NEWS

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