CHANGES revision 1.998
1 LIST OF CHANGES FROM LAST RELEASE: <$Revision: 1.998 $> 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 20 address changes is now supported - no more ntpd 21 restarts when interface addresses are re-configured 22 (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 FUSE (file system in userspace) compatibility 37 functionality, 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 ipv6: Add ipv6 fast forward. [liamjfoy 20070307] 56 openssh: Import 4.6 [christos 20070310] 57 aiboost(4): ASUS AI Booster ACPI Hardware monitor driver, 58 adapted from FreeBSD for envsys(4). [xtraeme 20070313] 59 evbmips: Add Infineon ADM5120 port. [dyoung 20070320] 60 i386, amd64: Intel(R) On Demand Clock Modulation driver, to save 61 power and overheating in CPUs supporting the Thermal 62 Monitor feature (TM). Adapted from OpenBSD/FreeBSD. 63 See options(4) for more information. [xtraeme 20070320] 64 kernel: Import of DRM (Direct Rendering Manager). Not yet enabled 65 by default. [drochner 20070320] 66 libc: Add support for LC_TIME. [manu 20070328] 67 genfb: Generic framebuffer console driver with PCI and SBus 68 frontends. [macallan 20070411] 69 sgimips: Add support for SGI O2 PS/2 controller macekbc(4) and 70 onboard display adapter crmfb(4). [jmcneill 20070412] 71 sgimips: Import mavb(4) audio device driver for SGI O2 from 72 OpenBSD. [jmcneill 20070412] 73 sparc64: Add support for hardware monitoring on 74 Ultra Enterprise 450. See envctrl(4). [tnn 20070414] 75 puffs(4): Support NFS exporting puffs file servers. [pooka 20070416] 76 xargs(1): Bring in xargs from FreeBSD to gain -I, -J etc. but keep our 77 GNU compatible exit values. [christos 20070418] 78 mount_9p(8): Add support to mount a 9P file service with puffs. 79 [pooka 20070421] 80 kernel: Remove the CHECK_ALT_xxx() defines and emul_find() used 81 to locate files within an emulation's root directory. 82 Instead get namei() to check the emulation root first. 83 [dsl 20070422] 84 prep: Add support for the MTX604 RAVEN based machine. Other RAVEN 85 based machines are also likely to work now. [garbled 20070426] 86 kernel: Added support for POSIX Asynchronous I/O. [rmind 20070430] 87 puffs(3): Add puffs_framebuf(3), which abstracts the buffer 88 management and event loop for networked file systems 89 using puffs_cc(3). Convert mount_psshfs(8) and 90 mount_9p(8) to use it. [pooka 20070505] 91 kernel: Add the TFTPROOT kernel option for TFTP'ing root RAMdisk 92 at root mount time. [manu 20070508] 93 pf(4): Make 'nat' and 'rdr' translation rules obey state 94 policy flags ('if-bound', 'group-bound', 'floating'). 95 Extend pf.conf(5) syntax to express the translation-state 96 policies. [dyoung 20070510] 97 idlelwp: yamt-idlelwp branch was merged. 98 1. separate context switching and thread scheduling. 99 2. implement idle lwp. 100 3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces. 101 4. make scheduler(s) modular. 102 [yamt 20070518] 103 ld.elf_so: Support Solaris $ORIGIN etc. expansions in paths. 104 [christos 20070518] 105 uslsa(4): Added CP210x USB-RS232 ucom driver, as submitted by 106 Jonathan A. Kollasch in PR kern/33496. [dogcow 20070520] 107 top(1): Allow a single process to be selected by pid. 108 Add a 'thread mode' that displays LWPs. 109 [ad 20070524] 110 libcurses: Merge in wide curses work done by Ruibiao Qui as a 111 Google Summer of Code project. [blymn 20070529] 112 powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601] 113 smsc(4): Added a driver for the hardware monitoring portion of 114 the SMSC LPC47B397. [blymn 20070601] 115 file(1): Update to 4.21. [pooka 20070607] 116 zyd(4): Added OpenBSD's driver. Supports ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B 117 USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device. [kiyohara 20070609] 118 mac68k: Switch sn(4) Ethernet on mac68k to using MI SONIC driver. 119 [tsutsui 20070610] 120 tcp(4): Per socket keepalive timer settings. Ability to change 121 connection timeout. [christos 20070620]. 