CHANGES revision 1.961
1 LIST OF CHANGES FROM LAST RELEASE: <$Revision: 1.961 $> 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 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 kernel: Import of DRM (Direct Rendering Manager). Not yet enabled 64 by default. [drochner 20070320] 65 libc: add support for LC_TIME [manu 20070328] 66 genfb: generic framebuffer console driver with PCI and SBus 67 frontends [macallan 20070411] 68 sgimips: add support for SGI O2 PS/2 controller macekbc(4) and 69 onboard display adapter crmfb(4) [jmcneill 20070412] 70 sgimips: import mavb(4) audio device driver for SGI O2 from 71 OpenBSD [jmcneill 20070412] 72 sparc64: add support for hardware monitoring on 73 Ultra Enterprise 450. See envctrl(4) [tnn 20070414] 74 puffs(4): Support NFS exporting puffs file servers [pooka 20070416] 75 xargs(1): Bring in xargs from FreeBSD to gain -I, -J etc. but keep our 76 GNU compatible exit values. [christos 20070418] 77 mount_9p(8): Add support to mount a 9P file service with puffs. 78 [pooka 20070421] 79 kernel: Remove the CHECK_ALT_xxx() defines and emul_find() used 80 to locate files within an emulation's root directory. 81 Instead get namei() to check the emulation root first. 82 [dsl 20070422] 83 prep: add support for the MTX604 RAVEN based machine. Other RAVEN 84 based machines are also likely to work now. [garbled 20070426] 85 kernel: Added support for POSIX Asynchronous I/O. [rmind 20070430] 86 puffs(3): Add puffs_framebuf(3), which abstracts the buffer 87 management and event loop for networked file systems 88 using puffs_cc(3). Convert mount_psshfs(8) and 89 mount_9p(8) to use it. [pooka 20070505] 90 kernel: Add the TFTPROOT kernel option for TFTP'ing root RAMdisk 91 at root mount time. [manu 20070508] 92 pf(4): Make 'nat' and 'rdr' translation rules obey state 93 policy flags ('if-bound', 'group-bound', 'floating'). 94 Extend pf.conf(5) syntax to express the translation-state 95 policies. [dyoung 20070510] 96 idlelwp: yamt-idlelwp branch was merged. 97 1. separate context switching and thread scheduling. 98 2. implement idle lwp. 99 3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces. 100 4. make scheduler(s) modular. 101 [yamt 20070518] 102 ld.elf_so: Support Solaris $ORIGIN etc. expansions in paths. 103 [christos 20070518] 104 uslsa(4): added CP210x USB-RS232 ucom driver, as submitted by 105 Jonathan A. Kollasch in PR kern/33496 [dogcow 20070520] 106 top(1): Allow a single process to be selected by pid. 107 Add a 'thread mode' that displays LWPs. 108 [ad 20070524] 109 libcurses: Merge in wide curses work done by Ruibiao Qui as a 110 Google Summer of Code project [blymn 20070529] 111 powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl [nisimura 20070601] 112 smsc(4): Added a driver for the hardware monitoring portion of 113 the SMSC LPC47B397 [blymn 20070601] 114 file(1): update to 4.21. [pooka 20070607] 115 zyd(4): Added OpenBSD's driver. Supports ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B 116 USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device. [kiyohara 20070609] 117 mac68k: Switch sn(4) Ethernet on mac68k to using MI SONIC driver. 118 [tsutsui 20070610] 119 tcp(4): Per socket keepalive timer settings. Ability to change 120 connection timeout [christos 20070620]. 121 newgrp(1): Add POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 / Open Group Base 122 Specifications Issue 6) User Portability Utility to change 123 effective group ID. [ginsbach 20060621] 124 GCC: Updated to version 4.1.3-20070620. [mrg 20070621] 125 ntp: Updated to version 4.2.4p2. [kardel 20070624] 126 tcpdrop(8): Ported by anon ymous (from FreeBSD/OpenBSD) 127 [christos 20070625] 128 fast_ipsec(4): Add support for IPsec NAT-T [degroote 20070627] 129 efs: Added read-only Silicon Graphics EFS file system. [rumble 20070629] 130 envsys(4), sysmon_envsys(9): Imported envsys2. New API with the following 131 features: 132 - Cleaned up the API for simplicity and efficiency. 133 - Ability to send capacity/critical/warning events to powerd(8). 