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1 | New in 2.00: |
2 | ||
f0f55752 | 3 | * Appearance: |
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4 | * Official theme for gfxmenu (starfield) |
5 | * Menu is organised with submenus. | |
6 | * Better default video mode selection using EDID. | |
7 | ||
8 | * New platforms: | |
9 | * Itanium port. | |
10 | * Fuloong2F support (including GRUB as firmware) | |
11 | * Fuloong2E support (except GRUB as firmware) | |
12 | * ARCS (SGI machines) port. | |
13 | * qemu -M mips port. | |
14 | ||
15 | * grub-mount to mount filesystems using GRUB FS drivers and FUSE. | |
16 | ||
17 | * Changed security default so entries are locked by default if any superuser is | |
18 | defined. | |
19 | ||
20 | * New drivers: | |
21 | * EHCI. | |
22 | * AHCI. | |
23 | * ESCC serial. | |
24 | * IEEE1275 serial. | |
25 | * EFI serial. | |
26 | * Network stack for BIOS, IEEE1275, EMU and EFI, including TFTP, HTTP and DNS. | |
27 | * VBE on coreboot support. | |
28 | ||
29 | * New filesystem, filters and disks formats: | |
30 | * DVH partition map. | |
31 | * Plan9 partition map. | |
32 | * Big-endian mdraid. | |
33 | * Big-endian cpio. | |
34 | * ODC and NEWC cpio. | |
35 | * ExFAT. | |
36 | * Minix3fs. | |
37 | * Big-endian minixfs. | |
38 | * RomFS. | |
39 | * Squash4. | |
40 | * Support non-512B disk blocks. | |
41 | * LUKS and GELI support. | |
42 | * LDM read support (no install yet). | |
43 | * LZOP. | |
44 | ||
45 | * Improved filesystem and disks formats support: | |
46 | * HFS+ label support. | |
47 | * Improved reiserfs support. | |
48 | * multidevice, mirrored and raidz(2,3) ZFS support. | |
49 | * RAID LVM (internal RAIDing) support. | |
50 | * ZFS crypto support. | |
51 | * ZLE and GZIP on ZFS support. | |
52 | * Support ZFS up to 33. | |
53 | * HFS string is now treated like mac-roman and not UTF-8 | |
54 | * HFS mtime support. | |
55 | * Improved AFFS and SFS support. | |
56 | * LZO-compressed btrfs support. | |
57 | * cpio and tar symlinks support. | |
58 | * Better FS detection to reduce false positives. | |
59 | ||
60 | * New boot protocols: | |
61 | * Ability to load another coreboot payload when on coreboot. | |
62 | * Plan9. | |
63 | * Freedos. | |
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64 | * Ntldr/bootmgr (to load Windows bootloader). |
65 | * chainloader --bpb support to patch FAT or NTFS BPB in memory to correct | |
66 | wrong partition offset. | |
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67 | * PXE chainloading support. |
68 | * Darwin 11 (Mac OS X Lion) protocol support. | |
69 | ||
70 | * Boot protocol improvements: | |
71 | * Multiple initrd support. | |
72 | * Basic illumos and xnu autoconfig. | |
73 | ||
74 | * Testing and debugging: | |
75 | * New grub-fstest commands: cat, zfsinfo, testload xnu_uuid | |
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76 | * grub-fstest recursive directory compare for quickly checking that |
77 | a directory is read correctly. | |
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78 | * Backtace on crash (if gdb module is loaded, x86 only) |
79 | * Disk cache statistics gathering. | |
80 | * GDB stub and GDB support script. | |
81 | * "make check" and "make bootcheck" expanded to almost all platforms | |
82 | (except i386-ieee1275, mips-arc, sparc64-ieee1275, ia64-efi and emu) | |
83 | * New `time' command. | |
84 | ||
85 | * Performance: | |
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86 | * Lazy scanning to avoid accessing devices which aren't really used. |
87 | This avoids boot delay due to slow device scanning. | |
d22029ba | 88 | * Use CPU cache when accessing video memory. |
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89 | * Search hints to first try the most likely device when searching for a |
90 | device with given UUID. This avoids slow scanning in most cases. | |
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91 | |
92 | * Internationalisation: | |
93 | * Updated to Unicode 6.0. | |
