CHANGES revision 1.844
1LIST OF CHANGES FROM LAST RELEASE: <$Revision: 1.844 $> 2 3 4[Note: This file does not mention every change made to the NetBSD source tree. 5For an exhaustive list, please subscribe to the `source-changes' mailing list, 6or see the mailing list archives. For more information, send a message 7containing just the word `help' to `majordomo@NetBSD.org'.] 8 9 10Changes from NetBSD 4.0 to NetBSD 5.0: 11 evbppc: add support for Xilinx Virtex II-Pro/4-FX. [freza 20061202] 12 mac68k: add support for four more Nubus video cards, including the 13 VillageTronic MacPicasso 340. [hauke 20061206] 14 ixp425: add support for NPE Ethernet. [scw 20061210] 15 postfix(1): Updated to 2.3.5. [rpaulo 20061220] 16 nfs: Remove NQNFS support from kernel. [yamt 20061227] 17 mount_psshfs(8): add puffs sshfs [pooka 20061229] 18 zaurus: add support for Sharp C3x00 PDA. [ober 20070105] 19 i386: add support for Microsoft Xbox. [jmcneill 20070105] 20 ntp: Import ntp 4.2.4 (20061228). Tracking of network interface address 21 changes is now supported - no more ntpd restarts when interface 22 addresses are re-configured (WLAN/DSL/ppp/...). [kardel 20070106] 23 kernel: global 'securelevel' variable removed; it is now internal to 24 the secmodel. [elad 20070110] 25 GCC: Updated to version 4.1.2-20070110. [mrg 20070111] 26 acpitools: added from FreeBSD via fvdl [christos 20070114] 27 scsictl(8): added setspeed command, to set the highest speed that the 28 optical drive should use for reading data, 29 contributed by Kimura Fuyuki. [bouyer 20070122] 30 bind: import 9.4.0-rc2 [christos 20070127] 31 i386, amd64: add cmos(4), driver for x86 CMOS RAM. [dyoung 20070206] 32 newlock2: Merge the newlock2 branch. Introduces a number of new 33 kernel synchronization primitives, improves scalability 34 on MP systems, and replaces the existing SA threads model 35 with a 1:1 threading model. [ad 20070209] 36 news68k: Implement generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070210] 37 refuse: added file system in userspace compatibility functionality, 38 layered on top of libpuffs [agc 20070211] 39 i386: added an opencrypto provider for VIA ACE (AES encryption 40 instructions), ported from OpenBSD. [daniel 20070217] 41 sdiff(1): Replaced by OpenBSD sdiff(1) (public domain). [rmind 20070219] 42 btuart(4): Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) driver. 43 [kiyohara 20070221] 44 btuartd(8): Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) daemon. 45 [kiyohara 20070221] 46 mutex(9), rwlock(9): Support priority inheritance. [yamt 20070226] 47 eeprom(8): Add the missing kernel bits on arm and powerpc that kept 48 eeprom from actually changing firmware settings 49 [macallan 20070228] 50 MAKEDEV(8), MAKEDEV.local(8): Let MAKEDEV.local use functions 51 defined in MAKEDEV. [apb 20070303] 52 x68k: Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304] 53 luna68k: Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304] 54 file(1): update to 4.20. [pooka 20070304] 55 hfs: Add read-only Apple HFS+ file system support. [dillo 20070305] 56 build: 'make iso-image' in src/ (or build.sh iso-image) will build 57 iso images, eventually bootable, using in-tree tools. 58 [bouyer 20070306] 59 i386, amd64: switch bootable iso images to native boot format, and add 60 different bootable kenrels on the iso images. Enable ACPI 61 in default INSTALL and GENERIC kernels. [bouyer 20070306] 62 openssl: Import OpenSSL 0.9.8e. [mjf 20070307] 63 ipv6: add ipv6 fast forward. [liamjfoy 20070307] 64 openssh: import 4.6 [christos 20070310] 65 aiboost(4): ASUS AI Booster ACPI Hardware monitor driver, 66 adapted from FreeBSD for envsys(4). [xtraeme 20070313] 67 evbmips: add Infineon ADM5120 port. [dyoung 20070320] 68 i386, amd64: Intel(R) On Demand Clock Modulation driver, to save 69 power and overheating in CPUs supporting the Thermal 70 Monitor feature (TM). Adapted from OpenBSD/FreeBSD. 71 See options(4) for more information. [xtraeme 20070320] 72 libc: add support for LC_TIME [manu 20070328] 73 bind: import 9.4.0 [ghen 20070330] 74 sh5, evbsh5: Port deleted [scw 20070408] 75 genfb: generic framebuffer console driver with PCI and SBus 76 frontends [macallan 20070411] 77 sgimips: add support for SGI O2 PS/2 controller macekbc(4) and 78 onboard display adapter crmfb(4) [jmcneill 20070412] 79 sgimips: import mavb(4) audio device driver for SGI O2 from 80 OpenBSD [jmcneill 20070412] 81 sparc64: add support for hardware monitoring on 82 Ultra Enterprise 450. See envctrl(4) [tnn 20070414] 83 ipf(8): Updated to version 4.1.19. [martin 20070414] 84 puffs(4): Support NFS exporting puffs file servers [pooka 20070416] 85 xargs(1): Bring in xargs from FreeBSD to gain -I, -J etc. but keep our 86 GNU compatible exit values. [christos 20070418] 87 bluetooth(4): add 'service level' security [plunky 20070421] 88 mount_9p(8): Add support to mount a 9P file service with puffs. 89 [pooka 20070421] 90 kernel: Remove the CHECK_ALT_xxx() defines and emul_find() used 91 to locate files within an emulation's root directory. 92 Instead get namei() to check the emulation root first. 93 [dsl 20070422] 94 prep: add support for the MTX604 RAVEN based machine. Other RAVEN 95 based machines are also likely to work now. [garbled 20070426] 96 kernel: Added support for POSIX Asynchronous I/O. [rmind 20070430] 97 kernel: added bio(4) and associated bioctl(8), a framework to 98 query/control block device controllers. [bouyer 20070501] 99 envsys(4): added DRIVE type sensor. [bouyer 20070501] 100 mfi(4): added bio(4) and envsys(4) support. [bouyer 20070501] 101 ipf(8): Updated to version 4.1.20. [martti 20070501] 102 bind: import 9.4.1 [christos 20070501] 103 puffs(3): Add puffs_framebuf(3), which abstracts the buffer 104 management and event loop for networked file systems 105 using puffs_cc(3). Convert mount_psshfs(8) and 106 mount_9p(8) to use it. [pooka 20070505] 107 kernel: Add the TFTPROOT kernel option for TFTP'ing root RAMdisk 108 at root mount time. [manu 20070508] 109