134 - Added support for a 'dictionary based communication channel' 135 between sysmon_power(9) and powerd(8), that means there is 136 no 32 bytes event size event restriction anymore. 137 - Binary compatibility with old envstat(8) and powerd(8) via 138 COMPAT_40. 139 And more, please see envsys(4) and sysmon_envsys(9) for more 140 information. 141 [xtraeme 20070701] 142 mount_puffsportal: add experimental version of portalfs 143 based on puffs(3). [pooka 20070708] 144 i386: Add gcscehci(4) driver for the EHCI controller found in the AMD 145 Geode CS5536 companion controllers. [jmcneill 20070708] 146 nfsmb(4): Add support for NVIDIA nForce 2/3/4 SMBus controller and 147 SMBus driver. [kiyohara 20070711] 148 dbri(4): Added support for audio input. [macallan 20070712] 149 alpha: Add timecounter(9) support and switch to MI todr(9) 150 with MI mc146818 driver. [tsutsui 20070721] 151 ichsmb(4): Add support for Intel ICH SMBus controller. 152 [kiyohara 20070728] 153 shark: Add dhclient(8) to the install disk image to be able to 154 configure network interfaces through DHCP. [jmmv 20070729] 155 sparc: The cgfourteen driver now supports wscons. [macallan 20070730] 156 shark: Switched the installation disk to use wscons instead of 157 pccons. [jmmv 20070731] 158 tcp(4): TCP socket buffers automatic sizing, ported from FreeBSD. 159 [rmind 20070802] 160 agp(4): Add support agp_amd64. Imported from FreeBSD. 161 [kiyohara 20070804] 162 cpuctl(8): A new utility which allows setting CPUs online/offline. 163 [ad 20070804] 164 libpthread: Make some significant performance improvements around 165 thread synchronization, and fix a minor problem with 166 detaching running threads. [ad 20070804] 167 rump: Add the Runnable Userspace Meta Program framework to sys/rump. 168 These are programs which compile in a part from the standard 169 kernel sources and run in userspace. Their main use is 170 testing/debugging. Currently supported are a number of 171 file systems (e.g. ffs) through puffs(3). [pooka 20070805] 172 wscons: Add scrollback support to vcons, this should work with 173 any framebuffer console driver that uses vcons 174 [macallan 20070805] 175 wtf(6): Search pkgsrc's help database when ran inside a package 176 directory. [hubertf 20070806] 177 libpthread: Another performance improvement, and a fix for an issue 178 that could cause threaded applications to hang under rare 179 circumstances. [ad 20070807] 180 mount_sysctlfs(8): sysctl(3) to file system translator [pooka 20070809] 181 slhci(4): Replace to Matthew Orgass's slhci(4). [kiyohara 20070815] 182 spdmem(4): Add Serial Presence Detect driver/support. This decodes 183 technical specifications stored in the eeprom on common types 184 of memory modules. [tnn 20070818] 185 btbc(4): Add support for AnyCom BlueCard. [kiyohara 20070820] 186 ichlpcib(4): The driver has added support for the TCO (watchdog) on 187 ICH6 or newer chipsets plus timecounter support. Also it can 188 be used on EM64T systems running the amd64 port. Adapted from 189 FreeBSD and OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070826] 190 agten(4): Add support for Fujitsu AG-10e graphics cards working as 191 accelerated framebuffer console. [macallan 20070826] 192 ag10e(4): Add XFree86 driver to run the AG-10e in 24bit with 193 acceleration. [macallan 20070830] 194 uchcom(4): Add support for WinChipHead CH341/340 USB-Serial adapter. 195 [tshiozak 20070903] 196 amd64, i386: cgd(4) is part of GENERIC [joerg 20070906] 197 libpthread: scalability and performance enhancements. The MySQL 198 sysbench benchmark in read-only mode now scales to 900 199 simultaneous client threads on a 4xCPU i386 system before 200 serious performance drop-off occurs. [ad 20070907] 201 kernel: Added support for POSIX message queues. [rmind 20070907] 202 aps(4): driver for IBM Thinkpad Active Protection System, 203 provides support for some sensors exported through 204 the envsys(4) framework. Ported by Pierre Pronchery 205 from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070911] 206 i386, amd64: pcc is now able to compile most of the i386 kernel. 207 a number of changes have been made for LKM and 208 preemption safety. [ad 20070927] 209 i386: i386 bootblocks are now able to boot amd64 kernels. 