122 newgrp(1): Add POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 / Open Group Base 123 Specifications Issue 6) User Portability Utility to change 124 effective group ID. [ginsbach 20060621] 125 GCC: Updated to version 4.1.3-20070620. [mrg 20070621] 126 ntp: Updated to version 4.2.4p2. [kardel 20070624] 127 tcpdrop(8): Ported by anon ymous (from FreeBSD/OpenBSD). 128 [christos 20070625] 129 fast_ipsec(4): Add support for IPsec NAT-T. [degroote 20070627] 130 efs: Added read-only Silicon Graphics EFS file system. [rumble 20070629] 131 envsys(4), sysmon_envsys(9): Imported envsys2. New API with the 132 following features: 133 - Cleaned up the API for simplicity and efficiency. 134 - Ability to send capacity/critical/warning events to powerd(8). 135 - Added support for a 'dictionary based communication channel' 136 between sysmon_power(9) and powerd(8), that means there is 137 no 32 bytes event size event restriction anymore. 138 - Binary compatibility with old envstat(8) and powerd(8) via 139 COMPAT_40. 140 And more, please see envsys(4) and sysmon_envsys(9) for more 141 information. 142 [xtraeme 20070701] 143 mount_puffsportal: Add experimental version of portalfs 144 based on puffs(3). [pooka 20070708] 145 i386: Add gcscehci(4) driver for the EHCI controller found in the AMD 146 Geode CS5536 companion controllers. [jmcneill 20070708] 147 nfsmb(4): Add support for NVIDIA nForce 2/3/4 SMBus controller and 148 SMBus driver. [kiyohara 20070711] 149 dbri(4): Added support for audio input. [macallan 20070712] 150 alpha: Add timecounter(9) support and switch to MI todr(9) 151 with MI mc146818 driver. [tsutsui 20070721] 152 ichsmb(4): Add support for Intel ICH SMBus controller. 153 [kiyohara 20070728] 154 shark: Add dhclient(8) to the install disk image to be able to 155 configure network interfaces through DHCP. [jmmv 20070729] 156 sparc: The cgfourteen driver now supports wscons. [macallan 20070730] 157 shark: Switched the installation disk to use wscons instead of 158 pccons. [jmmv 20070731] 159 tcp(4): TCP socket buffers automatic sizing, ported from FreeBSD. 160 [rmind 20070802] 161 agp(4): Add support agp_amd64. Imported from FreeBSD. 162 [kiyohara 20070804] 163 cpuctl(8): A new utility which allows setting CPUs online/offline. 164 [ad 20070804] 165 libpthread: Make some significant performance improvements around 166 thread synchronization, and fix a minor problem with 167 detaching running threads. [ad 20070804] 168 rump: Add the Runnable Userspace Meta Program framework to sys/rump. 169 These are programs which compile in a part from the standard 170 kernel sources and run in userspace. Their main use is 171 testing/debugging. Currently supported are a number of 172 file systems (e.g. ffs) through puffs(3). [pooka 20070805] 173 wscons: Add scrollback support to vcons, this should work with 174 any framebuffer console driver that uses vcons 175 [macallan 20070805] 176 wtf(6): Search pkgsrc's help database when ran inside a package 177 directory. [hubertf 20070806] 178 libpthread: Another performance improvement, and a fix for an issue 179 that could cause threaded applications to hang under rare 180 circumstances. [ad 20070807] 181 mount_sysctlfs(8): sysctl(3) to file system translator. [pooka 20070809] 182 slhci(4): Replace to Matthew Orgass's slhci(4). [kiyohara 20070815] 183 spdmem(4): Add Serial Presence Detect driver/support. This decodes 184 technical specifications stored in the eeprom on common types 185 of memory modules. [tnn 20070818] 186 btbc(4): Add support for AnyCom BlueCard. [kiyohara 20070820] 187 ichlpcib(4): The driver has added support for the TCO (watchdog) on 188 ICH6 or newer chipsets plus timecounter support. Also it can 189 be used on EM64T systems running the amd64 port. Adapted from 190 FreeBSD and OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070826] 191 agten(4): Add support for Fujitsu AG-10e graphics cards working as 192 accelerated framebuffer console. [macallan 20070826] 193 ag10e(4): Add XFree86 driver to run the AG-10e in 24bit with 194 acceleration. [macallan 20070830] 195 uchcom(4): Add support for WinChipHead CH341/340 USB-Serial adapter. 