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2010-09-01 Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
* NEWS: Document most of the important changes since 1.98.
2010-09-01 Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
* util/grub-mkrescue.in (usage): Tidy up usage output (and hence

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New in 1.99:
* 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 in `grub-install' and `grub-mkconfig'. Note: complete
functionality requires external ZFS implementation (available from
grub-extras).
* 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.
* Add `grub-probe' support for the btrfs filesystem, permitting / to
reside on btrfs as long as /boot is on a filesystem natively supported
by GRUB.
* 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' 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', and
`shift'.
* 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.