From 041d1ea37802bf7178a31a53f96c26efa6b8fb7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:41:01 +0000 Subject: fish --- NEWS | 399 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 399 insertions(+) create mode 100644 NEWS (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a93c25 --- /dev/null +++ b/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,399 @@ +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 + , 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. -- cgit v1.2.3