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@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ +Version 3.4 (Mon Jun 27 2022) + - Support for SMBIOS 3.4.0. This includes new memory device types, new + processor upgrades, new slot types and characteristics, decoding of memory + module extended speed, new system slot types, new processor characteristics + and new format of Processor ID. + - Support for SMBIOS 3.5.0. This includes new processor upgrades, BIOS + characteristics, new slot characteristics, new on-board device types, new + pointing device interface types, and a new record type (type 45 - + Firmware Inventory Information). + - Decode HPE OEM records 194, 199, 203, 236, 237, 238 ans 240. + - Bug fixes: + Fix OEM vendor name matching + Fix ASCII filtering of strings + Fix crash with option -u + - Minor improvements: + Skip details of uninstalled memory modules + Don't display the raw CPU ID in quiet mode + Improve the formatting of the manual pages + +Version 3.3 (Wed Oct 14 2020) + - [BUILD] Allow overriding build settings from the environment. + - [COMPATIBILITY] Document how the UUID fields are interpreted. + - [PORTABILITY] Don't use memcpy on /dev/mem on arm64. + - [PORTABILITY] Only scan /dev/mem for entry point on x86. + - Support for SMBIOS 3.3.0. This includes new processor names, new port + connector types, and new memory device form factors, types and + technologies. + - Add bios-revision, firmware-revision and system-sku-number to -s option. + - Use the most appropriate unit for cache size. + - Decode system slot base bus width and peers. + - Important bug fixes: + Fix Redfish Hostname print length + Fix formatting of TPM table output + Fix System Slot Information for PCIe SSD + Don't choke on invalid processor voltage + - Use the most appropriate unit for cache size. + +Version 3.2 (Wed Sep 14 2018) + - [COMPATIBILITY] The UUID is now displayed using lowercase letters, per + RFC 4122 (#53569). You must ensure that any code parsing it is + case-insensitive. + - Support for SMBIOS 3.2.0. This includes new processor names, new socket + and port connector types, new system slot state and property, and support + for non-volatile memory (NVDIMM). + - Support for Redfish management controllers. + - A new command line option to query a specific structure by its handle. + - A new command line option to query the system family string. + - Support for 3 ThinkPad-specific structures (patch #9642). + - Support for HPE's new company name. + - Support UEFI on FreeBSD. + - Important bug fixes: + Fix firmware version of TPM device + Fix the HPE UEFI feature flag check + - (biosdecode) A new command line option to fully decode PIR information + (support request #109339). + +Version 3.1 (Tue May 23 2017) + - Support for SMBIOS 3.1.0 and 3.1.1. This includes new chassis types, new + processor family names, new processor family upgrade names, and new slot + types, as well as support of larger BIOS ROM sizes and cache sizes, and a + new structure type (43, TPM Device.) + - A new command line option to query OEM strings. + - All error messages are now printed on stderr (#47274, #48158.) + - Several bug fixes related to 64-bit entry points (#50037 and more.) + - Important bug fixes: + #46176 (Unexpected end of file error) + #46066 (Crash with SIGBUS) + - Various minor fixes, improvements and cleanups. + +Version 3.0 (Thu Sep 03 2015) + - Support for SMBIOS 3.0. This includes new chassis types, new + processor family names, new processor family upgrade names, new slot + types, and new memory device types. + - Support for the new 64-bit entry point (_SM3_) defined in SMBIOS 3.0. + - Support for the new kernel interface (as of Linux v4.2) as an + alternative to relying /dev/mem to access the entry point and DMI + table. + - Decoding of Acer-specific DMI type 170. + - Decoding of HP-specific DMI types 212, 219 and 233. + - Various minor fixes and output format cleanups. + +Version 2.12 (Wed Apr 17 2013) + - Support of the SMBIOS 2.8.0 specification. + +Version 2.11 (Wed Jan 19 2011) + - Support of the SMBIOS 2.7.0 specification: + - UEFI support + - Virtual machine flags in BIOS characteristics + - Limited support for the Management Controller Host Interface + - Various fixes that address stability. + +Version 2.10 (Sun Nov 23 2008) + - Support for Solaris (x86 only, of course). + - Possibility to dump the SMBIOS/DMI table to a small binary file + (option --dump-bin). + - Possibility to read the SMBIOS/DMI table from such binary files + (option --from-dump). + - Support for SMBIOS 2.6. This includes new chassis types, new + processor family names, new processor family upgrade names, bus + address for system slots, and a new entry type for on-board devices, + amongst many other minor changes. + - Support for DMI entry type 31 (Boot integrity services). + - Many processor family names taken from the CIM Schema document. + - (vpddecode) No longer ask users to report broken records. + - (vpddecode) Fix --quiet option. + +Version 2.9 (Mon Feb 26 2007) + - Support of the SMBIOS 2.5 specification. It adds many enumerated + values for recent hardware, as well as CPU core and thread count + reporting. + - Decoding of 3 HP-specific entries. More vendor-specific entries can + be supported later if vendors contribute code or documentation. + - Run-time detection of EFI, so that a single binary can support + Intel-based Macintosh machines and regular x86 machines. + - Better IA-64 support. + - Fixes to the decoding of individual fields, including the CPU + signature of recent CPU models. + - (biosdecode) Support of the FJKEYINF entry point type (for Fujitsu laptops). + - (vpddecode) The product name look-up table was dropped. It was unreliable + and a burden to maintain. + - biosdecode, ownership and vpddecode are no longer built on IA-64. + +Version 2.8 (Sat Feb 04 2006) + - Option --string has four additional keywords available: + system-uuid, chassis-type, processor-family and processor-frequency. + These needed additional work because, technically speaking, they are + not DMI strings. + - IPMI interface type SSIF was added. This is a new interface type + defined by IPMI 2.0. + - (vpddecode) New --string option, much similar in spirit to + dmidecode's. Available keywords are bios-build-id, box-serial-number, + motherboard-serial-number, machine-type-model and bios-release-date. + - (vpddecode) 9 product names were added to the lookup table. + - A few bug fixes, cleanups and minor improvements all around the place. + +Version 2.7 (Thu Aug 04 2005) + - New command line interface. For example, it is now possible to limit + the output of dmidecode to a given DMI type, or to extract a single + string from the DMI table. The documentation has been updated + accordingly. + - The default output of dmidecode was slightly modified to be more + easily readable by humans. This might break tools parsing its output. + Such tools may benefit from the new command line interface, although + this interface shouldn't be considered stable until version 2.8. + - (vpddecode) New command line interface. + - (vpddecode) 6 product names were added. + +Version 2.6 (Mon Feb 28 2005) + - Fixes a 2 GB memory limit regression. + - Basic command-line handling. + - BeOS and Cygwin support. + +Version 2.5 (Thu Nov 11 2004) + - Code cleanups. + - Compatibility fixes. + - Documentation updates. + +Version 2.4 (Fri Mar 19 2004) + - Manual pages added. + - (vpddecode) Many improvements. + - A few fixes and minor improvements. + +Version 2.3 (Sun Oct 19 2003) + - Support of x86_64 systems. + - Support of systems with 2 GB and more memory. + - Loads of bug fixes and corrections. + - New tool "vpddecode" added. + +Version 2.2 (Fri Aug 08 2003) + - Support of IA-64 systems. + - Support of IBM and Fujitsu-Siemens laptops. + - Many minor bug fixes. + - New tool "ownership" added. + +Version 2.1 (Tue Jun 10 2003) + - Support of the SMBIOS 2.3.4 specification. + - Better support of IPMI. + - Minor bugs fixed. + - Documentation added. |