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Tracking of network interface 34 address changes is now supported - no more ntpd 35 restarts when interface addresses are re-configured 36 (WLAN/DSL/ppp/...). [kardel 20070106] 37 kernel: Global 'securelevel' variable removed; it is now internal to 38 the secmodel. [elad 20070110] 39 gcc(1): Updated to version 4.1.2-20070110. [mrg 20070111] 40 acpitools: Added from FreeBSD via fvdl. [christos 20070114] 41 scsictl(8): Added setspeed command, to set the highest speed that the 42 optical drive should use for reading data, 43 contributed by Kimura Fuyuki. [bouyer 20070122] 44 i386, amd64: Add cmos(4), driver for x86 CMOS RAM. [dyoung 20070206] 45 newlock2: Merge the newlock2 branch. Introduces a number of new 46 kernel synchronization primitives, improves scalability 47 on MP systems, and replaces the existing SA threads model 48 with a 1:1 threading model. [ad 20070209] 49 news68k: Implement generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070210] 50 refuse: Added FUSE (file system in userspace) compatibility 51 functionality, layered on top of libpuffs. [agc 20070211] 52 i386: Added an opencrypto provider for VIA ACE (AES encryption 53 instructions), ported from OpenBSD. [daniel 20070217] 54 sdiff(1): Replaced by OpenBSD sdiff(1) (public domain). [rmind 20070219] 55 btuart(4): Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) driver. 56 [kiyohara 20070221] 57 btuartd(8): Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) daemon. 58 [kiyohara 20070221] 59 mutex(9), rwlock(9): Support priority inheritance. [yamt 20070226] 60 eeprom(8): Add the missing kernel bits on arm and powerpc that kept 61 eeprom from actually changing firmware settings. 62 [macallan 20070228] 63 MAKEDEV(8), MAKEDEV.local(8): Let MAKEDEV.local use functions 64 defined in MAKEDEV. [apb 20070303] 65 x68k: Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304] 66 luna68k: Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304] 67 file(1): Update to 4.20. [pooka 20070304] 68 hfs: Add read-only Apple HFS+ file system support. [dillo 20070305] 69 ipv6: Add ipv6 fast forward. [liamjfoy 20070307] 70 openssh: Import 4.6. [christos 20070310] 71 aiboost(4): ASUS AI Booster ACPI Hardware monitor driver, 72 adapted from FreeBSD for envsys(4). [xtraeme 20070313] 73 evbmips: Add Infineon ADM5120 port. [dyoung 20070320] 74 i386, amd64: Intel(R) On Demand Clock Modulation driver, to save 75 power and overheating in CPUs supporting the Thermal 76 Monitor feature (TM). Adapted from OpenBSD/FreeBSD. 77 See options(4) for more information. [xtraeme 20070320] 78 kernel: Import of DRM (Direct Rendering Manager). Not yet enabled 79 by default. [drochner 20070320] 80 libc: Add support for LC_TIME. [manu 20070328] 81 genfb(4): Generic framebuffer console driver with PCI and SBus 82 frontends. [macallan 20070411] 83 sgimips: Add support for SGI O2 PS/2 controller macekbc(4) and 84 onboard display adapter crmfb(4). [jmcneill 20070412] 85 sgimips: Import mavb(4) audio device driver for SGI O2 from 86 OpenBSD. [jmcneill 20070412] 87 sparc64: Add support for hardware monitoring on 88 Ultra Enterprise 450. See envctrl(4). [tnn 20070414] 89 puffs(4): Support NFS exporting puffs file servers. [pooka 20070416] 90 xargs(1): Bring in xargs from FreeBSD to gain -I, -J etc. but keep our 91 GNU compatible exit values. [christos 20070418] 92 mount_9p(8): Add support to mount a 9P file service with puffs. 93 [pooka 20070421] 94 kernel: Remove the CHECK_ALT_xxx() defines and emul_find() used 95 to locate files within an emulation's root directory. 96 Instead get namei() to check the emulation root first. 97 [dsl 20070422] 98 prep: Add support for the MTX604 RAVEN based machine. Other RAVEN 99 based machines are also likely to work now. [garbled 20070426] 100 kernel: Added support for POSIX Asynchronous I/O. [rmind 20070430] 101 puffs(3): Add puffs_framebuf(3), which abstracts the buffer 102 management and event loop for networked file systems 103 using puffs_cc(3). Convert mount_psshfs(8) and 104 mount_9p(8) to use it. [pooka 20070505] 105 kernel: Add the TFTPROOT kernel option for TFTP'ing root RAMdisk 106 at root mount time. [manu 20070508] 107 pf(4): Make 'nat' and 'rdr' translation rules obey state 108 policy flags ('if-bound', 'group-bound', 'floating'). 109 Extend pf.conf(5) syntax to express the translation-state 110 policies. [dyoung 20070510] 111 idlelwp: yamt-idlelwp branch was merged. 112 1. separate context switching and thread scheduling. 