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1 | New in 2.02: |
2 | ||
3 | * New/improved filesystem and disk support: | |
4 | * Big-endian UFS1. | |
5 | * Experimental 64-bit ext2 support. | |
6 | * Various fixes for non-512-byte sector devices. | |
7 | * New `proc' filesystem framework, used by LUKS disks. | |
8 | * Fix DM-RAID partition handling. | |
9 | * New `nativedisk' command to switch from firmware to native disk drivers. | |
10 | * Compressed HFS+. | |
11 | * DragonFly BSD labels. | |
12 | * CBFS (coreboot). | |
13 | * Handle partitioned LVM properly. | |
14 | * Use LVM UUIDs whenever possible. | |
15 | * GPT PReP. | |
16 | * New `progress' module that shows progress information while reading | |
17 | files. | |
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18 | * ZFS features support. |
19 | * ZFS LZ4 support. | |
df2aaf94 | 20 | * XFS V5 format support. |
d017ea8e | 21 | * LVM RAID1 support. |
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22 | |
23 | * New/improved terminal and video support: | |
24 | * Monochrome text (matching `hercules' in GRUB Legacy). | |
25 | * Morse code output using system speaker. | |
26 | * `spkmodem' output (simple data protocol using system speaker). | |
27 | * Handle Japanese special keys. | |
28 | * coreboot framebuffer. | |
29 | * Serial on ARC. | |
30 | * Native vt100 handling for grub-emu, replacing the use of the curses | |
31 | library. | |
32 | * New gfxmenu options for terminal window positioning, theme background | |
33 | image handling, and scrollbar padding, plus `item_pixmap_style' and | |
34 | `highlight_overlay'. | |
35 | * Support several more image types (paletted and greyscale). | |
36 | ||
37 | * Boot protocol improvements: | |
38 | * Support Apple FAT binaries on non-Apple platforms. | |
39 | * Improve FreeDOS direct loading support compatibility. | |
40 | * Enable `linux16' on all x86 platforms, not just BIOS. | |
41 | * New TrueCrypt ISO loader. | |
0e309454 | 42 | * multiboot2 boot-services EFI specification. |
5acc8020 | 43 | * multiboot2 EFI memory map specification. |
0e309454 | 44 | * multiboot2 full-file specfication. |
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45 | |
46 | * New/improved network support: | |
47 | * New variables `net_default_*' containing properties of the default | |
48 | interface. | |
49 | * Autoload `http' and `tftp' modules if necessary. | |
50 | * Improve TFTP robustness. | |
51 | * Parse `nd' disk names in GRUB Legacy configuration files. | |
52 | * Issue separate DNS queries for IPv4 and IPv6. | |
d017ea8e | 53 | * Support IPv6 Router Advertisement to configure default router. |
c9a8d037 AB |
54 | * New variable net_<interface>_next_server containing next server |
55 | from BOOTP reply. | |
30a33846 | 56 | |
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57 | * Coreboot improvements: |
58 | * CBFS support both in on-disk images (loopback) and flash. | |
59 | * Ability to launch another payload from flash or disk | |
60 | * Coreboot framebuffer | |
61 | * CBMEMC support (both logging and inspecting logs) | |
5acc8020 VS |
62 | * Command for inspecting coreboot timestamps (`coreboot_boottime'). |
63 | * Command for inspecting coreboot tables (`lscoreboot'). | |
64 | * New target default_payload.elf. | |
65 | * Increased maximal core size. | |
ff5726b8 | 66 | * Prefer pmtimer for TSC calibration. |
0e309454 | 67 | |
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68 | * New/improved platform support: |
69 | * New `efifwsetup' and `lsefi' commands on EFI platforms. | |
8442d3e9 | 70 | * New `cmosdump' and `cmosset' commands on platforms with CMOS support. |
5acc8020 | 71 | * New command `pcidump' for PCI platforms. |
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72 | * Improve opcode parsing in ACPI halt implementation. |
73 | * Use the TSC as a possible time source on i386-ieee1275. | |
