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27Changes from NetBSD 6.0 to NetBSD 7.0:
28	window(1): Removed from the base system in favor of tmux(1).  Use the
29		pkgsrc/misc/window package from now on.  [jmmv 20120215]
30	pkg_add(1): imported 20120221 version from pkgsrc [wiz 20120221]
31	file(1): upgraded to 5.11 [christos 20120222]
32	evbmips: Add support for Lemote Yeeloong Notebook. [nonaka 20120302]
33	dbsym(8): Add option -p [bsh 20120319]
34	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.5.5 [roy 20120323]
35	ipf: upgrade to 5.1.1 with new build framework, no module and
36		test support yet [christos 20120323]
37	pcc: upgrade to 1.1.0.DEVEL 20120325 [plunky 20120325]
38	openresolv(8): Import openresolv-3.5.1 [roy 20120327]
39	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.5.6 [roy 20120328]
40	apple: Recognize the apple disk partitioning scheme, and auto-discover
41		wedges. Fix iPod disk mounting, by adding quirk.
42		[christos 20120306]
43	fstab: Add NAME=wedgename for fs_spec and routines to parse it. Now
44		wedges can be used in /etc/fstab, even in dynamic environments
45		where disks come and go and wedges get renumbered.
46		[christos 20120306]
47	pdisk(8): Make it work for 64 bit hosts, and make it MI.
48		[christos 20120306]
49	amiga: Add clockport(4) layer and a driver for A1200 on-board clockport
50		a1k2cp(4). [rkujawa 20120417]
51	kernel: add mpii(4), a driver for LSI Logic Fusion-MPT Message Passing
52		Interface II SAS controllers.  [bouyer 20120419]
53	kernel: Add support for 256 CPUs on amd64. [rmind 20120420]
54	OpenSSH: Imported 6.0 [christos 20120501]
55	bzip2: Imported 1.0.6 [wiz 20120507]
56	amiga: Rework X-Surf driver as xsurf(4). Add support for clockport(4)
57		on top of xsurf(4). [rkujawa 20120515]
58	backtrace(3): Add <execinfo.h> and the backtrace family of functions
59		[christos 20120526]
60	kernel: Add run(4), a driver for Ralink Technology
61		RT2700U/RT2800U/RT3000U USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless
62		network devices, ported from OpenBSD. [nonaka 20120530]
63	bind: update to 9.9.1-P1 to fix the recent rdata exploit.
64		[christos 20120604]
65	empb(4): Add ELBOX Mediator PCI 1200 driver. [rkujawa 20120604]
66	kernel: Add a new RLIMIT_NTHR limit to limit the number of processes
67		per user and the corresponding kern.maxlwp sysctl. Expose
68		kern.uidinfo.* via sysctl. [christos 20120608]
69	usb(9): Added support for SMP to the USB subsytem.  By Jared D.
70		McNeill and myself.  [mrg 20120609]
71	kernel: {send,recv}mmsg support [christos 20120621]
72	kernel: Add sysctls to avoid ipv6 DoS attacks (from OpenBSD):
73		net.inet6.ip6.neighborgcthresh = 2048
74		net.inet6.ip6.maxifprefixes = 16
75		net.inet6.ip6.maxifdefrouters = 16
76		net.inet6.ip6.maxdynroutes = 4096
77		[christos 20120622]
78	ata(4): added support for sata Port MultiPliers (PMP)
79		[bouyer 20120702]
80	kernel, libc: Add MurmurHash2 function. [rmind 20120708]
81	atf(7): Import 0.16.  [jmmv 20120711]
82	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.1 [roy 20120712]
83	kernel: Add support for sensors to provide entropy to rnd(4)
84		[pgoyette 20120715]
85	tdvfb(4): Add 3Dfx Voodoo2 driver. [rkujawa 20120719]
86	tdvfb(4): Add 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics (aka Voodoo1) support.
87		[rkujawa 20120720]
88	kernel: Change mii_statchg to take "struct ifnet *" instead of
89		"device_t". [matt 20120722]
90	pr(1): Add support for POSIX -f and -p options. [ginsbach 20120724]
91	powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
92	OpenSSL: Imported 1.0.1c [christos 20120726]
93	kernel: safepri is dead; replaced by macro IPL_SAFEPRI. [matt 20120727]
94	kernel: Add malo(4), a driver for Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g
95		wireless network devices, ported from OpenBSD.
96		[degroote 20120730]
97	kernel, libc: Add modctl(MODCTL_EXISTS, ...) to determine if modules
98		can be loaded. [jnemeth 20120803]
99	modstat(8): Add -A, -a, and -e options for testing module loadability.
