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10 Changes 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 coda: overhaul kernel module (vnode locking rules, uvm_fault
85 handling, general cleanup) [gdt 20070415]
86 puffs(4): Support NFS exporting puffs file servers [pooka 20070416]
87 xargs(1): Bring in xargs from FreeBSD to gain -I, -J etc. but keep our
88 GNU compatible exit values. [christos 20070418]
89 bluetooth(4): add 'service level' security [plunky 20070421]
90 mount_9p(8): Add support to mount a 9P file service with puffs.
91 [pooka 20070421]
92 kernel: Remove the CHECK_ALT_xxx() defines and emul_find() used
93 to locate files within an emulation's root directory.
94 Instead get namei() to check the emulation root first.
95 [dsl 20070422]
96 prep: add support for the MTX604 RAVEN based machine. Other RAVEN
97 based machines are also likely to work now. [garbled 20070426]
98 kernel: Added support for POSIX Asynchronous I/O. [rmind 20070430]
99 bind: import 9.4.1 [christos 20070501]
100 puffs(3): Add puffs_framebuf(3), which abstracts the buffer
101 management and event loop for networked file systems
102 using puffs_cc(3). Convert mount_psshfs(8) and
103 mount_9p(8) to use it. [pooka 20070505]
104 kernel: Add the TFTPROOT kernel option for TFTP'ing root RAMdisk
105 at root mount time. [manu 20070508]
106 pf(4): Make 'nat' and 'rdr' translation rules obey state
107 policy flags ('if-bound', 'group-bound', 'floating').
108 Extend pf.conf(5) syntax to express the translation-state
109 policies. [dyoung 20070510]
110 xen: Add timecounter support. [jld 20070512]
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