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* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bumped to 1.96.
* DISTLIST: Added boot/i386/pc/cdboot.S, bus/pci.c,
commands/lspci.c,disk/memdisk.c, include/grub/pci.h,
include/grub/i386/pc/pci.h, video/readers/jpeg.c, and
video/readers/png.c.
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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
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`--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
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(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),
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OLPC XO.
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* Add support for colored menu (menu_color_normal and menu_color_highlight
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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PowerPC-based machines as well, if they use IEEE 1275
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(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
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means that any missing prototypes could be fatal. Also, you must take
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care when writing assembly code. See the comments at the beginning of
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startup.S, for more details.
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* New utility, ``pupa-setup''. This sets up PUPA to make it bootable
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from a real disk.
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* New commands, "prefix", "insmod", "rmmod" and "lsmod" are added into
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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
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part of the core image and decompressing itself at boot time. The
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currently used algorithm is LZO (more precisely, LZO1X-999). So you
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have to install LZO to build PUPA. See
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<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
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Standards.
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