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26Changes from NetBSD 10.0 to NetBSD 11.0:
27	amdsmn(4): added trivial power management support [reinoud 20221218]
28	amdccp(4): added trivial power management support [reinoud 20221218]
29	ppp(4): Remove several non-functioning ioctls. [chs 20221221]
30	dse(4): Added Dayna SCSI/Link ethernet driver. [nat 20221222]
31	binutils: Updated to FSF binutils 2.39. [christos 20221224]
32	cribbage(6): Add -y option to keep playing without asking
33		(from Greywolf in PR 57164) [christos 20230106]
34	x86: Enable the -z separate-code security feature by default in
35		ld(1). Reduces the default max page size from 2M to
36		4K on amd64. [christos 20230106]
37	bind: Import version 9.16.37. [christos 20230125]
38	xfwp(1): remove. [wiz 20230204]
39	wscons(4): Ignore nonsense tab stops in vt100 emulation.
40		[riastradh 20230223]
41	nvmm(4): Filter CR4 bits on x86 SVM (AMD). In particular,
42		prohibit PKE, Protection Key Enable, which requires
43		some additional management of CPU state by nvmm.
44		[riastradh 20230223]
45	aarch64: Audit use of curcpu(9). [riastradh 20230225]
46	xen: Memory barrier audit. Reduce unnecessary membars.
47		[riastradh 20230225]
48	x86: Mitigate MXCSR Configuration Dependent Timing CPU security
49		flaw in kernel FPU use. [riastradh 20230225]
50	kernel: Optimization: Omit needless membar when triggering softint
51		in various ports. [riastradh 20230301]
52	sh(1): Adjust tilde expansion to comply with upcoming POSIX
53		Issue 8 requirements. [kre 20230306]
54	libm: Add more long double transcendental functions (as aliases of
55		double functions) from C99. [riastradh 20230313]
56	xen: Allow a PVH dom0 to use VGA as console. [bouyer 20230324]
57	vioscsi(4), viornd(4), viomb(4): Mark VirtIO drivers as MPSAFE.
58		[mlelstv 20230325]
59	amiga: Fix bootblocks for Kickstart 3.2. [abs 20230325]
60	libc: Add __atomic_is_lock_free to help stdatomic.h usage with
61		GCC. [riastradh 20230330]
62	uaudio(4): Initial support for USB Audio Class 2.0 devices.
63		[mlelstv 20230402]
64	vacation(1): Check 'Auto-Submitted:' header in addition to
65		'Precedence:', and set 'Precedence:' in addition to
66		'Auto-Submitted:'.  [hauke 20230411]
67	ichsmb(4), tco(4): Add support for TCO on newer Intel chipsets.
68		[riastradh 20230412]
69	audiorecord(1): Add support for recording 24-bit wav files.
70		[mlelstv 20230415]
71	evbarm: Install a boot.cfg file for the EFI bootloader by default.
72		[brook 20230419]
73	dhcpcd: Import version 10.0.1. [roy 20230421]
74	evbarm: Enable rkv1crypto driver on Rock64. [mrg 20230424]
75	worms(6): Add a little bit of optional colour, code and
76		ideas from RVP. [kre 20230426]
77	amiga: Add driver for the MNT ZZ9000 Zorro board - submitted by
78		Alain Runa. [phx 20230503]
79	evbarm: Experimental IMX6SX support - tested on the UDOO Neo Full board.
80		[bouyer 20230504]
81	chown(8): Add a -d flag to avoid changing a file's owner/group to the
82		current value.  This avoids some unnecessary operations on the
83		file. [pgoyette 20230504]
84	riscv: Add RISC-V support that works on QEMU with a single hart.
85		[skrll 20230507]
86	riscv: Add Google Goldfish RTC driver. [skrll 20230508]
87	make(1): Make :mtime operate on each word in variable
88		value. [sjg 20230510]
89	worms(6): When using -H, make the appearance of the worm head
90		depend upon the body (more than it did before). [kre 20230512]
91	amiga: Update loadbsd source and distribution binary to version 3.3.
