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26 Changes from NetBSD 10.0 to NetBSD 11.0:
27 amdsmn(4): added trivial power management support [reinoud 20221218]
28 amdccp(4): added trivial power management support [reinoud 20221218]
29 ppp(4): Remove several non-functioning ioctls. [chs 20221221]
30 dse(4): Added Dayna SCSI/Link ethernet driver. [nat 20221222]
31 binutils: Updated to FSF binutils 2.39. [christos 20221224]
32 cribbage(6): Add -y option to keep playing without asking
33 (from Greywolf in PR 57164) [christos 20230106]
34 x86: Enable the -z separate-code security feature by default in
35 ld(1). Reduces the default max page size from 2M to
36 4K on amd64. [christos 20230106]
37 bind: Import version 9.16.37. [christos 20230125]
38 xfwp(1): remove. [wiz 20230204]
39 wscons(4): Ignore nonsense tab stops in vt100 emulation.
40 [riastradh 20230223]
41 nvmm(4): Filter CR4 bits on x86 SVM (AMD). In particular,
42 prohibit PKE, Protection Key Enable, which requires
43 some additional management of CPU state by nvmm.
44 [riastradh 20230223]
45 aarch64: Audit use of curcpu(9). [riastradh 20230225]
46 xen: Memory barrier audit. Reduce unnecessary membars.
47 [riastradh 20230225]
48 x86: Mitigate MXCSR Configuration Dependent Timing CPU security
49 flaw in kernel FPU use. [riastradh 20230225]
50 kernel: Optimization: Omit needless membar when triggering softint
51 in various ports. [riastradh 20230301]
52 sh(1): Adjust tilde expansion to comply with upcoming POSIX
53 Issue 8 requirements. [kre 20230306]
54 libm: Add more long double transcendental functions (as aliases of
55 double functions) from C99. [riastradh 20230313]
56 xen: Allow a PVH dom0 to use VGA as console. [bouyer 20230324]
57 vioscsi(4), viornd(4), viomb(4): Mark VirtIO drivers as MPSAFE.
58 [mlelstv 20230325]
59 amiga: Fix bootblocks for Kickstart 3.2. [abs 20230325]
60 libc: Add __atomic_is_lock_free to help stdatomic.h usage with
61 GCC. [riastradh 20230330]
62 uaudio(4): Initial support for USB Audio Class 2.0 devices.
63 [mlelstv 20230402]
64 vacation(1): Check 'Auto-Submitted:' header in addition to
65 'Precedence:', and set 'Precedence:' in addition to
66 'Auto-Submitted:'. [hauke 20230411]
67 ichsmb(4), tco(4): Add support for TCO on newer Intel chipsets.
68 [riastradh 20230412]
69 audiorecord(1): Add support for recording 24-bit wav files.
70 [mlelstv 20230415]
71 evbarm: Install a boot.cfg file for the EFI bootloader by default.
72 [brook 20230419]
73 dhcpcd: Import version 10.0.1. [roy 20230421]
74 evbarm: Enable rkv1crypto driver on Rock64. [mrg 20230424]
75 worms(6): Add a little bit of optional colour, code and
76 ideas from RVP. [kre 20230426]
77 amiga: Add driver for the MNT ZZ9000 Zorro board - submitted by
78 Alain Runa. [phx 20230503]
79 evbarm: Experimental IMX6SX support - tested on the UDOO Neo Full board.
80 [bouyer 20230504]
81 chown(8): Add a -d flag to avoid changing a file's owner/group to the
82 current value. This avoids some unnecessary operations on the
83 file. [pgoyette 20230504]
84 riscv: Add RISC-V support that works on QEMU with a single hart.
85 [skrll 20230507]
86 riscv: Add Google Goldfish RTC driver. [skrll 20230508]
87 make(1): Make :mtime operate on each word in variable
88 value. [sjg 20230510]
89 worms(6): When using -H, make the appearance of the worm head
90 depend upon the body (more than it did before). [kre 20230512]
91 amiga: Update loadbsd source and distribution binary to version 3.3.
