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Updated: Tue Feb 5 14:34:38 2008

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August 2004

• sk(4)
  Add driver for SysKonnect SK-98xx Gigabit Ethernet cards [jdolecek 20040826]

July 2004

• sgimips
  Add support for on-board MACE MAC-110 Ethernet on O2. [tsutsui 20040711]
• libm
  Add C99 functions round(3) and roundf(3). [junyoung 20040710]
• geodeide(4)
  Added driver for the AMD Geode CS5530A IDE controller [bouyer 20040709]
• libc
  Add strcasestr(3), case insensitive version of strstr(3). [junyoung 20040703]

June 2004

• cvs(1)
  cvs upgraded to 1.11.17 [christos 20040616]
• acorn32
  Generate sparkive with new bootloader for install [gavan/abs 20040608]

May 2004

• wscons(4)
  Added scrolling support [christos 20040531]
• cvs(1)
  cvs-1.11.16 via patch [christos 20040519]

April 2004

• cvs(1)
  update to 1.11.15. [itojun 20040416]
• sgimips
  Add IP12 support. [pooka 20040411]
• hp300
  Fix some bugs in apci serial which was switched to MI com(4), so that now it's actually functional. [tsutsui 20040410]
• hp300
  Fix a longstanding bug in console attachment functions, so that now DIO based framebuffers (mostly used on HP4xx machines) can be used as console again. [tsutsui 20040408]

March 2004

• libcurses
  add *echochar() functions. [jdc 20040328]
• ipf(8)
  updated to version 4.1.1. [martti 20040328]
• postfix(1)
  update to 2.0.19 [heas 20040327]
• aac(4)
  Add support for Adaptec 2200S (Vulcan 2M) & Dell PERC 320/DC [gendalia 20040326]
• gzip(1)
  Switch to non GPL gzip. [mrg 20040326]
• sendmail(8)
  update to 8.12.11. [atatat 20040325]
• sysctl(9)
  Update dynamic implementation. Solves netbsd32 compat issue and adds support for descriptions. [atatat 20040324]
• file(1)
  update to 4.08. [pooka 20040323]
• libcurses
  add KEY_RESIZE, SIGWINCH handler and support for more colour pairs. [jdc 20040322]
• fdisk(8)
  Preserve the Drive Serial Number at bytes 440-443 of the MBR. [lukem 20040322]
• openssl
  Update to 0.9.7d for security fixes. [groo 20040319]
• awk(1)
  switched from GNU awk to The One True New AWK by B.W.Kernighan. [jdolecek 20040313]
• acorn32
  Added iomdkbc(4) driver for IOMD keyboard and mouse ports, allowing attachment of pckbd(4) and pms(4) drivers. Removed opms(4) driver and old qms(4) driver, renaming wsqms(4) to qms(4). [bjh21 20040313]
• kernel
  Abstracted device interface presented by pckbd(4) so that the same pckbd(4) and pms(4) drivers can be used on systems with different controller chips. [bjh21 20040313]
• dge(4)
  add support for Intel PRO/10GbE ethernet adapter. [ragge 20040312]
• progress(1)
  Allow printing custom text before (left of) the progress bar. [hubertf 20040309]
• gcc(1)
  Import GCC 3.3.3. [mrg 20040301]

Febuary 2004

• amiga
  Add wsfont pseudo-device to amidisplaycc(4). [jandberg 20040223]
• hpcsh
  Enable building of Xhpc server for hpcsh. [uwe 20040222]
• sh3
  Switch to GCC 3.3. [uwe 20040222]
• gcc(1)
  Import GCC 3.3.3-20040209. [mrg 20040210]
• kernel
  add underlying support needed to support multiple mbuf cluster sizes. [matt 20040209]
• locate(1)
  Make locate.updatedb customizable by configuration file /etc/locate.conf. [itohy 20040206]
• build.sh
  add -x and -X to control building of xsrc. [lukem 20040206]
• ppbus(4)
  changed lpt(4) to configure interrupt use, printer priming and auto LF on CR via lptctl(8), dropped compatibility minor number bit mapping [jdolecek 20040203]

January 2004

• identd(8)
  Replaced with a newly written one that has all the features of pidentd, plus ipv6 support and cleaner implementation. This version of identd is written by Peter Postma. [christos 20040131]
• install(1)
  Add -h {none,md5,rmd160,sha1} to determine the appropriate hash (digest) of a copied file to store in the -M METALOG. [lukem 20040129]
• ppbus(4)
  add a "pps" device to get pulse-per-second signals into ntpd [drochner 20040128]
• arm
  Change ARM9 support code to use the Dcache in write-back mode. [rearnsha 20040126]
• acorn32
  beep(4) removed. [bjh21 20040125]
• ppbus(4)
  imported FreeBSD Parallel Port Bus code (lpt+plip ATM only) from netbsd-ppbus port done by Gary Thorpe for evaluation. ppbus separates the physical parallel port access and the specific connected device access, allowing clean support for PLIP and non-printer devices using parallel port. The port drivers in ppbus also support advanced modes such as Fast Centronics, EPP, and ECP (including DMA). This code will replace historical lpt(4) eventually [jdolecek 20040119]
• disklabel(8)
  On i386 & amd64, preserve the MBR and partition table even on disks without a NetBSD MBR partition. [lukem 20040119]
• acorn32
  sysbeep(4) removed. [bjh21 20040117]
• kernel
  New "audiobell" code to play console bells through audio device. [bjh21 20040117]
• wm(4)
  Fix hardware checksum bug on big endian machines. [tsutsui 20040114]
• sparc64
  restartable atomic sequences (RAS) implemented. [martin 20040106]
• misc
  pkg_info(1) now also prints the post-install message formerly only available via -D by default, if present. [hubertf 20040106]
• rc(8)
  implement "one" prefix, to skip the rc.conf(5) test yet perform all of the other checks. [lukem 20040106]
• etc/release
  Create & install as part of "make build", based on work by Hubert Feyrer. [lukem 20040104]
• cvs(1)
  upgrade to 1.11.11 [itojun 20040102]

December 2003

• acorn32
  Substantial rewrite of vidcaudio(4). It now works, and has a manual page. [bjh21 20031231]
• kernel
  new memory allocation scheme for the buffer cache. [pk 20031230]
• install(1)
  Make "copy the file" (the -c option) the default behaviour. [simonb 20031229]
• macppc
  added driver for snapper audio found on some iBook and PowerBook models [grant 20031227]
• dab(6)
  Import Dots+Boxes game. [christos 20031226]
• dreamcast
  Add an Xserver for dreamcast, based on work by Yasushi Oshima. [tsutsui 20031223]
• bpm(1)
  add a text-only menu-based binary package manager [agc 20031221]
• makedev(8)
  use mknod(8) -r for faster operation and to retain permissions on existing devices. [lukem 20031221]
• random(3)
  improved, and now generates the same sequences as glibc and others. WARNING: new sequences. PR 22853. [ross 20031219]
• satalink(4)
  Add support for the Silicon Image 3114 4-port SATA controller. [thorpej 20031219]
• sgimips
  Add newport(4), a driver for SGI NG1 graphics controller and enable console on it and pckbc on IP22 machines. [lonewolf 20031215]
• satalink(4)
  Split the Silicon Image SATALink support out of cmdide(4) and into the new satalink(4) driver. [thorpej 20031213]
• artsata(4)
  Split i31244 support out of piixide(4) and into the new artsata(4) driver. [thorpej 20031213]
• fss(4)
  Add file system snapshot pseudo driver. [hannken 20031210]
• cvs(1)
  upgrade to 1.11.10 [itojun 20031210]
• sh5
  Switch sh5 to the in-tree toolchain, albeit somewhat hobbled. [scw 20031207]
• editline(3)
  Provide public interfaces to the internal line tokenization routines. [lukem 20031205]
• sysctl(9)
  Switch to dynamic implementation. [atatat 20031204]
• binutils
  Switch all platforms to binutils 2.14. [mrg 20031203]