92		[phx 20230514]
93	i386: Add /dev/efi device. [riastradh 20230522]
94	efi(4): Add EFIIOC_GET_TABLE ioctl support on x86. [riastradh 20230522]
95	ctfmerge(1): Add error handling to pthread APIs.
96		Fix semaphores for macOS host tool.  [lukem 20230523]
97	share/mk: Deprecate non-functional SHAREDSTRINGS. [lukem 20230524]
98	mkstr(1), xstr(1): Obsolete unused PDP-11-era tools. [lukem 20230524]
99	pthread(3): Reduce power consumption when spinning for a lock on
100		arm. [riastradh 20230525]
101	pax(1): Exit 0 if stdin filelist is used and no files are supplied.
102		Don't overwrite existing destination files if -r -w copy
103		fails for any reason. [lukem 20230528]
104	date(1): Add -R option for displaying time in RFC 5322 format,
105		similar to GNU date. [kim 20230531]
106	mk.conf(5): Obsolete non-MK variants MANZ UNPRIVED UPDATE
107		[lukem 20230602]
108	build.sh: Add show-params operation [lukem 20230602]
109	kerberos(8): Update to Heimdal-7.8.0 [christos 20230619]
110	patch(1): Add --backup-if-mismatch and --no-backup-if-mismatch for
111		GNU patch compatibility. These options only make sense in
112		POSIX mode, patch(1) has --backup enabled by default and
113		GNU patch doesn't. [wiz 20230616]
114	indent(1): Remove support for handling ASCII backspace characters
115		in C code. [rillig 20230618]
116	make(1): Recognize include guards. [rillig 20230619]
117	editline(3): Install pkg-config files, same as the portable version.
118		[wiz 20230620]
119	make(1): Speed up pattern matching in the ':M' and ':N' modifiers.
120		[rillig 20230622]
121	paxctl(8): Introduce -0 option to clear all PaX flag bits in ELF note.
122		[rin 20230623]
123	crunchgen(1): Clear PaX flags instead of removing its ELF note section.
124		[rin 20230623]
125	make(1): Warn about malformed patterns in ':M', ':N' and
126		'.if make(...)'  [rillig 20230623]
127	bind: Import version 9.16.42. [christos 20230626]
128	openresolv: Import version 3.13.2 [roy 20230627]
129	tmux(1): Import version 3.3a [wiz 20230628]
130	x86: Primary bootstrap is now enable to read a GPT
131		partition table inside a software raid(4).
132		[manu 20230629]
133	aiomixer(1): Support for the NO_COLOR environment variable.
134		[nia 20230629]
135	openpam(3): update to 20230627 (ximenia) [christos 20230630]
136	entropy(9): Reintroduce netbsd<=9 time-delta estimator for unblocking.
137		[riastradh 20230630]
138	mdnsd(8): Restore NetBSD logging additions lost in merges.
139		[gutteridge 20230630]
140	tetris(6): Support the informal standard of allowing setting NO_COLOR
141		in the environment to disable the use of color. [nia 20230701]
142	lint(1): Initial support for C23. [rillig 20230702]
143	heartbeat(9): New mechanism to check progress of kernel.  This uses
144		hard interrupts to check progress of low-priority soft
145		interrupts, and one CPU to check progress of another CPU.
146		[riastradh 20230707].
147	crashme(9): New crash methods with raised ipl or kpreempt disabled.
148		[riastradh 20230707].
149	versioningsyscalls(9): Document how system call versioning is done.
150		From this summer's compat-linux GSoC, by Theodore Preduta.
151		[christos 20230708].
152	clock_gettime(2): Take greater care to ensure
153		CLOCK_PROCESS/THREAD_CPUTIME_ID do not go backwards.
154		[riastradh 20230708].
155	riscv: Add FDT-based initrd, rndseed, and efirng support.
