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1LIST OF CHANGES FROM LAST RELEASE:			<$Revision: 1.645 $>
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4[Note: This file does not mention every change made to the NetBSD source tree.
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7containing just the word `help' to `majordomo@NetBSD.org'.]
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9
10Changes from NetBSD 3.0 to NetBSD 4.0:
11	agr(4): Add pseudo-device driver for link aggregation. [yamt 20050318]
12	kernel: Limit the number of locks per user to 1024 [christos 20050320]
13	crypto: Upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.7f [christos 20050325]
14	attimer(4): Split the pcppi(4) driver to properly assign resources and
15		allow both the devices to attach through ACPI [cube 20050325]
16	gre(4): add support for IPv6 as inner protocol, contributed by
17		Gert Doering [is 20050330]
18	/rescue: Add tetris.  [lukem 20050401]
19	uvm(9): Simplify kernel memory allocation API and its implementation.
20		[yamt 20050401]
21	ipf(8): Updated to version 4.1.8. [martti 20050403]
22	identd(8): Add support for forwarding ident queries and receiving of
23		proxied ident queries. [peter 20050404]
24	ac97(4): Add support for AC'97 modems. [jmcneill 20050407]
25	auich(4): Add support for Intel ICH AC'97 modems as audio devices.
26		Currently disabled by default. [jmcneill 20050407]
27	event(3): Updated libevent to 1.0c [provos 20050417]
28	arc: Add a standalone boot program to load ELF kernels.
29		[tsutsui 20050418]
30	cvs(1): Upgrade to 1.11.20. [christos 20050419]
31	openssh: Upgrade to 4.0. [christos 20050423]
32	crypto: Upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.7g [christos 20050423]
33	gettext(1): Upgrade to 0.14.4 [christos 20050429]
34	ehci(4): Various bug fixes.  The most visible is that low/full speed
35		devices can now be connected to high speed hubs.
36		[augustss 20050501]
37	acpi(4): Import ACPI-CA 20050408 [kochi 20050502]
38	psh3tp(4): Support touch-panel for PERSONA SH3 machines.
39		   [kiyohara 20050523]
40	evbarm: Add support for the Arcom Viper.  [pooka 20050606]
41	scan_ffs(8): Added scan_ffs from OpenBSD. Utility to find FFSv1/FFSv2
42		partitions, to recover lost disklabels. [xtraeme 20050615]
43	ataraid(4): Add man page and adapt support for Adaptec HostRAID
44		from FreeBSD. [briggs 20050620]
45	wtf(6): Now searches all acronyms databases (the -t switch is
46		gone), whatis(1) and then pkg_info(1). [hubertf 20050622]
47	i386: Add cd9660 file system support to the BIOS bootloader.
48		[junyoung 20050622]
49	tlp(4): added support for ASIX AX88140A and AX88141.
50		[rpaulo 20050624]
51	pss(4): Remove the pss(4) driver.  It has never been workable.
52		[kent 20050628]
53	deroff(1): brought back from the dead. [perry 20050629]
54	spell(1): brought back from the dead. [perry 20050629]
55	ching(6):  brought back from the dead. [perry 20050630]
56	pf(4): PF from OpenBSD 3.7 imported [peter 20050701]
57	i386: WSDISPLAY_SCROLLSUPPORT is now enabled in GENERIC kernel.
58		[rpaulo 20050702]
59	awk(1): Upgrade to nawk 20050424 [jdolecek 20050702]
60	ieee1394: ieee1394 from FreeBSD imported [kiyohara 20050711]
61	ral(4): Add driver for Ralink PCI/Cardbus/USB wlan adapters
62		(written by Damien Bergamini, ported by FUKAUMI Naoki)
63		[drochner 20050714]
64	uipaq(4): USB driver for iPAQ devices.  From OpenBSD.
65		[augustss 20050718]
66	netinet: Implement PMTU checks and ignore ICMP Source Quench messages
67		for TCP as described in:
68		http://www.gont.com.ar/drafts/icmp-attacks-against-tcp.html
69		[christos 20050719]
70	config(1): Implement "no <dev> at <attachment>". [cube 20050724]
71	ucycom(4): Add driver for Cypress microcontroller based serial
72		devices. [skrll 20050731]
73	hpcmips: Add teliosio(4) driver for the Sharp Telios LCD screen and
74		Battery unit. [nakayama 20050731]
75	scan_lfs(8): Program to find LFS partitions on disks [xtraeme 20050731]
76	ftpd(8): Implement option "-D", for running ftpd(8) in standalone mode.
