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LIST OF CHANGES FROM LAST RELEASE: <$Revision: 1.148 $>
[Note: This file does not mention every change made to the NetBSD source tree.
For an exhaustive list, please subscribe to the `source-changes' mailing list,
or see the mailing list archives. For more information, send a message
containing just the word `help' to `majordomo@netbsd.org'.]
Changes from NetBSD 1.6 to NetBSD 2.0:
libcrypt: support bcrypt password entries. can be chosen with
"blowfish" keyword in passwd.conf. from openbsd
[itojun 20020524]
tcp(4): implement path MTU discovery blackhole detection (turn off path
MTU discovery if the connection is losing). PR 12790.
[itojun 20020526]
pppd(8): import 2.4.1 [christos 20020529]
ftpd(8): optionally and experimentally use mmap(2) instead of read(2)
for binary file transfer [enami 20020530]
prep: support IBM RS/6000 43P 7043-140. [nonaka 20020530]
pmppc: a port to Artesyn's PM/PPC board. [augustss 20020531]
tcpdump(8): upgrade to 3.7.1 as of 2002/5/31. [itojun 20020531]
amdpm(4): driver for AMD768 Power Management Controller (but currently
an interface to rnd(4) only.) [enami 20020602]
gspahextoc: was obsoleted by the -c option to gspa(1) a long
time ago, and has thus been removed [is 20020607]
netinet6: synchronize with recent interface/router/prefix management
logic from KAME. [itojun 20020608]
greconfig(8): obsoleted. use ifconfig(8) for configuration.
[itojun 20020609]
netinet: path MTU discovery is turned on by default (currently used
for TCP only). [itojun 20020613]
amd(8): add new mount option "xlatecookie" to support NFS v3 mounts
with cookie translation. [tron 20020614]
factor(6): Use a Pollard Rho algorithm to factor arbitrary sized
numbers. [simonb 20020615]
systrace(1): Integrate Niels Provos' systrace(1) binary sand-boxing,
device and userland support. [christos 20020617]
netstat(1): add -q flag to print information about
software interrupt queue. [enami 20020703]
kernel: Socket buffer insertion is now O(C). This can provide a
substantial performance boost to some applications
which use large socket buffers. [thorpej 20020703]
sh5: Added support for the SuperH SH-5 CPU architecture.
[scw 20020705]
chflags(1), chgrp(1), chmod(1), chown(8): Change default behaviour
to follow symlinks on the command line rather than ignoring
them, finally fixing PR 563. [bjh21 20020707]
file(1): update to 3.39. [pooka 20020709]
pdisk(8): Import pdisk 0.8a1, the Apple disk partitioning
utility [dbj 20020709]
Switch to a signal trampoline provided by libc. The kernel
will provide one for backward compatibility, and
for emulations. [thorpej 20020710]
m68k: m68k-based ports now use __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN syscall interface.
[scw 20020713]
evbarm: Add support for the Intel IXM1200 eval board for
the ixp12x0 Network Processor. [ichiro 20020715]
mopd(8): Added "-s <mopdir>" to avoid hard coding /tftpboot/mop.
[mrg 20020719]
hpcarm: X server for the Jornada 720 now works [manu 20020722]
pciide(4): added support for the Silicon Image 0680 IDE controller.
[onoe 20020726]
macppc: finished support for 2nd CPU on 9500/180MP and 9600/200MP
[chs 20020728]
systrace(1): Update systrace(1) and the kernel code. Note that the
update contains backward-incompatible change in ioctl.
[itojun 20020730]
dmover(4): Added dmover(4) API, interface to hardware-assisted data
movers. [thorpej 20020801]
pkg_admin(8): Add 'pmatch' keyword to return true if 'pkg' matches
'pattern', false else. [hubertf 20020804]
macppc: added support for 2nd CPU on dual G4 boxes [chs 20020805]
pmc(9): Added new performance counter framework. [briggs 20020806]
auich(4): Added support for ICH4 and SiS 7012. [kent 20020807]
pmc(3): Added new performance counter interface library.
[thorpej 20020808]
usb(4): Added slhci(4), ScanLogic SL811HS/T USB Host Controller.