113 2. implement idle lwp. 114 3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces. 115 4. make scheduler(s) modular. 116 [yamt 20070518] 117 ld.elf_so(1): Support Solaris $ORIGIN etc. expansions in paths. 118 [christos 20070518] 119 uslsa(4): Added CP210x USB-RS232 ucom driver, as submitted by 120 Jonathan A. Kollasch in PR kern/33496. [dogcow 20070520] 121 top(1): Allow a single process to be selected by pid. 122 Add a 'thread mode' that displays LWPs. 123 [ad 20070524] 124 libcurses: Merge in wide curses work done by Ruibiao Qui as a 125 Google Summer of Code project. [blymn 20070529] 126 powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601] 127 smsc(4): Added a driver for the hardware monitoring portion of 128 the SMSC LPC47B397. [blymn 20070601] 129 file(1): Update to 4.21. [pooka 20070607] 130 zyd(4): Added OpenBSD's driver. Supports ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B 131 USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device. [kiyohara 20070609] 132 mac68k: Switch sn(4) Ethernet on mac68k to using MI SONIC driver. 133 [tsutsui 20070610] 134 tcp(4): Per socket keepalive timer settings. Ability to change 135 connection timeout. [christos 20070620]. 136 newgrp(1): Add POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 / Open Group Base 137 Specifications Issue 6) User Portability Utility to change 138 effective group ID. [ginsbach 20070621] 139 gcc(1): Updated to version 4.1.3-20070620. [mrg 20070621] 140 ntp: Updated to version 4.2.4p2. [kardel 20070624] 141 tcpdrop(8): Ported by anon ymous (from FreeBSD/OpenBSD). 142 [christos 20070625] 143 fast_ipsec(4): Add support for IPsec NAT-T. [degroote 20070627] 144 efs: Added read-only Silicon Graphics EFS file system. [rumble 20070629] 145 envsys(4), sysmon_envsys(9): Imported envsys2. New API with the 146 following features: 147 - Cleaned up the API for simplicity and efficiency. 148 - Ability to send capacity/critical/warning events to powerd(8). 149 - Added support for a 'dictionary based communication channel' 150 between sysmon_power(9) and powerd(8), that means there is 151 no 32 bytes event size event restriction anymore. 152 - Binary compatibility with old envstat(8) and powerd(8) via 153 COMPAT_40. 154 And more, please see envsys(4) and sysmon_envsys(9) for more 155 information. 156 [xtraeme 20070701] 157 mount_puffsportal: Add experimental version of portalfs 158 based on puffs(3). [pooka 20070708] 159 i386: Add gcscehci(4) driver for the EHCI controller found in the AMD 160 Geode CS5536 companion controllers. [jmcneill 20070708] 161 nfsmb(4): Add support for NVIDIA nForce 2/3/4 SMBus controller and 162 SMBus driver. [kiyohara 20070711] 163 dbri(4): Added support for audio input. [macallan 20070712] 164 alpha: Add timecounter(9) support and switch to MI todr(9) 165 with MI mc146818 driver. [tsutsui 20070721] 166 ichsmb(4): Add support for Intel ICH SMBus controller. 167 [kiyohara 20070728] 168 shark: Add dhclient(8) to the install disk image to be able to 169 configure network interfaces through DHCP. [jmmv 20070729] 170 sparc: The cgfourteen(4) driver now supports wscons. [macallan 20070730] 171 shark: Switched the installation disk to use wscons instead of 172 pccons. [jmmv 20070731] 173 tcp(4): TCP socket buffers automatic sizing, ported from FreeBSD. 174 [rmind 20070802] 175 agp(4): Add support agp_amd64. Imported from FreeBSD. 176 [kiyohara 20070804] 177 cpuctl(8): A new utility which allows setting CPUs online/offline. 178 [ad 20070804] 179 libpthread: Make some significant performance improvements around 180 thread synchronization, and fix a minor problem with 181 detaching running threads. [ad 20070804] 182 rump: Add the Runnable Userspace Meta Program framework to sys/rump. 183 These are programs which compile in a part from the standard 184 kernel sources and run in userspace. Their main use is 185 testing/debugging. Currently supported are a number of 186 file systems (e.g. ffs) through puffs(3). [pooka 20070805] 187 wscons(4): Add scrollback support to vcons, this should work with 188 any framebuffer console driver that uses vcons. 