196 [tshiozak 20070903] 197 amd64, i386: cgd(4) is part of GENERIC. [joerg 20070906] 198 libpthread: scalability and performance enhancements. The MySQL 199 sysbench benchmark in read-only mode now scales to 900 200 simultaneous client threads on a 4xCPU i386 system before 201 serious performance drop-off occurs. [ad 20070907] 202 kernel: Added support for POSIX message queues. [rmind 20070907] 203 aps(4): driver for IBM Thinkpad Active Protection System, 204 provides support for some sensors exported through 205 the envsys(4) framework. Ported by Pierre Pronchery 206 from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070911] 207 i386, amd64: pcc is now able to compile most of the i386 kernel. 208 a number of changes have been made for LKM and 209 preemption safety. [ad 20070927] 210 i386: i386 bootblocks are now able to boot amd64 kernels. 211 support for a.out kernels has been removed. [ad 20070927] 212 kernel: Added support for kernel core dumps to RAID 1 sets. 213 [oster 20071004] 214 kernel: The new socket option SO_NOHEADER tells the network 215 stack to strip the protocol header from packets 216 received on a raw socket. [dyoung 20071005] 217 gre(4): Available encapsulations increase to IPv6, UDP in 218 IPv6, and UDP in IPv4. The Mobile IP encapsulation 219 is no more. [dyoung 20071005] 220 malloc: Replace the default memory allocator with 'jemalloc', 221 designed to perform well in both single- and multi- 222 threaded processes. This provides a significant 223 performance boost for many threaded workloads that 224 make use of malloc, such as MySQL. [ad 20071006] 225 kernel: A new SCHED_M2 scheduler, improves the performance on 226 MP systems, supports real-time and time-sharing classes, 227 ready for the CPU affinity. [rmind 20071009] 228 shark: Removed pccons(4), obsoleted by wscons(4). [jmmv 20071028] 229 coretemp(4): Driver for Intel Core's on-die thermal sensor, 230 available on Core or newer CPUs. Ported from FreeBSD. 231 [xtraeme 20071029] 232 i386, amd64: Added support for Intel 82G965 chipset. [jnemeth 20071030] 233 nsclpcsio(4): Added support for the VLM logical device. This provides 234 14 voltage sensors in addition to the previous 3 temperature 235 sensors provided in the TMS logical device. From OpenBSD. 236 [xtraeme 20071109] 237 btkey(1): A new utility to manage Bluetooth link keys in OS and 238 and device storage. [plunky 20071109] 239 putter(9): A Pass-to-Userspace Transporter, a generic request-response 240 handler for kernel-attached userspace daemons (e.g. puffs(4)). 241 [pooka 20071110] 242 pad(4): Added the pseudo-audio device driver, for feeding back raw 243 PCM data to userland. [jmcneill 20071111] 244 r128fb(4): New accelerated console driver for ATI Rage 128 graphics 245 controllers. [macallan 20071111] 246 atf: Initial import of the Automated Testing Framework, version 0.3. 247 Provides a framework to easily define and run test cases for 248 the NetBSD operating system. Work until 0.1 sponsored by 249 Google Summer of Code 2007 and mentored by martin. 250 [jmmv 20071112] 251 sysinst: Add support to install the new tests.tgz set. 252 [jmmv 20071112] 253 tests: Converted the regress/bin tree to use ATF and migrated it 254 to tests/util. [jmmv 20071112] 255 tests: Converted the regress/sys/fs/tmpfs tree to use ATF and 256 migrated it to tests/fs/tmpfs. [jmmv 20071112] 257 tests: Converted the regress/games tree to use ATF and migrated it 258 to tests/games. [jmmv 20071112] 259 ahcisata(4): Add support for ATAPI devices. [bouyer 20071112] 260 newfs_ext2fs(8): Add a native newfs_ext2fs(8) command. 261 Closes PR bin/16175. [tsutsui 20071117] 262 i386, amd64: Add support for /boot.cfg to configure the bootloader. 263 This includes optionally displaying menus, altering banner 264 text and changing options such as timeouts and console device 265 which previously required use of installboot. 