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     10 Changes from NetBSD 4.0 to NetBSD 5.0:
     11 	evbppc: Add support for Xilinx Virtex II-Pro/4-FX. [freza 20061202]
     12 	mac68k: Add support for four more Nubus video cards, including the
     13 		VillageTronic MacPicasso 340. [hauke 20061206]
     14 	ixp425: Add support for NPE Ethernet. [scw 20061210]
     15 	nfs: Remove NQNFS support from kernel. [yamt 20061227]
     16 	mount_psshfs(8): Add puffs sshfs. [pooka 20061229]
     17 	zaurus: Add support for Sharp C3x00 PDA. [ober 20070105]
     18 	i386: Add support for Microsoft Xbox. [jmcneill 20070105]
     19 	ntp: Import ntp 4.2.4 (20061228). Tracking of network interface
     20 		address changes is now supported - no more ntpd
     21 		restarts when interface addresses are re-configured
     22 		(WLAN/DSL/ppp/...). [kardel 20070106]
     23 	kernel: Global 'securelevel' variable removed; it is now internal to
     24 		the secmodel. [elad 20070110]
     25 	GCC: Updated to version 4.1.2-20070110. [mrg 20070111]
     26 	acpitools: Added from FreeBSD via fvdl. [christos 20070114]
     27 	scsictl(8): Added setspeed command, to set the highest speed that the
     28 		optical drive should use for reading data,
     29 		contributed by Kimura Fuyuki. [bouyer 20070122]
     30 	i386, amd64: Add cmos(4), driver for x86 CMOS RAM. [dyoung 20070206]
     31 	newlock2: Merge the newlock2 branch. Introduces a number of new
     32 		kernel synchronization primitives, improves scalability
     33 		on MP systems, and replaces the existing SA threads model
     34 		with a 1:1 threading model. [ad 20070209]
     35 	news68k: Implement generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070210]
     36 	refuse: Added FUSE (file system in userspace) compatibility
     37 		functionality, layered on top of libpuffs. [agc 20070211]
     38 	i386: Added an opencrypto provider for VIA ACE (AES encryption
     39 		instructions), ported from OpenBSD. [daniel 20070217]
     40 	sdiff(1): Replaced by OpenBSD sdiff(1) (public domain). [rmind 20070219]
     41 	btuart(4): Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) driver.
     42 		[kiyohara 20070221]
     43 	btuartd(8): Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) daemon.
     44 		[kiyohara 20070221]
     45 	mutex(9), rwlock(9): Support priority inheritance. [yamt 20070226]
     46 	eeprom(8): Add the missing kernel bits on arm and powerpc that kept
     47 		eeprom from actually changing firmware settings.
     48 		[macallan 20070228]
     49 	MAKEDEV(8), MAKEDEV.local(8): Let MAKEDEV.local use functions
     50 		defined in MAKEDEV. [apb 20070303]
     51 	x68k: Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304]
     52 	luna68k: Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304]
     53 	file(1): Update to 4.20.  [pooka 20070304]
     54 	hfs: Add read-only Apple HFS+ file system support. [dillo 20070305]
     55 	ipv6: Add ipv6 fast forward. [liamjfoy 20070307]
     56 	openssh: Import 4.6. [christos 20070310]
     57 	aiboost(4): ASUS AI Booster ACPI Hardware monitor driver,
     58 		adapted from FreeBSD for envsys(4). [xtraeme 20070313]
     59 	evbmips: Add Infineon ADM5120 port. [dyoung 20070320]
