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Changes from NetBSD 8.0 to NetBSD 9.0:
byacc: Update to 20170430. [christos 20170605]
vax: Add support for VAXstation 4000 TURBOchannel. [flxd 20170609]
wsbell(4): Added console bell support for all speaker devices, not
only those attached at pcppi. [nat 20170612]
bind: Import version 9.10.5-P1. [christos 20170615]
dts: Import dts files from Linux 4.11.5. [jmcneill 20170615]
amd64: Support 16TB of PA, and 32TB of kernel VA on the architecture
side. [maxv 20170617]
expat: Import 2.2.1 (security fixes). [christos 20170617]
arm: Add support for Allwinner H3 SoC. [jmcneill 20170628]
bind: Import version 9.10.5-P2. [christos 20170630]
sunxiemac(4): Add support for Allwinner Gigabit Ethernet (EMAC).
[jmcneill 20170701]
fsdb(8): Add "saveblks" command. [mrg 20170804]
wbsio(4): Add support for Winbond W83627DHG-P, W83627SF, W83627UHG,
W83667HGB, W83687THF, W83697UG, Nuvoton NCT5104D, NCT6775,
NCT6779, NCT6791, NCT6792 and NCT6793. [msaitoh 20170707]
arm: Add support for Allwinner A83T SoC. [jmcneill 20170707]
MAKEDEV(8): Regenerate, documenting lua, dk, plcom, wmcom, hdmicec, mfi,
nvme, nvme ns, tpm, and dtrace devices. [sevan 20170710]
wbsio(4): Add support for NCT6795. [msaitoh 20170711]
lm(4): Add support for NCT5174D, NCT6775F, NCT6779D and NCT679[1235]D.
[msaitoh 20170711]
arm: Add support for NVIDIA Tegra X1 SoC. [jmcneill 20170720]
arm: Add support for Allwinner A64 SoC. [jmcneill 20170723]
gzip(1): Add SIGINFO support. [mrg 20170804]
i386: Remove vm86. [maxv 20170812]
itesio(4): Add support IT8628E. [hauke 20170814]
ichsmb(4): Add support for Intel C3000. [msaitoh 20170817]
ismt(4): Add support for Intel C3000. [msaitoh 20170817]
powerpc: Bump MAXTSIZ to 128MB for OEA based systems. [sevan 20170818]
GMP/MPFR/MPC: Update to 6.1.2, 3.1.5 and 1.0.3. [mrg 20170821]
ixg(4), ixv(4): Add C3000 support. Add bypass function support for
bypass adapters. [msaitoh 20170830]
file(1): Upgraded to 5.32. [christos 20170908]
tcpdump(8): Import 4.9.2. [christos 20170908]
veriexecgen(8): Drop support for MD5, SHA1, RMD160. [sevan 20170909]
itesio(4): Add support IT8728GF and IT877[12]E [hauke 20170814]
arm: Add support for Allwinner A13 and R8 SoCs. [jmcneill 20170825]
veriexec(4): Drop support for VERIFIED_EXEC_FP_MD5,
VERIFIED_EXEC_FP_SHA1, and VERIFIED_EXEC_FP_RMD160 options.
[sevan 20170913]
acpi(4): Updated ACPICA to 20170831. [christos 20170915]
dtrace: Install dtruss, execsnoop, opensnoop, and procsystime from the
DTrace Toolkit if DTrace support is enabled. [sevan 20170917]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-7.0.0-rc3. [roy 20171007]
ahcisata(4), siisata(4): Add support for NCQ. [jdolecek 20171007]
mvsata(4): Add support for NCQ, and enable ATAPI support.
[jdolecek 20171007]
OpenSSH: Imported 7.6. [christos 20171007]
amd64: Add support for Kernel ASLR [maxv 20171010]
arm: Add support for Allwinner H5 SoC. [jmcneill 20171011]
tmux(1): Imported 2.6. [christos 20171012]
amd64: Add support for SMAP. [maxv 20171017]
amd64: Add support for USER_LDT. [maxv 20171021]
tzdata Updated to 2017c. [kre 20171024]
libc: Update to tzcode2017c. [christos 20171024]
bwfm(4): Add driver for Broadcom BCM43xxx "FullMAC" USB wireless
adapters. [jmcneill 20171025]
kernhist(9): Reworked the export-via-sysctl code to use uintptr_t
arguments, PR kern/52639. Requires contemporaneous update
of vmstat(1). [pgoyette 20171028]
arm: Add support for NextThing GR8 SoC. [jmcneill 20171106]
acpi(4): Updated ACPICA to 20171110. [christos 20171111]
sunxinand(4): Add driver for Allwinner NAND Flash Controller.