November 2003

• m68k
  Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20031127]
• gdb(1)
  All platforms updated to GDB 5.3. [mrg 20031127]
• binutils
  updated to FSF binutils 2.14 release. [mrg 20031126]
• named(8)
  Upgrade to BIND 8.3.7. [itojun 20031126]
• amiga
  Add screen types suitable for PAL displays to amidisplaycc(4) [jandberg 20031112]
• hp300
  Switch DCA and APCI serial devices to use MI com(4) driver. [tsutsui 20031108]
• libcrypto
  upgrade to 0.9.7c. [itojun 20031104]
• sun2
  Switch to GCC 3.3.2. [mrg 20031104]

October 2003

• stpcide(4)
  added STMicroelectronics STPC IDE controller. [nisimura 20031031]
• installboot(8)
  Add support for next68k. [cl 20031027]
• file(1)
  update to 4.06. [pooka 20031027]
• sh3
  Switch to GDB 5.3. [uwe 20031027]
• arm
  Enable alignment faults on arm32. Misaligned loads/stores will now cause an exception instead of silently failing. [scw 20031025]
• amiga
  Add polish wscons keymaps. From Pawel Chwalowski in PR 22961. [jandberg 20031025]
• build.sh
  Add '-N noisyness', to control how "noisy" the build is. [lukem 20031025]
• makedev(8)
  platform device creation script is now generated from unified template driven by platform config file and MD device major lists. [jdolecek 20031024]
• netinet
  change port allocation from linked list to a hash table for better performance. [provos 20031023]
• i386
  pmap changed from linked list to splay tree for better performance. [provos 20031022]
• hpcsh
  Added j6x0tp(4) driver for Jornada 680/690 touch screen. [uwe 20031019]
• gcc(1)
  Import GCC 3.3.2. [mrg 20031018]
• ccdconfig(8)
  add CCDF_NOLABEL to ignore the on-disk (raw) disklabel when creating a ccd. [lukem 20031017]
• syslogd(8)
  add -r, to prevent the compression of multiple similar messages into "last message repeated N times". [lukem 20031017]
• arm
  Xscale micro-optimisations for libc/libkern, plus some kernel tweaks to use the mini-data cache, and speedup cpuswitch() amongst other things. Contributed by Wasabi Systems. [scw 20031014]
• whois(1)
  Has been replaced by the OpenBSD version by jrf. [christos 20031009]
• i386, amd64
  Rename /usr/mdec/biosboot to /usr/mdec/boot and add support for booting off FAT partitions. Rename /usr/mdec/bootxx_dosfs to /usr/mdec/bootxx_msdos. Deprecate /usr/mdec/bootxx_ufs (use bootxx_ffsv1). [lukem 20031008].
• installboot(8)
  On i386, preserve BIOS Parameter Block and MBR partition table. [lukem 20031008]
• awk(1)
  Updated gawk to 3.1.3. [wiz 20031006]
• sgimips
  O2 (IP32) support is now functional again by fixes contributed by Christopher SEKIYA. [tsutsui 20031005]
• mips
  Add R10000 cache ops, written by KIYOHARA Takashi. [tsutsui 20031005]
• kernel
  Add a /dev/constty device (minor 1 on console), use for terminal sessions on 'console'. Stops terminal output being 'stolen' by the TIOCCONS ioctl. [dsl 20031003]
• pkg_add(1)
  Added HTTP support. [wiz 20031003]

September 2003

• i2c
  New generic i2c framework, supporting bit-bang and "intelligent" controllers. [thorpej 20030929]
• auich(4)
  Added support for four channels and six channels audio playback. [kent 20030928]
• kernel
  Add support for SA_SIGINFO on powerpc. [matt 20030925]
• file(1)
  update to 4.04. [pooka 20030925]
• iavc(4)
  Add support for AVM B1 PCI CAPI-compatible ISDN adapters. [pooka 20030925]
• isdncapi(4)
  Add a support layer for CAPI to i4b. [pooka 20030925]
• sgimips
  Add haltwo(4), a driver for the SGI HAL2 audio controller [lonewolf 20030925]
• alpha
  Switch to GDB 5.3. [matt 20030924]
• m68k
  Switch to GDB 5.3. [christos 20030923]
• powerpc
  Switch to GDB 5.3. [matt 20030923]
• powerpc
  Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030923]
• amiga
  added wsmouse support to mouse driver. [jandberg 20030922]
• arm
  Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030921]
• alpha
  Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [mrg 20030919]
• sparc64
  Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [mrg 20030919]
• sparc
  Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [mrg 20030919]
• i386
  Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [mrg 20030919]
• xfree86
  Reach-over build framework added under src/x11. [lukem 20030912]
• kernel
  Add support for SA_SIGINFO on i386 [christos 20030907]
• kernel
  Enhance LKM versioning, and improve compatibility checking on LKM load [jdolecek 20030906]
• netinet6
  randomize IPv6 fragment ID and flowlabel. avoids prediction. [itojun 20030906]
• netinet
  randomize IPv4 fragment ID. avoids prediction. [itojun 20030906]

August 2003

• vax
  Add support for the DELQA-PLUS in Turbo mode (qt). Driver written by Steven M. Schultz for 2.11BSD. [ragge 20030829]
• agp(4)
  Add support for i865G integrated graphics. [tron 20030826]
• kernel
  Add support for non-executable mappings for many platforms. Map the stack and heap non-executable. [chs 20030824]
• gdb(1)
  Import gdb-5.3 and add support for i386 [christos 20030814]
• dlsym(3)
  Add support for RTLD_DEFAULT, RTLD_NEXT and RTLD_SELF [christos,skrll 20030812]
• gcc(1)
  Import GCC 3.3.1. [mrg 20030809]
• evbarm
  Add support for the Samsung SMDK2410 eval board for the S3C2410 Processor. [bsh 20030804]
• hp300
  Switch to MI SCSI at last. [tsutsui 20030801]

July 2003

• ftp(1)
  $FTPUSERAGENT overrides the default HTTP User-Agent. [lukem 20030731]
• sysinst
  New disk editing menus and general rototil. [dsl 20030728]
• i386
  New boot code. Uses MI installboot and filesystem code to load 2nd level bootstrap. Allows NetBSD partition to be in the extended partition. [dsl 20030728]
• ipsec
  support hmac-ripemd160 and aes-xcbc-mac for AH/ESP auth. support aes-ctr for ESP. [itojun 20030725]
• libcrypto
  upgrade to 0.9.7b. [itojun 20030724]
• gcc(1)
  Import GCC 3.3.1-20030720. [mrg 20030723]
• sparc
  Update sparc port to use XFree86 4.x base. [mrg 20030722]
• ipsec(4)
  support hmac-sha2 for AH/ESP auth. [itojun 20030722]
• share/mk
  Replace MANZ=, UPDATE=, UNPRIVED= with MKMANZ=yes, MKUPDATE=yes, MKUNPRIVED=yes respectively. [lukem 20030718]
• libtelnet
  no longer shipped under /usr/lib [itojun 20030716]
• share/mk
  Rename many make(1) variables that contain names of programs from `FOO' to `TOOL_FOO'. [lukem 20030711]
• pax(1)
  Add support for gnutar's -O "extract to stdout" option in tar mode. [simonb 20030708]
• locale(1)
  Added. Obtained from FreeBSD. [tshiozak 20030704]
• texinfo(1)
  upgraded to 4.6. [wiz 20030703]