92 [phx 20230514]
93 i386: Add /dev/efi device. [riastradh 20230522]
94 efi(4): Add EFIIOC_GET_TABLE ioctl support on x86. [riastradh 20230522]
95 ctfmerge(1): Add error handling to pthread APIs.
96 Fix semaphores for macOS host tool. [lukem 20230523]
97 share/mk: Deprecate non-functional SHAREDSTRINGS. [lukem 20230524]
98 mkstr(1), xstr(1): Obsolete unused PDP-11-era tools. [lukem 20230524]
99 pthread(3): Reduce power consumption when spinning for a lock on
100 arm. [riastradh 20230525]
101 pax(1): Exit 0 if stdin filelist is used and no files are supplied.
102 Don't overwrite existing destination files if -r -w copy
103 fails for any reason. [lukem 20230528]
104 date(1): Add -R option for displaying time in RFC 5322 format,
105 similar to GNU date. [kim 20230531]
106 mk.conf(5): Obsolete non-MK variants MANZ UNPRIVED UPDATE
107 [lukem 20230602]
108 build.sh: Add show-params operation [lukem 20230602]
109 kerberos(8): Update to Heimdal-7.8.0 [christos 20230619]
110 patch(1): Add --backup-if-mismatch and --no-backup-if-mismatch for
111 GNU patch compatibility. These options only make sense in
112 POSIX mode, patch(1) has --backup enabled by default and
113 GNU patch doesn't. [wiz 20230616]
114 indent(1): Remove support for handling ASCII backspace characters
115 in C code. [rillig 20230618]
116 make(1): Recognize include guards. [rillig 20230619]
117 editline(3): Install pkg-config files, same as the portable version.
118 [wiz 20230620]
119 make(1): Speed up pattern matching in the ':M' and ':N' modifiers.
120 [rillig 20230622]
121 paxctl(8): Introduce -0 option to clear all PaX flag bits in ELF note.
122 [rin 20230623]
123 crunchgen(1): Clear PaX flags instead of removing its ELF note section.
124 [rin 20230623]
125 make(1): Warn about malformed patterns in ':M', ':N' and
126 '.if make(...)' [rillig 20230623]
127 bind: Import version 9.16.42. [christos 20230626]
128 openresolv: Import version 3.13.2 [roy 20230627]
129 tmux(1): Import version 3.3a [wiz 20230628]
130 x86: Primary bootstrap is now enable to read a GPT
131 partition table inside a software raid(4).
132 [manu 20230629]
133 aiomixer(1): Support for the NO_COLOR environment variable.
134 [nia 20230629]
135 openpam(3): update to 20230627 (ximenia) [christos 20230630]
136 entropy(9): Reintroduce netbsd<=9 time-delta estimator for unblocking.
137 [riastradh 20230630]
138 mdnsd(8): Restore NetBSD logging additions lost in merges.
139 [gutteridge 20230630]
140 tetris(6): Support the informal standard of allowing setting NO_COLOR
141 in the environment to disable the use of color. [nia 20230701]
142 lint(1): Initial support for C23. [rillig 20230702]
143 heartbeat(9): New mechanism to check progress of kernel. This uses
144 hard interrupts to check progress of low-priority soft
145 interrupts, and one CPU to check progress of another CPU.
146 [riastradh 20230707].
147 crashme(9): New crash methods with raised ipl or kpreempt disabled.
148 [riastradh 20230707].
149 versioningsyscalls(9): Document how system call versioning is done.
150 From this summer's compat-linux GSoC, by Theodore Preduta.
151 [christos 20230708].
152 clock_gettime(2): Take greater care to ensure
153 CLOCK_PROCESS/THREAD_CPUTIME_ID do not go backwards.
154 [riastradh 20230708].
155 riscv: Add FDT-based initrd, rndseed, and efirng support.
156 [rin 20230710]
157 kern: Add memfd_create(2) system call from GSoC 2023 by
158 Theodore Preduta. [christos 20230710]
159 refuse(3): Allow programs using the 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7 FUSE APIs
160 to function at runtime. [pho 20230714]
161 pckbd(4): Work around buggy Chromebook PS/2 keyboard firmware.