[jmcneill 20171113]
gcc: Import GCC 5.5. [mrg 20171113]
libtre: Update to the latest git source. [rin 20171117]
qemufwcfg(4): Add driver for QEMU Firmware Configuration device.
[jmcneill 20171125]
gdb(1): Updated to 8.0.1. [christos 20171128]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-7.0.0-rc4. [roy 20171206]
ihidev(4), ims(4): Added drivers for i2c HID mice. [bouyer 20171210]
sparc: Fix time goes backwards. [mrg 20180112]
lua: Applied 6th bugfix to Lua 5.3.4 from lua.org/bugs.html.
[mbalmer 20171213]
sstk: Remove the "stack section size change" syscall [kamil 20171219]
sbrk: Remove the "data section size change" syscall [kamil 20171219]
ovadvise: Remove the old vadvise syscall header [kamil 20171219]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-7.0.0 [roy 20180101]
mdnsd(8), dns-sd(1), libdns_sd: import mDNSResponder 878.1
[christos 20180114]
cpuctl(8): Add cpuctl identify support for sparc and sparc64.
[mrg 20180116]
macppc: Enable Veriexec support in the GENERIC kernel [sevan 20180117]
raid(4): Add support for 32-bit on 64-bit kernel. [mrg 20180117]
zoneinfo: Import tzdata2018c (skipping 2018a & 2018b). [kre 20180124]
libc: Update to tzcode2018c. [christos 20180125]
i386: Add support for SMAP. [maxv 20180128]
dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-7.0.1 [roy 20180129]
gcc: Import GCC 6.4. [mrg 20180201]
openldap: Import 2.4.45. [christos 20180205]
unbound: Import 1.6.8. [christos 20180205]
nsd: import 4.1.19 [christos 20180209]
ddb(4): Introduce dumpstack sysctl for printing a stack trace on panic,
enable by default. [sevan 20180217]
sdtemp(4): Add Microchp EMC1501, another device ID of Maxim MAX6604
support. [msaitoh 20180222]
ichsmb(4): Add support for Intel C620 devices. [msaitoh 20180222]
macppc: Enable support for "per-priority cyclical scan" buffer queue
strategy. [sevan 20180223]
macppc: Enable awacs(4) by default in kernel configs. [sevan 20180224]
mdnsd(8), dns-sd(1), libdns_sd: import mDNSResponder 878.30.4
[christos 20180225]
macppc: Remove macofcons(4). [sevan 20180226]
amd64: Add SVS (Meltdown mitigation). [maxv 20180226]
imcsmb(4): For amd64 and i386 on Intel {Ivy,Sandy}bridge and
{Broad,Has}well CPUs, enable access to Integrated Memory
Controller-based SMBus [pgoyette 20170228]
ichsmb(4): Add Apollo Lake and Gemini Lake devices. [msaitoh 20180302]
lm(4): Add NCT6796D support. [msaitoh 20180308]
macppc: Enable Bluetooth support by default in GENERIC kernel.
