1LIST OF CHANGES FROM LAST RELEASE: <$Revision: 1.947 $> 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 aac(4): Compile and run on amd64. [briggs 20070525] 108 libcurses: Merge in wide curses work done by Ruibiao Qui as a 109 Google Summer of Code project [blymn 20070529] 110 powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl [nisimura 20070601] 111 smsc(4): Added a driver for the hardware monitoring portion of 112 the SMSC LPC47B397 [blymn 20070601] 113 file(1): update to 4.21. [pooka 20070607] 114 zyd(4): Added OpenBSD's driver. Supports ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B 115 USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device. [kiyohara 20070609] 116 mac68k: Switch sn(4) Ethernet on mac68k to using MI SONIC driver. 117 [tsutsui 20070610] 118 tcp(4): Per socket keepalive timer settings. Ability to change 119 connection timeout [christos 20070620]. 120 newgrp(1): Add POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 / Open Group Base 121 Specifications Issue 6) User Portability Utility to change 122 effective group ID. [ginsbach 20060621] 123 GCC: Updated to version 4.1.3-20070620. [mrg 20070621] 124 ntp: Updated to version 4.2.4p2. [kardel 20070624] 125 tcpdrop(8): Ported by anon ymous (from FreeBSD/OpenBSD) 126 [christos 20070625] 127 fast_ipsec(4): Add support for IPsec NAT-T [degroote 20070627] 128 efs: Added read-only Silicon Graphics EFS file system. [rumble 20070629] 129 envsys(4), sysmon_envsys(9): Imported envsys2. New API with the following 130 features: 131 - Cleaned up the API for simplicity and efficiency. 132 - Ability to send capacity/critical/warning events to powerd(8). 133 - Added support for a 'dictionary based communication channel' 134 between sysmon_power(9) and powerd(8), that means there is 135 no 32 bytes event size event restriction anymore. 136 - Binary compatibility with old envstat(8) and powerd(8) via 137 COMPAT_40. 138 And more, please see envsys(4) and sysmon_envsys(9) for more 139 information. 140 [xtraeme 20070701] 141 mount_puffsportal: add experimental version of portalfs 142 based on puffs(3). [pooka 20070708] 143 i386: Add gcscehci(4) driver for the EHCI controller found in the AMD 144 Geode CS5536 companion controllers. [jmcneill 20070708] 145 nfsmb(4): Add support for NVIDIA nForce 2/3/4 SMBus controller and 146 SMBus driver. [kiyohara 20070711] 147 dbri(4): Added support for audio input. [macallan 20070712] 148 alpha: Add timecounter(9) support and switch to MI todr(9) 149 with MI mc146818 driver. [tsutsui 20070721] 150 ichsmb(4): Add support for Intel ICH SMBus controller. 151 [kiyohara 20070728] 152 shark: Add dhclient(8) to the install disk image to be able to 153 configure network interfaces through DHCP. [jmmv 20070729] 154 sparc: The cgfourteen driver now supports wscons. [macallan 20070730] 155 shark: Switched the installation disk to use wscons instead of 156 pccons. [jmmv 20070731] 157 tcp(4): TCP socket buffers automatic sizing, ported from FreeBSD. 158 [rmind 20070802] 159 agp(4): Add support agp_amd64. Imported from FreeBSD. 160 [kiyohara 20070804] 161 cpuctl(8): A new utility which allows setting CPUs online/offline. 162 [ad 20070804] 163 libpthread: Make some significant performance improvements around 164 thread synchronization, and fix a minor problem with 165 detaching running threads. [ad 20070804] 166 rump: Add the Runnable Userspace Meta Program framework to sys/rump. 167 These are programs which compile in a part from the standard 168 kernel sources and run in userspace. Their main use is 169 testing/debugging. Currently supported are a number of 170 file systems (e.g. ffs) through puffs(3). [pooka 20070805] 171 wscons: Add scrollback support to vcons, this should work with 172 any framebuffer console driver that uses vcons 173 [macallan 20070805] 174 wtf(6): Search pkgsrc's help database when ran inside a package 175 directory. [hubertf 20070806] 176 libpthread: Another performance improvement, and a fix for an issue 177 that could cause threaded applications to hang under rare 178 circumstances. [ad 20070807] 179 mount_sysctlfs(8): sysctl(3) to file system translator [pooka 20070809] 180 slhci(4): Replace