What is New in the September 2004 Release?

HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition: Formerly delivered on the HP-UX 11i v1 Support Plus media; now available with this release on HP-UX 11i v2.

HP StorageWorks Command View SDM v1.08.00: Supports HP-UX 11i v2 on Itanium®-based platforms only. Near the release of HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004, a version of CVSDM to support HP-UX 11i v2 on PA-RISC platforms will be available on the Web.

HP StorageWorks Secure Path V3.0E for HP-UX: Provides EVA Boot and Dump support on HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 and later releases.

HP-UX 11i v2 Driver Development Kit: Enhanced to support the current release of HP-UX 11i v2. Includes sample drivers and makefiles, as well as driver development tools for both PA-RISC and Itanium®-based systems, and other enhancements.

HP-UX 3D Graphics Run Time Environment and Developer's Kit: Modules for hardware-accelerated OpenGL rendering removed because PA-RISC Workstations are not supported by this release. OpenGL rendering to remote displays supported via GLX protocol and HP Virtual Memory Driver.

Networking and Mass Storage Drivers:

Online Addition and Replacement (OL* or OLAR): The rad command no longer available. SAM no longer used for OL*. The olrad command now used; performs a critical resource analysis to ensure system integrity will not be compromised.

On Demand Solutions:

Supported Servers and Workstations: Many 64-bit PA-RISC servers are supported on this release. No 32-bit servers are supported. PA-RISC workstations are not supported.

Technical System Configuration (TechSysConf): TC-OpenSource tools removed. Remaining TC-SysSetup alters kernel configurable parameters, as well as selected system configuration files, for improved system performance.

Compressed Dump: New feature with HP-UX 11i v2. Speeds up the crash dump process.

Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit B.02.11: DB2, Informix, and Sybase not supported. Mixed IA-PA failover for the Oracle9i package not supported.

Event Monitoring Services: Framework and GUI available as 32-bit native applications on PA-RISC and Intel® Itanium ®. 64-bit EMS Itanium ®-based native libraries also available. Deprecated. Will be replaced post HP-UX 11i v3 with WBEM.

GlancePlus Pak C.03.85: Contains enhancements to OVPA and GlancePlus, including new parm file parameters and new process-level metrics, as well as updated default adviser symptoms and alarms.

High Availability Monitors: Available as 32-bit native binaries on PA-RISC & Itanium ®-based platforms. Deprecated. Will be obsoleted post HP-UX 11i v3.

HP Partitioning:

HP Serviceguard A.11.16: Now supports clusters with mixed servers (HP Integrity and HP 9000).

HP Serviceguard Quorum Server: Supported on both PA-RISC and Itanium®-based systems.

HP-UX 11i v2 Required Patch Bundle (BUNDLE11i): Delivered with this release. Consists of patches for HP-UX 11i v2 that are required to install and update the operating system (OS).

HP-UX Kernel Configuration: The kcweb application incorporates changes and new features. The maxusers tunable obsoleted. Kernel Configuration (KC) commands replaced by a new set of commands. Changes made in kernel location, boot-time selection, and automatic backup creation. The /stand/system/ file enhanced.

The Peripheral Device Tool (pdweb) B11.23.02: New for customers migrating from HP-UX 11i v1.

Ignite-UX, version B.6.0. x: Includes ability to install and recover the HP-UX releases 11.0, B.11.11, B.11.22, B.11.23 PA-RISC, and B.11.23 Itanium ®-based clients from a single Ignite-UX server. Also includes booting of both PA-RISC and Itanium®-based, known as dual boot, from a single media source; and installing one unified PA-RISC/Itanium ®-based core HP-UX operating system bundle.

Improved Database Startup and Shutdown Times: Database startup and shutdown times have been drastically reduced.

Interrupt Migration: New for customers migrating from HP-UX 11i v1, this feature can be used to view and modify the interrupt configuration of the system.

MySQL: Updated with tightened security. Product has been deprecated.

Obsolescence Product: New product, used in an update when obsolete software on the system needs to be removed.