[isaki 20020811]
ifmedia(4): Added new "ibss", "ibss-master", and "hostap" ifmedia media
options for 802.11 interfaces. [thorpej 20020810]
wi(4): Add experimental Host-AP support, allowing Intelsil
Prism2/2.5/3-based boards to be used to make an
802.11 Access Point. [thorpej 20020811]
arm: New versions of copyin(), copyout(), and kcopy(). These make
almost all user/kernel interactions faster. [briggs 20020812]
lpd(8): add libwrap support. [itojun 20020812]
sparc64: Add sab driver for sab82532 serial controller. Written by
Jason L. Wright for OpenBSD. [petrov 20020816]
wscons(4): Add wsmoused(8) for mouse cut and paste in wscons vga
driver. [christos 20020820]
utmpx(5): All userland programs have been converted to understand both
utmp and utmpx, wtmp and wtmpx, lastlog and lastlogx
[christos 20020821]
rescue: enable /rescue system recovery tools. [lukem 20020822]
boot(8): allow path to init(8) to be entered when booting with
RB_ASKNAME ("boot -a"). [lukem 20020823]
rasctl(2): Restartable Atomic Sequences (RAS). [gmcgarry 20020828]
pmap(1): Added to tree. Prints the address space of a given
process (or processes). [atatat 20020831]
zx(4): Add a driver for the Sun ZX/Leo framebuffer. [ad 20020913]
ipf(8): updated to version 3.4.29. [martti 20020919]
mount(2): Add MNT_GETARGS support to retrieve mounted filesystem
specific arguments. [christos 20020921]
compat_irix(8): sproc emulation supports share groups with private
memory mappings. [manu 20020922]
mk.conf(5): MKDYNAMICROOT=yes made as the default, resulting in
a fully dynamically linked system. [lukem 20020923]
iwic(4): Add driver for Winbond W6692 ISDN [pooka 20020924]
kernel: Removed the old rmap code, <sys/map.h> and kern/subr_rmap.c.
[thorpej 20020925]
kernel: Overhaul device parent matching; now record attributes in
a "parent spec" in the kernel. [thorpej 20020925]
libcrypto: mdc2 is a patented algorithm, so move it out of libcrypto.
if you need mdc2, define MKCRYPTO_MDC2 to get libcrypto_mdc2.a.
[itojun 20020926]
kernel: Don't reference cfdriver structures directly in the cfdata
entries; instead, a string names the driver, which is looked up
from a list that is built at run-time. [thorpej 20020926]
ufs: Add support for the Apple UFS variation on ffs
See PR 17345 [dbj 20020928]
sh(1): Use vfork(2) rather than fork(2) where appropriate.
See PR 5475 [christos,elric 20020928]
Remove umask setting from /etc/skel/.{cshrc,profile} so that
user files are not created group writable by default.
[grant 20020929]
sendmail(8): Include DOMAIN(generic) in prototype configuration
to enable standard sendmail features. [grant 20020930]
mrouted(8): moved to gnusrc, as it is not under BSD license.
[itojun 20021001]
i386: merge the sommerfeld_i386mp_1 branch [fvdl 20021001]
ssh(1): upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 3.5
around 20021001. [itojun 20021001]
kernel: Don't reference cfattach structures directly in the cfdata
entries; instead, a string names the attachment, which is
looked up from a list that is built at run-time.
[thorpej 20021003]
cgd(4): Add CryptoGraphic Disk driver, cgd(4). [elric 20021004]
pciide(4): Added support for VIA VT8235 [kent 20021005]
auvia(4): Added support for VT8233/VT8235 [kent 20021005]
auvia(4): Enabled sampling rate conversion for fixed-rate AC'97 codec
[kent 20021008]
ubsa(4): Driver for Belkin serial adapters ported from FreeBSD
[augustss 20021008]
tar(1): upgrade to GNU tar 1.13.25 for security fixes
[itojun 20021010]
config(9): Allow pseudo-devices to be parents of "real" devices.
[thorpej 20021009]
config(9): Allow options to register dependencies on attributes
(the way it already can for other options). [thorpej 20021010]
config(9): Allow devices to be orphaned in the kernel config file, but
emit an informational message when this happens.
[thorpej 20021010]
tar(1), cpio(1): We are now using pax(1) for those instead of
the gnu version. [christos 20021016]
basename(3), dirname(3): Change to return pointer to static
storage, rather than modifying their input arguments.
The new behavior is explicitly allowed by IEEE Std
1003.1-2001. [thorpej 20021016]
build.sh: add '-k kernel', to configure and build the given
kernel using the new toolchain.