189 [macallan 20070805] 190 wtf(6): Search pkgsrc's help database when ran inside a package 191 directory. [hubertf 20070806] 192 libpthread: Another performance improvement, and a fix for an issue 193 that could cause threaded applications to hang under rare 194 circumstances. [ad 20070807] 195 mount_sysctlfs(8): sysctl(3) to file system translator. [pooka 20070809] 196 slhci(4): Replace to Matthew Orgass's slhci(4). [kiyohara 20070815] 197 spdmem(4): Add Serial Presence Detect driver/support. This decodes 198 technical specifications stored in the eeprom on common types 199 of memory modules. [tnn 20070818] 200 btbc(4): Add support for AnyCom BlueCard. [kiyohara 20070820] 201 libm: Add C99 complex support (float/double). [drochner 20070820] 202 ichlpcib(4): The driver has added support for the TCO (watchdog) on 203 ICH6 or newer chipsets plus timecounter support. Also it can 204 be used on EM64T systems running the amd64 port. Adapted from 205 FreeBSD and OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070826] 206 agten(4): Add support for Fujitsu AG-10e graphics cards working as 207 accelerated framebuffer console. [macallan 20070826] 208 ag10e(4): Add XFree86 driver to run the AG-10e in 24bit with 209 acceleration. [macallan 20070830] 210 uchcom(4): Add support for WinChipHead CH341/340 USB-Serial adapter. 211 [tshiozak 20070903] 212 amd64, i386: cgd(4) is part of GENERIC. [joerg 20070906] 213 libpthread: scalability and performance enhancements. The MySQL 214 sysbench benchmark in read-only mode now scales to 900 215 simultaneous client threads on a 4xCPU i386 system before 216 serious performance drop-off occurs. [ad 20070907] 217 kernel: Added support for POSIX message queues. [rmind 20070907] 218 aps(4): driver for IBM Thinkpad Active Protection System, 219 provides support for some sensors exported through 220 the envsys(4) framework. Ported by Pierre Pronchery 221 from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070911] 222 i386, amd64: pcc is now able to compile most of the i386 kernel. 223 a number of changes have been made for LKM and 224 preemption safety. [ad 20070927] 225 i386: i386 bootblocks are now able to boot amd64 kernels. 226 support for a.out kernels has been removed. [ad 20070927] 227 kernel: Added support for kernel core dumps to RAID 1 sets. 228 [oster 20071004] 229 kernel: The new socket option SO_NOHEADER tells the network 230 stack to strip the protocol header from packets 231 received on a raw socket. [dyoung 20071005] 232 gre(4): Available encapsulations increase to IPv6, UDP in 233 IPv6, and UDP in IPv4. The Mobile IP encapsulation 234 is no more. [dyoung 20071005] 235 malloc(3): Replace the default memory allocator with 'jemalloc', 236 designed to perform well in both single- and multi- 237 threaded processes. This provides a significant 238 performance boost for many threaded workloads that 239 make use of malloc, such as MySQL. [ad 20071006] 240 kernel: A new SCHED_M2 scheduler, improves the performance on 241 MP systems, supports real-time and time-sharing classes, 242 ready for the CPU affinity. [rmind 20071009] 243 powerpc, prep, pmppc, evbppc, macppc, ibmnws, bebox, sandpoint, ofppc: 244 Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017] 245 prep: Convert to generic powerpc PCI framework. [garbled 20071017] 246 powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017] 247 macppc: Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework. 248 [macallan 20071017] 249 prep: Convert to generic powerpc ISA framework. [garbled 20071017] 250 bebox: Convert to generic soft interrupts. [matt 20071017] 251 prep: Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework. [garbled 20071017] 252 powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines. 253 [garbled 20071017] 254 prep: Convert to generic powerpc clock. [garbled 20071017] 255 sandpoint: Convert to generic soft interrupts. [nisimura 20071017] 256 sandpoint: Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework. 257 [nisimura 20071017] 258 sandpoint: Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI/ISA framework. 259 [nisimura 20071017] 260 macppc: Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI framework. 261 [macallan 20071017] 262 pmppc: Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI/interrupt framework. 263 [garbled 20071017] 264 pmppc: Remove pmppc as a port, and move it to a supported board under 265 evbppc. [garbled 20071017] 266 ibmnws: Convert to generic powerpc clock.c/PCI/interrupt framework. 267 [rjs 20071017] 268 mvmeppc: Convert to generic powerpc clock.c/PCI/interrupt framework. 