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fce5d8ff | 1 | New in 1.98 - 2010-03-06: |
1fbc5e66 | 2 | |
fcee14ed VS |
3 | * Multiboot on EFI support. |
4 | ||
c98d2a13 CW |
5 | * Graphical menu support. |
6 | ||
7 | * MIPS support. | |
8 | ||
9 | * Saved default menu entry support, with new utilities `grub-reboot' and | |
10 | `grub-set-default'. | |
11 | ||
12 | * Unit testing framework. | |
13 | ||
14 | * Support for multiple terminals. | |
15 | ||
16 | * Encrypted password support, with a new utility `grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2'. | |
17 | ||
18 | * `grub-mkfloppy' removed; use `grub-mkrescue' to create floppy images. | |
19 | ||
7922f68b RM |
20 | * Add grub-probe support for GNU/Hurd. |
21 | ||
3db5183c CPE |
22 | * Add support for gettext. |
23 | ||
537ce47f RM |
24 | New in 1.97: |
25 | ||
d2b6b7fc | 26 | * Add support for loading XNU (MacOS X kernel). |
421bd7ac | 27 | |
28 | * ACPI override support. | |
29 | ||
30 | * Integrated gptsync. | |
31 | ||
32 | * Password protection support. | |
33 | ||
34 | * Partition manipulation tool. | |
35 | ||
70ba68ce | 36 | * Add `keystatus' command. |
37 | ||
38 | * Unicode fonts are now used by default. | |
39 | ||
fd8c967c | 40 | * Add `hdparm' command. |
41 | ||
42 | * Add support for getting the current date and time from CMOS as variables. | |
43 | ||
44 | * Add `drivemap' command. | |
45 | ||
46 | * Add support for RAID levels 4,6 and 10. | |
47 | ||
d2b6b7fc | 48 | * update-grub is replaced by grub-mkconfig. |
6d994591 | 49 | |
1fbc5e66 | 50 | * When booting from PXE, PXE can be used to load files. |
51 | ||
52 | * High resolution timer support. | |
53 | ||
54 | * Image loaders now support IO buffering. | |
55 | ||
56 | * Add `crc' command. | |
57 | ||
54d83746 | 58 | * Add Cygwin support. |
59 | ||
1fbc5e66 | 60 | * Add x86_64 EFI support. |
61 | ||
5680109e | 62 | * Use LZMA compression instead of LZO. |
1fbc5e66 | 63 | |
64 | * Support for saving the environment from and loading the environment | |
65 | from a file. | |
66 | ||
67 | * Allow the UUID to be used as device name. | |
68 | ||
69 | * The `search' command can use UUIDs now. | |
70 | ||
71 | * Add support for IEEE 1275 on i386. | |
72 | ||
73 | * Create partmap.lst and use it to automatically load partition map | |
74 | modules. | |
75 | ||
6d994591 | 76 | * grub-mkconfig supports os-prober to add operating systems to the |
54d83746 | 77 | boot menu. |
1fbc5e66 | 78 | |
d2b6b7fc | 79 | * The ATA driver supports devices bigger than 2 TiB. |
1fbc5e66 | 80 | |
2fc96ba3 | 81 | * Add support for the UDF, AFS and EXT4 filesystems. |
1fbc5e66 | 82 | |
2fc96ba3 | 83 | * The ISO9660 filesystem supports the Joliet extension |
1fbc5e66 | 84 | |
d2b6b7fc | 85 | * Add support for loading kernels of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. |
1fbc5e66 | 86 | |
87 | * Add new command `sleep'. | |
88 | ||
89 | * Support for direct access to AT keyboards. | |
90 | ||
91 | * New utility `grub-fstest'. | |
92 | ||
f2a76e1d | 93 | New in 1.96 - 2008-02-03: |
5a79f472 | 94 | |
95 | * The license term is changed to GNU General Public License Version 3. | |
96 | ||
352466bf | 97 | * grub-emu is made optional. Now you have to use |
98 | `--enable-grub-emu' to enable it. | |
99 | ||
100 | * Add Multiboot2 support. | |
101 | ||
102 | * grub-emu can access the host filesystem now. | |
103 | ||
2216b101 | 104 | * Add support for the NTFS, cpio/tar and Reiserfs filesystems. |
352466bf | 105 | |
e911ecc1 | 106 | * Add support for ATA/ATAPI. |
107 | ||
2216b101 | 108 | * Add update-grub script to generate grub.cfg. |
109 | ||
110 | * Add grub-mkrescue script to generate floppy or ElTorito images | |
111 | (i386-pc only). | |
112 | ||
113 | * Add support for background images in gfxterm (background_image command). | |
114 | ||
115 | * Add support for detection of 64-bit support in CPU (cpuid command). | |
116 | ||
117 | * GPT is now enabled in i386-pc target. | |
118 | ||
119 | * Add grub-install for EFI. | |
120 | ||
121 | * Ported to the following new platforms: Efika, coreboot (a.k.a. LinuxBIOS), | |
122 | OLPC XO. | |
123 | ||
124 | * Add support for colored menu (menu_color_normal and menu_color_highlight | |
125 | variables). | |
126 | ||
127 | * Fix support for loading Linux zImages (such as memtest86). | |
128 | ||
5d74d927 | 129 | New in 1.95 - 2006-10-15: |
deae281b | 130 | |
131 | * Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first | |
132 | partition of "hd0" is now "hd0,1" but not "hd0,0". | |
133 | ||
df247e5e | 134 | * grub-probefs is renamed to grub-probe, and supports printing a |
135 | guessed OS device name and a GRUB drive name. | |
136 | ||
137 | * RAID and LVM support is added. | |
138 | ||