77		[peter 20050804]
78	bpf(4): Add two new sysctls to retrieve statistics and current
79		peers, viewable with netstat(1). [rpaulo 20050805]
80	postfix(1): Updated to 2.2.5. [rpaulo 20050818]
81	kernel: 64 bit inode changes [christos 20050819]
82	getent(1): Add support for "ethers" database. [ginsbach 20050824]
83	ftpd(8): Add new ftpd.conf(5) option, recvbufsize, and make
84		readsize option also apply to network reads for transfers to
85		the server. [ginsbach 20050824]
86	UFS: Add experimental support for file-backed extended attributes
87		on UFS1 file systems, adapted from FreeBSD.  [thorpej 20050828]
88	psh3lcd(4): Support LCD screen driver for PERSONA SH3 machines.
89		   [kiyohara 20050906]
90	i386: WSDISPLAY_SCROLLSUPPORT enabled in GENERIC.MPACPI,
91		GENERIC_LAPTOP and XEN0 kernels. [rpaulo 20050909]
92	amd64: WSDISPLAY_SCROLLSUPPORT enabled in GENERIC kernel.
93		[rpaulo 20050909]
94	kernel: Add tmpfs file system. [jmmv 20050910]
95	mount_tmpfs(8): Add utility to mount a tmpfs file system.
96		[jmmv 20050910]
97	kernel, libc: Re-factor compatibility code to hide compatibility
98		info from the header files and to allow libc to compile
99		without the compatibility hooks [christos 20050912]
100	am-utils: Upgrade to 6.1.2.1 [rpaulo 20050920]
101	pam_afslog(8): Add module to obtain AFS tokens from krb5
102		credentials and create a PAG if necessary. [tsarna 20050921]
103	kernel: Reset the AMD Geode SC1100 microcontroller. [dyoung 20050922]
104	geodewdog(4): Add driver for AMD Geode SC1100 microcontroller's
105		watchdog timer. [dyoung 20050922]
106	kernel: Add the VFS hooks interface so that kernel subsystems
107		other than VFS can execute code upon VFS operations.
108		[jmmv 20050923]
109	kernel: Re-factor NFS exports list code handling, making it simpler
110		by abstracting all the details into the NFS generic code,
111		using the previously mentioned VFS hooks interface to make
112		it work. [jmmv 20050923]
113	mountd(8): Make this utility file system independent, also simplifying
114		its code. [jmmv 20050923]
115	gpio(4): Import general purpose I/O framework from OpenBSD.
116		[jmcneill 20050926]
117	gpioctl(8): Import utility to talk to general purpose I/O devices
118		from OpenBSD [jmcneill 20050926]
119	config(1): Implement "no device at <attachment>" and "no <device>".
120		[cube 20050930]
121	wpa:	Add wpa_cli and wpa_supplicant.
122		[scw 20051001]
123	xen:	Improvements to the network backend to avoid data copy when
124		possible. [bouyer 20051002]
125	file(1): update to 4.16.  [pooka 20051018]
126	evbarm: Add support for the Atmark Techno Armadillo-9.
127		[hamajima 20051113]
128	ipv6: rc.conf(5) $ip6sitelocal variable has been removed. You
129		should use Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses defined by RFC 4193
130		and control how they are routed with the $ip6uniquelocal
131		variable. [rpaulo 20051124]
132	openssl: update to 0.9.8a [christos 20051125]
133	kernel:	Switch to a stateful read-ahead algorithm. [yamt 20051130]
134	posix_fadvise(2): Add.  (Only POSIX_FADV_NORMAL, POSIX_FADV_RANDOM,
135		and POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL are implemented.) [yamt 20051130]
136	postfix(1): Updated to 2.2.6. [rpaulo 20051201]
137	auich(4): Now it supports ICH7 and Intel 6300ESB audio controllers.
138		[xtraeme 20051204]
139	lmc(4): New driver from David Boggs [christos 20051205]
140	kernel: Add a new ktrace record type for SA upcalls and add LWP
141		information to ktrace records
142		[darrenr,skrll,christos 20051211]
143	userland: Generation and decode of new ktrace record type (sa_upcall)
144		and LWP information for kdump and ktruss. Ability to trace
145		upcalls. [skrll,christos 20051211]
146	sip(4): Now enabled and known working for sparc64.  [mrg 20051220]
147	libc/libkern: Merge common files [christos 20051220]
148	tb(4): Remove the line discipline driver.  [thorpej 20051220]
149	bind:	Imported 9.3.2 for named and tools [christos 20051221]
150	dkctl(8), bufq(9): Add a functionality to switch bufq strategy
151		on the fly.  [yamt 20051226]
152	mbrlabel(8): Add the -s option to specify the sector in which sector
153		the partition table is located.  [jmmv 20051227]
154	kernel: Add preliminary support for System V Boot File System.