100		[jnemeth 20120803]
101	libc: Update to tzcode2012e. [christos 20120809]
102	arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards.
103		[matt 20120822]
104	mfi(8): Added tagged queuing support.  [bouyer 20120823]
105	mfi(8): Added support for LSI SAS2208-based controllers.
106		[bouyer 20120823]
107	mkdep(1): Add -P option.  [jmmv 20120826]
108	share/mk: Add placeholder test programs (with some very basic test
109		cases within) for common bsd.*.mk modules.  [jmmv 20120826]
110	arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph).  Add
111		initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly).  Add
112		L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7.  Add support for
113		BCM5301X SoC.  Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial
114		support for Freescale i.MX6.  Add new common boot/kvminit
115		code.  [matt 20120831]
116	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.2 [roy 20120903]
117	bge(4): Add support for BCM57762, found in Apple's Thunderbolt to
118		Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. PR/46961 [tsutsui 20120917]
119	mfi(4): add a command pass-through ioctl, and associated COMPAT_LINUX
120		support. This allows to use the LSI MegaCLI linux binary
121		on a NetBSD host.  [bouyer 20120919]
122	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012f. [apb 20120927]
123	kernel: add clock_nanosleep(2) [christos 20121001]
124	wpa:	New wpa_supplicant(8) and hostapd(8) 1.0 [christos 20121007]
125	x68k: Add network bootloader for Neptune-X and Nereid Ethernet.
126		[tsutsui,isaki 20121012]
127	x68k: Add support for formatting floppy. [tsutsui 20121014]
128	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012g. [apb 20121018]
129	kernel: Added experimental support for the (mostly SSD specific)
130		"discard", or ATA "TRIM" command to wd(4) and ffs
131		[drochner 20121019]
132	libc: Import tzcode2012g. [christos 20121023]
133	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012h. [apb 20121027]
134	libc: Update to tzcode2012h. [christos 20121028]
135	kernel: Import sljit and add BPF JIT compiler. [alnsn 20121028]
136	flock(1): Add a utility to provide locks to shell scripts similar
137		to shlock(1) [christos 20121101]
138	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012i. [apb 20121104]
139	voodoofb(4): Add 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee support. [rkujawa 20121109]
140	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012j. [apb 20121113]
141	msm6242b(4): Add MI OKI MSM6242B driver. [rkujawa 20121114]
142	amiga: A2000-style RTCs are now driven by the msm6242b(4) driver.
143		[rkujawa 20121114]
144	xsurf(4): Add X-Surf IDE controller support. [rkujawa 20121119]
145	z3rambd(4): Add driver for Zorro III RAM boards as block devices.
146		[rkujawa 20121126]
147	bind: update to 9.9.2-P1 to fix the DNS64 vulnerability.
148		[spz 20121204]
149	arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
150	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.4 [roy 20121206]
151	openresolv(8): Import openresolv-3.5.3 [roy 20121206]
152	arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3.  [jmcneill 20121211]
153	arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support.  [matt 20121211]
154	arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops.  [matt 20121211]
155	openssh: Import 6.1. [christos 20121212]
156	ptcd(4): Add a driver for the Protech PS3100 cash drawer port.
157		[mbalmer 20121216]
158	ibmcd(4): Add a driver for the IBM 4810 BSP cash drawer port.
159		[mbalmer 20121217]
160	postfix(1): Import version 2.8.13 [tron 20121218]
161	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.6 [roy 20121219]
162	arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
163	kernel: allow MD kernel code to use PCUs [matt 20121226]
164	units(1): add -l and -L options.  [apb 20130101]
165	postfix(1): Import version 2.9.5 [tron 20130102]
166	file(1): upgraded to 5.12 [christos 20130103]
167	luna68k: Add native bootloader. Based on 4.4BSD-Lite2/luna68k
168		"Stinger" loader. [tsutsui 20130105]
169	kernel: Add dotg(4), a driver for Synopsys DesignWare USB OTG,
170		ported from FreeBSD. [skrll 20130109]
171	kernel: Add usmsc(4), a driver for SMSC LAN95xx USB LAN devices,
172		ported from OpenBSD. [skrll 20130109]
173	hp300: Add support for sti(4) framebuffer at sgc bus on some 425t.
