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Changes from NetBSD 6.0 to NetBSD 7.0:
window(1): Removed from the base system in favor of tmux(1). Use the
pkgsrc/misc/window package from now on. [jmmv 20120215]
pkg_add(1): imported 20120221 version from pkgsrc [wiz 20120221]
file(1): upgraded to 5.11 [christos 20120222]
evbmips: Add support for Lemote Yeeloong Notebook. [nonaka 20120302]
dbsym(8): Add option -p [bsh 20120319]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.5.5 [roy 20120323]
ipf: upgrade to 5.1.1 with new build framework, no module and
test support yet [christos 20120323]
pcc: upgrade to 1.1.0.DEVEL 20120325 [plunky 20120325]
openresolv(8): Import openresolv-3.5.1 [roy 20120327]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.5.6 [roy 20120328]
apple: Recognize the apple disk partitioning scheme, and auto-discover
wedges. Fix iPod disk mounting, by adding quirk.
[christos 20120306]
fstab: Add NAME=wedgename for fs_spec and routines to parse it. Now
wedges can be used in /etc/fstab, even in dynamic environments
where disks come and go and wedges get renumbered.
[christos 20120306]
pdisk(8): Make it work for 64 bit hosts, and make it MI.
[christos 20120306]
amiga: Add clockport(4) layer and a driver for A1200 on-board clockport
a1k2cp(4). [rkujawa 20120417]
kernel: add mpii(4), a driver for LSI Logic Fusion-MPT Message Passing
Interface II SAS controllers. [bouyer 20120419]
kernel: Add support for 256 CPUs on amd64. [rmind 20120420]
OpenSSH: Imported 6.0 [christos 20120501]
bzip2: Imported 1.0.6 [wiz 20120507]
amiga: Rework X-Surf driver as xsurf(4). Add support for clockport(4)
on top of xsurf(4). [rkujawa 20120515]
backtrace(3): Add <execinfo.h> and the backtrace family of functions
[christos 20120526]
kernel: Add run(4), a driver for Ralink Technology
RT2700U/RT2800U/RT3000U USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless
network devices, ported from OpenBSD. [nonaka 20120530]
bind: update to 9.9.1-P1 to fix the recent rdata exploit.
[christos 20120604]
empb(4): Add ELBOX Mediator PCI 1200 driver. [rkujawa 20120604]
kernel: Add a new RLIMIT_NTHR limit to limit the number of processes
per user and the corresponding kern.maxlwp sysctl. Expose
kern.uidinfo.* via sysctl. [christos 20120608]
usb(9): Added support for SMP to the USB subsytem. By Jared D.
McNeill and myself. [mrg 20120609]
kernel: {send,recv}mmsg support [christos 20120621]
kernel: Add sysctls to avoid ipv6 DoS attacks (from OpenBSD):
net.inet6.ip6.neighborgcthresh = 2048
net.inet6.ip6.maxifprefixes = 16
net.inet6.ip6.maxifdefrouters = 16
net.inet6.ip6.maxdynroutes = 4096
[christos 20120622]
ata(4): added support for sata Port MultiPliers (PMP)
[bouyer 20120702]
kernel, libc: Add MurmurHash2 function. [rmind 20120708]
atf(7): Import 0.16. [jmmv 20120711]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.1 [roy 20120712]
kernel: Add support for sensors to provide entropy to rnd(4)
[pgoyette 20120715]
tdvfb(4): Add 3Dfx Voodoo2 driver. [rkujawa 20120719]
tdvfb(4): Add 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics (aka Voodoo1) support.
[rkujawa 20120720]
kernel: Change mii_statchg to take "struct ifnet *" instead of
"device_t". [matt 20120722]
pr(1): Add support for POSIX -f and -p options. [ginsbach 20120724]
powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
OpenSSL: Imported 1.0.1c [christos 20120726]
kernel: safepri is dead; replaced by macro IPL_SAFEPRI. [matt 20120727]
kernel: Add malo(4), a driver for Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g
wireless network devices, ported from OpenBSD.