74 | * Merge PowerPC grub-mkrescue implementation with the common one. | |
75 | * Support grub-mkrescue on i386-ieee1275, sparc64, bootinfo machines such | |
76 | as pSeries, and mips-arc. | |
77 | * Make grub-mkrescue better support Apple Intel Macs on CD. | |
78 | * Enable GRUB Legacy configuration file parsing on EFI. | |
79 | * Support halt for Loongson 2E. | |
80 | * ARM U-Boot and EFI ports. | |
81 | * Reorganise platform-dependent code in utilities to avoid #ifdef mess. | |
82 | * AROS and Haiku support for userspace utilities. | |
83 | * Xen PV port. | |
84 | * Fix EFI stack alignment. | |
85 | * ARM64 EFI port. | |
86 | * On Linux, read partition start offsets from sysfs if possible. | |
87 | * New grub-macbless utility, and better integration with Mac firmware in | |
88 | grub-install. | |
89 | * Support Yeeloong 3A. | |
90 | * Add `cpuid --pae' option to detect Physical Address Extension on x86. | |
0e309454 | 91 | * Support for USB debug dongles. |
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92 | * Support for *-emu on all platforms (previously only i386/x86_64 worked). |
93 | * Support *-emu on Windows. | |
1a4e4787 | 94 | * New platform `none' which builds only user level utilities. This is now |
edf2db97 | 95 | default if target CPU is not supported. |
33b1103e | 96 | * Support for booting little-endian Linux kernel on powerpc. |
ff5726b8 AB |
97 | * Support network boot with Oracle sun4v vnet devices. |
98 | * Added SAS disks to the IEEE 1275 Open Firmware device list. | |
99 | * Try multiple methods for TSC (timestamp counter) calibration - PIT, pmtimer, | |
100 | EFI Stall. If everything fails, use hardcoded frequency 800MHz. | |
101 | * Support Hyper-V Gen2 platforms which lack PIT for TSC calibration. | |
102 | * Map UEFI Persistent Memory to E820 persistent memory. | |
d017ea8e AB |
103 | * New Xen loader on ARM64. |
104 | * Respect alignment requirement for block device IO buffers on EFI. | |
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105 | |
106 | * Security: | |
107 | * Add optional facility to enforce that all files read by the core image | |
108 | from disk have a valid detached digital signature. | |
109 | ||
110 | * Performance: | |
111 | * Avoid costly division operations in many places. | |
112 | * New boot time analysis framework (`./configure --enable-boot-time'). | |
113 | * Initialise USB ports in parallel. | |
114 | * New `testspeed' command to test file read speed. | |
0e309454 | 115 | * Speed-up gfxterm by storing intermediate results in more compact format. |
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116 | * Lazy LVM/mdraid scan. |
117 | * Disk hints. | |
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118 | |
119 | * Scripting: | |
120 | * New `eval' and `tr' commands. | |
121 | * grub-script-check fails on scripts containing no commands. | |
122 | ||
123 | * Installation and other utility improvements: | |
124 | * Add option to compress files on installation or image creation. | |
125 | * Using grub-reboot no longer requires setting `GRUB_DEFAULT=saved'. | |
126 | * Support probing EFI System Partition (requires os-prober >= 1.58). | |
127 | * Fix inconsistent use of `GRUB_CRYPTODISK_ENABLE' and | |
128 | `GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK'; the latter is now used consistently. | |
129 | * grub-mount handles symbolic links to directories. | |
130 | * Support disabling submenus with `GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU' configuration key | |
131 | for grub-mkconfig. | |
132 | * grub-install, grub-mknetdir, grub-mkrescue, and grub-mkstandalone | |
133 | rewritten in C. They should now work in supported non-Unix-like | |
134 | environments. | |
5acc8020 VS |
135 | * Native mingw support. |
136 | * Ability to install on EFI under windows. | |
30a33846 CW |
137 | * Reorganise timeout handling using new `timeout_style' environment |