     60 	i386, amd64: Intel(R) On Demand Clock Modulation driver, to save
     61 		power and overheating in CPUs supporting the Thermal
     62 		Monitor feature (TM). Adapted from OpenBSD/FreeBSD.
     63 		See options(4) for more information. [xtraeme 20070320]
     64 	kernel: Import of DRM (Direct Rendering Manager). Not yet enabled
     65 		by default. [drochner 20070320]
     66 	libc: Add support for LC_TIME. [manu 20070328]
     67 	genfb: Generic framebuffer console driver with PCI and SBus
     68 		frontends. [macallan 20070411]
     69 	sgimips: Add support for SGI O2 PS/2 controller macekbc(4) and
     70 		onboard display adapter crmfb(4). [jmcneill 20070412]
     71 	sgimips: Import mavb(4) audio device driver for SGI O2 from
     72 		OpenBSD. [jmcneill 20070412]
     73 	sparc64: Add support for hardware monitoring on
     74 		Ultra Enterprise 450. See envctrl(4). [tnn 20070414]
     75 	puffs(4): Support NFS exporting puffs file servers. [pooka 20070416]
     76 	xargs(1): Bring in xargs from FreeBSD to gain -I, -J etc. but keep our
     77 		GNU compatible exit values. [christos 20070418]
     78 	mount_9p(8): Add support to mount a 9P file service with puffs.
     79 		[pooka 20070421]
     80 	kernel: Remove the CHECK_ALT_xxx() defines and emul_find() used
     81 		to locate files within an emulation's root directory.
     82 		Instead get namei() to check the emulation root first.
     83 		[dsl 20070422]
     84 	prep: Add support for the MTX604 RAVEN based machine. Other RAVEN
     85 		based machines are also likely to work now. [garbled 20070426]
     86 	kernel: Added support for POSIX Asynchronous I/O. [rmind 20070430]
     87 	puffs(3): Add puffs_framebuf(3), which abstracts the buffer
     88 		management and event loop for networked file systems
     89 		using puffs_cc(3). Convert mount_psshfs(8) and
     90 		mount_9p(8) to use it. [pooka 20070505]
     91 	kernel: Add the TFTPROOT kernel option for TFTP'ing root RAMdisk
     92 		at root mount time. [manu 20070508]
     93 	pf(4): Make 'nat' and 'rdr' translation rules obey state
     94 		policy flags ('if-bound', 'group-bound', 'floating').
     95 		Extend pf.conf(5) syntax to express the translation-state
     96 		policies. [dyoung 20070510]
     97 	idlelwp: yamt-idlelwp branch was merged.
     98 		1. separate context switching and thread scheduling.
     99 		2. implement idle lwp.
    100 		3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces.
    101 		4. make scheduler(s) modular.
    102 		[yamt 20070518]
    103 	ld.elf_so: Support Solaris $ORIGIN etc. expansions in paths.
    104 		[christos 20070518]
    105 	uslsa(4): Added CP210x USB-RS232 ucom driver, as submitted by
    106 		Jonathan A. Kollasch in PR kern/33496. [dogcow 20070520]
    107 	top(1): Allow a single process to be selected by pid.
    108 		Add a 'thread mode' that displays LWPs.
    109 		[ad 20070524]
    110 	libcurses: Merge in wide curses work done by Ruibiao Qui as a
    111 		Google Summer of Code project. [blymn 20070529]
    112 	powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]
    113 	smsc(4): Added a driver for the hardware monitoring portion of
    114 		the SMSC LPC47B397. [blymn 20070601]
    115 	file(1): Update to 4.21. [pooka 20070607]
    116 	zyd(4): Added OpenBSD's driver. Supports ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B
    117 		USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device. [kiyohara 20070609]
    118 	mac68k: Switch sn(4) Ethernet on mac68k to using MI SONIC driver.
    119 		[tsutsui 20070610]
    120 	tcp(4): Per socket keepalive timer settings. Ability to change
    121 		connection timeout. [christos 20070620].
    122 	newgrp(1): Add POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 / Open Group Base
    123 		Specifications Issue 6) User Portability Utility to change
    124 		effective group ID. [ginsbach 20060621]
    125 	GCC: Updated to version 4.1.3-20070620.  [mrg 20070621]
    126 	ntp: Updated to version 4.2.4p2. [kardel 20070624]
    127 	tcpdrop(8): Ported by anon ymous (from FreeBSD/OpenBSD).
    128 		[christos 20070625]
    129 	fast_ipsec(4): Add support for IPsec NAT-T. [degroote 20070627]
    130 	efs: Added read-only Silicon Graphics EFS file system. [rumble 20070629]
    131 	envsys(4), sysmon_envsys(9): Imported envsys2. New API with the
    132 		following features:
    133 		- Cleaned up the API for simplicity and efficiency.
