CHANGES revision 1.906
1LIST OF CHANGES FROM LAST RELEASE: <$Revision: 1.906 $> 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 nfs: Remove NQNFS support from kernel. [yamt 20061227] 16 mount_psshfs(8): add puffs sshfs [pooka 20061229] 17 zaurus: add support for Sharp C3x00 PDA. [ober 20070105] 18 i386: add support for Microsoft Xbox. [jmcneill 20070105] 19 ntp: Import ntp 4.2.4 (20061228). Tracking of network interface address 20 changes is now supported - no more ntpd restarts when interface 21 addresses are re-configured (WLAN/DSL/ppp/...). [kardel 20070106] 22 kernel: global 'securelevel' variable removed; it is now internal to 23 the secmodel. [elad 20070110] 24 GCC: Updated to version 4.1.2-20070110. [mrg 20070111] 25 acpitools: added from FreeBSD via fvdl [christos 20070114] 26 scsictl(8): added setspeed command, to set the highest speed that the 27 optical drive should use for reading data, 28 contributed by Kimura Fuyuki. [bouyer 20070122] 29 i386, amd64: add cmos(4), driver for x86 CMOS RAM. [dyoung 20070206] 30 newlock2: Merge the newlock2 branch. Introduces a number of new 31 kernel synchronization primitives, improves scalability 32 on MP systems, and replaces the existing SA threads model 33 with a 1:1 threading model. [ad 20070209] 34 news68k: Implement generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070210] 35 refuse: added file system in userspace compatibility functionality, 36 layered on top of libpuffs [agc 20070211] 37 i386: added an opencrypto provider for VIA ACE (AES encryption 38 instructions), ported from OpenBSD. [daniel 20070217] 39 sdiff(1): Replaced by OpenBSD sdiff(1) (public domain). [rmind 20070219] 40 btuart(4): Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) driver. 41 [kiyohara 20070221] 42 btuartd(8): Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) daemon. 43 [kiyohara 20070221] 44 mutex(9), rwlock(9): Support priority inheritance. [yamt 20070226] 45 eeprom(8): Add the missing kernel bits on arm and powerpc that kept 46 eeprom from actually changing firmware settings 47 [macallan 20070228] 48 MAKEDEV(8), MAKEDEV.local(8): Let MAKEDEV.local use functions 49 defined in MAKEDEV. [apb 20070303] 50 x68k: Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304] 51 luna68k: Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304] 52 file(1): update to 4.20. [pooka 20070304] 53 hfs: Add read-only Apple HFS+ file system support. [dillo 20070305] 54 i386, amd64: switch bootable iso images to native boot format, and add 55 different bootable kernels on the iso images. Enable ACPI 56 in default INSTALL and GENERIC kernels. [bouyer 20070306] 57 openssl: Import OpenSSL 0.9.8e. [mjf 20070307] 58 ipv6: add ipv6 fast forward. [liamjfoy 20070307] 59 openssh: import 4.6 [christos 20070310] 60 aiboost(4): ASUS AI Booster ACPI Hardware monitor driver, 61 adapted from FreeBSD for envsys(4). [xtraeme 20070313] 62 evbmips: add Infineon ADM5120 port. [dyoung 20070320] 63 i386, amd64: Intel(R) On Demand Clock Modulation driver, to save 64 power and overheating in CPUs supporting the Thermal 65 Monitor feature (TM). Adapted from OpenBSD/FreeBSD. 66 See options(4) for more information. [xtraeme 20070320] 67 libc: add support for LC_TIME [manu 20070328] 68 sh5, evbsh5: Port deleted [scw 20070408] 69 genfb: generic framebuffer console driver with PCI and SBus 70 frontends [macallan 20070411] 71 sgimips: add support for SGI O2 PS/2 controller macekbc(4) and 72 onboard display adapter crmfb(4) [jmcneill 20070412] 73 sgimips: import mavb(4) audio device driver for SGI O2 from 74 OpenBSD [jmcneill 20070412] 75 sparc64: add support for hardware monitoring on 76 Ultra Enterprise 450. See envctrl(4) [tnn 20070414] 77 coda: overhaul kernel module (vnode locking rules, uvm_fault 78 handling, general cleanup) [gdt 20070415] 79 puffs(4): Support NFS exporting puffs file servers [pooka 20070416] 80 xargs(1): Bring in xargs from FreeBSD to gain -I, -J etc. but keep our 81 GNU compatible exit values. [christos 20070418] 82 bluetooth(4): add 'service level' security [plunky 20070421] 83 mount_9p(8): Add support to mount a 9P file service with puffs. 84 [pooka 20070421] 85 kernel: Remove the CHECK_ALT_xxx() defines and emul_find() used 86 to locate files within an emulation's root directory. 87 Instead get namei() to check the emulation root first. 88 [dsl 20070422] 89 prep: add support for the MTX604 RAVEN based machine. Other RAVEN 90 based machines are also likely to work now. [garbled 20070426] 91 kernel: Added support for POSIX Asynchronous I/O. [rmind 20070430] 92 puffs(3): Add puffs_framebuf(3), which abstracts the buffer 93 management and event loop for networked file systems 94 using puffs_cc(3). Convert mount_psshfs(8) and 95 mount_9p(8) to use it. [pooka 20070505] 96 kernel: Add the TFTPROOT kernel option for TFTP'ing root RAMdisk 97 at root mount time. [manu 20070508] 98 pf(4): Make 'nat' and 'rdr' translation rules obey state 99 policy flags ('if-bound', 'group-bound', 'floating'). 