CHANGES revision 1.954
1LIST OF CHANGES FROM LAST RELEASE: <$Revision: 1.954 $> 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 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 ipv6: add ipv6 fast forward. [liamjfoy 20070307] 55 openssh: import 4.6 [christos 20070310] 56 aiboost(4): ASUS AI Booster ACPI Hardware monitor driver, 57 adapted from FreeBSD for envsys(4). [xtraeme 20070313] 58 evbmips: add Infineon ADM5120 port. [dyoung 20070320] 59 i386, amd64: Intel(R) On Demand Clock Modulation driver, to save 60 power and overheating in CPUs supporting the Thermal 61 Monitor feature (TM). Adapted from OpenBSD/FreeBSD. 62 See options(4) for more information. [xtraeme 20070320] 63 libc: add support for LC_TIME [manu 20070328] 64 genfb: generic framebuffer console driver with PCI and SBus 65 frontends [macallan 20070411] 66 sgimips: add support for SGI O2 PS/2 controller macekbc(4) and 67 onboard display adapter crmfb(4) [jmcneill 20070412] 68 sgimips: import mavb(4) audio device driver for SGI O2 from 69 OpenBSD [jmcneill 20070412] 70 sparc64: add support for hardware monitoring on 71 Ultra Enterprise 450. See envctrl(4) [tnn 20070414] 72 puffs(4): Support NFS exporting puffs file servers [pooka 20070416] 73 xargs(1): Bring in xargs from FreeBSD to gain -I, -J etc. but keep our 74 GNU compatible exit values. [christos 20070418] 75 mount_9p(8): Add support to mount a 9P file service with puffs. 76 [pooka 20070421] 77 kernel: Remove the CHECK_ALT_xxx() defines and emul_find() used 78 to locate files within an emulation's root directory. 79 Instead get namei() to check the emulation root first. 80 [dsl 20070422] 81 prep: add support for the MTX604 RAVEN based machine. Other RAVEN 82 based machines are also likely to work now. [garbled 20070426] 83 kernel: Added support for POSIX Asynchronous I/O. [rmind 20070430] 84 puffs(3): Add puffs_framebuf(3), which abstracts the buffer 85 management and event loop for networked file systems 86 using puffs_cc(3). Convert mount_psshfs(8) and 87 mount_9p(8) to use it. [pooka 20070505] 88 kernel: Add the TFTPROOT kernel option for TFTP'ing root RAMdisk 89 at root mount time. [manu 20070508] 90 pf(4): Make 'nat' and 'rdr' translation rules obey state 91 policy flags ('if-bound', 'group-bound', 'floating'). 92 Extend pf.conf(5) syntax to express the translation-state 93 policies. [dyoung 20070510] 94 idlelwp: yamt-idlelwp branch was merged. 95 1. separate context switching and thread scheduling. 96 2. implement idle lwp. 97 3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces. 98 4. make scheduler(s) modular. 99 [yamt 20070518] 100 ld.elf_so: Support Solaris $ORIGIN etc. expansions in paths. 101 [christos 20070518] 102 uslsa(4): added CP210x USB-RS232 ucom driver, as submitted by 103 Jonathan A. Kollasch in PR kern/33496 [dogcow 20070520] 104 top(1): Allow a single process to be selected by pid. 105 Add a 'thread mode' that displays LWPs. 106 [ad 20070524] 107 libcurses: Merge in wide curses work done by Ruibiao Qui as a 108 Google Summer of Code project [blymn 20070529] 109 powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl [nisimura 20070601] 110 smsc(4): Added a driver for the hardware monitoring portion of 111 the SMSC LPC47B397 [blymn 20070601] 112 file(1): update to 4.21. [pooka 20070607] 113 zyd(4): Added OpenBSD's driver. Supports ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B 114 USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device. [kiyohara 20070609] 115 mac68k: Switch sn(4) Ethernet on mac68k to using MI SONIC driver. 116 [tsutsui 20070610] 117 tcp(4): Per socket keepalive timer settings. Ability to change 118 connection timeout [christos 20070620]. 119 newgrp(1): Add POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 / Open Group Base 120 Specifications Issue 6) User Portability Utility to change 121 effective group ID. [ginsbach 20060621] 122 GCC: Updated to version 4.1.3-20070620. [mrg 20070621] 123 ntp: Updated to version 4.2.4p2. [kardel 20070624] 124 tcpdrop(8): Ported by anon ymous (from FreeBSD/OpenBSD) 125 [christos 20070625] 126 fast_ipsec(4): Add support for IPsec NAT-T [degroote 20070627] 127 efs: Added read-only Silicon Graphics EFS file system. [rumble 20070629] 128 envsys(4), sysmon_envsys(9): Imported envsys2. New API with the following 129 features: 130 - Cleaned up the API for simplicity and efficiency. 