CHANGES revision 1.445.2.6
1 LIST OF CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS RELEASES: <$Revision: 1.445.2.6 $> 2 3 4 [Note: This file does not mention every change made to the NetBSD source tree. 5 For an exhaustive list, please subscribe to the `source-changes' mailing list, 6 or see the mailing list archives. For more information, send a message 7 containing just the word `help' to `majordomo (a] NetBSD.org'.] 8 9 10 Changes from NetBSD 2.0 to NetBSD 3.0: 11 which(1): Replaced by a C program that only checks the path. 12 [christos 20040401] 13 heimdal: import version 0.6.1. [lha 20040402] 14 powerpc: implement FP exception handling for OEA processors. 15 [matt 20040404] 16 file(1): update to 4.09. [pooka 20040408] 17 setrlimit(2): Add RLIMIT_SBSIZE to limit the socket buffer size. 18 [christos 20040417] 19 csh(1): Add support for "limit sbsize" to control the 20 socket buffer size resource limit. [christos 20040417] 21 ksh(1): Add support for "ulimit -b" to control the 22 socket buffer size resource limit. [christos 20040417] 23 sh(1): Add support for "ulimit -b" to control the 24 socket buffer size resource limit. [christos 20040417] 25 login.conf(5): Add support for "sbsize" capability to control the 26 socket buffer size limit. [matt 20040418] 27 share/mk: Deprecate AINC in favour of AFLAGS. [lukem 20040418] 28 sysinst: use /etc/postinstall to update /etc (etc) instead of just 29 saving /etc to /etc/old [dsl 20040418] 30 sysctl(8): Add "vfs.generic.fstypes" node to display the currently 31 available file system types. [lukem 20040419] 32 locate.conf(5): "ignorefs type" appends to the default list of 33 types rather than overriding it. [lukem 20040419] 34 statvfs(2): Eliminate statfs(2) and friends, in preference for 35 the POSIX/XOpen compliant statvfs(2) family. 36 [christos 20040421] 37 kernel: Add a POOL_INIT macro to declare and automatically 38 initialise resource pools. [simonb 20040425] 39 postfix(1): Postfix 2.1.0 imported. [heas 20040427] 40 i386: Add support for Enhanced SpeedStep Technology, from 41 Michael Eriksson on port-i386. [lukem 20040430] 42 heimdal: import version 0.6.2. [lha 20040508] 43 libc: Make gmon / mcount work properly for threaded applications 44 by keeping thread-specific gmonparam structures and then 45 merging them before dumping the profile buffers. Written 46 by Nathan J. Williams, contributed by Wasabi Systems, Inc. 47 [thorpej 20040510] 48 xdm(1): use /var/db/xdm for the default authDir. [lukem 20040512] 49 du(1): add a -n flag to not include "nodump" files. [simonb 20040517] 50 bind: Bind-9.3.0beta3 imported. [christos 20040517] 51 sysinst: (i386) Allow installation/upgrade to an existing raid volume. 52 [dsl 20040518] 53 resolver: The libc resolver has been updated to the bind9 one 54 [christos 20040521] 55 emuxki(4): Make this driver work on big endian machines 56 (at least on macppc). [tsutsui 20040523] 57 uep(4): Added driver for eGalax USB touchpanel controller 58 [tsarna 20040524] 59 ptm(4): pty/98 pty multiplexor device [christos 20040526] 60 postfix(1): Postfix 2.1.1 imported. [heas 20040531] 61 XFree86: support absolute mouse positioning events on i386 62 and other platforms using the same mouse code 63 [tsarna 20040603] 64 vnd(4): Add support for configuring cloop2-compressed images 65 read-only, written by Cliff Wright. [hubertf 20050716] 66 hp700: Add FFS/LFS primary bootstrap (xxboot). [itohy 20040615] 67 racoon(8): upgraded to 20040617 [itojun 20040617] 68 pf(4): PF from OpenBSD 3.5 imported [itojun 20040622] 69 powerpc: Implement MPC601 support. [kleink 20040626] 70 prep: Add IBM RS/6000 40P 7020-001 platform support. [kleink 20040626] 71 libcrypt: Add support for SHA1 hashed (hmac_sha1 actually) passwords. 