June 2003

• groff(1)
  Updated to 1.19. [wiz 20030630]
• iconv(1)
  Added. [tshiozak 20030627]
• libc
  Add iconv support. [tshiozak 20030627]
• cobalt
  Implement first stage bootloader for the cobalt port. [cdi 20030625]
• cvs(1)
  $CVS_RSH defaults to ssh (instead of rsh). [itojun 20030620]
• arc
  Fix support for DeskStation Tyne and it boots into single user. [tsutsui 20030614]
• netwinder
  Add wscons support. [uwe 20030614]
• hunt(6), huntd(6)
  Synced with current version from 2003-04-16, which is BSD licensed. [wiz 20030610]
• tftpd(8), tftp(1)
  Add support for rfcs 2347, 2348, and 2349, tftp 'blksize', 'timeout', and 'tsize' options. Contributed by Wasabi Systems. [briggs 20030610]
• named(8)
  Upgrade to BIND 8.3.6. [itojun 20030609]
• named(8)
  Upgrade to BIND 8.3.5. [itojun 20030603]
• sendmail(8)
  update to 8.12.9. [atatat 20030601]

May 2003

• file(1)
  update to 4.03. [pooka 20030525]
• evbarm
  Add support for the NOVATEC NTNP425B eval board for the Intel IXP425 Network Processor. [ichiro 20030523]
• db(1)
  Add '-S chr', '-T str' and '-X str' to specify (with options) strvis(3) encoding of keys/values when reading a database. Add '-U chr' to specify strunvis(3) decoding of keys/values when writing a database or deleting entries from a database. [seb 20030519]
• olms(4), omms(4)
  Removed olms(4) and omms(4) from the i386 port, since they have been superseded by lms(4) and mms(4) respectively. [wiz 20030516]
• build.sh
  Add "sourcesets" option to build the source sets. [lukem 20030510]
• build.sh
  Provide defaults for DESTDIR and RELEASEDIR if not in expert mode. Display summary of operations performed at end. [lukem 20030508]
• inet(3)
  align signatures of inet_addr(), inet_network(), inet_makeaddr(), inet_lnaof(), and inet_netof() with XNS and POSIX. [bjh21 20030505]

April 2003

• wd(4)
  add support for the DIOCGCACHE and DIOCSCACHE ioctls. [bouyer 20030426]
• fsdb(8)
  add a findblk command, which lists the inode(s) owning the disk sector(s) specified as argument. [bouyer 20030426]
• arm32
  Add new arm32 pmap contributed by Wasabi Systems. [scw 20030418]
• df(1), du(1)
  add -g argument for output in gigabytes [grant 20030418]
• mpt(4)
  Added device driver for LSI Fusion-MPT based SCSI and Fibre Channel controllers. Ported from the FreeBSD "mpt" driver written by Greg Ansley. Supports the LSI 53c1030 Ultra320 SCSI and LSI FC909, FC919, and FC929 Fibre Channel adapters. [thorpej 20030416]
• libc
  added slovak language libc message catalog. [salo 20030414]
• kernel
  added a sysctl(8) flag to check and reject packets arriving on the "wrong" interface. [christos 20030412]
• less(1)
  update to less-381. [mrg 20030414]
• pkg_install
  improve bzip2 support, especially for non-NetBSD systems. [grant 20030410]
• kernel
  mbufs use new cached physical address feature of pools, and can provide other information about external buffers to save work for bus_dma back-ends. Use this information in the ARM and x86 bus_dma back-ends to improve network performance. [thorpej 20030409]
• kernel
  pool caches now have the ability to cache physical addresses of objects. [thorpej 20030409]
• kernel
  hostap power saving mode support [kml 20030407]
• kernel
  SMBFS uses low-overhead NT Directory Change Notify SMB to watch for vnode kqueue(2) events on directories [jdolecek 20030407]
• rsh(1), rlogin(1)
  Add -p flag to allow specifying a non-standard port number. [hubertf 20030407]
• scsi(4)
  Add a MI driver for the Symbios/NCR 53c700 SCSI controller written by Shuichiro URATA. [tsutsui 20030406]
• wm(4)
  add support for i82540EP. [kent 20030405]
• pciide(4)
  add support for i82801DBM (ICH4-M). [kent 20030405]
• ssh(1)
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 3.6.1 around 20030403. [itojun 20030403]
• kernel and userland
  UFS2 support from Kirk McKusick via FreeBSD. [fvdl 20030402]
• cron(8)
  Move default cron log from /var/cron/log to /var/log/cron [perry 20030402]

March 2003

• vnd(4), vnconfig(8)
  add read-only configuration support. [yamt 20030327]
• dump(8), dump_lfs(8)
  remove setgid tty, as "wall -g operator" is now used to notify operators. [lukem 20030327]
• wall(1)
  added "-g group". [lukem 20030327]
• libmagic
  add libmagic, which is currently used by file(1) [pooka 20030326]
• file(1)
  update to 4.00. [pooka 20030326]
• sh5
  Shared libraries now supported on SH5 (but not yet enabled in bsd.own.mk due to sundry toolchain issues). [scw 20030325]
• vax
  Add device driver for RX01/RX02 floppies (rfc/rf). From Jochen Kunz. [ragge 20030323]
• sendmail(8)
  update to 8.12.8. [atatat 20030324]
• pppoectl(8)
  Add a "-f configfile" option. [mrg 20030322]
• sparc64
  Add support for PCI-CardBus bridge. [nakayama 20030322]
• pciide(4)
  Add support for the Intel i31244 and Silicon Image 3112 Serial ATA controllers. [thorpej 20030319]
• kernel
  New pid allocator - avoids all the searching in pfind() etc. Bump version to 1.6Q. [dsl 20030319]
• evbppc
  Add support for the NCD Explora451 ThinClient. [hannken 20030311]
• am-utils
  update to 6.1b2 [christos 20030309]
• kernel
  let LFS use the UBC system natively. This should provide complete coherency between mmap(2) and read(2)/write(2) on LFS, in addition to allowing it to use much more memory for its buffers. [perseant 20030308]
• postfix(1)
  update to 2.0.6 [perry 20030308]
• sysctl
  Make hw.physmem and hw.usermem saturate if they are used on a system with >=4G RAM. [thorpej 20030306]
• kernel
  Use common code for set{u,g}id functions. [dsl 20030305]
• kernel
  Report correct child CPU times. [dsl 20030305]
• x86_64
  rearrange the x86_64 code, make it share code with i386, and enable MP [fvdl 20030305]
• mdsetimage(8)
  only use libbfd calls to get symbol information; writing is now done directly into the file. [dogcow 20030304]
• acorn26
  Add support for the 82C710 multi-I/O chip, as found in (some?) A5000s. [bjh21 20030301]
• libc
  Add _Exit(), the C99 name for _exit(). [bjh21 20030301]

Febuary 2003

• binutils
  updated to FSF binutils 2.13.2.1 release. [mrg 20030228]
• sysctl(9)
  Add hw.physmem64 and hw.usermem64 sysctl nodes, which return the same data has hw.physmem and hw.usermem, but as a 64-bit byte count, instead of a 32-bit byte count. Required for reporting >=4G RAM. [thorpej 20030227]
• libpthread
  Add pthread_{,attr}_{get,set}name_np() API, compatible with Tru64 Unix. [thorpej 20030227]
• kernel
  Add MBUFTRACE kernel option. Change all MGET*(...M_WAIT,...) to m_get*(M_WAIT, ...) to shrink kernel. Add m_clget analogue to MCLGET and use it if M_WAIT is passed. Adapt netinet, if_loop, gem, tulip, fxp driver to MBUFTRACE. Bump version to 1.6P. [matt 20030226]
• i386
  Add LFS support to bootblocks [simonb 20030224]
• kernel
  Add LFSv2 support to libsa [simonb 20030224]
• /etc/security, security.conf(5)
  Produce unified diffs by default. [jhawk 20030221]
• /etc/daily, daily.conf(5)
  Suppress empty security reports by default. [jhawk 20030221]
• kernel
  Top down memory management option added, initially for i386, but others are following. [atatat 20030220]
• kernel
  SMBFS support, ported from FreeBSD. [jdolecek 20030218]
• bridge(4), brconfig(8)
  add ipf support. [perseant 20030216]
• usb(4)
  add uax(4), a driver for the AX88172 Ethernet adapter chip. The chip supports 10/100 and USB 2.0. [augustss 20030216]
• texinfo(1)
  upgraded to 4.5. [wiz 20030213]
• grep(1)
  upgraded to 2.5.1. [wiz 20030213]
• /etc/security, security.conf(5)
  Allow more flexibility in warnings from check_passwd and check_mtree. [jhawk 20030213]
• inetd(8)
  Use kqueue(2) for enhanced performance and scalability. [tron 20030212]
• kernel
  Added a sysctl(8) flag to control whether the kernel dumps to the dump device on panic. [atatat 20030210]