162 (from Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko). [christos 20230716]
163 acpiec(4): New ACPIEC_DEBUG option. [riastradh 20230718]
164 dhcpcd: Import version 10.0.2. [roy 20230719]
165 bta2dpd(8): Add throttle when playing from file. [nat 20230720]
166 xen: Enable MKCTF=yes by default. [riastradh 20230721]
167 x86: Turn off Zenbleed chicken bit on Zen2 CPUs. [mrg 20230725]
168 evbmips: Allow ramdisk to handle GPT wedges. [gutteridge 20230725]
169 xbd(4): Properly handle 4k sector size backends. [bouyer 20230725]
170 iostat(8): Add -X option, limited alternative statistics.
171 This is like the "-D" option, except it skips the xfers/s, and
172 reports MB/s instead of KB/s. Allows for ~50% more devices to
173 be displayed per line by default. [mrg 20230728]
174 compat_linux(8): Add epoll system calls implemented around kqueue(2),
175 contributed by Theodore Preduta as part of GSoC 2023.
176 [christos 20230728]
177 compat_linux(8): Add/fix statx, readahead, close_range. From GSoC 2023
178 by Theodore Preduta. [christos 20230729]
179 libc: Add wmempcpy(3). [christos 20230731]
180 libc: Add companion mempcpy(3) to wmempcpy(3).
181 [christos 20230801]
182 all: Fix many small bugs found by GCC 12. [mrg 20230810]
183 gdb(1): Updated to 13.2. [christos 20230811]
184 vis(3): Fixed many implementation issues, expand tests.
185 [riastradh 20230812]
186 libpcap: Import 1.10.4. [christos 20230817]
187 tcpdump(8): Import 4.99.4. [christos 20230817]
188 file(1): Upgraded to 5.45. [christos 20230818]
189 make(1): Show more detail in "invalid line" error messages.
190 [rillig 20230819]
191 compat_linux(8): Add support for Linux waitid syscall.
192 Contributed by Theodore Preduta. [christos 20230818]
193 compat_linux(8): Add support for Linux inotify syscalls,
194 implemented around kqueue(2). Contributed by
195 Theodore Preduta. [christos 20230819]
196 acpi(4): Updated ACPICA to 20230628. [christos 20230901]
197 sqlite3(1): Import 3.34.0. [christos 20230904]
198 namecache: Tune the namecache for 32-bit systems [ad 20230909]
199 mips: Add initial support for n64 userland to gprof(1).
200 [rin 20230914]
201 tzcode: Updated to 2023c. [christos 20230916]
202 raidctl(8): Implement command-line configuration of simple RAID sets.
203 [oster 20230921]
204 rc.conf(5): Add support for npf_rules to override the default
205 rules file for npf(7). [abs 20231005]
206 less: Updated to version 643. [simonb 20231006]
207 ddb(4): Add some simple show commands: condvar, selinfo, sleepq
208 [ad 20231007]
209 mips: Add fma(3) to libm. [he 20231008]
210 heimdal: Disable sqlite3 credential cache (SCC), remove sqlite3
211 dependency. [riastradh 20231011]
212 pipe(2): Improve performance, reduce lock contention. [ad 20231013]
213 vax: Reduce the object size of the malloc(3) code by converting
214 to rbtree, also improve performance and locking.
215 [ad 20231013]
216 uhid(4): Improve hid matching to allow better recognition of
217 collections. [nat 20231017]
218 xen: Support genfb(4) as a console device for dom0, necessary for
219 graphical console on EFI-only hardware. [bouyer 20231017]
220 lagg(4): Copy the MTU of lagg to interfaces added to lagg
221 [yamaguchi 20231018]
222 dhcpcd: Import version 10.0.4. [roy 20231019]
223 gpioirq(4): allow multiple pins per gpioirq instance, add the ability
224 to use a /dev/gpioirqN device to get pin interrupts into
225 userland. [brad 20231105]
226 gpiosim(4): Simulated interrupts [brad 20231108]
227 sparc64: Support for virtio(4). [thorpej 20231119]
228 alpha: Support for virtio(4). [thorpej 20231119]
229 alpha: Support for crash(8). [thorpej 20231122]
230 kernel: Replace the vdrain kernel thread with two threadpool jobs.
