What is New in the Initial (February 2007) HP-UX 11i v3 Release?

The following summaries pertain to the initial (February 207) HP-UX 11i v3 release. For further information, see the indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes, available in its most current version at

http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html.

This section provides two overviews of what is new, has changed, and has been deprecated or obsoleted since two previous releases: the HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005 release and the HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006 release. Each overview is located as indicated below:




	NOTE: Revisions to the initial (February 2007) HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes are contained in the HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes Errata, located at http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html (navigate to Release Notes).

The following are not exhaustive lists, so HP strongly recommends that you consult the HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes for information that is not included here.

What is New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture of how the initial (February 2007) release of HP-UX 11i v3 differs from the September 2005 release of HP-UX 11i v1. For further details, see the indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes, available in its most current version at http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html.

In addition, you may want to review the list “What is New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?” for a general picture of how the initial (February 2007) release of HP-UX 11i v3 differs from the June 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2.

Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 4: “Hardware-Specific Information”.

Enhancements to IO Forwarding: The IO forwarding interrupt comes under the purview of Detect & Strobe and is enhanced.
New: estape Tape and eschgr Autochanger Drivers: New with HP-UX 11i v3. ssrfc driver no longer available.
Graphics: HP-UX 11i v3 is not supported on workstations, and the PEX graphics API is not supported on HP-UX 11i v3.
HP-UX 11i v3 Driver Development Kit (DDK): Enhanced for HP-UX 11i v3. Provides documentation, sample code, build environment and development tools for 3rd-party developers, ISVs and IHVs to develop and test drivers on HP-UX 11i v3 PA-RISC and Itanium®-based platforms.
Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA): There is an issue with LUN WWIDs and HP-UX 11i v3.
HP StorageWorks Secure Path: Obsolete.
I/O Subsystem: Several new I/O commands help manage the I/O subsystem, and existing commands have new options and functionality to support the next generation mass storage stack.
New: The Next Generation Mass Storage Stack manages I/O devices, such as SCSI logical units (LUNs). In this release, the mass storage stack delivers functionality designed to enhance server scalability, adaptability, and performance while retaining backward compatibility. New features include agile addressing, native multi-pathing, and increased parallelization.
Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
- Gigabit Ethernet: The igelan, gelan and btlan products are enhanced with new features, including online deletion (OLD) and module packaging.
- HyprFabrc-00: Supports only Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) HF2 cards. HF1 Cards will not be supported.
- New: InfiniBand: Now provides support for Network Interfaces and Network Services Configuration.
- PCIMUX-00: The PCIMUX-00 bundle delivers the pci-mux1 driver, which supports the AD278A and AD279A PCI MUX adapters.
- TermIO-00: The TermIO-00 driver bundle delivers the pci_mux0 driver, which supports the A6748A and A6749A PCI MUX adapters.
- FibrChanl-00 HP PCI Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel Driver for HP-UX 11i v3: Supports new Mass Storage Stack, Agile addressing, Soft Zoning, PCI Online deletion, PCI error detection and recovery.
- FibrChanl-01 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3: Supports new mass storage stack, Agile addressing, Soft Zoning, PCI Online deletion, and PCI error detection and recovery.
- HP PCI Ultra160 SCSI (c8xx): Supports new mass storage stack, PCI OnLine Deletion (OLD), PCI error detection and recovery, HBA Device Special Files (DSF). Termination of support for Ultra2 HBAs.
- USB-00: The USB stack and drivers delivered in USB-00 replace the legacy USB stack delivered in drivers hcd, hub, hid, and usbd, with additional functionality.
New: PCI Error Recovery: Provides the ability to detect, isolate, and automatically recover from a PCI error, avoiding a system crash.
New: PCI Card Online Deletion (OLD): The PCI OL* feature has been enhanced to allow HP-UX 11i v3 administrators to delete PCI cards and their associated drivers online without requiring a system reboot.
Utility Pricing Solutions
- HP Instant Capacity: Updated to version B.11.31.08.01 to include modifications to the installation procedure; support for Global Instant Capacity (GiCAP) and hyperthreading; changes to GiCAP grouping rules and icapstatus command output; and more.
- HP Pay per use: Updated to version B.11.31.08.01.00 with support for hyperthreading features included in HP-UX 11i v3. Includes error fixes.
Xserver: Radeon 7500 is supported on rp34x0 and rp44x0 servers in HP-UX 11i v3.

Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General System Administration”.

asyncdsk Driver Kernel Tunable max_async_ports: max_async_ports is now a dynamic tunable; default value changed to 4096 and maximum value is 4194304.
New: Concurrent Dump: You can now configure your machine to perform a distributed parallel dump, thereby improving the dump throughput and reducing dump time.
Daylight Savings Time (DST). Changes for US DST rules.
New: Detect and Strobe: Core-kernel functionality used to limit the amount of time spent in servicing interrupts to a user-defined maximum. Note: Detect and Strobe was previously delivered as patch for HP-UX 11i v1.
New: Disks and File Systems (fsweb): Provides a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) and text user interface (TUI) for File System and Disks system administration tasks.
New: Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Provides tools that simplify managing groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters.
New: Enhanced User Core File Naming: New command, coreadm, introduced to uniquely name application core files created by abnormally terminating user processes.
Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Includes scripts for Oracle, enhancements to the Oracle Toolkit, support for VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) in a Serviceguard A.11.17 environment, support for Serviceguard 11.17.01 (non-CFS) for Tomcat, Apache, Oracle 10g, and more.
New: Event Manager: A comprehensive mechanism for posting, distributing, storing, and reviewing event information. Composed of a kernel component, user libraries (libevm.so) and a set of commands.
Event Monitoring Service: Now enhanced to send WBEM indications, which can be viewed from the EVWEB tool.
New: High Resolution Timer Support: Enhances select timer-related system calls and APIs to provide a resolution finer than the default 10 millisecond resolution.
HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version C.04.55 with support for large process IDs; enhancement to record the Logical Volume (LV) metrics for VERITAS Volume Manager, versions VxVM 4.1 and VxVM 5.0; new metrics for monitoring the UFC; and other changes.
HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment
- New: Dynamic LCPU: Provides the ability to enable and disable Logical Processors (LCPUs) dynamically at the processor set boundary. Supported only on systems with the Hyper-Threading feature available and enabled.
- HP Global Workload Manager: Updated to version A.02.50.00.x with support for Linux managed nodes, support for Windows virtual machine guests, nested partitions, and many other changes.
- HP Process Resource Manager: Updated with features including ability to manage shared memory, integration with HP Integrity Virtual Machines, integration with HP System Management Homepage, ability to map Unix groups to PRM groups, and several other features.
- HP-UX 11i v3 Patch Bundles and Software Pack: The initial release of HP-UX 11i v3 will not include the standard Quality Pack (QPK) and Hardware Enablement (HWE) patch bundles or the Software Pack that delivers optional new core enhancements. The delivery of these patch bundles and the Software Pack is planned for the first update release of HP-UX 11i v3.
- HP-UX Virtual Partitions: Updated to version A.05.01 with online memory migration, mixing A.04.02 and A.05.01 virtual partitions in the same vPars environment, and hyperthreading. Purchased separately.
- Integrity VM Note: The host for Integrity VM is not supported on 11i v3. However, the virtual machines of the host can run 11i v3.
- HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.02.02. Changes include Process Resource Manager no longer included in bundle; supports HP Integrity Virtual Machines; communications now secure by default; supports finer granularity for minimum allocations to FSS groups; supports a maximum of 256 FSS groups; and several other changes.
- HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits: Updated to version A.01.10.01. Provides the new HP-UX WLM SAP Toolkit, which identifies SAP processes based on user-defined criteria and uses WLM’s process maps feature to place the SAP processes in specific workload groups. PPUTK obsoleted; SASTK and DMTK deprecated.
- Partition Manager: Updated to v2.0 (version B.31.02.03.01) with the ability to enable and disable Hyper-Threading for nPartitions whose cells have processors that are Hyper-Threading capable.
- nPartition Provider: Updated to version B.31.01.07.01 with support for WBEM Services version 2.5 and support for systems based on the HP sx2000 chipset.
- New: Utilization Provider: Lightweight daemon (utild) that records system-utilization data on a 5-minute interval; data recorded includes CPU, memory, disk, and network utilization; also includes a WBEM provider for access to the data.
- vPar Provider: WBEM provider displays information about virtual partitions. Read-only; clients cannot modify virtual partition configurations with it.
HP Serviceguard: Updated to version A.11.17.01 with support for persistent DSF naming and dynamic multipathing, large PID, identification of networking interfaces (NICs) that are part of the Serviceguard cluster configuration, and other features. VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) and Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) not supported in initial release of HP-UX 11i v3. RS232 serial line as cluster heartbeat is obsolete.
HP Serviceguard Network File System (NFS) Toolkit: Updated to version A.11.31.02 with new control script template and a defect fix. Can work with Serviceguard A.11.17.01, but does not support some Serviceguard A.11.17.01 and NFS HP-UX 11i v3 features. Customers who need VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) should not upgrade to HP-UX 11i v3 until CFS is available on that platform.
HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version A.2.2.5 to incorporate defect fixes. In addition, many more system management tools are integrated in HP SHM for HP-UX 11i v3 then HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005.
HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated to “HP SIM 5.0 with Update 2 - HP-UX” with support for HP BladeSystem c-Class blade and enclosure, and onboard administrator; HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager 2.1 with updated functionality; minimum system memory configuration to run HP SIM on HP-UX 11i v3 is now 3GB, and defect fixes.
HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.05 with association providers, internationalization support for CIM operations, CIM schema upgrade, and other major changes.
HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: New TUI in place of the legacy SAM interface; new Web-based GUI; improved performance with the new TUI interface; supports long username and groups.
HP-UX Kernel Configuration: New TUI in place of the legacy SAM interface; New Web-based GUI; Error Management Technology support; critical defect fixes.
New: HP-UX Large NPROC: The HP-UX 11i v3 system can support more processes running concurrently then previous releases, changing from 30,000 to 60,000.
New: HP-UX Large PID: The range of Process Identifiers (PID) the kernel can generate in a stand-alone HP-UX system has been expanded from 0 ~ 30,000 to 0 ~ 2^^30-1 (1,073,741,823).
HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager: Enhanced to support the Agile Hardware Path Addressing and Persistent Device Special Files; enhanced to allow for Online deletion of OLRAD cards; now reads the detailed CRA report from the log file in which the report is logged after the change in the CRA behavior; and more.
HP-UX System V IPC Message Queues: Enhanced with dynamic tuning capabilities. Tunables msgmax, msgssz, msgmap, msgseg are obsolete. Added new dynamic tunable msgmbs; indicates maximum kernel memory to be used for messages waiting to be received. Tunables msgmni, msgtql are made dynamic.
New: HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Client applications can use this provider to get information about HP-UX Fibre Channel HBAs on the system.
New: HP-UX WBEM File System Provider: Makes available file system information; instruments the HPUX_HFS, HP_LOFS, HP_CDFS, HP_VxFS, HP_NFS, HP_MountPoint and HPUX_Mount classes.
New: HP-UX WBEM IOTree Provider: Client applications can use HP-UX WBEM IOTree provider to get information about HP-UX IOTree host-bus adapters (HBAs) on the system.
New: HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces (WBEMP-LAN-00): Is a CIM Provider for Ethernet-based LAN technologies on HP-UX. Client applications can use this provider to determine all Ethernet LAN links available on the system (registered and known to HP-UX DLPI) and collect information about them.
New: HP-UX WBEM Online Operations Service Provider: Not currently supported; intended to support features in future releases of HP-UX 11i v3.
New: HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Client Applications can use this provider to get information about HP-UX SCSI host-bus adapters (HBAs) on the system.
Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.7.0.x with multipath-awareness, new approach for addressing I/O, automatic management of the system boot path for multiple path configurations, user-selectable format for recovery archives and golden archives, and other changes.
New: Kernel Tunable Values Reset From Boot Prompt: HP-UX 11i v3 release provides a new feature in which kernel tunable values can be reset from the boot prompt.
New: Livedump: Provides the ability to take a crashdump on a live system without a forced shutdown or panic of that system. Implemented for Itanium®-based platforms only.
New: Long Username / Groupname: Current limit enhanced from 8 to 255 bytes. By default 8 is still the limit. With an enabler this limit can be enhanced to 255. Once enabled, cannot be disabled in the future. Not supported for trusted systems.
New: Node and Host Name Expansion: Provides the ability to set node and host names up to 255 bytes.
Obsolescence Bundle: Used during an update when obsolete software on the system needs to be removed; automatically selected for updates. Will remove several obsolete or incompatible products and/or drivers.
Online Diagnostics product: Introduced for the map command, is a new option, page, which displays a paginated output of the system map.
SCSI Kernel Tunables: scsi_maxphys, scsi_max_qdepth anddefault_disk_ir kernel tunables are obsolete.
Software Distributor: Updated to version 11.31 with support for HP-UX 11i v3-unique features including large pid, long usernames and group names; and improved support for high level software deployment tools such as Software Manager, update-ux, and future tools. Includes defect fixes.
Software Package Builder: Added new policy files that include the expansion of the acceptable category tags, the addition of the is_oe attribute, and changes to the architecture and os_release attribute rules.
System Administration Manager (SAM): Deprecated. The smh command is recommended, but sam command will continue to be available. Some functional areas previously available are obsoleted.
System Administration Manager (SAM) Auditing and Security Functional Area: System Security Policies subarea of SAM is replaced with the HP--UX Security Attributes Configuration tool; Audited NIS+ Users subarea is obsolete.
System Administration Manager (SAM) Printers and Plotters Functional Area: Launch point in X/ObAM-based GUI mode is now via the HP System Management Homepage.
System Administration Management Tool Changes: SAM and HP System Management Homepage: System Administration Manager (SAM) is deprecated in HP-UX 11i v3. HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) is the system administration tool for managing HP-UX 11i. HP SMH provides Web-based systems management functionality, at-a-glance monitoring of system component health, and consolidated log viewing. HP SMH also provides Terminal User Interfaces (TUIs).
New: System Fault Management: Collection of tools used to monitor the health of HP servers and receive information about hardware such as memory, CPU, power supplies, and cooling devices. Operates in the WBEM environment.
Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: The update-ux command now uses Software Manager, a new application that provides features including support for preview; interactive TUI; better support for multiple media, including more accurate disk space analysis, dependency selection across media; and improved logging capabilities.
Virtual Memory Kernel Tunables: The eqmem_limit (only on PA-RISC systems) has been added. Several tunables has been removed. See section for details.

Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File Management”.

HFS (also known as UFS) File System Type: Now deprecated. Will be removed from the OS in a future release, to be determined.
HFS file system and backup commands: To work on file sizes larger than 2TB.
HP CIFS Client: Updated to version A.02.02.01 with support for MS Distributed File System (DFS) and DLKM feature and other changes.
HP CIFS Server: Updated to 3.0f version A.02.03: Redesign of Winbind code; File Locking Interoperation Functionality; support for long user and group names; support for TDB Memory Map; and other changes.
HP-UX File Systems Architecture Enhancements: Numerous enhancements include VFS stacking capabilities; fsdaemon user level daemon; large file systems and large files support; improved file systems syncer; performance improvement of aio_reap(2); support of larger files and long link names in backup utility; and several other enhancements.
Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX: Delivers significant scalability and availability enhancements. Supports the next generation mass storage stack, and is integrated with the mass storage stack’s load balancing and dynamic LUN expansion features; enhanced to support larger logical volumes, temporary suspension of volume groups, striping with mirroring, and dynamic LUN expansion; enables online modification of a volume group, as well as a new script to simplify the replacement of a failing disk.
Open Network Computing (ONC)
- AutoFS/Automounter: Updated with support for LDAP name service to store AutoFS maps; the ability to browse the list of potential mount points in an indirect AutoFS map without mounting the filesystems; the ability to configure AutoFS through the /etc/default/autofs file; and other features.
- Cache File System (CacheFS): New features include long file name support, cachefspack, and support for largefiles and large file system.
- Library RPC: Library routines support several new datatypes, add support for IPv6, and more.
- Network File System (NFS) Services: Provides numerous enhancements, including pcnfsd daemon, which is multithreaded and supports shadow password and Secure RPC; new user mode daemon generates and validates API security tokens, and maps the GSSAPI principal names to the local user and group IDs; additional security mechanisms, such as Secure NFS that supports Kerberos through GSSAPI; NFS access using a firewall; and many other features.
- Network Information Service (NIS): Provides several new features including support for shadow mode; support for enabling DNS forwarding mode; support for long uname, hostname, and username; and other features.
- NIS+: Obsoleted.
- PCNFSD: pcnfsd daemon is multithreaded. Support for shadow password and secure RPC; wtmp entries can hold usernames up to the PCNFSD protocol limitation of 32 characters and client hostnames up to the PCNFSD protocol limitation of 64; support for printer names up to the PCNFSD protocol limitation of 64 characters.
New: Unified File Cache: Integrates the page cache and buffer cache to provide coherency for file access. Serves as a key enabler for VxFS 4.1 and ONC+2.3. Improves source compatibility with Solaris, Tru64, and Linux applications that depend on coherency of page and buffer cache. Potential performance improvement of applications that depend on coherency of page and buffer cache.
VERITAS File System (VxFS): Features in version 4.1 include support for 1024 ACLs; support for large filesystem (up to 32 TB) and large file size (up to 16 TB); VxFS filesystem as a DLKM; multi-device filesystems; and other features. Cluster File System (CFS) is not supported in the initial release of HP-UX 11i v3.
VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM): Features in version 4.1 include support for Volume Sets and VxFS MDS; Cross-Platform Data Sharing; Device Discovery Layer Phase 2; Serial Split Brain; and other features. Cluster Volume Manager (CVM), a part of VxVM that is enabled by a separate license, is not being provided with the current 4.1 HP-UX 11i v3 release.

Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 7: “Internet and Networking”.

