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     27 Changes from NetBSD 6.0 to NetBSD 7.0:
     28 	window(1): Removed from the base system in favor of tmux(1).  Use the
     29 		pkgsrc/misc/window package from now on.  [jmmv 20120215]
     30 	pkg_add(1): imported 20120221 version from pkgsrc [wiz 20120221]
     31 	file(1): upgraded to 5.11 [christos 20120222]
     32 	evbmips: Add support for Lemote Yeeloong Notebook. [nonaka 20120302]
     33 	dbsym(8): Add option -p [bsh 20120319]
     34 	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.5.5 [roy 20120323]
     35 	ipf: upgrade to 5.1.1 with new build framework, no module and
     36 		test support yet [christos 20120323]
     37 	pcc: upgrade to 1.1.0.DEVEL 20120325 [plunky 20120325]
     38 	openresolv(8): Import openresolv-3.5.1 [roy 20120327]
     39 	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.5.6 [roy 20120328]
     40 	apple: Recognize the apple disk partitioning scheme, and auto-discover
     41 		wedges. Fix iPod disk mounting, by adding quirk.
     42 		[christos 20120306]
     43 	fstab: Add NAME=wedgename for fs_spec and routines to parse it. Now
     44 		wedges can be used in /etc/fstab, even in dynamic environments
     45 		where disks come and go and wedges get renumbered.
     46 		[christos 20120306]
     47 	pdisk(8): Make it work for 64 bit hosts, and make it MI.
     48 		[christos 20120306]
     49 	amiga: Add clockport(4) layer and a driver for A1200 on-board clockport
     50 		a1k2cp(4). [rkujawa 20120417]
     51 	kernel: add mpii(4), a driver for LSI Logic Fusion-MPT Message Passing
     52 		Interface II SAS controllers.  [bouyer 20120419]
     53 	kernel: Add support for 256 CPUs on amd64. [rmind 20120420]
     54 	OpenSSH: Imported 6.0 [christos 20120501]
     55 	bzip2: Imported 1.0.6 [wiz 20120507]
     56 	amiga: Rework X-Surf driver as xsurf(4). Add support for clockport(4)
     57 		on top of xsurf(4). [rkujawa 20120515]
     58 	backtrace(3): Add <execinfo.h> and the backtrace family of functions
     59 		[christos 20120526]
     60 	kernel: Add run(4), a driver for Ralink Technology
     61 		RT2700U/RT2800U/RT3000U USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless
     62 		network devices, ported from OpenBSD. [nonaka 20120530]
     63 	bind: update to 9.9.1-P1 to fix the recent rdata exploit.
     64 		[christos 20120604]
     65 	empb(4): Add ELBOX Mediator PCI 1200 driver. [rkujawa 20120604]
     66 	kernel: Add a new RLIMIT_NTHR limit to limit the number of processes
     67 		per user and the corresponding kern.maxlwp sysctl. Expose
     68 		kern.uidinfo.* via sysctl. [christos 20120608]
     69 	usb(9): Added support for SMP to the USB subsytem.  By Jared D.
     70 		McNeill and myself.  [mrg 20120609]
     71 	kernel: {send,recv}mmsg support [christos 20120621]
     72 	kernel: Add sysctls to avoid ipv6 DoS attacks (from OpenBSD):
     73 		net.inet6.ip6.neighborgcthresh = 2048
     74 		net.inet6.ip6.maxifprefixes = 16
     75 		net.inet6.ip6.maxifdefrouters = 16
     76 		net.inet6.ip6.maxdynroutes = 4096
     77 		[christos 20120622]
     78 	ata(4): added support for sata Port MultiPliers (PMP)
     79 		[bouyer 20120702]
     80 	kernel, libc: Add MurmurHash2 function. [rmind 20120708]
     81 	atf(7): Import 0.16.  [jmmv 20120711]
     82 	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.1 [roy 20120712]
     83 	kernel: Add support for sensors to provide entropy to rnd(4)
     84 		[pgoyette 20120715]
     85 	tdvfb(4): Add 3Dfx Voodoo2 driver. [rkujawa 20120719]
     86 	tdvfb(4): Add 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics (aka Voodoo1) support.
     87 		[rkujawa 20120720]
     88 	kernel: Change mii_statchg to take "struct ifnet *" instead of
     89 		"device_t". [matt 20120722]
     90 	pr(1): Add support for POSIX -f and -p options. [ginsbach 20120724]
     91 	powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
     92 	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012d. [apb 20120722]
     93 	evbarm: Add initial support for the RaspberryPi. [skrll 20120726]
     94 	OpenSSL: Imported 1.0.1c [christos 20120726]
     95 	kernel: safepri is dead; replaced by macro IPL_SAFEPRI. [matt 20120727]
     96 	kernel: Add malo(4), a driver for Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g
     97 		wireless network devices, ported from OpenBSD.
     98 		[degroote 20120730]
     99 	kernel: Add BPF JIT compiler, currently supporting amd64 and i386.
    100 		[rmind 20120802]
    101 	kernel, libc: Add modctl(MODCTL_EXISTS, ...) to determine if modules
    102 		can be loaded. [jnemeth 20120803]
    103 	modstat(8): Add -A, -a, and -e options for testing module loadability.
    104 		[jnemeth 20120803]
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