[degroote 20120730]
kernel, libc: Add modctl(MODCTL_EXISTS, ...) to determine if modules
can be loaded. [jnemeth 20120803]
modstat(8): Add -A, -a, and -e options for testing module loadability.
[jnemeth 20120803]
libc: Update to tzcode2012e. [christos 20120809]
arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards.
[matt 20120822]
mfi(8): Added tagged queuing support. [bouyer 20120823]
mfi(8): Added support for LSI SAS2208-based controllers.
[bouyer 20120823]
mkdep(1): Add -P option. [jmmv 20120826]
share/mk: Add placeholder test programs (with some very basic test
cases within) for common bsd.*.mk modules. [jmmv 20120826]
arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph). Add
initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly). Add
L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7. Add support for
BCM5301X SoC. Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial
support for Freescale i.MX6. Add new common boot/kvminit
code. [matt 20120831]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.2 [roy 20120903]
bge(4): Add support for BCM57762, found in Apple's Thunderbolt to
Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. PR/46961 [tsutsui 20120917]
mfi(4): add a command pass-through ioctl, and associated COMPAT_LINUX
support. This allows to use the LSI MegaCLI linux binary
on a NetBSD host. [bouyer 20120919]
zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012f. [apb 20120927]
kernel: add clock_nanosleep(2) [christos 20121001]
wpa: New wpa_supplicant(8) and hostapd(8) 1.0 [christos 20121007]
x68k: Add network bootloader for Neptune-X and Nereid Ethernet.
[tsutsui,isaki 20121012]
x68k: Add support for formatting floppy. [tsutsui 20121014]
zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012g. [apb 20121018]
kernel: Added experimental support for the (mostly SSD specific)
"discard", or ATA "TRIM" command to wd(4) and ffs
[drochner 20121019]
libc: Import tzcode2012g. [christos 20121023]
zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012h. [apb 20121027]
libc: Update to tzcode2012h. [christos 20121028]
kernel: Import sljit and add BPF JIT compiler. [alnsn 20121028]
flock(1): Add a utility to provide locks to shell scripts similar
to shlock(1) [christos 20121101]
zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012i. [apb 20121104]
voodoofb(4): Add 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee support. [rkujawa 20121109]
zoneinfo: Import tzdata2012j. [apb 20121113]
msm6242b(4): Add MI OKI MSM6242B driver. [rkujawa 20121114]
amiga: A2000-style RTCs are now driven by the msm6242b(4) driver.
[rkujawa 20121114]
xsurf(4): Add X-Surf IDE controller support. [rkujawa 20121119]
z3rambd(4): Add driver for Zorro III RAM boards as block devices.
[rkujawa 20121126]
bind: update to 9.9.2-P1 to fix the DNS64 vulnerability.
[spz 20121204]
arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.4 [roy 20121206]
openresolv(8): Import openresolv-3.5.3 [roy 20121206]
arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3. [jmcneill 20121211]
arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support. [matt 20121211]
arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops. [matt 20121211]
openssh: Import 6.1. [christos 20121212]
ptcd(4): Add a driver for the Protech PS3100 cash drawer port.
[mbalmer 20121216]
ibmcd(4): Add a driver for the IBM 4810 BSP cash drawer port.
[mbalmer 20121217]
postfix(1): Import version 2.8.13 [tron 20121218]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.6 [roy 20121219]
arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
kernel: allow MD kernel code to use PCUs [matt 20121226]
units(1): add -l and -L options. [apb 20130101]
postfix(1): Import version 2.9.5 [tron 20130102]
file(1): upgraded to 5.12 [christos 20130103]
luna68k: Add native bootloader. Based on 4.4BSD-Lite2/luna68k
"Stinger" loader. [tsutsui 20130105]
kernel: Add dotg(4), a driver for Synopsys DesignWare USB OTG,
ported from FreeBSD. [skrll 20130109]
kernel: Add usmsc(4), a driver for SMSC LAN95xx USB LAN devices,
ported from OpenBSD. [skrll 20130109]
hp300: Add support for sti(4) framebuffer at sgc bus on some 425t.