0c4f85f6 | 94 | * $"..." syntax for translation in grub scripting language. This allows easy |
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95 | translation of grub.cfg at runtime. |
96 | * Translations to many languages included in official distribution. | |
97 | ||
98 | * Scripting: | |
99 | * $grub_cpu and $grub_platform variables for conditioning grub.cfg on platform | |
0c4f85f6 | 100 | at runtime. |
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101 | * $feature_* variables to condition scripts on available features. |
102 | * Use of ids to identify menu entries. | |
103 | * all_video module which is empty but depends on all video modules thus | |
104 | allowing easy loading of all of them. | |
105 | ||
106 | * Installation: | |
107 | * grub-mknetdir script for easy creation of netbootable GRUB directory. | |
108 | * Itanium and mips support in grub-mkrescue. | |
109 | * grub-install support for all platforms except emu. | |
110 | * PreP partition install support. | |
111 | * No files conflict between flavours (except grub-mkrescue for ppc). This | |
112 | allows easy install of GRUB for several platforms. | |
113 | * grub-mkstandalone script for easy creating of image including all modules | |
114 | for platforms with generous limit on image size. | |
115 | * program-transform-name now functions according to usual conventions. | |
116 | Use --grubdir and --bootdir to get old behaviour. | |
117 | ||
118 | * ADLER32 and CRC64 support (for XZ and hashsum). | |
119 | ||
120 | * ofconsole renamed to console | |
121 | ||
122 | * Experimental support for compiling with Apple toolchain. | |
123 | ||
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124 | * grub-mkdevicemap removed. Now all devices are detected on invocation of |
125 | any grub utility. | |
d22029ba | 126 | |
215dd471 RM |
127 | New in 1.99: |
128 | ||
61c874c5 CW |
129 | * Keyboard layouts support. |
130 | ||
131 | * New `lsapm' command (i386-pc only). | |
132 | ||
133 | * Parser for GRUB Legacy configuration files. | |
134 | ||
135 | * Support RAID on virtio devices. | |
136 | ||
137 | * Remove deprecated `root' command. | |
138 | ||
139 | * New `euro.pf2' font which supports most European languages. | |
140 | ||
141 | * Avoid opening the same device twice on Open Firmware platforms. | |
142 | ||
143 | * Extend `vbeinfo' and `vbetest' commands to non-VBE graphics, as | |
144 | `videoinfo' and `videotest'. | |
145 | ||
40901acd | 146 | * New `lsefisystab', `lssal', and `lsefimmap' commands on EFI platforms. |
61c874c5 CW |
147 | |
148 | * Support explicit user claim that a device is BIOS-visible. Devices | |
149 | listed in device.map will be assumed to be readable using only BIOS | |
150 | facilities, rather than anything more complex such as LVM or RAID. | |
151 | ||
152 | * New bash-completion script for GRUB utilities. | |
153 | ||
154 | * Use ACPI to shut down if possible. | |
155 | ||
156 | * New `lsacpi' command. | |
157 | ||
ec9f5e0d | 158 | * Btrfs support. |
61c874c5 CW |
159 | |
160 | * New `--boot-directory' option to `grub-install', `grub-reboot', and | |
161 | `grub-set-default', with clearer semantics than the previous | |
162 | `--root-directory' option. | |
163 | ||
164 | * Rename CD-ROM device to "cd" on BIOS platforms. | |
165 | ||
166 | * Transparent decompression filters. | |
167 | ||
168 | * Simpler PXE image generation. New `grub-mknetdir' utility to generate | |
169 | netboot directory trees. | |
170 | ||
f9cefc4e CW |
171 | * New relocator. Allows for more kernel support and more |
172 | straightforward loader writing. | |
173 | ||
174 | * Handle USB pendrives exposed as floppies. | |
175 | ||
176 | * New Automake-based build system. | |
177 | ||
178 | * Add `sendkey' command (i386-pc only). | |
179 | ||
a94a6671 | 180 | * ZFS support. |
215dd471 | 181 | |
f9cefc4e CW |
182 | * Support 1.x versions of mdadm metadata. |
183 | ||
184 | * Fix corruption when reading Reiserfs directory entries. | |
185 | ||
186 | * Bidirectional text and diacritics support. | |
187 | ||
188 | * Skip LVM snapshots. | |
189 | ||