138 | variable and `GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE' configuration key for grub-mkconfig. | |
139 | Menu hotkeys pressed during a hidden timeout now boot the corresponding | |
140 | menu entry immediately. | |
141 | * New `file' command and grub-file utility to check file types. | |
142 | * New syslinux configuration file parser. | |
d017ea8e AB |
143 | * Set menu entry class to primary OS name returned by os-prober to display |
144 | OS specific icon. | |
145 | * On Linux x86 detect EFI word size in grub-install and automatically select | |
146 | correct platform (x86_64-efi or i386-efi) to install. Requires Linux kernel | |
147 | 4.0 or higher. | |
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148 | |
149 | * Build system: | |
150 | * Remove all uses of nested functions; GRUB no longer requires an | |
151 | executable stack. | |
152 | * Fix documentation build with Texinfo >= 5.1. | |
153 | * More robust and documented cross-compiling support. | |
0e309454 VS |
154 | * Partial clang support for some platforms (experimental). |
155 | * Partial mingw64 x86_64-efi compile support (highly experimental). | |
156 | * Partial mingw32 i386-* (other than already present i386-pc) | |
157 | compile support (highly experimental). | |
5acc8020 | 158 | * Support for grub-mkpasswd on Windows. |
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159 | * Eliminate the use of AutoGen. This allowed some performance |
160 | improvements to the build system. | |
0e309454 VS |
161 | * Remove variable length arrays. |
162 | * OpenBSD compile and tools support (NetBSD and FreeBSD were already supported). | |
30a33846 CW |
163 | * Fix build with FreeType >= 2.5.1. |
164 | * Make gentpl.py compatible with Python 3. It now requires at least | |
165 | Python 2.6. | |
0e309454 VS |
166 | * modinfo.sh contains build information now. |
167 | * Added many new tests to improve robustness. | |
b27af387 AB |
168 | * Target is built without libgcc now. Necessary builtins are reimplemented |
169 | directly. This removes requirement for target-specific runtime on build | |
170 | system. | |
72ccf92c | 171 | * emu libusb support removed (was broken and unmaintained). |
33b1103e | 172 | * powerpc64le compile support. |
ff5726b8 | 173 | * Use fixed timestamp when generating GRUB image for reproducible builds. |
d017ea8e AB |
174 | * Verify at build time that modules contain only supported relocations and their |
175 | structure matches what boot-time module loader expects. | |
c9a8d037 | 176 | * Do not require fonts on powerpc-ieee1275. |
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177 | |
178 | * Revision control moved to git. | |
179 | ||
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180 | New in 2.00: |
181 | ||
f0f55752 | 182 | * Appearance: |
d22029ba VS |
183 | * Official theme for gfxmenu (starfield) |
184 | * Menu is organised with submenus. | |
185 | * Better default video mode selection using EDID. | |
186 | ||
187 | * New platforms: | |
188 | * Itanium port. | |
189 | * Fuloong2F support (including GRUB as firmware) | |
190 | * Fuloong2E support (except GRUB as firmware) | |
191 | * ARCS (SGI machines) port. | |
192 | * qemu -M mips port. | |
193 | ||
194 | * grub-mount to mount filesystems using GRUB FS drivers and FUSE. | |
195 | ||
196 | * Changed security default so entries are locked by default if any superuser is | |
197 | defined. | |
198 | ||
199 | * New drivers: | |
200 | * EHCI. | |
201 | * AHCI. | |
202 | * ESCC serial. | |
203 | * IEEE1275 serial. | |
204 | * EFI serial. | |
205 | * Network stack for BIOS, IEEE1275, EMU and EFI, including TFTP, HTTP and DNS. | |
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206 | |
207 | * New filesystem, filters and disks formats: | |
208 | * DVH partition map. | |
209 | * Plan9 partition map. | |
210 | * Big-endian mdraid. | |
211 | * Big-endian cpio. | |