[sevan 20180316]
tzdata: Updated to 2017d. [kre 20180324]
dhcpcd: Import 7.0.2. [roy 20180327]
aarch64: Add initial support for aarch64. [ryo 20180401]
amd64: Add SpectreV2 mitigations, based on IBRS and the DIS_IND
bit. [maxv 20180404]
dhcpcd: Import 7.0.3. [roy 20180406]
OpenSSH: Imported 7.7. [christos 20180406]
OpenSSL: Imported 1.1.0h. [christos 20180406]
ntp: Import ntp 4.2.8p11. [christos 20180406]
acpi(4): Updated ACPICA to 20180313. [christos 20180407]
dhcp: Import version 4.4.1 (move to MPL). [christos 20180407]
bind: Import version 9.10.7. [christos 20180407]
x86: Enable retpoline by default (SpectreV2 mitigation). [mrg 20180408]
ichsmb(4): Add Intel 300 series chipset support. [msaitoh 20180409]
wm(4): Enable I219 support. [msaitoh 20180413]
puc(4): Add Intel 300 series chipset support. [msaitoh 20180413]
file(1): Upgraded to 5.33. [christos 20180415]
netpgp(3lua): Add Lua binding for libnetpgp(3). [sevan 20180429]
arm: Add support for Allwinner H6 SoC. [jmcneill 20180501]
dhcpcd: Import 7.0.4. [roy 20180502]
midiplay: Add -s option to send all sounds off. [mrg 20180503]
libbozohttpd(3): Add the embeddable version of bozohttpd [sevan 20180503]
bozohttpd(3lua): Add Lua binding for libbozohttpd(3lua) [sevan 20180503]
tzdata: Updated to 2017e. [kre 20180504]
libc: Update to tzcode2018e. [christos 20180504]
acpi(4): Updated ACPICA to 20180427. [christos 20180504]
gpio(4): Overhauled interrupt support. Added GPIO interrupt
capability for Broadcom BCM283x SoCs (e.g.
Raspberry Pi). [thorpej 20180519]
x86: Add SpectreV4 mitigations. [maxv 20180522]
macppc: Enable ipsec(4) and ipsecif(4) support in GENERIC kernel by
default. [sevan 20180602]
dhcpcd: Import 7.0.5b. [roy 20180604]
virtio(4): Add MMIO transport and fdt(4) attachment. [jakllsch 20180606]
arm: Add support for QEMU ARM Virtual Machine ("virt"). [jmcneill 20180614]
arm: Add support for Rockchip RK3328 SoC. [jmcneill 20180615]
dhcpcd: Import 7.0.6. [roy 20180621]
bpf(4): Add the BPF direction filter (BIOC[GS]DIRECTION).
[msaitoh 20180626]
gcc: add lsan the Leak Sanitizer [christos 20180626]
aarch64: Add support for SMP. [ryo 20180709]
viadrm(4): Removed, superseded by viadrmums. [maya 20180710]
ssh-agent(1): /usr/pkg/lib* whitelisted by default for PKCS11 related
libraries, in place of /usr/local/lib*. [sevan 20180710]
x86: Support for -static -pie binaries. [joerg 20180712]
kernel: Remove pmc(9) and X86PMC. [maxv 20180714]
tprof(4): Revamped. tpfmt(1) merged into tprof(8). [maxv 20180714]
kernel: Remove ipkdb(4). [maxv 20180714]
arm: Add support for ARMv8 performance event monitoring with tprof(4).
[jmcneill 20180715]
arm: Add support for ARMv7 performance event monitoring with tprof(4).
[jmcneill 20180715]
dhcpcd: Import 7.0.7. [roy 20180724]
i386: Remove the XEN3_DOM0 and XEN3_DOMU configurations, and drop
support for non-PAE-32bit-PV, to leave only PAE-32bit-PV.
[maxv 20180726]
tea5767radio(4): Add Philips/NXP TEA5767 I2C-controlled stereo FM radio
driver. [rkujawa 20180727]
UBSan: Imported a clean-room reimplementation of the sanitizer runtime
called micro-UBSan. [kamil 20180803]
uUBSan: Added support for micro-UBSan (user-UBSan) in MKLIBCSANITIZER.
[kamil 20180803]
kUBSan: Added support for micro-UBSan (kernel-UBSan) as KUBSAN.
[kamil 20180803]
lua: Import version 5.3.5. [alnsn 20180804]
arm: Add driver for ARM GICv3 interrupt controllers. [jmcneill 20180808]
kernel: Remove the n8 driver. [maya 20180808]
usb(4): Many fixes to abort issues fixed for all USB controllers.
[mrg/skrll/riastradh 20180809]
nullfs(4): Add 32-bit support. [mrg 20180811]
bind: Import version 9.12.2-P1. [christos 20180812]
arm: Add support for Rockchip RK3399 SoC. [jmcneill 20180812]
amd64: Randomize by default all the randomizable VM areas in the kernel.
