CHANGES revision 1.861
1LIST OF CHANGES FROM LAST RELEASE: <$Revision: 1.861 $> 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 i386, amd64: add cmos(4), driver for x86 CMOS RAM. [dyoung 20070206] 31 newlock2: Merge the newlock2 branch. Introduces a number of new 32 kernel synchronization primitives, improves scalability 33 on MP systems, and replaces the existing SA threads model 34 with a 1:1 threading model. [ad 20070209] 35 news68k: Implement generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070210] 36 refuse: added file system in userspace compatibility functionality, 37 layered on top of libpuffs [agc 20070211] 38 i386: added an opencrypto provider for VIA ACE (AES encryption 39 instructions), ported from OpenBSD. [daniel 20070217] 40 sdiff(1): Replaced by OpenBSD sdiff(1) (public domain). [rmind 20070219] 41 btuart(4): Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) driver. 42 [kiyohara 20070221] 43 btuartd(8): Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) daemon. 44 [kiyohara 20070221] 45 mutex(9), rwlock(9): Support priority inheritance. [yamt 20070226] 46 eeprom(8): Add the missing kernel bits on arm and powerpc that kept 47 eeprom from actually changing firmware settings 48 [macallan 20070228] 49 MAKEDEV(8), MAKEDEV.local(8): Let MAKEDEV.local use functions 50 defined in MAKEDEV. [apb 20070303] 51 x68k: Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304] 52 luna68k: Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304] 53 file(1): update to 4.20. [pooka 20070304] 54 hfs: Add read-only Apple HFS+ file system support. [dillo 20070305] 55 i386, amd64: switch bootable iso images to native boot format, and add 56 different bootable kenrels on the iso images. Enable ACPI 57 in default INSTALL and GENERIC kernels. [bouyer 20070306] 58 openssl: Import OpenSSL 0.9.8e. [mjf 20070307] 59 ipv6: add ipv6 fast forward. [liamjfoy 20070307] 60 openssh: import 4.6 [christos 20070310] 61 aiboost(4): ASUS AI Booster ACPI Hardware monitor driver, 62 adapted from FreeBSD for envsys(4). [xtraeme 20070313] 63 evbmips: add Infineon ADM5120 port. [dyoung 20070320] 64 i386, amd64: Intel(R) On Demand Clock Modulation driver, to save 65 power and overheating in CPUs supporting the Thermal 66 Monitor feature (TM). Adapted from OpenBSD/FreeBSD. 67 See options(4) for more information. [xtraeme 20070320] 68 libc: add support for LC_TIME [manu 20070328] 69 sh5, evbsh5: Port deleted [scw 20070408] 70 genfb: generic framebuffer console driver with PCI and SBus 71 frontends [macallan 20070411] 72 sgimips: add support for SGI O2 PS/2 controller macekbc(4) and 73 onboard display adapter crmfb(4) [jmcneill 20070412] 74 sgimips: import mavb(4) audio device driver for SGI O2 from 75 OpenBSD [jmcneill 20070412] 76 sparc64: add support for hardware monitoring on 77 Ultra Enterprise 450. See envctrl(4) [tnn 20070414] 78 coda: overhaul kernel module (vnode locking rules, uvm_fault 79 handling, general cleanup) [gdt 20070415] 80 puffs(4): Support NFS exporting puffs file servers [pooka 20070416] 81 xargs(1): Bring in xargs from FreeBSD to gain -I, -J etc. but keep our 82 GNU compatible exit values. [christos 20070418] 83 bluetooth(4): add 'service level' security [plunky 20070421] 84 mount_9p(8): Add support to mount a 9P file service with puffs. 85 [pooka 20070421] 86 kernel: Remove the CHECK_ALT_xxx() defines and emul_find() used 87 to locate files within an emulation's root directory. 88 Instead get namei() to check the emulation root first. 89 [dsl 20070422] 90 prep: add support for the MTX604 RAVEN based machine. Other RAVEN 91 based machines are also likely to work now. [garbled 20070426] 92 kernel: Added support for POSIX Asynchronous I/O. [rmind 20070430] 93 puffs(3): Add puffs_framebuf(3), which abstracts the buffer 94 management and event loop for networked file systems 95 using puffs_cc(3). Convert mount_psshfs(8) and 96 mount_9p(8) to use it. [pooka 20070505] 97 kernel: Add the TFTPROOT kernel option for TFTP'ing root RAMdisk 98 at root mount time. [manu 20070508] 99 pf(4): Make 'nat' and 'rdr' translation rules obey state 100 policy flags ('if-bound', 'group-bound', 'floating'). 101 Extend pf.conf(5) syntax to express the translation-state 102 policies. [dyoung 20070510] 103 xen: Add timecounter support. [jld 20070512] 104 kernel: add jmide(4), a driver for the JMicron Technology JMB36x 105 PCIe to SATA II/PATA controllers. [bouyer 20070515] 106 idlelwp: yamt-idlelwp branch was merged. 107 1. separate context switching and thread scheduling. 108 2. implement idle lwp. 109 3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces. 110 4. make scheduler(s) modular. 111 [yamt 20070518] 112 ld.elf_so: Support Solaris $ORIGIN etc. expansions in paths. 113 [christos 20070518] 114 postfix(1): Updated to 2.4.1 [heas 20070519] 115 uslsa(4): added CP210x USB-RS232 ucom driver, as submitted by 116 Jonathan A. Kollasch in PR kern/33496 [dogcow 20070520] 117 top(1): Allow a single process to be selected by pid. 118 Add a 'thread mode' that displays LWPs. 119 [ad 20070524] 120