CHANGES revision 1.3209
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[macallan 20250820] 35 acpi(4): Updated ACPICA to 20250807. [christos 20250824] 36 binutils: Import 2.45 and switch amd64 to it [christos 20250826] 37 gffb(4): Add backlight control to the GeForce framebuffer driver. 38 [macallan 20250830] 39 man(1): Add -l flag to parse argument as file name. 40 [christos 20250902] 41 gdb: Import 16.3 and switch everyone to it [christos 20250902] 42 openpam(3): update to 20250531 (zingiber) [christos 20250903] 43 openldap: Import 2.6.10. [christos 20250904] 44 unbound(8): Import 1.23.1. [christos 20250906] 45 kernel: Add new memory barrier for paravirtualized drivers 46 requiring store-before-load ordering. [riastradh 20250906] 47 macppc: Add driver for the LED bar found on Xserve G4, 48 controls lights depending on CPU usage. [macallan 20250908] 49 m68k: Change softfloat build to libc/softfloat. [nat 20250910] 50 fsck_ffs(8): Expand flags with -a and -i. [perseant 20250914] 51 ctype(3): New environment variable LIBC_ALLOWCTYPEABUSE. 52 [riastradh 20250915] 53 dumplfs(8): Add -n flag to allow dumping of a given inode from an 54 inode block, or every inode in a block. [perseant 20250914] 55 lfs: Add working in-kernel roll forward. [perseant 20250917] 56 kernel: Add a shared function to query the common properties used 57 for configuring an Ethernet address. [thorpej 20251004] 58 gffb(4): Add backlight control for NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Go. 59 [macallan 20251006] 60 hypotl(3): Accommodate infinity for softfloat. [nat 20251007] 61 arm, aarch64: Switch to GCC 14. [mrg 20251007] 62 sparc, sparc64: Switch to GCC 14. [mrg 20251007] 63 hppa: Switch to GCC 14. [mrg 20251007] 64 x86: Switch to GCC 14. [mrg 20251007] 65 ucom(4): Add support for console over USB-to-serial adapter 66 [manu 20251009] 67 libc: Merge extended worker threads for POSIX asynchronous I/O 68 (GSoC project by Ethan Miller). [christos 20251010] 69 ssh(1), sshd(8): Import OpenSSH 10.2. [christos 20251011] 70 gpt(8): Add various riscv-specific partition types. [thorpej 20251011] 71 fsck_lfs(8): Enable checking LFS64 volumes. [perseant 20251012] 72 riscv: Handle XTheadMae vs. Svpbmt, allowing boot on Allwinner 73 Nezha board. [thorpej 20251012] 74 viaide(4): Add UDMA support for VT8233C IDE controller. 75 [andvar 20251017] 76 m68k: New port: mac68ksf - Macintosh 68k softfloat. [nat 20251020] 77 sc16is7xx(4): NXP SC16IX7xx family of UART chips that are behind 78 a I2C or SPI bus. [brad 20251024] 79 compat_linux(8): Add support for semtimedop(2), from Ricardo Branco. 80 [christos 20251026] 81 ftp(1): Add "connect" as a synonym for "open". [lukem 20251028] 82 wscons(4): Add support for xterm-style 256 colour escapes, 83 from Crystal Kolipe. [nia 20251102] 84 lfs: Add in-kernel cleaner. [perseant 20251106] 85 aac(4): Support Adaptec RAID 5445, 5805 and 5085. [riz 20251107] 86 m68k: Experimental new pmap module for systems with 68k MMUs 87 (plus the HP MMU). [thorpej 20251108] 88 compat_linux(8): Add prctl(2) lwp_{g,s}etname, from Kevin Bloom. 89 [christos 20251110] 90 evbppc: Add support for the Wii AES engine. [jmcneill 20251111] 91 sparc64: Add implementation of Sun's VIS instruction API. 92 [nia 20251113] 93 memfd_create(2): Add close-on-fork support. [gutteridge 20251115] 94 iconv(1): Support -o outfile like gnu does and check writes for 95 failure. [christos 20251121] 96 evbppc: Add Wii USB Gecko support. [jmcneill 20251115] 97 cgd(4): Improve throughput of AES disk encryption using SSE2. 98 [riastradh 20251123] 99 rge(4): Sync driver with upstream (OpenBSD), adding support for 100 new chips and chip-revisions, and enabling checksum 101 offload for IPv4. [pgoyette 20251127] 102 powerpc: Switch to GCC 14. [martin 20251128] 103 dreamcast, atu(4), icp(4), gpsa(8): Relicense various NetBSD 104 components from 4-clause to 3-clause BSD. [nia 20251128] 105 umcpmio(4): Reorg and support for the MCP2210, USB to SPI 106 bridge. [brad 20251129] 107 ucom(4): Allow using as boot console. [manu 20251129] 108 sparc64: Use 64-bit optimized AES code for disk encryption. 109 [nia 20251201] 110 iwm(4): Update driver code, improving performance and stability. 111 [mlelstv 20251201] 112 evbmips: Enable ASLR by default in OCTEON kernel configuration. 113 [nia 20251201] 114 lfs: Various stability improvements. [perseant 20251202] 115 evbppc: Enable PaX security features in WII kernel configuration. 116 [nia 20251204] 117 viaide(4): Identify and attach VT6420 IDE (PATA) controller. 118 [andvar 20251204] 119 diff(1), diff3(1): Import BSD-licensed diff to replace GNU 120 diffutils, build with MKBSDDIFF=yes. [nia 20251204] 121 amd64: Support ramdisks when booting in GENPVH mode. 122 [khorben 20251205] 123 openresolv(8): import 3.17.1 (patched to 3.17.3) [roy 20251213] 124 libutil: added strpct() rounding options strpct_r (etc) --> .so.7.25 125 [kre 20251214] 126 tzcode: Updated to 2025c. [christos 20251218] 127 tzdata: Updated to 2025c (using 2025cgtz) [kre 20251219] 128
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