231 [hannken 20231127]
232 kernel: Replace various usage of extent(9) with vmem(9).
233 [thorpej 20231201]
234 indent(1): Use line number of the token start in diagnostics
235 [rillig 20231203]
236 vmem(9): Add the notion of "private boundary tags", allowing vmem
237 to be used VERY early in boot. [thorpej 20231203]
238 kernel: Modularize compat90. [pgoyette 20231209]
239 libsa: Add NFSv3 support. [mlelstv 20231212]
240 dhcpcd: Import version 10.0.6. [roy 20231218]
241 tzcode: Updated to 2023d. [christos 20231223]
242 gfpic(4): New driver for the Goldfish virtual programmable
243 interrupt controller. [thorpej 20240102]
244 gftty(4): New driver for the Goldfish virtual tty. [thorpej 20240102]
245 virt68k: Add new port for virtual Motorola 68040 machines in
246 QEMU using VirtIO devices. [thorpej 20240102]
247 urtwn(4): Add Mercusys NW150US V2 USB support. [maya 20240106]
248 riscv: Add a SiFive FU[57]40/ L2 Cache controller driver.
249 [skrll 20240113]
250 cp(1): Always copy regular files, even if they appear to be zero-sized.
251 [christos 20240115]
252 riscv: Add a StarTech JH7100 SoC clock driver, seen in the Beagle-V
253 board. [skrll 20240116]
254 cpuctl(8): Recognize Intel Meteor Lake and Emerald Rapids.
255 [msaitoh 20240118]
256 m68k: Made many ports share common code for interrupt dispatch
257 and vector tables. [thorpej 20240118]
258 libm: Import more long double functions from FreeBSD.
259 [christos 20240121]
260 terminfo: Import 20231209 [christos 20240127]
261 evbppc: Add support for the PAL 576i video mode to wiifb(4).
262 [hgutch 20240127]
263 stat(1): Add symbolic flags printing from FreeBSD via Ricardo Branco.
264 [christos 20240129]
265 next68k: Add WSDISPLAY_GINFO, LINEBYTES, and SMODE ioctl(2)s and
266 mmap(2) support to nextdisplay(4). [tsutsui 20240202]
267 mount_cd9660(8): Add support for mount options mask,dirmask,uid,gid
268 (from Ricardo Branco) [christos 20240202]
269 tzdata: Updated to 2024a (using 2024agtz) [kre 20240205]
270 riscv: Add a driver for the StarFive JH7100 pin controller.
271 [skrll 20240207]
272 touch(1): Properly implement the POSIX format -d option. [kre 20240208]
273 touch(1): Add -R option, which is identical to -r, except that if the
274 reference file is a symbolic link, the times to use are taken
275 from those of the symbolic link itself. [kre 20240209]
276 touch(1): Add -D option, which causes the operation to be a no-op if no
277 change would be made (avoiding updating the file's ctime).
278 [kre 20240210]
279 hppa: Add gftfb(4), an initial driver for PCI Visualize EG cards.
280 [macallan 20240213]
281 bind: Apply bind security patches: CVE-2023-4408 CVE-2023-5517
282 CVE-2023-5679 CVE-2023-6516 CVE-2023-50387 CVE-2023-50868
283 [christos 20240213]
284 tzcode: Updated to 2024a. [christos 20240217]
285 nsd: Import 4.8.0. [christos 20240217]
286 unbound(8): Import 1.19.1. [christos 20240217]
287 bind: Import 9.18.24 [christos 20240221]
288 re(4): Add support for Killer E2600 Ethernet. [jakllsch 20240228]
289 sqlite3(1): Import 3.45.1. [christos 20240301]
290 alpha: Add initial support for the DEC KN7AA ("Ruby") systems,
291 DEC 7000 and DEC 10000. [thorpej 20240302]
292 elftoolchain: Import svn r4037. [christos 20240303]
293 certctl(8): Improve the performance of `certctl list`.
