* NEWS: Add 2.00 entry.
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2012-06-27 Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
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* NEWS: Add 2.00 entry.
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2012-06-27 Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
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* grub-core/commands/wildcard.c (check_file): Fix bad logic.
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New in 2.00:
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* Appearence:
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* Official theme for gfxmenu (starfield)
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* Menu is organised with submenus.
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* Better default video mode selection using EDID.
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* New platforms:
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* Itanium port.
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* Fuloong2F support (including GRUB as firmware)
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* Fuloong2E support (except GRUB as firmware)
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* ARCS (SGI machines) port.
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* qemu -M mips port.
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* grub-mount to mount filesystems using GRUB FS drivers and FUSE.
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* Changed security default so entries are locked by default if any superuser is
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defined.
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* New drivers:
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* EHCI.
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* AHCI.
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* ESCC serial.
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* IEEE1275 serial.
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* EFI serial.
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* Network stack for BIOS, IEEE1275, EMU and EFI, including TFTP, HTTP and DNS.
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* VBE on coreboot support.
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* New filesystem, filters and disks formats:
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* DVH partition map.
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* Plan9 partition map.
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* Big-endian mdraid.
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* Big-endian cpio.
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* ODC and NEWC cpio.
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* ExFAT.
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* Minix3fs.
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* Big-endian minixfs.
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* RomFS.
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* Squash4.
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* Support non-512B disk blocks.
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* LUKS and GELI support.
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* LDM read support (no install yet).
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* LZOP.
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* Improved filesystem and disks formats support:
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* HFS+ label support.
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* Improved reiserfs support.
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* multidevice, mirrored and raidz(2,3) ZFS support.
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* RAID LVM (internal RAIDing) support.
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* ZFS crypto support.
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* ZLE and GZIP on ZFS support.
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* Support ZFS up to 33.
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* HFS string is now treated like mac-roman and not UTF-8
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* HFS mtime support.
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* Improved AFFS and SFS support.
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* LZO-compressed btrfs support.
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* cpio and tar symlinks support.
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* Better FS detection to reduce false positives.
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* New boot protocols:
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* Ability to load another coreboot payload when on coreboot.
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* Plan9.
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* Freedos.
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* Ntldr/bootmgr (Windows bootloader).
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* chainloader --bpb support.
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* PXE chainloading support.
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* Darwin 11 (Mac OS X Lion) protocol support.
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* Boot protocol improvements:
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* Multiple initrd support.
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* Basic illumos and xnu autoconfig.
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* Testing and debugging:
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* New grub-fstest commands: cat, zfsinfo, testload xnu_uuid
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* grub-fstest recursive directory compare for quickly check that directory is
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read correctly.
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* Backtace on crash (if gdb module is loaded, x86 only)
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* Disk cache statistics gathering.
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* GDB stub and GDB support script.
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* "make check" and "make bootcheck" expanded to almost all platforms
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(except i386-ieee1275, mips-arc, sparc64-ieee1275, ia64-efi and emu)
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* New `time' command.
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* Performance:
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* Lazy scanning for improved performance.
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* Use CPU cache when accessing video memory.
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* Search hints for better performance.
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* Internationalisation:
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* Updated to Unicode 6.0.
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* $"..." syntax for translation in grub script. This allows easy
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translation of grub.cfg at runtime.
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* Translations to many languages included in official distribution.
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* Scripting:
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* $grub_cpu and $grub_platform variables for conditioning grub.cfg on platform
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on runtime.
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* $feature_* variables to condition scripts on available features.
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* Use of ids to identify menu entries.
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* all_video module which is empty but depends on all video modules thus
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allowing easy loading of all of them.
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* Installation:
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* grub-mknetdir script for easy creation of netbootable GRUB directory.
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* Itanium and mips support in grub-mkrescue.
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* grub-install support for all platforms except emu.
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* PreP partition install support.
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* No files conflict between flavours (except grub-mkrescue for ppc). This
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allows easy install of GRUB for several platforms.
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* grub-mkstandalone script for easy creating of image including all modules
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for platforms with generous limit on image size.
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* program-transform-name now functions according to usual conventions.
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Use --grubdir and --bootdir to get old behaviour.
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* ADLER32 and CRC64 support (for XZ and hashsum).
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* ofconsole renamed to console
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* Experimental support for compiling with Apple toolchain.
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* grub-mkdevicemap removed. Now all devices are detected on runtime.
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New in 1.99:
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* Keyboard layouts support.
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