174		Ported by kiyohara@ from OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20130111]
175	arm: kill userland FPA support, replace with VFP. [matt 20130111]
176	luna68k: Add netboot support. [tsutsui 20130113]
177	luna68k: Fix bootloader to make secondary SPC SCSI on LUNA-II work
178		properly.  [tsutsui 20130114]
179	libdwarf: Sync with FreeBSD [christos 20130117]
180	empm(4): Add driver for power manager present on Mediator 1200 TX and
181		SX bridges. [rkujawa 20130128]
182	amiga: Support software power-off with empm(4). [rkujawa 20130128]
183	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.7 [roy 20130128]
184	em4k(4): Add driver for Mediator 4000 PCI bridges. [rkujawa 20130129]
185	makefs(8): Add support for msdos, creating filesystems at an offset,
186		merging directories with common files.  [christos 20130202]
187	openssl: update to 1.0.1d [christos 20130205]
188	sparc: Add hardware acceleration for cgfourteen(4) using SX
189		[macallan 20130207]
190	openssl: update to 1.0.1e [christos 20130212]
191	atf(7): Import 0.17.  [jmmv 20130215]
192	lutok: Import 0.2.  This is a new import that provides a C++ wrapper
193		for the Lua API and will be used by Kyua.  Its build depends
194		on the MKKYUA knob.  [jmmv 20130216]
195	kyua(1): Import kyua-testers 0.1.  This is a new import that provides
196		scriptable utilities to invoke test programs that implement
197		different interfaces.  [jmmv 20130217]
198	services(5), protocols(5): Pull iana-generated services and protocols
199		[christos 20130221]
200	kyua(1): Import kyua-cli 0.6.  This is a new import that provides the
201		command-line interface to Kyua.  Its build depends on the
202		MKKYUA knob.  [jmmv 20130223]
203	kyua(1): Import kyua-atf-compat 0.1.  This is a new import that
204		provides the last piece of Kyua, namely a compatibility
205		version of atf-run and atf-report that use kyua(1) internally.
206		[jmmv 20130223]
207	kernel: Retire OSI protocol support.  [joerg 20130301]
208	libc: Update to tzcode2013a. [christos 20130302]
209	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013a. [apb 20130303]
210	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013b. [apb 20130312]
211	libc: Update to tzcode2013b. [christos 20130315]
212	brgphy(4): Add support for BCM5756, BCM5717C, BCM5719C, BCM5720C and
213		BCM57780. [msaitoh 20130315]
214	vmt(4): Synchronize the clock periodically to ensure it remains
215		up-to-date even when the host is suspended.  [jmmv 20130316]
216	file(1): upgraded to 5.14 [christos 20130323]
217	dhcp: upgrade to 4.2.5 [christos 20130324]
218	vchiq(4): Add support for Broadcom VideoCore IV firmware interface.
219		[jmcneill 20130325]
220	vcaudio(4): Add support for Broadcom VideoCore IV audio service.
221		[jmcneill 20130325]
222	openssh: Import 6.2. [christos 20130329]
223	mdocml: Import 1.12.1 [christos 20130402]
224	openpam: Import 20120526 (Micrampelis) [christos 20130405]
225	flex: Import 2.5.37 [christos 20130405]
226	byacc: Import 20130304 [christos 20130405]
227	libpcap: Import 1.3.0 [christos 20130406]
228	tcpdump(8): Import 4.3.0 [christos 20130406]
229	libevent: Upgrade 2.0.21-stable [christos 20130411]
230	wm(4): Add support for I210 and I211 [msaitoh 20130419]
231	m68k: Add inverse trigonometric functions, hyperbolic arctangent,
232		exponential and power functions to m68k FPE.  As a result,
233		m68k FPE supports all mathematics functions. [isaki 20130420]
234	tps65217pmic(4): Add support for TPS65217 PMIC as found on BeagleBone
235		and other AM335x based boards. [rkujawa 20130425]
236	amiga: Add minimal support for Thylacine USB card using slhci(4).
237		Works at least with some keyboards and mice. [rkujawa 20130428]
238	epoc32: Add new port NetBSD/epoc32. [kiyohara 20130428]
239	arm: Make all arm ports with a command MACHINE_ARCH generate the same
240		userspace.  All sets are the same except for etc.tgz.
241		[matt 20130501]
242	disklabel: this is now a MI tool like installboot.  [matt 20130503]
243	mcp980x(4): Add driver for Microchip MCP9800/1/2/3 I2C temperature
244		sensor. [rkujawa 20130507]
245	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013c. [apb 20130508]
246	arm: Add support for Marvell Armada XP SoCs. From Marvell and Semihalf.
247		[rkujawa 20130530]
248	wm(4): Add support for I217 and I218 [msaitoh 20130602]
249	X11: Updated all Xorg packages that could be, for Xorg SA 2003-05-23,
250		and general.  [mrg 20130605]
251	ipsec(4): FAST_IPSEC is now named IPSEC, old IPSEC is gone.
