| New in 2.00: |
| |
| * Appearence: |
| * Official theme for gfxmenu (starfield) |
| * Menu is organised with submenus. |
| * Better default video mode selection using EDID. |
| |
| * New platforms: |
| * Itanium port. |
| * Fuloong2F support (including GRUB as firmware) |
| * Fuloong2E support (except GRUB as firmware) |
| * ARCS (SGI machines) port. |
| * qemu -M mips port. |
| |
| * grub-mount to mount filesystems using GRUB FS drivers and FUSE. |
| |
| * Changed security default so entries are locked by default if any superuser is |
| defined. |
| |
| * New drivers: |
| * EHCI. |
| * AHCI. |
| * ESCC serial. |
| * IEEE1275 serial. |
| * EFI serial. |
| * Network stack for BIOS, IEEE1275, EMU and EFI, including TFTP, HTTP and DNS. |
| * VBE on coreboot support. |
| |
| * New filesystem, filters and disks formats: |
| * DVH partition map. |
| * Plan9 partition map. |
| * Big-endian mdraid. |
| * Big-endian cpio. |
| * ODC and NEWC cpio. |
| * ExFAT. |
| * Minix3fs. |
| * Big-endian minixfs. |
| * RomFS. |
| * Squash4. |
| * Support non-512B disk blocks. |
| * LUKS and GELI support. |
| * LDM read support (no install yet). |
| * LZOP. |
| |
| * Improved filesystem and disks formats support: |
| * HFS+ label support. |
| * Improved reiserfs support. |
| * multidevice, mirrored and raidz(2,3) ZFS support. |
| * RAID LVM (internal RAIDing) support. |
| * ZFS crypto support. |
| * ZLE and GZIP on ZFS support. |
| * Support ZFS up to 33. |
| * HFS string is now treated like mac-roman and not UTF-8 |
| * HFS mtime support. |
| * Improved AFFS and SFS support. |
| * LZO-compressed btrfs support. |
| * cpio and tar symlinks support. |
| * Better FS detection to reduce false positives. |
| |
| * New boot protocols: |
| * Ability to load another coreboot payload when on coreboot. |
| * Plan9. |
| * Freedos. |
| * Ntldr/bootmgr (to load Windows bootloader). |
| * chainloader --bpb support to patch FAT or NTFS BPB in memory to correct |
| wrong partition offset. |
| * PXE chainloading support. |
| * Darwin 11 (Mac OS X Lion) protocol support. |
| |
| * Boot protocol improvements: |
| * Multiple initrd support. |
| * Basic illumos and xnu autoconfig. |
| |
| * Testing and debugging: |
| * New grub-fstest commands: cat, zfsinfo, testload xnu_uuid |
| * grub-fstest recursive directory compare for quickly checking that |
| a directory is read correctly. |
| * Backtace on crash (if gdb module is loaded, x86 only) |
| * Disk cache statistics gathering. |
| * GDB stub and GDB support script. |
| * "make check" and "make bootcheck" expanded to almost all platforms |
| (except i386-ieee1275, mips-arc, sparc64-ieee1275, ia64-efi and emu) |
| * New `time' command. |
| |
| * Performance: |
| * Lazy scanning to avoid accessing devices which aren't really used. |
| This avoids boot delay due to slow device scanning. |
| * Use CPU cache when accessing video memory. |
| * Search hints to first try the most likely device when searching for a |
| device with given UUID. This avoids slow scanning in most cases. |
| |
| * Internationalisation: |
| * Updated to Unicode 6.0. |
| * $"..." syntax for translation in grub scripting language. This allows easy |
| translation of grub.cfg at runtime. |
| * Translations to many languages included in official distribution. |
| |
| * Scripting: |
| * $grub_cpu and $grub_platform variables for conditioning grub.cfg on platform |
| at runtime. |
| * $feature_* variables to condition scripts on available features. |
| * Use of ids to identify menu entries. |
| * all_video module which is empty but depends on all video modules thus |
| allowing easy loading of all of them. |
| |
| * Installation: |
| * grub-mknetdir script for easy creation of netbootable GRUB directory. |
