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2006-04-01 Vesa Jaaskelainen <chaac@nic.fi>
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5f97350b 1New in 1.93 - 2006-03-10:
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3* Add support for the HFS+ wrapper.
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5* Major improvements to scripting support.
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7* Menu entries are now scriptable.
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3bbfa267 9New in 1.92 - 2005-12-25:
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11* Add support for GPT partition table format.
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13* Add a new command "play" to play an audio file on PC.
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15* Add support for Linux/ADFS partition table format.
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17* Add support for BASH-like scripting.
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50214199 19* Add support for Apple HFS+ filesystems.
3bbfa267 20
b5179ea0 21
4801580b 22New in 1.91 - 2005-10-15:
4ac9bd04 23
24* Add support for LZO version 2.
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992ffbbe 26* Support completion in the entry editor.
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28* Add VBE support.
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6a85ce79 30* New commands, "search", "vbetest" and "vbeinfo".
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16ccb8b1 32* The option BOOT_IMAGE is passed to Linux.
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d9864ee1 34* Add support for automatic decompression for gzip.
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5d7396f5 36* Add support for terminfo and serial.
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5c177389 38* Add support for x86_64.
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40* GRUB itself is a Multiboot-compliant kernel.
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42* Add new filesystems: XFS, SFS, and AFFS.
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992ffbbe 44
4ac9bd04 45New in 1.90 - 2005-08-07:
4b13b216 46
47* Rename the project name PUPA to GRUB. Now this version is the
48 developmental version of GRUB officially.
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50* The GRUB emulator ``grub-emu'' is added.
51
52* Add support for newworld Mac. This should work with other
53 PowerPC-based machines as well, if they use IEEE 1275
54 (Open Firmware).
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0e143073 56* Too many changes to describe. Look at ChangeLog for more details.
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4b13b216 58
9962ed99 59New in 0.7:
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61* Problems in cross-compiling PUPA are fixed.
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62ddcc8f 63* Use -mrtd and -mregparm=3 to reduce the generated code sizes. This
64 means that any missing prototypes could be fatal. Also, you must take
65 care when writing assembly code. See the comments at the beginning of
66 startup.S, for more details.
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012d7999 68* New utility, ``pupa-setup''. This sets up PUPA to make it bootable
69 from a real disk.
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a5ffe966 71* New commands, "prefix", "insmod", "rmmod" and "lsmod" are added into
72 the rescue mode to manipulate PUPA modules.
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c04da074 74* Linux support is added. Initrd is not support yet.
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1f5ab428 76* Reduce the size of a core image significantly by compressing a large
77 part of the core image and decompressing itself at boot time. The
78 currently used algorithm is LZO (more precisely, LZO1X-999). So you
79 have to install LZO to build PUPA. See
80 <http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/>, for more information.
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a5ffe966 82
6a161fa9 83New in 0.6 - 2002-12-27, Yoshinori K. Okuji:
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85* The chainloader and the FAT filesystem are modularized.
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87* The structure of the source tree is a bit changed.
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89* Support for building loadable modules is added.
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91* Some generic parts of pupa-mkimage are segregated.
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93* Some documentation files are added, according to the GNU Coding
94 Standards.