155		Written by UCHIYAMA Yasushi. [tsutsui 20051229]
156	newfs_sysvbfs(8), mount_sysvbfs(8): Add utilities for System V
157		Boot File System. Also written by UCHIYAMA Yasushi.
158		[tsutsui 20051229]
159	ews4800mips: Initial import of ews4800mips port. Most porting work
160		was done by UCHIYAMA Yasushi. [tsutsui 20051229]
161	rtw(4): Add support for GCT Semiconductor GRF5101
162		transceiver/synthesizer.  [dyoung 20051229]
163	i386:	Add support for AMD PowerNow technology.
164		Written by Martin Vegiard. [xtraeme 20051231]
165	rlphy(4): Realtek 8139/8201L PHY. From OpenBSD [xtraeme 20060104]
166	build.sh: Add experimental ability to build syspkgs. [apb 20060104]
167	postfix(1): Updated to 2.2.8. [rpaulo 20060109]
168	ews4800mips: Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20060109]
169	zlib: Updated to 1.2.3 and shared between kernel and userland.
170		[christos 20060114]
171	firmload(9): Add an API for loading firmware images used by hardware
172		devices.  [thorpej 20060116]
173	evbmips: Add support for Alchemy Au1550 processors and DBAu1550 board.
174		[gdamore 20060127]
175	build.sh: Add iso-image action, to create a CD-ROM image after
176		build.sh release. [apb 20060128]
177	acpi(4): Import ACPI-CA 20060113 [kochi 20060129]
178	vnd(4):	Remove compile-time limit on the number of vnd(4) devices.  Now
179		devices are automatically created when they are configured.
180		[cube 20060201]
181	fs/udf: added UDF file system support for optical media and block
182		devices like harddisc partions and vnd's.
183		[reinoud 20060202]
184	binutils: updated to FSF binutils 2.16.1 release.  [skrll 20060202]
185	i386: Add support for the Multiboot Specification.  [jmmv 20060203]
186	cvs(1): Upgrade to 1.11.21, and move it to xcvs [christos 20060204]
187	openssh: Upgrade to 4.3. [christos 20060204]
188	openpam(3): update to 20050616 (figwort) [christos 20060204]
189	am-utils: Upgrade to 6.1.3 [christos 20060205]
190	wsmouse(4): Add support to automatically repeat wsmouse button events.
191		[jmmv 20060205]
192	pbms(4): 15" powerbook mouse driver from Johan Wallen
193		[christos 20060205]
194	evbarm: Add support for the Atmark Techno Armadillo-210.
195		[hamajima 20060206]
196	groff(1): Updated to 1.19.2. [wiz 20060206]
197	sushi(8): Moved from base to othersrc [christos 20060208]
198	iscsi-target(8): Add the NetBSD iSCSI target [agc 20060208]
199	evbmips: Add support Alchemy Au15XX PCI host. (DBAu1500/DBAu1550).
200		[gdamore 20060208]
201	amd64: Add initial COMPAT_LINUX32 support [manu 20060209]
202	rasops(9): Add shadow framebuffer support [jmcneill 20060218]
203	etcupdate(8): Add ability to update from a binary set file.  Change
204		the meaning of some options.  [apb 20060218]
205	splash(9): Add splash screen support [jmcneill 20060218]
206	vesafb(4): Add console driver for VBE 2.0+ framebuffers on i386
207		[jmcneill 20060218]
208	wsdisplay(4): Add WSDISPLAYIO_SSPLASH and WSDISPLAYIO_SPROGRESS
209		ioctls [jmcneill 20060218]
210	prep: Add support for IBM 7024-E20 and 7025-F30. [garbled 20060223]
211	postfix(1): Updated to 2.2.9. [rpaulo 20060225]
212	evbmips: Add support for 4G Systems MTX-1 board (MeshCube/AccessCube).
213		[gdamore 20060225]
214	evbmips: Add support for Plat'home OpenMicroServer (OMS-AL400/128).
215		[shige 20060227]
216	evbarm: Add support for the Linksys NSLU2 (a.k.a. "Slug") NAS device.