Ported by kiyohara@ from OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20130111]
arm: kill userland FPA support, replace with VFP. [matt 20130111]
luna68k: Add netboot support. [tsutsui 20130113]
luna68k: Fix bootloader to make secondary SPC SCSI on LUNA-II work
properly. [tsutsui 20130114]
libdwarf: Sync with FreeBSD [christos 20130117]
empm(4): Add driver for power manager present on Mediator 1200 TX and
SX bridges. [rkujawa 20130128]
amiga: Support software power-off with empm(4). [rkujawa 20130128]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-5.6.7 [roy 20130128]
em4k(4): Add driver for Mediator 4000 PCI bridges. [rkujawa 20130129]
makefs(8): Add support for msdos, creating filesystems at an offset,
merging directories with common files. [christos 20130202]
openssl: update to 1.0.1d [christos 20130205]
sparc: Add hardware acceleration for cgfourteen(4) using SX
[macallan 20130207]
openssl: update to 1.0.1e [christos 20130212]
atf(7): Import 0.17. [jmmv 20130215]
lutok: Import 0.2. This is a new import that provides a C++ wrapper
for the Lua API and will be used by Kyua. Its build depends
on the MKKYUA knob. [jmmv 20130216]
kyua(1): Import kyua-testers 0.1. This is a new import that provides
scriptable utilities to invoke test programs that implement
different interfaces. [jmmv 20130217]
services(5), protocols(5): Pull iana-generated services and protocols
[christos 20130221]
kyua(1): Import kyua-cli 0.6. This is a new import that provides the
command-line interface to Kyua. Its build depends on the
MKKYUA knob. [jmmv 20130223]
kyua(1): Import kyua-atf-compat 0.1. This is a new import that
provides the last piece of Kyua, namely a compatibility
version of atf-run and atf-report that use kyua(1) internally.
[jmmv 20130223]
kernel: Retire OSI protocol support. [joerg 20130301]
libc: Update to tzcode2013a. [christos 20130302]
zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013a. [apb 20130303]
zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013b. [apb 20130312]
libc: Update to tzcode2013b. [christos 20130315]
brgphy(4): Add support for BCM5756, BCM5717C, BCM5719C, BCM5720C and
BCM57780. [msaitoh 20130315]
vmt(4): Synchronize the clock periodically to ensure it remains
up-to-date even when the host is suspended. [jmmv 20130316]
file(1): upgraded to 5.14 [christos 20130323]
dhcp: upgrade to 4.2.5 [christos 20130324]
vchiq(4): Add support for Broadcom VideoCore IV firmware interface.
[jmcneill 20130325]
vcaudio(4): Add support for Broadcom VideoCore IV audio service.
[jmcneill 20130325]
openssh: Import 6.2. [christos 20130329]
mdocml: Import 1.12.1 [christos 20130402]
openpam: Import 20120526 (Micrampelis) [christos 20130405]
flex: Import 2.5.37 [christos 20130405]
byacc: Import 20130304 [christos 20130405]
libpcap: Import 1.3.0 [christos 20130406]
tcpdump(8): Import 4.3.0 [christos 20130406]
libevent: Upgrade 2.0.21-stable [christos 20130411]
wm(4): Add support for I210 and I211 [msaitoh 20130419]
m68k: Add inverse trigonometric functions, hyperbolic arctangent,
exponential and power functions to m68k FPE. As a result,
m68k FPE supports all mathematics functions. [isaki 20130420]
tps65217pmic(4): Add support for TPS65217 PMIC as found on BeagleBone
and other AM335x based boards. [rkujawa 20130425]
amiga: Add minimal support for Thylacine USB card using slhci(4).