212 | * ODC and NEWC cpio. | |
213 | * ExFAT. | |
214 | * Minix3fs. | |
215 | * Big-endian minixfs. | |
216 | * RomFS. | |
217 | * Squash4. | |
218 | * Support non-512B disk blocks. | |
219 | * LUKS and GELI support. | |
220 | * LDM read support (no install yet). | |
221 | * LZOP. | |
222 | ||
223 | * Improved filesystem and disks formats support: | |
224 | * HFS+ label support. | |
225 | * Improved reiserfs support. | |
226 | * multidevice, mirrored and raidz(2,3) ZFS support. | |
227 | * RAID LVM (internal RAIDing) support. | |
228 | * ZFS crypto support. | |
0e309454 | 229 | * ZLE, LZ4 and GZIP on ZFS support. |
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230 | * Support ZFS up to 33. |
231 | * HFS string is now treated like mac-roman and not UTF-8 | |
232 | * HFS mtime support. | |
233 | * Improved AFFS and SFS support. | |
234 | * LZO-compressed btrfs support. | |
235 | * cpio and tar symlinks support. | |
236 | * Better FS detection to reduce false positives. | |
237 | ||
238 | * New boot protocols: | |
239 | * Ability to load another coreboot payload when on coreboot. | |
240 | * Plan9. | |
241 | * Freedos. | |
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242 | * Ntldr/bootmgr (to load Windows bootloader). |
243 | * chainloader --bpb support to patch FAT or NTFS BPB in memory to correct | |
244 | wrong partition offset. | |
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245 | * PXE chainloading support. |
246 | * Darwin 11 (Mac OS X Lion) protocol support. | |
247 | ||
248 | * Boot protocol improvements: | |
249 | * Multiple initrd support. | |
250 | * Basic illumos and xnu autoconfig. | |
251 | ||
252 | * Testing and debugging: | |
253 | * New grub-fstest commands: cat, zfsinfo, testload xnu_uuid | |
0c4f85f6 VS |
254 | * grub-fstest recursive directory compare for quickly checking that |
255 | a directory is read correctly. | |
d22029ba VS |
256 | * Backtace on crash (if gdb module is loaded, x86 only) |
257 | * Disk cache statistics gathering. | |
258 | * GDB stub and GDB support script. | |
259 | * "make check" and "make bootcheck" expanded to almost all platforms | |
260 | (except i386-ieee1275, mips-arc, sparc64-ieee1275, ia64-efi and emu) | |
261 | * New `time' command. | |
262 | ||
263 | * Performance: | |
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264 | * Lazy scanning to avoid accessing devices which aren't really used. |
265 | This avoids boot delay due to slow device scanning. | |
d22029ba | 266 | * Use CPU cache when accessing video memory. |
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267 | * Search hints to first try the most likely device when searching for a |
268 | device with given UUID. This avoids slow scanning in most cases. | |
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269 | |
270 | * Internationalisation: | |
271 | * Updated to Unicode 6.0. | |
0c4f85f6 | 272 | * $"..." syntax for translation in grub scripting language. This allows easy |
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273 | translation of grub.cfg at runtime. |
274 | * Translations to many languages included in official distribution. | |
275 | ||
276 | * Scripting: | |
277 | * $grub_cpu and $grub_platform variables for conditioning grub.cfg on platform | |
0c4f85f6 | 278 | at runtime. |
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279 | * $feature_* variables to condition scripts on available features. |
280 | * Use of ids to identify menu entries. | |
281 | * all_video module which is empty but depends on all video modules thus | |
282 | allowing easy loading of all of them. | |
283 | ||
284 | * Installation: | |
285 | * grub-mknetdir script for easy creation of netbootable GRUB directory. | |
286 | * Itanium and mips support in grub-mkrescue. | |
287 | * grub-install support for all platforms except emu. | |
288 | * PreP partition install support. | |
