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