OnlineDiag: Includes cell-local memory (CLM) support for PA-RISC platform, as well as various bug fixes and enhancements. Support added for new devices.

Quality Pack Patch Bundle: All patches that were in the March 2004 HP-UX 11i v2 Quality Pack will be superseded by dual-architecture patches, which will be placed in BUNDLE11i.

SAM-NNC: Added support for VLAN, IPoIB, large send, and DHCPv6 functionality, plus other changes.

Servicecontrol Manager: Contains only minor updates. All functionality remains the same. Product has been deprecated.

Software Distributor (SD): Updated to a new version to support this new release of HP-UX 11i v2.

Software Package Builder A.02.00: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

System Administration Manager (SAM): Includes new tools, HP-UX Kernel Configuration tool and HP-UX Peripheral Devices tool.

System V Shared Memory: Incorporates the functionality of the now-obsoleted ShmemExtensions product. Maximum for the shmmni tunable parameter increased.

Update-UX: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

16 Terabyte (TB) File System Support: VxFS 3.5 file systems of up to 16 TB now certified.

AutoFS 2.3: Upgraded to include the features of the SUN ONC AutoFS version 2.3 product, as well as performance enhancements, including on-demand mounting.

DeviceIDS: Provides a significant performance improvement for AutoFS at unmount time.

File Systems Backup and Recovery Commands: The commands fbackup(1M), frecover(1M), and ftio(1) deprecated.

Hierarchical File System (HFS): Deprecated. Will be removed in a future release.

HP CIFS Client A.01.09.02: Provides 64-bit PAM-NTLM libraries support and defect fixes.

HP CIFS Server 2.2i (A.01.11.01): Provides new LDAP support functionality, as well as other new features and defect fixes.

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and MirrorDisk/UX: Performance improved. LVM no longer performs software bad block relocation. Defects fixed.

Network File System (NFS): New option added to the umount command. Compatibility exception noted.

Network Information Service Plus (NIS+): Deprecated and planned for future obsolescence. Valid modification requests to update NIS+ tables will now fail if the size of the request is larger than 9000 bytes.

Portable File System (PFS): Obsolete.

VERITAS File System (VxFS/HP OnlineJFS/JFS) 3.5: Contains new and changed features, including new and/or enhanced tunable parameters, enhanced VxFS commands, new I/O error handling policy, new default intent log mode, new default system block size, VxFS system activity reporter, forced unmounts, and more. Enables creation of file systems up to 32 TB (16 TB has been certified).

VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) 3.5 for HP-UX (Base): Includes new versions of VEA and SIG Licensing, as well as defect fixes.

HP Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI): Includes enhancements to the Streams interface; new third-party driver interface for non-native Streams drivers; consolidation of .h files; obsolescence of the dump read capability of the lanscan(1M) command; support for TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO or Large Send), InfiniBand technology, and 64-bit MIB.

HP Openview Emanate Agent 15.3: Agents are now SNMPv3 compatible. IPv6 agent added.

HP-UX LAN Provider: New with this release of HP-UX 11i v2. Client applications can use this Provider to determine 100bt and Gigabit links available on the system and collect information about them.

HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.01: Offers the same functionality as A.01.00, but delivery method has changed.

HP-UX Web Server Suite:

Internet Services:

LAN Administration Commands: Include support for IPoIB, 64-bit MIB, and Native and Non-Native DLPI drivers developed by IHVs, plus new command-line options for lanadmin.

Mozilla Application Suite 1.4.0.01: Contains full Japanese localization as well as other defect fixes and enhancements. Security bulletin posted.

Netscape Directory Server 6.11: Includes enhancements to Multi-Master replication, login enhancements, virtual attribute search, new plug-ins support, and a data interoperability feature.

Network Tracing and Logging (NetTL): Changes include formatting support for IPoIB and new CLI option to support configurable trace buffer timer value.

Network Transport (ARPA): Changes include support for enhancements of HP-UX DLPI; enhancements to CKO interfaces between HP-UX transport and DLPI; removed support for dump reading by netstat and arp; IPv6 transport supported, and other changes. Problem and work-around noted: HP-UX sends TCP packets with incorrect window size.