January 2003

• malloc(9)
  Add extensible kernel malloc types, adapted from FreeBSD. [thorpej 20030131]
• arc
  Add support for the Cirrus Logic GD5428 ISA VGA console on Express5800/240 R4400 EISA (NEC-J96A) and RISCserver2200 (NEC-R96). [tsutsui 20030131]
• find(1)
  allow preceding +/- on numeric arg to -user. [jhawk 20030130]
• crunchgen(1)
  Use "objcopy --redefine-syms-file". [simonb 20030129]
• objcopy(1)
  Add --redefine-syms-file option. [simonb 20030129]
• grep(1)
  upgraded to 2.5. Warning: -o is now a valid GNU grep option (--only-matching (-o)), so we will not be supporting the 4.4BSD -o any longer -- use -H instead. [wiz 20030127]
• diff(1), diff3(1), sdiff(1)
  upgraded to diffutils-2.8.1 [wiz 20030126]
• semaphores
  Fix kernel implementation, and add non-pthreads version in new librt. [thorpej 20030123]
• gcore(1)
  Add it back. [christos 20030123]
• build.sh
  Rework command line into command line options followed by a list of operations to perform. [lukem 20030123]
• sh(1)
  Improve Posix conformance [dsl 20030122]
• sysinst
  Leverage progress(1) for reasonable-looking file extraction displays. [jhawk 20030122]
• progress(1)
  New standalone progress bar program factored out from ftp(1). [jhawk 20030122]
• cvs(1)
  upgraded to 1.11.5. [wiz 20030121]
• semaphores
  Added p1003.1b semaphores from freebsd. [christos 20030120]
• tar(1)
  removed GNU tar (replaced by pax frontend). [wiz 20030118]
• cpio(1)
  removed GNU cpio (replaced by pax frontend). [wiz 20030118]
• pthreads
  Merge nathanw_sa branch, implementing p1003.1 POSIX thread and Scheduler Activation thread interface. [thorpej 20030117]
• texinfo(1)
  upgraded to 4.3. [wiz 20030117]
• ex(4)
  Added support for 3c905CX-TX. [gendalia 20030116]
• auich(4)
  Added support for nForce2 MCP-T. [gendalia 20030116]
• cvs(1)
  upgraded to 1.11.4 [wiz 20030116]
• sparc
  MULTIPROCESSOR support works. [pk,mrg 20030111]
• sparc, sparc64
  The nell (STP4020) pcmcia bridge driver is now finished. [martin 20030107]
• mtree(8)
  Newly created directories have 0777 instead of 0700 permissions (as modified by the umask(2)). This only affects 'mtree -W', or directories without an explicit mode= entry. [lukem 20030105].
• build system
  Releases are now installed under ${RELEASEDIR}/${MACHINE} instead of ${RELEASEDIR}. [lukem 20030103]
• procfs
  Add /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd> [christos 20030103]

December 2002

• kprintf(9)
  Add "aprint" family of autoconfiguration message printing routines that change their behavior based on flags in boothowto. [thorpej 20021231]
• dreamcast
  Add support for the SEGA LAN Adapter, based on patch in dreamcast/17493 from Christian Groessler. [tsutsui 20021227]
• build.sh
  Add '-i installworlddir', to run "make installworld" after all other operations have completed. [lukem 20021225]
• mtree(8)
  Add -C, which acts like -D except that the pathname is printed first instead of last. [lukem 20021223]
• vis(1)
  Add `-e extra', to provide a list of extra characters to encode (per svis(3)). [lukem 20021223]
• sunlabel(8)
  Now enabled by default. Manipulates SunOS disklabels. [lukem 20021221]
• build system
  Users and groups for the build are now obtained from src/etc instead of the host systems' passwd(5) and group(5) databases. [lukem 20021219]
• install(1)
  added -N dbdir, to specify different location for user and group databases. [lukem 20021219]
• mips
  support fully coherent data caches on MIPS32 and MIPS64 CPUs (enabled for Au1x00 and SB-1 CPUS). [simonb 20021217]
• db(1)
  Added. Manipulates db(3) btree(3) and hash(3) databases. [lukem 20021211]
• evbppc
  Added arch/evbppc for PowerPC-based evaluation boards, with the existing Walnut port as its first member. [scw 20021209]
• build.sh
  add -E, to enable "expert mode", which allows builds to DESTDIR=/. [lukem 20021208]
• arc
  Add support for NEC Express5800/240 R4400 EISA (NEC-J96A). [tsutsui 20021207]
• edquota(8)
  Added command-line options to allow setting quotas from command line. [bouyer 20021204]
• i386
  biosboot bootblocks now support booting off 2.88MB drive using 1.44MB floppy disk [jdolecek 20021204]
• x68k
  add bmd(4), memory disk driver for Nereid bank memory. [isaki 20021201]

November 2002

• fparseln(3)
  migrated from libutil to libc. [lukem 20021130]
• routed(8)
  upgrade to 2.27 [christos 20021129]
• am-utils
  upgrade to 6.1b1 [christos 20021129]
• strsuftoll(3), strsuftollx(3)
  Add functions to parse numbers with optional suffixes and/or products. [lukem 20021129]
• cvs(1)
  upgrade to 1.11.2 [christos 20021127]
• mk.conf(5)
  removed support for SYS_INCLUDE=symlinks; <sys/*.h> include files are always copied now. [lukem 20021126]
• postfix(1)
  upgrade to 1.1.12. [itojun 20021126]
• i386
  reworked interrupt code to be more independent of the underlying interrupt controller, to perform better with shared lines, and to be more clean in general [fvdl 20021122]
• lib/csu
  Split crtbegin/crtend into crti/crtbegin/crtend/crtn. This is inline with what other ELF systems do, and paves the way to using GCC-supplied crtbegin/crtend. [thorpej 20021121]
• gcc(1), as(1)
  Fixed bug in how NetBSD ARM ELF binaries were marked. They now properly reflect ATPCS + Soft-VFP. [thorpej 20021121]
• named(8)
  Upgrade to BIND 8.3.4. [itojun 20021117]
• etc/postinstall
  Add support for examining the obsolete sets for obsolete entries to check or remove. [lukem 20021117]
• vnd(4)
  Now also available as an LKM. [mrg 20021116]
• dreamcast
  Add support for memory card and monochrome LCD on Maple bus. [itohy 20021115]
• iop(4)
  Add support for Adaptec 2000S and 2005S [msaitoh 20021108]
• mtd(4)
  Add driver for Myson Technologies MTD803 3-in-1 Fast Ethernet cards from Peter Bex. [martin 20021107]
• kernel
  Added two sysctl(8) flags to stop process just after creation by fork(2) or exec(2). [manu 20021106]
• eap(4)
  Add support for second DAC [pooka 20021104]
• sparc64
  Find the correct boot path for all IDE disks. [mrg 20021102]
• systat(1)
  report read/write stats in iostat "rw" mode. [mrg 20021101]
• iostat(8)
  report read/write stats in iostat -x. [mrg 20021101]
• kernel
  keep separate read & write disk statistics. [mrg 20021101]