266 [sborrill 20071120] 267 pud(4): Add a driver via which it is possible to implement 268 block and character devices in userspace. [pooka 20071120] 269 xen: Added support for amd64 architecture, both as dom0 and domU. 270 [bouyer 20071122] 271 i386: Create a boot.cfg on the install CD to allow the end-user to 272 select either the standard or non-ACPI kernel easily. 273 [sborrill 20071123] 274 libsa: Add ext2fs support. [tsutsui 20071201] 275 bcsp(4): Add support for BlueCore Serial Protocol. [kiyohara 20071202] 276 toolchain: Install the linker scripts on amd64, which allows to 277 link x86 32bits objects using the native ld(1). 278 [bouyer 20071202] 279 arcmsr(4): Areca Technology Corporation SATA RAID controller driver, 280 ported from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20071204] 281 acpi: Updated ACPI-CA to 20070320. [jmcneill 20071211] 282 kernel: Added a new power management framework, see pmf(9) for details. 283 [jmcneill,joerg 20071211] 284 MAKEDEV(8): Use pax(1) in preference to mknod(8) to create device 285 nodes more efficiently; use mount_tmpfs(8) in preference to 286 mount_mfs(8) when creating a memory file system. [apb 20071215] 287 openssh: Import 4.7. [christos 20071217] 288 i386, amd64: Add support for ACPI S3 (suspend-to-RAM) on MP systems. 289 [joerg 20071218] 290 sparc64: Add support for Sun PGX32 / TechSource Raptor GFX 8P to 291 genfb ( mostly workarounds for firmware bugs ), also build 292 XFree86's glint driver for accelerated X. [macallan 20071219] 293 newsyslog: newsyslog.conf flag 'J' will bzip2 logfiles. 294 [dogcow 20071221] 295 thinkpad(4): Add driver for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad hotkeys and 296 brightness controls. [jmcneill 20071221] 297 kernel: Address Space Layout Randomization support in the kernel and 298 dynamic linker, see security(8). [elad,christos 20071226] 299 msdosfs: Significantly improved writing speed (up to 16x faster). 300 [reinoud 20071228] 301 itesio(4): Added support for the Watchdog Timer. [xtraeme 20071229] 302 usermode: Add port of the NetBSD kernel to userspace. 303 [jmcneill 20071229] 304 hp700: Kernels are now compiled with -O2. [skrll 20071230] 305 compat_hpux: Removed. [ad 20071231] 306 systrace(1): Removed. [ad 20071231] 307 tprof: Add tprof, a simple performance monitor based profiler, 308 inspired from linux oprofile. it's still very experimental. 309 [yamt 20080102] 310 bioctl(8): Rewritten to handle new features like creating/removing 311 hot-spare, pass-through disks and RAID volumes, start/stop 312 consistency checks in volumes and others. [xtraeme 20080102] 313 arcmsr(4): Added support to create/remove hot-spare, pass-through 314 disks and RAID volumes, start/stop consistency checks 315 in volumes as well as showing information about physical 316 disks (even if they are marked as hot-spare, pass-through 317 or unused). [xtraeme 20080102] 318 ofppc: Support intallation and RAID bootable root. [mrg 20080102] 319 gem(4): Add support for Sun SX fibre cards. [jdc 20080105] 320 kernel: All platforms have been converted to use generic TODR. 321 [gdamore,joerg 20080108] 322 ulpt(4): Implement non-blocking read. [gdt 20080108] 323 gcscpcib(4): Added driver for the AMD CS5535 and CS5536 Companion 324 Device with support for Timecounter, Watchdog Timer and 325 GPIO. Adapted from OpenBSD by Yojiro UO. [xtraeme 20080109] 326 pc532: Port deleted. [simonb 20080109] 327 i386: Add sparse kernel core dumps (minidumps) for this platform 328 using a backwards-compatible on-disk core format. Not 329 turned on by default yet. Similar to FreeBSD minidumps but 330 simpler in implementation. Implementation by Jed Davis and 331 Devon O'Dell, contributed to NetBSD by Coyote Point Systems. 332 [tls 20080110] 333 hppa: Added gdb support. [skrll 20080110] 334 bktr(4): Added amd64 support. [jmcneill 20080116] 335
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