What is the release history of HP-UX?

What is the release history of HP-UX? Updated: 12/29/03


Rel Date Major Features Introduced
==========================================================================
1.0 '83?
1.1 '83?
1.2 '83?
2.0 '83?
2.1 '84?
2.2 '84?
3.0 '84?
3.1 '85?
3.2 '85?
4.0 '85?
5.0 2H/85
5.05 '86?
5.1 '88
5.2 '89?
5.21 '89?
5.3 04/89
6.0 '89
6.0.1 '89
6.0.2 '89
6.1 '89
6.2 '89
6.3 '89
6.5 02/89
7.00 mid '90 Motif[R]
7.01 '89
7.02 '90
7.03 <08/89
7.04 '90
7.05 '90
7.06 '90
7.07 '90
7.08 '90
7.09 '90
8.00 01/91
8.01 '91
8.02 04/92
8.03 '91
8.04 '91
8.05 07/91
8.06 '92
8.07 '92
9.00 07/92 PA7100 support, POSIX[TM] shell, VUE 3.0, fastlinks,
ioscan(1M), model(1)
9.01 '93 added hardware support
9.02 '93 added hardware support
9.03 '93 added hardware support, including support for floppy
disks
9.04 11/93 added hardware support
9.05 11/93 added hardware support
9.06 '94
9.07 '94 Multi-Buffered-X, Single-Logical-Screen
9.08 '94
9.09 '94
9.10 03/95 10.x compatibility
10.00 03/95 SVR4 filesys layout, NFS, SD-UX, XNTP, traceroute(1M)
10.01 07/95 JFS(v2)
10.10 02/96 large filesys/physmem/dsize, NLS, SLVM, UNIX95, CDE(1.0),
DHCP, perl(4)
10.20 08/96 JFSv3, large files/uids, MPC, RARP
10.30 08/97 kernel (POSIX) threads, NFS PV3, streams TCP/IP, ASE,
PPP,
Y2K compliance
11.00 11/97 64-bit OS, DLKM, iCOD, CDE 2.1
11.10 03/00 SCA, JFS 3.3, 128-CPU, AutoFS, new ftpd
11.11 11/00 OEs, SuperDome, IO board OLAR, dynamic tunables, TCP NFS,
Linux APIs & ABIs, perl5, JRE(1.2.2.04), X11R6.2
11.20 06/01 IPF, BTL DLKM, kernel logging, VxVM
11.22 06/02 Itanium 2, MxN threads, 64-CPU, kernel config GUI, system
inventory manager, IPv6, IPSec, CPU/RAM board OLAR (*)
11.23 '03? PA & IPF, select Tru64 components, 128-CPU (@), limited
self-healing & self-tuning (@)
11.24? '04? TruCluster (@)
11.30 '05? complete self-healing & self-tuning (@)

* Source: <http://www.interex.org/advocacy/survey/99uxsib.html>
@ Source: <http://www.interex.org/hpworldnews/hpw207/news1.jsp>

Hardware Processor HP-UX
Platform Architecture Releases
==========================================================================
Series 100 Motorola 680x0? n/a
Series 200 Motorola 680x0 2.x, 5.1
Series 300 Motorola 680x0 6.x, 7.x, 8.0/01/05/07, 9.0/01/03/10
Series 400 Motorola 680x0 7.x, 8.0/01/05/07
Series 500 HP Focus 1.x, 5.x
Series 600 HP PA-RISC 2.x, 3.x, 7.0, 8.0/02/06, 9.0/02/04
Series 700 HP PA-RISC 7.03/05/09, 8.0/01/05/07,
9.01/03/05/07/09, 10.x, 11.x
Series 800 HP PA-RISC 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 7.0, 8.0/02/06,
9.0/02/04, 10.x, 11.0/10/11/23
Itanium Intel IPF 11.2x

HP9000 Series 100 machines did not run HP-UX. They ran HPL, BASIC or
Pascal. These languages were usually stored on disks and loaded from
there, but you could also get the languages on plug-in ROM cards.

Series 400 machines were basically HP9000/Apollo hybrids. The boot PROM
contained support for two different modes - one for DomainOS (the native
Apollo operating system) and one for HP-UX.

Series 900 is the HP3000 family of business servers. These machines all
run MPE/iX, not HP-UX. For more information on HP3000 and MPE/iX, see:

o <http://www.hp.com/go/hp3000>
o <http://jazz.external.hp.com/>
o <comp.sys.hp.mpe>

s300 6.5 and s800 3.1 were both replaced by a supposedly converged HP-UX
7.0, but, in fact, there were significant differences, and not just
because of the IO architectues.

HP-UX releases <= 10.20 have been removed from the HP corporate price
list
(ie, they can no longer be purchased).

HP-UX releases <= 10.00 have been classified as obsolete (ie, no longer
supported by HP). 10.01/10/20 will be supported through June 30, 2003.

For futher info on HP software discontinuance & obsolescense dates, see:

o <http://software.hp.com/RELEASES-MEDIA/history/slide2.html>
o <http://software.hp.com/RELEASES-MEDIA/discon/index.htm>

HP-UX 10.30 was a limited release intended for early access for 32-bit
kernel threads development and testing, prior to the release of HP-UX
11.00. For this reason, it was discontinued and obsoleted fairly
soon after the release of 11.00.

HP-UX 11.10 was a limited release and is supported only on V2500 SCA and
V2600 SCA servers. Prior to the release of 11.11, 11.10 came
preinstalled
on these systems. It was never available separately.

HP-UX 11.11 and later is marketed as "HP-UX 11i." The "i" stands for
"Internet" and is meant to convey that the OS is Internet-ready. Here
are the mappings from 11i versions to HP-UX versions as reported by
uname:

11i version Uname version CPU arch. Description
==========================================================================
1.0 11.11 PA OE Release
1.5 11.20 IPF Itanium Release
1.6 11.22 IPF Consolidation Release
2.0 11.23 IPF Consolidation Release
2T 11.24? PA+IPF Independence Release
3.0 11.30 PA+IPF
TruCluster/Self-Healing/Tuning Release

For a release history of HP-UX that includes discontinuance and
obsolescence dates for the various releases, see:

o <http://software.hp.com/RELEASES-MEDIA/history/slide2.html>

For more information on the various HP-UX releases, refer to:

o <http://software.hp.com/RELEASES-MEDIA/>

A roadmap is available that outlines how Tru64 UNIX will be gradually
merged into upcoming HP-UX releases:

o <http://www.tru64.org/Compaq/tru64_roadmap.gif>


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