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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 	OpenSSL: Imported 1.0.1c [christos 20120726]
     93 	kernel: safepri is dead; replaced by macro IPL_SAFEPRI. [matt 20120727]
     94 	kernel: Add malo(4), a driver for Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g
     95 		wireless network devices, ported from OpenBSD.
     96 		[degroote 20120730]
     97 	kernel: Add BPF JIT compiler, currently supporting amd64 and i386.
     98 		[rmind 20120802]
     99 	kernel, libc: Add modctl(MODCTL_EXISTS, ...) to determine if modules
    100 		can be loaded. [jnemeth 20120803]
    101 	modstat(8): Add -A, -a, and -e options for testing module loadability.
    102 		[jnemeth 20120803]
    103 	libc: Update to tzcode2012e. [christos 20120809]
    104 	arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards.
    105 		[matt 20120822]
    106 	mfi(8): Added tagged queuing support.  [bouyer 20120823]
    107 	mfi(8): Added support for LSI SAS2208-based controllers.
    108 		[bouyer 20120823]
    109 	mkdep(1): Add -P option.  [jmmv 20120826]
    110 	share/mk: Add placeholder test programs (with some very basic test
    111 		cases within) for common bsd.*.mk modules.  [jmmv 20120826]
    112 	arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph).  Add
    113 		initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly).  Add
    114 		L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7.  Add support for 
    115 		BCM5301X SoC.  Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial
    116 		support for Freescale i.MX6.  Add new common boot/kvminit
    117 		code.  [matt 20120831]
    118 	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.2 [roy 20120903]
    119 	bge(4): Add support for BCM57762, found in Apple's Thunderbolt to
    120 		Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. PR/46961 [tsutsui 20120917]
    121 	mfi(4): add a command pass-through ioctl, and associated COMPAT_LINUX
    122 		support. This allows to use the LSI MegaCLI linux binary
    123 		on a NetBSD host.  [bouyer 20120919]
    124 	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012f. [apb 20120927]
    125 	kernel: add clock_nanosleep(2) [christos 20121001]
    126 	wpa:	New wpa_supplicant(8) and hostapd(8) 1.0 [christos 20121007]
    127 	x68k: Add network bootloader for Neptune-X and Nereid Ethernet.
    128 		[tsutsui,isaki 20121012]
    129 	x68k: Add support for formatting floppy. [tsutsui 20121014]
    130 	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012g. [apb 20121018]
    131 	kernel: Added experimental support for the (mostly SSD specific)
    132 		"discard", or ATA "TRIM" command to wd(4) and ffs
    133 		[drochner 20121019]
    134 	libc: Import tzcode2012g. [christos 20121023]
    135 	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012h. [apb 20121027]
    136 	libc: Update to tzcode2012h. [christos 20121028]
    137 	flock(1): Add a utility to provide locks to shell scripts similar
    138 		to shlock(1) [christos 20121101]
    139 	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012i. [apb 20121104]
    140 	voodoofb(4): Add 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee support. [rkujawa 20121109]
    141 	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012j. [apb 20121113]
    142 	msm6242b(4): Add MI OKI MSM6242B driver. [rkujawa 20121114]
    143 	amiga: A2000-style RTCs are now driven by the msm6242b(4) driver.
    144 		[rkujawa 20121114]
    145 	xsurf(4): Add X-Surf IDE controller support. [rkujawa 20121119]
    146 	z3rambd(4): Add driver for Zorro III RAM boards as block devices.
    147 		[rkujawa 20121126]
    148 	bind: update to 9.9.2-P1 to fix the DNS64 vulnerability.
    149 		[spz 20121204]
    150 	arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
    151 	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.4 [roy 20121206]
    152 	openresolv(8): Import openresolv-3.5.3 [roy 20121206]
    153 	arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3.  [jmcneill 20121211]
    154 	arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support.  [matt 20121211]
    155 	arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops.  [matt 20121211]
    156 	openssh: Import 6.1. [christos 20121212]
    157 	ptcd(4): Add a driver for the Protech PS3100 cash drawer port.
    158 		[mbalmer 20121216]
    159 	ibmcd(4): Add a driver for the IBM 4810 BSP cash drawer port.