[maxv 20180812]
mdocml: Import 1.14.4. [christos 20180814]
kernel: Remove etherip(4), replaced by l2tp(4). [maxv 20180814]
gnu-efi: Import version 3.0.8. [jmcneill 20180816]
OpenSSL: Imported 1.1.0i. [christos 20180818]
acpi(4): Updated ACPICA to 20180810. [christos 20180818]
dhcpcd: Import 7.0.8. [roy 20180820]
amd64: Add support for kASan - Kernel Address Sanitizer.
[maxv 20180820]
arm: Add UEFI boot loader for ARM64 platforms. [jmcneill 20180824]
kernel: Remove NDIS. [maxv 20180825]
mue(4): Add driver for Microchip LAN75xx/LAN78xx (Raspberry Pi 3 B+)
from OpenBSD. [rin 20180825]
OpenSSH: Imported 7.8. [christos 20180826]
rkpmic(4): Add driver for Rockchip RK808 Power Management IC.
[jmcneill 20180901]
nsd: Import 4.1.24 [christos 20180903]
unbound: Import 1.7.3. [christos 20180803]
libpcap: Import 1.9.0. [christos 20180903]
mpfr: Updated to version 4.0.1. [mrg 20180904]
mpc: Updated to version 1.1.0. [mrg 20180904]
kernel: Remove en(4). [maxv 20180906]
kernel: Remove the NATM code. [maxv 20180906]
libnv: Imported from FreeBSD [christos 20180908]
i915(4): Pull in support for KabyLake CPUs. [mrg 20180913]
usb(4): Handle most cases of early boot USB keyboard. [mrg 20180916]
rkpmic(4): Add support for Rockchip RK805 Power Management IC.
[jmcneill 20180920]
kernel: Remove the ISDN code, including daic(4), iavc(4), isic(4),
ifpci(4), ifritz, iwic(4), and all the ISDN-related
userland tools. [maxv 20180923]
npf: Converted to use libnv [rmind 20180929]
ntp: Import ntp 4.2.8p12. [christos 20180929]
aarch64: add support for compat_netbsd32(8). [ryo 20181012]
newsmips: Add support for NWS-4000. Based on nonaka@'s porting effort
back in 2002. [tsutsui 20181014]
file(1): Upgraded to 5.35. [christos 20181013]
arm: Provide generic start code that allows a GENERIC kernel to be used
on FDTised boards. [skrll 20181018]
tzdata: Updated to 2018f. [kre 20181019]
amdccp(4): Add driver for AMD Cryptographic Coprocessor RNG.
[jakllsch 20181019]
libc: Update to tzcode2018f. [christos 20181019]
tzdata: Updated to 2018g. [kre 20181027]
libc: Update to tzcode2018g. [christos 20181027]
kernel: Add NVMM, the NetBSD virtualization driver, with initial
support for x86. [maxv 20181107]
aarch64: Add support for kASan. [maxv 20181108]
gcc: Import GCC 6.5. [mrg 20181103]
aarch64: Add support for ARM Server Base System Architecture (SBSA).
The SBSA is a hardware system architecture for servers based on
64-bit ARM processors. The Server Base Boot Requirements (SBBR)
specification defines a UEFI + ACPI interface for OS bootstrap,
which is supported by a combination of a new UEFI bootloader
(bootaa64.efi) and the addition of ACPI support in the
GENERIC64 kernel config. [jmcneill 20181124]
ena(4): Add support for Amazon.com Elastic Network Adapter (ENA).
[netbsd 20181130]
kernel: Add KLEAK, a feature that can detect kernel information
leaks. [maxv 20181202]
atactl(8): Add support to automatically detect Micron/Crucial devices
and their vendor-specific SMART status values. [mrg 20181205]
OpenSSL: Imported 1.1.1a. [christos 20181208]
kernel: Remove the lmc(4) driver, and its associated lmcconfig(8)
tool. [maxv 20181212]
sh(1): Many bug fixes and enhancements. [kre 20181212]
amdtemp(4): Add support for AMD family 16h temperature sensors.
[is 20181213]
arm: Add support for NVIDIA Tegra X1 SoC SATA. [skrll 20181214]
httpd(8): Update to bozohttpd-20181215. [mrg 20181215]
kernel: Remove COMPAT_SVR4 and COMPAT_SVR4_32. [maxv 20181219]
sqlite3: Import 3.26.0. [christos 20181219]
network: Add SIOCSETHERCAP ioctl. [msaitoh 20181221]
byacc: Update to 20180609. [christos 20181223]
flex(1): Import flex-2.6.4. [christos 20181223]
threadpool(9): Added threadpool(9) API. [thorpej 20181224]
systat(1): Extend vmstat display for better insight about bufcache.