269 [garbled 20071017] 270 powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017] 271 sandpoint: DHCP/NFS bootloader. [nisimura 20071017] 272 macppc: Convert to generic powerpc bus_dma. [matt 20071017] 273 macppc: Convert to generic powerpc bus_space. [garbled 20071017] 274 powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017] 275 ofppc: Completely rewrite ofppc port from scratch. [garbled 20071017] 276 bebox: Convert to generic powerpc PCI/ISA framework. [ober 20071017] 277 macppc: Use genfb(4) as the default framebuffer instead of ofb. 278 [macallan 20071017] 279 macppc: Switch to new ADB subsystem. [macallan 20071017] 280 macppc: Add support for bus speed control found in some Intrepid-based 281 *Books like the 800MHz iBook G4. [macallan 20071017] 282 powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017] 283 macppc: Convert to generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017] 284 powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017] 285 macppc: Convert to generic powerpc SMP framework. [macallan 20071017] 286 prep: Convert to generic powerpc IPI/SMP framework. [garbled 20071017] 287 ofppc: New ofwpci configuration methods, add rtas device. 288 [garbled 20071025] 289 shark: Removed pccons(4), obsoleted by wscons(4). [jmmv 20071028] 290 coretemp(4): Driver for Intel Core's on-die thermal sensor, 291 available on Core or newer CPUs. Ported from FreeBSD. 292 [xtraeme 20071029] 293 i386, amd64: Added support for Intel 82G965 chipset. [jnemeth 20071030] 294 ofppc: Stop using ofbus driver, rewrite console code [garbled 20071104] 295 ofppc, macppc: Convert to shared ofw_autoconf. [garbled 20071107] 296 nsclpcsio(4): Added support for the VLM logical device. This provides 297 14 voltage sensors in addition to the previous 3 temperature 298 sensors provided in the TMS logical device. From OpenBSD. 299 [xtraeme 20071109] 300 btkey(1): A new utility to manage Bluetooth link keys in OS and 301 and device storage. [plunky 20071109] 302 putter(9): A Pass-to-Userspace Transporter, a generic request-response 303 handler for kernel-attached userspace daemons (e.g. puffs(4)). 304 [pooka 20071110] 305 pad(4): Added the pseudo-audio device driver, for feeding back raw 306 PCM data to userland. [jmcneill 20071111] 307 r128fb(4): New accelerated console driver for ATI Rage 128 graphics 308 controllers. [macallan 20071111] 309 atf(7): Initial import of the Automated Testing Framework, version 0.3. 310 Provides a framework to easily define and run test cases for 311 the NetBSD operating system. Work until 0.1 sponsored by 312 Google Summer of Code 2007 and mentored by martin. 313 [jmmv 20071112] 314 sysinst: Add support to install the new tests.tgz set. 315 [jmmv 20071112] 316 tests: Converted the regress/bin tree to use ATF and migrated it 317 to tests/util. [jmmv 20071112] 318 tests: Converted the regress/sys/fs/tmpfs tree to use ATF and 319 migrated it to tests/fs/tmpfs. [jmmv 20071112] 320 tests: Converted the regress/games tree to use ATF and migrated it 321 to tests/games. [jmmv 20071112] 322 ahcisata(4): Add support for ATAPI devices. [bouyer 20071112] 323 newfs_ext2fs(8): Add a native newfs_ext2fs(8) command. 324 Closes PR bin/16175. [tsutsui 20071117] 325 i386, amd64: Add support for /boot.cfg to configure the bootloader. 326 This includes optionally displaying menus, altering banner 327 text and changing options such as timeouts and console device 328 which previously required use of installboot. 329 [sborrill 20071120] 330 pud(4): Add a driver via which it is possible to implement 331 block and character devices in userspace. [pooka 20071120] 332 xen: Added support for amd64 architecture, both as dom0 and domU. 333 [bouyer 20071122] 334 i386: Create a boot.cfg on the install CD to allow the end-user to 335 select either the standard or non-ACPI kernel easily. 336 [sborrill 20071123] 337 libsa: Add ext2fs support. [tsutsui 20071201] 338 bcsp(4): Add support for BlueCore Serial Protocol. [kiyohara 20071202] 339 toolchain: Install the linker scripts on amd64, which allows to 340 link x86 32bits objects using the native ld(1). 341 [bouyer 20071202] 342 arcmsr(4): Areca Technology Corporation SATA RAID controller driver, 343 ported from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20071204] 344 fxp(4): Fix some TX timeout and RX pool corruption problems. 345 Mostly from OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20071208] 346 ofppc: Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [garbled 20071210] 347 ofppc: Added support for the bplan/Genesi Pegasos II. [garbled 20071210] 348 sandpoint: Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [nisimura 20071211] 349 macppc: Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [macallan 20071211] 350 acpi(4): Updated ACPI-CA to 20070320. [jmcneill 20071211] 351 kernel: Added a new power management framework, see pmf(9) for details. 