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[ad 20081113] 38 module: Make compat_ndis a module. [ad 20081113] 39 build.sh: Add support for new MAKEVERBOSE levels 3 and 4. 40 [apb 20081113] 41 libfetch: Update to libfetch 2.20. Allow HTTP auth to be provided in 42 URL. [joerg 20081114] 43 module: Make POSIX AIO loadable as a module. [ad 20081114] 44 amd64, i386: Make boot loader autoload a kernel module corresponding 45 to the root file system type. [ad 20081119] 46 module: Make the emulations, exec formats, coredump, NFS, and 47 the NFS server into modules. [ad 20081119] 48 rump(3): Move VFS functionality away from librump to a new library: 49 librumpvfs [pooka 20081119] 50 kernel, libc: Add new ptree (Patricia / RADIX tree) implementation. 51 [matt 20081120] 52 i386: Switch the i386 installation CDs away from RAM disks and 53 instead use the CD-ROM as the root file system. [ad 20081121] 54 i386: Remove most compat and file system options from GENERIC 55 since they are also provided by modules. [ad 20081122] 56 nfs: Avoid noisy nfs_timer/nfs_reply DEBUG output that occurs 57 when the NFS server goes away. [mrg 20081123] 58 compat_osf1(8): Add getpgid, needed for Tru64 4.0g ksh. 59 [njoly 20081124] 60 module: Make PPP compressors modules. [cube 20081125] 61 i386: Make pxeboot(8) understand boot.cfg(5). [ad 20081125] 62 agp(4): Add support for the Intel G45 AGP. [christos 20081129] 63 compat_osf1(8): Fix getdirentries(2). [njoly 20081202] 64 module: Add a couple of sysctl(8) entries, kern.module.autoload and 65 kern.module.verbose. [ad 20081203] 66 module: Add a layerfs module. [ad 20081205] 67 libc: Add fdopendir(3), from Solaris/Linux. [ad 20081205] 68 compat_linux32: Add getresuid() and getresgid() syscalls. 69 [njoly 20081205] 70 ddb(4): Add 'show vmem' and 'show all vmems' commands. 71 [cegger 20081207] 72 re(4): Add support for a 8168C/8111C revision. [alc 20081208] 73 tab(1): Add tabs utility, fixes PR bin/11227. [roy 20081211] 74 httpd(8): Add rc.d script to control httpd daemon. [mishka 20081211] 75 ath(4): Switch from the binary HAL to the open-source HAL released by 76 Sam Leffler. [alc 20081211] 77 compat_linux32: Add clock_nanosleep syscall. [njoly 20081212] 78 boot.cfg(5): Add an option to clear the screen. [christos 20081213] 79 pms(4): Add Elantech multi-touch trackpad support [jmcneill 20081213] 80 sparc: Switch to use wscons. [macallan 20081213] 81 snprintb(3), kprintf(9): Share snprintb(3) among kernel and libutil 82 and make it supersede bitmask_snprintf(9). [christos 20081216] 83 sup(1): Add -M user flag to specify the username to send mail to from 84 the command line. [christos 20081217] 85 malloc(9): Remove MALLOC() and FREE() macros. [cegger 20081217] 86 x68k: pow(4) switches to use MI powerd(8) [isaki 20081220] 87 viaide(4): Add VT8237S Integrated SATA Controller support. 88 [nonaka 20081221] 89 lvm: Add LVM functionality to NetBSD; this is done by dm(4) driver 90 in kernel and lvm2 tools made by RedHat. We use the same well 91 known interface as Linux does for managing LVM. [haad 20081222] 92 gcscaudio(4): Add AMD Geode CS5536 audio driver, from SHIMIZU Ryo. 93 [jmcneill 20081228] 94 mount_cd9660(8): Add nocasetrans option as a synonym for nomaplcase. 95 [christos 20090103] 96 rc.d(8): Add a script for rndctl(8). [apb 20090104] 97 module: Add sysvbfs module. [pooka 20090105] 98 bwi(4): Add a driver for Broadcom AirForce / Apple Airport Extreme 99 wireless network controllers. From Taylor Campbell. 