294 [riastradh 20240303]
295 audioplay(1): Add -n flag that doesn't write audio data for the
296 test suite. [mrg 20240304]
297 alpha: Add a bus space implementation for the Gbus, the general
298 8-bit bus present on Laser / TurboLaser CPU modules.
299 [thorpej 20240306]
300 lint(1): Detect more types of integer overflow. [rillig 20240310]
301 lint(1): Add extra details to the message about integer overflow.
302 [rillig 20240310]
303 mac68k: Add ascaudio(4) ASC audio driver. [nat 20240313]
304 x86: Include the cgdroot.fs and zfsroot.fs ramdisks in the release
305 files. [riastradh 20240320]
306 apei(4): New driver for ACPI Platform Error Interfaces.
307 [riastradh 20240320]
308 vmt(4): Process all queued messages without delay immediately.
309 From OpenBSD. [msaitoh 20240320]
310 acpihed(4): New driver for PNP0C33 to notify apei(4).
311 [riastradh 20240321]
312 echi(4): If device attach fails, install NULL pmf(4) handlers.
313 Allows suspend/resume on ThinkPad A475. [mrg 20240324]
314 uftdi(4): Add a "match quirk" mechanism that allows the driver to
315 selectively reject individual interfaces, allowing them to
316 be matched by ugen(4) and accessed through libusb.
317 [thorpej 20240326]
318 moused(8): Remove undocumented and unused option 'C'.
319 [rillig 20240329]
320 ugen(4): Add a "ugen-unit" device property which devpubd(8) scripts
321 can query to determine which /dev/ugenN.xx nodes a given ugen
322 or ugenif device is using. [thorpej 20240329]
323 libc: Limit writes to stdio FILE handles via fvwrite to INT_MAX
324 rather than BUFSIZE. Improves performance dramatically.
325 From enh via Apple libc. [christos 20240329]
326 evbarm: Add interrupt support to the Texas Instruments gpio(4) driver
327 used on the Beaglebone Black. [jakllsch 20240401]
328 dk(4): Add support for discovering Atari TOS partitions as wedges.
329 [charlotte 20240402]
330 rumpuser(3): New RUMP_STDOUT, RUMP_STDERR environment variables.
331 [riastradh 20240404]
332 config(1): Improve determinism for reproducible builds.
333 [riastradh 20240405]
334 qemufwcfg(4): Add RISC-V support. [skrll 20240406]
335 vax: Switch vax to X.Org server version 120. [tsutsui 20240407]
336 evbmips: Following evbarm, document kernel configurations in
337 sys/arch/evbmips/conf/README.evbmips. [andvar 20240407]
338 sysinst(8): Split compatibility libraries into separate sets,
339 base32 and debug32. Split HTML man pages into new manhtml
340 set. [nia 20240410]
341 amd64: Support EFI as well as BIOS boot in the "live" USB image.
342 This is not the regular installation image, which already
343 supports EFI. [maya 20240413]
344 uftdi(4): Add support for a range of "Brainboxes" USB serial
345 adapters, from Cameron Williams. [maya 20240417]
346 x86: Enable ACPI Platform Error Interface support in the GENERIC
347 kernels. [riastradh 20240421]
348 mips64el, mips64eb: Create "base64" and "debug64" sets that contain
349 the N64 libraries. [nia 20240422]
350 x86, sparc64: Create "DVD" ISOs that contain all the sets excluded
351 from the normal ISOs for size reasons - also useful on
352 virtual machines. [nia 20240424]
353 i386: Remove kernel modules, redundant kernels, and amdgpu firmware
354 from the CD-ROM image to help it fit on a CD-ROM
355 once more. [nia 20240426]
356 httpd(8): Make directory listings mobile-friendly, from D. Bohdan.