289 | * No files conflict between flavours (except grub-mkrescue for ppc). This | |
290 | allows easy install of GRUB for several platforms. | |
291 | * grub-mkstandalone script for easy creating of image including all modules | |
292 | for platforms with generous limit on image size. | |
293 | * program-transform-name now functions according to usual conventions. | |
294 | Use --grubdir and --bootdir to get old behaviour. | |
295 | ||
296 | * ADLER32 and CRC64 support (for XZ and hashsum). | |
297 | ||
298 | * ofconsole renamed to console | |
299 | ||
300 | * Experimental support for compiling with Apple toolchain. | |
301 | ||
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302 | * grub-mkdevicemap removed. Now all devices are detected on invocation of |
303 | any grub utility. | |
d22029ba | 304 | |
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305 | New in 1.99: |
306 | ||
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307 | * Keyboard layouts support. |
308 | ||
309 | * New `lsapm' command (i386-pc only). | |
310 | ||
311 | * Parser for GRUB Legacy configuration files. | |
312 | ||
313 | * Support RAID on virtio devices. | |
314 | ||
315 | * Remove deprecated `root' command. | |
316 | ||
317 | * New `euro.pf2' font which supports most European languages. | |
318 | ||
319 | * Avoid opening the same device twice on Open Firmware platforms. | |
320 | ||
321 | * Extend `vbeinfo' and `vbetest' commands to non-VBE graphics, as | |
322 | `videoinfo' and `videotest'. | |
323 | ||
40901acd | 324 | * New `lsefisystab', `lssal', and `lsefimmap' commands on EFI platforms. |
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325 | |
326 | * Support explicit user claim that a device is BIOS-visible. Devices | |
327 | listed in device.map will be assumed to be readable using only BIOS | |
328 | facilities, rather than anything more complex such as LVM or RAID. | |
329 | ||
330 | * New bash-completion script for GRUB utilities. | |
331 | ||
332 | * Use ACPI to shut down if possible. | |
333 | ||
334 | * New `lsacpi' command. | |
335 | ||
ec9f5e0d | 336 | * Btrfs support. |
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337 | |
338 | * New `--boot-directory' option to `grub-install', `grub-reboot', and | |
339 | `grub-set-default', with clearer semantics than the previous | |
340 | `--root-directory' option. | |
341 | ||
342 | * Rename CD-ROM device to "cd" on BIOS platforms. | |
343 | ||
344 | * Transparent decompression filters. | |
345 | ||
346 | * Simpler PXE image generation. New `grub-mknetdir' utility to generate | |
347 | netboot directory trees. | |
348 | ||
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349 | * New relocator. Allows for more kernel support and more |
350 | straightforward loader writing. | |
351 | ||
352 | * Handle USB pendrives exposed as floppies. | |
353 | ||
354 | * New Automake-based build system. | |
355 | ||
356 | * Add `sendkey' command (i386-pc only). | |
357 | ||
a94a6671 | 358 | * ZFS support. |
215dd471 | 359 | |
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360 | * Support 1.x versions of mdadm metadata. |
361 | ||
362 | * Fix corruption when reading Reiserfs directory entries. | |
363 | ||
364 | * Bidirectional text and diacritics support. | |
365 | ||
366 | * Skip LVM snapshots. | |
367 | ||
368 | * MIPS Yeeloong firmware port. | |
369 | ||
370 | * Change grub-mkdevicemap to emit /dev/disk/by-id/ names where possible | |
371 | on GNU/Linux. | |
372 | ||
373 | * Add `grub-mkconfig' support for Xen with Linux. | |
374 | ||
375 | * Add `grub-mkconfig' support for initrd images on Fedora 13. | |
376 | ||
377 | * Support >3GiB and <16MiB RAM in i386-qemu. | |
378 | ||
379 | * Add support for Cirrus 5446 and Bochs video cards. | |
380 | ||
381 | * Load more appropriate video drivers automatically in `grub-mkconfig'. | |
382 | ||
383 | * USB improvements, including hotplugging/hotunplugging, hub support, | |
