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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 kernel: Add support for loading pseudo-device drivers. [haad 20090202] 125 module: Add a module for vnd(4) driver. [haad 20090205] 126 dkctl(8): Display cache, strategy, and list of wedges if no command 127 is specified in the command line. [uebayasi 20090207] 128 udf, mount_udf(8): add support for session opening/closing on 129 sequential media. Media can be closed on request on unmount by 130 passing the '-c' flag as mount option. [reinoud 20090208] 131 libc: Add RFC 2045 MIME Quoted-Printable support. [christos 20090210] 132 sgimips: Add Personal IRIS 4D/20 and 4D/25 (IP6 and IP10) support. 133 [rumble 20090212] 134 sk(4): Add support for flow control. [cegger 20090212] 135 nfe(4): Add support for flow control for MCP65. [cegger 20090212] 136 share/mk: Enable -Wsign-compare for $WARNS>=4. [lukem 20090212] 137 tests: Converted the awk, basename, bzip2, config, cut, dirname, grep, 138 gzip, libcrypto, m4, make and sdiff tests to ATF. Initial 139 work from the GSoC 2008 project by Lukasz Strzygowski. 140 [jmmv 20090213] 141 libfetch: Import libfetch-2.22. [joerg 20090214] 142 openssh: Import 5.1. [christos 20090216] 143 amd64, i386: The bootloader has been enhanced to support framebuffer 144 consoles using VESA BIOS extensions. These changes allow the 145 x86 ports to work with the genfb(4) driver, and obsoletes 146 the i386-only vesafb(4) driver. [jmcneill 20090216] 147 lvm: Import new lvm2tools 2.02.44 version and libdevmapper 1.02.30. 148 [haad 20090218] 149 compat_linux(8), compat_linux32: Add IPC_64 support for all shmctl(2) 150 commands, not only for STAT/SET. [njoly 20090218] 151 i386: The vesafb(4) driver has been retired. [jmcneill 20090218] 152 tests: Converted some of the kernel tests, including kqueue and ipf, 153 to ATF. Initial work from the GSoC 2008 project by Lukasz 154 Strzygowski. [jmmv 20090220] 155 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-4.0.11. [roy 20090221] 156 softdep: The soft dependences / soft updates feature of the fast 157 file system (FFS) has been supplanted by meta data 158 journaling (logging). Logging provides better reliability 159 and better performance for most applications. Soft 160 dependencies will no longer be available from NetBSD 6.0 161 onwards. We encourage users to enable logging on FFS file 162 systems. [ad 20090222] 163 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-4.0.12. [roy 20090226] 164 evbarm: Improved support for GPIO support on the EP93xx ARM processors. 165 [kenh 20090227] 166 ext2fs: Add support for >128 byte inode. From Frederic Sausmikat. 167 [christos 20090301] 168 zaurus: Add zboot from OpenBSD. [nonaka 20090302] 169 xen: Add PCI pass-through support for Xen3. domain0 kernel gets a 170 pciback PCI drivers, to which device specified in the 171 pciback.hide boot parameter will attach. 172 DomU kernels gets a xpci device, to which PCI buses 173 will attach. [bouyer 20090305] 174 xen: Add XEN3PAE_DOM0, a i386 domain0 kernel with PAE support. 175 requires a i386PAE or x86_64 hypervisor. [bouyer 20090305] 176 ar(1): Add support to ar(1) for 'deterministic mode'. 177 [christos 20090306] 178 kernel: Compute kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs on startup based on physical 179 memory. Default can be overridden via sysctl. [joerg 20090306] 180 fxp(4): Add TCPv4/UDPv4 RX hardware checksum support for i82559 and 181 later chips. [tsutsui 20090307] 182 crash(8): Add a new utility to diagnose kernel crashes. Based upon 183 the in-kernel debugger (ddb). [ad 20090307] 184 piixide(4): Add support for 82965PM. [christos 20090309] 185 libfetch: Import libfetch-2.23. [joerg 20090310] 186 wm(4): Add support for 82567LF-3, and fix register access for ICH10DO. 187 [msaitoh 20090310] 188 module: Add tprof modules. [yamt 20090310] 189 zaurus: Add kloader(4) support. [nonaka 20090311] 190 altmem(4): Add 'alternative memory' disk device driver. 