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP): Available on HP-UX 11i v2. Includes changes to Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) and Point-to-Point Protocol for IPv6 (PPPv6).

STREAMS/UX: The HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 Release Notes contains an error and should instead read as follows: For non-blocking writes, during flow control conditions, STREAMS now returns success (0 return value) in the case of partial writes on STREAMS-based pipes.

Boot Authentication: Now available on all Standard Systems. Standard Mode Boot Authentication feature can be configured by two parameters.

Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface (GSS-API): IPv6 enabled.

HP-UX Bastille 2.1: New product for customers migrating from HP-UX 11i v1.

HP-UX IPFilter A.03.05.10.02: Includes additional defect fixes.

HP-UX Secure Shell A.03.71.000: Contains several new features, including enhanced ssh_prng_cmds file for random number generation, new escape character for requesting a pseudo terminal, and support for generating KEX-GEX groups in the ssh-keygen file.

HP-UX Strong Random Number Generator: New product with HP-UX 11i v2.

HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System 2.3: Product bundle renamed and restructured to improve product installation and maintenance.

Install-Time Security B.01. x.x: New product for customers migrating from HP-UX 11i v1.

Kerberos Client (KRB5-Client): Changes include support for appdefaults section in the /etc/krb5.conf; multidomain support; IPv6 support.

OpenSSL A.00.09.07-d: A self-signed host certificate is automatically generated while installing OpenSSL.

PAM: 64-bit framework now supported on both PA-RISC and Itanium®-based systems. New PAM module introduced. Defect fixes included.

PAM-Kerberos v1.23: Supports both Itanium®-based and PA-RISC applications in 32-bit mode and 64-bit mode. The pam_sm_acct_mgmt() function returns PAM_USER_UNKNOWN instead of PAM_SUCCESS when the user is not present in the kerberos database.

Security Patch Check 2.0: New product for customers migrating from HP-UX 11i v1.

Shadow Passwords: New feature enhances system security by hiding user-encrypted passwords in a shadow password file. Now supported by SAM.

The execve[*]() system calls: Beginning with HP-UX 11i v1.6, the kernel ignores setuid and setgid bits on scripts for security reasons. In addition, buffer overflow protection is now enabled.

The fuser Command: Performance improved.

The insf, lssf, and mksf Commands: Now support IHV drivers.

The mmap() Function: Now possible to perform mappings between a process's address space and I/O device registers or memory.

The olrad Command: The rad(1M) command replaced by the more robust olrad(1M) command.

Post/Wait: New. Provides a fast, lightweight synchronization facility for user applications.

The ps command: The default width is now set to 128 characters and a default file has been provided to define the length of the command field, which can be between 64-1020.

The rc Shell Script: When a system needs reboot for some reason, messages in the file /etc/rc.bootmsg will be displayed before the system is rebooted.

The scsimgr and scsiscan Commands: Deprecated. Planned for obsolescence in HP-UX 11i v3.

The settune and settune_txn System Calls: Post HP-UX 11i v2, tunables set using these kernel system calls will not be persistent across reboots.

The sfd Daemon: Deprecated. Planned for obsolescence in HP-UX 11i v3.

The sysdef command: Deprecated. Reports incorrect values for some tunable parameters such as msgmap, sema, and shmem.

Absolute Debugger (adb): Improved program includes support shared library, threads, multiprocessor dump reading, 64-bit DLKM dump reading, among others. Also includes improved command-line syntax, enhanced capabilities in expressions and format strings, and better file searching and writing capability, among others.

HP aC++ Compiler for PA-RISC A.03.55.02: Includes numerous new features for customers migrating from HP-UX 11i v1.

HP C Compiler for PA-RISC: Includes numerous changes to version B.11.11.02 in each subsequent release (B.11.11.04, B.11.11.06, B.11.11.08, B.11.11.10).

HP Fortran for HP-UX 2.8.2: Includes performance tuning enhancements.

