NEWS

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