384 | and USB serial support. | |
385 | ||
386 | * AMD Geode CS5536 support. | |
387 | ||
388 | * Extensive updates to the Texinfo documentation. | |
389 | ||
f9cefc4e CW |
390 | * Handle symbolic links under /dev/mapper on GNU/Linux. |
391 | ||
392 | * Handle installation across multiple partition table types. | |
393 | ||
394 | * Add `cmostest' command (i386/x86_64 only). | |
395 | ||
396 | * Add support for DM-RAID disk devices on GNU/Linux. | |
397 | ||
398 | * Remove `grub-mkisofs'. `grub-mkrescue' now uses GNU xorriso to build | |
399 | CD images. | |
400 | ||
401 | * `grub-mkrescue' support for EFI, coreboot, and QEMU platforms. | |
402 | ||
61c874c5 CW |
403 | * Unify `grub-mkimage', `grub-setup', and `grub-install' source code |
404 | across platforms. | |
f9cefc4e CW |
405 | |
406 | * Fix VGA (as opposed to VBE) video driver, formerly a terminal driver. | |
407 | ||
408 | * Add menu hotkey support. | |
409 | ||
410 | * Add support for the nilfs2 filesystem. | |
411 | ||
412 | * `grub-probe' and `grub-mkconfig' support for NetBSD. | |
413 | ||
414 | * Support setting a background image in `grub-mkconfig'. | |
415 | ||
416 | * Support multiple terminals in `grub-mkconfig'. | |
417 | ||
418 | * Regexp support. | |
419 | ||
420 | * MIPS multiboot2 support. | |
421 | ||
422 | * Multiboot2 tag support. | |
423 | ||
424 | * sunpc partition table support. | |
425 | ||
426 | * Add a number of new language features to GRUB script: `for', `while', | |
61c874c5 CW |
427 | `until', `elif', function parameters, `break', `continue', `shift', |
428 | multi-line quoted strings, positional parameters with `setparams', | |
429 | `return', filename wildcard expansion, and `!'. | |
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430 | |
431 | * Support nested partition tables. GRUB now prefers to name partitions | |
432 | in the form `(hd0,msdos1,bsd1)' rather than `(hd0,1,a)'. | |
433 | ||
434 | * Speed up consecutive hostdisk operations on the same device. | |
435 | ||
436 | * Compile parts of `grub-emu' as modules. | |
437 | ||
fce5d8ff | 438 | New in 1.98 - 2010-03-06: |
1fbc5e66 | 439 | |
fcee14ed VS |
440 | * Multiboot on EFI support. |
441 | ||
c98d2a13 CW |
442 | * Graphical menu support. |
443 | ||
444 | * MIPS support. | |
445 | ||
446 | * Saved default menu entry support, with new utilities `grub-reboot' and | |
447 | `grub-set-default'. | |
448 | ||
449 | * Unit testing framework. | |
450 | ||
451 | * Support for multiple terminals. | |
452 | ||
453 | * Encrypted password support, with a new utility `grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2'. | |
454 | ||
455 | * `grub-mkfloppy' removed; use `grub-mkrescue' to create floppy images. | |
456 | ||
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457 | * Add grub-probe support for GNU/Hurd. |
458 | ||
3db5183c CPE |
459 | * Add support for gettext. |
460 | ||
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461 | New in 1.97: |
462 | ||
d2b6b7fc | 463 | * Add support for loading XNU (MacOS X kernel). |
421bd7ac | 464 | |
465 | * ACPI override support. | |
466 | ||
467 | * Integrated gptsync. | |
468 | ||
469 | * Password protection support. | |
470 | ||
471 | * Partition manipulation tool. | |
472 | ||
70ba68ce | 473 | * Add `keystatus' command. |
474 | ||
475 | * Unicode fonts are now used by default. | |
476 | ||
fd8c967c | 477 | * Add `hdparm' command. |
478 | ||
479 | * Add support for getting the current date and time from CMOS as variables. | |
480 | ||
481 | * Add `drivemap' command. | |
482 | ||
483 | * Add support for RAID levels 4,6 and 10. | |
484 | ||
d2b6b7fc | 485 | * update-grub is replaced by grub-mkconfig. |
6d994591 | 486 | |
1fbc5e66 | 487 | * When booting from PXE, PXE can be used to load files. |
488 | ||
489 | * High resolution timer support. | |
490 | ||
491 | * Image loaders now support IO buffering. | |