    134 		- Ability to send capacity/critical/warning events to powerd(8).
    135 		- Added support for a 'dictionary based communication channel'
    136 		  between sysmon_power(9) and powerd(8), that means there is
    137 		  no 32 bytes event size event restriction anymore.
    138 		- Binary compatibility with old envstat(8) and powerd(8) via
    139 		  COMPAT_40.
    140 		And more, please see envsys(4) and sysmon_envsys(9) for more
    141 		information.
    142 		[xtraeme 20070701]
    143 	mount_puffsportal: Add experimental version of portalfs
    144 		based on puffs(3).  [pooka 20070708]
    145 	i386: Add gcscehci(4) driver for the EHCI controller found in the AMD
    146 		Geode CS5536 companion controllers. [jmcneill 20070708]
    147 	nfsmb(4): Add support for NVIDIA nForce 2/3/4 SMBus controller and
    148 		SMBus driver. [kiyohara 20070711]
    149 	dbri(4): Added support for audio input. [macallan 20070712]
    150 	alpha: Add timecounter(9) support and switch to MI todr(9)
    151 		with MI mc146818 driver. [tsutsui 20070721]
    152 	ichsmb(4): Add support for Intel ICH SMBus controller.
    153 		[kiyohara 20070728]
    154 	shark: Add dhclient(8) to the install disk image to be able to
    155 		configure network interfaces through DHCP.  [jmmv 20070729]
    156 	sparc: The cgfourteen driver now supports wscons. [macallan 20070730]
    157 	shark: Switched the installation disk to use wscons instead of
    158 		pccons. [jmmv 20070731]
    159 	tcp(4): TCP socket buffers automatic sizing, ported from FreeBSD.
    160 		[rmind 20070802]
    161 	agp(4): Add support agp_amd64. Imported from FreeBSD.
    162 		[kiyohara 20070804]
    163 	cpuctl(8): A new utility which allows setting CPUs online/offline.
    164 		[ad 20070804]
    165 	libpthread: Make some significant performance improvements around
    166 		thread synchronization, and fix a minor problem with
    167 		detaching running threads. [ad 20070804]
    168 	rump: Add the Runnable Userspace Meta Program framework to sys/rump.
    169 		These are programs which compile in a part from the standard
    170 		kernel sources and run in userspace.  Their main use is
    171 		testing/debugging. Currently supported are a number of
    172 		file systems (e.g. ffs) through puffs(3). [pooka 20070805]
    173 	wscons: Add scrollback support to vcons, this should work with
    174 		any framebuffer console driver that uses vcons.
    175 		[macallan 20070805]
    176 	wtf(6): Search pkgsrc's help database when ran inside a package
    177 		directory. [hubertf 20070806]
    178 	libpthread: Another performance improvement, and a fix for an issue
    179 		that could cause threaded applications to hang under rare
    180 		circumstances. [ad 20070807]
    181 	mount_sysctlfs(8): sysctl(3) to file system translator. [pooka 20070809]
    182 	slhci(4): Replace to Matthew Orgass's slhci(4). [kiyohara 20070815]
    183 	spdmem(4): Add Serial Presence Detect driver/support. This decodes
    184 		technical specifications stored in the eeprom on common types
    185 		of memory modules. [tnn 20070818]
    186 	btbc(4): Add support for AnyCom BlueCard. [kiyohara 20070820]
    187 	libm: Add C99 complex support (float/double). [drochner 20070820]
    188 	ichlpcib(4): The driver has added support for the TCO (watchdog) on
    189 		ICH6 or newer chipsets plus timecounter support. Also it can
    190 		be used on EM64T systems running the amd64 port. Adapted from
    191 		FreeBSD and OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070826]
    192 	agten(4): Add support for Fujitsu AG-10e graphics cards working as
    193 		accelerated framebuffer console. [macallan 20070826]
    194 	ag10e(4): Add XFree86 driver to run the AG-10e in 24bit with
    195 		acceleration. [macallan 20070830]
    196 	uchcom(4): Add support for WinChipHead CH341/340 USB-Serial adapter.
