NEWS

   1 New in 1.98:
   2
   3 * Add grub-probe support for GNU/Hurd.
   4
   5 * Add support for gettext.
   6
   7 New in 1.97:
   8
   9 * Add support for loading XNU (MacOS X kernel).
  10
  11 * ACPI override support.
  12
  13 * Integrated gptsync.
  14
  15 * Password protection support.
  16
  17 * Partition manipulation tool.
  18
  19 * Add `keystatus' command.
  20
  21 * Unicode fonts are now used by default.
  22
  23 * Add `hdparm' command.
  24
  25 * Add support for getting the current date and time from CMOS as variables.
  26
  27 * Add `drivemap' command.
  28
  29 * Add support for RAID levels 4,6 and 10.
  30
  31 * update-grub is replaced by grub-mkconfig.
  32
  33 * When booting from PXE, PXE can be used to load files.
  34
  35 * High resolution timer support.
  36
  37 * Image loaders now support IO buffering.
  38
  39 * Add `crc' command.
  40
  41 * Add Cygwin support.
  42
  43 * Add x86_64 EFI support.
  44
  45 * Use LZMA compression instead of LZO.
  46
  47 * Support for saving the environment from and loading the environment
  48   from a file.
  49
  50 * Allow the UUID to be used as device name.
  51
  52 * The `search' command can use UUIDs now.
  53
  54 * Add support for IEEE 1275 on i386.
  55
  56 * Create partmap.lst and use it to automatically load partition map
  57   modules.
  58
  59 * grub-mkconfig supports os-prober to add operating systems to the
  60   boot menu.
  61
  62 * The ATA driver supports devices bigger than 2 TiB.
  63
  64 * Add support for the UDF, AFS and EXT4 filesystems.
  65
  66 * The ISO9660 filesystem supports the Joliet extension
  67
  68 * Add support for loading kernels of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
  69
  70 * Add new command `sleep'.
  71
  72 * Support for direct access to AT keyboards.
  73
  74 * New utility `grub-fstest'.
  75
  76 New in 1.96 - 2008-02-03:
  77
  78 * The license term is changed to GNU General Public License Version 3.
  79
  80 * grub-emu is made optional.  Now you have to use
  81   `--enable-grub-emu' to enable it.
  82
  83 * Add Multiboot2 support.
  84
  85 * grub-emu can access the host filesystem now.
  86
  87 * Add support for the NTFS, cpio/tar and Reiserfs filesystems.
  88
  89 * Add support for ATA/ATAPI.
  90
  91 * Add update-grub script to generate grub.cfg.
  92
  93 * Add grub-mkrescue script to generate floppy or ElTorito images
  94   (i386-pc only).
  95
  96 * Add support for background images in gfxterm (background_image command).
  97
  98 * Add support for detection of 64-bit support in CPU (cpuid command).
  99
 100 * GPT is now enabled in i386-pc target.
 101
 102 * Add grub-install for EFI.
 103
 104 * Ported to the following new platforms: Efika, coreboot (a.k.a. LinuxBIOS),
 105   OLPC XO.
 106
 107 * Add support for colored menu (menu_color_normal and menu_color_highlight
 108   variables).
 109
 110 * Fix support for loading Linux zImages (such as memtest86).
 111
 112 New in 1.95 - 2006-10-15:
 113
 114 * Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first
 115   partition of "hd0" is now "hd0,1" but not "hd0,0".
 116
 117 * grub-probefs is renamed to grub-probe, and supports printing a
 118   guessed OS device name and a GRUB drive name.
 119
 120 * RAID and LVM support is added.
 121
 122 * New command, echo.
 123
 124 * The disk API is changed to support 64-bit addressing.
 125
 126 * A TGA loader is added for the video API.
 127
 128 New in 1.94 - 2006-06-04:
 129
 130 * Fix several serious bugs in HFS+.
 131
 132 * Add experimental EFI support. Chainloading and Linux loading are
 133   supported at the moment.
 134
 135 * Add a new command "blocklist" to show a block list.
 136
 137 * Use --with-platform to specify a boot environment. For now, efi,
 138   ieee1275 and pc are supported.
 139
 140 * Use the filename "kernel.elf" instead of "grubof" on ieee1275.
 141
 142 * Install GRUB into pkglibdir instead of pkgdatadir.
 143
 144 * Support environmental variables. You can export variables by the
 145   command "export".
 146
 147 * Remove the commands "default" and "timeout". They are now variables.
 148
 149 * Add the commands "source" and "." to include a file.
 150
 151 * Implement experimental Video API and a new terminal "gfxterm" based
 152   on the Video API.
 153
 154
 155 New in 1.93 - 2006-03-10:
 156
 157 * Add support for the HFS+ wrapper.
 158
 159 * Major improvements to scripting support.
 160
 161 * Menu entries are now scriptable.
 162
 163
 164 New in 1.92 - 2005-12-25:
 165
 166 * Add support for GPT partition table format.
 167
 168 * Add a new command "play" to play an audio file on PC.
 169
 170 * Add support for Linux/ADFS partition table format.
 171
 172 * Add support for BASH-like scripting.
 173
 174 * Add support for Apple HFS+ filesystems.
 175
 176
 177 New in 1.91 - 2005-10-15:
 178
 179 * Add support for LZO version 2.
 180
 181 * Support completion in the entry editor.
 182
 183 * Add VBE support.
 184
 185 * New commands, "search", "vbetest" and "vbeinfo".
 186
 187 * The option BOOT_IMAGE is passed to Linux.
 188
 189 * Add support for automatic decompression for gzip.
 190
 191 * Add support for terminfo and serial.
 192
 193 * Add support for x86_64.
 194
 195 * GRUB itself is a Multiboot-compliant kernel.
 196
 197 * Add new filesystems: XFS, SFS, and AFFS.
 198
 199
 200 New in 1.90 - 2005-08-07:
 201
 202 * Rename the project name PUPA to GRUB. Now this version is the
 203   developmental version of GRUB officially.
 204
 205 * The GRUB emulator ``grub-emu'' is added.
 206
 207 * Add support for newworld Mac. This should work with other
 208   PowerPC-based machines as well, if they use IEEE 1275
 209   (Open Firmware).
 210
 211 * Too many changes to describe. Look at ChangeLog for more details.
 212
 213
 214 New in 0.7:
 215
 216 * Problems in cross-compiling PUPA are fixed.
 217
 218 * Use -mrtd and -mregparm=3 to reduce the generated code sizes. This
 219   means that any missing prototypes could be fatal. Also, you must take
 220   care when writing assembly code. See the comments at the beginning of
 221   startup.S, for more details.
 222
 223 * New utility, ``pupa-setup''. This sets up PUPA to make it bootable
 224   from a real disk.
 225
 226 * New commands, "prefix", "insmod", "rmmod" and "lsmod" are added into
 227   the rescue mode to manipulate PUPA modules.
 228
 229 * Linux support is added. Initrd is not support yet.
 230
 231 * Reduce the size of a core image significantly by compressing a large
 232   part of the core image and decompressing itself at boot time. The
 233   currently used algorithm is LZO (more precisely, LZO1X-999). So you
 234   have to install LZO to build PUPA. See
 235   <http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/>, for more information.
 236
 237
 238 New in 0.6 - 2002-12-27, Yoshinori K. Okuji:
 239
 240 * The chainloader and the FAT filesystem are modularized.
 241
 242 * The structure of the source tree is a bit changed.
 243
 244 * Support for building loadable modules is added.
 245
 246 * Some generic parts of pupa-mkimage are segregated.
 247
 248 * Some documentation files are added, according to the GNU Coding
 249   Standards.