217		[scw 20060228]
218	hpcarm: Jornada 720 keyboard driver changed to use hpckbd(4)
219		[peter 20060304]
220	hpcarm: Jornada 720 power management driver changed to use hpcapm(4)
221		[peter 20060304]
222	kernel: Add support for PT_SYSCALL, a ptrace call that allows processes
223		to stop on syscall entry and exit. Used by tools like
224		strace/truss [christos 20060305]
225	svwsata(4): Driver for Serverworks K2 SATA controllers. From
226		OpenBSD via Joerg Sonnenberger [bouyer 20060306]
227	prep: Add pnpbus pseudo-bus to allow attachment of devices found in
228		PReP residual data.  Remove hardcoded per-machine constants
229		and replace with a dynamic machine setup for all prep
230		hardware. [garbled 20060309]
231	acpi(4): Import ACPI-CA 20060217 [kochi 20060312]
232	nfe(4): Driver for NVIDIA nForce Ethernet from OpenBSD [chs 20060312]
233	prep: Add NVRAM device and root device detection. [garbled 20060316]
234	krb4: Removed [christos 20060319]
235	evbmips: Add support for Atheros AR5312 SoC. [gdamore 20060321]
236	ciss(4): Driver for HP/Compaq 5th+ generation Smart ARRAY controllers
237		[he 20060321]
238	prep: Add support for updating the boot partition. [garbled 20060323]
239	tun(4): IPv6 support added [rpaulo 20060329]
240	utoppy(4): Driver for Topfield TF5000PVR range of digital video
241		recorders.  [scw 20060403]
242	utoppya(1): Userland program to interface to utoppy(4).
243		[scw 20060403]
244	ipf(8): Updated to version 4.1.13. [martti 20060404]
245	onewire(4): Driver for Dallas Semiconductor 1-wire bus. From
246		OpenBSD. [riz 20060407]
247	gpioow(4): bit-banging driver for onewire via gpio pin.  From
248		OpenBSD. [riz 20060407]
249	owtemp(4): Driver for some 1-wire temperature sensors.  From
250		OpenBSD. [riz 20060407]
251	wpa_supplicant(8): Updated to version 0.4.8 [rpaulo 20060412]
252	hostapd(8): Imported version 0.4.8 [rpaulo 20060412]
253	lfs: Better handling of the page cache, particularly in regard to
254		not writing us out of space.  New cleaner daemon.
255		Various other fixes and improvements.  [perseant 20060414]
256	cobalt: Add code to identify Cobalt models. [tsutsui 20060415]
257	arc: Add support for pci_configure_bus(9) (a.k.a. options
258		PCI_NETBSD_CONFIGURE) so that PCI devices over ppb(4) work
259		properly on PCI based NEC machines. [tsutsui 20060415]
260	cobalt: Switch cobalt port to use MI todr(9) functions and MI mc146818
261		driver. [tsutsui 20060415]
262	evbarm: Add support for the I-O DATA HDL-G.  [nonaka 20060416]
263	sgimips: Switch macepci for O2 to use MI pci_configure_bus(9) rather
264		than its own PCI fixup code. [tsutsui 20060417]
265	ipw(4): The firmload(9) API is now used. You no longer need to
266		use ipwctl(8) to load the firmware. [rpaulo 20060417]
267	init(8): Support for running multi-user in a chroot() environment.
268		Allows / file system on e.g., cgd(4), vnd(4) or ccd(4)
269		volumes. [salo 20060418]
270	GCC: Import GCC 4.1 branch from 20060420 (4.1.1 prerelease.)
271		[mrg 20060420]
272	cobalt: Account interrupts by evcnt(9). [tsutsui 20060421]
273	cksum(1): Add a switch "-c file" to verify a list of checksums
274		generated by the cksum program (and its siblings) and stored
275		in file against files on disk, e.g. after "md5 *.tgz >MD5"
276		verify with "md5 -c MD5". [hubertf 20060423]
277	prep: Add support for the Motorola Powerstack E1. [garbled 20060426]
278	prep: Add generic soft interrupt support. [garbled 20060503]
279	ipv6: Add support for RFC 3542 API. By the KAME project.