131 - Ability to send capacity/critical/warning events to powerd(8). 132 - Added support for a 'dictionary based communication channel' 133 between sysmon_power(9) and powerd(8), that means there is 134 no 32 bytes event size event restriction anymore. 135 - Binary compatibility with old envstat(8) and powerd(8) via 136 COMPAT_40. 137 And more, please see envsys(4) and sysmon_envsys(9) for more 138 information. 139 [xtraeme 20070701] 140 mount_puffsportal: add experimental version of portalfs 141 based on puffs(3). [pooka 20070708] 142 i386: Add gcscehci(4) driver for the EHCI controller found in the AMD 143 Geode CS5536 companion controllers. [jmcneill 20070708] 144 nfsmb(4): Add support for NVIDIA nForce 2/3/4 SMBus controller and 145 SMBus driver. [kiyohara 20070711] 146 dbri(4): Added support for audio input. [macallan 20070712] 147 alpha: Add timecounter(9) support and switch to MI todr(9) 148 with MI mc146818 driver. [tsutsui 20070721] 149 ichsmb(4): Add support for Intel ICH SMBus controller. 150 [kiyohara 20070728] 151 shark: Add dhclient(8) to the install disk image to be able to 152 configure network interfaces through DHCP. [jmmv 20070729] 153 sparc: The cgfourteen driver now supports wscons. [macallan 20070730] 154 shark: Switched the installation disk to use wscons instead of 155 pccons. [jmmv 20070731] 156 tcp(4): TCP socket buffers automatic sizing, ported from FreeBSD. 157 [rmind 20070802] 158 agp(4): Add support agp_amd64. Imported from FreeBSD. 159 [kiyohara 20070804] 160 cpuctl(8): A new utility which allows setting CPUs online/offline. 161 [ad 20070804] 162 libpthread: Make some significant performance improvements around 163 thread synchronization, and fix a minor problem with 164 detaching running threads. [ad 20070804] 165 rump: Add the Runnable Userspace Meta Program framework to sys/rump. 166 These are programs which compile in a part from the standard 167 kernel sources and run in userspace. Their main use is 168 testing/debugging. Currently supported are a number of 169 file systems (e.g. ffs) through puffs(3). [pooka 20070805] 170 wscons: Add scrollback support to vcons, this should work with 171 any framebuffer console driver that uses vcons 172 [macallan 20070805] 173 wtf(6): Search pkgsrc's help database when ran inside a package 174 directory. [hubertf 20070806] 175 libpthread: Another performance improvement, and a fix for an issue 176 that could cause threaded applications to hang under rare 177 circumstances. [ad 20070807] 178 mount_sysctlfs(8): sysctl(3) to file system translator [pooka 20070809] 179 slhci(4): Replace to Matthew Orgass's slhci(4). [kiyohara 20070815] 180 spdmem(4): Add Serial Presence Detect driver/support. This decodes 181 technical specifications stored in the eeprom on common types 182 of memory modules. [tnn 20070818] 183 btbc(4): Add support for AnyCom BlueCard. [kiyohara 20070820] 184 ichlpcib(4): The driver has added support for the TCO (watchdog) on 185 ICH6 or newer chipsets plus timecounter support. Also it can 186 be used on EM64T systems running the amd64 port. Adapted from 187 FreeBSD and OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070826] 188 agten(4): Add support for Fujitsu AG-10e graphics cards working as 189 accelerated framebuffer console. [macallan 20070826] 190 ag10e(4): Add XFree86 driver to run the AG-10e in 24bit with 191 acceleration. [macallan 20070830] 192 uchcom(4): Add support for WinChipHead CH341/340 USB-Serial adapter. 