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27Changes from NetBSD 5.0 to NetBSD 6.0:
28
29	syslog(3): Import Martin Schuette's Summer of Code project: 
30		Reliable TCP connections, syslog protocol API,
31		encryption. [christos 20081031]
32	agp(4): Add support for Intel G35. [christos 20081108]
33	kernel: Add generic producer/consumer queue. [matt 20081111]
34	lkm: Removed. Superseded by the new module framework. [ad 20081112]
35	module: Allow the POSIX semaphore code to be loaded as a module.
36		[ad 20081112]
37	module: Make compat_ossaudio a module. [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	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.0.2 [roy 20090510]
273	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.0.3 [roy 20090511]
274	bluetooth: Update the Bluetooth service discovery API and merge it
275		into libbluetooth, retiring the separate libsdp.
276		[plunky 20090512]
277