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+New in 1.99:
+
+* Keyboard layouts support.
+
+* New `lsapm' command (i386-pc only).
+
+* Parser for GRUB Legacy configuration files.
+
+* Support RAID on virtio devices.
+
+* Remove deprecated `root' command.
+
+* New `euro.pf2' font which supports most European languages.
+
+* Avoid opening the same device twice on Open Firmware platforms.
+
+* Extend `vbeinfo' and `vbetest' commands to non-VBE graphics, as
+  `videoinfo' and `videotest'.
+
+* New `lsefisystab', `lssal', and `lsefimmap' commands on EFI platforms.
+
+* Support explicit user claim that a device is BIOS-visible.  Devices
+  listed in device.map will be assumed to be readable using only BIOS
+  facilities, rather than anything more complex such as LVM or RAID.
+
+* New bash-completion script for GRUB utilities.
+
+* Use ACPI to shut down if possible.
+
+* New `lsacpi' command.
+
+* Btrfs support.
+
+* New `--boot-directory' option to `grub-install', `grub-reboot', and
+  `grub-set-default', with clearer semantics than the previous
+  `--root-directory' option.
+
+* Rename CD-ROM device to "cd" on BIOS platforms.
+
+* Transparent decompression filters.
+
+* Simpler PXE image generation.  New `grub-mknetdir' utility to generate
+  netboot directory trees.
+
+* New relocator.  Allows for more kernel support and more
+  straightforward loader writing.
+
+* Handle USB pendrives exposed as floppies.
+
+* New Automake-based build system.
+
+* Add `sendkey' command (i386-pc only).
+
+* ZFS support.
+
+* Support 1.x versions of mdadm metadata.
+
+* Fix corruption when reading Reiserfs directory entries.
+
+* Bidirectional text and diacritics support.
+
+* Skip LVM snapshots.
+
+* MIPS Yeeloong firmware port.
+
+* Change grub-mkdevicemap to emit /dev/disk/by-id/ names where possible
+  on GNU/Linux.
+
+* Add `grub-mkconfig' support for Xen with Linux.
+
+* Add `grub-mkconfig' support for initrd images on Fedora 13.
+
+* Support >3GiB and <16MiB RAM in i386-qemu.
+
+* Add support for Cirrus 5446 and Bochs video cards.
+
+* Load more appropriate video drivers automatically in `grub-mkconfig'.
+
+* USB improvements, including hotplugging/hotunplugging, hub support,
+  and USB serial support.
+
+* AMD Geode CS5536 support.
+
+* Extensive updates to the Texinfo documentation.
+
+* Handle symbolic links under /dev/mapper on GNU/Linux.
+
+* Handle installation across multiple partition table types.
+
+* Add `cmostest' command (i386/x86_64 only).
+
+* Add support for DM-RAID disk devices on GNU/Linux.
+
+* Remove `grub-mkisofs'.  `grub-mkrescue' now uses GNU xorriso to build
+  CD images.
+
+* `grub-mkrescue' support for EFI, coreboot, and QEMU platforms.
+
+* Unify `grub-mkimage', `grub-setup', and `grub-install' source code
+  across platforms.
+
+* Fix VGA (as opposed to VBE) video driver, formerly a terminal driver.
+
+* Add menu hotkey support.
+
+* Add support for the nilfs2 filesystem.
+
+* `grub-probe' and `grub-mkconfig' support for NetBSD.
+
+* Support setting a background image in `grub-mkconfig'.
+
+* Support multiple terminals in `grub-mkconfig'.
+
+* Regexp support.
+
+* MIPS multiboot2 support.
+
+* Multiboot2 tag support.
+
+* sunpc partition table support.
+
+* Add a number of new language features to GRUB script: `for', `while',
+  `until', `elif', function parameters, `break', `continue', `shift',
+  multi-line quoted strings, positional parameters with `setparams',
+  `return', filename wildcard expansion, and `!'.
+
+* Support nested partition tables.  GRUB now prefers to name partitions
+  in the form `(hd0,msdos1,bsd1)' rather than `(hd0,1,a)'.
+
+* Speed up consecutive hostdisk operations on the same device.
+
+* Compile parts of `grub-emu' as modules.
+
+New in 1.98 - 2010-03-06:
+
+* Multiboot on EFI support.
+
+* Graphical menu support.
+
+* MIPS support.
+
+* Saved default menu entry support, with new utilities `grub-reboot' and
+  `grub-set-default'.
+
+* Unit testing framework.
+
+* Support for multiple terminals.
+
+* Encrypted password support, with a new utility `grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2'.
+
+* `grub-mkfloppy' removed; use `grub-mkrescue' to create floppy images.
+
+* Add grub-probe support for GNU/Hurd.
+
+* Add support for gettext.
+
+New in 1.97:
+
+* Add support for loading XNU (MacOS X kernel).
+
+* ACPI override support.
+
+* Integrated gptsync.
+
+* Password protection support.
+
+* Partition manipulation tool.
+
+* Add `keystatus' command.
+
+* Unicode fonts are now used by default.
+
+* Add `hdparm' command.
+
+* Add support for getting the current date and time from CMOS as variables.
+
+* Add `drivemap' command.
+
+* Add support for RAID levels 4,6 and 10.
+
+* update-grub is replaced by grub-mkconfig.
+
+* When booting from PXE, PXE can be used to load files.
+
+* High resolution timer support.
+
+* Image loaders now support IO buffering.
+
+* Add `crc' command.
+
+* Add Cygwin support.
+
+* Add x86_64 EFI support.
+
+* Use LZMA compression instead of LZO.
+
+* Support for saving the environment from and loading the environment
+  from a file.
+
+* Allow the UUID to be used as device name.
