NEWS

   1 New in 1.97 - :
   2
   3 * When booting from PXE, PXE can be used to load files.
   4
   5 * High resolution timer support.
   6
   7 * Image loaders now support IO buffering.
   8
   9 * Add `crc' command.
  10
  11 * Add Cygwin support.
  12
  13 * Add grub-pe2elf to convert PE modules to ELF modules.
  14
  15 * Add x86_64 EFI support.
  16
  17 * Add support for LZMA compression.
  18
  19 * Support for saving the environment from and loading the environment
  20   from a file.
  21
  22 * Allow the UUID to be used as device name.
  23
  24 * The `search' command can use UUIDs now.
  25
  26 * Add support for IEEE 1275 on i386.
  27
  28 * Create partmap.lst and use it to automatically load partition map
  29   modules.
  30
  31 * update-grub supports os-prober to add operating systems to the
  32   boot menu.
  33
  34 * The ATA driver supports filesystems bigger than 2TB.
  35
  36 * Add support for the UDF, AFS and EXT4 filesystems.
  37
  38 * The ISO9660 filesystem supports the Joliet extension
  39
  40 * Add aout and BSD kernel loaders.
  41
  42 * Add new command `sleep'.
  43
  44 * Support for direct access to AT keyboards.
  45
  46 * New utility `grub-fstest'.
  47
  48 New in 1.96 - 2008-02-03:
  49
  50 * The license term is changed to GNU General Public License Version 3.
  51
  52 * grub-emu is made optional.  Now you have to use
  53   `--enable-grub-emu' to enable it.
  54
  55 * Add Multiboot2 support.
  56
  57 * grub-emu can access the host filesystem now.
  58
  59 * Add support for the NTFS, cpio/tar and Reiserfs filesystems.
  60
  61 * Add support for ATA/ATAPI.
  62
  63 * Add update-grub script to generate grub.cfg.
  64
  65 * Add grub-mkrescue script to generate floppy or ElTorito images
  66   (i386-pc only).
  67
  68 * Add support for background images in gfxterm (background_image command).
  69
  70 * Add support for detection of 64-bit support in CPU (cpuid command).
  71
  72 * GPT is now enabled in i386-pc target.
  73
  74 * Add grub-install for EFI.
  75
  76 * Ported to the following new platforms: Efika, coreboot (a.k.a. LinuxBIOS),
  77   OLPC XO.
  78
  79 * Add support for colored menu (menu_color_normal and menu_color_highlight
  80   variables).
  81
  82 * Fix support for loading Linux zImages (such as memtest86).
  83
  84 New in 1.95 - 2006-10-15:
  85
  86 * Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first
  87   partition of "hd0" is now "hd0,1" but not "hd0,0".
  88
  89 * grub-probefs is renamed to grub-probe, and supports printing a
  90   guessed OS device name and a GRUB drive name.
  91
  92 * RAID and LVM support is added.
  93
  94 * New command, echo.
  95
  96 * The disk API is changed to support 64-bit addressing.
  97
  98 * A TGA loader is added for the video API.
  99
 100 New in 1.94 - 2006-06-04:
 101
 102 * Fix several serious bugs in HFS+.
 103
 104 * Add experimental EFI support. Chainloading and Linux loading are
 105   supported at the moment.
 106
 107 * Add a new command "blocklist" to show a block list.
 108
 109 * Use --with-platform to specify a boot environment. For now, efi,
 110   ieee1275 and pc are supported.
 111
 112 * Use the filename "kernel.elf" instead of "grubof" on ieee1275.
 113
 114 * Install GRUB into pkglibdir instead of pkgdatadir.
 115
 116 * Support environmental variables. You can export variables by the
 117   command "export".
 118
 119 * Remove the commands "default" and "timeout". They are now variables.
 120
 121 * Add the commands "source" and "." to include a file.
 122
 123 * Implement experimental Video API and a new terminal "gfxterm" based
 124   on the Video API.
 125
 126
 127 New in 1.93 - 2006-03-10:
 128
 129 * Add support for the HFS+ wrapper.
 130
 131 * Major improvements to scripting support.
 132
 133 * Menu entries are now scriptable.
 134
 135
 136 New in 1.92 - 2005-12-25:
 137
 138 * Add support for GPT partition table format.
 139
 140 * Add a new command "play" to play an audio file on PC.
 141
 142 * Add support for Linux/ADFS partition table format.
 143
 144 * Add support for BASH-like scripting.
 145
 146 * Add support for Apple HFS+ filesystems.
 147
 148
 149 New in 1.91 - 2005-10-15:
 150
 151 * Add support for LZO version 2.
 152
 153 * Support completion in the entry editor.
 154
 155 * Add VBE support.
 156
 157 * New commands, "search", "vbetest" and "vbeinfo".
 158
 159 * The option BOOT_IMAGE is passed to Linux.
 160
 161 * Add support for automatic decompression for gzip.
 162
 163 * Add support for terminfo and serial.
 164
 165 * Add support for x86_64.
 166
 167 * GRUB itself is a Multiboot-compliant kernel.
 168
 169 * Add new filesystems: XFS, SFS, and AFFS.
 170
 171
 172 New in 1.90 - 2005-08-07:
 173
 174 * Rename the project name PUPA to GRUB. Now this version is the
 175   developmental version of GRUB officially.
 176
 177 * The GRUB emulator ``grub-emu'' is added.
 178
 179 * Add support for newworld Mac. This should work with other
 180   PowerPC-based machines as well, if they use IEEE 1275
 181   (Open Firmware).
 182
 183 * Too many changes to describe. Look at ChangeLog for more details.
 184
 185
 186 New in 0.7:
 187
 188 * Problems in cross-compiling PUPA are fixed.
 189
 190 * Use -mrtd and -mregparm=3 to reduce the generated code sizes. This
 191   means that any missing prototypes could be fatal. Also, you must take
 192   care when writing assembly code. See the comments at the beginning of
 193   startup.S, for more details.
 194
 195 * New utility, ``pupa-setup''. This sets up PUPA to make it bootable
 196   from a real disk.
 197
 198 * New commands, "prefix", "insmod", "rmmod" and "lsmod" are added into
 199   the rescue mode to manipulate PUPA modules.
 200
 201 * Linux support is added. Initrd is not support yet.
 202
 203 * Reduce the size of a core image significantly by compressing a large
 204   part of the core image and decompressing itself at boot time. The
 205   currently used algorithm is LZO (more precisely, LZO1X-999). So you
 206   have to install LZO to build PUPA. See
 207   <http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/>, for more information.
 208
 209
 210 New in 0.6 - 2002-12-27, Yoshinori K. Okuji:
 211
 212 * The chainloader and the FAT filesystem are modularized.
 213
 214 * The structure of the source tree is a bit changed.
 215
 216 * Support for building loadable modules is added.
 217
 218 * Some generic parts of pupa-mkimage are segregated.
 219
 220 * Some documentation files are added, according to the GNU Coding
 221   Standards.