[sevan 20181226]
aarch64: Support kernel crash dumps on arm64 platforms. [mrg 20181227]
kernel: Remove M_ALIGN, MH_ALIGN, M_COPY_PKTHDR and M_MOVE_PKTHDR.
[maxv 20181228]
cgdroot: Support mounting boot partition from a wedge labelled cgd.conf.
[alnsn 20181229]
kernel: Remove COMPAT_IBCS2. [maxv 20181229]
tzdata: Updated to 2018h. [kre 20181230]
evbmips: Enable support for "per-priority cyclical scan" buffer queue
strategy. [sevan 20181230]
tzdata: Updated to 2018i. [kre 20181231]
tzcode: Updated to 2018i. [christos 20181231]
binutils: Updated to FSF binutils 2.31.1. [christos 20181231]
services(5), protocols(5): Pull iana-generated services and protocols
[christos 20190103]
arm: Add SMP support for Allwinner multi-cluster SoCs (A83T, A80)
[jmcneill 20190103]
wpa: Import wpa_supplicant and hostapd 2.7. [christos 20190104]
acpi(4): Updated ACPICA to 20181213. [christos 20190104]
tmux(1): Imported 2.8. [christos 20190104]
TrouSerS: Import trousers-0.3.14 [christos 20190107]
tpm-tools: Import tpm-tools-1.3.9.1 [christos 20190107]
compiler-rt: Import compiler-rt r350590 LLVM sanitizers [kamil 20190108]
bind: Import version 9.13.2-P1. [christos 20190109]
crashme(9): Add framework for testing kernel crash dumps. [mrg 20190109]
sgimips: Import irisboot, yet another bootloader for pre-ARC sgimips
machines. Submitted by Naruaki Etomi via PR port-sgimips/53539.
[tsutsui 20190112]
npf: Major NPF improvements (added support for dynamic NAT address,
NETMAP algorithm for static NAT, lock-free lookup for 'ipset'
tables, lock-free state lookup, incremental state G/C, etc).
[rmind 20190119]
gcc: Import GCC 7.4. [mrg 20190119]
arm: Update Amlogic S805 SoC support to use FDT based configuration.
[jmcneill 20190119]
dhcpcd: Import dhcpcd-7.1.0. [roy 20190122]
kernel: Remove the satlink driver. [maxv 20190127]
kernel: Merged [pgoyette-compat] branch - for details, see
src/doc/TODO.compat-module. Includes splitting of the
monolithic compat-netbsd module into several version-
specific modules, introduction of MP-safe module hook
mechanism, and removal of various limitations within
the kernel module framework. [pgoyette 20190127]
macppc: Include EDID block for Clamshell iBook G3 displays.
[sevan 20190128]
ure(4): Add driver for Realtek RTL8152/RTL8153 from OpenBSD.
[rin 20190206]
dhcpcd: Import dhcpcd-7.1.1 [roy 20190207]
nsd: Import 4.1.26 [prlw1 20190212]
macppc: The kernels for the G5s are now built by default. These are
currently intended for netbooting via TFTP. [sevan 20190219]
bge(4): Add support for BCM5762, BCM5725, BCM5727, BCM57764, BCM57767
and BCM57787 [msaitoh 20190220]
bind: Import version 9.13.7. [christos 20190224]
arm: Add support for Amlogic S905 SoC. [jmcneill 20190225]
jemalloc: Import 5.1.0 [christos 20190304]
kcov(4): Added driver for kernel coverage tracing [kamil 20190310]
mdocml: Import 1.14.5. [christos 20190310]
OpenSSL: Imported 1.1.1b. [christos 20190312]
ssdfb(4): Added driver for SSD1306 & SH1106 displays [tnn 20190317]
tzdata Updated to 2019a. [kre 20190326]
arm: Add UEFI bootloader support (bootarm.efi). [jmcneill 20190330]
indent(1): Upraded to the FreeBSD HEAD checkout [kamil 20190404]
tzcode: Updated to 2019a. [christos 20190404]
pkg_install: Updated to 20190405. [sevan 20190406]