352 [jmcneill,joerg 20071211] 353 ifconfig(8): Add 'list scan' to ifconfig, which list access point in 354 the neighbourhood. [adegroot 20071216] 355 MAKEDEV(8): Use pax(1) in preference to mknod(8) to create device 356 nodes more efficiently; use mount_tmpfs(8) in preference to 357 mount_mfs(8) when creating a memory file system. [apb 20071215] 358 nfe(4): Handle a quirk of newer MCP6x chips on reading MAC address. 359 [tsutsui 20071217] 360 rs6000: New port of NetBSD to the MCA based IBM RS/6000 7006-41T. 361 [garbled 20071217] 362 openssh: Import 4.7. [christos 20071217] 363 i386, amd64: Add support for ACPI S3 (suspend-to-RAM) on MP systems. 364 [joerg 20071218] 365 sparc64: Add support for Sun PGX32 / TechSource Raptor GFX 8P to 366 genfb ( mostly workarounds for firmware bugs ), also build 367 XFree86's glint driver for accelerated X. [macallan 20071219] 368 newsyslog(8): newsyslog.conf flag 'J' will bzip2 logfiles. 369 [dogcow 20071221] 370 thinkpad(4): Add driver for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad hotkeys and 371 brightness controls. [jmcneill 20071221] 372 kernel: Address Space Layout Randomization support in the kernel and 373 dynamic linker, see security(8). [elad,christos 20071226] 374 msdosfs: Significantly improved writing speed (up to 16x faster). 375 [reinoud 20071228] 376 itesio(4): Added support for the Watchdog Timer. [xtraeme 20071229] 377 usermode: Add port of the NetBSD kernel to userspace. 378 [jmcneill 20071229] 379 hp700: Kernels are now compiled with -O2. [skrll 20071230] 380 compat_hpux: Removed. [ad 20071231] 381 systrace(1): Removed. [ad 20071231] 382 tprof: Add tprof, a simple performance monitor based profiler, 383 inspired from linux oprofile. it's still very experimental. 384 [yamt 20080102] 385 bioctl(8): Rewritten to handle new features like creating/removing 386 hot-spare, pass-through disks and RAID volumes, start/stop 387 consistency checks in volumes and others. [xtraeme 20080102] 388 arcmsr(4): Added support to create/remove hot-spare, pass-through 389 disks and RAID volumes, start/stop consistency checks 390 in volumes as well as showing information about physical 391 disks (even if they are marked as hot-spare, pass-through 392 or unused). [xtraeme 20080102] 393 ofppc: Support intallation and RAID bootable root. [mrg 20080102] 394 gem(4): Add support for Sun SX fibre cards. [jdc 20080105] 395 kernel: All platforms have been converted to use generic todr(9). 396 [gdamore,joerg 20080108] 397 ulpt(4): Implement non-blocking read. [gdt 20080108] 398 gcscpcib(4): Added driver for the AMD CS5535 and CS5536 Companion 399 Device with support for Timecounter, Watchdog Timer and 400 GPIO. Adapted from OpenBSD by Yojiro UO. [xtraeme 20080109] 401 pc532: Port deleted. [simonb 20080109] 402 ofppc: Fix ofwboot to work on an IBM CHRP-based RS/6000. 403 [garbled 20080109] 404 i386: Add sparse kernel core dumps (minidumps) for this platform 405 using a backwards-compatible on-disk core format. Not 406 turned on by default yet. Similar to FreeBSD minidumps but 407 simpler in implementation. Implementation by Jed Davis and 408 Devon O'Dell, contributed to NetBSD by Coyote Point Systems. 409 [tls 20080110] 410 hppa: Added gdb(1) support. [skrll 20080110] 411 auvia(4): Make this work on big endian machines. [tsutsui 20080114] 412 kernel: Implementation of processor-sets and affinity. [rmind 20080115] 413 libpthread: POSIX real-time extensions. [rmind 20080115] 414 schedctl(8): A new program to control scheduling of processes and 415 threads. [rmind 20080115] 416 kernel: Added a new framework for kernel modules, enabled through the 417 MODULAR kernel option and used through the modctl(2) system 418 call. [ad 20080116] 419 modules: Added new versions of modload(8), modstat(8) and modunload(8) 420 that use modctl(2). Not built by default. [ad 20080116] 421 bktr(4): Added amd64 support. [jmcneill 20080116] 422 ofppc: Add support for the IBM 7044-270. [garbled 20080117] 423 fdisk(8): Fix possible division by zero errors. [tsutsui 20080120] 424 kernel: All platforms have been converted to use timecounter(9). 425 [joerg 20080120] 426 usb(4): Add uhmodem(4) driver for Huawei E220 wireless modem. 