From Alan Barrett in PR#18739. [lukem 20021021]
kernel: kqueue branch merged [jdolecek 20021023]
kernel: keep separate read & write disk statistics. [mrg 20021101]
iostat(8): report read/write stats in iostat -x. [mrg 20021101]
systat(1): report read/write stats in iostat "rw" mode. [mrg 20021101]
sparc64: Find the correct boot path for all IDE disks. [mrg 20021102]
eap(4): Add support for second DAC [pooka 20021104]
kernel: Added two sysctl(8) flags to stop process just after creation by
fork(2) or exec(2). [manu 20021106]
mtd(4): Add driver for Myson Technologies MTD803 3-in-1 Fast Ethernet
cards from Peter Bex. [martin 20021107]
iop(4): Add support for Adaptec 2000S and 2005S [msaitoh 20021108]
dreamcast: Add support for memory card and monochrome LCD on
Maple bus. [itohy 20021115]
vnd(4): Now also available as an LKM. [mrg 20021116]
etc/postinstall: Add support for examining the obsolete sets for
obsolete entries to check or remove. [lukem 20021117]
named(8): Upgrade to BIND 8.3.4. [itojun 20021117]
gcc(1), as(1): Fixed bug in how NetBSD ARM ELF binaries were marked.
They now properly reflect ATPCS + Soft-VFP.
[thorpej 20021121]
lib/csu: Split crtbegin/crtend into crti/crtbegin/crtend/crtn.
This is inline with what other ELF systems do, and paves
the way to using GCC-supplied crtbegin/crtend.
[thorpej 20021121]
i386: reworked interrupt code to be more independent of the
underlying interrupt controller, to perform better
with shared lines, and to be more clean in general
[fvdl 20021122]
postfix(1): upgrade to 1.1.12. [itojun 20021126]
mk.conf(5): removed support for SYS_INCLUDE=symlinks; <sys/*.h>
include files are always copied now. [lukem 20021126]
cvs(1): upgrade to 1.11.2 [christos 20021127]
strsuftoll(3), strsuftollx(3): Add functions to parse numbers
with optional suffices and/or products. [lukem 20021129]
am-utils: upgrade to 6.1b1 [christos 20021129]
routed(8): upgrade to 2.27 [christos 20021129]
fparseln(3): migrated from libutil to libc. [lukem 20021130]
x68k: add bmd(4), memory disk driver for Nereid bank memory.
[isaki 20021201]
i386: biosboot bootblocks now support booting off 2.88MB drive
using 1.44MB floppy disk [jdolecek 20021204]
edquota(8): Added command-line options to allow setting quotas
from command line. [bouyer 20021204]
arc: Add support for NEC Express5800/240 R4400 EISA (NEC-J96A).
[tsutsui 20021207]
build.sh: add -E, to enable "expert mode", which allows builds
to DESTDIR=/. [lukem 20021208]
evbppc: Added arch/evbppc for PowerPC-based evaluation boards, with the
existing Walnut port as its first member. [scw 20021209]
db(1): Added. Manipulates db(3) btree(3) and hash(3) databases.
[lukem 20021211]
mips: support fully coherent data caches on MIPS32 and MIPS64 cpus
(enabled for Au1x00 and SB-1 CPUS). [simonb 20021217]
install(1): added -N dbdir, to specify different location for user
and group databases. [lukem 20021219]
build system: Users and groups for the build are now obtained from
src/etc instead of the host systems' passwd(5) and group(5)
databases. [lukem 20021219]
sunlabel(8): Now enabled by default. Manipulates SunOS disklabels.
[lukem 20021221]
vis(1): Add `-e extra', to provide a list of extra characters to
encode (per svis(3)). [lukem 20021223]
mtree(8): Add -C, which acts like -D except that the pathname
is printed first instead of last. [lukem 20021223]
build.sh: Add '-i installworlddir', to run "make installworld"
after all other operations have completed. [lukem 20021225]
dreamcast: Add support for the SEGA LAN Adapter, based on patch in
dreamcast/17493 from Christian Groessler. [tsutsui 20021227]
kprintf(9): Add "aprint" family of autoconfiguration message
printing routines that change their behavior based on
flags in boothowto. [thorpej 20021231]
procfs: Add /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd> [christos 20030103]
build system: Releases are now installed under ${RELEASEDIR}/${MACHINE}
instead of ${RELEASEDIR}. [lukem 20030103]
mtree(8): Newly created directories have 0777 instead of 0700
permissions (as modified by the umask(2)). This only
affects 'mtree -W', or directories without an explicit
mode= entry. [lukem 20030105].
