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@@ -0,0 +1,735 @@ +New in 2.06: + +* GCC 10 support. +* clang 10 support. +* SBAT support. +* LUKS2 support. +* Drop small MBR gap support. +* Xen Security Modules (XSM/FLASK) support. +* The lockdown mechanism similar to the Linux kernel one. +* Disable the os-prober by default. +* Many backports of GRUB distros specific patches. +* BootHole and BootHole2 fixes. +* ...and tons of other fixes and cleanups... + +New in 2.04: + +* GCC 8 and 9 support. +* Gnulib integration overhaul. +* RISC-V support. +* Xen PVH support. +* Native UEFI secure boot support. +* UEFI TPM driver. +* New IEEE 1275 obdisk driver. +* Btrfs RAID 5 and RIAD 6 support. +* PARTUUID support. +* VLAN support. +* Native DHCP support. +* Many ARM and ARM64 fixes. +* Many SPARC fixes. +* Many IEEE 1275 fixes. +* ...and tons of other fixes and cleanups... + +New in 2.02: + +* New/improved filesystem and disk support: + * Big-endian UFS1. + * Experimental 64-bit ext2 support. + * Various fixes for non-512-byte sector devices. + * New `proc' filesystem framework, used by LUKS disks. + * Fix DM-RAID partition handling. + * New `nativedisk' command to switch from firmware to native disk drivers. + * Compressed HFS+. + * DragonFly BSD labels. + * CBFS (coreboot). + * Handle partitioned LVM properly. + * Use LVM UUIDs whenever possible. + * GPT PReP. + * New `progress' module that shows progress information while reading + files. + * ZFS features support. + * ZFS LZ4 support. + * XFS V5 format support. + * LVM RAID1 support. + +* New/improved terminal and video support: + * Monochrome text (matching `hercules' in GRUB Legacy). + * Morse code output using system speaker. + * `spkmodem' output (simple data protocol using system speaker). + * Handle Japanese special keys. + * coreboot framebuffer. + * Serial on ARC. + * Native vt100 handling for grub-emu, replacing the use of the curses + library. + * New gfxmenu options for terminal window positioning, theme background + image handling, and scrollbar padding, plus `item_pixmap_style' and + `highlight_overlay'. + * Support several more image types (paletted and greyscale). + +* Boot protocol improvements: + * Support Apple FAT binaries on non-Apple platforms. + * Improve FreeDOS direct loading support compatibility. + * Enable `linux16' on all x86 platforms, not just BIOS. + * New TrueCrypt ISO loader. + * multiboot2 boot-services EFI specification. + * multiboot2 EFI memory map specification. + * multiboot2 full-file specfication. + +* New/improved network support: + * New variables `net_default_*' containing properties of the default + interface. + * Autoload `http' and `tftp' modules if necessary. + * Improve TFTP robustness. + * Parse `nd' disk names in GRUB Legacy configuration files. + * Issue separate DNS queries for IPv4 and IPv6. + * Support IPv6 Router Advertisement to configure default router. + * New variable net_<interface>_next_server containing next server + from BOOTP reply. + +* Coreboot improvements: + * CBFS support both in on-disk images (loopback) and flash. + * Ability to launch another payload from flash or disk + * Coreboot framebuffer + * CBMEMC support (both logging and inspecting logs) + * Command for inspecting coreboot timestamps (`coreboot_boottime'). + * Command for inspecting coreboot tables (`lscoreboot'). + * New target default_payload.elf. + * Increased maximal core size. + * Prefer pmtimer for TSC calibration. + +* New/improved platform support: + * New `efifwsetup' and `lsefi' commands on EFI platforms. + * New `cmosdump' and `cmosset' commands on platforms with CMOS support. + * New command `pcidump' for PCI platforms. + * Improve opcode parsing in ACPI halt implementation. + * Use the TSC as a possible time source on i386-ieee1275. + * Merge PowerPC grub-mkrescue implementation with the common one. + * Support grub-mkrescue on i386-ieee1275, sparc64, bootinfo machines such + as pSeries, and mips-arc. + * Make grub-mkrescue better support Apple Intel Macs on CD. + * Enable GRUB Legacy configuration file parsing on EFI. + * Support halt for Loongson 2E. + * ARM U-Boot and EFI ports. + * Reorganise platform-dependent code in utilities to avoid #ifdef mess. + * AROS and Haiku support for userspace utilities. + * Xen PV port. + * Fix EFI stack alignment. + * ARM64 EFI port. + * On Linux, read partition start offsets from sysfs if possible. + * New grub-macbless utility, and better integration with Mac firmware in + grub-install. + * Support Yeeloong 3A. + * Add `cpuid --pae' option to detect Physical Address Extension on x86. + * Support for USB debug dongles. + * Support for *-emu on all platforms (previously only i386/x86_64 worked). + * Support *-emu on