October 2002

• kernel
  kqueue branch merged [jdolecek 20021023]
• build.sh
  add '-k kernel', to configure and build the given kernel using the new toolchain. From Alan Barrett in PR#18739. [lukem 20021021]
• basename(3), dirname(3)
  Change to return pointer to static storage, rather than modifying their input arguments. The new behavior is explicitly allowed by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. [thorpej 20021016]
• tar(1), cpio(1)
  We are now using pax(1) for those instead of the gnu version. [christos 20021016]
• config(9)
  Allow devices to be orphaned in the kernel config file, but emit an informational message when this happens. [thorpej 20021010]
• config(9)
  Allow options to register dependencies on attributes (the way it already can for other options). [thorpej 20021010]
• config(9)
  Allow pseudo-devices to be parents of "real" devices. [thorpej 20021009]
• tar(1)
  upgrade to GNU tar 1.13.25 for security fixes [itojun 20021010]
• ubsa(4)
  Driver for Belkin serial adapters ported from FreeBSD [augustss 20021008]
• auvia(4)
  Enabled sampling rate conversion for fixed-rate AC'97 codec [kent 20021008]
• auvia(4)
  Added support for VT8233/VT8235 [kent 20021005]
• pciide(4)
  Added support for VIA VT8235 [kent 20021005]
• cgd(4)
  Add CryptoGraphic Disk driver, cgd(4). [elric 20021004]
• kernel
  Don't reference cfattach structures directly in the cfdata entries; instead, a string names the attachment, which is looked up from a list that is built at run-time. [thorpej 20021003]
• ssh(1)
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 3.5 around 20021001. [itojun 20021001]
• i386
  merge the sommerfeld_i386mp_1 branch [fvdl 20021001]

September 2002

• sendmail(8)
  Include DOMAIN(generic) in prototype configuration to enable standard sendmail features. [grant 20020930]
• misc
  Remove umask setting from /etc/skel/.{cshrc,profile} so that user files are not created group writable by default. [grant 20020929]
• sh(1)
  Use vfork(2) rather than fork(2) where appropriate. See PR 5475 [christos,elric 20020928]
• ufs
  Add support for the Apple UFS variation on ffs See PR 17345 [dbj 20020928]
• kernel
  Don't reference cfdriver structures directly in the cfdata entries; instead, a string names the driver, which is looked up from a list that is built at run-time. [thorpej 20020926]
• libcrypto
  mdc2 is a patented algorithm, so move it out of libcrypto. if you need mdc2, define MKCRYPTO_MDC2 to get libcrypto_mdc2.a. [itojun 20020926]
• kernel
  Overhaul device parent matching; now record attributes in a "parent spec" in the kernel. [thorpej 20020925]
• kernel
  Removed the old rmap code, <sys/map.h> and kern/subr_rmap.c. [thorpej 20020925]
• iwic(4)
  Add driver for Winbond W6692 ISDN [pooka 20020924]
• mk.conf(5)
  MKDYNAMICROOT=yes made as the default, resulting in a fully dynamically linked system. [lukem 20020923]
• compat_irix(8)
  sproc emulation supports share groups with private memory mappings. [manu 20020922]
• mount(2)
  Add MNT_GETARGS support to retrieve mounted filesystem specific arguments. [christos 20020921]
• ipf(8)
  updated to version 3.4.29. [martti 20020919]
• zx(4)
  Add a driver for the Sun ZX/Leo framebuffer. [ad 20020913]

August 2002

• pmap(1)
  Added to tree. Prints the address space of a given process (or processes). [atatat 20020831]
• rasctl(2)
  Restartable Atomic Sequences (RAS). [gmcgarry 20020828]
• boot(8)
  allow path to init(8) to be entered when booting with RB_ASKNAME ("boot -a"). [lukem 20020823]
• rescue
  enable /rescue system recovery tools. [lukem 20020822]
• utmpx(5)
  All userland programs have been converted to understand both utmp and utmpx, wtmp and wtmpx, lastlog and lastlogx [christos 20020821]
• wscons(4)
  Add wsmoused(8) for mouse cut and paste in wscons vga driver. [christos 20020820]
• sparc64
  Add sab driver for sab82532 serial controller. Written by Jason L. Wright for OpenBSD. [petrov 20020816]
• lpd(8)
  add libwrap support. [itojun 20020812]
• arm
  New versions of copyin(), copyout(), and kcopy(). These make almost all user/kernel interactions faster. [briggs 20020812]
• wi(4)
  Add experimental Host-AP support, allowing Intelsil Prism2/2.5/3-based boards to be used to make an 802.11 Access Point. [thorpej 20020811]
• ifmedia(4)
  Added new "ibss", "ibss-master", and "hostap" ifmedia media options for 802.11 interfaces. [thorpej 20020810]
• usb(4)
  Added slhci(4), ScanLogic SL811HS/T USB Host Controller. [isaki 20020811]
• pmc(3)
  Added new performance counter interface library. [thorpej 20020808]
• auich(4)
  Added support for ICH4 and SiS 7012. [kent 20020807]
• pmc(9)
  Added new performance counter framework. [briggs 20020806]
• macppc
  added support for 2nd CPU on dual G4 boxes [chs 20020805]
• pkg_admin(8)
  Add 'pmatch' keyword to return true if 'pkg' matches 'pattern', false else. [hubertf 20020804]
• dmover(4)
  Added dmover(4) API, interface to hardware-assisted data movers. [thorpej 20020801]
• openssl
  update to 0.9.6g. [itojun 20020809]

July 2002

• systrace(1)
  Update systrace(1) and the kernel code. Note that the update contains backward-incompatible change in ioctl. [itojun 20020730]
• macppc
  finished support for 2nd CPU on 9500/180MP and 9600/200MP [chs 20020728]
• pciide(4)
  added support for the Silicon Image 0680 IDE controller. [onoe 20020726]
• hpcarm
  X server for the Jornada 720 now works [manu 20020722]
• mopd(8)
  Added "-s <mopdir>" to avoid hard coding /tftpboot/mop. [mrg 20020719]
• evbarm
  Add support for the Intel IXM1200 eval board for the ixp12x0 Network Processor. [ichiro 20020715]
• m68k
  m68k-based ports now use __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN syscall interface. [scw 20020713]
• misc
  Switch to a signal trampoline provided by libc. The kernel will provide one for backward compatibility, and for emulations. [thorpej 20020710]
• pdisk(8)
  Import pdisk 0.8a1, the Apple disk partitioning utility [dbj 20020709]
• file(1)
  update to 3.39. [pooka 20020709]
• chflags(1), chgrp(1), chmod(1), chown(8)
  Change default behaviour to follow symlinks on the command line rather than ignoring them, finally fixing PR 563. [bjh21 20020707]
• sh5
  Added support for the SuperH SH-5 CPU architecture. [scw 20020705]
• kernel
  Socket buffer insertion is now O(C). This can provide a substantial performance boost to some applications which use large socket buffers. [thorpej 20020703]
• netstat(1)
  add -q flag to print information about software interrupt queue. [enami 20020703]

June 2002

• systrace(1)
  Integrate Niels Provos' systrace(1) binary sand-boxing, device and userland support. [christos 20020617]
• factor(6)
  Use a Pollard Rho algorithm to factor arbitrary sized numbers. [simonb 20020615]
• amd(8)
  add new mount option "xlatecookie" to support NFS v3 mounts with cookie translation. [tron 20020614]
• netinet
  path MTU discovery is turned on by default (currently used for TCP only). [itojun 20020613]
• greconfig(8)
  obsoleted. use ifconfig(8) for configuration. [itojun 20020609]
• netinet6
  synchronize with recent interface/router/prefix management logic from KAME. [itojun 20020608]
• gspahextoc
  was obsoleted by the -c option to gspa(1) a long time ago, and has thus been removed [is 20020607]
• amdpm(4)
  driver for AMD768 Power Management Controller (but currently an interface to rnd(4) only.) [enami 20020602]

May 2002

• tcpdump(8)
  upgrade to 3.7.1 as of 2002/5/31. [itojun 20020531]
• pmppc
  a port to Artesyn's PM/PPC board. [augustss 20020531]
• prep
  support IBM RS/6000 43P 7043-140. [nonaka 20020530]
• ftpd(8)
  optionally and experimentally use mmap(2) instead of read(2) for binary file transfer [enami 20020530]
• pppd(8)
  import 2.4.1 [christos 20020529]
• tcp(4)
  implement path MTU discovery blackhole detection (turn off path MTU discovery if the connection is losing). PR 12790. [itojun 20020526]
• libcrypt
  support bcrypt password entries. can be chosen with "blowfish" keyword in passwd.conf. from openbsd [itojun 20020524]