to Matthew Orgass's slhci(4). [kiyohara 20070815] 181 spdmem(4): Add Serial Presence Detect driver/support. This decodes 182 technical specifications stored in the eeprom on common types 183 of memory modules. [tnn 20070818] 184 btbc(4): Add support for AnyCom BlueCard. [kiyohara 20070820] 185 ichlpcib(4): The driver has added support for the TCO (watchdog) on 186 ICH6 or newer chipsets plus timecounter support. Also it can 187 be used on EM64T systems running the amd64 port. Adapted from 188 FreeBSD and OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070826] 189 agten(4): Add support for Fujitsu AG-10e graphics cards working as 190 accelerated framebuffer console. [macallan 20070826] 191 ag10e(4): Add XFree86 driver to run the AG-10e in 24bit with 192 acceleration. [macallan 20070830] 193 uchcom(4): Add support for WinChipHead CH341/340 USB-Serial adapter. 194 [tshiozak 20070903] 195 amd64, i386: cgd(4) is part of GENERIC [joerg 20070906] 196 libpthread: scalability and performance enhancements. The MySQL 197 sysbench benchmark in read-only mode now scales to 900 198 simultaneous client threads on a 4xCPU i386 system before 199 serious performance drop-off occurs. [ad 20070907] 200 kernel: Added support for POSIX message queues. [rmind 20070907] 201 aps(4): driver for IBM Thinkpad Active Protection System, 202 provides support for some sensors exported through 203 the envsys(4) framework. Ported by Pierre Pronchery 204 from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070911] 205 i386, amd64: pcc is now able to compile most of the i386 kernel. 206 a number of changes have been made for LKM and 207 preemption safety. [ad 20070927] 208 i386: i386 bootblocks are now able to boot amd64 kernels. 209 support for a.out kernels has been removed [ad 20070927] 210 kernel: Added support for kernel core dumps to RAID 1 sets. 211 [oster 20071004] 212 kernel: The new socket option SO_NOHEADER tells the network 213 stack to strip the protocol header from packets 214 received on a raw socket. [dyoung 20071005] 215 gre(4): Available encapsulations increase to IPv6, UDP in 216 IPv6, and UDP in IPv4. The Mobile IP encapsulation 217 is no more. [dyoung 20071005] 218 malloc: Replace the default memory allocator with 'jemalloc', 219 designed to perform well in both single- and multi- 220 threaded processes. This provides a significant 221 performance boost for many threaded workloads that 222 make use of malloc, such as MySQL. [ad 20071006] 223 kernel: A new SCHED_M2 scheduler, improves the performance on 224 MP systems, supports real-time and time-sharing classes, 225 ready for the CPU affinity. [rmind 20071009] 226 shark: Removed pccons(4), obsoleted by wscons(4). [jmmv 20071028] 227 coretemp(4): Driver for Intel Core's on-die thermal sensor, 228 available on Core or newer CPUs. Ported from FreeBSD. 229 [xtraeme 20071029] 230 x86: Added support for Intel 82G965 chipset. [jnemeth 20071030] 231 nsclpcsio(4): Added support for the VLM logical device. This provides 232 14 voltage sensors in addition to the previous 3 temperature 233 sensors provided in the TMS logical device. From OpenBSD. 234 [xtraeme 20071109] 235 btkey(1): A new utility to manage Bluetooth link keys in OS and 236 and device storage. [plunky 20071109] 237 pad(4): Added the pseudo-audio device driver, for feeding back raw 238 PCM data to userland. [jmcneill 20071111] 239 r128fb(4): New accelerated console driver for ATI Rage 128 graphics 240 controllers. [macallan 20071111] 241 atf: Initial import of the Automated Testing Framework, version 0.3. 242 Provides a framework to easily define and run test cases for 243 the NetBSD operating system. Work until 0.1 sponsored by 244 Google Summer of Code 2007 and mentored by martin. 245 [jmmv 20071112] 246 sysinst: Add support to install the new tests.tgz set. 247 [jmmv 20071112] 248 tests: Converted the regress/bin tree to use ATF and migrated it 249 to tests/util. [jmmv 20071112] 250 tests: Converted the regress/sys/fs/tmpfs tree to use ATF and 251 migrated it to tests/fs/tmpfs. [jmmv 20071112] 252 tests: Converted the regress/games tree to use ATF and migrated it 253 to tests/games. [jmmv 20071112] 254