Windows. + * New platform `none' which builds only user level utilities. This is now + default if target CPU is not supported. + * Support for booting little-endian Linux kernel on powerpc. + * Support network boot with Oracle sun4v vnet devices. + * Added SAS disks to the IEEE 1275 Open Firmware device list. + * Try multiple methods for TSC (timestamp counter) calibration - PIT, pmtimer, + EFI Stall. If everything fails, use hardcoded frequency 800MHz. + * Support Hyper-V Gen2 platforms which lack PIT for TSC calibration. + * Map UEFI Persistent Memory to E820 persistent memory. + * New Xen loader on ARM64. + * Respect alignment requirement for block device IO buffers on EFI. + +* Security: + * Add optional facility to enforce that all files read by the core image + from disk have a valid detached digital signature. + +* Performance: + * Avoid costly division operations in many places. + * New boot time analysis framework (`./configure --enable-boot-time'). + * Initialise USB ports in parallel. + * New `testspeed' command to test file read speed. + * Speed-up gfxterm by storing intermediate results in more compact format. + * Lazy LVM/mdraid scan. + * Disk hints. + +* Scripting: + * New `eval' and `tr' commands. + * grub-script-check fails on scripts containing no commands. + +* Installation and other utility improvements: + * Add option to compress files on installation or image creation. + * Using grub-reboot no longer requires setting `GRUB_DEFAULT=saved'. + * Support probing EFI System Partition (requires os-prober >= 1.58). + * Fix inconsistent use of `GRUB_CRYPTODISK_ENABLE' and + `GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK'; the latter is now used consistently. + * grub-mount handles symbolic links to directories. + * Support disabling submenus with `GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU' configuration key + for grub-mkconfig. + * grub-install, grub-mknetdir, grub-mkrescue, and grub-mkstandalone + rewritten in C. They should now work in supported non-Unix-like + environments. + * Native mingw support. + * Ability to install on EFI under windows. + * Reorganise timeout handling using new `timeout_style' environment + variable and `GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE' configuration key for grub-mkconfig. + Menu hotkeys pressed during a hidden timeout now boot the corresponding + menu entry immediately. + * New `file' command and grub-file utility to check file types. + * New syslinux configuration file parser. + * Set menu entry class to primary OS name returned by os-prober to display + OS specific icon. + * On Linux x86 detect EFI word size in grub-install and automatically select + correct platform (x86_64-efi or i386-efi) to install. Requires Linux kernel + 4.0 or higher. + +* Build system: + * Remove all uses of nested functions; GRUB no longer requires an + executable stack. + * Fix documentation build with Texinfo >= 5.1. + * More robust and documented cross-compiling support. + * Partial clang support for some platforms (experimental). + * Partial mingw64 x86_64-efi compile support (highly experimental). + * Partial mingw32 i386-* (other than already present i386-pc) + compile support (highly experimental). + * Support for grub-mkpasswd on Windows. + * Eliminate the use of AutoGen. This allowed some performance + improvements to the build system. + * Remove variable length arrays. + * OpenBSD compile and tools support (NetBSD and FreeBSD were already supported). + * Fix build with FreeType >= 2.5.1. + * Make gentpl.py compatible with Python 3. It now requires at least + Python 2.6. + * modinfo.sh contains build information now. + * Added many new tests to improve robustness. + * Target is built without libgcc now. Necessary builtins are reimplemented + directly. This removes requirement for target-specific runtime on build + system. + * emu libusb support removed (was broken and unmaintained). + * powerpc64le compile support. + * Use fixed timestamp when generating GRUB image for reproducible builds. + * Verify at build time that modules contain only supported relocations and their + structure matches what boot-time module loader expects. + * Do not require fonts on powerpc-ieee1275. + +* Revision control moved to git. + +New in 2.00: + +* Appearance: + * Official theme for gfxmenu (starfield) + * Menu is organised with submenus. + * Better default video mode selection using EDID. + +* New platforms: + * Itanium port. + * Fuloong2F support (including GRUB as firmware) + * Fuloong2E support (except GRUB as firmware) + * ARCS (SGI machines) port. + * qemu -M mips port. + +* grub-mount to mount filesystems using GRUB FS drivers and FUSE. + +* Changed security default so entries are locked by default