CHANGES revision 1.3262
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[christos 20250824] 32 binutils: Import 2.45 and switch amd64 to it [christos 20250826] 33 gffb(4): Add backlight control to the GeForce framebuffer driver. 34 [macallan 20250830] 35 man(1): Add -l flag to parse argument as file name. 36 [christos 20250902] 37 gdb: Import 16.3 and switch everyone to it [christos 20250902] 38 openpam(3): update to 20250531 (zingiber) [christos 20250903] 39 openldap: Import 2.6.10. [christos 20250904] 40 unbound(8): Import 1.23.1. [christos 20250906] 41 kernel: Add new memory barrier for paravirtualized drivers 42 requiring store-before-load ordering. [riastradh 20250906] 43 macppc: Add driver for the LED bar found on Xserve G4, 44 controls lights depending on CPU usage. [macallan 20250908] 45 m68k: Change softfloat build to libc/softfloat. [nat 20250910] 46 fsck_ffs(8): Expand flags with -a and -i. [perseant 20250914] 47 ctype(3): New environment variable LIBC_ALLOWCTYPEABUSE. 48 [riastradh 20250915] 49 dumplfs(8): Add -n flag to allow dumping of a given inode from an 50 inode block, or every inode in a block. [perseant 20250914] 51 lfs: Add working in-kernel roll forward. [perseant 20250917] 52 kernel: Add a shared function to query the common properties used 53 for configuring an Ethernet address. [thorpej 20251004] 54 gffb(4): Add backlight control for NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Go. 55 [macallan 20251006] 56 hypotl(3): Accommodate infinity for softfloat. [nat 20251007] 57 arm, aarch64: Switch to GCC 14. [mrg 20251007] 58 hppa: Switch to GCC 14. [mrg 20251007] 59 riscv: Switch to GCC 14. [mrg 20251007] 60 sparc, sparc64: Switch to GCC 14. [mrg 20251007] 61 vax: Switch to GCC 14. [mrg 20251007] 62 x86: Switch to GCC 14. [mrg 20251007] 63 ucom(4): Add support for console over USB-to-serial adapter 64 [manu 20251009] 65 libc: Merge extended worker threads for POSIX asynchronous I/O 66 (GSoC project by Ethan Miller). [christos 20251010] 67 ssh(1), sshd(8): Import OpenSSH 10.2. [christos 20251011] 68 gpt(8): Add various riscv-specific partition types. [thorpej 20251011] 69 fsck_lfs(8): Enable checking LFS64 volumes. [perseant 20251012] 70 m68k: New port: mac68ksf - Macintosh 68k softfloat. [nat 20251020] 71 sc16is7xx(4): NXP SC16IX7xx family of UART chips that are behind 72 a I2C or SPI bus. [brad 20251024] 73 compat_linux(8): Add support for semtimedop(2), from Ricardo Branco. 74 [christos 20251026] 75 ftp(1): Add "connect" as a synonym for "open". [lukem 20251028] 76 ia64: Switch to GCC 14. [mrg 20251029] 77 lfs: Add in-kernel cleaner. [perseant 20251106] 78 m68k: Experimental new pmap module for systems with 68k MMUs 79 (plus the HP MMU). [thorpej 20251108] 80 compat_linux(8): Add prctl(2) lwp_{g,s}etname, from Kevin Bloom. 81 [christos 20251110] 82 sparc64: Add implementation of Sun's VIS instruction API. 83 [nia 20251113] 84 iconv(1): Support -o outfile like gnu does and check writes for 85 failure. [christos 20251121] 86 cgd(4): Improve throughput of AES disk encryption using SSE2. 87 [riastradh 20251123] 88 powerpc: Switch to GCC 14. [martin 20251128] 89 dreamcast, atu(4), icp(4), gpsa(8): Relicense various NetBSD 90 components from 4-clause to 3-clause BSD. [nia 20251128] 91 umcpmio(4): Reorg and support for the MCP2210, USB to SPI 92 bridge. [brad 20251129] 93 ucom(4): Allow using as boot console. [manu 20251129] 94 sparc64: Use 64-bit optimized AES code for disk encryption. 95 [nia 20251201] 96 iwm(4): Update driver code, improving performance and stability. 97 [mlelstv 20251201] 98 lfs: Various stability improvements. [perseant 20251202] 99 evbppc: Enable PaX security features in WII kernel configuration. 100 [nia 20251204] 101 viaide(4): Identify and attach VT6420 IDE (PATA) controller. 102 [andvar 20251204] 103 diff(1), diff3(1): Import BSD-licensed diff to replace GNU 104 diffutils, build with MKBSDDIFF=yes. [nia 20251204] 105 amd64: Support ramdisks when booting in GENPVH mode. 106 [khorben 20251205] 107 ftp(1): Fix ASCII transfers with progress bar. [lukem 20251206] 108 evbppc: wii: Add support for GameCube controller sockets 109 as uhid(4) (now "userspace hid") devices. 