New: ARPA Transport: Many enhancements to ARPA Transport include Security Containment, sendfile/UFC, UNIX 2003 Conformance, large hostname support, and Tru64 Application migration to HP-UX/Itanium®-based.
Browsers: Mozilla is updated with defect fixes. Includes improved Asian font support on HP-UX and the Japanese Language Pack.
New: HP Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI): Enhancements include NOSYNC STREAMS synchronization level for improved performance and scalability for high speed links, online deletion (OLD) of I/O card instances, and dynamic loading and unloading of LAN drivers without reboot.
HP-UX PPPv6: Incorporates defect fixes.
HP-UX VLAN: New features include support for HP-UX VLANs over APA aggregates and LAN-monitor failover groups, SMH-Network Interface Configuration support for Web-based VLAN configuration, and nwmgr support for HP-UX VLAN.
HP-UX Web Server Suite
- HP-UX Apache-based Web Server: Updated to version 2.0.58.00 as primarily a bug fix release.
- HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine: Upgraded to 5.5.9.04. Implements the Servlet 2.4 and JavaServer Pages 2.0 specifications. Designed to run on JDK 1.5 and later versions.
- HP-UX Webmin-based Admin: Upgraded to 1.070.08 as primarily a defect fix release.
Internet Services: You can now deselect individual Internet Services during installation or remove filesets later.
BIND: BIND 9.3 includes many new features, including transition support for IPv4 and IPv6. With HP-UX 11i v3, NAMED and NAMED ARGS variables are moved to /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs.
DHCPv4 (bootpd): New option sa configures the tftp server, providing control of the siaddr field of the dhcp packet. New configuration option for the subnet selection option in the /etc/dhcptab file allows bootpd to assign a network address even if bootpd is not part of that network. Support for PXE clients is added.
DHCPv6: Now available in the core operating system.
inetd Command: Two new command line options, -p (limit number of processes invoked by inetd) and -a (enable user level auditing pf processes). Support for large hostnames and large PIDs.
libc: Numerous changes in APIs.
Mailx, Elm, and Talk: elm(1M) and mailx(1M) are long-user-name compliant.
R-commands: long username is supported.
New: Sendmail: Version 8.13.3 has numerous new features.
New: TFTP: tftpd™ (server) and tftp™ (client) now support IPv6 addresses. New command line options specify upper and lower port range limits for data transfer.
WU-FTPD: Version 2.6.1 supports long usernames. Adds several new features and is backward compatible with WU-FTPD 2.4.
LAN Administration Commands: lanadmin now supports an IPoIB interface, 64-bit MIB, and native and non-native drivers developed by independent hardware vendors; lanscan and linkloop now support IPoIB interfaces.
LDAP-UX Integration Product: This release includes the new LDAP-UX version B.04.00.10.
New: Mobile IPv6: Uses a fixed IP address for extended periods to allow mobile nodes to change network access points while remaining accessible with no disruption of network continuity. Supports IPv6 addresses.
New: Network Interface Management Command Line Interface: The nwmgr command is used to manage LAN-based and IB-based network interfaces; a single tool for performing all network interface-related tasks.
New: Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: These tools in the HP System Management Homepage replace the Networking and Communications functions of the System Administration Manager (SAM), which are no longer available.
New: Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX: Provides an industry-standard centralized directory service to build your intranet or extranet on. Your Red Hat servers and other directory-enabled applications use the directory service as a common, network-accessible location for storing shared data, such as user and group identification, server identification, and access control information.
STREAMS: NOSYNC feature allows multiple instances of a put procedure for a queue and the service routine for that queue to run concurrently. All references to the global variable uniprocessor have been removed.
NetTL - Network Tracing and Logging: The nettl command is enhanced with formatting support for IPoIB the header, command-line option to configure trace buffer value, pre-capture trace values, and new options to manage trace filters.

Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 8: “Security”.