if any superuser is + defined. + +* New drivers: + * EHCI. + * AHCI. + * ESCC serial. + * IEEE1275 serial. + * EFI serial. + * Network stack for BIOS, IEEE1275, EMU and EFI, including TFTP, HTTP and DNS. + +* New filesystem, filters and disks formats: + * DVH partition map. + * Plan9 partition map. + * Big-endian mdraid. + * Big-endian cpio. + * ODC and NEWC cpio. + * ExFAT. + * Minix3fs. + * Big-endian minixfs. + * RomFS. + * Squash4. + * Support non-512B disk blocks. + * LUKS and GELI support. + * LDM read support (no install yet). + * LZOP. + +* Improved filesystem and disks formats support: + * HFS+ label support. + * Improved reiserfs support. + * multidevice, mirrored and raidz(2,3) ZFS support. + * RAID LVM (internal RAIDing) support. + * ZFS crypto support. + * ZLE, LZ4 and GZIP on ZFS support. + * Support ZFS up to 33. + * HFS string is now treated like mac-roman and not UTF-8 + * HFS mtime support. + * Improved AFFS and SFS support. + * LZO-compressed btrfs support. + * cpio and tar symlinks support. + * Better FS detection to reduce false positives. + +* New boot protocols: + * Ability to load another coreboot payload when on coreboot. + * Plan9. + * Freedos. + * Ntldr/bootmgr (to load Windows bootloader). + * chainloader --bpb support to patch FAT or NTFS BPB in memory to correct + wrong partition offset. + * PXE chainloading support. + * Darwin 11 (Mac OS X Lion) protocol support. + +* Boot protocol improvements: + * Multiple initrd support. + * Basic illumos and xnu autoconfig. + +* Testing and debugging: + * New grub-fstest commands: cat, zfsinfo, testload xnu_uuid + * grub-fstest recursive directory compare for quickly checking that + a directory is read correctly. + * Backtace on crash (if gdb module is loaded, x86 only) + * Disk cache statistics gathering. + * GDB stub and GDB support script. + * "make check" and "make bootcheck" expanded to almost all platforms + (except i386-ieee1275, mips-arc, sparc64-ieee1275, ia64-efi and emu) + * New `time' command. + +* Performance: + * Lazy scanning to avoid accessing devices which aren't really used. + This avoids boot delay due to slow device scanning. + * Use CPU cache when accessing video memory. + * Search hints to first try the most likely device when searching for a + device with given UUID. This avoids slow scanning in most cases. + +* Internationalisation: + * Updated to Unicode 6.0. + * $"..." syntax for translation in grub scripting language. This allows easy + translation of grub.cfg at runtime. + * Translations to many languages included in official distribution. + +* Scripting: + * $grub_cpu and $grub_platform variables for conditioning grub.cfg on platform + at runtime. + * $feature_* variables to condition scripts on available features. + * Use of ids to identify menu entries. + * all_video module which is empty but depends on all video modules thus + allowing easy loading of all of them. + +* Installation: + * grub-mknetdir script for easy creation of netbootable GRUB directory. + * Itanium and mips support in grub-mkrescue. + * grub-install support for all platforms except emu. + * PreP partition install support. + * No files conflict between flavours (except grub-mkrescue for ppc). This + allows easy install of GRUB for several platforms. + * grub-mkstandalone script for easy creating of image including all modules + for platforms with generous limit on image size. + * program-transform-name now functions according to usual conventions. + Use --grubdir and --bootdir to get old behaviour. + +* ADLER32 and CRC64 support (for XZ and hashsum). + +* ofconsole renamed to console + +* Experimental support for compiling with Apple toolchain. + +* grub-mkdevicemap removed. Now all devices are detected on invocation of + any grub utility. + +New in 1.99: + +* Keyboard layouts support. + +* New `lsapm' command (i386-pc only). + +* Parser for GRUB Legacy configuration files. + +* Support RAID on virtio devices. + +* Remove deprecated `root' command. + +* New `euro.pf2' font which supports most European languages. + +* Avoid opening the same device twice on Open Firmware platforms. + +* Extend `vbeinfo' and `vbetest' commands to non-VBE graphics, as + `videoinfo' and `videotest'. + +* New `lsefisystab', `lssal', and `lsefimmap' commands on EFI platforms. + +* Support explicit user claim that a device is BIOS-visible. Devices + listed in device.map will be assumed to be readable using only BIOS + facilities, rather than anything more complex such as LVM or RAID. + +* New bash-completion script for GRUB utilities. + +* Use ACPI to shut down if possible. + +* New `lsacpi' command. + +* Btrfs support. + +* New `--boot-directory' option to `grub-install', `grub-reboot', and + `grub-set-default', with