357 [maya 20240426]
358 thinkpad(4): Expose a sysctl interface to control some aspects of
359 charging behavior on supported systems, from Malte Dehling.
360 [christos 20240427]
361 i386: Rewrite viac7temp(4) temperature sensor to use MSR, which works
362 on far more CPUs. [andvar 20240430]
363 hp300: Fix a wrong palette color setting problems on HP98543 4 bpp
364 topcat(4) framebuffer on HP360. [tsutsui 20240501]
365 lint(1): Support _Alignas and attribute aligned. [rillig 20240501].
366 hp300: Fix "garbage pixels" problems on scrolling ops etc. on
367 HP98543 and HP98547 topcat(4) color framebuffers.
368 [tsutsui 20240501]
369 hp300: Treat HP98542 and HP98543 1024x400 framebuffers as
370 "pseudo doubled" 512x400 bitmap pixels as HP-UX did, because
371 even modern LCDs cannot handle such 1024x400 resolutions
372 properly. [tsutsui 20240501]
373 evbarm: Add device tree for Red Pitaya SDRlab 122-16.
374 [dyoung 20240504]
375 libm: Add an assembly implementation of rintl(3) for x86.
376 [riastradh 20240505]
377 libm: Expose more long double functions on vax.
378 [riastradh 20240506]
379 libm: Expand tests for modf/modff/modfl, nextafter/nexttoward,
380 nearbyint/nearbyintl/rint. [riastradh 20240506]
381 mk: Use --compress-debug-sections when creating debug files
382 to reduce the size of the installed debug set.
383 [mrg 20240506]
384 makefs(8): Add an option to warn and error out for mtree missing
385 entries. [christos 20240508]
386 lint(1): Support new keywords in C23 mode, including nullptr.
387 [rillig 20240509]
388 install(1): Support -v (verbose). [wiz 20240510]
389 acpivga(4): Add quirk for machines where the getting the screen
390 brightness always returns the same result. [maya 20240510]
391 compat_netbsd32(8): Support SIOCGIFDATA and SIOCZIFDATA ioctls on
392 network interfaces. [martin 20240511]
393 libm: Expand tests for hypotl(3). [riastradh 20240511]
394 sparc: Add support for 16-bit (RGB565) colour mode in
395 the cgfourteen(4) framebuffer driver.
396 [macallan 20240512]
397 ure(4): Support TP-Link UE300 USB LAN adapter (from RVP).
398 [christos 20240512]
399 procfs: Add support for proc/self/limits as used by Linux.
400 (from Ricardo Branco). [christos 20240512]
401 procfs: Add support for proc/sysvipc in Linux emulator
402 (from Ricardo Branco). [christos 20240512]
403 cgdconfig(8): Add zfs verification method (from Malte Dehling)
404 [christos 20240512]
405 curses(3): Constify argument of define_key(3) for compatibility
406 with ncurses. [uwe 20240514]
407 eap(4): Support monoraual sound at the hardware level and
408 a range of hardware frequencies, as in NetBSD 7
409 and earlier. [nia 20240517]
410 curses(3): Constify arguments of newterm(3), setterm(3)
411 functions. [uwe 20240517]
412 hp300: Installation CD ISO image is now bootable. [tsutsui 20240519]
413 tic(1): Honour the user's umask (from RVP). [christos 20240520]
414 dhcpcd: Import version 10.0.8. [roy 20240524]
415 mkhybrid: Import mkhybrid from OpenBSD 7.3 as a tool to create
416 ISO9660/HFS hybrid ISO images for mac68k and macppc.
417 [tsutsui 20240531]
418 pthread(3): Fix memory leak in pthread_create(). [hannken 20240608]
419 libarchive: Import libarchive-3.7.4. [christos 20240609]
420 pkg_install: Import pkg_install-20240307. [wiz 20240611]
421 OpenSSL: Imported 3.0.14. [christos 2020611]
422 tmux(1): Import version 3.4 with Sixel support enabled. [wiz 20240622]
423 OpenSSH: Import 9.6. [christos 20240625]
424