110 [jmcneill 20251208] 111 mips: Switch to GCC 14. [mrg 20251209] 112 openresolv(8): import 3.17.1 (patched to 3.17.3) [roy 20251213] 113 editline(3): Add a method to set custom word characters, 114 from bsiegert. [christos 20251214] 115 evbarm: Add support for TI OMAP4 PandaBoard-ES, from Rui-Xiang Guo. 116 [skrll 20251216] 117 tzcode: Updated to 2025c. [christos 20251218] 118 tzdata: Updated to 2025c (using 2025cgtz) [kre 20251219] 119 re(4): Made the code MPSAFE with a private mutex. 120 [mlelstv 20251220] 121 lm(4): Support five aux fan sensors for NCT6794D. [isaki 20251224] 122 inetd(8): Add an optional accept limit to stream/nowait services. 123 [mlelstv 20251227] 124 sun2: Add various MK build knobs and disable them on sun2 to trim 125 down the installation. [thorpej 20251228] 126 diff(1): Switch the default to MKBSDDIFF=yes. [nia 20260102] 127 makefs(8): Honour -m option to set a maximum FS size for 128 cd9660 images. [nia 20260107] 129 i386, amd64, sparc64: Exclude various base features from the 130 CD-ROM installer and add checks that cause ISO image 131 creation to fail if the size is above 700 MB. 132 [nia 20260107] 133 gzip(1): Support reading directly from block devices such as tapes, and 134 accept --ascii and --license for GNU compat. [mrg 20260108] 135 editline(3): Implement rl_kill_full_line in the readline compat 136 layer. [christos 20260109] 137 evbppc: Add support for the Nintendo Wii U. [jmcneill 20260109] 138 nsd: Import 4.14.0. [christos 20260115] 139 ftp(1): limit I/O transfers to 128 KiB. [lukem 20260115] 140 unbound(8): Import 1.24.2. [christos 20260116] 141 kernel: Add basic support for USB nodes in flattened device trees. 142 [skrll 20260117] 143 evbarm, riscv: Update to Linux 6.12.66 device trees. [skrll 20260118] 144 acpi(4): Updated ACPICA to 20251212. [christos 20260117] 145 byacc: Update to 20241231. [christos 20260118] 146 gfortran(1): Add for all platforms using GCC 14. [mrg 20260118] 147 evbppc: wiiu: Add GPIO support. [jmcneill 20260123] 148 ure(4): Performance improvements, enable 32K RX buffers where 149 possible. [jmcneill 20260124] 150 OpenSSL: Imported 3.5.5. [christos 20260127] 151 rge(4): Add support for RTL 8125D variant [pgoyette 20260128] 152 ia64: Relicense from 4-clause to 3-clause BSD. [nia 20260129] 153 libuv: Import version 1.51.0. [christos 20260128] 154 bind: Import version 9.20.18. [christos 20260129] 155 libarchive: Import libarchive-3.8.5. [christos 20260130] 156 bochsfb(4): Import Jiaxun Yang's bochsfb(4) driver. This is 157 mostly useful on QEMU platforms without firmware runtime 158 video support (e.g. using the -kernel option). Enabled 159 for aarch64. [nia 20260131] 160 evbppc: wiiu: Add hardware cursor support. [jmcneill 20260131] 161 evbarm: Convert imx23_olinuxino support to use flattened device 162 trees. [yurix 20260201] 163 sparc64: Add a driver for the Texas Instruments bq4802Y/bq4802LY 164 RTC chip, used in the Sun Ultra 45. [jdc 20260201] 165 hppa: hyperfb: Add support for translucent fonts and the glyph 166 cache. [macallan 20260203] 167 evbppc: wiiu: Add RTC support. [jmcneill 20260203] 168 ftp(1): simplify socket buffer handling to improve performance. 169 [lukem 20260207] 170 ftp(1): send custom HTTP headers in provided order, not reverse. 171 [lukem 20260208] 172 tmux(1): Import version 3.6a. [wiz 20260209] 173 gpt(8): Allow the -s sector size to be scaled (but just with 'K') 174 [kre 20260209] 175 gpt(8): Add human friendly size output (and more) to gpt show. 176 [kre 20260209] 177 ld.elf_so(4): Support DT_PREINIT_ARRAY which holds a pointer to 178 an array of pointers to functions that should be executed 179 before the main program starts. [skrll 20260210] 180 sparc64: Add thermal limits to ADM1026 sensors. [jdc 20260210] 181 binutils: Import 2.46 [christos 20260215] 182 gffb(4): Support underlined console text. [macallan 20260217] 183 hppa: Support underlined console text in gftfb(4) and hyperfb(4). 184 [macallan 20260217] 185 pchtemp(4): Add a simple driver for Intel PCH thermal sensors. 