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