Works at least with some keyboards and mice. [rkujawa 20130428]
epoc32: Add new port NetBSD/epoc32. [kiyohara 20130428]
arm: Make all arm ports with a command MACHINE_ARCH generate the same
userspace. All sets are the same except for etc.tgz.
[matt 20130501]
disklabel: this is now a MI tool like installboot. [matt 20130503]
mcp980x(4): Add driver for Microchip MCP9800/1/2/3 I2C temperature
sensor. [rkujawa 20130507]
zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013c. [apb 20130508]
arm: Add support for Marvell Armada XP SoCs. From Marvell and Semihalf.
[rkujawa 20130530]
wm(4): Add support for I217 and I218 [msaitoh 20130602]
X11: Updated all Xorg packages that could be, for Xorg SA 2003-05-23,
and general. [mrg 20130605]
ipsec(4): FAST_IPSEC is now named IPSEC, old IPSEC is gone.
[christos 20130605]
kernel: Add driver soekrisgpio for Soekris net6501
Ported by kardel@ from a patch for OpenBSD. [kardel 20130609]
cgfourteen: both kernel and Xorg driver now support hardware
acceleration using SX [macallan 20130619]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-6.0.0 [roy 20130621]
zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013d. [apb 20130707]
bge(4): Add support for Altima AC1003, Apple BCM5701,
Broadcom BCM5787F, BCM5787G, BCM5787F, BCM5719, BCM5720,
BCM57766, BCM57782 and BCM57786. [msaitoh 20130708]
openresolv(8): Import openresolv-3.5.6 [roy 20130712]
libc: Update to tzcode2013d. [christo 20130717]
wpa: Import wpa_supplicant and hostapd 1.1 [adam 20130717]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-6.0.3 [roy 20130719]
coldfire: add userland and toolchain support for FreeScale Coldfire
CPUs (which implement a subset of m68k instructions and
addressing modes). [matt 20130719]
bind: update to 9.9.3-P2 to fix CVE-2013-4854 remote query can cause
named to terminate [christos 20130727]
iwn(4): Add support for Centrino Wireless-N 1030 and Centrino
Advanced-N 6230 [prlw1 20130728]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-6.0.5 [roy 20130803]
makefs(8): Added UDF support for makefs(8). It allows for the creation
of images for both read-only, rewritable or recordable media.
[reinoud 20130805]
xsh(4): Add driver for Individual Computers X-Surf 100 network interface
card. [rkujawa 20130808]
postfix(1): Import version 2.9.7 [tron 20130821]
kernel: Add BPF coprocessor support (BPF_COP/BPF_COPX instructions).
[rmind 20130829]
npf: Convert NPF to use BPF byte-code by default. Many other
improvements. [rmind 20130929]
less(1): Import version 458 [tron 20130804]
mpl115a(4): Add driver for Freescale MPL115A2 I2C absolute pressure
sensor. [rkujawa 20130908]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-6.1.0 [roy 20130920]
alpha: Add support for AlphaStation DS15. Ported from OpenBSD via
PR port-alpha/48148 by nullnilaki. [tsutsui 20130923]
postfix(1): Import version 2.10.2 [tron 20130925]
binutils: updated to FSF binutils 2.23.2. [christos 20130929]
gdb(1): Updated to 7.6.1. [christos 20131003]
httpd(8): Added Lua scripting for content creation. [mbalmer 20131012]
lutok: Update to 0.3. [jmmv 20131018]
kyua-cli: Update to 0.7. [jmmv 20131018]
netstat(1): Accept -faddress_family[,family ...]. [bad 20131019]
systat(1): Accept shell patterns to select drives. [bad 20131019]
gffb: add a driver for NVIDIA GeForce2 MX graphics controllers.
[macallan 20131023]
axen(4): Add a driver for ASIX AX88178a and AX88179 Ethernet interface.