190 | * MIPS Yeeloong firmware port. | |
191 | ||
192 | * Change grub-mkdevicemap to emit /dev/disk/by-id/ names where possible | |
193 | on GNU/Linux. | |
194 | ||
195 | * Add `grub-mkconfig' support for Xen with Linux. | |
196 | ||
197 | * Add `grub-mkconfig' support for initrd images on Fedora 13. | |
198 | ||
199 | * Support >3GiB and <16MiB RAM in i386-qemu. | |
200 | ||
201 | * Add support for Cirrus 5446 and Bochs video cards. | |
202 | ||
203 | * Load more appropriate video drivers automatically in `grub-mkconfig'. | |
204 | ||
205 | * USB improvements, including hotplugging/hotunplugging, hub support, | |
206 | and USB serial support. | |
207 | ||
208 | * AMD Geode CS5536 support. | |
209 | ||
210 | * Extensive updates to the Texinfo documentation. | |
211 | ||
f9cefc4e CW |
212 | * Handle symbolic links under /dev/mapper on GNU/Linux. |
213 | ||
214 | * Handle installation across multiple partition table types. | |
215 | ||
216 | * Add `cmostest' command (i386/x86_64 only). | |
217 | ||
218 | * Add support for DM-RAID disk devices on GNU/Linux. | |
219 | ||
220 | * Remove `grub-mkisofs'. `grub-mkrescue' now uses GNU xorriso to build | |
221 | CD images. | |
222 | ||
223 | * `grub-mkrescue' support for EFI, coreboot, and QEMU platforms. | |
224 | ||
61c874c5 CW |
225 | * Unify `grub-mkimage', `grub-setup', and `grub-install' source code |
226 | across platforms. | |
f9cefc4e CW |
227 | |
228 | * Fix VGA (as opposed to VBE) video driver, formerly a terminal driver. | |
229 | ||
230 | * Add menu hotkey support. | |
231 | ||
232 | * Add support for the nilfs2 filesystem. | |
233 | ||
234 | * `grub-probe' and `grub-mkconfig' support for NetBSD. | |
235 | ||
236 | * Support setting a background image in `grub-mkconfig'. | |
237 | ||
238 | * Support multiple terminals in `grub-mkconfig'. | |
239 | ||
240 | * Regexp support. | |
241 | ||
242 | * MIPS multiboot2 support. | |
243 | ||
244 | * Multiboot2 tag support. | |
245 | ||
246 | * sunpc partition table support. | |
247 | ||
248 | * Add a number of new language features to GRUB script: `for', `while', | |
61c874c5 CW |
249 | `until', `elif', function parameters, `break', `continue', `shift', |
250 | multi-line quoted strings, positional parameters with `setparams', | |
251 | `return', filename wildcard expansion, and `!'. | |
f9cefc4e CW |
252 | |
253 | * Support nested partition tables. GRUB now prefers to name partitions | |
254 | in the form `(hd0,msdos1,bsd1)' rather than `(hd0,1,a)'. | |
255 | ||
256 | * Speed up consecutive hostdisk operations on the same device. | |
257 | ||
258 | * Compile parts of `grub-emu' as modules. | |
259 | ||
fce5d8ff | 260 | New in 1.98 - 2010-03-06: |
1fbc5e66 | 261 | |
fcee14ed VS |
262 | * Multiboot on EFI support. |
263 | ||
c98d2a13 CW |
264 | * Graphical menu support. |
265 | ||
266 | * MIPS support. | |
267 | ||
268 | * Saved default menu entry support, with new utilities `grub-reboot' and | |
269 | `grub-set-default'. | |
270 | ||
271 | * Unit testing framework. | |
272 | ||
273 | * Support for multiple terminals. | |
274 | ||
275 | * Encrypted password support, with a new utility `grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2'. | |
276 | ||
277 | * `grub-mkfloppy' removed; use `grub-mkrescue' to create floppy images. | |
278 | ||
7922f68b RM |
279 | * Add grub-probe support for GNU/Hurd. |
280 | ||
3db5183c CPE |
281 | * Add support for gettext. |
282 | ||
537ce47f RM |
283 | New in 1.97: |
284 | ||
d2b6b7fc | 285 | * Add support for loading XNU (MacOS X kernel). |
421bd7ac | 286 | |
287 | * ACPI override support. | |
288 | ||
289 | * Integrated gptsync. | |
290 | ||
291 | * Password protection support. | |
292 | ||
293 | * Partition manipulation tool. | |
294 | ||
70ba68ce | 295 | * Add `keystatus' command. |
296 | ||
297 | * Unicode fonts are now used by default. | |
298 | ||
fd8c967c | 299 | * Add `hdparm' command. |
300 | ||
301 | * Add support for getting the current date and time from CMOS as variables. | |
302 | ||
303 | * Add `drivemap' command. | |
304 | ||