| * Itanium and mips support in grub-mkrescue. |
| * grub-install support for all platforms except emu. |
| * PreP partition install support. |
| * No files conflict between flavours (except grub-mkrescue for ppc). This |
| allows easy install of GRUB for several platforms. |
| * grub-mkstandalone script for easy creating of image including all modules |
| for platforms with generous limit on image size. |
| * program-transform-name now functions according to usual conventions. |
| Use --grubdir and --bootdir to get old behaviour. |
| |
| * ADLER32 and CRC64 support (for XZ and hashsum). |
| |
| * ofconsole renamed to console |
| |
| * Experimental support for compiling with Apple toolchain. |
| |
| * grub-mkdevicemap removed. Now all devices are detected on invocation of |
| any grub utility. |
| |
| New in 1.99: |
| |
| * Keyboard layouts support. |
| |
| * New `lsapm' command (i386-pc only). |
| |
| * Parser for GRUB Legacy configuration files. |
| |
| * Support RAID on virtio devices. |
| |
| * Remove deprecated `root' command. |
| |
| * New `euro.pf2' font which supports most European languages. |
| |
| * Avoid opening the same device twice on Open Firmware platforms. |
| |
| * Extend `vbeinfo' and `vbetest' commands to non-VBE graphics, as |
| `videoinfo' and `videotest'. |
| |
| * New `lsefisystab', `lssal', and `lsefimmap' commands on EFI platforms. |
| |
| * Support explicit user claim that a device is BIOS-visible. Devices |
| listed in device.map will be assumed to be readable using only BIOS |
| facilities, rather than anything more complex such as LVM or RAID. |
| |
| * New bash-completion script for GRUB utilities. |
| |
| * Use ACPI to shut down if possible. |
| |
| * New `lsacpi' command. |
| |
| * Btrfs support. |
| |
| * New `--boot-directory' option to `grub-install', `grub-reboot', and |
| `grub-set-default', with clearer semantics than the previous |
| `--root-directory' option. |
| |
| * Rename CD-ROM device to "cd" on BIOS platforms. |
| |
| * Transparent decompression filters. |
| |
| * Simpler PXE image generation. New `grub-mknetdir' utility to generate |
| netboot directory trees. |
| |
| * New relocator. Allows for more kernel support and more |
| straightforward loader writing. |
| |
| * Handle USB pendrives exposed as floppies. |
| |
| * New Automake-based build system. |
| |
| * Add `sendkey' command (i386-pc only). |
| |
| * ZFS support. |
| |
| * Support 1.x versions of mdadm metadata. |
| |
| * Fix corruption when reading Reiserfs directory entries. |
| |
| * Bidirectional text and diacritics support. |
| |
| * Skip LVM snapshots. |
| |
| * MIPS Yeeloong firmware port. |
| |
| * Change grub-mkdevicemap to emit /dev/disk/by-id/ names where possible |
| on GNU/Linux. |
| |
| * Add `grub-mkconfig' support for Xen with Linux. |
| |
| * Add `grub-mkconfig' support for initrd images on Fedora 13. |
| |
| * Support >3GiB and <16MiB RAM in i386-qemu. |
| |
| * Add support for Cirrus 5446 and Bochs video cards. |
| |
| * Load more appropriate video drivers automatically in `grub-mkconfig'. |
| |
| * USB improvements, including hotplugging/hotunplugging, hub support, |
| and USB serial support. |
| |
| * AMD Geode CS5536 support. |
| |
| * Extensive updates to the Texinfo documentation. |
| |
| * Handle symbolic links under /dev/mapper on GNU/Linux. |
| |
| * Handle installation across multiple partition table types. |
| |
| * Add `cmostest' command (i386/x86_64 only). |
| |
| * Add support for DM-RAID disk devices on GNU/Linux. |
| |
| * Remove `grub-mkisofs'. `grub-mkrescue' now uses GNU xorriso to build |
| CD images. |
| |
| * `grub-mkrescue' support for EFI, coreboot, and QEMU platforms. |