156		[rin 20230710]
157	kern: Add memfd_create(2) system call from GSoC 2023 by
158		Theodore Preduta.  [christos 20230710]
159	refuse(3): Allow programs using the 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7 FUSE APIs
160		to function at runtime. [pho 20230714]
161	pckbd(4): Work around buggy Chromebook PS/2 keyboard firmware.
162		(from Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko). [christos 20230716]
163	acpiec(4): New ACPIEC_DEBUG option. [riastradh 20230718]
164	dhcpcd: Import version 10.0.2. [roy 20230719]
165	bta2dpd(8): Add throttle when playing from file. [nat 20230720]
166	xen: Enable MKCTF=yes by default. [riastradh 20230721]
167	x86: Turn off Zenbleed chicken bit on Zen2 CPUs. [mrg 20230725]
168	evbmips: Allow ramdisk to handle GPT wedges. [gutteridge 20230725]
169	xbd(4): Properly handle 4k sector size backends. [bouyer 20230725]
170	iostat(8): Add -X option, limited alternative statistics.
171		This is like the "-D" option, except it skips the xfers/s, and
172		reports MB/s instead of KB/s.  Allows for ~50% more devices to
173		be displayed per line by default.  [mrg 20230728]
174	compat_linux(8): Add epoll system calls implemented around kqueue(2),
175		contributed by Theodore Preduta as part of GSoC 2023.
176		[christos 20230728]
177	compat_linux(8): Add/fix statx, readahead, close_range. From GSoC 2023
178		by Theodore Preduta. [christos 20230729]
179	libc: Add wmempcpy(3).  [christos 20230731]
180	libc: Add companion mempcpy(3) to wmempcpy(3).
181		[christos 20230801]
182	all: Fix many small bugs found by GCC 12. [mrg 20230810]
183	gdb(1): Updated to 13.2. [christos 20230811]
184	vis(3): Fixed many implementation issues, expand tests.
185		[riastradh 20230812]
186	libpcap: Import 1.10.4. [christos 20230817]
187	tcpdump(8): Import 4.99.4. [christos 20230817]
188	file(1): Upgraded to 5.45. [christos 20230818]
189	make(1): Show more detail in "invalid line" error messages.
190		[rillig 20230819]
191	compat_linux(8): Add support for Linux waitid syscall.
192		 Contributed by Theodore Preduta. [christos 20230818]
193	compat_linux(8): Add support for Linux inotify syscalls,
194		implemented around kqueue(2). Contributed by
195		Theodore Preduta. [christos 20230819]
196	acpi(4): Updated ACPICA to 20230628. [christos 20230901]
197	sqlite3(1): Import 3.34.0. [christos 20230904]
198	namecache: Tune the namecache for 32-bit systems [ad 20230909]
199	mips: Add initial support for n64 userland to gprof(1).
200		[rin 20230914]
201	tzcode: Updated to 2023c. [christos 20230916]
202	raidctl(8): Implement command-line configuration of simple RAID sets.
203		[oster 20230921]
204	rc.conf(5): Add support for npf_rules to override the default
205		rules file for npf(7). [abs 20231005]
206	less: Updated to version 643.  [simonb 20231006]
207	ddb(4): Add some simple show commands: condvar, selinfo, sleepq
208		[ad 20231007]
209	mips: Add fma(3) to libm. [he 20231008]
210	heimdal: Disable sqlite3 credential cache (SCC), remove sqlite3
211		dependency. [riastradh 20231011]
212	pipe(2): Improve performance, reduce lock contention. [ad 20231013]
213	vax: Reduce the object size of the malloc(3) code by converting
214		to rbtree, also improve performance and locking.
215		[ad 20231013]
216	uhid(4): Improve hid matching to allow better recognition of
217		collections. [nat 20231017]
218	xen: Support genfb(4) as a console device for dom0, necessary for
219		graphical console on EFI-only hardware. [bouyer 20231017]
220	lagg(4): Copy the MTU of lagg to interfaces added to lagg
221		[yamaguchi 20231018]
222	dhcpcd: Import version 10.0.4. [roy 20231019]
223	gpioirq(4): allow multiple pins per gpioirq instance, add the ability
224		to use a /dev/gpioirqN device to get pin interrupts into
225		userland. [brad 20231105]
226	gpiosim(4): Simulated interrupts [brad 20231108]
227	sparc64: Support for virtio(4). [thorpej 20231119]
228	alpha: Support for virtio(4). [thorpej 20231119]
229	alpha: Support for crash(8). [thorpej 20231122]
230	kernel: Replace the vdrain kernel thread with two threadpool jobs.
