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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, libc: Add modctl(MODCTL_EXISTS, ...) to determine if modules
98 can be loaded. [jnemeth 20120803]
99 modstat(8): Add -A, -a, and -e options for testing module loadability.
100 [jnemeth 20120803]
101 libc: Update to tzcode2012e. [christos 20120809]
102 arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards.
103 [matt 20120822]
104 mfi(8): Added tagged queuing support. [bouyer 20120823]
105 mfi(8): Added support for LSI SAS2208-based controllers.
106 [bouyer 20120823]
107 mkdep(1): Add -P option. [jmmv 20120826]
108 share/mk: Add placeholder test programs (with some very basic test
109 cases within) for common bsd.*.mk modules. [jmmv 20120826]
110 arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph). Add
111 initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly). Add
112 L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7. Add support for
113 BCM5301X SoC. Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial
114 support for Freescale i.MX6. Add new common boot/kvminit
115 code. [matt 20120831]
116 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.2 [roy 20120903]
117 bge(4): Add support for BCM57762, found in Apple's Thunderbolt to
118 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. PR/46961 [tsutsui 20120917]
119 mfi(4): add a command pass-through ioctl, and associated COMPAT_LINUX
120 support. This allows to use the LSI MegaCLI linux binary
121 on a NetBSD host. [bouyer 20120919]
122 zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012f. [apb 20120927]
123 kernel: add clock_nanosleep(2) [christos 20121001]
124 wpa: New wpa_supplicant(8) and hostapd(8) 1.0 [christos 20121007]
125 x68k: Add network bootloader for Neptune-X and Nereid Ethernet.
126 [tsutsui,isaki 20121012]
127 x68k: Add support for formatting floppy. [tsutsui 20121014]
128 zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012g. [apb 20121018]
129 kernel: Added experimental support for the (mostly SSD specific)
130 "discard", or ATA "TRIM" command to wd(4) and ffs
131 [drochner 20121019]
132 libc: Import tzcode2012g. [christos 20121023]
133 zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012h. [apb 20121027]
134 libc: Update to tzcode2012h. [christos 20121028]
135 kernel: Import sljit and add BPF JIT compiler. [alnsn 20121028]
136 flock(1): Add a utility to provide locks to shell scripts similar
137 to shlock(1) [christos 20121101]
138 zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012i. [apb 20121104]
139 voodoofb(4): Add 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee support. [rkujawa 20121109]
140 zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012j. [apb 20121113]
141 msm6242b(4): Add MI OKI MSM6242B driver. [rkujawa 20121114]
142 amiga: A2000-style RTCs are now driven by the msm6242b(4) driver.
143 [rkujawa 20121114]
144 xsurf(4): Add X-Surf IDE controller support. [rkujawa 20121119]
145 z3rambd(4): Add driver for Zorro III RAM boards as block devices.
146 [rkujawa 20121126]
147 bind: update to 9.9.2-P1 to fix the DNS64 vulnerability.
148 [spz 20121204]
149 arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
150 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.4 [roy 20121206]
151 openresolv(8): Import openresolv-3.5.3 [roy 20121206]
152 arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3. [jmcneill 20121211]
153 arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support. [matt 20121211]
154 arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops. [matt 20121211]
155 openssh: Import 6.1. [christos 20121212]
156 ptcd(4): Add a driver for the Protech PS3100 cash drawer port.
157 [mbalmer 20121216]
158 ibmcd(4): Add a driver for the IBM 4810 BSP cash drawer port.
159 [mbalmer 20121217]
160 postfix(1): Import version 2.8.13 [tron 20121218]
161 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.6 [roy 20121219]
162 arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
163 kernel: allow MD kernel code to use PCUs [matt 20121226]
164 units(1): add -l and -L options. [apb 20130101]
165 postfix(1): Import version 2.9.5 [tron 20130102]
166 file(1): upgraded to 5.12 [christos 20130103]
167 luna68k: Add native bootloader. Based on 4.4BSD-Lite2/luna68k
168 "Stinger" loader. [tsutsui 20130105]
169 kernel: Add dotg(4), a driver for Synopsys DesignWare USB OTG,
170 ported from FreeBSD. [skrll 20130109]
171 kernel: Add usmsc(4), a driver for SMSC LAN95xx USB LAN devices,
172 ported from OpenBSD. [skrll 20130109]
173 hp300: Add support for sti(4) framebuffer at sgc bus on some 425t.
