Add several user visible changes since April for advocacy.

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# LIST OF CHANGES FROM LAST RELEASE: <$Revision: 1.1095 $>
# LIST OF CHANGES FROM LAST RELEASE: <$Revision: 1.1096 $>
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# [Note: This file does not mention every change made to the NetBSD source tree.
@ -488,13 +488,22 @@ Changes from NetBSD 4.0 to NetBSD 5.0:
asus(4): Added a driver for ASUS ACPI hotkeys as found in the EeePC.
[jmcneill 20080331]
zaurus: Add sysinst support. [chris 20080401]
isv(4): Add support for the IDEC Supervision/16 image capture board
for ISA. dyoung 20080402]
puc(4): Support for Digi International 4 and 8 port boards,
from OpenBSD. [riz 20080403]
finsio(4): Added a driver for the Fintek Super I/O chips, supporting
the Hardware Monitor device. Adapted from OpenBSD.
[xtraeme 20080403]
compat_linux32: Add msync(2) syscall. [njoly 20080404]
sparc: Add support booting from UFS2 partition. [tsutsui 20080405]
hp700: Add support for the SCSI NCR 53C720 SCSI controller found in
early HP 9000s for the attachment of an Fast-Wide (16-bit)
SCSI-2 bus, utilizing HVD signalling via the siop(4)
driver. [skrll 20080405]
sun2: Provide RAS based atomic_cas_32() function by reusing old
_lock_cas() implementation for m68010. Now sun2 kernel
compiles and even works on mutiuser. [tsutsui 20080405]
openssh: Import 5.0. [christos 20080406]
ofppc: Support for SMP added. [garbled 20080408]
opencrypto(9): Improve performance to 84,000 short modular math ops/sec
@ -502,27 +511,62 @@ Changes from NetBSD 4.0 to NetBSD 5.0:
retrieve of requests/results. Rewrite manual page to
make it easier to write new code to the API. Donated
by Coyote Point Systems, Inc. [tls 20080410]
kernel: Make IP, TCP, UDP, and ICMP statistics per-CPU.
The stats are collated when the user requests them via sysctl.
[thorpej 20080412]
acpi(4): Updated ACPI-CA to 20080321. [jmcneill 20080412]
landisk: Add sysinst support. [skrll 20080414]
libcurses: Add getwin() and putwin(). [jdc 20080414]
kernel: Make IP6, ICMP6, UDP6, RAW6, PIM6, CARP, ARP, and IGMP
statistics per-CPU. [thorpej 20080415]
compat_linux32: Add sys_clock{getres,gettime,settime} syscalls.
[njoly 20080417]
shark: Support for X on rev. 4 sharks is back [macallan 20080419]
agp(4): Add missing AGP support for ALI M1689 chipset. [njoly 20080419]
nfe(4): Fix problem on receiving jumbo frames. [cube 20080420]
libc, kernel: Add posix_madvise(2). [rmind 20080422]
gcc(1): Fix compilation of native sh3 gcc on 64-bit build machines.
[uwe 20080422]
amdtemp(4): AMD CPU Temperature driver. Adapted from OpenBSD.
[cegger 20080423]
netiso: Remove obsolete TPCONS support. [plunky 20080423]
kernel: Merge the socket locking patch, which makes socket layer and
unix protocols MP safe and allows protocol processing
interrupts to safely block on locks. [ad 20080424]
compat_linux(8): Add IPC_64 support for semctl IPC_STAT/IPC_SET.
[njoly 20080424]
lint(1): Add preliminary _Complex support. [christos 20080425]
arm: merge armv6 kernel support from matt-armv6 branch.
[matt 20080427]
kernel: Add MI code to support in-kernel preemption. [ad 20080428]
prep: Support for floppy controller/drive. [garbled 20080428]
amd64, i386: Add support for kernel preeemption to i386 and amd64.
[ad 20080428]
gpio(4): Extend with open/close to handle request/release the
ppbus(4) on open/close. From Hans Rosenfeld. [cegger 20080429]
ppbus(4): Extend to attach on gpiobus. From Hans Rosenfeld.
[cegger 20080429]
prep: Bootable ISO now built automatically. [garbled 20080430]
i386: Make MULTIPROCESSOR mandatory. [ad 20080430]
i386: Build INSTALL kernel from GENERIC, and update boot menu to allow
disabling ACPI and/or SMP. [ad 20080430]
atf(7): Import 0.5. [jmmv 20080501]
tests: Convert the tests in the tests/ hierarchy that were written in
C++ to C, making use of the libatf-c library that comes with
the ATF 0.5 just imported. [jmmv 20080501]
hpqlb(4): Hotkey driver for HP notebooks. [cegger 20080501]
i386: Put the GENERIC kernel onto i386 installation CDs and load
a kernel module from the boot loader to provide the miniroot.
[ad 20080502]
drm(4): Added amd64 support. [jmcneill 20080504]
landisk: Fix MD bus_dmamap_load(9) so that NFS write works with re(4).