    197 		[tshiozak 20070903]
    198 	amd64, i386: cgd(4) is part of GENERIC. [joerg 20070906]
    199 	libpthread: scalability and performance enhancements. The MySQL
    200 		sysbench benchmark in read-only mode now scales to 900
    201 		simultaneous client threads on a 4xCPU i386 system before
    202 		serious performance drop-off occurs. [ad 20070907]
    203 	kernel: Added support for POSIX message queues. [rmind 20070907]
    204 	aps(4): driver for IBM Thinkpad Active Protection System,
    205 		provides support for some sensors exported through
    206 		the envsys(4) framework. Ported by Pierre Pronchery
    207 		from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070911]
    208 	i386, amd64: pcc is now able to compile most of the i386 kernel.
    209 		a number of changes have been made for LKM and
    210 		preemption safety. [ad 20070927]
    211 	i386: i386 bootblocks are now able to boot amd64 kernels.
    212 		support for a.out kernels has been removed. [ad 20070927]
    213 	kernel: Added support for kernel core dumps to RAID 1 sets.
    214 		[oster 20071004]
    215 	kernel: The new socket option SO_NOHEADER tells the network
    216 		stack to strip the protocol header from packets
    217 		received on a raw socket. [dyoung 20071005]
    218 	gre(4): Available encapsulations increase to IPv6, UDP in
    219 		IPv6, and UDP in IPv4.  The Mobile IP encapsulation
    220 		is no more. [dyoung 20071005]
    221 	malloc: Replace the default memory allocator with 'jemalloc',
    222 		designed to perform well in both single- and multi-
    223 		threaded processes. This provides a significant
    224 		performance boost for many threaded workloads that
    225 		make use of malloc, such as MySQL. [ad 20071006]
    226 	kernel: A new SCHED_M2 scheduler, improves the performance on
    227 		MP systems, supports real-time and time-sharing classes,
    228 		ready for the CPU affinity. [rmind 20071009]
    229 	powerpc, prep, pmppc, evbppc, macppc, ibmnws, bebox, sandpoint, ofwppc:
    230 		Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
    231 	prep: Convert to generic powerpc PCI framework. [garbled 20071017]
    232 	powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
    233 	macppc: Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework.
    234 		[macallan 20071017]
    235 	prep: Convert to generic powerpc ISA framework. [garbled 20071017]
    236 	bebox: Convert to generic soft interrupts. [matt 20071017]
    237 	prep: Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework. [garbled 20071017]
    238 	powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines.
    239 		[garbled 20071017]
    240 	prep: Convert to generic powerpc clock. [garbled 20071017]
    241 	sandpoint: Convert to generic soft interrupts. [nisimura 20071017]
    242 	sandpoint: Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework.
    243 		[nisimura 20071017]
    244 	sandpoint: Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI/ISA framework.
    245 		[nisimura 20071017]
    246 	macppc: Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI framework.
    247 		[macallan 20071017]
    248 	pmppc: Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI/interrupt framework.
    249 		[garbled 20071017]
    250 	pmppc: Remove pmppc as a port, and move it to a supported board under
    251 		evbppc. [garbled 20071017]
    252 	ibmnws: Convert to generic powerpc clock.c/PCI/interrupt framework.
    253 		[rjs 20071017]
    254 	mvmeppc: Convert to generic powerpc clock.c/PCI/interrupt framework.
    255 		[garbled 20071017]
    256 	powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
    257 	sandpoint: DHCP/NFS bootloader. [nisimura 20071017]
    258 	macppc: Convert to generic powerpc bus_dma. [matt 20071017]
    259 	macppc: Convert to generic powerpc bus_space. [garbled 20071017]
    260 	powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
    261 	ofppc: Completely rewrite ofppc port from scratch. [garbled 20071017]
    262 	bebox: Convert to generic powerpc PCI/ISA framework. [ober 20071017]
    263 	macppc: Use genfb as the default framebuffer instead of ofb.