+
+* The `search' command can use UUIDs now.
+
+* Add support for IEEE 1275 on i386.
+
+* Create partmap.lst and use it to automatically load partition map
+  modules.
+
+* grub-mkconfig supports os-prober to add operating systems to the
+  boot menu.
+
+* The ATA driver supports devices bigger than 2 TiB.
+
+* Add support for the UDF, AFS and EXT4 filesystems.
+
+* The ISO9660 filesystem supports the Joliet extension
+
+* Add support for loading kernels of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
+
+* Add new command `sleep'.
+
+* Support for direct access to AT keyboards.
+
+* New utility `grub-fstest'.
+
+New in 1.96 - 2008-02-03:
+
+* The license term is changed to GNU General Public License Version 3.
+
+* grub-emu is made optional.  Now you have to use
+  `--enable-grub-emu' to enable it.
+
+* Add Multiboot2 support.
+
+* grub-emu can access the host filesystem now.
+
+* Add support for the NTFS, cpio/tar and Reiserfs filesystems.
+
+* Add support for ATA/ATAPI.
+
+* Add update-grub script to generate grub.cfg.
+
+* Add grub-mkrescue script to generate floppy or ElTorito images
+  (i386-pc only).
+
+* Add support for background images in gfxterm (background_image command).
+
+* Add support for detection of 64-bit support in CPU (cpuid command).
+
+* GPT is now enabled in i386-pc target.
+
+* Add grub-install for EFI.
+
+* Ported to the following new platforms: Efika, coreboot (a.k.a. LinuxBIOS),
+  OLPC XO.
+
+* Add support for colored menu (menu_color_normal and menu_color_highlight
+  variables).
+
+* Fix support for loading Linux zImages (such as memtest86).
+
+New in 1.95 - 2006-10-15:
+
+* Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first
+  partition of "hd0" is now "hd0,1" but not "hd0,0".
+
+* grub-probefs is renamed to grub-probe, and supports printing a
+  guessed OS device name and a GRUB drive name.
+
+* RAID and LVM support is added.
+
+* New command, echo.
+
+* The disk API is changed to support 64-bit addressing.
+
+* A TGA loader is added for the video API.
+
+New in 1.94 - 2006-06-04:
+
+* Fix several serious bugs in HFS+.
+
+* Add experimental EFI support. Chainloading and Linux loading are
+  supported at the moment.
+
+* Add a new command "blocklist" to show a block list.
+
+* Use --with-platform to specify a boot environment. For now, efi,
+  ieee1275 and pc are supported.
+
+* Use the filename "kernel.elf" instead of "grubof" on ieee1275.
+
+* Install GRUB into pkglibdir instead of pkgdatadir.
+
+* Support environmental variables. You can export variables by the
+  command "export".
+
+* Remove the commands "default" and "timeout". They are now variables.
+
+* Add the commands "source" and "." to include a file.
+
+* Implement experimental Video API and a new terminal "gfxterm" based
+  on the Video API.
+
+
+New in 1.93 - 2006-03-10:
+
+* Add support for the HFS+ wrapper.
+
+* Major improvements to scripting support.
+
+* Menu entries are now scriptable.
+
+
+New in 1.92 - 2005-12-25:
+
+* Add support for GPT partition table format.
+
+* Add a new command "play" to play an audio file on PC.
+
+* Add support for Linux/ADFS partition table format.
+
+* Add support for BASH-like scripting.
+
+* Add support for Apple HFS+ filesystems.
+
+
+New in 1.91 - 2005-10-15:
+
+* Add support for LZO version 2.
+
+* Support completion in the entry editor.
+
+* Add VBE support.
+
+* New commands, "search", "vbetest" and "vbeinfo".
+
+* The option BOOT_IMAGE is passed to Linux.
+
+* Add support for automatic decompression for gzip.
+
+* Add support for terminfo and serial.
+
+* Add support for x86_64.
+
+* GRUB itself is a Multiboot-compliant kernel.
+
+* Add new filesystems: XFS, SFS, and AFFS.
+
+
+New in 1.90 - 2005-08-07:
+
+* Rename the project name PUPA to GRUB. Now this version is the
+  developmental version of GRUB officially.
+
+* The GRUB emulator ``grub-emu'' is added.
+
+* Add support for newworld Mac. This should work with other
+  PowerPC-based machines as well, if they use IEEE 1275
+  (Open Firmware).
+
+* Too many changes to describe. Look at ChangeLog for more details.
+
+
+New in 0.7:
+
+* Problems in cross-compiling PUPA are fixed.
+
+* Use -mrtd and -mregparm=3 to reduce the generated code sizes.	This
+  means that any missing prototypes could be fatal. Also, you must take
+  care when writing assembly code. See the comments at the beginning of
+  startup.S, for more details.
+
+* New utility, ``pupa-setup''. This sets up PUPA to make it bootable
+  from a real disk.
+
+* New commands, "prefix", "insmod", "rmmod" and "lsmod" are added into
+  the rescue mode to manipulate PUPA modules.
+
+* Linux support is added. Initrd is not support yet.
+
+* Reduce the size of a core image significantly by compressing a large
+  part of the core image and decompressing itself at boot time. The
+  currently used algorithm is LZO (more precisely, LZO1X-999). So you
+  have to install LZO to build PUPA. See
+  <http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/>, for more information.
+
+
+New in 0.6 - 2002-12-27, Yoshinori K. Okuji:
+
+* The chainloader and the FAT filesystem are modularized.
+
+* The structure of the source tree is a bit changed.
+
+* Support for building loadable modules is added.
+
+* Some generic parts of pupa-mkimage are segregated.
+
+* Some documentation files are added, according to the GNU Coding
+  Standards.