305 | * Add support for RAID levels 4,6 and 10. | |
306 | ||
d2b6b7fc | 307 | * update-grub is replaced by grub-mkconfig. |
6d994591 | 308 | |
1fbc5e66 | 309 | * When booting from PXE, PXE can be used to load files. |
310 | ||
311 | * High resolution timer support. | |
312 | ||
313 | * Image loaders now support IO buffering. | |
314 | ||
315 | * Add `crc' command. | |
316 | ||
54d83746 | 317 | * Add Cygwin support. |
318 | ||
1fbc5e66 | 319 | * Add x86_64 EFI support. |
320 | ||
5680109e | 321 | * Use LZMA compression instead of LZO. |
1fbc5e66 | 322 | |
323 | * Support for saving the environment from and loading the environment | |
324 | from a file. | |
325 | ||
326 | * Allow the UUID to be used as device name. | |
327 | ||
328 | * The `search' command can use UUIDs now. | |
329 | ||
330 | * Add support for IEEE 1275 on i386. | |
331 | ||
332 | * Create partmap.lst and use it to automatically load partition map | |
333 | modules. | |
334 | ||
6d994591 | 335 | * grub-mkconfig supports os-prober to add operating systems to the |
54d83746 | 336 | boot menu. |
1fbc5e66 | 337 | |
d2b6b7fc | 338 | * The ATA driver supports devices bigger than 2 TiB. |
1fbc5e66 | 339 | |
2fc96ba3 | 340 | * Add support for the UDF, AFS and EXT4 filesystems. |
1fbc5e66 | 341 | |
2fc96ba3 | 342 | * The ISO9660 filesystem supports the Joliet extension |
1fbc5e66 | 343 | |
d2b6b7fc | 344 | * Add support for loading kernels of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. |
1fbc5e66 | 345 | |
346 | * Add new command `sleep'. | |
347 | ||
348 | * Support for direct access to AT keyboards. | |
349 | ||
350 | * New utility `grub-fstest'. | |
351 | ||
f2a76e1d | 352 | New in 1.96 - 2008-02-03: |
5a79f472 | 353 | |
354 | * The license term is changed to GNU General Public License Version 3. | |
355 | ||
352466bf | 356 | * grub-emu is made optional. Now you have to use |
357 | `--enable-grub-emu' to enable it. | |
358 | ||
359 | * Add Multiboot2 support. | |
360 | ||
361 | * grub-emu can access the host filesystem now. | |
362 | ||
2216b101 | 363 | * Add support for the NTFS, cpio/tar and Reiserfs filesystems. |
352466bf | 364 | |
e911ecc1 | 365 | * Add support for ATA/ATAPI. |
366 | ||
2216b101 | 367 | * Add update-grub script to generate grub.cfg. |
368 | ||
369 | * Add grub-mkrescue script to generate floppy or ElTorito images | |
370 | (i386-pc only). | |
371 | ||
372 | * Add support for background images in gfxterm (background_image command). | |
373 | ||
374 | * Add support for detection of 64-bit support in CPU (cpuid command). | |
375 | ||
376 | * GPT is now enabled in i386-pc target. | |
377 | ||
378 | * Add grub-install for EFI. | |
379 | ||
380 | * Ported to the following new platforms: Efika, coreboot (a.k.a. LinuxBIOS), | |
381 | OLPC XO. | |
382 | ||
383 | * Add support for colored menu (menu_color_normal and menu_color_highlight | |
384 | variables). | |
385 | ||
386 | * Fix support for loading Linux zImages (such as memtest86). | |
387 | ||
5d74d927 | 388 | New in 1.95 - 2006-10-15: |
deae281b | 389 | |
390 | * Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first | |
391 | partition of "hd0" is now "hd0,1" but not "hd0,0". | |
392 | ||
df247e5e | 393 | * grub-probefs is renamed to grub-probe, and supports printing a |
394 | guessed OS device name and a GRUB drive name. | |
395 | ||
396 | * RAID and LVM support is added. | |
397 | ||
398 | * New command, echo. | |
399 | ||
400 | * The disk API is changed to support 64-bit addressing. | |
401 | ||
402 | * A TGA loader is added for the video API. | |
403 | ||
53af98ad | 404 | New in 1.94 - 2006-06-04: |
118f4fb3 | 405 | |
406 | * Fix several serious bugs in HFS+. | |
407 | ||
408 | * Add experimental EFI support. Chainloading and Linux loading are | |
409 | supported at the moment. | |
410 | ||
411 | * Add a new command "blocklist" to show a block list. | |
412 | ||
413 | * Use --with-platform to specify a boot environment. For now, efi, | |
414 | ieee1275 and pc are supported. | |
415 | ||
416 | * Use the filename "kernel.elf" instead of "grubof" on ieee1275. | |