    264 		[macallan 20071017]
    265 	macppc: Switch to new ADB subsystem. [macallan 20071017]
    266 	macppc: Add support for bus speed control found in some Intrepid-based
    267 		*Books like the 800MHz iBook G4. [macallan 20071017] 
    268 	powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
    269 	macppc: Convert to generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
    270 	powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
    271 	macppc: Convert to generic powerpc SMP framework. [macallan 20071017]
    272 	prep: Convert to generic powerpc IPI/SMP framework. [garbled 20071017]
    273 	ofppc: New ofwpci configuration methods, add rtas device.
    274 		[garbled 20071025]
    275 	shark: Removed pccons(4), obsoleted by wscons(4). [jmmv 20071028]
    276 	coretemp(4): Driver for Intel Core's on-die thermal sensor,
    277 		available on Core or newer CPUs. Ported from FreeBSD.
    278 		[xtraeme 20071029]
    279 	i386, amd64: Added support for Intel 82G965 chipset. [jnemeth 20071030]
    280 	ofppc: Stop using ofbus driver, rewrite console code [garbled 20071104]
    281 	ofppc, macppc: Convert to shared ofw_autoconf. [garbled 20071107]
    282 	nsclpcsio(4): Added support for the VLM logical device. This provides
    283 		14 voltage sensors in addition to the previous 3 temperature
    284 		sensors provided in the TMS logical device. From OpenBSD.
    285 		[xtraeme 20071109]
    286 	btkey(1): A new utility to manage Bluetooth link keys in OS and
    287 		and device storage. [plunky 20071109]
    288 	putter(9): A Pass-to-Userspace Transporter, a generic request-response
    289 		handler for kernel-attached userspace daemons (e.g. puffs(4)).
    290 		[pooka 20071110]
    291 	pad(4): Added the pseudo-audio device driver, for feeding back raw
    292 		PCM data to userland. [jmcneill 20071111]
    293 	r128fb(4): New accelerated console driver for ATI Rage 128 graphics
    294 		controllers. [macallan 20071111]
    295 	atf: Initial import of the Automated Testing Framework, version 0.3.
    296 		Provides a framework to easily define and run test cases for
    297 		the NetBSD operating system.  Work until 0.1 sponsored by
    298 		Google Summer of Code 2007 and mentored by martin.
    299 		[jmmv 20071112]
    300 	sysinst: Add support to install the new tests.tgz set.
    301 		[jmmv 20071112]
    302 	tests: Converted the regress/bin tree to use ATF and migrated it
    303 		to tests/util. [jmmv 20071112]
    304 	tests: Converted the regress/sys/fs/tmpfs tree to use ATF and
    305 		migrated it to tests/fs/tmpfs. [jmmv 20071112]
    306 	tests: Converted the regress/games tree to use ATF and migrated it
    307 		to tests/games. [jmmv 20071112]
    308 	ahcisata(4): Add support for ATAPI devices. [bouyer 20071112]
    309 	newfs_ext2fs(8): Add a native newfs_ext2fs(8) command.
    310 		Closes PR bin/16175. [tsutsui 20071117]
    311 	i386, amd64: Add support for /boot.cfg to configure the bootloader.
    312 		This includes optionally displaying menus, altering banner
    313 		text and changing options such as timeouts and console device
    314 		which previously required use of installboot.
    315 		[sborrill 20071120]
    316 	pud(4): Add a driver via which it is possible to implement
    317 		block and character devices in userspace. [pooka 20071120]
    318 	xen: Added support for amd64 architecture, both as dom0 and domU.
    319 		[bouyer 20071122]
    320 	i386: Create a boot.cfg on the install CD to allow the end-user to
    321 		select either the standard or non-ACPI kernel easily.
    322 		[sborrill 20071123]
    323 	libsa: Add ext2fs support. [tsutsui 20071201]
    324 	bcsp(4): Add support for BlueCore Serial Protocol. [kiyohara 20071202]
    325 	toolchain: Install the linker scripts on amd64, which allows to
    326 		link x86 32bits objects using the native ld(1).
