NEWS

   1 New in 1.95 - 2006-10-15:
   2
   3 * Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first
   4   partition of "hd0" is now "hd0,1" but not "hd0,0".
   5
   6 * grub-probefs is renamed to grub-probe, and supports printing a
   7   guessed OS device name and a GRUB drive name.
   8
   9 * RAID and LVM support is added.
  10
  11 * New command, echo.
  12
  13 * The disk API is changed to support 64-bit addressing.
  14
  15 * A TGA loader is added for the video API.
  16
  17 New in 1.94 - 2006-06-04:
  18
  19 * Fix several serious bugs in HFS+.
  20
  21 * Add experimental EFI support. Chainloading and Linux loading are
  22   supported at the moment.
  23
  24 * Add a new command "blocklist" to show a block list.
  25
  26 * Use --with-platform to specify a boot environment. For now, efi,
  27   ieee1275 and pc are supported.
  28
  29 * Use the filename "kernel.elf" instead of "grubof" on ieee1275.
  30
  31 * Install GRUB into pkglibdir instead of pkgdatadir.
  32
  33 * Support environmental variables. You can export variables by the
  34   command "export".
  35
  36 * Remove the commands "default" and "timeout". They are now variables.
  37
  38 * Add the commands "source" and "." to include a file.
  39
  40 * Implement experimental Video API and a new terminal "gfxterm" based
  41   on the Video API.
  42
  43
  44 New in 1.93 - 2006-03-10:
  45
  46 * Add support for the HFS+ wrapper.
  47
  48 * Major improvements to scripting support.
  49
  50 * Menu entries are now scriptable.
  51
  52
  53 New in 1.92 - 2005-12-25:
  54
  55 * Add support for GPT partition table format.
  56
  57 * Add a new command "play" to play an audio file on PC.
  58
  59 * Add support for Linux/ADFS partition table format.
  60
  61 * Add support for BASH-like scripting.
  62
  63 * Add support for Apple HFS+ filesystems.
  64
  65
  66 New in 1.91 - 2005-10-15:
  67
  68 * Add support for LZO version 2.
  69
  70 * Support completion in the entry editor.
  71
  72 * Add VBE support.
  73
  74 * New commands, "search", "vbetest" and "vbeinfo".
  75
  76 * The option BOOT_IMAGE is passed to Linux.
  77
  78 * Add support for automatic decompression for gzip.
  79
  80 * Add support for terminfo and serial.
  81
  82 * Add support for x86_64.
  83
  84 * GRUB itself is a Multiboot-compliant kernel.
  85
  86 * Add new filesystems: XFS, SFS, and AFFS.
  87
  88
  89 New in 1.90 - 2005-08-07:
  90
  91 * Rename the project name PUPA to GRUB. Now this version is the
  92   developmental version of GRUB officially.
  93
  94 * The GRUB emulator ``grub-emu'' is added.
  95
  96 * Add support for newworld Mac. This should work with other
  97   PowerPC-based machines as well, if they use IEEE 1275
  98   (Open Firmware).
  99
 100 * Too many changes to describe. Look at ChangeLog for more details.
 101
 102
 103 New in 0.7:
 104
 105 * Problems in cross-compiling PUPA are fixed.
 106
 107 * Use -mrtd and -mregparm=3 to reduce the generated code sizes. This
 108   means that any missing prototypes could be fatal. Also, you must take
 109   care when writing assembly code. See the comments at the beginning of
 110   startup.S, for more details.
 111
 112 * New utility, ``pupa-setup''. This sets up PUPA to make it bootable
 113   from a real disk.
 114
 115 * New commands, "prefix", "insmod", "rmmod" and "lsmod" are added into
 116   the rescue mode to manipulate PUPA modules.
 117
 118 * Linux support is added. Initrd is not support yet.
 119
 120 * Reduce the size of a core image significantly by compressing a large
 121   part of the core image and decompressing itself at boot time. The
 122   currently used algorithm is LZO (more precisely, LZO1X-999). So you
 123   have to install LZO to build PUPA. See
 124   <http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/>, for more information.
 125
 126
 127 New in 0.6 - 2002-12-27, Yoshinori K. Okuji:
 128
 129 * The chainloader and the FAT filesystem are modularized.
 130
 131 * The structure of the source tree is a bit changed.
 132
 133 * Support for building loadable modules is added.
 134
 135 * Some generic parts of pupa-mkimage are segregated.
 136
 137 * Some documentation files are added, according to the GNU Coding
 138   Standards.