| New in 1.97 - : |
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| * Add support for loading XNU (MacOS X kernel). |
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| * ACPI override support. |
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| * Integrated gptsync. |
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| * Password protection support. |
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| * Partition manipulation tool. |
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| * Add `keystatus' command. |
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| * Unicode fonts are now used by default. |
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| * Add `hdparm' command. |
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| * Add support for getting the current date and time from CMOS as variables. |
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| * Add `drivemap' command. |
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| * Add support for RAID levels 4,6 and 10. |
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| * update-grub is replaced by grub-mkconfig. |
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| * When booting from PXE, PXE can be used to load files. |
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| * High resolution timer support. |
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| * Image loaders now support IO buffering. |
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| * Add `crc' command. |
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| * Add Cygwin support. |
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| * Add x86_64 EFI support. |
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| * Use LZMA compression instead of LZO. |
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| * Support for saving the environment from and loading the environment |
| from a file. |
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| * Allow the UUID to be used as device name. |
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| * The `search' command can use UUIDs now. |
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| * Add support for IEEE 1275 on i386. |
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| * Create partmap.lst and use it to automatically load partition map |
| modules. |
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| * grub-mkconfig supports os-prober to add operating systems to the |
| boot menu. |
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| * The ATA driver supports devices bigger than 2 TiB. |
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| * Add support for the UDF, AFS and EXT4 filesystems. |
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| * The ISO9660 filesystem supports the Joliet extension |
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| * Add support for loading kernels of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. |
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| * Add new command `sleep'. |
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| * Support for direct access to AT keyboards. |
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| * New utility `grub-fstest'. |
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| New in 1.96 - 2008-02-03: |
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| * The license term is changed to GNU General Public License Version 3. |
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| * grub-emu is made optional. Now you have to use |
| `--enable-grub-emu' to enable it. |
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| * Add Multiboot2 support. |
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| * grub-emu can access the host filesystem now. |
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| * Add support for the NTFS, cpio/tar and Reiserfs filesystems. |
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| * Add support for ATA/ATAPI. |
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| * Add update-grub script to generate grub.cfg. |
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| * Add grub-mkrescue script to generate floppy or ElTorito images |
| (i386-pc only). |
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| * Add support for background images in gfxterm (background_image command). |
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| * Add support for detection of 64-bit support in CPU (cpuid command). |
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| * GPT is now enabled in i386-pc target. |
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| * Add grub-install for EFI. |
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| * Ported to the following new platforms: Efika, coreboot (a.k.a. LinuxBIOS), |
| OLPC XO. |
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| * Add support for colored menu (menu_color_normal and menu_color_highlight |
| variables). |
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| * Fix support for loading Linux zImages (such as memtest86). |
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| New in 1.95 - 2006-10-15: |
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| * Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first |
| partition of "hd0" is now "hd0,1" but not "hd0,0". |
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| * grub-probefs is renamed to grub-probe, and supports printing a |
| guessed OS device name and a GRUB drive name. |
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| * RAID and LVM support is added. |
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| * New command, echo. |
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| * The disk API is changed to support 64-bit addressing. |
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| * A TGA loader is added for the video API. |
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| New in 1.94 - 2006-06-04: |
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| * Fix several serious bugs in HFS+. |
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| * Add experimental EFI support. Chainloading and Linux loading are |
| supported at the moment. |
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| * Add a new command "blocklist" to show a block list. |
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| * Use --with-platform to specify a boot environment. For now, efi, |
| ieee1275 and pc are supported. |
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| * Use the filename "kernel.elf" instead of "grubof" on ieee1275. |
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| * Install GRUB into pkglibdir instead of pkgdatadir. |
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| * Support environmental variables. You can export variables by the |
| command "export". |
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| * Remove the commands "default" and "timeout". They are now variables. |
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| * Add the commands "source" and "." to include a file. |
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| * Implement experimental Video API and a new terminal "gfxterm" based |
| on the Video API. |
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| New in 1.93 - 2006-03-10: |
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| * Add support for the HFS+ wrapper. |
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| * Major improvements to scripting support. |
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| * Menu entries are now scriptable. |
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| New in 1.92 - 2005-12-25: |
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| * Add support for GPT partition table format. |
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| * Add a new command "play" to play an audio file on PC. |
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| * Add support for Linux/ADFS partition table format. |
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| * Add support for BASH-like scripting. |
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| * Add support for Apple HFS+ filesystems. |
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| New in 1.91 - 2005-10-15: |
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| * Add support for LZO version 2. |
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| * Support completion in the entry editor. |
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| * Add VBE support. |
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| * New commands, "search", "vbetest" and "vbeinfo". |
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| * The option BOOT_IMAGE is passed to Linux. |
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| * Add support for automatic decompression for gzip. |
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| * Add support for terminfo and serial. |
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| * Add support for x86_64. |
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| * GRUB itself is a Multiboot-compliant kernel. |
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| * Add new filesystems: XFS, SFS, and AFFS. |
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| New in 1.90 - 2005-08-07: |
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| * Rename the project name PUPA to GRUB. Now this version is the |
| developmental version of GRUB officially. |
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| * The GRUB emulator ``grub-emu'' is added. |
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| * Add support for newworld Mac. This should work with other |
| PowerPC-based machines as well, if they use IEEE 1275 |
| (Open Firmware). |
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| * Too many changes to describe. Look at ChangeLog for more details. |
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| New in 0.7: |
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| * Problems in cross-compiling PUPA are fixed. |
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| * 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. |
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| * New utility, ``pupa-setup''. This sets up PUPA to make it bootable |
| from a real disk. |
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| * New commands, "prefix", "insmod", "rmmod" and "lsmod" are added into |
| the rescue mode to manipulate PUPA modules. |
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| * Linux support is added. Initrd is not support yet. |
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| * 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. |
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| New in 0.6 - 2002-12-27, Yoshinori K. Okuji: |
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| * The chainloader and the FAT filesystem are modularized. |
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| * The structure of the source tree is a bit changed. |
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| * Support for building loadable modules is added. |
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| * Some generic parts of pupa-mkimage are segregated. |
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| * Some documentation files are added, according to the GNU Coding |
| Standards. |