231		[hannken 20231127]
232	kernel: Replace various usage of extent(9) with vmem(9).
233		[thorpej 20231201]
234	indent(1): Use line number of the token start in diagnostics
235		[rillig 20231203]
236	vmem(9): Add the notion of "private boundary tags", allowing vmem
237		to be used VERY early in boot. [thorpej 20231203]
238	kernel: Modularize compat90. [pgoyette 20231209]
239	libsa: Add NFSv3 support. [mlelstv 20231212]
240	dhcpcd: Import version 10.0.6. [roy 20231218]
241	tzcode: Updated to 2023d. [christos 20231223]
242	gfpic(4): New driver for the Goldfish virtual programmable
243		interrupt controller. [thorpej 20240102]
244	gftty(4): New driver for the Goldfish virtual tty. [thorpej 20240102]
245	virt68k: Add new port for virtual Motorola 68040 machines in
246		QEMU using VirtIO devices. [thorpej 20240102]
247	urtwn(4): Add Mercusys NW150US V2 USB support. [maya 20240106]
248	riscv: Add a SiFive FU[57]40/ L2 Cache controller driver.
249		[skrll 20240113]
250	cp(1): Always copy regular files, even if they appear to be zero-sized.
251		[christos 20240115]
252	riscv: Add a StarTech JH7100 SoC clock driver, seen in the Beagle-V
253		board. [skrll 20240116]
254	cpuctl(8): Recognize Intel Meteor Lake and Emerald Rapids.
255		[msaitoh 20240118]
256	m68k: Made many ports share common code for interrupt dispatch
257		and vector tables. [thorpej 20240118]
258	libm: Import more long double functions from FreeBSD.
259		[christos 20240121]
260	terminfo: Import 20231209 [christos 20240127]
261	evbppc: Add support for the PAL 576i video mode to wiifb(4).
262		[hgutch 20240127]
263	stat(1): Add symbolic flags printing from FreeBSD via Ricardo Branco.
264		[christos 20240129]
265	next68k: Add WSDISPLAY_GINFO, LINEBYTES, and SMODE ioctl(2)s and
266		mmap(2) support to nextdisplay(4). [tsutsui 20240202]
267	mount_cd9660(8): Add support for mount options mask,dirmask,uid,gid
268		(from Ricardo Branco) [christos 20240202]
269	tzdata: Updated to 2024a (using 2024agtz) [kre 20240205]
270	riscv: Add a driver for the StarFive JH7100 pin controller.
271		[skrll 20240207]
272	touch(1): Properly implement the POSIX format -d option. [kre 20240208]
273	touch(1): Add -R option, which is identical to -r, except that if the
274		reference file is a symbolic link, the times to use are taken
275		from those of the symbolic link itself. [kre 20240209]
276	touch(1): Add -D option, which causes the operation to be a no-op if no
277		change would be made (avoiding updating the file's ctime).
278		[kre 20240210]
279	hppa: Add gftfb(4), an initial driver for PCI Visualize EG cards.
280		[macallan 20240213]
281	bind: Apply bind security patches: CVE-2023-4408 CVE-2023-5517
282		CVE-2023-5679 CVE-2023-6516 CVE-2023-50387 CVE-2023-50868
283		[christos 20240213]
284	tzcode: Updated to 2024a. [christos 20240217]
285	nsd: Import 4.8.0. [christos 20240217]
286	unbound(8): Import 1.19.1. [christos 20240217]
287	bind: Import 9.18.24 [christos 20240221]
288	re(4): Add support for Killer E2600 Ethernet. [jakllsch 20240228]
289	sqlite3(1): Import 3.45.1. [christos 20240301]
290	alpha: Add initial support for the DEC KN7AA ("Ruby") systems,
291		DEC 7000 and DEC 10000. [thorpej 20240302]
292	elftoolchain: Import svn r4037. [christos 20240303]
293	certctl(8): Improve the performance of `certctl list`.