sparc,sparc64: The nell (STP4020) pcmcia bridge driver is now
finished. [martin 20030107]
sparc: MULTIPROCESSOR support works. [pk,mrg 20030111]
cvs(1): upgraded to 1.11.4 [wiz 20030116]
auich(4): Added support for nForce2 MCP-T. [gendalia 20030116]
ex(4): Added support for 3c905CX-TX. [gendalia 20030116]
texinfo(1): upgraded to 4.3. [wiz 20030117]
pthreads: Merge nathanw_sa branch, implementing p1003.1 POSIX thread
and Scheduler Activation thread interface. [thorpej 20030117]
cpio(1): removed GNU cpio (replaced by pax frontend). [wiz 20030118]
tar(1): removed GNU tar (replaced by pax frontend). [wiz 20030118]
semaphores: Added p1003.1b semaphores from freebsd. [christos 20030120]
cvs(1): upgraded to 1.11.5. [wiz 20030121]
progress(1): New standalone progress bar program factored out
from ftp(1). [jhawk 20030122]
sysinst: Leverage progress(1) for reasonable-looking file extraction
displays. [jhawk 20030122]
build.sh: Rework command line into command line options followed
by a list of operations to perform. [lukem 20030123]
gcore(1): Add it back. [christos 20030123]
semaphores: Fix kernel implementation, and add non-pthreads
version in new librt. [thorpej 20030123]
diff(1), diff3(1), sdiff(1): upgraded to diffutils-2.8.1 [wiz 20030126]
grep(1): upgraded to 2.5. Warning: -o is now a valid GNU grep option
(--only-matching (-o)), so we will not be supporting the 4.4BSD
-o any longer -- use -H instead. [wiz 20030127]
objcopy(1): Add --redefine-syms-file option. [simonb 20030129]
crunchgen(1): Use "objcopy --redefine-syms-file". [simonb 20030129]
find(1): allow preceding +/- on numeric arg to -user. [jhawk 20030130]
arc: Add support for the Cirrus Logic GD5428 ISA VGA console on
Express5800/240 R4400 EISA (NEC-J96A) and RISCserver2200
(NEC-R96). [tsutsui 20030131]
malloc(9): Add extensible kernel malloc types, adapted from FreeBSD.
[thorpej 20030131]
kernel: Added a sysctl(8) flag to control whether the kernel dumps
to the dump device on panic. [atatat 20030210]
inetd(8): Use kqueue(2) for enhanced performance and scalability.
[tron 20030212]
/etc/security, security.conf(5): Allow more flexibility in warnings
from check_passwd and check_mtree. [jhawk 20030213]
grep(1): upgraded to 2.5.1. [wiz 20030213]
texinfo(1): upgraded to 4.5. [wiz 20030213]
usb(4): add uax(4), a driver for the AX88172 Ethernet adapter chip.
The chip supports 10/100 and USB 2.0. [augustss 20030216]
bridge(4), brconfig(8): add ipf support. [perseant 20030216]
kernel: SMBFS support, ported from FreeBSD. [jdolecek 20030218]
kernel: Top down memory management option added, initially for
i386, but others are following. [atatat 20030220]
/etc/daily, daily.conf(5): Suppress empty security reports by default.
[jhawk 20030221]
/etc/security, security.conf(5): Produce unified diffs by default.
[jhawk 20030221]
kernel: Add LFSv2 support to libsa [simonb 20030224]
i386: Add LFS support to bootblocks [simonb 20030224]
kernel: Add MBUFTRACE kernel option. Change all MGET*(...M_WAIT,...)
to m_get*(M_WAIT, ...) to shrink kernel. Add m_clget
analogue to MCLGET and use it if M_WAIT is passed. Adapt
netinet, if_loop, gem, tulip, fxp driver to MBUFTRACE. Bump
version to 1.6P. [matt 20030226]
libpthread: Add pthread_{,attr}_{get,set}name_np() API, compatible
with Tru64 Unix. [thorpej 20030227]
sysctl: Add hw.physmem64 and hw.usermem64 sysctl nodes, which
return the same data has hw.physmem and hw.usermem, but
as a 64-bit byte count, instead of a 32-bit byte count.