Port specific changes (top)

NetBSD/arm covers (for NetBSD 2.0):

• NetBSD/netwinder
• NetBSD/arm26
• NetBSD/hpcarm
• NetBSD/zaurus
• NetBSD/acorn32
• NetBSD/cats
• NetBSD/evbarm
• NetBSD/acorn26
• NetBSD/iyonix
• NetBSD/arm32

NetBSD/hppa covers (for NetBSD 2.0):

• NetBSD/hp700

NetBSD/m68k covers (for NetBSD 2.0):

• NetBSD/sun3
• NetBSD/news68k
• NetBSD/mac68k
• NetBSD/amiga
• NetBSD/luna68k
• NetBSD/mvme68k
• NetBSD/x68k
• NetBSD/sun2
• NetBSD/hp300
• NetBSD/next68k
• NetBSD/atari

NetBSD/mips covers (for NetBSD 2.0):

• NetBSD/algor
• NetBSD/evbmips
• NetBSD/cobalt
• NetBSD/arc
• NetBSD/sbmips
• NetBSD/sgimips
• NetBSD/playstation2
• NetBSD/newsmips
• NetBSD/ews4800mips
• NetBSD/hpcmips
• NetBSD/mipsco
• NetBSD/pmax

NetBSD/ns32k covers (for NetBSD 2.0):

• NetBSD/pc532

NetBSD/powerpc covers (for NetBSD 2.0):

• NetBSD/mvmeppc
• NetBSD/prep
• NetBSD/bebox
• NetBSD/ofppc
• NetBSD/amigappc
• NetBSD/walnut
• NetBSD/evbppc
• NetBSD/sandpoint
• NetBSD/ibmnws
• NetBSD/macppc
• NetBSD/pmppc

NetBSD/sh3 covers (for NetBSD 2.0):

• NetBSD/hpcsh
• NetBSD/dreamcast
• NetBSD/evbsh3
• NetBSD/mmeye

NetBSD/sh5 covers (for NetBSD 2.0):

• NetBSD/evbsh5

Changes to NetBSD/acorn26 2.0

• arm: New versions of copyin(), copyout(), and kcopy(). These make almost all user/kernel interactions faster. [briggs 20020812]
• Add support for the 82C710 multi-I/O chip, as found in (some?) A5000s. [bjh21 20030301]
• arm: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030921]
• arm: Xscale micro-optimisations for libc/libkern, plus some kernel tweaks to use the mini-data cache, and speedup cpuswitch() amongst other things. Contributed by Wasabi Systems. [scw 20031014]
• arm: Enable alignment faults on arm32. Misaligned loads/stores will now cause an exception instead of silently failing. [scw 20031025]
• arm: Change ARM9 support code to use the Dcache in write-back mode. [rearnsha 20040126]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-acorn26.

Changes to NetBSD/acorn32 2.0

• arm: New versions of copyin(), copyout(), and kcopy(). These make almost all user/kernel interactions faster. [briggs 20020812]
• arm: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030921]
• arm: Xscale micro-optimisations for libc/libkern, plus some kernel tweaks to use the mini-data cache, and speedup cpuswitch() amongst other things. Contributed by Wasabi Systems. [scw 20031014]
• arm: Enable alignment faults on arm32. Misaligned loads/stores will now cause an exception instead of silently failing. [scw 20031025]
• Substantial rewrite of vidcaudio(4). It now works, and has a manual page. [bjh21 20031231]
• sysbeep(4) removed. [bjh21 20040117]
• beep(4) removed. [bjh21 20040125]
• arm: Change ARM9 support code to use the Dcache in write-back mode. [rearnsha 20040126]
• Added iomdkbc(4) driver for IOMD keyboard and mouse ports, allowing attachment of pckbd(4) and pms(4) drivers. Removed opms(4) driver and old qms(4) driver, renaming wsqms(4) to qms(4). [bjh21 20040313]
• Generate sparkive with new bootloader for install [gavan/abs 20040608]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-acorn32.

Changes to NetBSD/algor 2.0

• mips: support fully coherent data caches on MIPS32 and MIPS64 CPUs (enabled for Au1x00 and SB-1 CPUS). [simonb 20021217]
• mips: Add R10000 cache ops, written by KIYOHARA Takashi. [tsutsui 20031005]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-algor.

Changes to NetBSD/alpha 2.0

• Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [mrg 20030919]
• Switch to GDB 5.3. [matt 20030924]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-alpha.

Changes to NetBSD/amd64 2.0

• Rename /usr/mdec/biosboot to /usr/mdec/boot and add support for booting off FAT partitions. Rename /usr/mdec/bootxx_dosfs to /usr/mdec/bootxx_msdos. Deprecate /usr/mdec/bootxx_ufs (use bootxx_ffsv1). [lukem 20031008].
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-amd64.

Changes to NetBSD/amiga 2.0

• m68k: m68k-based ports now use __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN syscall interface. [scw 20020713]
• added wsmouse support to mouse driver. [jandberg 20030922]
• m68k: Switch to GDB 5.3. [christos 20030923]
• Add polish wscons keymaps. From Pawel Chwalowski in PR 22961. [jandberg 20031025]
• Add screen types suitable for PAL displays to amidisplaycc(4) [jandberg 20031112]
• m68k: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20031127]
• Add wsfont pseudo-device to amidisplaycc(4). [jandberg 20040223]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-amiga.

Changes to NetBSD/amigappc 2.0

• powerpc: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030923]
• powerpc: Switch to GDB 5.3. [matt 20030923]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-amigappc.

Changes to NetBSD/arc 2.0

• Add support for NEC Express5800/240 R4400 EISA (NEC-J96A). [tsutsui 20021207]
• mips: support fully coherent data caches on MIPS32 and MIPS64 CPUs (enabled for Au1x00 and SB-1 CPUS). [simonb 20021217]
• Add support for the Cirrus Logic GD5428 ISA VGA console on Express5800/240 R4400 EISA (NEC-J96A) and RISCserver2200 (NEC-R96). [tsutsui 20030131]
• Fix support for DeskStation Tyne and it boots into single user. [tsutsui 20030614]
• mips: Add R10000 cache ops, written by KIYOHARA Takashi. [tsutsui 20031005]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-arc.

Changes to NetBSD/arm26 2.0

• arm: New versions of copyin(), copyout(), and kcopy(). These make almost all user/kernel interactions faster. [briggs 20020812]
• arm: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030921]
• arm: Xscale micro-optimisations for libc/libkern, plus some kernel tweaks to use the mini-data cache, and speedup cpuswitch() amongst other things. Contributed by Wasabi Systems. [scw 20031014]
• arm: Enable alignment faults on arm32. Misaligned loads/stores will now cause an exception instead of silently failing. [scw 20031025]
• arm: Change ARM9 support code to use the Dcache in write-back mode. [rearnsha 20040126]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-arm26.

Changes to NetBSD/arm32 2.0

• arm: New versions of copyin(), copyout(), and kcopy(). These make almost all user/kernel interactions faster. [briggs 20020812]
• Add new arm32 pmap contributed by Wasabi Systems. [scw 20030418]
• arm: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030921]
• arm: Xscale micro-optimisations for libc/libkern, plus some kernel tweaks to use the mini-data cache, and speedup cpuswitch() amongst other things. Contributed by Wasabi Systems. [scw 20031014]
• arm: Enable alignment faults on arm32. Misaligned loads/stores will now cause an exception instead of silently failing. [scw 20031025]
• arm: Change ARM9 support code to use the Dcache in write-back mode. [rearnsha 20040126]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-arm32.