294		[riastradh 20240303]
295	audioplay(1): Add -n flag that doesn't write audio data for the
296		test suite. [mrg 20240304]
297	alpha: Add a bus space implementation for the Gbus, the general
298		8-bit bus present on Laser / TurboLaser CPU modules.
299		[thorpej 20240306]
300	lint(1): Detect more types of integer overflow. [rillig 20240310]
301	lint(1): Add extra details to the message about integer overflow.
302		[rillig 20240310]
303	mac68k: Add ascaudio(4) ASC audio driver. [nat 20240313]
304	x86: Include the cgdroot.fs and zfsroot.fs ramdisks in the release
305		files. [riastradh 20240320]
306	apei(4): New driver for ACPI Platform Error Interfaces.
307		[riastradh 20240320]
308	vmt(4):  Process all queued messages without delay immediately.
309		From OpenBSD. [msaitoh 20240320]
310	acpihed(4): New driver for PNP0C33 to notify apei(4).
311		[riastradh 20240321]
312	echi(4): If device attach fails, install NULL pmf(4) handlers.
313		Allows suspend/resume on ThinkPad A475. [mrg 20240324]
314	uftdi(4): Add a "match quirk" mechanism that allows the driver to
315		selectively reject individual interfaces, allowing them to
316		be matched by ugen(4) and accessed through libusb.
317		[thorpej 20240326]
318	moused(8): Remove undocumented and unused option 'C'.
319		[rillig 20240329]
320	ugen(4): Add a "ugen-unit" device property which devpubd(8) scripts
321		can query to determine which /dev/ugenN.xx nodes a given ugen
322		or ugenif device is using.  [thorpej 20240329]
323	libc: Limit writes to stdio FILE handles via fvwrite to INT_MAX
324		rather than BUFSIZE. Improves performance dramatically.
325		From enh via Apple libc.  [christos 20240329]
326	evbarm: Add interrupt support to the Texas Instruments gpio(4) driver
327		used on the Beaglebone Black.  [jakllsch 20240401]
328	dk(4): Add support for discovering Atari TOS partitions as wedges.
329		[charlotte 20240402]
330	rumpuser(3): New RUMP_STDOUT, RUMP_STDERR environment variables.
331		[riastradh 20240404]
332	config(1): Improve determinism for reproducible builds.
333		[riastradh 20240405]
334	qemufwcfg(4): Add RISC-V support.  [skrll 20240406]
335	vax: Switch vax to X.Org server version 120.  [tsutsui 20240407]
336	evbmips: Following evbarm, document kernel configurations in
337		sys/arch/evbmips/conf/README.evbmips. [andvar 20240407]
338	sysinst(8): Split compatibility libraries into separate sets,
339		base32 and debug32. Split HTML man pages into new manhtml
340		set.  [nia 20240410]
341	amd64: Support EFI as well as BIOS boot in the "live" USB image.
342		This is not the regular installation image, which already
343		supports EFI.  [maya 20240413]
344	uftdi(4): Add support for a range of "Brainboxes" USB serial
345		adapters, from Cameron Williams.  [maya 20240417]
346	x86: Enable ACPI Platform Error Interface support in the GENERIC
347		kernels.  [riastradh 20240421]
348	mips64el, mips64eb: Create "base64" and "debug64" sets that contain
349		the N64 libraries.  [nia 20240422]
350	x86, sparc64: Create "DVD" ISOs that contain all the sets excluded
351		from the normal ISOs for size reasons - also useful on
352		virtual machines.  [nia 20240424]
353	i386: Remove kernel modules, redundant kernels, and amdgpu firmware
354		from the CD-ROM image to help it fit on a CD-ROM
355		once more.  [nia 20240426]
356	httpd(8): Make directory listings mobile-friendly, from D. Bohdan.