    160 		[mbalmer 20121217]
    161 	postfix(1): Import version 2.8.13 [tron 20121218]
    162 	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.6 [roy 20121219]
    163 	arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
    164 	kernel: allow MD kernel code to use PCUs [matt 20121226]
    165 	units(1): add -l and -L options.  [apb 20130101]
    166 	postfix(1): Import version 2.9.5 [tron 20130102]
    167 	file(1): upgraded to 5.12 [christos 20130103]
    168 	luna68k: Add native bootloader. Based on 4.4BSD-Lite2/luna68k
    169 		"Stinger" loader. [tsutsui 20130105]
    170 	kernel: Add dotg(4), a driver for Synopsys DesignWare USB OTG,
    171 		ported from FreeBSD. [skrll 20130109]
    172 	kernel: Add usmsc(4), a driver for SMSC LAN95xx USB LAN devices, 
    173 		ported from OpenBSD. [skrll 20130109]
    174 	hp300: Add support for sti(4) framebuffer at sgc bus on some 425t.
    175 		Ported by kiyohara@ from OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20130111]
    176 	arm: kill userland FPA support, replace with VFP. [matt 20130111]
    177 	luna68k: Add netboot support. [tsutsui 20130113]
    178 	luna68k: Fix bootloader to make secondary SPC SCSI on LUNA-II work
    179 		properly.  [tsutsui 20130114]
    180 	libdwarf: Sync with FreeBSD [christos 20130117]
    181 	empm(4): Add driver for power manager present on Mediator 1200 TX and
    182 		SX bridges. [rkujawa 20130128]
    183 	amiga: Support software power-off with empm(4). [rkujawa 20130128]
    184 	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.7 [roy 20130128]
    185 	em4k(4): Add driver for Mediator 4000 PCI bridges. [rkujawa 20130129]
    186 	makefs(8): Add support for msdos, creating filesystems at an offset,
    187 		merging directories with common files.  [christos 20130202]
    188 	openssl: update to 1.0.1d [christos 20130205]
    189 	sparc: Add hardware acceleration for cgfourteen(4) using SX
    190 		[macallan 20130207]
    191 	openssl: update to 1.0.1e [christos 20130212]
    192 	atf(7): Import 0.17.  [jmmv 20130215]
    193 	lutok: Import 0.2.  This is a new import that provides a C++ wrapper
    194 		for the Lua API and will be used by Kyua.  Its build depends
    195 		on the MKKYUA knob.  [jmmv 20130216]
    196 	kyua(1): Import kyua-testers 0.1.  This is a new import that provides
    197 		scriptable utilities to invoke test programs that implement
    198 		different interfaces.  [jmmv 20130217]
    199 	services(5), protocols(5): Pull iana-generated services and protocols
    200 		[christos 20130221]
    201 	kyua(1): Import kyua-cli 0.6.  This is a new import that provides the
    202 		command-line interface to Kyua.  Its build depends on the
    203 		MKKYUA knob.  [jmmv 20130223]
    204 	kyua(1): Import kyua-atf-compat 0.1.  This is a new import that
    205 		provides the last piece of Kyua, namely a compatibility
    206 		version of atf-run and atf-report that use kyua(1) internally.
    207 		[jmmv 20130223]
    208 	kernel: Retire OSI protocol support.  [joerg 20130301]
    209 	libc: Update to tzcode2013a. [christos 20130302]
    210 	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013a. [apb 20130303]
    211 	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013b. [apb 20130312]
    212 	libc: Update to tzcode2013b. [christos 20130315]
    213 	vmt(4): Synchronize the clock periodically to ensure it remains
    214 		up-to-date even when the host is suspended.  [jmmv 20130316]
    215 	file(1): upgraded to 5.14 [christos 20130323]
    216 	dhcp: upgrade to 4.2.5 [christos 20130324]
    217 	vchiq(4): Add support for Broadcom VideoCore IV firmware interface.
    218 		[jmcneill 20130325]
    219 	vcaudio(4): Add support for Broadcom VideoCore IV audio service.
    220 		[jmcneill 20130325]
    221 	openssh: Import 6.2. [christos 20130329]
    222 	mdocml: Import 1.12.1 [christos 20130402]
    223 	openpam: Import 20120526 (Micrampelis) [christos 20130405]
    224 	flex: Import 2.5.37 [christos 20130405]
    225 	byacc: Import 20130304 [christos 20130405]
    226 	libpcap: Import 1.3.0 [christos 20130406]
    227 	tcpdump(8): Import 4.3.0 [christos 20130406]
    228 	libevent: Upgrade 2.0.21-stable [christos 20130411]
    229 	wm(4): Add support for I210 and I211 [msaitoh 20130419]
    230