    327 		[bouyer 20071202]
    328 	arcmsr(4): Areca Technology Corporation SATA RAID controller driver,
    329 		ported from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20071204]
    330 	fxp(4): Fix some TX timeout and RX pool corruption problems.
    331 		Mostly from OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20071208]
    332 	ofppc: Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [garbled 20071210]
    333 	ofppc: Added support for the bplan/Genesi Pegasos II. [garbled 20071210]
    334 	sandpoint: Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [nisimura 20071211]
    335 	macppc: Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [macallan 20071211]
    336 	acpi: Updated ACPI-CA to 20070320. [jmcneill 20071211]
    337 	kernel: Added a new power management framework, see pmf(9) for details.
    338 		[jmcneill,joerg 20071211]
    339 	ifconfig(8): Add 'list scan' to ifconfig, which list access point in
    340 		the neighbourhood. [adegroot 20071216]
    341 	MAKEDEV(8): Use pax(1) in preference to mknod(8) to create device
    342 		nodes more efficiently; use mount_tmpfs(8) in preference to
    343 		mount_mfs(8) when creating a memory file system. [apb 20071215]
    344 	nfe(4): Handle a quirk of newer MCP6x chips on reading MAC address.
    345 		[tsutsui 20071217]
    346 	rs6000: New port of NetBSD to the MCA based IBM RS/6000 7006-41T.
    347 		[garbled 20071217]
    348 	openssh: Import 4.7. [christos 20071217]
    349 	i386, amd64: Add support for ACPI S3 (suspend-to-RAM) on MP systems.
    350 		[joerg 20071218]
    351 	sparc64: Add support for Sun PGX32 / TechSource Raptor GFX 8P to
    352 		genfb ( mostly workarounds for firmware bugs ), also build
    353 		XFree86's glint driver for accelerated X. [macallan 20071219]
    354 	newsyslog: newsyslog.conf flag 'J' will bzip2 logfiles.
    355 		[dogcow 20071221]
    356 	thinkpad(4): Add driver for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad hotkeys and
    357 		brightness controls. [jmcneill 20071221]
    358 	kernel: Address Space Layout Randomization support in the kernel and
    359 		dynamic linker, see security(8). [elad,christos 20071226]
    360 	msdosfs: Significantly improved writing speed (up to 16x faster).
    361 		[reinoud 20071228]
    362 	itesio(4): Added support for the Watchdog Timer. [xtraeme 20071229]
    363 	usermode: Add port of the NetBSD kernel to userspace.
    364 		[jmcneill 20071229]
    365 	hp700: Kernels are now compiled with -O2. [skrll 20071230]
    366 	compat_hpux: Removed. [ad 20071231]
    367 	systrace(1): Removed. [ad 20071231]
    368 	tprof: Add tprof, a simple performance monitor based profiler,
    369 		inspired from linux oprofile.  it's still very experimental.
    370 		[yamt 20080102]
    371 	bioctl(8): Rewritten to handle new features like creating/removing
    372 		hot-spare, pass-through disks and RAID volumes, start/stop
    373 		consistency checks in volumes and others. [xtraeme 20080102]
    374 	arcmsr(4): Added support to create/remove hot-spare, pass-through
    375 		disks and RAID volumes, start/stop consistency checks
    376 		in volumes as well as showing information about physical
    377 		disks (even if they are marked as hot-spare, pass-through
    378 		or unused). [xtraeme 20080102]
    379 	ofppc: Support intallation and RAID bootable root. [mrg 20080102]
    380 	gem(4): Add support for Sun SX fibre cards.  [jdc 20080105]
    381 	kernel: All platforms have been converted to use generic TODR.
    382 		[gdamore,joerg 20080108]
    383 	ulpt(4): Implement non-blocking read. [gdt 20080108]
    384 	gcscpcib(4): Added driver for the AMD CS5535 and CS5536 Companion
    385 		Device with support for Timecounter, Watchdog Timer and
    386 		GPIO. Adapted from OpenBSD by Yojiro UO. [xtraeme 20080109]
    387 	pc532: Port deleted. [simonb 20080109]
    388 	ofppc: Fix ofwboot to work on an IBM CHRP-based RS/6000.