492 | ||
493 | * Add `crc' command. | |
494 | ||
54d83746 | 495 | * Add Cygwin support. |
496 | ||
1fbc5e66 | 497 | * Add x86_64 EFI support. |
498 | ||
5680109e | 499 | * Use LZMA compression instead of LZO. |
1fbc5e66 | 500 | |
501 | * Support for saving the environment from and loading the environment | |
502 | from a file. | |
503 | ||
504 | * Allow the UUID to be used as device name. | |
505 | ||
506 | * The `search' command can use UUIDs now. | |
507 | ||
508 | * Add support for IEEE 1275 on i386. | |
509 | ||
510 | * Create partmap.lst and use it to automatically load partition map | |
511 | modules. | |
512 | ||
6d994591 | 513 | * grub-mkconfig supports os-prober to add operating systems to the |
54d83746 | 514 | boot menu. |
1fbc5e66 | 515 | |
d2b6b7fc | 516 | * The ATA driver supports devices bigger than 2 TiB. |
1fbc5e66 | 517 | |
2fc96ba3 | 518 | * Add support for the UDF, AFS and EXT4 filesystems. |
1fbc5e66 | 519 | |
2fc96ba3 | 520 | * The ISO9660 filesystem supports the Joliet extension |
1fbc5e66 | 521 | |
d2b6b7fc | 522 | * Add support for loading kernels of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. |
1fbc5e66 | 523 | |
524 | * Add new command `sleep'. | |
525 | ||
526 | * Support for direct access to AT keyboards. | |
527 | ||
528 | * New utility `grub-fstest'. | |
529 | ||
f2a76e1d | 530 | New in 1.96 - 2008-02-03: |
5a79f472 | 531 | |
532 | * The license term is changed to GNU General Public License Version 3. | |
533 | ||
352466bf | 534 | * grub-emu is made optional. Now you have to use |
535 | `--enable-grub-emu' to enable it. | |
536 | ||
537 | * Add Multiboot2 support. | |
538 | ||
539 | * grub-emu can access the host filesystem now. | |
540 | ||
2216b101 | 541 | * Add support for the NTFS, cpio/tar and Reiserfs filesystems. |
352466bf | 542 | |
e911ecc1 | 543 | * Add support for ATA/ATAPI. |
544 | ||
2216b101 | 545 | * Add update-grub script to generate grub.cfg. |
546 | ||
547 | * Add grub-mkrescue script to generate floppy or ElTorito images | |
548 | (i386-pc only). | |
549 | ||
550 | * Add support for background images in gfxterm (background_image command). | |
551 | ||
552 | * Add support for detection of 64-bit support in CPU (cpuid command). | |
553 | ||
554 | * GPT is now enabled in i386-pc target. | |
555 | ||
556 | * Add grub-install for EFI. | |
557 | ||
558 | * Ported to the following new platforms: Efika, coreboot (a.k.a. LinuxBIOS), | |
559 | OLPC XO. | |
560 | ||
561 | * Add support for colored menu (menu_color_normal and menu_color_highlight | |
562 | variables). | |
563 | ||
564 | * Fix support for loading Linux zImages (such as memtest86). | |
565 | ||
5d74d927 | 566 | New in 1.95 - 2006-10-15: |
deae281b | 567 | |
568 | * Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first | |
569 | partition of "hd0" is now "hd0,1" but not "hd0,0". | |
570 | ||
df247e5e | 571 | * grub-probefs is renamed to grub-probe, and supports printing a |
572 | guessed OS device name and a GRUB drive name. | |
573 | ||
574 | * RAID and LVM support is added. | |
575 | ||
576 | * New command, echo. | |
577 | ||
578 | * The disk API is changed to support 64-bit addressing. | |
579 | ||
580 | * A TGA loader is added for the video API. | |
581 | ||
53af98ad | 582 | New in 1.94 - 2006-06-04: |
118f4fb3 | 583 | |
584 | * Fix several serious bugs in HFS+. | |
585 | ||
586 | * Add experimental EFI support. Chainloading and Linux loading are | |
587 | supported at the moment. | |
588 | ||
589 | * Add a new command "blocklist" to show a block list. | |
590 | ||
591 | * Use --with-platform to specify a boot environment. For now, efi, | |
592 | ieee1275 and pc are supported. | |
593 | ||
594 | * Use the filename "kernel.elf" instead of "grubof" on ieee1275. | |
595 | ||
596 | * Install GRUB into pkglibdir instead of pkgdatadir. | |
597 | ||
598 | * Support environmental variables. You can export variables by the | |