193 [tshiozak 20070903] 194 amd64, i386: cgd(4) is part of GENERIC [joerg 20070906] 195 libpthread: scalability and performance enhancements. The MySQL 196 sysbench benchmark in read-only mode now scales to 900 197 simultaneous client threads on a 4xCPU i386 system before 198 serious performance drop-off occurs. [ad 20070907] 199 kernel: Added support for POSIX message queues. [rmind 20070907] 200 aps(4): driver for IBM Thinkpad Active Protection System, 201 provides support for some sensors exported through 202 the envsys(4) framework. Ported by Pierre Pronchery 203 from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070911] 204 i386, amd64: pcc is now able to compile most of the i386 kernel. 205 a number of changes have been made for LKM and 206 preemption safety. [ad 20070927] 207 i386: i386 bootblocks are now able to boot amd64 kernels. 208 support for a.out kernels has been removed [ad 20070927] 209 kernel: Added support for kernel core dumps to RAID 1 sets. 210 [oster 20071004] 211 kernel: The new socket option SO_NOHEADER tells the network 212 stack to strip the protocol header from packets 213 received on a raw socket. [dyoung 20071005] 214 gre(4): Available encapsulations increase to IPv6, UDP in 215 IPv6, and UDP in IPv4. The Mobile IP encapsulation 216 is no more. [dyoung 20071005] 217 malloc: Replace the default memory allocator with 'jemalloc', 218 designed to perform well in both single- and multi- 219 threaded processes. This provides a significant 220 performance boost for many threaded workloads that 221 make use of malloc, such as MySQL. [ad 20071006] 222 kernel: A new SCHED_M2 scheduler, improves the performance on 223 MP systems, supports real-time and time-sharing classes, 224 ready for the CPU affinity. [rmind 20071009] 225 shark: Removed pccons(4), obsoleted by wscons(4). [jmmv 20071028] 226 coretemp(4): Driver for Intel Core's on-die thermal sensor, 227 available on Core or newer CPUs. Ported from FreeBSD. 228 [xtraeme 20071029] 229 x86: Added support for Intel 82G965 chipset. [jnemeth 20071030] 230 nsclpcsio(4): Added support for the VLM logical device. This provides 231 14 voltage sensors in addition to the previous 3 temperature 232 sensors provided in the TMS logical device. From OpenBSD. 233 [xtraeme 20071109] 234 btkey(1): A new utility to manage Bluetooth link keys in OS and 235 and device storage. [plunky 20071109] 236 putter(9): A Pass-to-Userspace Transporter, a generic request-response 237 handler for kernel-attached userspace daemons (e.g. puffs(4)). 238 [pooka 20071110] 239 pad(4): Added the pseudo-audio device driver, for feeding back raw 240 PCM data to userland. [jmcneill 20071111] 241 r128fb(4): New accelerated console driver for ATI Rage 128 graphics 242 controllers. [macallan 20071111] 243 atf: Initial import of the Automated Testing Framework, version 0.3. 244 Provides a framework to easily define and run test cases for 245 the NetBSD operating system. Work until 0.1 sponsored by 246 Google Summer of Code 2007 and mentored by martin. 247 [jmmv 20071112] 248 sysinst: Add support to install the new tests.tgz set. 249 [jmmv 20071112] 250 tests: Converted the regress/bin tree to use ATF and migrated it 251 to tests/util. [jmmv 20071112] 252 tests: Converted the regress/sys/fs/tmpfs tree to use ATF and 253 migrated it to tests/fs/tmpfs. [jmmv 20071112] 254 tests: Converted the regress/games tree to use ATF and migrated it 255 to tests/games. [jmmv 20071112] 256 ahcisata(4): Add support for ATAPI devices. [bouyer 20071112] 257 newfs_ext2fs(8): Add a native newfs_ext2fs(8) command. 258 Closes PR bin/16175. [tsutsui 20071117] 259 x86: Add support for /boot.cfg to configure the bootloader. This 260 includes optionally displaying menus, altering banner text 261 and changing options such as timeouts and console device 262 which previously required use of installboot. 263 [sborrill 20071120] 264 pud(4): Add a driver via which it is possible to implement 265 block and character devices in userspace. [pooka 20071120] 266 xen: Added support for amd64 architecture, both as dom0 and domU. 267 [bouyer 20071122] 268 i386: Create a boot.cfg on the install CD to allow the end-user to 269 select either the standard or non-ACPI kernel easily. 270 [sborrill 20071123] 271