    389 		[garbled 20080109]
    390 	i386: Add sparse kernel core dumps (minidumps) for this platform
    391 		using a backwards-compatible on-disk core format. Not
    392 		turned on by default yet. Similar to FreeBSD minidumps but
    393 		simpler in implementation. Implementation by Jed Davis and
    394 		Devon O'Dell, contributed to NetBSD by Coyote Point Systems.
    395 		[tls 20080110]
    396 	hppa: Added gdb support. [skrll 20080110]
    397 	auvia(4): Make this work on big endian machines. [tsutsui 20080114]
    398 	kernel: Implementation of processor-sets and affinity. [rmind 20080115]
    399 	libpthread: POSIX real-time extensions. [rmind 20080115]
    400 	schedctl(8): A new program to control scheduling of processes and
    401 		threads. [rmind 20080115]
    402 	kernel: Added a new framework for kernel modules, enabled through the
    403 		MODULAR kernel option and used through the modctl(2) system
    404 		call.  [ad 20080116]
    405 	modules: Added new versions of modload(8), modstat(8) and modunload(8)
    406 		that use modctl(2).  Not built by default.  [ad 20080116]
    407 	bktr(4): Added amd64 support. [jmcneill 20080116]
    408 	ofppc: Add support for the IBM 7044-270. [garbled 20080117]
    409 	fdisk(8): Fix possible division by zero errors. [tsutsui 20080120]
    410 	kernel: All platforms have been converted to use timecounter.
    411 		[joerg 20080120]
    412 	usb: Add uhmodem(4) driver for Huawei E220 wireless modem.
    413 		[ichiro 20080121]
    414 	compat_linux32: Add ossaudio support. [jmcneill 20080121]
    415 	xen: Added support for the i386 PAE extention to Xen3 domU
    416 		[bouyer 20080123]
    417 	uhub(4): The device attachment function has been optimized to
    418 		improve system startup time. [jmcneill 20080124]
    419 	kernel: The interface for IP checksumming was changed to reduce
    420 		duplication and more general use. [joerg 20080125]
    421 	hostapd/wpa_supplicant: Upgrade to 0.6.2 [christos 20080126]
    422 	nfe(4): Wakeup some newer chips from powerdown mode.
    423 		From FreeBSD/Linux driver via OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20080126]
    424 	sgimips: Enable bootinfo passed from bootloader so that now kernel
    425 		symbol table and ksyms(4) are usable. [tsutsui 20080126]
    426 	hpcmips: Fix silent hangup problem on TX3922 machines.
    427 		From Risto Sainio. [tsutsui 20080126]
    428 	openpam: upgrade to 20071221 [christos 20080126]
    429 	azalia(4): Analog Devices AD1984 codec support has been improved
    430 		to support headphones and 4 channel playback, and now
    431 		exposes an outputs.master mixer control that mirrors the
    432 		inputs.dac mixer control to make libossaudio happy.
    433 		[jmcneill 20080130]
    434 	arc: Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20080202]
    435 	cobalt: Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20080202]
    436 	GCC: Updated to version 4.1.3-20080202.  [mrg 20080202]
    437 	atf: Import 0.4.  [jmmv 20080204]
    438 	sgimips: Add hardware acceleration for crmfb [macallan 20080205]
    439 	modules: Added the MKMODULAR option to the build system to easily
    440 		enable the build of the new kernel modules framework.
    441 		[jmmv 20080209]
    442 	iwn(4): Added a driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless Lan 4965AGN          
    443 		Mini-PCI Adapter, ported from OpenBSD. [ober 20080209]
    444 	ofppc: Add support for the 7046-B50. [garbled 2008-02-13]
    445 	powerpc: Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy, memmove and memcmp.
    446 		[garbled 20080221]
    447 	monop(6): Save and restore format changed; compatibility with old
    448 		save files broken, but they were not usable anyway.
    449 		[dholland 20080223]
    450 	mfi(4): Added support for LSI SAS1078 and Dell PERC 6, from OpenBSD.
    451 		[xtraeme 20080225]
    452