100 Extend pf.conf(5) syntax to express the translation-state 101 policies. [dyoung 20070510] 102 kernel: add jmide(4), a driver for the JMicron Technology JMB36x 103 PCIe to SATA II/PATA controllers. [bouyer 20070515] 104 idlelwp: yamt-idlelwp branch was merged. 105 1. separate context switching and thread scheduling. 106 2. implement idle lwp. 107 3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces. 108 4. make scheduler(s) modular. 109 [yamt 20070518] 110 ld.elf_so: Support Solaris $ORIGIN etc. expansions in paths. 111 [christos 20070518] 112 uslsa(4): added CP210x USB-RS232 ucom driver, as submitted by 113 Jonathan A. Kollasch in PR kern/33496 [dogcow 20070520] 114 top(1): Allow a single process to be selected by pid. 115 Add a 'thread mode' that displays LWPs. 116 [ad 20070524] 117 aac(4): Compile and run on amd64. [briggs 20070525] 118 libcurses: Merge in wide curses work done by Ruibiao Qui as a 119 Google Summer of Code project [blymn 20070529] 120 powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl [nisimura 20070601] 121 smsc(4): Added a driver for the hardware monitoring portion of 122 the SMSC LPC47B397 [blymn 20070601] 123 amd64: The Enhanced Speedstep driver is now able to work on EM64T 124 CPUs running in 64bit mode. [xtraeme 20070603] 125 file(1): update to 4.21. [pooka 20070607] 126 zyd(4): Added OpenBSD's driver. Supports ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B 127 USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device. [kiyohara 20070609] 128 mac68k: Switch sn(4) Ethernet on mac68k to using MI SONIC driver. 129 [tsutsui 20070610] 130 audio(4): New ioctl AUDIO_GETBUFINFO reduces system overhead for many 131 emulated OSS functions. [joerg 20070611] 132 i386: Import AMD Geode LX Security Block driver glxsb(4) from 133 OpenBSD. [jmcneill 20070615] 134 ipf: Updated to v4.1.23 [martin 20070616] 135 tcp(4): Per socket keepalive timer settings. Ability to change 136 connection timeout [christos 20070620]. 137 newgrp(1): Add POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 / Open Group Base 138 Specifications Issue 6) User Portability Utility to change 139 effective group ID. [ginsbach 20060621] 140 GCC: Updated to version 4.1.3-20070620. [mrg 20070621] 141 ntp: Updated to version 4.2.4p2. [kardel 20070624] 142 tcpdrop(8): Ported by anon ymous (from FreeBSD/OpenBSD) 143 [christos 20070625] 144 fast_ipsec(4): Add support for IPsec NAT-T [degroote 20070627] 145 i386: Imported gcscide(4), a driver for the AMD CS5535 Companion 146 IDE Controller for systems with an AMD Geode GX2 CPU 147 (for example the decTOP). [xtraeme 20070627] 148 efs: Added read-only Silicon Graphics EFS file system. [rumble 20070629] 149 envsys(4), sysmon_envsys(9): Imported envsys2. New API with the following 150 features: 151 - Cleaned up the API for simplicity and efficiency. 152 - Ability to send capacity/critical/warning events to powerd(8). 153 - Added support for a 'dictionary based communication channel' 154 between sysmon_power(9) and powerd(8), that means there is 155 no 32 bytes event size event restriction anymore. 156 - Binary compatibility with old envstat(8) and powerd(8) via 157 COMPAT_40. 158 And more, please see envsys(4) and sysmon_envsys(9) for more 159 information. 160 [xtraeme 20070701] 161 mount_puffsportal: add experimental version of portalfs 162 based on puffs(3). [pooka 20070708] 163 i386: Add gcscehci(4) driver for the EHCI controller found in the AMD 164 Geode CS5536 companion controllers. [jmcneill 20070708] 165 nfsmb(4): Add support for NVIDIA nForce 2/3/4 SMBus controller and 166 SMBus driver. [kiyohara 20070711] 167 dbri(4): Added support for audio input. [macallan 20070712] 168 alpha: Add timecounter(9) support and switch to MI todr(9) 169 with MI mc146818 driver. [tsutsui 20070721] 170 bind: import 9.4.1-P1 [christos 20070724] 171 ichsmb(4): Add support for Intel ICH SMBus controller. 172 [kiyohara 20070728] 173 shark: Add dhclient(8) to the install disk image to be able to 174 configure network interfaces through DHCP. [jmmv 20070729] 175 sparc: The cgfourteen driver now supports wscons. [macallan 20070730] 176 shark: Switched the installation disk to use wscons instead of 177 pccons. [jmmv 20070731] 178 tcp(4): TCP socket buffers automatic sizing, ported from FreeBSD. 179 [rmind 20070802] 180 agp(4): Add support agp_amd64. Imported from FreeBSD. 181 [kiyohara 20070804] 182 cpuctl(8): A new utility which allows setting CPUs online/offline. 183 [ad 20070804] 184 libpthread: Make some significant performance improvements around 185 thread synchronization, and fix a minor problem with 186 detaching running threads. [ad 20070804] 187 rump: Add the Runnable Userspace Meta Program framework to sys/rump. 188 These are programs which compile in a part from the standard 189 kernel sources and run in userspace. Their main use is 190 testing/debugging. Currently supported are a number of 191 file systems (e.g. ffs) through puffs(3). [pooka 20070805] 192 wscons: Add scrollback support to vcons, this should work with 193 any framebuffer console driver that uses vcons 194 [macallan 20070805] 195 wtf(6): Search pkgsrc's help database when ran inside a package 196 directory. [hubertf 20070806] 197