CHANGES revision 1.924
1 LIST OF CHANGES FROM LAST RELEASE: <$Revision: 1.924 $> 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 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 FUSE (file system in userspace) compatibility 36 functionality, 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 libpthread: Another performance improvement, and a fix for an issue 198 that could cause threaded applications to hang under rare 199 circumstances. [ad 20070807] 200 mount_sysctlfs(8): sysctl(3) to file system translator [pooka 20070809] 201 slhci(4): Replace to Matthew Orgass's slhci(4). [kiyohara 20070815] 202 spdmem(4): Add Serial Presence Detect driver/support. This decodes 203 technical specifications stored in the eeprom on common types 204 of memory modules. [tnn 20070818] 205 btbc(4): Add support for AnyCom BlueCard. [kiyohara 20070820] 206 ichlpcib(4): The driver has added support for the TCO (watchdog) on 207 ICH6 or newer chipsets plus timecounter support. Also it can 208 be used on EM64T systems running the amd64 port. Adapted from 209 FreeBSD and OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070826] 210 agten(4): Add support for Fujitsu AG-10e graphics cards working as 211 accelerated framebuffer console. [macallan 20070826] 212 ag10e(4): Add XFree86 driver to run the AG-10e in 24bit with 213 acceleration. [macallan 20070830] 214 build.sh: Add iso-image-source option which does iso-image with 215 source sets. [jnemeth 20070830] 216 build.sh: Add iso-dir=directory option which when combined with 217 iso-image or iso-image-source causes directory to be 218 added to the CD-ROM image. [jnemeth 20070901] 219 build.sh: Convert iso-dir=directory option to -C cddir. 220 [jnemeth 20070901] 221 uchcom(4): Add support for WinChipHead CH341/340 USB-Serial adapter. 222 [tshiozak 20070903] 223 amd64, i386: cgd(4) is part of GENERIC [joerg 20070906] 224 libpthread: scalability and performance enhancements. The MySQL 225 sysbench benchmark in read-only mode now scales to 900 226 simultaneous client threads on a 4xCPU i386 system before 227 serious performance drop-off occurs. [ad 20070907] 228
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