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1    New and Changed Features
1.1    Environmental Monitoring
1.2    Bootable Tape
1.3    Console
1.4    VMEbus Example Device Driver Upgraded
1.5    Maintenance
1.6    Date Command Enhanced for Year 2000 Support
1.7    Installation Process Enhanced
1.8    Ladebug Debugger Updated
1.9    Netscape FastTrack Server Version 2.0
1.10    Netscape Navigator Gold Version 3.0
1.11    Performance Manager Updated to Version 2.1A
1.12    Worldwide Language Support Enhanced
1.13    New Processor Support
1.14    Common Desktop Environment
1.14.1    CDE Video Tour
1.14.2    CDE Screen Savers
1.15    X/Open-Compliant Curses
1.16    X11R6
1.16.1    X Keyboard Extension for X11R6 (XKB)
1.17    Commands and Utilities
1.17.1    Changes to Mtools
1.17.2    sendmail Utility Supports Configurable GECOS Fuzzy Matching
1.17.3    df Supports Large File Systems
1.17.4    Compressed Reference Pages
1.17.5    Enhancements to terminfo
1.17.6    GNU Emacs Version 19.28
1.17.7    Performance Manager
1.17.8    Bootable Tape
1.17.9    Partition Overlap Checks Added to Disk Utilities
1.17.10    scsimgr Utility for Creating Device Special Files
1.18    Standards
1.18.1    Realtime Is Compliant with Final POSIX 1003.1b Standard Interfaces
1.18.2    DECthreads Is Compliant with Final POSIX 1003.1c Standard Interfaces
1.19    Development Environment
1.19.1    Tcl/Tk Availability
1.19.2    DEC C++
1.19.3    Software Development Environment Repackaging
1.19.4    Init Execution Order Modified for Static Executable Files
1.19.5    PC-Sample Mode of prof Command
1.19.6    atom and prof Commands and Threads
1.19.7    Thread Independent Services (TIS) Interface
1.19.8    High-Resolution Clock
1.19.9    POSIX 1003.1b Realtime Signals
1.19.10    POSIX 1003.1b Synchronized I/O
1.19.11    POSIX 1003.1b _POSIX_C_SOURCE Symbol
1.19.12    Digital Porting Assistant
1.20    Networking
1.20.1    New Version of the gated Daemon
1.20.2    Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
1.20.3    Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
1.20.4    Extensible SNMP
1.20.5    SNMP MIB support
1.21    Enhanced Security
1.22    File Systems
1.22.1    AdvFS
1.22.1.1    New Tuning Parameters for AdvFS
1.22.1.2    AdvFS Now Supports Directory Truncation
1.22.2    File System Access Control Lists (ACLs)
1.22.3    Logical Storage Manager
1.22.4    Overlap Partition Checking
1.23    Internationalization and Language Support
1.23.1    Internationalization (I18N) Configuration Utility for CDE
1.23.2    Unicode Support
1.23.3    The Worldwide Mail Handler No Longer Exists
1.23.4    Multilingual Emacs (mule)
1.23.5    Support for Catalan, Lithuanian, and Slovene
1.23.6    man Command Supports Codeset Conversion
1.24    Dynamic Device Recognition for SCSI Devices

2    Features and Interfaces Scheduled for Retirement
2.1    Retired in This Release
2.2    Nonconforming Curses Library
2.3    ACC
2.4    Kernel Build Procedures
2.5    TURBOchannel Denali Graphics
2.6    dbx Debugger
2.7    Nemacs
2.8    Security Interfaces
2.9    Security Windows-Based Administration Utilities
2.10    System Management Utilities
2.11    BSD TTY-NAME
2.12    NC and NL Interfaces in the Standard C Library
2.13    Desktop Applications
2.14    SCSI Device Names
2.15    POSIX 1003.4a (draft 4) pthread Routines in DECthreads
2.16    DECthreads CMA Interface
2.17    AdvFS Quota Commands
2.18    LVM-to-LSM Migration Tools
2.19    OSF/Motif Version 1.1.3
2.20    XIE Version 3.0 X Client Extension
2.21    Disk Space Requirement for Installation
2.22    MSB Driver
2.23    C Library Functions and POSIX P1003.1C