Ported from OpenBSD. [nonaka 20131026]
x68k: Support upto 1008 MB extended memory that is found on the XM6i
emulator. [tsutsui 20131027]
OpenSSH: Imported 6.4 [christos 20131108]
x86: Default rounding mode of the x87 changed to long double precision.
[joerg 20131111]
zless(1): Added via lastest version of zmore(1) from OpenBSD
[pettai 20131112]
libm: Added basic long double support for elementary functions.
Most transcendent functions are stubbed out. [joerg 20131119]
nvi(1): Upgrade to the latest git source [christos 20131122]
MPC: Updated to MPC 1.0.1. [mrg 20131128]
MPFR: Updated to MPFR 3.1.2. [mrg 20131128]
GMP: Updated to GMP 5.1.3. [mrg 20131129]
file(1): Updated to 5.16. [christos 20131201]
librt: Added shm_open(3) and shm_unlink(3). [rmind 20131219]
acafh(4): Added driver for Individual Computers ACA500. Enjoy NetBSD
on an Amiga 500. [rkujawa 20131222]
libc: Update to tzcode2013i. [christos 20131226]
zoneinfo: Import tzdata2013i. [apb 20131226]
acpi(4): Updated ACPICA to 20131218. [christos 20131227]
openpam: Import 20130907 (Nummularia) [christos 20131227]
ntp: import ntp 4.2.7p404. [christos 20131227]
luna68k: Add preleminary support of 4bpp framebuffer.
[tsutsui 20131227]
wm(4): Add support for I354 (C2000 Internal) Ethernet
[msaitoh 20131230]
tcpdump(8): Import 4.5.1 [christos 20131231]
libpcap: Import 1.5.2 [christos 20131231]
bind: update to 9.9.5b1 [christos 20131231]
wpa: Import wpa_supplicant and hostapd 2.0 [christos 20140102]
dhcpcd: Import dhcpcd-6.2.0 [roy 20140103]
luna68k: Make bootloader to detect booted device on ROM monitor's
load command and set proper default boot device.
[tsutsui 20140105]
luna68k: Reorganize bootloader device configuration. I.e. use
(controller * 10 + id) for sd unit number, rather than
static numbers against probed disks at ID 5 and 6.
[tsutsui 20140110]
luna68k: Add support to pass boothowto and boot device info from
bootloader to kernel. [tsutsui 20140111]
OpenSSL: Imported 1.0.1f [christos 20130111]
postfix(1): Import version 2.10.3 [tron 20140118]
igmafb(4): Added framebuffer driver for Intel Graphics
[mlelstv 20140121]
ohci(4): Support the National Semiconductor PC87560 as found in
many hppa machines. [skrll 20140128]
ews4800mips: Switch to X11FLAVOUR=Xorg. Untested. [tsutsui 20140131]
newsmips: Switch to X11FLAVOUR=Xorg. Untested. [tsutsui 20140131]
npf: Added support for CDB based tables. [rmind 20140206]
npf: Added support for static (stateless) NAT. [rmind 20140207]
atf(7): Import atf 0.19. [jmmv 20140208]
atf(7): Import atf 0.20. [jmmv 20140211]
npf: Added support for IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation
(NPTv6), as per RFC 6296. [rmind 20140213]
sqlite3: Import 3.8.3.1 [christos 20140216]
luna68k: Make sysinst to create a boot UFS partition and install
the native bootloader during installation. [tsutsui 20140219]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-6.3.0 [roy 20140225]
mcp48x1dac(4): Add preliminary support for Microchip MCP48x1 family of
Digital-to-Analog converters. [rkujawa 20140225]
bind: update to 9.10.0b1 [christos 20130228]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-6.3.1 [roy 20140301]
x68k: Switch to X11FLAVOUR=Xorg, including X68k monolithic server.
[tsutsui 20140301]
macppc: add support for ppc601-based machines
from scole_mail via PR48600 [macallan 20140303]