Changes to NetBSD/atari 2.0

• m68k: m68k-based ports now use __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN syscall interface. [scw 20020713]
• m68k: Switch to GDB 5.3. [christos 20030923]
• m68k: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20031127]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-atari.

Changes to NetBSD/bebox 2.0

• powerpc: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030923]
• powerpc: Switch to GDB 5.3. [matt 20030923]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-bebox.

Changes to NetBSD/cats 2.0

• arm: New versions of copyin(), copyout(), and kcopy(). These make almost all user/kernel interactions faster. [briggs 20020812]
• arm: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030921]
• arm: Xscale micro-optimisations for libc/libkern, plus some kernel tweaks to use the mini-data cache, and speedup cpuswitch() amongst other things. Contributed by Wasabi Systems. [scw 20031014]
• arm: Enable alignment faults on arm32. Misaligned loads/stores will now cause an exception instead of silently failing. [scw 20031025]
• arm: Change ARM9 support code to use the Dcache in write-back mode. [rearnsha 20040126]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-cats.

Changes to NetBSD/cobalt 2.0

• mips: support fully coherent data caches on MIPS32 and MIPS64 CPUs (enabled for Au1x00 and SB-1 CPUS). [simonb 20021217]
• Implement first stage bootloader for the cobalt port. [cdi 20030625]
• mips: Add R10000 cache ops, written by KIYOHARA Takashi. [tsutsui 20031005]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-cobalt.

Changes to NetBSD/dreamcast 2.0

• Add support for memory card and monochrome LCD on Maple bus. [itohy 20021115]
• Add support for the SEGA LAN Adapter, based on patch in dreamcast/17493 from Christian Groessler. [tsutsui 20021227]
• sh3: Switch to GDB 5.3. [uwe 20031027]
• Add an Xserver for dreamcast, based on work by Yasushi Oshima. [tsutsui 20031223]
• sh3: Switch to GCC 3.3. [uwe 20040222]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-dreamcast.

Changes to NetBSD/evbarm 2.0

• Add support for the Intel IXM1200 eval board for the ixp12x0 Network Processor. [ichiro 20020715]
• arm: New versions of copyin(), copyout(), and kcopy(). These make almost all user/kernel interactions faster. [briggs 20020812]
• Add support for the NOVATEC NTNP425B eval board for the Intel IXP425 Network Processor. [ichiro 20030523]
• Add support for the Samsung SMDK2410 eval board for the S3C2410 Processor. [bsh 20030804]
• arm: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030921]
• arm: Xscale micro-optimisations for libc/libkern, plus some kernel tweaks to use the mini-data cache, and speedup cpuswitch() amongst other things. Contributed by Wasabi Systems. [scw 20031014]
• arm: Enable alignment faults on arm32. Misaligned loads/stores will now cause an exception instead of silently failing. [scw 20031025]
• arm: Change ARM9 support code to use the Dcache in write-back mode. [rearnsha 20040126]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbarm.

Changes to NetBSD/evbmips 2.0

• mips: support fully coherent data caches on MIPS32 and MIPS64 CPUs (enabled for Au1x00 and SB-1 CPUS). [simonb 20021217]
• mips: Add R10000 cache ops, written by KIYOHARA Takashi. [tsutsui 20031005]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbmips.

Changes to NetBSD/evbppc 2.0

• Added arch/evbppc for PowerPC-based evaluation boards, with the existing Walnut port as its first member. [scw 20021209]
• Add support for the NCD Explora451 ThinClient. [hannken 20030311]
• powerpc: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030923]
• powerpc: Switch to GDB 5.3. [matt 20030923]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbppc.

Changes to NetBSD/evbsh3 2.0

• sh3: Switch to GDB 5.3. [uwe 20031027]
• sh3: Switch to GCC 3.3. [uwe 20040222]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbsh3.

Changes to NetBSD/evbsh5 2.0

• sh5: Added support for the SuperH SH-5 CPU architecture. [scw 20020705]
• sh5: Shared libraries now supported on SH5 (but not yet enabled in bsd.own.mk due to sundry toolchain issues). [scw 20030325]
• sh5: Switch sh5 to the in-tree toolchain, albeit somewhat hobbled. [scw 20031207]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbsh5.

Changes to NetBSD/hp300 2.0

• m68k: m68k-based ports now use __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN syscall interface. [scw 20020713]
• Switch to MI SCSI at last. [tsutsui 20030801]
• m68k: Switch to GDB 5.3. [christos 20030923]
• Switch DCA and APCI serial devices to use MI com(4) driver. [tsutsui 20031108]
• m68k: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20031127]
• Fix a longstanding bug in console attachment functions, so that now DIO based framebuffers (mostly used on HP4xx machines) can be used as console again. [tsutsui 20040408]
• Fix some bugs in apci serial which was switched to MI com(4), so that now it's actually functional. [tsutsui 20040410]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-hp300.

Changes to NetBSD/hp700 2.0

• None recorded in changes log.
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-hp700.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcarm 2.0

• X server for the Jornada 720 now works [manu 20020722]
• arm: New versions of copyin(), copyout(), and kcopy(). These make almost all user/kernel interactions faster. [briggs 20020812]
• arm: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030921]
• arm: Xscale micro-optimisations for libc/libkern, plus some kernel tweaks to use the mini-data cache, and speedup cpuswitch() amongst other things. Contributed by Wasabi Systems. [scw 20031014]
• arm: Enable alignment faults on arm32. Misaligned loads/stores will now cause an exception instead of silently failing. [scw 20031025]
• arm: Change ARM9 support code to use the Dcache in write-back mode. [rearnsha 20040126]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcarm.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcmips 2.0

• mips: support fully coherent data caches on MIPS32 and MIPS64 CPUs (enabled for Au1x00 and SB-1 CPUS). [simonb 20021217]
• mips: Add R10000 cache ops, written by KIYOHARA Takashi. [tsutsui 20031005]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcmips.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcsh 2.0

• Added j6x0tp(4) driver for Jornada 680/690 touch screen. [uwe 20031019]
• sh3: Switch to GDB 5.3. [uwe 20031027]
• sh3: Switch to GCC 3.3. [uwe 20040222]
• Enable building of Xhpc server for hpcsh. [uwe 20040222]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcsh.

Changes to NetBSD/i386 2.0

• merge the sommerfeld_i386mp_1 branch [fvdl 20021001]
• reworked interrupt code to be more independent of the underlying interrupt controller, to perform better with shared lines, and to be more clean in general [fvdl 20021122]
• biosboot bootblocks now support booting off 2.88MB drive using 1.44MB floppy disk [jdolecek 20021204]
• Add LFS support to bootblocks [simonb 20030224]
• New boot code. Uses MI installboot and filesystem code to load 2nd level bootstrap. Allows NetBSD partition to be in the extended partition. [dsl 20030728]
• Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [mrg 20030919]
• Rename /usr/mdec/biosboot to /usr/mdec/boot and add support for booting off FAT partitions. Rename /usr/mdec/bootxx_dosfs to /usr/mdec/bootxx_msdos. Deprecate /usr/mdec/bootxx_ufs (use bootxx_ffsv1). [lukem 20031008].
• pmap changed from linked list to splay tree for better performance. [provos 20031022]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-i386.

Changes to NetBSD/ibmnws 2.0

• powerpc: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030923]
• powerpc: Switch to GDB 5.3. [matt 20030923]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-ibmnws.

Changes to NetBSD/iyonix 2.0

• arm: New versions of copyin(), copyout(), and kcopy(). These make almost all user/kernel interactions faster. [briggs 20020812]
• arm: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030921]
• arm: Xscale micro-optimisations for libc/libkern, plus some kernel tweaks to use the mini-data cache, and speedup cpuswitch() amongst other things. Contributed by Wasabi Systems. [scw 20031014]
• arm: Enable alignment faults on arm32. Misaligned loads/stores will now cause an exception instead of silently failing. [scw 20031025]
• arm: Change ARM9 support code to use the Dcache in write-back mode. [rearnsha 20040126]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-iyonix.