New: HP-UX 11i Security Containment: Provides compartments, which isolate unrelated resources on a system to prevent catastrophic system damage if one compartment is penetrated. When configured in a compartment, an application (processes, binaries, data files and communication channels used) has restricted access to resources outside its compartment. Also provides fine-grained privileges, which allow you to grant privileges to processes needed for the task and, optionally, only for the time needed to complete the task.
HP-UX Auditing System: Enhanced in several ways, including: auditing subsystem is now working without converting the system to trusted mode; standard mode audit user selection information is stored in a per-user configuration user database; userdbset command specifies which users are to be audited in standard mode; and several other enhancements.
New: HP-UX Bastille: Although Bastille has been available on the Web (and on the HP-UX 11i v2 OEs) for some time, it is now available on the HP-UX 11i v3 OEs for the first time for customers migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 and includes several enhancements.
HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System: Updated to release 4.0 with features including reducing alert volume by aggregation; reducing alert volume by monitoring only critical files; configuring critical users; supporting specification of usernames and user IDs; and measuring the event rate.
HP-UX IPFilter: Updated to version A.03.05.13 with defect fixes and enhancements including filtering on X.25 interfaces, filtering on 10GigE interfaces; IPFilter not plumbed into the networking stack by default; no reboot required to enable IPFilter.
New: HP-UX IPSec: Previously only available on the AR media. Now delivered on the HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments. Provides an infrastructure to allow secure communications (authentication, integrity, confidentiality) over IP networks between systems and devices that implement the IPsec protocol suite.
HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.40.005 with many new features including high performance enabled SSH/SCP patch; configuration directives in the server; auth selection patch; increase in the default size of RSA and DSA keys; delayed compression; and many other features, as well as defect fixes.
HP-UX Security Attributes Configuration tool (secweb): Updated to support long user name.
New: HP-UX Standard Mode Security Extensions: Enhances the security of systems running in standard mode by providing security features that were previously available only on systems that had been converted to trusted mode.
Install-Time Security: Adds a security step to the install/update process that allows you to run the Bastille security lockdown engine during system installation with one of four configurations ranging from default security to “DMZ.”
Kerberos Client: Updated to version 1.3.5.03 with new features including support for powerful cryptographic algorithms like 3DES, RC4, and AES; support for IPv6; support for TCP; and defect fixes.
OpenSSL: Updated to version A.00.09.08d.001 with support (in default version) for several hardware ENGINES (see section for specifics); support for elliptic curve cryptography; and EVP, the library of which provides a high-level interface to cryptographic functions. Other provided versions include other features.
PAM Kerberos: Enhanced to issue a warning if rc_host_0 is owned by anyone other than root when a user tries to rlogin into a system; will also issue a warning if the keytable entry is not found for the host service principal on the client but present at the KDC.
New: Security Patch Check: Analyzes the currency of a system with respect to security bulletins. Recommends actions for security vulnerabilities that have not been fixed by patches, updates, or logged manual actions currently applied to the system.

Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and System Calls”.

/etc/skel/.profile shell script: . (current path) in $PATH is deprecated
32-bit pstat System Call (Deprecated): When compiling a 32-bit application that uses the pstat() system call, the compiler option _D_PSTAT64 must now be specified. This causes pstat () to use 64-bit fields rather than 32-bit fields. The application still remains a 32-bit application.
at , cron, and batchCommands: New features include support for queueing multiple jobs at the same time, support for queueing of more than 100 jobs, and ability to schedule jobs up to the njob limit specified for every queue in queuedefs(4).
core Format Implementation Change: The true version string has replaced the utsname struct in the CORE_KERNEL segment. A work-around has been provided for applications which reversed-engineered the core file format and depend on utsname being in it. This new core file format is the default format.
csh Command Line Interpreter: The non-interactive invocation of csh will not source the ~/.history file by default.
File Systems Backup and Recovery Commands fbackup, frecover, and ftio: Deprecated; will be obsolete in a future HP-UX release. You should prepare by migrating to the favorable replacement pax. Support will be continued for archive retrieval.
New: gcore Command: creates a core image of each specified process.
getgroups(), setgroups(): no longer limited by the NGROUPS_MAX.
getty Command: Enhanced to configure the default setting for special control characters (erase, kill, etc.) by the user.
HP-UX Kernel Configuration Commands: HP-UX 11i v1 kernel configuration commands has been removed in favor of new commands for HP-UX 11i v3. In addition, there are changes to the location of kernels and related files on disk; to the manner in which a kernel configuration is chosen at boot time; and to the manner in which the system automatically maintains a backup kernel configuration.
iostat : Enhanced to report activity for each active lunpath to the LUNs. Also, the new option -L has been added, which lists active lunpath statistics.
Long hostname, uname, and setuname Commands: The limits of these commands can now be expanded to 255 bytes.
New: Long Username Support by HFS ff, VxFS 4.1 ff, repquota, quotacheck: Enhanced to support the username up to 255 bytes.
lp, lpadmin, lpfence, lpmove, and lpsched Commands: Printers can now be added/removed/modified without bringing down the lp scheduler; line printer spooler enhanced to support printer/class names up to 250 characters from the previous limit of 14 characters; support also extended to remote destination names.
mmap() System Call: Enhanced to support mapping file with read-only permission with PROT_EXEC and implicit mmap() with MAP_FIXED.
pax Command: Enhanced to conform to the Unix 2003 Standard. You will now be able to use pax to archive files having a size greater than or equal to 8GB; long user name/group name; large UID/GID greater than 2097151; long pathname or link name.
PFS Commands: Obsolete.
pipcs Command: Enhanced to provide details regarding processes using the various POSIX Message Queues, as well as creation time and last modification time of the POSIX Message Queues.
ps Command: Enhanced to display maximum of 1020 characters in the COMMAND field.
New: pselect() System Call: Added to meet the UNIX 2003 Standard. Provides additional parameter options to users of the select() system call. Timeout granularity may be specified in seconds and nanoseconds. A new signal mask parameter is also available to be used for the duration of system call.
psrset Command: Enhanced to manage the Real Time Extension processor set; enhanced to support one more PSET attribute type called LCPU.
pstat_getstatic() System Call: Information returned by pstat_getstatic() may now change between reboots due to manually or automatically generated administrative changes in the associated kernel tunables, online addition/deletion of resources, or other events. Likelihood of it changing is infrequent.
New: Ptools Process Management Tools: New set of process management tools that support easy process tracking and debugging. Consists of the following commands: pmap, pfiles, pgrep, pkill, ptree.
ptrace() System Call: Obsolete in HP-UX 11i v3.
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.
sar Command: Enhanced to report activity for each HBA and Tape device.
setboot Command: Enhanced to provide support for setting the High Availability (HA) Alternate boot path; supports the setting of a firmware test for the next boot on the Itanium®-based platform; modified to take a persistent DSF or a lunpath hardware path as valid input to set the bootpath for next boot;; enhanced to enable or disable hyperthreading environment for the next boot on a Dual-Core Intel ® Itanium® 2 platform.
sigblock(2), sigsetmask(2), sigstack(2), sigvector(2), and bsd_signal(3C): Manpages are obsolete.
spray Command: Provides two new options: -d, which specifies how many microseconds to pause between sending each packet, and -t, which specifies class of transports.
New: swapctl() System Call: Allows you to configure primary swap to take effect on the next boot. Previously this could only be done via the commands lvlnboot and vxvmboot. () system call is deprecated.
swapon and swapinfo Commands: swapon command enhanced to support setting/unsetting of primary swap device for next boot; swapinfo command supports new -s option to display settings of primary swap for next boot.
sysdef Command: Deprecated. Reports incorrect values for some tunable parameters such as msgmap, sema, and shmem.
syslogd Command: Enhanced to continue logging to log files even after the size of the log file grows beyond 2GB; enhanced to log multibyte message strings correctly.
usermod has been modified to selectively prevent the movement of home directories with -m option.
UNIX 2003 Compliance: All commands are modified/enhanced to conform to UNIX 2003 Standards. The UNIX 2003 changes which do not affect HP-UX compatibility are available by default. Otherwise, in order to get Unix 2003 behavior, the variable UNIX_STD has to be defined in the environment.

Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming”.

Bundled C Compiler: Updated to version A.06.12 on Itanium®-based servers and B.11.11.16 on PA-RISC. Highly compatible with previous versions; diagnostic messages have changed; more erroneous and suspicious source constructs are diagnosed.
aC++ Run Time Library: Includes the -AA -D_HP_NONSTD_FAST_IOSTREAM performance improvement macro, C++ Standard Library TC1 compliance change, and USA 2007 Daylight Savings Time legislation support.
Dynamic Loader (dld.so): Since patch PHSS-32864, September 2005, dld.so has enabled large kernel page size, support for loading unaligned shared libraries and executables, and other changes.
FirstBoot: As part of Transition links (a.k.a. Upgrade), HP used to create a symbolic link /etc/set_parms —> /sbin/set_parms. Transition links are obsoleted in HP-UX 11i v3 and set_parms is available to the user as /sbin/set_parms. So HP-UX 11i v3 will not support the symbolic link /etc/set_parms.
HP MLIB: Updated to version 9.5 with the addition of two new libraries, VECLIBSC8 and LAPACKSC8, which are 64-bit address libraries with 64-bit integer values that use calling conventions similar to those found in Cray’s SCILIB math library.
HP MPI: Updated to version 2.2 with several new features, including C++ bindings, new mpirun command line launch options, MPI-2 supported ROMIO, and other new features.
HP-UX C Library (libc)
- HP-UX C library (libc) - UNIX 2003 Standard Compliance: libc library enhanced to comply with UNIX 2003 standards. A number of APIs have been added, while some APIs have been modified.
- HP-UX C library (libc) - Other Changes: New features include support for large PID, large uname and hostname, Tru64 API migration, malloc(3C) thread local cache enhancements, long username and groupname.
- libc.1 Library: Deprecated. Is a HP-UX 10.20 compatibility “C” library available in HP-UX 11i. No immediate impact in HP-UX 11i v3. When the libc.1 library is obsoleted, all programs linking to this library will not work. Hence you are encouraged to start migrating your programs from libc.1 to libc.2 library.
- Networking libc APIs: Networking APIs getnameinfo() and getaddrinfo() now look into the repositories specified with the hosts directive of the /etc/nsswitch.conf file, as well as those specified in the inodes directive, to resolve an IPv4 address. Includes additional changes.
HP-UX Color-Curses: libcur_colr Library and Commands: Obsolete. Were declared deprecated in HP-UX 10.30 and are not available in HP-UX 11i v3 PA-RISC.
Java 2 Platform
- Java JDK/JRE for HP-UX: HP-UX 11i v3 does not include Java 1.3 and Java 3D (J3D 1.4). SDK/RTE version 5.0 has been updated to incorporate defect fixes.
- Java Out-of-Box: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
New: libIO Library: libIO.so (for Itanium®-based systems) or libIO.sl (for PA-RISC systems) is a shared library, which provides APIs for accessing the HP-UX I/O subsystem information. The library will reduce the dependency on other HP-UX commands for I/O information.
libpthread Library: Added new API, pthread_setschedprio(), to set scheduling priority of target thread.
Link Editor (ld): Additional options and other changes since patch PHSS_32864, September 2005.
New: Mercury Library (libhg): Provides high performance interfaces between the user programs and the kernel making it possible to transfer key pieces of information back and forth at high speeds.
Software Transition Kit (STK): Designed to help transition HP-UX applications from earlier versions of HP-UX to the latest version of HP-UX. Will not be available for HP-UX 11i v3.
Threads Renice facility: Two new pthread APIs to change nice value of a thread in a multi-threaded process.
UNIX 2003 Standard Profile Conformance: New functions and compiler conformance as defined in Single UNIX Specification version 3. The Precision Architecture (PA) systems will have most of the UNIX 2003 features available for applications. Since the C99 compiler will not be available on PA, full UNIX 2003 branding is not supported. Itanium®-based systems will fully conform and will be branded to UNIX 2003.

Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization”.

Unicode 5.0: Now supported. Unicode 5.0 is an extension to the previously supported Unicode 3.0 character set standard.
New: JISX0213 Standard: Now supported.
New: KS X 1001 Standard: Now supported.
New: Big5-2003 and CNS11643 Standards: Now supported.
New: HKSCS-2004 (Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set): Now supported.
New: Locales - Baltic/Russia/Ukraine/Latin America: Now supported.
New: Locale Versioning: localedef/libc UNIX 2003-related I18N changes. New locale version “locales.3” has been generated for all system supported locale binaries. This has been provided to protect older PA-RISC-based archived applications from unexpected systems behavior in order to fully support the UNIX 2003 standard.
UNIX 2003 Support: The localedef, locale and iconv commands and the associated C library APIs, locale databases and iconv converters have been updated to align with the UNIX 2003 standard.
Alternate Width Properties for Unicode Codesets: Now supported for Asian locales.
New: Messaging Commands: mkcatdefs, dspmsg, and dspcat . Added to HP-UX for compatibility with Tru64 UNIX.
New: Iconv Codeset Converter Config File Changes: system.config.iconv. New system.config.iconv file provided to separate the HP-UX core OS iconv mapping table information from the layered third-party and user-specific iconv mapping table information.
Japanese Mainframe Character Set: iconv now supports an extended area of Japanese mainframe character sets.
New: Internationalized PostScript Printing Support: psfontpf: New PostScript printer filter psfontpf enables printing of non-English international characters in text files and web pages.
Asian Printing: Asian lp model files and filters have been enhanced to support important Asian national standards and ISO 10646.
TrueType Fonts for European Codesets: Provides additional TrueType fonts support to cover the glyph patterns for ASCII, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin-Extended-B, Greek, Cyrillic, and currency symbols.
Asian TrueType Fonts: Enhanced to support the latest national standards and ISO10646. New typefaces are provided for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese fonts.
Asian Bitmap Fonts: Enhanced to support the latest national standards and ISO 10646.
Fallback Font Support: For text-based GUI applications, in the event there are no glyphs, the application will display “?” or “::” characters.
Asian Functionality (Obsoleted and Deprecated): Several legacy functions are obsolete and have been removed. Also, certain Asian printer lp models, utility/library routines, and dot bitmap fonts have been deprecated.

Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other Functionality”.

Common Desktop Environment: Updated to version 2.1. Now includes native Itanium®-based 32-bit and 64-bit X/Motif libraries; delivers 64-bit PA-RISC and Itanium®-based libraries for the first time in HP-UX 11i v3; supports Node and Host Name Expansion feature and expanded username feature; and includes many other changes.
Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Client and Integrated Login: Default permissions of 3 files have changed; several new filesets are available on PA-RISC and Itanium®-based systems; several products are not available with DCE Client; Integrated Login has 2 new filesets.

What is New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture of how the initial (February 2007) release of HP-UX 11i v3 differs from the June 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For further details, see the indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes, available in its most current version at http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html.