186 [yamt 20260220] 187 powerpc: Add kernel crash dump support for OEA platforms. 188 [jmcneill 20260225] 189 pkg_add(1): Import pkg_install-20260226. [bsiegert 20260228] 190 nc(1): Add -E to limit number of net packets sent/received. 191 [kre 20260301] 192 i386, amd64: Treat Time Stamp Counter as being a lower quality 193 clock source when running as a NVMM guest. 194 [yamt 20260301] 195 zfs: Various reliability improvements. [yamt 20260301] 196 zfs: Reject read(2) on directories. [yamt 20260301] 197 rge(4): Add support for RTL8127ATF with SFP+ interface. 198 [mlelstv 20260308] 199 tzcode: Updated to 2026a. [christos 20260308] 200 tzdata: Updated to 2026a (using 2026agtz) [kre 20260309] 201 riscv: Add support for MKPROFILE. [skrll 20260309] 202 telnet(1): Only send exported environment variables, 203 from OpenBSD. [christos 20260313] 204 gdb: Import 17.1 and switch everyone to it [christos 20260314] 205 sh(1): Improve feedback from 'type' builtin. [kre 20260314] 206 dhcpcd: Updated to 10.3.11 [roy 20260316] 207 tcpdump(8): Import 4.99.6. [christos 20260318] 208 libpcap: Import 1.10.6. [christos 20260318] 209 kernel: Make the uvm swap drum(4) MPSAFE. [yamt 20260316] 210 mgafb(4): New driver for Matrox Millennium I graphics cards, 211 from Radoslaw Kujawa. [macallan 20260317] 212 riscv: Provide and use hooks for L1 cache operations on the 213 T-Head processors, from Rui-Xiang Guo. 214 [skrll 20260318] 215 riscv: Add support for allwinner,sun20i-d1-mmc and 216 allwinner,sun20i-d1-wdt, from Rui-Xiang Guo. 217 [skrll 20260318] 218 m68k: Refactor FP exception handling to be less 219 machine-dependent. [thorpej 20260321] 220 zfs: Improve performance of removing files. [yamt 20260322] 221 m68k: Use a common delay(9) implementation, except for atari, 222 mac68k, and virt68k. [thorpej 20260328] 223 drum(4): Make the device MPSAFE. [yamt 20260330] 224 evbarm: Add FDT-based clkgate, power and sleep controller, and 225 interrupt controller drivers for am18xx. 226 [yurix 20260330] 227 audiocfg(1): Play a real phone dialing sequence when 228 the test command is used. [mlelstv 20260403] 229 bind: Import version 9.20.22. [christos 20260407] 230 OpenSSL: Imported 3.5.6. [christos 20260408] 231 ssh(1), sshd(8): Import OpenSSH 10.3. [christos 20260408] 232 xz(1): Import of XZ 5.8.3. [christos 20260408] 233 npf(7): Add policy-based routing by interface. [joe 20260408] 234 df(1): Print human-readable inode counts when -h is specified. 235 [kim 20260408] 236 lfs_cleanerd(8): Use the new FCNTL mechanism to move blocks 237 to clean segments. Individual block and file handling 238 code moved to the kernel. [perseant 20260423] 239 rm(1): Adapt behaviour of -i for directories to more closely 240 match user expectations and other operating systems, 241 patch from RVP. [jschauma 20260425] 242 evbarm: Allow booting 32-bit kernel on Raspberry Pi 4B. 243 [tsutsui 20260426] 244 tzcode: Updated to 2026b [christos 20260426] 245 sysinst(8): Add a date/time setup menu for systems without 246 a working RTC, show it if the time seems off. 247 [martin 20260426] 248 pms(4): Add synaptics tap-to-click sysctl so that it can be 249 disabled, from atomicules. [christos 20260428] 250 sqlite3(1): Import 3.53.0. [christos 20260428] 251 tzdata: Updated to 2026b (using 2026bgtz) [kre 20260429] 252 gunzip(1), zcat(1): Add support for decompressing zstd files, 253 from FreeBSD. [simonb 20260430] 254 pthread(3): add pthread_main_np(3) [wiz 20260501] 255 zstd(1): import 1.5.7 [christos 20260501] 256 libarchive: Import libarchive-3.8.7. [christos 20260503] 257 acpi(4): Updated ACPICA to 20260408. [christos 20260503] 258 byacc: Update to 20260126. [christos 20260503] 259 awk(1): Import 20260426 [christos 20260503] 260 zlib: Import 1.3.2 [christos 20260503] 261 dumpfs(8): Allow NAME=wedge-label on the command line. 262 [kre 20260507] 263 postfix(1): Import version 3.11.2. [christos 20260508] 264 bind: Import version 9.20.23. [christos 20260520] 265 unbound(8): Import 1.25.1. [christos 20260521] 266 mac68k: Add EMULFKEYS [nat 20260523] 267
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