174 Ported by kiyohara@ from OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20130111]
175 arm: kill userland FPA support, replace with VFP. [matt 20130111]
176 luna68k: Add netboot support. [tsutsui 20130113]
177 luna68k: Fix bootloader to make secondary SPC SCSI on LUNA-II work
178 properly. [tsutsui 20130114]
179 libdwarf: Sync with FreeBSD [christos 20130117]
180 empm(4): Add driver for power manager present on Mediator 1200 TX and
181 SX bridges. [rkujawa 20130128]
182 amiga: Support software power-off with empm(4). [rkujawa 20130128]
183 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.7 [roy 20130128]
184 em4k(4): Add driver for Mediator 4000 PCI bridges. [rkujawa 20130129]
185 makefs(8): Add support for msdos, creating filesystems at an offset,
186 merging directories with common files. [christos 20130202]
187 openssl: update to 1.0.1d [christos 20130205]
188 sparc: Add hardware acceleration for cgfourteen(4) using SX
189 [macallan 20130207]
190 openssl: update to 1.0.1e [christos 20130212]
191 atf(7): Import 0.17. [jmmv 20130215]
192 lutok: Import 0.2. This is a new import that provides a C++ wrapper
193 for the Lua API and will be used by Kyua. Its build depends
194 on the MKKYUA knob. [jmmv 20130216]
195 kyua(1): Import kyua-testers 0.1. This is a new import that provides
196 scriptable utilities to invoke test programs that implement
197 different interfaces. [jmmv 20130217]
198 services(5), protocols(5): Pull iana-generated services and protocols
199 [christos 20130221]
200 kyua(1): Import kyua-cli 0.6. This is a new import that provides the
201 command-line interface to Kyua. Its build depends on the
202 MKKYUA knob. [jmmv 20130223]
203 kyua(1): Import kyua-atf-compat 0.1. This is a new import that
204 provides the last piece of Kyua, namely a compatibility
205 version of atf-run and atf-report that use kyua(1) internally.
206 [jmmv 20130223]
207 kernel: Retire OSI protocol support. [joerg 20130301]
208 libc: Update to tzcode2013a. [christos 20130302]
209 zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013a. [apb 20130303]
210 zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013b. [apb 20130312]
211 libc: Update to tzcode2013b. [christos 20130315]
212 brgphy(4): Add support for BCM5756, BCM5717C, BCM5719C, BCM5720C and
213 BCM57780. [msaitoh 20130315]
214 vmt(4): Synchronize the clock periodically to ensure it remains
215 up-to-date even when the host is suspended. [jmmv 20130316]
216 file(1): upgraded to 5.14 [christos 20130323]
217 dhcp: upgrade to 4.2.5 [christos 20130324]
218 vchiq(4): Add support for Broadcom VideoCore IV firmware interface.
219 [jmcneill 20130325]
220 vcaudio(4): Add support for Broadcom VideoCore IV audio service.
221 [jmcneill 20130325]
222 openssh: Import 6.2. [christos 20130329]
223 mdocml: Import 1.12.1 [christos 20130402]
224 openpam: Import 20120526 (Micrampelis) [christos 20130405]
225 flex: Import 2.5.37 [christos 20130405]
226 byacc: Import 20130304 [christos 20130405]
227 libpcap: Import 1.3.0 [christos 20130406]
228 tcpdump(8): Import 4.3.0 [christos 20130406]
229 libevent: Upgrade 2.0.21-stable [christos 20130411]
230 wm(4): Add support for I210 and I211 [msaitoh 20130419]
231 m68k: Add inverse trigonometric functions, hyperbolic arctangent,
232 exponential and power functions to m68k FPE. As a result,
233 m68k FPE supports all mathematics functions. [isaki 20130420]
234 tps65217pmic(4): Add support for TPS65217 PMIC as found on BeagleBone
235 and other AM335x based boards. [rkujawa 20130425]
236 amiga: Add minimal support for Thylacine USB card using slhci(4).
237 Works at least with some keyboards and mice. [rkujawa 20130428]
238 epoc32: Add new port NetBSD/epoc32. [kiyohara 20130428]
239 arm: Make all arm ports with a command MACHINE_ARCH generate the same
240 userspace. All sets are the same except for etc.tgz.
241 [matt 20130501]
242 disklabel: this is now a MI tool like installboot. [matt 20130503]
243 mcp980x(4): Add driver for Microchip MCP9800/1/2/3 I2C temperature
244 sensor. [rkujawa 20130507]
245 zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013c. [apb 20130508]
246 arm: Add support for Marvell Armada XP SoCs. From Marvell and Semihalf.