139 | * New command, echo. | |
140 | ||
141 | * The disk API is changed to support 64-bit addressing. | |
142 | ||
143 | * A TGA loader is added for the video API. | |
144 | ||
53af98ad | 145 | New in 1.94 - 2006-06-04: |
118f4fb3 | 146 | |
147 | * Fix several serious bugs in HFS+. | |
148 | ||
149 | * Add experimental EFI support. Chainloading and Linux loading are | |
150 | supported at the moment. | |
151 | ||
152 | * Add a new command "blocklist" to show a block list. | |
153 | ||
154 | * Use --with-platform to specify a boot environment. For now, efi, | |
155 | ieee1275 and pc are supported. | |
156 | ||
157 | * Use the filename "kernel.elf" instead of "grubof" on ieee1275. | |
158 | ||
159 | * Install GRUB into pkglibdir instead of pkgdatadir. | |
160 | ||
161 | * Support environmental variables. You can export variables by the | |
162 | command "export". | |
163 | ||
164 | * Remove the commands "default" and "timeout". They are now variables. | |
165 | ||
166 | * Add the commands "source" and "." to include a file. | |
167 | ||
168 | * Implement experimental Video API and a new terminal "gfxterm" based | |
169 | on the Video API. | |
170 | ||
171 | ||
5f97350b | 172 | New in 1.93 - 2006-03-10: |
173 | ||
174 | * Add support for the HFS+ wrapper. | |
175 | ||
176 | * Major improvements to scripting support. | |
177 | ||
178 | * Menu entries are now scriptable. | |
179 | ||
c9a86192 | 180 | |
3bbfa267 | 181 | New in 1.92 - 2005-12-25: |
182 | ||
183 | * Add support for GPT partition table format. | |
184 | ||
185 | * Add a new command "play" to play an audio file on PC. | |
186 | ||
187 | * Add support for Linux/ADFS partition table format. | |
188 | ||
189 | * Add support for BASH-like scripting. | |
190 | ||
50214199 | 191 | * Add support for Apple HFS+ filesystems. |
3bbfa267 | 192 | |
b5179ea0 | 193 | |
4801580b | 194 | New in 1.91 - 2005-10-15: |
4ac9bd04 | 195 | |
196 | * Add support for LZO version 2. | |
197 | ||
992ffbbe | 198 | * Support completion in the entry editor. |
199 | ||
200 | * Add VBE support. | |
201 | ||
6a85ce79 | 202 | * New commands, "search", "vbetest" and "vbeinfo". |
203 | ||
16ccb8b1 | 204 | * The option BOOT_IMAGE is passed to Linux. |
205 | ||
d9864ee1 | 206 | * Add support for automatic decompression for gzip. |
207 | ||
5d7396f5 | 208 | * Add support for terminfo and serial. |
209 | ||
5c177389 | 210 | * Add support for x86_64. |
211 | ||
212 | * GRUB itself is a Multiboot-compliant kernel. | |
213 | ||
214 | * Add new filesystems: XFS, SFS, and AFFS. | |
215 | ||
992ffbbe | 216 | |
4ac9bd04 | 217 | New in 1.90 - 2005-08-07: |
4b13b216 | 218 | |
219 | * Rename the project name PUPA to GRUB. Now this version is the | |
220 | developmental version of GRUB officially. | |
221 | ||
222 | * The GRUB emulator ``grub-emu'' is added. | |
223 | ||
224 | * Add support for newworld Mac. This should work with other | |
225 | PowerPC-based machines as well, if they use IEEE 1275 | |
226 | (Open Firmware). | |
227 | ||
0e143073 | 228 | * Too many changes to describe. Look at ChangeLog for more details. |
229 | ||
4b13b216 | 230 | |
9962ed99 | 231 | New in 0.7: |
232 | ||
233 | * Problems in cross-compiling PUPA are fixed. | |
234 | ||
62ddcc8f | 235 | * Use -mrtd and -mregparm=3 to reduce the generated code sizes. This |
236 | means that any missing prototypes could be fatal. Also, you must take | |
237 | care when writing assembly code. See the comments at the beginning of | |
238 | startup.S, for more details. | |
239 | ||
012d7999 | 240 | * New utility, ``pupa-setup''. This sets up PUPA to make it bootable |
241 | from a real disk. | |
242 | ||
a5ffe966 | 243 | * New commands, "prefix", "insmod", "rmmod" and "lsmod" are added into |
244 | the rescue mode to manipulate PUPA modules. | |
245 | ||
c04da074 | 246 | * Linux support is added. Initrd is not support yet. |
247 | ||
1f5ab428 | 248 | * Reduce the size of a core image significantly by compressing a large |
249 | part of the core image and decompressing itself at boot time. The | |
250 | currently used algorithm is LZO (more precisely, LZO1X-999). So you | |
251 | have to install LZO to build PUPA. See | |
252 | <http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/>, for more information. | |
253 | ||
a5ffe966 | 254 | |
6a161fa9 | 255 | New in 0.6 - 2002-12-27, Yoshinori K. Okuji: |
256 | ||
257 | * The chainloader and the FAT filesystem are modularized. | |
258 | ||
259 | * The structure of the source tree is a bit changed. | |
260 | ||
261 | * Support for building loadable modules is added. | |
262 | ||
263 | * Some generic parts of pupa-mkimage are segregated. | |
264 | ||
265 | * Some documentation files are added, according to the GNU Coding | |
266 | Standards. |