100 [macallan 20090109] 101 rgephy(4): Support for RTL8211C(L) phy. From FreeBSD. [cegger 20090109] 102 rgephy(4): Support for flow control. From OpenBSD. [cegger 20090109] 103 makefs(8): Add support for encoding RISC OS metadata into 104 ISO 9660 file systems. [bjh21 20090110] 105 time_t, dev_t: Change time_t and dev_t to be 64 bit quantities. Fixed 106 POSIX issues in timeval and timespec. [christos 20090110] 107 make(1): Changes to the way .for loops are processed. [dsl 20090111] 108 openpgpsdk: Initial import of openpgpsdk v0.9. [agc 20090112] 109 age(4): Add a driver for Attensic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet. 110 From FreeBSD via OpenBSD. [cegger 20090116] 111 atphy(4): Add a driver for Attensic/Atheros F1 PHY. 112 From FreeBSD via OpenBSD. [cegger 20090116] 113 atf(7): Import 0.6. [jmmv 20090119] 114 msdosfs: The default behavior when mounting empty file systems has 115 been changed. Previously, msdosfs would assume the -s flag 116 (short filenames) in this case; now msdosfs will assume the 117 -l flag (long filenames). [jmcneill 20090122] 118 openpgpsdk: Imported openpgpsdk 0.9 library (BSD-licensed) into 119 src/crypto/external. The command-line driver program, openpgp, 120 which is shipped with it has been mostly rewritten to be more 121 user-friendly. [agc 20090123] 122 X11: added support for X11FLAVOUR=xorg for NetBSD/alpha. No support 123 for turbochannel graphic cards yet. [bouyer 20090124] 124 udf, mount_udf(8): add support for session opening/closing on 125 sequential media. Media can be closed on request on unmount by 126 passing the '-c' flag as mount option. [reinoud 20090208] 127 share/mk: Enable -Wsign-compare for $WARNS>=4. [lukem 20090212] 128 tests: Converted the awk, basename, bzip2, config, cut, dirname, grep, 129 gzip, libcrypto, m4, make and sdiff tests to ATF. Initial 130 work from the GSoC 2008 project by Lukasz Strzygowski. 131 [jmmv 20090213] 132 newport(4): Imported and adapted to NetBSD Xorg's xf86-video-newport 133 0.2.1 driver for SGI's NG1 / Newport graphics boards found 134 mostly in Indys. [macallan 20090213] 135 openssh: Import 5.1. [christos 20090216] 136 amd64, i386: The bootloader has been enhanced to support framebuffer 137 consoles using VESA BIOS extensions. These changes allow the 138 x86 ports to work with the genfb(4) driver, and obsoletes 139 the i386-only vesafb(4) driver. [jmcneill 20090216] 140 i386: The vesafb(4) driver has been retired. [jmcneill 20090218] 141 crime(4): add an Xorg driver for the CRIME rendering engine found in 142 SGI's O2 workstations. [macallan 20090219] 143 tests: Converted some of the kernel tests, including kqueue and ipf, 144 to ATF. Initial work from the GSoC 2008 project by Lukasz 145 Strzygowski. [jmmv 20090220] 146 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-4.0.11. [roy 20090221] 147 softdep: The soft dependences / soft updates feature of the fast 148 file system (FFS) has been supplanted by meta data 149 journaling (logging). Logging provides better reliability 150 and better performance for most applications. Soft 151 dependencies will no longer be available from NetBSD 6.0 152 onwards. We encourage users to enable logging on FFS file 153 systems. [ad 20090222] 154 sgimips: build Xorg by default [macallan 20080223] 155 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-4.0.12. [roy 20090226] 156 xen: Add PCI pass-through support for Xen3. domain0 kernel gets a 157 pciback PCI drivers, to which device specified in the 158 pciback.hide boot parameter will attach. 159 DomU kernels gets a xpci device, to which PCI buses 160 will attach. [bouyer 20090305] 161 xen: Add XEN3PAE_DOM0, a i386 domain0 kernel with PAE support. 162 requires a i386PAE or x86_64 hypervisor. [bouyer 20090305] 163 kernel: Compute kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs on startup based on physical 164 memory. Default can be overridden via sysctl. [joerg 20090306] 165 crash(8): Add a new utility to diagnose kernel crashes. Based upon 166 the in-kernel debugger (ddb). [ad 20090307] 167