NEWS

   1 New in 1.94:
   2
   3 * Fix several serious bugs in HFS+.
   4
   5 * Add experimental EFI support. Chainloading and Linux loading are
   6   supported at the moment.
   7
   8 * Add a new command "blocklist" to show a block list.
   9
  10 * Use --with-platform to specify a boot environment. For now, efi,
  11   ieee1275 and pc are supported.
  12
  13 * Use the filename "kernel.elf" instead of "grubof" on ieee1275.
  14
  15 * Install GRUB into pkglibdir instead of pkgdatadir.
  16
  17 * Support environmental variables. You can export variables by the
  18   command "export".
  19
  20 * Remove the commands "default" and "timeout". They are now variables.
  21
  22 * Add the commands "source" and "." to include a file.
  23
  24 * Implement experimental Video API and a new terminal "gfxterm" based
  25   on the Video API.
  26
  27
  28 New in 1.93 - 2006-03-10:
  29
  30 * Add support for the HFS+ wrapper.
  31
  32 * Major improvements to scripting support.
  33
  34 * Menu entries are now scriptable.
  35
  36
  37 New in 1.92 - 2005-12-25:
  38
  39 * Add support for GPT partition table format.
  40
  41 * Add a new command "play" to play an audio file on PC.
  42
  43 * Add support for Linux/ADFS partition table format.
  44
  45 * Add support for BASH-like scripting.
  46
  47 * Add support for Apple HFS+ filesystems.
  48
  49
  50 New in 1.91 - 2005-10-15:
  51
  52 * Add support for LZO version 2.
  53
  54 * Support completion in the entry editor.
  55
  56 * Add VBE support.
  57
  58 * New commands, "search", "vbetest" and "vbeinfo".
  59
  60 * The option BOOT_IMAGE is passed to Linux.
  61
  62 * Add support for automatic decompression for gzip.
  63
  64 * Add support for terminfo and serial.
  65
  66 * Add support for x86_64.
  67
  68 * GRUB itself is a Multiboot-compliant kernel.
  69
  70 * Add new filesystems: XFS, SFS, and AFFS.
  71
  72
  73 New in 1.90 - 2005-08-07:
  74
  75 * Rename the project name PUPA to GRUB. Now this version is the
  76   developmental version of GRUB officially.
  77
  78 * The GRUB emulator ``grub-emu'' is added.
  79
  80 * Add support for newworld Mac. This should work with other
  81   PowerPC-based machines as well, if they use IEEE 1275
  82   (Open Firmware).
  83
  84 * Too many changes to describe. Look at ChangeLog for more details.
  85
  86
  87 New in 0.7:
  88
  89 * Problems in cross-compiling PUPA are fixed.
  90
  91 * Use -mrtd and -mregparm=3 to reduce the generated code sizes. This
  92   means that any missing prototypes could be fatal. Also, you must take
  93   care when writing assembly code. See the comments at the beginning of
  94   startup.S, for more details.
  95
  96 * New utility, ``pupa-setup''. This sets up PUPA to make it bootable
  97   from a real disk.
  98
  99 * New commands, "prefix", "insmod", "rmmod" and "lsmod" are added into
 100   the rescue mode to manipulate PUPA modules.
 101
 102 * Linux support is added. Initrd is not support yet.
 103
 104 * Reduce the size of a core image significantly by compressing a large
 105   part of the core image and decompressing itself at boot time. The
 106   currently used algorithm is LZO (more precisely, LZO1X-999). So you
 107   have to install LZO to build PUPA. See
 108   <http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/>, for more information.
 109
 110
 111 New in 0.6 - 2002-12-27, Yoshinori K. Okuji:
 112
 113 * The chainloader and the FAT filesystem are modularized.
 114
 115 * The structure of the source tree is a bit changed.
 116
 117 * Support for building loadable modules is added.
 118
 119 * Some generic parts of pupa-mkimage are segregated.
 120
 121 * Some documentation files are added, according to the GNU Coding
 122   Standards.