.

New Product: Disks and File Systems (fsweb): Provides a GUI to HP-UX system administration tasks.

New Bundle: EnableVxFS: Provides libraries and commands for VXFS.

HP CIFS Client: Updated to version A.02.01 with a substantially revised and improved code base.

HP CIFS Server: Updated to 3.0c (version A.02.01.02), which is based on Samba 3.0.7 and provides minor enhancements and defect fixes, as well as the new features provided in HP CIFS Server 3.0a (version A.02.01).

New Product: VERITAS File System (HP JFS/HP OnlineJFS): Version 4.1 now available with support for large file systems and large files, as well as other features.

New Product: VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM): Version 4.1 now available with enhancements including VERITAS Intelligent Storage Provisioning Service, Cross-Platform Data Sharing, and Storage Expert, as well as many other features.

HP-UX Web Server Suite:

New Product: LDAP-UX Integration product: Uses LDAP to centralize user, group and network information management in an LDAP directory. Provides functionality to support migration from the NIS or NIS+ environment to an LDAP environment.

Mozilla for HP-UX: Updated to version 1.7.x with enhancements including improved Asian font support, the Japanese Language Pack, and fixes for security vulnerabilities.

Netscape Directory Server for HP-UX: Updated to version B.06.21.30 with support for four-way multi-master replication, support for fine-grained password policy, new configuration attributes, and other features and defect fixes.

HP-UX 11i Security Containment provides a highly secure, easy to maintain, and backwards-compatible environment to deploy business applications. Now available on Software Pack media.

HP-UX IPFilter: Updated to version A.03.05.12 with NOSYNC pre-enablement, RPC enhancements, and defect fixes.

HP-UX Role-based Access Control: Allows you to distribute administrative responsibilities by creating roles with appropriate authorizations and assigning them to non-root users and groups. Now available on Software Pack media.

HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.00.003 with address binding for port forwarding connections, remote binding control, hashing of host names and addresses, and other changes.

New Product: HP-UX Security Attributes Configuration tool (secweb): Provides a GUI and TUI for configuring the system-wide and per-user values of security attributes of local and Network Information Service (NIS) users.

HP MLIB: Updated to version 9.4 with quality enhancements.

HP MPI: Updated to version 2.1.1 with several enhancements, including additional supported interconnects, and improved gather performance for TCP/IP, alltoall performance and other improvements.

Java 2 Standard Edition Platform:

Judy Libraries: Updated to version B.11.23.04.17 to incorporate packaging changes. Also now removes empty MANPATH file that was created at product installation.

Perl 5.8.3 build 809: Includes better Unicode support and numeric accuracy, new I/O and thread implementation, and other changes.