| |
| * Unify `grub-mkimage', `grub-setup', and `grub-install' source code |
| across platforms. |
| |
| * Fix VGA (as opposed to VBE) video driver, formerly a terminal driver. |
| |
| * Add menu hotkey support. |
| |
| * Add support for the nilfs2 filesystem. |
| |
| * `grub-probe' and `grub-mkconfig' support for NetBSD. |
| |
| * Support setting a background image in `grub-mkconfig'. |
| |
| * Support multiple terminals in `grub-mkconfig'. |
| |
| * Regexp support. |
| |
| * MIPS multiboot2 support. |
| |
| * Multiboot2 tag support. |
| |
| * sunpc partition table support. |
| |
| * Add a number of new language features to GRUB script: `for', `while', |
| `until', `elif', function parameters, `break', `continue', `shift', |
| multi-line quoted strings, positional parameters with `setparams', |
| `return', filename wildcard expansion, and `!'. |
| |
| * Support nested partition tables. GRUB now prefers to name partitions |
| in the form `(hd0,msdos1,bsd1)' rather than `(hd0,1,a)'. |
| |
| * Speed up consecutive hostdisk operations on the same device. |
| |
| * Compile parts of `grub-emu' as modules. |
| |
| New in 1.98 - 2010-03-06: |
| |
| * Multiboot on EFI support. |
| |
| * Graphical menu support. |
| |
| * MIPS support. |
| |
| * Saved default menu entry support, with new utilities `grub-reboot' and |
| `grub-set-default'. |
| |
| * Unit testing framework. |
| |
| * Support for multiple terminals. |
| |
| * Encrypted password support, with a new utility `grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2'. |
| |
| * `grub-mkfloppy' removed; use `grub-mkrescue' to create floppy images. |
| |
| * 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. |
| |
| * Support completion in the entry editor. |
| |
| * Add VBE support. |
| |
| * New commands, "search", "vbetest" and "vbeinfo". |
| |
| * The option BOOT_IMAGE is passed to Linux. |
| |
| * 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: |
| |
| * Rename the project name PUPA to GRUB. Now this version is the |
| developmental version of GRUB officially. |
| |
| * The GRUB emulator ``grub-emu'' is added. |
| |
| * Add support for newworld Mac. This should work with other |
| PowerPC-based machines as well, if they use IEEE 1275 |
| (Open Firmware). |
| |
| * Too many changes to describe. Look at ChangeLog for more details. |
| |
| |
| New in 0.7: |
| |
| * Problems in cross-compiling PUPA are fixed. |
| |
| * Use -mrtd and -mregparm=3 to reduce the generated code sizes. This |
| means that any missing prototypes could be fatal. Also, you must take |
| care when writing assembly code. See the comments at the beginning of |
| startup.S, for more details. |
| |
| * New utility, ``pupa-setup''. This sets up PUPA to make it bootable |
| from a real disk. |
| |
| * New commands, "prefix", "insmod", "rmmod" and "lsmod" are added into |
| the rescue mode to manipulate PUPA modules. |
| |
| * Linux support is added. Initrd is not support yet. |
| |
| * Reduce the size of a core image significantly by compressing a large |
| part of the core image and decompressing itself at boot time. The |
| currently used algorithm is LZO (more precisely, LZO1X-999). So you |
| have to install LZO to build PUPA. See |
| <http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/>, for more information. |
| |
| |
| New in 0.6 - 2002-12-27, Yoshinori K. Okuji: |
| |
| * The chainloader and the FAT filesystem are modularized. |
| |
| * The structure of the source tree is a bit changed. |
| |
| * Support for building loadable modules is added. |
| |
| * Some generic parts of pupa-mkimage are segregated. |
| |
| * Some documentation files are added, according to the GNU Coding |
| Standards. |
