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# LIST OF CHANGES FROM LAST RELEASE: <$Revision: 1.1757 $>
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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: Add BPF JIT compiler, currently supporting amd64 and i386.
[rmind 20120802]
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]
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]