417 | ||
418 | * Install GRUB into pkglibdir instead of pkgdatadir. | |
419 | ||
420 | * Support environmental variables. You can export variables by the | |
421 | command "export". | |
422 | ||
423 | * Remove the commands "default" and "timeout". They are now variables. | |
424 | ||
425 | * Add the commands "source" and "." to include a file. | |
426 | ||
427 | * Implement experimental Video API and a new terminal "gfxterm" based | |
428 | on the Video API. | |
429 | ||
430 | ||
5f97350b | 431 | New in 1.93 - 2006-03-10: |
432 | ||
433 | * Add support for the HFS+ wrapper. | |
434 | ||
435 | * Major improvements to scripting support. | |
436 | ||
437 | * Menu entries are now scriptable. | |
438 | ||
c9a86192 | 439 | |
3bbfa267 | 440 | New in 1.92 - 2005-12-25: |
441 | ||
442 | * Add support for GPT partition table format. | |
443 | ||
444 | * Add a new command "play" to play an audio file on PC. | |
445 | ||
446 | * Add support for Linux/ADFS partition table format. | |
447 | ||
448 | * Add support for BASH-like scripting. | |
449 | ||
50214199 | 450 | * Add support for Apple HFS+ filesystems. |
3bbfa267 | 451 | |
b5179ea0 | 452 | |
4801580b | 453 | New in 1.91 - 2005-10-15: |
4ac9bd04 | 454 | |
455 | * Add support for LZO version 2. | |
456 | ||
992ffbbe | 457 | * Support completion in the entry editor. |
458 | ||
459 | * Add VBE support. | |
460 | ||
6a85ce79 | 461 | * New commands, "search", "vbetest" and "vbeinfo". |
462 | ||
16ccb8b1 | 463 | * The option BOOT_IMAGE is passed to Linux. |
464 | ||
d9864ee1 | 465 | * Add support for automatic decompression for gzip. |
466 | ||
5d7396f5 | 467 | * Add support for terminfo and serial. |
468 | ||
5c177389 | 469 | * Add support for x86_64. |
470 | ||
471 | * GRUB itself is a Multiboot-compliant kernel. | |
472 | ||
473 | * Add new filesystems: XFS, SFS, and AFFS. | |
474 | ||
992ffbbe | 475 | |
4ac9bd04 | 476 | New in 1.90 - 2005-08-07: |
4b13b216 | 477 | |
478 | * Rename the project name PUPA to GRUB. Now this version is the | |
479 | developmental version of GRUB officially. | |
480 | ||
481 | * The GRUB emulator ``grub-emu'' is added. | |
482 | ||
483 | * Add support for newworld Mac. This should work with other | |
484 | PowerPC-based machines as well, if they use IEEE 1275 | |
485 | (Open Firmware). | |
486 | ||
0e143073 | 487 | * Too many changes to describe. Look at ChangeLog for more details. |
488 | ||
4b13b216 | 489 | |
9962ed99 | 490 | New in 0.7: |
491 | ||
492 | * Problems in cross-compiling PUPA are fixed. | |
493 | ||
62ddcc8f | 494 | * Use -mrtd and -mregparm=3 to reduce the generated code sizes. This |
495 | means that any missing prototypes could be fatal. Also, you must take | |
496 | care when writing assembly code. See the comments at the beginning of | |
497 | startup.S, for more details. | |
498 | ||
012d7999 | 499 | * New utility, ``pupa-setup''. This sets up PUPA to make it bootable |
500 | from a real disk. | |
501 | ||
a5ffe966 | 502 | * New commands, "prefix", "insmod", "rmmod" and "lsmod" are added into |
503 | the rescue mode to manipulate PUPA modules. | |
504 | ||
c04da074 | 505 | * Linux support is added. Initrd is not support yet. |
506 | ||
1f5ab428 | 507 | * Reduce the size of a core image significantly by compressing a large |
508 | part of the core image and decompressing itself at boot time. The | |
509 | currently used algorithm is LZO (more precisely, LZO1X-999). So you | |
510 | have to install LZO to build PUPA. See | |
511 | <http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/>, for more information. | |
512 | ||
a5ffe966 | 513 | |
6a161fa9 | 514 | New in 0.6 - 2002-12-27, Yoshinori K. Okuji: |
515 | ||
516 | * The chainloader and the FAT filesystem are modularized. | |
517 | ||
518 | * The structure of the source tree is a bit changed. | |
519 | ||
520 | * Support for building loadable modules is added. | |
521 | ||
522 | * Some generic parts of pupa-mkimage are segregated. | |
523 | ||
524 | * Some documentation files are added, according to the GNU Coding | |
525 | Standards. |