280		[rpaulo 20060505]
281	piixpcib(4): Add support for Intel SpeedStep SMI on PIIX4 PCI-ISA
282		bridges to the i386 port. [jmcneill 20060506]
283	piixpm(4): Import Intel PIIX4 power management controller from
284		OpenBSD. [jmcneill 20060506]
285	prep: Account interrupts by evcnt(9). [garbled 20060508]
286	it(4): Driver for iTE IT87xxF/SIS 950 Hardware monitor. Adapted
287		from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20060513]
288	kauth(9): Integrate kernel authorization, to replace kernel management
289		of credentials and (potentially) privileged operations
290		requests. [elad 20060515]
291	kernel: Add mprotect(2) restrictions to enforce W^X policies. See
292		options(4), sysctl(3), and paxctl(1). From PaX. [elad 20060515]
293	carp(4): Import Common Address Redundancy Protocol from OpenBSD
294		[liamjfoy 20060518]
295	security.conf(5): Add $check_devices_ignore_paths, to specify
296		paths to not traverse during the $check_devices
297		operation.  [lukem 20060525]
298	hostapd(8): Updated to version 0.4.9. [rpaulo 20060525]
299	wpa_supplicant(8): Updated to version 0.4.9. [rpaulo 20060525]
300	sendmail: Removed. This removal was planned for post 4.0, but
301		core@ and security-officer@ decided the sooner the
302		better [christos 20060529]
303	GCC: Import GCC 4.1 branch from 20060602 (4.1.2 prerelease.)
304		[mrg 20060602]
305	gcc(1): Import gcc 3.3.6 release. [skrll 20060605]
306	ath(4): Import HAL 0.9.17.2, which adds support for WiSoC platforms
307		(AR531x devices), and 32-bit SPARC. [gdamore 20060605]
308	ral(4): new driver layout supporting the RT2661 chipset. From
309		OpenBSD. [rpaulo 20060606]
310	timecounter: ported from FreeBSD.
311		completely new time-keeping infrastructure along with
312		NTP API 4 nanokernel implementation. was expected after
313		4.0 but core@ voted for early import to facilitate early
314		testing and port conversion. simonb & [kardel 20060607]
315	prep: Add support for PCI cards that have a builtin PCI-PCI bridge.
316		[garbled 20060609]
317	Xen: Renamed kernel config files:
318		INSTALL_XEN3_U -> INSTALL_XEN3_DOMU
319		INSTALL_XENU   -> INSTALL_XEN2_DOMU
320		XEN0           -> XEN2_DOM0
321		XEN3_U         -> XEN3_DOMU
322		XENU           -> XEN2_DOMU
323		[hubertf 20060621]
324	ntp:	Import ntp 4.2.2 (20060606). [kardel 20060611]
325	prep: Add root device detection for Motorola machines.
326		[garbled 20060615]
327	bluetooth: Bluetooth support has enhanced so that bluetooth keyboards,
328		mice, audio devices, and rfcomm networking are supported.
329		The work was done by Iain Hibbert under sponsorship by
330		Itronix, Inc.  [gdamore 20060619]
331	installboot: Add support for 2nd stage boot loaders on RAID 1
332		partitions.  [jdc 20060620]
333	sparc: Add support to the 2nd stage boot loader for booting from
334		RAID 1 filesystems.  [jdc 20060620]
335	prep: Add timecounter support. [garbled 20060620]
336	GCC: Switched arm, armeb, i386, sparc, sparc64, x86_64 to GCC4.
337		[christos 20060623]
338	cvs(1): Upgrade to 1.11.22. [christos 20060623]
339	GCC: Switched m68000 to GCC4. [mrg 20060623]
340	GCC: Switched powerpc to GCC4. [garbled 20060623]
341	azalia(4): add support for S/PDIF [kent 20060625]
342	socket(2): version bump for reasons listed in PR/33676 [mrg 20060627]
343	pppd(8): updated to version 2.4.4. [christos 20060629]
344	kse(4):	Driver for Micrel KSZ8842/8841 PCI Ethernet controller.
345		[nisimura 20060630]
346	midi: many changes to midi(4): eliminated several cases where certain
347	      message sequences could be mangled in transit; added support for
348	      Active Sensing. Altered handling of output to MIDI ports that
349	      lack transmit ready interrupts; latency reduced but can load
350	      system if used for bulk output; dmesg identifies which devices
351	      to avoid. eap(4): now uses tx-ready interrupt on MIDI port.
352	      Sequencer (/dev/music): improved handling of tempo and
353	      timebase changes; supplied the native sequencer API alluded to in
354	      midi.4. umidi(4): large improvements in transmit and receive
355	      throughput, resolving dropped-input problems; additional device
356	      support; resolved an input hang when receiving on multiple ports;
357	      improved mapping of device nodes to physical ports for nonstandard
358	      devices. opl(4), cms(4), pcppi(4): improved (if still primitive)
359	      MIDI synthesis. midiplay(1): Exact effect of some options
360	      clarified. Untested support added for playing absolute-timed
361	      MIDI files. [chap 20060630]
362