252		[christos 20130605]
253	kernel: Add driver soekrisgpio for Soekris net6501
254		Ported by kardel@ from a patch for OpenBSD. [kardel 20130609]
255	cgfourteen: both kernel and Xorg driver now support hardware
256		acceleration using SX [macallan 20130619]
257	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-6.0.0 [roy 20130621]
258	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013d. [apb 20130707]
259	bge(4): Add support for Altima AC1003, Apple BCM5701,
260		Broadcom BCM5787F, BCM5787G, BCM5787F, BCM5719, BCM5720,
261		BCM57766, BCM57782 and BCM57786. [msaitoh 20130708]
262	openresolv(8): Import openresolv-3.5.6 [roy 20130712]
263	libc: Update to tzcode2013d. [christo 20130717]
264	wpa:	Import wpa_supplicant and hostapd 1.1 [adam 20130717]
265	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-6.0.3 [roy 20130719]
266	coldfire: add userland and toolchain support for FreeScale Coldfire
267		CPUs (which implement a subset of m68k instructions and
268		addressing modes). [matt 20130719]
269	bind: update to 9.9.3-P2 to fix CVE-2013-4854 remote query can cause
270		named to terminate [christos 2013-07-27]
271	iwn(4): Add support for Centrino Wireless-N 1030 and Centrino
272		Advanced-N 6230 [prlw1 20130728]
273	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-6.0.5 [roy 20130803]
274	makefs(8): Added UDF support for makefs(8). It allows for the creation
275		of images for both read-only, rewritable or recordable media.
276		[reinoud 20130805]
277	xsh(4): Add driver for Individual Computers X-Surf 100 network interface
278		card. [rkujawa 20130808]
279	postfix(1): Import version 2.9.7 [tron 20130821]
280	kernel: Add BPF coprocessor support (BPF_COP/BPF_COPX instructions).
281		[rmind 20130829]
282	npf: Convert NPF to use BPF byte-code by default.  Many other
283		improvements. [rmind 20130929]
284	less(1): Import version 458 [tron 20130804]
285	mpl115a(4): Add driver for Freescale MPL115A2 I2C absolute pressure
286		sensor. [rkujawa 20130908]
287	dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-6.1.0 [roy 20130920]
288	alpha: Add support for AlphaStation DS15.  Ported from OpenBSD via
289		PR port-alpha/48148 by nullnilaki. [tsutsui 20130923]
290	postfix(1): Import version 2.10.2 [tron 20130925]
291	binutils: updated to FSF binutils 2.23.2.  [christos 20130929]
292	gdb(1): Updated to 7.6.1.  [christos 20131003]
293	httpd(8): Added Lua scripting for content creation. [mbalmer 20131012]
294	lutok: Update to 0.3.  [jmmv 20131018]
295	kyua-cli: Update to 0.7.  [jmmv 20131018]
296	netstat(1): Accept -faddress_family[,family ...]. [bad 20131019]
297	systat(1): Accept shell patterns to select drives. [bad 20131019]
298	gffb: add a driver for NVIDIA GeForce2 MX graphics controllers.
299		[macallan 20131023]
300	axen(4): Add a driver for ASIX AX88178a and AX88179 Ethernet interface.
301		Ported from OpenBSD. [nonaka 20131026]
302	x68k: Support upto 1008 MB extended memory that is found on the XM6i
303		emulator. [tsutsui 20131027]
304	OpenSSH: Imported 6.4 [christos 20131108]
305	x86: Default rounding mode of the x87 changed to long double precision.
306		[joerg 20131111]
307	zless(1): Added via lastest version of zmore(1) from OpenBSD
308		[pettai 20131112]
309	libm: Added basic long double support for elementary functions.
310		Most transcendent functions are stubbed out. [joerg 20131119]
311	nvi(1): Upgrade to the latest git source [christos 20131122]
312	MPC: Updated to MPC 1.0.1.  [mrg 20131128]
313	MPFR: Updated to MPFR 3.1.2.  [mrg 20131128]
314	GMP: Updated to GMP 5.1.3.  [mrg 20131129]
315	file(1): Updated to 5.16. [christos 20131201]
316	librt: Added shm_open(3) and shm_unlink(3). [rmind 20131219]
317	acafh(4): Added driver for Individual Computers ACA500. Enjoy NetBSD
318		on an Amiga 500.  [rkujawa 20131222]
319	libc: Update to tzcode2013i. [christos 20131226]
320	zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013i. [apb 20131226]
321	acpi(4): Updated ACPICA to 20131218. [christos 20131227]
322	openpam: Import 20130907 (Nummularia) [christos 20131227]
323	ntp: import ntp 4.2.7p404.  [christos 20131227]
324	luna68k: Add preleminary support of 4bpp framebuffer.
325		[tsutsui 20131227]
326