72 [sjg 20040701] 73 sed(1): Make patterns larger than _POSIX2_LINE_MAX*2-1 work. 74 [manu 20040709] 75 texinfo(1): upgraded to 4.7. [wiz 20040713] 76 libc: Add wordexp(3) which performs shell-style word expansions. 77 [seb 20040713] 78 sendmail(8): The sendmail daemon will now start by default if the 79 rc.d script determines a need for it. [atatat 20040715] 80 mtree(8): Implement -M to permit merging of specfile entries that 81 have different types. [lukem 20040722] 82 ipf(8): updated to version 4.1.3. [martti 20040723] 83 /etc/security: allow mtree specfile entries in /etc/mtree/special.local 84 to override entries in /etc/mtree/special. [lukem 20040723] 85 spif(4): New driver for Sun SUNW,spif multi-port Sbus cards originally 86 written by Jason L. Wright for OpenBSD. [mrg 20040724] 87 wscons(4): Add support to change console colors and kernel colors 88 dynamically after boot. [jmmv 20040728] 89 wsconsctl(4): Add support to change console colors and kernel colors 90 dynamically after boot. [jmmv 20040728] 91 postfix(1): Postfix 2.1.4 imported. [heas 20040728] 92 vga(4): Add support to change console border color. [jmmv 20040729] 93 wscons(4): Add support to change console border color. [jmmv 20040729] 94 wsconsctl(4): Add support to change console border color. 95 [jmmv 20040729] 96 groff(1): Updated to 1.19.1. [wiz 20040730] 97 i386: Support Intel ICH-based SpeedStep(TM) in ichlpcib(4). 98 [mrg 20040731] 99 /etc/postinstall: check for obsolete minor/teeny shared libraries. 100 [lukem 20040812] 101 kernel: Add extensions to the autoconf(9) framework to allow device 102 detachment and bus rescans in a bus independant way, and 103 for better support of driver LKMs. [drochner 20040819] 104 libc: Add optimized ffs(3) implementation for ARM architecture 5. 105 [rearnsha 20040821] 106 libc, libpthread: On ARM use interworking clean return sequences when 107 built for v4T or later. [rearnsha 20040821] 108 kernel: Support Thumb applications on ARM architecture 5. 109 [rearnsha 20040821] 110 ipw(4): Driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 driver written by 111 Damien Bergamini. [lukem 20040823] 112 compat_darwin(8): Support for MacOS X.3 binaries. [manu 20040825] 113 crtstuff: Switch to GCC-supplied crtbegin.o / crtend.o on GCC 3.3 114 platforms. [thorpej 20040827] 115 kernel: Add IPv4 PIM support from Pavlin Radoslavov and Hitoshi 116 Asaeda. Part of this work has been supported by the XORP 117 project http://www.xorp.org [manu 20040905] 118 libc: Add UUID manipulation routines, adapted from FreeBSD. 119 [thorpej 20040913] 120 uuidgen(1): Add a UUID generation tool, adapted from FreeBSD, 121 extended slightly with some additional DCE-compatible 122 options. [thorpej 20040913] 123 heimdal: import version 0.6.3. [lha 20040913] 124 file(1): update to 4.10. [pooka 20040916] 125 mac68k: Support to build with soft-float enabled. [jmmv 20040926] 126 tcpdump(8): Synchronized with version 3.8.3 from tcpdump.org. 127 [dyoung 20040927] 128 pcap(3): Synchronized with version 0.8.3 from tcpdump.org. 129 [dyoung 20040927] 130 auacer(4): Driver for ALi M5455 audio controller. Output only 131 so far. [augustss 20041010] 132 iyonix: Initial import of iyonix port [gavan 20041013] 133 auvia(4): Support for suspending/resuming. Written by Rhialto. 