[uwe 20080506]
twa(4): Add support for 3ware 9650 and 9690 based on patches
contributed by Wasabi Systems. [joerg 20080508]
openssl(1): Imported 20080509 current snapshot. [christos 20080509]
ftp(1): Add epsv6 and epsv to disable extended passive mode for ipv6
or both ipv4 and ip v6 respectively. [skd 20080510]
libarchive: Import libarchive-2.5.3b. [joerg 20080511]
getent(1): Added support for "netgroup" database. [tron 20080514]
fs/udf: Added write support for the UDF file system. [reinoud 20080514]
event(3): Updated libevent to 1.4.4-stable. [peter 20080516]
@ -534,6 +578,8 @@ Changes from NetBSD 4.0 to NetBSD 5.0:
acpidalb(4): Direct Application Launch Buttons. [cegger 20080518]
wscons(4): Add support for the Colemak keyboard layout. [ghen 20080520]
ipf(8): Updated to version 4.1.29. [darrenr 20080520]
compat_linux32: Add compat linux32 IPC syscall support,
for shared memory and and semaphores. [njoly 20080520]
openldap: Import 2.4.9. [lukem 20080522]
postfix(1): Enable LDAP support for tables (see ldap_table(5))
[lukem 20080522]
@ -542,19 +588,44 @@ Changes from NetBSD 4.0 to NetBSD 5.0:
Nubus parallel printer card. [hauke 20080522]
siisata(4): A driver for Silicon Image SteelVine SATA-II controllers
(SiI3124, SiI3132, and SiI3531) [jnemeth 20080523]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd 4.0.0-beta5. [joerg 20080524]
kernel: Device attach and detach notifications are now exposed
via /dev/drvctl [jmcneill 20080525]
awk(1): Import 20070501 [christos 20080525]
amd64, i386: Add detection of errata for AMD Family 10h steppings
A and 2. [chris 20080525]
amd64, i386: Check for erratum 261 on AMD Family 10h Stepping 3
processors. [chris 20080525]
libarchive: Import libarchive-2.5.4b. [joerg 20080525]
ciss(4): Add bio(4) support, heavily from OpenBSD. [mhitch 20080525]
uberry(4): A driver to allow RIM BlackBerries to charge from the USB
port [christos 20080525]
openssl(1): Enable Camellia. [christos 20080526]
cobalt: Make bootloader print boot banner and a loading kernel name
onto LCD. [tsutsui 20080528]
bebox: Support genfb(4) console. [kiyohara 20080530]
libprop: Add prop_array_util(3) functions. [haad 20080603]
openssl(1): Fix two Denial of Service vulnerabilities in OpenSSL.
Fixes CVE-2008-1672. [tonnerre 20080605]
sh3: Support single-stepping in ddb(4). [uwe 20080606]
pf(4): Updated to OpenBSD 4.2 PF [yamt,peter,christos,joerg 20080618]
sk(4), msk(4): Fix lock panic on receiving jumbo packets.
[cube 20080620]
bind: Import 9.5.0 [christos 20080621]
psrset(8): Utility to control processor sets [ad 20080622]
postfix(1): Import 2.5.2 [christos 20080622]
ssh-hpn: Apply 5.0p1 13 v3 [christos 20080622]
libc: Add getlogin_r(3). [ad 20080625]
usb(4): Add appropriate bus_dmamap_sync(9) calls to uhci(4), ohci(4)
and ehci(4) to avoid CPU from reordering loads and stores
against DMA descriptors. This fixes "host controller process
error/host controller halted" errors. [bouyer 20080628]
arm: Add AT91 support. [matt 20080703]
bind: Import 9.5.0-P1. [christos 20080710]
top(1): Import top 3.8beta1 [christos 20080715]
share/mk: Set assembler warnings to be fatal if $WARNS>0.
[lukem 20080721]
compat_linux32: Add linux32_getifconf. [njoly 20080723]
dhcpcd(8): Import 4.0.0rc3. [joerg 20080727]
uvm_map(9): Switch from using <sys/tree.h> to <sys/rb.h>.
[matt 20080728]
@ -571,19 +642,37 @@ Changes from NetBSD 4.0 to NetBSD 5.0:
after a panic in X with "call ddb_vgapost" [joerg 20080731]
wapbl(4): Add support for metadata journaling for FFS. Contributed
by Wasabi Systems, Inc. [simonb 20080731]
newfs(8): Handle 't' suffix for terabytes for number arguments.
[simonb 20080801]
ehci(4): Add isochronous transfer support, contributed by
Jeremy Morse as part of his Google Summer of Code 2008 project.
[jmcneill 20080802]
ip(4): Add accept filters, ported from FreeBSD by Coyote Point Systems.
[tls 20080804]
libc: Add C99 functions imaxabs(3) and imaxdiv(3). [matt 20080804]
build.sh: Add support for using BUILDSEED to yield
reproduceable c++ builds [perry 20080805]
sockopt(9): New kernel API for passing socket options [plunky 20080806]
vax: Add accelerated driver for SPX graphics found in some VAXstations.
Contributed by Blaz Antonic. [hans 20080812]
openldap: Import 2.4.11. [lukem 20080813]
bind: Import 9.5.0-P2. [he 20080815]
wm(4): Fix a bug on receiving a jumbo frame which leads to a panic
in sbcompress(). Contributed by Wasabi Systems.
[simonb 20080815]
btpand(8): a Bluetooth Personal Area Networking profile
daemon [plunky 20080817]
agp(4): Add AGP support for Intel 946GZ. [matthias 20080819]
ataraid(4): Add support for nVidia MediaShield from FreeBSD.
[tacha 20080820]
fss(4): Add snapshot support for logging ffs file systems.
[hannken 20080822]
agp(4): Add AGP support for Intel 945GME chipset,
found on Acer Aspire One. [tnn 20080822]
ntp: Import 4.2.4p5. [kardel 20080823]
re(4): Add support for the Realtek 8102E/8102EL PCIe 10/100 Ethernet
devices. From FreeBSD. [tnn 20080823]
sgimips: Misc bug fixes and improvements to mec(4) Ethernet on O2.
[tsutsui 20080823]
bge(4): Add support for BCM5906(M) chips contributed by
Karl Uwe Lockhoff. [cegger 20080825]