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27 Changes from NetBSD 5.0 to NetBSD 6.0:
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29 tab(1): Add tabs utility, fixes PR bin/11227. [roy 20081211]
30 syslog(3): Import Martin Schuette's Summer of Code project:
31 Reliable TCP connections, syslog protocol API,
32 encryption. [christos 20081031]
33 agp(4): Add support for Intel G35. [christos 20081108]
34 kernel: Add generic producer/consumer queue. [matt 20081111]
35 lkm: Removed. Superseded by the new module framework. [ad 20081112]
36 module: Allow the POSIX semaphore code to be loaded as a module.
37 [ad 20081112]
38 module: Make compat_ossaudio a module. [ad 20081113]
39 module: Make compat_ndis a module. [ad 20081113]
40 build.sh: Add support for new MAKEVERBOSE levels 3 and 4.
41 [apb 20081113]
42 libfetch: Update to libfetch 2.20. Allow HTTP auth to be provided in
43 URL. [joerg 20081114]
44 module: Make POSIX AIO loadable as a module. [ad 20081114]
45 amd64, i386: Make boot loader autoload a kernel module corresponding
46 to the root file system type. [ad 20081119]
47 module: Make the emulations, exec formats, coredump, NFS, and
48 the NFS server into modules. [ad 20081119]
49 rump(3): Move VFS functionality away from librump to a new library:
50 librumpvfs [pooka 20081119]
51 kernel, libc: Add new ptree (Patricia / RADIX tree) implementation.
52 [matt 20081120]
53 i386: Switch the i386 installation CDs away from RAM disks and
54 instead use the CD-ROM as the root file system. [ad 20081121]
55 i386: Remove most compat and file system options from GENERIC
56 since they are also provided by modules. [ad 20081122]
57 nfs: Avoid noisy nfs_timer/nfs_reply DEBUG output that occurs
58 when the NFS server goes away. [mrg 20081123]
59 compat_osf1(8): Add getpgid, needed for Tru64 4.0g ksh.
60 [njoly 20081124]
61 module: Make PPP compressors modules. [cube 20081125]
62 i386: Make pxeboot(8) understand boot.cfg(5). [ad 20081125]
63 wscons(4): Add wscons/vcons support for Sun cg3. [jdc 20081128]
64 agp(4): Add support for the Intel G45 AGP. [christos 20081129]
65 compat_osf1(8): Fix getdirentries(2). [njoly 20081202]
66 module: Add a couple of sysctl(8) entries, kern.module.autoload and
67 kern.module.verbose. [ad 20081203]
68 fxp(4): Add a workaround for hardware ip4csum-tx bug.
69 [tsutsui 20081203]
70 wscons(4): Add wscons/vcons support for Sun bw2. [jdc 20081205]
71 module: Add a layerfs module. [ad 20081205]
72 libc: Add fdopendir(3), from Solaris/Linux. [ad 20081205]
73 compat_linux32: Add getresuid() and getresgid() syscalls.
74 [njoly 20081205]
75 ddb(4): Add 'show vmem' and 'show all vmems' commands.
76 [cegger 20081207]
77 httpd(8): Add rc.d script to control httpd daemon [mishka 20081211]
78 nvi(1): Added "expandtab" option. [lukem 20081212]
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