134 [kent 20041017] 135 uaudio(4): Support for selector unit, and make mixer item names 136 compatible with other audio devices. Written by Kazuhito 137 HONDA. [kent 20041021] 138 ehci(4): Support for interrupt transfers added. From OpenBSD. 139 This allows high speed hubs to be used with high speed 140 devices. [augustss 20041022] 141 cdce(4): Driver for CDC USB Ethernet devices. Written by 142 Daniel Hartmeier for OpenBSD. [augustss 20041022] 143 axe(4): The uax(4) driver has been replaced by the axe driver. 144 [augustss 20041023] 145 libc/ctype.h: Changed the #defines for all the ctype.h functions 146 (isdigit() etc) to remove the (int) cast and thus detect 147 broken code that could index outside the array. 148 Fixed all the fallout. [dsl 20041104] 149 bind: Bind-9.3.0 imported. [christos 20041106] 150 ptyfs: New pseudo-terminal filesystem [christos 20041111] 151 postfix(1): Postfix 2.1.5 imported. [heas 20041113] 152 pf(4): PF from OpenBSD 3.6 imported [yamt 20041114] 153 syslogd(8): Numerous improvements, most from FreeBSD. [thorpej 20041118] 154 kernel: CD9660 Joliet Unicode file names encoded into UTF-8, thus full 155 Unicode range supported. [jdolecek 20041121] 156 getent(1): Add tool to get entries from an administrative database. 157 [lukem 20041123] 158 pdcsata(4): Driver for the SATA150 family of Promise controllers. 159 [bouyer 20041124] 160 am-utils: import 6.1b5pre 20040916 [christos 20041126] 161 bpf(4): Convert to a cloning device [christos 20041129] 162 iteide(4): Add driver for the ITE 8212 IDE controller. 163 [grant 20041201] 164 lo(4): converted to a cloning device [peter 20041203] 165 ppp(4), sl(4), strip(4): converted to cloning devices 166 [christos 20041205] 167 ixpide(4): Add driver for the IDE controller of the ATI IXP series of 168 chipsets. [cube 20041206] 169 file(1): update to 4.12. [pooka 20041213] 170 pool(9), pool_cache(9): Introduce a new flag, PR_NOTOUCH. 171 Now pool(9) and pool_cache(9) can handle non memory backed 172 objects. [yamt 20050101] 173 uvm(9): Allocate in-kernel map entries dynamically rather than 174 allocating them statically at boot time. 175 Now artificial limit of entries (MAX_KMAPENT) is obsolete. 176 [yamt 20050101] 177 kernel, libc: Add system calls and VFS infrastructure for file system 178 extended attributes. Adapted from FreeBSD. 179 [thorpej 20050102] 180 restore(8): Stop asking stupid questions (restore owner/mode of . ?). 181 Rather, do it only on a full restore. [fredb 20050108] 182 scsictl(8): Add defects command to read defect data from direct 183 access devices (disks). [ginsbach 20050107] 184 tap(4): virtual Ethernet device [cube 20050108] 185 shark: Switch to wscons. [tsutsui 20050109] 186 /rescue: Add: cgdconfig chroot less more scp slogin ssh vi 187 [lukem 20050110] 188 audio(9): Add capability of audio software filter pipeline. The 189 feature makes it easy for hadware drivers to add encoding 190 support or sample rates support, and does not lead user- 191 visible changes at this moment. [kent 20050111] 192 iwi(4): Driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 2200AG/2915ABG driver written 193 by Damien Bergamini. [skrll 20050111] 194 auixp(4): Add driver for the audio part of the ATI IXP series of 195 chipsets. [reinoud 20050112] 196 viaide(4): Add support for nForce2 Ultra 400 PATA and SATA. 197 [jdolecek 20050113] 198 seq(1): Add BSD licensed version of this Plan 9 and GNU/Linux command, 199 which prints sequences of numbers. [ginsbach 20050120] 200 kernel: Save kernel memory by switching IPC domain initialization to 201 use link sets, see <sys/cdefs.h>. Bump kernel version to 202 2.99.15 [matt 20050123] 203 kernel: Dirhash imported from FreeBSD. Maintains in-core 204 hashes for large directories, improving 205 ufs_lookup performance. Disabled by default, but 206 can be enabled with 'options UFS_DIRHASH'. 