HP MLIB 8.6: FFT routines support data sizes of any positive length.

HP MPI 2.0.1: InfiniBand interconnect on PA-RISC supported.

HP-UX Buffer Cache Tunable Parameters: All tunables associated to the sizing of the buffer cache (nbuf, bufpages, bufcache_max_pct, dbc_min_pct, and dbc_max_pct) have been deprecated and will be obsolete in HP-UX 11i v3.

Java 2 Standard Edition Platform:

Math Library (libm): Although the C Math Library’s API for PA-RISC is unchanged from HP-UX 11i v1, differences between it and the API for Itanium®-based systems should be noted.

POSIX Threads: Augmented for PA-RISC systems to support two modes of scheduling, system scope (1x1) and process scope (MxN).

The Software Transition Kit (STK): Available on the Web or Application Release media is a collection of tools and documents designed to help transition HP-UX applications from earlier versions of HP-UX to the latest version of HP-UX on the PA-RISC or the Itanium®-based platform.

Transition Links: Deprecated. Will become obsolete in post-HP-UX 11i v2 releases.

Internationalization Features: Changes include Unicode 3.0 support, GB18030 standard, simplified Chinese input methods, mainframe iconv converters for Japanese characters, system support for Latin and South American locales, new locale binaries and iconv converters, Hong Kong supplementary character set (HKSCS), TrueType fonts for Asian languages, and other changes.

Deprecated Functionality: Several commands, library routines, and lp model files deprecated. Will be removed in next major release of HP-UX.

ccNUMA: Changes include: greater performance for some work loads; ability to configure systems for optimal performance with regard to interleaved versus cell local memory; ability to give guidance to OS for most appropriate memory allocation according to an application’s usage model; ability to control how processes are distributed among localities.

Common Desktop Environment (CDE): Changes include IPv6 support; greater accessibility for physically challenged users; dtlogin does not start X server when the mouse is not connected; large file (greater than 2GB) support provided by dtfile; and other changes. In addition, CDE requires a number of services and resources; if these are disabled either manually or with Bastille, there are several impacts on CDE.

Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Client and Integrated Login: Has new filesets and new product, Integrated Login. Now IPv6 enabled.

HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition: New with this release of HP-UX 11i v2.

HP StorageWorks Secure Path V3.0E for HP-UX: Provides EVA Boot and Dump support on HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 and later releases.

Networking and Mass Storage Drivers

Online Addition and Replacement (OL* or OLAR): Now available for both PA-RISC and Itanium®-based systems.

On Demand Solutions:

Secure Path V3.0E for HP-UX: Provides EVA Boot and Dump support on HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 and later releases.

Supported Servers and Workstations: Many 64-bit PA-RISC servers are supported on this release. No 32-bit servers are supported. PA-RISC workstations are not supported.

Technical System Configuration (TechSysConf): Now supported on PA-RISC servers that run HP-UX 11i v2.

Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit B.02.11: New scripts added: HP Apache, HP Tomcat, HP CIFS.

Event Monitoring Services: Framework and GUI available as 32-bit native applications on PA-RISC and Intel® Itanium ®. 64-bit EMS Itanium ®-based native libraries also available. Deprecated. Will be replaced post HP-UX 11i v3 with WBEM.

GlancePlus Pak C.03.85: Contains enhancements to OVPA and GlancePlus, including new parm file parameters and new process-level metrics, as well as updated default adviser symptoms and alarms.

High Availability Monitors: Available as 32-bit native binaries on PA-RISC and Itanium®-based platforms. Deprecated. Will be obsoleted post HP-UX 11i v3.

HP Partitioning:

HP Serviceguard A.11.16: Updated with new functionality, defect repairs, and support for future new hardware configurations.

HP ServiceGuard Manager A.04.00: Allows administrators to create/configure clusters and packages, as well as monitor and manage clusters.

HP Serviceguard Quorum Server: Supported on both PA-RISC and Itanium®-based systems.