210 support for a.out kernels has been removed [ad 20070927] 211 kernel: Added support for kernel core dumps to RAID 1 sets. 212 [oster 20071004] 213 kernel: The new socket option SO_NOHEADER tells the network 214 stack to strip the protocol header from packets 215 received on a raw socket. [dyoung 20071005] 216 gre(4): Available encapsulations increase to IPv6, UDP in 217 IPv6, and UDP in IPv4. The Mobile IP encapsulation 218 is no more. [dyoung 20071005] 219 malloc: Replace the default memory allocator with 'jemalloc', 220 designed to perform well in both single- and multi- 221 threaded processes. This provides a significant 222 performance boost for many threaded workloads that 223 make use of malloc, such as MySQL. [ad 20071006] 224 kernel: A new SCHED_M2 scheduler, improves the performance on 225 MP systems, supports real-time and time-sharing classes, 226 ready for the CPU affinity. [rmind 20071009] 227 shark: Removed pccons(4), obsoleted by wscons(4). [jmmv 20071028] 228 coretemp(4): Driver for Intel Core's on-die thermal sensor, 229 available on Core or newer CPUs. Ported from FreeBSD. 230 [xtraeme 20071029] 231 x86: Added support for Intel 82G965 chipset. [jnemeth 20071030] 232 nsclpcsio(4): Added support for the VLM logical device. This provides 233 14 voltage sensors in addition to the previous 3 temperature 234 sensors provided in the TMS logical device. From OpenBSD. 235 [xtraeme 20071109] 236 btkey(1): A new utility to manage Bluetooth link keys in OS and 237 and device storage. [plunky 20071109] 238 putter(9): A Pass-to-Userspace Transporter, a generic request-response 239 handler for kernel-attached userspace daemons (e.g. puffs(4)). 240 [pooka 20071110] 241 pad(4): Added the pseudo-audio device driver, for feeding back raw 242 PCM data to userland. [jmcneill 20071111] 243 r128fb(4): New accelerated console driver for ATI Rage 128 graphics 244 controllers. [macallan 20071111] 245 atf: Initial import of the Automated Testing Framework, version 0.3. 246 Provides a framework to easily define and run test cases for 247 the NetBSD operating system. Work until 0.1 sponsored by 248 Google Summer of Code 2007 and mentored by martin. 249 [jmmv 20071112] 250 sysinst: Add support to install the new tests.tgz set. 251 [jmmv 20071112] 252 tests: Converted the regress/bin tree to use ATF and migrated it 253 to tests/util. [jmmv 20071112] 254 tests: Converted the regress/sys/fs/tmpfs tree to use ATF and 255 migrated it to tests/fs/tmpfs. [jmmv 20071112] 256 tests: Converted the regress/games tree to use ATF and migrated it 257 to tests/games. [jmmv 20071112] 258 ahcisata(4): Add support for ATAPI devices. [bouyer 20071112] 259 newfs_ext2fs(8): Add a native newfs_ext2fs(8) command. 260 Closes PR bin/16175. [tsutsui 20071117] 261 x86: Add support for /boot.cfg to configure the bootloader. This 262 includes optionally displaying menus, altering banner text 263 and changing options such as timeouts and console device 264 which previously required use of installboot. 265 [sborrill 20071120] 266 pud(4): Add a driver via which it is possible to implement 267 block and character devices in userspace. [pooka 20071120] 268 xen: Added support for amd64 architecture, both as dom0 and domU. 269 [bouyer 20071122] 270 i386: Create a boot.cfg on the install CD to allow the end-user to 271 select either the standard or non-ACPI kernel easily. 272 [sborrill 20071123] 273 libsa: Add ext2fs support. [tsutsui 20071201] 274 bcsp(4): Add support for BlueCore Serial Protocol. [kiyohara 20071202] 275 toolchain: Install the linker scripts on amd64, which allows to 276 link x86 32bits objects using the native ld(1). 277 [bouyer 20071202] 278 arcmsr(4): Areca Technology Corporation SATA RAID controller driver, 279 ported from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20071204] 280 MAKEDEV(8): Use pax(1) in preference to mknod(8) to create device 281 nodes more efficiently; use mount_tmpfs(8) in preference to 282 mount_mfs(8) when creating a memory file system. [apb 20071215] 283
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