-New in 1.91:
+New in 1.98:
+
+* Add grub-probe support for GNU/Hurd.
+
+* Add support for gettext.
+
+New in 1.97:
+
+* Add support for loading XNU (MacOS X kernel).
+
+* ACPI override support.
+
+* Integrated gptsync.
+
+* Password protection support.
+
+* Partition manipulation tool.
+
+* Add `keystatus' command.
+
+* Unicode fonts are now used by default.
+
+* Add `hdparm' command.
+
+* Add support for getting the current date and time from CMOS as variables.
+
+* Add `drivemap' command.
+
+* Add support for RAID levels 4,6 and 10.
+
+* update-grub is replaced by grub-mkconfig.
+
+* When booting from PXE, PXE can be used to load files.
+
+* High resolution timer support.
+
+* Image loaders now support IO buffering.
+
+* Add `crc' command.
+
+* Add Cygwin support.
+
+* Add x86_64 EFI support.
+
+* Use LZMA compression instead of LZO.
+
+* Support for saving the environment from and loading the environment
+ from a file.
+
+* Allow the UUID to be used as device name.
+
+* The `search' command can use UUIDs now.
+
+* Add support for IEEE 1275 on i386.
+
+* Create partmap.lst and use it to automatically load partition map
+ modules.
+
+* grub-mkconfig supports os-prober to add operating systems to the
+ boot menu.
+
+* The ATA driver supports devices bigger than 2 TiB.
+
+* Add support for the UDF, AFS and EXT4 filesystems.
+
+* The ISO9660 filesystem supports the Joliet extension
+
+* Add support for loading kernels of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
+
+* Add new command `sleep'.
+
+* Support for direct access to AT keyboards.
+
+* New utility `grub-fstest'.
+
+New in 1.96 - 2008-02-03:
+
+* The license term is changed to GNU General Public License Version 3.
+
+* grub-emu is made optional. Now you have to use
+ `--enable-grub-emu' to enable it.
+
+* Add Multiboot2 support.
+
+* grub-emu can access the host filesystem now.
+
+* Add support for the NTFS, cpio/tar and Reiserfs filesystems.
+
+* Add support for ATA/ATAPI.
+
+* Add update-grub script to generate grub.cfg.
+
+* Add grub-mkrescue script to generate floppy or ElTorito images
+ (i386-pc only).
+
+* Add support for background images in gfxterm (background_image command).
+
+* Add support for detection of 64-bit support in CPU (cpuid command).
+
+* GPT is now enabled in i386-pc target.
+
+* Add grub-install for EFI.
+
+* Ported to the following new platforms: Efika, coreboot (a.k.a. LinuxBIOS),
+ OLPC XO.
+
+* Add support for colored menu (menu_color_normal and menu_color_highlight
+ variables).
+
+* Fix support for loading Linux zImages (such as memtest86).
+
+New in 1.95 - 2006-10-15:
+
+* Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first
+ partition of "hd0" is now "hd0,1" but not "hd0,0".
+
+* grub-probefs is renamed to grub-probe, and supports printing a
+ guessed OS device name and a GRUB drive name.
+
+* RAID and LVM support is added.
+
+* New command, echo.
+
+* The disk API is changed to support 64-bit addressing.
+
+* A TGA loader is added for the video API.
+
+New in 1.94 - 2006-06-04:
+
+* Fix several serious bugs in HFS+.
+
+* Add experimental EFI support. Chainloading and Linux loading are
+ supported at the moment.
+
+* Add a new command "blocklist" to show a block list.
+
+* Use --with-platform to specify a boot environment. For now, efi,
+ ieee1275 and pc are supported.
+
+* Use the filename "kernel.elf" instead of "grubof" on ieee1275.
+
+* Install GRUB into pkglibdir instead of pkgdatadir.
+
+* Support environmental variables. You can export variables by the
+ command "export".
+
+* Remove the commands "default" and "timeout". They are now variables.
+
+* Add the commands "source" and "." to include a file.
+
+* Implement experimental Video API and a new terminal "gfxterm" based
+ on the Video API.
+
+
+New in 1.93 - 2006-03-10:
+
+* Add support for the HFS+ wrapper.
+
+* Major improvements to scripting support.
+
+* Menu entries are now scriptable.
+
+
+New in 1.92 - 2005-12-25:
+
+* Add support for GPT partition table format.
+
+* Add a new command "play" to play an audio file on PC.
+
+* Add support for Linux/ADFS partition table format.
+
+* Add support for BASH-like scripting.
+
+* Add support for Apple HFS+ filesystems.
+
+
+New in 1.91 - 2005-10-15:
* Add support for LZO version 2.
* Add support for automatic decompression for gzip.
+* Add support for terminfo and serial.
+
+* Add support for x86_64.
+
+* GRUB itself is a Multiboot-compliant kernel.
+
+* Add new filesystems: XFS, SFS, and AFFS.
+
New in 1.90 - 2005-08-07:
projects / grub2.git / blobdiff