Required for reporting >=4G RAM. [thorpej 20030227]
binutils: updated to FSF binutils 2.13.2.1 release. [mrg 20030228]
libc: Add _Exit(), the C99 name for _exit(). [bjh21 20030301]
acorn26: Add support for the 82C710 multi-I/O chip, as found in (some?)
A5000s. [bjh21 20030301]
mdsetimage(1): only use libbfd calls to get symbol information; writing
is now done directly into the file. [dogcow 20030304]
x86_64: rearrange the x86_64 code, make it share code with i386, and
enable MP [fvdl 20030305]
kernel: Report correct child cpu times. [dsl 20030305]
kernel: Use common code for set{u,g}id functions. [dsl 20030305]
sysctl: Make hw.physmem and hw.usermem saturate if they are used
on a system with >=4G RAM. [thorpej 20030306]
postfix(1): update to 2.0.6 [perry 20030308]
kernel: let LFS use the UBC system natively. This should provide
complete coherency between mmap(2) and read(2)/write(2) on
LFS, in addition to allowing it to use much more memory for
its buffers. [perseant 20030308]
am-utils: update to 6.1b2 [christos 20030309]
evbppc: Add support for the NCD Explora451 ThinClient.
[hannken 20030311]
kernel: New pid allocator - avoids all the searching in pfind() etc.
Bump version to 1.6Q. [dsl 20030319]
pciide(4): Add support for the Intel i31244 and Silicon Image 3112
Serial ATA controllers. [thorpej 20030319]
sparc64: Add support for PCI-CardBus bridge. [nakayama 20030322]
pppoectl(8): Add a "-f configfile" option. [mrg 20030322]
sendmail(8): update to 8.12.8. [atatat 20030324]
vax: Add device driver for RX01/RX02 floppies (rfc/rf).
From Jochen Kunz. [ragge 20030323]
sh5: Shared libraries now supported on SH5 (but not yet enabled
in bsd.own.mk due to sundry toolchain issues).
[scw 20030325]
file(1): update to 4.00. [pooka 20030326]
libmagic: add libmagic, which is currently used by file(1)
[pooka 20030326]
wall(1): added "-g group". [lukem 20030327]
dump(8), dump_lfs(8): remove setgid tty, as "wall -g operator"
is now used to notify operators. [lukem 20030327]
vnd(4), vnconfig(8): add read-only configuration support.
[yamt 20030327]
cron(8): Move default cron log from /var/cron/log to /var/log/cron
[perry 20030402]
kernel and userland: UFS2 support from Kirk McKusick via FreeBSD.
[fvdl 20030402]
ssh(1): upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 3.6.1
around 20030403. [itojun 20030403]
pciide(4): add support for i82801DBM (ICH4-M). [kent 20030405]
wm(4): add support for i82540EP. [kent 20030405]
scsi: Add a MI driver for the Symbios/NCR 53c700 SCSI controller
written by Shuichiro URATA. [tsutsui 20030406]
rsh(1), rlogin(1): Add -p flag to allow specifying a non-standard
port number. [hubertf 20030407]
kernel: SMBFS uses low-overhead NT Directory Change Notify SMB to watch
for vnode kqueue(2) events on directories [jdolecek 20030407]
kernel: hostap power saving mode support [kml 20030407]
kernel: pool caches now have the ability to cache physical addresses
of objects. [thorpej 20030409]
kernel: mbufs use new cached physical address feature of pools,
and can provide other information about external buffers
to save work for bus_dma back-ends. Use this information
in the ARM and x86 bus_dma back-ends to improve network
performance.
pkg_install: improve bzip2 support, especially for non-NetBSD
systems. [grant 20030410]
less: update to less-381. [mrg 20030414]
kernel: added a sysctl(8) flag to check and reject packets arriving
on the "wrong" interface. [christos 20030412]
libc: added slovak language libc message catalog. [salo 20030414]
mpt(4): Added device driver for LSI Fusion-MPT based SCSI and
Fibre Channel controllers. Ported from the FreeBSD "mpt"
driver written by Greg Ansley. Supports the LSI 53c1030
Ultra320 SCSI and LSI FC909, FC919, and FC929 Fibre
Channel adapters. [thorpej 20030416]
df(1), du(1): add -g argument for output in gigabytes [grant 20030418]
arm32: Add new arm32 pmap contributed by Wasabi Systems.
[scw 20030418]