599 | command "export". | |
600 | ||
601 | * Remove the commands "default" and "timeout". They are now variables. | |
602 | ||
603 | * Add the commands "source" and "." to include a file. | |
604 | ||
605 | * Implement experimental Video API and a new terminal "gfxterm" based | |
606 | on the Video API. | |
607 | ||
608 | ||
5f97350b | 609 | New in 1.93 - 2006-03-10: |
610 | ||
611 | * Add support for the HFS+ wrapper. | |
612 | ||
613 | * Major improvements to scripting support. | |
614 | ||
615 | * Menu entries are now scriptable. | |
616 | ||
c9a86192 | 617 | |
3bbfa267 | 618 | New in 1.92 - 2005-12-25: |
619 | ||
620 | * Add support for GPT partition table format. | |
621 | ||
622 | * Add a new command "play" to play an audio file on PC. | |
623 | ||
624 | * Add support for Linux/ADFS partition table format. | |
625 | ||
626 | * Add support for BASH-like scripting. | |
627 | ||
50214199 | 628 | * Add support for Apple HFS+ filesystems. |
3bbfa267 | 629 | |
b5179ea0 | 630 | |
4801580b | 631 | New in 1.91 - 2005-10-15: |
4ac9bd04 | 632 | |
633 | * Add support for LZO version 2. | |
634 | ||
992ffbbe | 635 | * Support completion in the entry editor. |
636 | ||
637 | * Add VBE support. | |
638 | ||
6a85ce79 | 639 | * New commands, "search", "vbetest" and "vbeinfo". |
640 | ||
16ccb8b1 | 641 | * The option BOOT_IMAGE is passed to Linux. |
642 | ||
d9864ee1 | 643 | * Add support for automatic decompression for gzip. |
644 | ||
5d7396f5 | 645 | * Add support for terminfo and serial. |
646 | ||
5c177389 | 647 | * Add support for x86_64. |
648 | ||
649 | * GRUB itself is a Multiboot-compliant kernel. | |
650 | ||
651 | * Add new filesystems: XFS, SFS, and AFFS. | |
652 | ||
992ffbbe | 653 | |
4ac9bd04 | 654 | New in 1.90 - 2005-08-07: |
4b13b216 | 655 | |
656 | * Rename the project name PUPA to GRUB. Now this version is the | |
657 | developmental version of GRUB officially. | |
658 | ||
659 | * The GRUB emulator ``grub-emu'' is added. | |
660 | ||
661 | * Add support for newworld Mac. This should work with other | |
662 | PowerPC-based machines as well, if they use IEEE 1275 | |
663 | (Open Firmware). | |
664 | ||
0e143073 | 665 | * Too many changes to describe. Look at ChangeLog for more details. |
666 | ||
4b13b216 | 667 | |
9962ed99 | 668 | New in 0.7: |
669 | ||
670 | * Problems in cross-compiling PUPA are fixed. | |
671 | ||
62ddcc8f | 672 | * Use -mrtd and -mregparm=3 to reduce the generated code sizes. This |
673 | means that any missing prototypes could be fatal. Also, you must take | |
674 | care when writing assembly code. See the comments at the beginning of | |
675 | startup.S, for more details. | |
676 | ||
012d7999 | 677 | * New utility, ``pupa-setup''. This sets up PUPA to make it bootable |
678 | from a real disk. | |
679 | ||
a5ffe966 | 680 | * New commands, "prefix", "insmod", "rmmod" and "lsmod" are added into |
681 | the rescue mode to manipulate PUPA modules. | |
682 | ||
c04da074 | 683 | * Linux support is added. Initrd is not support yet. |
684 | ||
1f5ab428 | 685 | * Reduce the size of a core image significantly by compressing a large |
686 | part of the core image and decompressing itself at boot time. The | |
687 | currently used algorithm is LZO (more precisely, LZO1X-999). So you | |
688 | have to install LZO to build PUPA. See | |
689 | <http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/>, for more information. | |
690 | ||
a5ffe966 | 691 | |
6a161fa9 | 692 | New in 0.6 - 2002-12-27, Yoshinori K. Okuji: |
693 | ||
694 | * The chainloader and the FAT filesystem are modularized. | |
695 | ||
696 | * The structure of the source tree is a bit changed. | |
697 | ||
698 | * Support for building loadable modules is added. | |
699 | ||
700 | * Some generic parts of pupa-mkimage are segregated. | |
701 | ||
702 | * Some documentation files are added, according to the GNU Coding | |
703 | Standards. |