247 [rkujawa 20130530]
248 wm(4): Add support for I217 and I218 [msaitoh 20130602]
249 X11: Updated all Xorg packages that could be, for Xorg SA 2003-05-23,
250 and general. [mrg 20130605]
251 ipsec(4): FAST_IPSEC is now named IPSEC, old IPSEC is gone.
252 [christos 20130605]
253 kernel: Add driver soekrisgpio for Soekris net6501
254 Ported by kardel@ from a patch for OpenBSD. [kardel 20130609]
255 cgfourteen: both kernel and Xorg driver now support hardware
256 acceleration using SX [macallan 20130619]
257 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-6.0.0 [roy 20130621]
258 zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013d. [apb 20130707]
259 bge(4): Add support for Altima AC1003, Apple BCM5701,
260 Broadcom BCM5787F, BCM5787G, BCM5787F, BCM5719, BCM5720,
261 BCM57766, BCM57782 and BCM57786. [msaitoh 20130708]
262 openresolv(8): Import openresolv-3.5.6 [roy 20130712]
263 libc: Update to tzcode2013d. [christo 20130717]
264 wpa: Import wpa_supplicant and hostapd 1.1 [adam 20130717]
265 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-6.0.3 [roy 20130719]
266 coldfire: add userland and toolchain support for FreeScale Coldfire
267 CPUs (which implement a subset of m68k instructions and
268 addressing modes). [matt 20130719]
269 bind: update to 9.9.3-P2 to fix CVE-2013-4854 remote query can cause
270 named to terminate [christos 2013-07-27]
271 iwn(4): Add support for Centrino Wireless-N 1030 and Centrino
272 Advanced-N 6230 [prlw1 20130728]
273 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-6.0.5 [roy 20130803]
274 makefs(8): Added UDF support for makefs(8). It allows for the creation
275 of images for both read-only, rewritable or recordable media.
276 [reinoud 20130805]
277 xsh(4): Add driver for Individual Computers X-Surf 100 network interface
278 card. [rkujawa 20130808]
279 postfix(1): Import version 2.9.7 [tron 20130821]
280 kernel: Add BPF coprocessor support (BPF_COP/BPF_COPX instructions).
281 [rmind 20130829]
282 npf: Convert NPF to use BPF byte-code by default. Many other
283 improvements. [rmind 20130929]
284 less(1): Import version 458 [tron 20130804]
285 mpl115a(4): Add driver for Freescale MPL115A2 I2C absolute pressure
286 sensor. [rkujawa 20130908]
287 dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-6.1.0 [roy 20130920]
288 alpha: Add support for AlphaStation DS15. Ported from OpenBSD via
289 PR port-alpha/48148 by nullnilaki. [tsutsui 20130923]
290 postfix(1): Import version 2.10.2 [tron 20130925]
291 binutils: updated to FSF binutils 2.23.2. [christos 20130929]
292 gdb(1): Updated to 7.6.1. [christos 20131003]
293 httpd(8): Added Lua scripting for content creation. [mbalmer 20131012]
294 lutok: Update to 0.3. [jmmv 20131018]
295 kyua-cli: Update to 0.7. [jmmv 20131018]
296 netstat(1): Accept -faddress_family[,family ...]. [bad 20131019]
297 systat(1): Accept shell patterns to select drives. [bad 20131019]
298 gffb: add a driver for NVIDIA GeForce2 MX graphics controllers.
299 [macallan 20131023]
300 axen(4): Add a driver for ASIX AX88178a and AX88179 Ethernet interface.
301 Ported from OpenBSD. [nonaka 20131026]
302 x68k: Support upto 1008 MB extended memory that is found on the XM6i
303 emulator. [tsutsui 20131027]
304 OpenSSH: Imported 6.4 [christos 20131108]
305 x86: Default rounding mode of the x87 changed to long double precision.
306 [joerg 20131111]
307 zless(1): Added via lastest version of zmore(1) from OpenBSD
308 [pettai 20131112]
309 libm: Added basic long double support for elementary functions.
310 Most transcendent functions are stubbed out. [joerg 20131119]
311 nvi(1): Upgrade to the latest git source [christos 20131122]
312 MPC: Updated to MPC 1.0.1. [mrg 20131128]
313 MPFR: Updated to MPFR 3.1.2. [mrg 20131128]
314 GMP: Updated to GMP 5.1.3. [mrg 20131129]
315 file(1): Updated to 5.16. [christos 20131201]
316 librt: Added shm_open(3) and shm_unlink(3). [rmind 20131219]
317 acafh(4): Added driver for Individual Computers ACA500. Enjoy NetBSD
318 on an Amiga 500. [rkujawa 20131222]
319 libc: Update to tzcode2013i. [christos 20131226]
320 zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013i. [apb 20131226]
321