427 [ichiro 20080121] 428 compat_linux32: Add ossaudio(3) support. [jmcneill 20080121] 429 xen: Added support for the i386 PAE extention to Xen3 domU 430 [bouyer 20080123] 431 uhub(4): The device attachment function has been optimized to 432 improve system startup time. [jmcneill 20080124] 433 kernel: The interface for IP checksumming was changed to reduce 434 duplication and more general use. [joerg 20080125] 435 hostapd(8), wpa_supplicant(8): Upgrade to 0.6.2 [christos 20080126] 436 nfe(4): Wakeup some newer chips from powerdown mode. 437 From FreeBSD/Linux driver via OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20080126] 438 sgimips: Enable bootinfo passed from bootloader so that now kernel 439 symbol table and ksyms(4) are usable. [tsutsui 20080126] 440 hpcmips: Fix silent hangup problem on TX3922 machines. 441 From Risto Sainio. [tsutsui 20080126] 442 openpam(3): upgrade to 20071221 [christos 20080126] 443 azalia(4): Analog Devices AD1984 codec support has been improved 444 to support headphones and 4 channel playback, and now 445 exposes an outputs.master mixer control that mirrors the 446 inputs.dac mixer control to make libossaudio happy. 447 [jmcneill 20080130] 448 arc: Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20080202] 449 cobalt: Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20080202] 450 gcc(1): Updated to version 4.1.3-20080202. [mrg 20080202] 451 atf(7): Import 0.4. [jmmv 20080204] 452 sgimips: Add hardware acceleration for crmfb [macallan 20080205] 453 modules: Added the MKMODULAR option to the build system to easily 454 enable the build of the new kernel modules framework. 455 [jmmv 20080209] 456 iwn(4): Added a driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless Lan 4965AGN 457 Mini-PCI Adapter, ported from OpenBSD. [ober 20080209] 458 ofppc: Add support for the 7046-B50. [garbled 20080213] 459 powerpc: Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy(3), memmove(3) and 460 memcmp(3). [garbled 20080221] 461 puc(4): Add support for I-O DATA RSA-PCI 2 port serial board. 462 [tsutsui 20080222] 463 monop(6): Save and restore format changed; compatibility with old 464 save files broken, but they were not usable anyway. 465 [dholland 20080223] 466 mfi(4): Added support for LSI SAS1078 and Dell PERC 6, from OpenBSD. 467 [xtraeme 20080225] 468 cobalt: Add netboot support for 21041 on Qube 2700. [tsutsui 20080301] 469 share/mk: Set linker warnings to be fatal if $WARNS>0. [lukem 20080303] 470 cobalt: Print startup and shutdown messages on LCD panel. 471 [tsutsui 20080304] 472 sparc64: SMP support now works on some models. [nakayama 20080314] 473 cobalt: Add bootloader support for optional Z85C30 serial on Qube 2700. 474 [tsutsui 20080316] 475 re(4): Make hardware vlan(4) tag insertion/extraction work properly. 476 [tsutsui 20080318] 477 cobalt: Fix a botched spl(9) bug which could cause network freeze 478 on traffic between two network interfaces. [tsutsui 20080318] 479 bzip2(1): Upgrade to 1.0.5. [christos 20080318] 480 libcurses: Add termattrs() and term_attrs(). [jdc 20080321] 481 kerberos(8): Upgrade to Heimdal-1.1. [mlelstv 20080322] 482 cobalt: Add kernel support for optional Z85C30 serial on Qube 2700. 483 [tsutsui 20080327] 484 lii(4): Added a driver for the Atheros L2 Fast-Ethernet controller, 485 notably found on Asus's EeePC. [cube 20080328] 486 azalia(4): Added support for the Realtek ALC662-GR codec as found 487 in the EeePC. [jmcneill 20080331] 488 asus(4): Added a driver for ASUS ACPI hotkeys as found in the EeePC. 489 [jmcneill 20080331] 490 zaurus: Add sysinst support. [chris 20080401] 491 isv(4): Add support for the IDEC Supervision/16 image capture board 492 for ISA. [dyoung 20080402] 493 puc(4): Support for Digi International 4 and 8 port boards, 494 from OpenBSD. [riz 20080403] 495 finsio(4): Added a driver for the Fintek Super I/O chips, supporting 496 the Hardware Monitor device. Adapted from OpenBSD. 497 [xtraeme 20080403] 498 compat_linux32: Add msync(2) syscall. [njoly 20080404] 499 sparc: Add support booting from UFS2 partition. [tsutsui 20080405] 500 hp700: Add support for the SCSI NCR 53C720 SCSI controller found in 501 early HP 9000s for the attachment of an Fast-Wide (16-bit) 502 SCSI-2 bus, utilizing HVD signalling via the siop(4) 503 driver. [skrll 20080405] 504 sun2: Provide RAS based atomic_cas_32() function by reusing old 505 _lock_cas() implementation for m68010. Now sun2 kernel 506 compiles and even works on mutiuser. [tsutsui 20080405] 507 openssh: Import 5.0. [christos 20080406] 508 ofppc: Support for SMP added. [garbled 20080408] 509 opencrypto(9): Improve performance to 84,000 short modular math ops/sec 510 by adding asynchronous operation and batched submit/ 511 retrieve of requests/results. Rewrite manual page to 512 make it easier to write new code to the API. Donated 513 by Coyote Point Systems, Inc. [tls 20080410] 514 kernel: Make IP, TCP, UDP, and ICMP statistics per-CPU. 515 The stats are collated when the user requests them via sysctl. 