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2024-01-07 mintsuki <mintsuki@protonmail.com>
*** Release 6.20240107.0 ***
Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 6.20231227.0:
New features:
- Limine boot protocol: Add support for compressed internal modules.
Miscellaneous:
- Improve error reporting from host "limine" executable.
- Track "master" branch of stb_image upstream.
2023-12-27 mintsuki <mintsuki@protonmail.com>
*** Release 6.20231227.0 ***
Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 6.20231226.0:
Bug fixes:
- Actually regenerate build system with GNU Autoconf 2.72 instead of
GNU Autoconf 2.71.
2023-12-26 mintsuki <mintsuki@protonmail.com>
*** Release 6.20231226.0 ***
Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 6.20231216.0:
New features:
- Ignore trailing whitespace in Limine config file.
Miscellaneous:
- Regenerate build system with GNU Autoconf 2.72.
- Minor build system adjustments.
2023-12-16 mintsuki <mintsuki@protonmail.com>
*** Release 6.20231216.0 ***
Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 6.20231210.0:
New features:
- Added a `--print-datadir` switch to the `limine` program in order
to print the directory where Limine files are stored when installed
on a host distro.
Miscellaneous:
- General improvements to the `--help` texts for the `limine` program.
2023-12-10 mintsuki <mintsuki@protonmail.com>
*** Release 6.20231210.0 ***
This is the first release in the 6.x series.
Breaking changes compared to the 5.x series:
- Support for the unmaintained ext2/3/4 filesystems dropped in compliance
with the Limine bootloader design philosophy.
- Chainloading protocol split into 2 protocols: EFI chainloading and BIOS
chainloading.
2023-12-07 mintsuki <mintsuki@protonmail.com>
*** Release 5.20231207.1 ***
Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 5.20231207.0:
Bug fixes:
- multiboot2/elf: Fix issue where ELF vaddrs were taken into account
instead of paddrs when loading executables.
- Fix implementation of a function that detects whether a given memory
range is physical RAM.
2023-12-07 mintsuki <mintsuki@protonmail.com>
*** Release 5.20231207.0 ***
Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 5.20231124.0:
New features:
- multiboot2 protocol: Add support for relocatable header tag.
- multiboot2 protocol: Add support for console flags header tag.
- Limine protocol: Add support for EFI memory map feature.
Miscellaneous:
- Improve error reporting from host "limine" executable.
- Do not ignore errors from mtools when building limine-uefi-cd.bin.
2023-11-24 mintsuki <mintsuki@protonmail.com>
*** Release 5.20231124.0 ***
Compared to previous release, 5.20231121.0:
New features:
- Add support for rebooting to UEFI firmware setup.
Bug fixes:
- Fix SMP (multiprocessor) initialisation regression on aarch64.
Miscellaneous:
- Move to new, handwritten ChangeLog from autogenerated one.