HP-UX 11i v2 Required Patch Bundle (BUNDLE11i): Delivered with this release. Consists of patches for HP-UX 11i v2 that are required to install and update the operating system (OS).

HP-UX Kernel Configuration tool: TUI changed from earlier version. The /stand/system/ file enhanced.

The Peripheral Device Tool (pdweb) B11.23.02: TUI introduced.

Ignite-UX, version B.6.0. x: Includes ability to install and recover 11.0, B.11.11, B.11.22, B.11.23 PA-RISC, and B.11.23 Itanium®-based clients from a single Ignite-UX server. Also includes booting of both PA-RISC and Itanium®-based, known as dual boot, from a single media source; and installing one unified PA-RISC/Itanium ®-based core HP-UX operating system bundle.

Improved Database Startup and Shutdown Times: Database startup and shutdown times have been drastically reduced.

MySQL: Updated with tightened security. Product has been deprecated.

Obsolescence Product: New product, used in an update when obsolete software on the system needs to be removed.

OnlineDiag: Includes various bug fixes and enhancements. Support added for new devices.

Quality Pack Patch Bundle: All patches that were in the March 2004 HP-UX 11i v2 Quality Pack will be superseded by dual-architecture patches, which will be placed in BUNDLE11i.

SAM-NNC: Added support for VLAN, IPoIB, and large send functionality, plus defect fixes.

Servicecontrol Manager: Contains only minor updates. All functionality remains the same. Product has been deprecated.

Software Distributor: Updated to a new version to support this new release of HP-UX 11i v2.

Software Package Builder A.02.00: Updated to incorporate defect fixes, as well as support new features, including the ability to edit multiple PSFs at the same time.

System Administration Manager (SAM): Updated TUIs in the kernel configuration functional area and the Cards and Devices subarea. Will support shadow mode only for password aging.

System V Shared Memory: Maximum for the shmmni tunable parameter increased.

Update-UX: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

16 Terabyte (TB) File System Support: VxFS 3.5 file systems of up to 16 TB now certified.

Hierarchical File System (HFS): Deprecated. Will be removed in a future release.

HP CIFS Client A.01.09.02: Provides 64-bit PAM-NTLM libraries support and defect fixes.

HP CIFS Server 2.2i (A.01.11.01): Provides new LDAP support functionality, as well as other new features and defect fixes.

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and MirrorDisk/UX: Performance improved. LVM no longer performs software bad block relocation. Defects fixed.

Network File System (NFS): New option added to the umount command. Compatibility exception noted.

Network Information Service Plus (NIS+): Deprecated and planned for future obsolescence. Valid modification requests to update NIS+ tables will now fail if the size of the request is larger than 9000 bytes.

Portable File System (PFS): Obsolete.

VERITAS File System (VxFS/HP OnlineJFS/JFS) 3.5: File systems of up to 16 TB now certified.

VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 for HP-UX (Base): Includes new versions of VEA and SIG Licensing, as well as defect fixes.

HP Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI): Includes support for VLAN functionality, TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO or Large Send), InfiniBand technology, and 64-bit MIB, as well as other changes.

HP Openview Emanate Agent 15.3: Incorporates a defect fix.

HP-UX LAN Provider: New with this release of HP-UX 11i v2. Client applications can use this Provider to determine 100bt and Gigabit links available on the system and collect information about them.

HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.01: Offers the same functionality as A.01.00, but delivery method has changed.

HP-UX Web Server Suite:

Internet Services:

LAN Administration Commands: Includes support for IPoIB and VLAN interfaces, along with new command-line options.

Mozilla Application Suite 1.4.0.01: Contains full Japanese localization as well as other defect fixes and enhancements. Security bulletin posted.

Netscape Directory Server 6.11: New product for customers of HP-UX 11i v2.

Network Tracing and Logging (NetTL): Changes include formatting support for IPoIB, Mobile IPv4 extension headers, tunneled IPv6 packets, and Mobile IPv6 packets, as well as new CLI option to support configurable trace buffer timer value.