516 [thorpej 20080412] 517 acpi(4): Updated ACPI-CA to 20080321. [jmcneill 20080412] 518 landisk: Add sysinst support. [skrll 20080414] 519 libcurses: Add getwin() and putwin(). [jdc 20080414] 520 kernel: Make IP6, ICMP6, UDP6, RAW6, PIM6, CARP, ARP, and IGMP 521 statistics per-CPU. [thorpej 20080415] 522 compat_linux32: Add sys_clock{getres,gettime,settime} syscalls. 523 [njoly 20080417] 524 shark: Support for X on rev. 4 sharks is back [macallan 20080419] 525 agp(4): Add missing AGP support for ALI M1689 chipset. [njoly 20080419] 526 nfe(4): Fix problem on receiving jumbo frames. [cube 20080420] 527 libc, kernel: Add posix_madvise(2). [rmind 20080422] 528 gcc(1): Fix compilation of native sh3 gcc on 64-bit build machines. 529 [uwe 20080422] 530 amdtemp(4): AMD CPU Temperature driver. Adapted from OpenBSD. 531 [cegger 20080423] 532 netiso: Remove obsolete TPCONS support. [plunky 20080423] 533 kernel: Merge the socket locking patch, which makes socket layer and 534 unix protocols MP safe and allows protocol processing 535 interrupts to safely block on locks. [ad 20080424] 536 compat_linux(8): Add IPC_64 support for semctl IPC_STAT/IPC_SET. 537 [njoly 20080424] 538 lint(1): Add preliminary _Complex support. [christos 20080425] 539 arm: merge armv6 kernel support from matt-armv6 branch. 540 [matt 20080427] 541 kernel: Add MI code to support in-kernel preemption. [ad 20080428] 542 prep: Support for floppy controller/drive. [garbled 20080428] 543 amd64, i386: Add support for kernel preeemption to i386 and amd64. 544 [ad 20080428] 545 gpio(4): Extend with open/close to handle request/release the 546 ppbus(4) on open/close. From Hans Rosenfeld. [cegger 20080429] 547 ppbus(4): Extend to attach on gpiobus. From Hans Rosenfeld. 548 [cegger 20080429] 549 prep: Bootable ISO now built automatically. [garbled 20080430] 550 i386: Make MULTIPROCESSOR mandatory. [ad 20080430] 551 i386: Build INSTALL kernel from GENERIC, and update boot menu to allow 552 disabling ACPI and/or SMP. [ad 20080430] 553 atf(7): Import 0.5. [jmmv 20080501] 554 tests: Convert the tests in the tests/ hierarchy that were written in 555 C++ to C, making use of the libatf-c library that comes with 556 the ATF 0.5 just imported. [jmmv 20080501] 557 hpqlb(4): Hotkey driver for HP notebooks. [cegger 20080501] 558 i386: Put the GENERIC kernel onto i386 installation CDs and load 559 a kernel module from the boot loader to provide the miniroot. 560 [ad 20080502] 561 drm(4): Added amd64 support. [jmcneill 20080504] 562 landisk: Fix MD bus_dmamap_load(9) so that NFS write works with re(4). 563 [uwe 20080506] 564 twa(4): Add support for 3ware 9650 and 9690 based on patches 565 contributed by Wasabi Systems. [joerg 20080508] 566 openssl(1): Imported 20080509 current snapshot. [christos 20080509] 567 ftp(1): Add epsv6 and epsv to disable extended passive mode for ipv6 568 or both ipv4 and ip v6 respectively. [skd 20080510] 569 libarchive: Import libarchive-2.5.3b. [joerg 20080511] 570 getent(1): Added support for "netgroup" database. [tron 20080514] 571 fs/udf: Added write support for the UDF file system. [reinoud 20080514] 572 event(3): Updated libevent to 1.4.4-stable. [peter 20080516] 573 ypserv(8): disabled libwrap address to hostname lookups to avoid 574 the chance of ypserv blocking for an extended period of 575 time due a long DNS timeout [chuck 20080516] 576 amd64: Added support for PCI_BUS_FIXUP and PCI_ADDR_FIXUP kernel 577 options. [jmcneill 20080517] 578 acpidalb(4): Direct Application Launch Buttons. [cegger 20080518] 579 wscons(4): Add support for the Colemak keyboard layout. [ghen 20080520] 580 ipf(8): Updated to version 4.1.29. [darrenr 20080520] 581 compat_linux32: Add compat linux32 IPC syscall support, 582 for shared memory and and semaphores. [njoly 20080520] 583 openldap: Import 2.4.9. [lukem 20080522] 584 postfix(1): Enable LDAP support for tables (see ldap_table(5)) 585 [lukem 20080522] 586 amd(8): Enable LDAP support for amd maps. [lukem 20080522] 587 mac68k: Added support for Creative Systems Inc Hurdler CPI 588 Nubus parallel printer card. [hauke 20080522] 589 siisata(4): A driver for Silicon Image SteelVine SATA-II controllers 590 (SiI3124, SiI3132, and SiI3531) [jnemeth 20080523] 591 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd 4.0.0-beta5. [joerg 20080524] 592 kernel: Device attach and detach notifications are now exposed 593 via /dev/drvctl [jmcneill 20080525] 594 awk(1): Import 20070501 [christos 20080525] 595 amd64, i386: Add detection