clearer semantics than the previous + `--root-directory' option. + +* Rename CD-ROM device to "cd" on BIOS platforms. + +* Transparent decompression filters. + +* Simpler PXE image generation. New `grub-mknetdir' utility to generate + netboot directory trees. + +* New relocator. Allows for more kernel support and more + straightforward loader writing. + +* Handle USB pendrives exposed as floppies. + +* New Automake-based build system. + +* Add `sendkey' command (i386-pc only). + +* ZFS support. + +* Support 1.x versions of mdadm metadata. + +* Fix corruption when reading Reiserfs directory entries. + +* Bidirectional text and diacritics support. + +* Skip LVM snapshots. + +* MIPS Yeeloong firmware port. + +* Change grub-mkdevicemap to emit /dev/disk/by-id/ names where possible + on GNU/Linux. + +* Add `grub-mkconfig' support for Xen with Linux. + +* Add `grub-mkconfig' support for initrd images on Fedora 13. + +* Support >3GiB and <16MiB RAM in i386-qemu. + +* Add support for Cirrus 5446 and Bochs video cards. + +* Load more appropriate video drivers automatically in `grub-mkconfig'. + +* USB improvements, including hotplugging/hotunplugging, hub support, + and USB serial support. + +* AMD Geode CS5536 support. + +* Extensive updates to the Texinfo documentation. + +* Handle symbolic links under /dev/mapper on GNU/Linux. + +* Handle installation across multiple partition table types. + +* Add `cmostest' command (i386/x86_64 only). + +* Add support for DM-RAID disk devices on GNU/Linux. + +* Remove `grub-mkisofs'. `grub-mkrescue' now uses GNU xorriso to build + CD images. + +* `grub-mkrescue' support for EFI, coreboot, and QEMU platforms. + +* Unify `grub-mkimage', `grub-setup', and `grub-install' source code + across platforms. + +* Fix VGA (as opposed to VBE) video driver, formerly a terminal driver. + +* Add menu hotkey support. + +* Add support for the nilfs2 filesystem. + +* `grub-probe' and `grub-mkconfig' support for NetBSD. + +* Support setting a background image in `grub-mkconfig'. + +* Support multiple terminals in `grub-mkconfig'. + +* Regexp support. + +* MIPS multiboot2 support. + +* Multiboot2 tag support. + +* sunpc partition table support. + +* Add a number of new language features to GRUB script: `for', `while', + `until', `elif', function parameters, `break', `continue', `shift', + multi-line quoted strings, positional parameters with `setparams', + `return', filename wildcard expansion, and `!'. + +* Support nested partition tables. GRUB now prefers to name partitions + in the form `(hd0,msdos1,bsd1)' rather than `(hd0,1,a)'. + +* Speed up consecutive hostdisk operations on the same device. + +* Compile parts of `grub-emu' as modules. + +New in 1.98 - 2010-03-06: + +* Multiboot on EFI support. + +* Graphical menu support. + +* MIPS support. + +* Saved default menu entry support, with new utilities `grub-reboot' and + `grub-set-default'. + +* Unit testing framework. + +* Support for multiple terminals. + +* Encrypted password support, with a new utility `grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2'. + +* `grub-mkfloppy' removed; use `grub-mkrescue' to create floppy images. + +* Add grub-probe support for GNU/Hurd. + +* Add support for gettext. + +New in 1.97: + +* Add support for loading XNU (MacOS X kernel). + +* ACPI override support. + +* Integrated gptsync. + +* Password protection support. + +* Partition manipulation tool. + +* Add `keystatus' command. + +* Unicode fonts are now used by default. + +* Add `hdparm' command. + +* Add support for getting the current date and time from CMOS as variables. + +* Add `drivemap' command. + +* Add support for RAID levels 4,6 and 10. + +* update-grub is replaced by grub-mkconfig. + +* When booting from PXE, PXE can be used to load files. + +* High resolution timer support. + +* Image loaders now support IO buffering. + +* Add `crc' command. + +* Add Cygwin support. + +* Add x86_64 EFI support. + +* Use LZMA compression instead of LZO. + +* Support for saving the environment from and loading the environment + from a file. + +* Allow the UUID to be used as device name. + +* The `search' command can use UUIDs now. + +* Add support for IEEE 1275 on i386. + +* Create partmap.lst and use it to automatically load partition map + modules. + +* grub-mkconfig supports os-prober to add operating systems to the + boot menu. + +* The ATA driver supports devices bigger than 2 TiB. + +* Add support for the UDF, AFS and EXT4 filesystems. + +* The ISO9660 filesystem supports the Joliet extension + +* Add support for loading kernels of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. + +* Add new command `sleep'. + +* Support for direct access to AT keyboards. + +* New utility `grub-fstest'. + +New in 1.96 - 2008-02-03: + +* The license term is changed to GNU General Public License Version 3. + +* grub-emu is made optional. Now you have to use + `--enable-grub-emu' to enable it. + +* Add Multiboot2 support. + +* grub-emu can access the host filesystem now. + +* Add support for the NTFS, cpio/tar and Reiserfs filesystems. + +* Add support for ATA/ATAPI. + +* Add update-grub script to generate grub.cfg. + +* Add grub-mkrescue script to generate floppy or ElTorito images + (i386-pc only). + +* Add support for background images in gfxterm (background_image command). + +* Add support for detection of 64-bit support in CPU (cpuid command). + +* GPT is now enabled in i386-pc target. + +* Add grub-install for EFI. + +* Ported to the following new platforms: Efika, coreboot (a.k.a. LinuxBIOS), + OLPC XO. + +* Add support for colored menu (menu_color_normal and menu_color_highlight + variables). + +* Fix support for loading Linux zImages (such as memtest86). + +New in 1.95 - 2006-10-15: + +* Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first + partition of "hd0" is now "hd0,1" but not "hd0,0". + +* grub-probefs is renamed to grub-probe, and supports printing a + guessed OS device name and a GRUB drive name. + +* RAID and LVM support is added. + +* New command, echo. + +* The disk API is changed to support 64-bit addressing. + +* A TGA loader is added for the video API. + +New in 1.94 - 2006-06-04: + +* Fix several serious bugs in HFS+. + +* Add experimental EFI support. Chainloading and Linux loading are + supported at the moment. + +* Add a new command "blocklist" to show a block list. + +* Use --with-platform to specify a boot environment. For now, efi, + ieee1275 and pc are supported. + +* Use the filename "kernel.elf" instead of "grubof" on ieee1275. + +* Install GRUB into pkglibdir instead of pkgdatadir. + +* Support environmental variables. You can export variables by the + command "export". + +* Remove the commands "default" and "timeout". They are now variables. + +* Add the commands "source" and "." to include a file. + +* Implement experimental Video API and a new terminal "gfxterm" based + on the Video API. + + +New in 1.93 - 2006-03-10: + +* Add support for the HFS+ wrapper. + +* Major improvements to scripting support. + +* Menu entries are now scriptable. + + +New in 1.92 - 2005-12-25: + +* Add support for GPT partition table format. + +* Add a new command "play" to play an audio file on PC. + +* Add support for Linux/ADFS partition table format. + +* Add support for BASH-like scripting. + +* Add support for Apple HFS+ filesystems. + + +New in 1.91 - 2005-10-15: + +* Add support for LZO version 2. + +* Support completion in the entry editor. + +* Add VBE support. + +* New commands, "search", "vbetest" and "vbeinfo". + +* The option BOOT_IMAGE is passed to Linux. + +* Add support for automatic decompression for gzip. + +* Add support for terminfo and serial. + +* Add support for x86_64. + +* GRUB itself is a Multiboot-compliant kernel. + +* Add new filesystems: XFS, SFS, and AFFS. + + +New in 1.90 - 2005-08-07: + +* Rename the project name PUPA to GRUB. Now this version is the + developmental version of GRUB officially. + +* The GRUB emulator ``grub-emu'' is added. + +* Add support for newworld Mac. This should work with other + PowerPC-based machines as well, if they use IEEE 1275 + (Open Firmware). + +* Too many changes to describe. Look at ChangeLog for more details. + + +New in 0.7: + +* Problems in cross-compiling PUPA are fixed. + +* Use -mrtd and -mregparm=3 to reduce the generated code sizes. This + means that any missing prototypes could be fatal. Also, you must take + care when writing assembly code. See the comments at the beginning of + startup.S, for more details. + +* New utility, ``pupa-setup''. This sets up PUPA to make it bootable + from a real disk. + +* New commands, "prefix", "insmod", "rmmod" and "lsmod" are added into + the rescue mode to manipulate PUPA modules. + +* Linux support is added. Initrd is not support yet. + +* Reduce the size of a core image significantly by compressing a large + part of the core image and decompressing itself at boot time. The + currently used algorithm is LZO (more precisely, LZO1X-999). So you + have to install LZO to build PUPA. See + <http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/>, for more information. + + +New in 0.6 - 2002-12-27, Yoshinori K. Okuji: + +* The chainloader and the FAT filesystem are modularized. + +* The structure of the source tree is a bit changed. + +* Support for building loadable modules is added. + +* Some generic parts of pupa-mkimage are segregated. + +* Some documentation files are added, according to the GNU Coding + Standards. |