207 [rumble 20050123] 208 auich(4): Add support for nForce4. [kent 20050127] 209 viaide(4): Add support for nForce4. [kent 20050127] 210 auich(4): Add support for nForce2 Ultra 400. [jdolecek 20050127] 211 kernel: Add ffs file system snapshots. See fssconfig(8). 212 [hannken 20050131] 213 kernel: Add RFC-3378 EtherIP support. This feature allows adding 214 gif(4) interfaces to bridge(4) interfaces. See brconfig(8). 215 [kim 20050131] 216 /etc/security, security.conf(5): Add option to permit 217 non-alphanumeric login names. [jdolecek 20050205] 218 groupadd(8): Add the -r option, used to specify a gid range in which 219 groups can be created. [jmmv 20050205] 220 ipf(8): updated to version 4.1.5. [martti 20050208] 221 ext2fs, fsck_ext2fs(8): Upgrade filesystems automatically to 222 support files >2GB if they are already at revision 1, 223 filesystems at revision 0 will not be touched. [ws 20050209] 224 artsata(4): Add support for operation in DPA mode. [rearnsha 20050211] 225 ipsec(4): Add support for IPsec NAT-T [manu 20050212] 226 ssh: Imported OpenSSH 3.9 [christos 20050213] 227 systat(1): Add "df" display to give information about filesystems, 228 available diskspace and used disk capacity, similar to df(1). 229 [hubertf 20050216] 230 racoon(8): Switch to ipsec-tools' racoon [manu 20050216] 231 ipf(8): updated to version 4.1.6. [martti 20050219] 232 evbarm: Add CompactFlash device on IQ31244. [rearnsha 20050219] 233 libradius(3): import libradius from FreeBSD [manu 20050220] 234 pppd(8): updated to version 2.4.3. [cube 20050220] 235 vge(4): Add driver for VIA Networking Technologies VT612X 236 [jdolecek 20050220] 237 gem(4), hme(4): IPv4 TCP/UDP hardware checksumming added. 238 [heas 20050220] 239 file(1): update to 4.13. [pooka 20050221] 240 openpam(3): update to 20050201 (feterita) [christos 20050226] 241 ifconfig(8): Allow switching TCP Segment Offloading on/off by adding 242 a new tso4/-tso4 switch. [matt 20050306] 243 /etc/postinstall: support -s /path/to/etc.tgz to extract the file 244 into a temporary directory and run postinstall from there. 245 [lukem 20050308] 246 wm(4): Add TCPv4 hardware transmit segment offload support. 247 [matt 20050309] 248 xen: updated to support the xen 2.0 kernel, including domain0 support 249 (this drops support for xen 1.2) [bouyer 20050309] 250 rcp(1): Add -4 and -6 options, used to limit host addresses to 251 IPv4 or IPv6 respectively. [ginsbach 20050309] 252 sockstat(1): Add sockstat(1) modeled after the program by the same 253 name in FreeBSD. [atatat 20050309] 254 rsh(1), rlogin(1): Add -4 and -6 options, used to limit host 255 addresses to IPv4 or IPv6 respectively. [ginsbach 20050311] 256 rcp(1): Add support for specifying the rhost as an IPv6 address 257 string. [ginsbach 20050311] 258 stf(4): Add support for changing the MTU. [tron 20050311] 259 re(4): Add TCPv4 hardware transmit segment offload support. 260 [yamt 20050312] 261 sendmail(8): update to 8.13.3. [atatat 20050315] 262 pkill(1): Add -i option to ignore case for both pgrep(1) and pkill(1). 263 [sketch 20050316] 264 postinstall(8): Moved from /etc to /usr/sbin. [lukem 20050417] 265 azalia(4): Add driver for High Definition Audio. [kent 20050621] 266
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