of errata for AMD Family 10h steppings 596 A and 2. [chris 20080525] 597 amd64, i386: Check for erratum 261 on AMD Family 10h Stepping 3 598 processors. [chris 20080525] 599 libarchive: Import libarchive-2.5.4b. [joerg 20080525] 600 ciss(4): Add bio(4) support, heavily from OpenBSD. [mhitch 20080525] 601 uberry(4): A driver to allow RIM BlackBerries to charge from the USB 602 port [christos 20080525] 603 openssl(1): Enable Camellia. [christos 20080526] 604 cobalt: Make bootloader print boot banner and a loading kernel name 605 onto LCD. [tsutsui 20080528] 606 bebox: Support genfb(4) console. [kiyohara 20080530] 607 libprop: Add prop_array_util(3) functions. [haad 20080603] 608 openssl(1): Fix two Denial of Service vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. 609 Fixes CVE-2008-1672. [tonnerre 20080605] 610 sh3: Support single-stepping in ddb(4). [uwe 20080606] 611 pf(4): Updated to OpenBSD 4.2 PF [yamt,peter,christos,joerg 20080618] 612 sk(4), msk(4): Fix lock panic on receiving jumbo packets. 613 [cube 20080620] 614 bind: Import 9.5.0 [christos 20080621] 615 psrset(8): Utility to control processor sets [ad 20080622] 616 postfix(1): Import 2.5.2 [christos 20080622] 617 ssh-hpn: Apply 5.0p1 13 v3 [christos 20080622] 618 libc: Add getlogin_r(3). [ad 20080625] 619 usb(4): Add appropriate bus_dmamap_sync(9) calls to uhci(4), ohci(4) 620 and ehci(4) to avoid CPU from reordering loads and stores 621 against DMA descriptors. This fixes "host controller process 622 error/host controller halted" errors. [bouyer 20080628] 623 arm: Add AT91 support. [matt 20080703] 624 bind: Import 9.5.0-P1. [christos 20080710] 625 top(1): Import top 3.8beta1 [christos 20080715] 626 share/mk: Set assembler warnings to be fatal if $WARNS>0. 627 [lukem 20080721] 628 compat_linux32: Add linux32_getifconf. [njoly 20080723] 629 dhcpcd(8): Import 4.0.0rc3. [joerg 20080727] 630 uvm_map(9): Switch from using <sys/tree.h> to <sys/rb.h>. 631 [matt 20080728] 632 rump(3): Install rump library and file system modules 633 into /usr/lib [pooka 20080729] 634 ukfs(3): Install ukfs library for standalone file system access 635 [pooka 20080729] 636 p2k(3): Install puffs to kernel vfs adaption library on puffs-enabled 637 base systems [pooka 20080729] 638 rump_fs: Install rump versions of kernel file system servers with a 639 puffs-enabled base system [pooka 20080729] 640 amd64, i386: VGA_POST in GENERIC can replace vbetool after resume 641 (machdep.acpi_vbios_reset=2) and allows basic diagnostic 642 after a panic in X with "call ddb_vgapost" [joerg 20080731] 643 wapbl(4): Add support for metadata journaling for FFS. Contributed 644 by Wasabi Systems, Inc. [simonb 20080731] 645 newfs(8): Handle 't' suffix for terabytes for number arguments. 646 [simonb 20080801] 647 ehci(4): Add isochronous transfer support, contributed by 648 Jeremy Morse as part of his Google Summer of Code 2008 project. 649 [jmcneill 20080802] 650 ip(4): Add accept filters, ported from FreeBSD by Coyote Point Systems. 651 [tls 20080804] 652 libc: Add C99 functions imaxabs(3) and imaxdiv(3). [matt 20080804] 653 build.sh: Add support for using BUILDSEED to yield 654 reproduceable c++ builds [perry 20080805] 655 sockopt(9): New kernel API for passing socket options [plunky 20080806] 656 vax: Add accelerated driver for SPX graphics found in some VAXstations. 657 Contributed by Blaz Antonic. [hans 20080812] 658 openldap: Import 2.4.11. [lukem 20080813] 659 bind: Import 9.5.0-P2. [he 20080815] 660 wm(4): Fix a bug on receiving a jumbo frame which leads to a panic 661 in sbcompress(). Contributed by Wasabi Systems. 662 [simonb 20080815] 663 btpand(8): a Bluetooth Personal Area Networking profile 664 daemon [plunky 20080817] 665 agp(4): Add AGP support for Intel 946GZ. [matthias 20080819] 666 ataraid(4): Add support for nVidia MediaShield from FreeBSD. 667 [tacha 20080820] 668 fss(4): Add snapshot support for logging ffs file systems. 669 [hannken 20080822] 670 agp(4): Add AGP support for Intel 945GME chipset, 671 found on Acer Aspire One. [tnn 20080822] 672 ntp: Import 4.2.4p5. [kardel 20080823] 673 re(4): Add support for the Realtek 8102E/8102EL PCIe 10/100 Ethernet 674 devices. From FreeBSD. [tnn 20080823] 675 sgimips: Misc bug fixes and improvements to mec(4) Ethernet on O2. 676 [tsutsui 20080823] 677 bge(4): Add support for BCM5906(M) chips contributed by 678 Karl Uwe Lockhoff. [cegger 20080825] 679 grep(1): Issue a warning if -r is used without supplying an argument. 680 [lukem 20080828] 681
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