191 [jmcneill 20090312] 192 zaurus: Add only playback support to zaudio(4). [nonaka 20090313] 193 vnd(4): Implement DIOCCACHESYNC ioctl. [christos 20090314] 194 sgimips: Add TCPv4/UDPv4 RX hardware checksum support for mec(4) 195 Ethernet on O2. [tsutsui 20090316] 196 zoneinfo: Import tzdata2009c. [kleink 20090316] 197 am-utils: Import latest from head; adds udf support amd -uu 198 [christos 20090320] 199 re(4): Add hardware checksum support for newer PCIe 8168C/8111C/8102E 200 chips. [tsutsui 20090321] 201 eject(1): Turn on amd(8) support for eject. [christos 20090323] 202 i386: Use "i486" as GNU_ARCH for i386. [drochner 20090327] 203 kmem_alloc(9): Add more extensive runtime debugging facilities. 204 [ad 20090329] 205 wm(4): Add workaround for 82543GC. [msaitoh 20090329] 206 wm(4): Enable hardware vlan(4) support. [darran 20090331] 207 amd64, i386: Default to UFS2 on sysinst(8). [ad 20090404] 208 sysinst(8): Default to wapbl(4) log for ufs partitions. [ad 20090404] 209 pckbd(4): Add a Czech keyboard layout. [mkirby 20090406] 210 sysinst(8): Make installer reject UFS2 for root partition on ports 211 whose bootloaders don't support UFS2 boot. [tsutsui 20090407] 212 cvs(1): Import 1.12.13 [christos 20090408] 213 libc: Add glob_pattern_p(3) for new cvs(1). [christos 20090408] 214 mtree(8): Add -S option to sort entries. [apb 20090408] 215 newfs_sysvbfs(8): Add support creating a file system to a regular file. 216 [pooka 20090409] 217 libc: Add memrchr(3). [christos 20090410] 218 bind: Update to 9.6.1-P1. Full NSEC3 support, automatic zone 219 re-signing, new update-policy methods tcp-self and 6to4-self, 220 unbundle libbind, change the default pid file location from 221 /var/run to /var/run/{named,lwresd} for improved chroot/setuid 222 support. [christos 20090412] 223 libbind: Update to 6.0-rc1. Use md5 for randomid instead of 224 sequential id, add suppport for DS, SSHFP, RRSIG, NSEC, DNSKEY, 225 DHCID, NSEC3, NSEC3PARAM, HIP and DLV, various new API 226 functions. [christos 20090412] 227 re(4): Add support for RTL8168CP and RTL8168D. [tsutsui 20090413] 228 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-4.0.13 [roy 20090417] 229 zaurus: Add recoding support to zaudio(4). [nonaka 20090418] 230 httpd(8): Import bozohttpd-20090418. [mrg 20090418] 231 bge(4): Add misc quirk code for chip specific bugs. 232 From FreeBSD and OpenBSD. [msaitoh 20090419] 233 queue(3): Add SLIST_FOREACH_SAFE, STAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE, STAILQ_LAST, 234 SIMPLEQ_CONCAT, and SIMPLEQ_LAST. [mschuett 20090420] 235 ale(4): Add a driver for Attensic/Atheros L1E Gigabit Ethernet. 236 From OpenBSD and improvements from Kevin Lahey. 237 [cegger 20090420] 238 sdmmc(4): Add a driver for SD/MMC from OpenBSD. [nonaka 20090421] 239 landisk: Add UFS2 boot support. [tsutsui 20090421] 240 pmax: Add UFS2 boot support. [tsutsui 20090421] 241 uftdi(4): Add support for USB serial adapter REX-USB60F. 242 [taca 20090421] 243 netpgp: Import netpgp. This is a heavily-modified version of 244 openpgpsdk, and will replace it. [agc 20090423] 245 landisk: Enable to build a bootable install disk image. 246 [tsutsui 20090423] 247 compat_linux(8): Add IPC_64 support for all semctl(2)/msgctl(2). 248 [njoly 20090423] 249 zx(4): Add wscons support [macallan 20090423] 250 compat_linux32: Add IPC_64 support for all semctl(2), 251 following corresponding compat_linux(8) change. 252 [njoly 20090427] 253 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.0.0. [roy 20090428] 254 rc.d(8): Add an rc.d script for dhcpcd(8). [roy 20090428] 255 ichlpcib(4): Attach 82801IEM LPC Interface Bridge too. [njoly 20090429] 256 sh3: Add some support for SH7706. [nonaka 20090430] 257 hppa: Merge the nick-hppapmap branch which includes a port of the 258 OpenBSD pmap, improves support for machines without the 259 PA7100LC or PA7300LC CPUs, and much more. [skrll 20090430] 260 libc: Add stpcpy(3), stpncpy(3), strnlen(3), all from FreeBSD. 261 [perry 20090501] 262 install(1): Add support for writing sha256, sha384, or sha512 hashes 263 to a METALOG. [apb 20090501] 264 build: Use sha256 instead of sha1 hashes in METALOG and 265 /etc/mtree/set.* files. [apb 20090501] 266 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.0.1 [roy 20090503] 267 hp700: Enable support for UFS2 boot. [tsutsui 20090503] 268 rpcgen(1): Add support for hyper and quad keywords. [ginsbach 20090506] 269 apropos(1): Add -S and -s support, for searching by machine and 270 section [wiz 20090508] 271 file(1): Import 5.03 [christos 20090508] 272