Network Transport (ARPA): Changes include Limited Transmit (IPv4 only); support for TCP Segmentation Offload and for IPoIB links; IPv6 router advertisement daemon; Multicast Listener Discovery support for IPv6 (host only); and other changes. Problem and work-around noted: HP-UX sends TCP packets with incorrect window size.

HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System 2.3: Product bundle renamed and restructured to improve product installation and maintenance.

HP-UX IPFilter A.03.05.10.02: Includes defect fixes and performance enhancements.

HP-UX Secure Shell A.03.71.000: Contains several new features, including enhanced ssh_prng_cmds file for random number generation, new escape character for requesting a pseudo terminal, and support for generating KEX-GEX groups in the ssh-keygen file.

OpenSSL A.00.09.07-d: New to HP-UX 11i v2.

PAM: 64-bit framework now supported on both PA-RISC and Itanium®-based systems. New PAM module introduced. Defect fixes included.

PAM-Kerberos v1.23: Supports both Itanium®-based and PA-RISC applications in 32-bit mode and 64-bit mode. The pam_sm_acct_mgmt() function returns PAM_USER_UNKNOWN instead of PAM_SUCCESS when the user is not present in the Kerberos database.

Security Patch Check 2.0: Now provides update and manual action analysis, whereas prior releases only analyzed patches.

Shadow Passwords: Now supported by SAM.

The fuser Command: Performance improved.

Post/Wait: New. Provides a fast, lightweight synchronization facility for user applications.

The ps command: The default width now set to 128 characters and a default file provided to define the length of the command field.

The rc Shell Script: When a system needs reboot for some reason, messages in the file /etc/rc.bootmsg will be displayed before the system is rebooted.

The scsimgr and scsiscan Commands: Deprecated. Planned for obsolescence in HP-UX 11i v3.

The settune and settune_txn System Calls: Post HP-UX 11i v2, tunables set using these kernel system calls will not be persistent across reboots.

The sfd Daemon: Deprecated. Planned for obsolescence in HP-UX 11i v3.

The sysdef command: Deprecated. Reports incorrect values for some tunable parameters such as msgmap, sema, and shmem.

HP aC++ Compiler for Itanium®-Based Systems: No changes except for defect fixes.

HP aC++ Compiler for PA-RISC Systems: The new placement delete feature now supported.

HP Fortran for HP-UX 2.8.2: Includes performance tuning enhancements.

HP MLIB 8.6: FFT routines support data sizes of any positive length.

HP MPI 2.0.1: InfiniBand interconnect on Intel® Itanium ® supported.

HP-UX Buffer Cache Tunable Parameters: All tunables associated to the sizing of the buffer cache (nbuf, bufpages, bufcache_max_pct, dbc_min_pct, and dbc_max_pct) have been deprecated and will be obsolete in HP-UX 11i v3.

Java 2 Standard Edition Platform:

Math Library (libm): Current release includes Math Library Cumulative Patch, which contains new functions, performance and accuracy enhancements, and minor defects.

POSIX Threads: Defect correction applied to Itanium®-based systems to make the thread library, source and relocatable compatible with release HP-UX 11i v1.

The Software Transition Kit (STK): Available on the Web or Application Release media is a collection of tools and documents designed to help transition HP-UX applications from earlier versions of HP-UX to the latest version of HP-UX on the PA-RISC or the Itanium®-based platform.

Transition Links: Deprecated. Will become obsolete in post-HP-UX 11i v2 releases.

Internationalization Features: Includes defect fixes. No new features beyond those supplied in the initial (October 2003) release of HP-UX 11i v2.

Deprecated Functionality: Several commands, library routines, and lp model files deprecated. Will be removed in next major release of HP-UX.

ccNUMA: Additional platforms supported.

Common Desktop Environment (CDE): X11R6-based Xfree86 xterm is now the supported xterm and is delivered under /usr/bin/X11. The X11R5-based xterm is no longer supported and has been moved to/usr/contrib/bin/X11R5/.

Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Client and Integrated Login: New PA-RISC filesets added. Integrated Login, a new product, added.