357		[maya 20240426]
358	thinkpad(4): Expose a sysctl interface to control some aspects of
359		charging behavior on supported systems, from Malte Dehling.
360		[christos 20240427]
361	i386: Rewrite viac7temp(4) temperature sensor to use MSR, which works
362		on far more CPUs.  [andvar 20240430]
363	hp300: Fix a wrong palette color setting problems on HP98543 4 bpp
364		topcat(4) framebuffer on HP360. [tsutsui 20240501]
365	lint(1): Support _Alignas and attribute aligned.  [rillig 20240501].
366	hp300: Fix "garbage pixels" problems on scrolling ops etc. on
367		HP98543 and HP98547 topcat(4) color framebuffers.
368		[tsutsui 20240501]
369	hp300: Treat HP98542 and HP98543 1024x400 framebuffers as
370		"pseudo doubled" 512x400 bitmap pixels as HP-UX did, because
371		even modern LCDs cannot handle such 1024x400 resolutions
372		properly. [tsutsui 20240501]
373	evbarm: Add device tree for Red Pitaya SDRlab 122-16.
374		[dyoung 20240504]
375	libm: Add an assembly implementation of rintl(3) for x86.
376		[riastradh 20240505]
377	libm: Expose more long double functions on vax.
378		[riastradh 20240506]
379	libm: Expand tests for modf/modff/modfl, nextafter/nexttoward,
380		nearbyint/nearbyintl/rint.  [riastradh 20240506]
381	mk: Use --compress-debug-sections when creating debug files
382		to reduce the size of the installed debug set.
383		[mrg 20240506]
384	makefs(8): Add an option to warn and error out for mtree missing
385		entries.  [christos 20240508]
386	lint(1): Support new keywords in C23 mode, including nullptr.
387		[rillig 20240509]
388	install(1): Support -v (verbose). [wiz 20240510]
389	acpivga(4): Add quirk for machines where the getting the screen
390		brightness always returns the same result.  [maya 20240510]
391	compat_netbsd32(8): Support SIOCGIFDATA and SIOCZIFDATA ioctls on
392		network interfaces.  [martin 20240511]
393	libm: Expand tests for hypotl(3).  [riastradh 20240511]
394	sparc: Add support for 16-bit (RGB565) colour mode in
395		the cgfourteen(4) framebuffer driver.
396		[macallan 20240512]
397	ure(4): Support TP-Link UE300 USB LAN adapter (from RVP).
398		[christos 20240512]
399	procfs: Add support for proc/self/limits as used by Linux.
400		(from Ricardo Branco).  [christos 20240512]
401	procfs: Add support for proc/sysvipc in Linux emulator
402		(from Ricardo Branco).  [christos 20240512]
403	cgdconfig(8): Add zfs verification method (from Malte Dehling)
404		[christos 20240512]
405	curses(3): Constify argument of define_key(3) for compatibility
406		with ncurses.  [uwe 20240514]
407	eap(4): Support monoraual sound at the hardware level and
408		a range of hardware frequencies, as in NetBSD 7
409		and earlier.  [nia 20240517]
410	curses(3): Constify arguments of newterm(3), setterm(3)
411		functions.  [uwe 20240517]
412	hp300: Installation CD ISO image is now bootable. [tsutsui 20240519]
413	tic(1): Honour the user's umask (from RVP).  [christos 20240520]
414	dhcpcd: Import version 10.0.8. [roy 20240524]
415	mkhybrid: Import mkhybrid from OpenBSD 7.3 as a tool to create
416		ISO9660/HFS hybrid ISO images for mac68k and macppc.
417		[tsutsui 20240531]
418	pthread(3): Fix memory leak in pthread_create(). [hannken 20240608]
419	libarchive: Import libarchive-3.7.4. [christos 20240609]
420	pkg_install: Import pkg_install-20240307. [wiz 20240611]
421