Changes to NetBSD/luna68k 2.0

• m68k: m68k-based ports now use __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN syscall interface. [scw 20020713]
• m68k: Switch to GDB 5.3. [christos 20030923]
• m68k: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20031127]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-luna68k.

Changes to NetBSD/mac68k 2.0

• m68k: m68k-based ports now use __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN syscall interface. [scw 20020713]
• m68k: Switch to GDB 5.3. [christos 20030923]
• m68k: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20031127]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-mac68k.

Changes to NetBSD/macppc 2.0

• finished support for 2nd CPU on 9500/180MP and 9600/200MP [chs 20020728]
• added support for 2nd CPU on dual G4 boxes [chs 20020805]
• powerpc: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030923]
• powerpc: Switch to GDB 5.3. [matt 20030923]
• added driver for snapper audio found on some iBook and PowerBook models [grant 20031227]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-macppc.

Changes to NetBSD/mipsco 2.0

• mips: support fully coherent data caches on MIPS32 and MIPS64 CPUs (enabled for Au1x00 and SB-1 CPUS). [simonb 20021217]
• mips: Add R10000 cache ops, written by KIYOHARA Takashi. [tsutsui 20031005]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-mipsco.

Changes to NetBSD/mmeye 2.0

• sh3: Switch to GDB 5.3. [uwe 20031027]
• sh3: Switch to GCC 3.3. [uwe 20040222]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-mmeye.

Changes to NetBSD/mvme68k 2.0

• m68k: m68k-based ports now use __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN syscall interface. [scw 20020713]
• m68k: Switch to GDB 5.3. [christos 20030923]
• m68k: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20031127]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-mvme68k.

Changes to NetBSD/mvmeppc 2.0

• powerpc: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030923]
• powerpc: Switch to GDB 5.3. [matt 20030923]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-mvmeppc.

Changes to NetBSD/netwinder 2.0

• arm: New versions of copyin(), copyout(), and kcopy(). These make almost all user/kernel interactions faster. [briggs 20020812]
• Add wscons support. [uwe 20030614]
• arm: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030921]
• arm: Xscale micro-optimisations for libc/libkern, plus some kernel tweaks to use the mini-data cache, and speedup cpuswitch() amongst other things. Contributed by Wasabi Systems. [scw 20031014]
• arm: Enable alignment faults on arm32. Misaligned loads/stores will now cause an exception instead of silently failing. [scw 20031025]
• arm: Change ARM9 support code to use the Dcache in write-back mode. [rearnsha 20040126]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-netwinder.

Changes to NetBSD/news68k 2.0

• m68k: m68k-based ports now use __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN syscall interface. [scw 20020713]
• m68k: Switch to GDB 5.3. [christos 20030923]
• m68k: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20031127]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-news68k.

Changes to NetBSD/newsmips 2.0

• mips: support fully coherent data caches on MIPS32 and MIPS64 CPUs (enabled for Au1x00 and SB-1 CPUS). [simonb 20021217]
• mips: Add R10000 cache ops, written by KIYOHARA Takashi. [tsutsui 20031005]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-newsmips.

Changes to NetBSD/next68k 2.0

• m68k: m68k-based ports now use __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN syscall interface. [scw 20020713]
• m68k: Switch to GDB 5.3. [christos 20030923]
• m68k: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20031127]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-next68k.

Changes to NetBSD/ofppc 2.0

• powerpc: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030923]
• powerpc: Switch to GDB 5.3. [matt 20030923]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-ofppc.

Changes to NetBSD/pc532 2.0

• None recorded in changes log.
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-pc532.

Changes to NetBSD/playstation2 2.0

• mips: support fully coherent data caches on MIPS32 and MIPS64 CPUs (enabled for Au1x00 and SB-1 CPUS). [simonb 20021217]
• mips: Add R10000 cache ops, written by KIYOHARA Takashi. [tsutsui 20031005]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-playstation2.

Changes to NetBSD/pmax 2.0

• mips: support fully coherent data caches on MIPS32 and MIPS64 CPUs (enabled for Au1x00 and SB-1 CPUS). [simonb 20021217]
• mips: Add R10000 cache ops, written by KIYOHARA Takashi. [tsutsui 20031005]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-pmax.

Changes to NetBSD/pmppc 2.0

• a port to Artesyn's PM/PPC board. [augustss 20020531]
• powerpc: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030923]
• powerpc: Switch to GDB 5.3. [matt 20030923]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-pmppc.

Changes to NetBSD/prep 2.0

• support IBM RS/6000 43P 7043-140. [nonaka 20020530]
• powerpc: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030923]
• powerpc: Switch to GDB 5.3. [matt 20030923]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-prep.

Changes to NetBSD/sandpoint 2.0

• powerpc: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030923]
• powerpc: Switch to GDB 5.3. [matt 20030923]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sandpoint.

Changes to NetBSD/sbmips 2.0

• mips: support fully coherent data caches on MIPS32 and MIPS64 CPUs (enabled for Au1x00 and SB-1 CPUS). [simonb 20021217]
• mips: Add R10000 cache ops, written by KIYOHARA Takashi. [tsutsui 20031005]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sbmips.

Changes to NetBSD/sgimips 2.0

• mips: support fully coherent data caches on MIPS32 and MIPS64 CPUs (enabled for Au1x00 and SB-1 CPUS). [simonb 20021217]
• Add haltwo(4), a driver for the SGI HAL2 audio controller [lonewolf 20030925]
• mips: Add R10000 cache ops, written by KIYOHARA Takashi. [tsutsui 20031005]
• O2 (IP32) support is now functional again by fixes contributed by Christopher SEKIYA. [tsutsui 20031005]
• Add newport(4), a driver for SGI NG1 graphics controller and enable console on it and pckbc on IP22 machines. [lonewolf 20031215]
• Add IP12 support. [pooka 20040411]
• Add support for on-board MACE MAC-110 Ethernet on O2. [tsutsui 20040711]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sgimips.

Changes to NetBSD/sparc 2.0

• The nell (STP4020) pcmcia bridge driver is now finished. [martin 20030107]
• MULTIPROCESSOR support works. [pk,mrg 20030111]
• Update sparc port to use XFree86 4.x base. [mrg 20030722]
• Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [mrg 20030919]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sparc.

Changes to NetBSD/sparc64 2.0

• Add sab driver for sab82532 serial controller. Written by Jason L. Wright for OpenBSD. [petrov 20020816]
• Find the correct boot path for all IDE disks. [mrg 20021102]
• The nell (STP4020) pcmcia bridge driver is now finished. [martin 20030107]
• Add support for PCI-CardBus bridge. [nakayama 20030322]
• Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [mrg 20030919]
• restartable atomic sequences (RAS) implemented. [martin 20040106]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sparc64.

Changes to NetBSD/sun2 2.0

• m68k: m68k-based ports now use __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN syscall interface. [scw 20020713]
• m68k: Switch to GDB 5.3. [christos 20030923]
• Switch to GCC 3.3.2. [mrg 20031104]
• m68k: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20031127]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sun2.

Changes to NetBSD/sun3 2.0

• m68k: m68k-based ports now use __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN syscall interface. [scw 20020713]
• m68k: Switch to GDB 5.3. [christos 20030923]
• m68k: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20031127]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sun3.

Changes to NetBSD/vax 2.0

• Add device driver for RX01/RX02 floppies (rfc/rf). From Jochen Kunz. [ragge 20030323]
• Add support for the DELQA-PLUS in Turbo mode (qt). Driver written by Steven M. Schultz for 2.11BSD. [ragge 20030829]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-vax.

Changes to NetBSD/walnut 2.0

• powerpc: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20030923]
• powerpc: Switch to GDB 5.3. [matt 20030923]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-walnut.

Changes to NetBSD/x68k 2.0

• m68k: m68k-based ports now use __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN syscall interface. [scw 20020713]
• add bmd(4), memory disk driver for Nereid bank memory. [isaki 20021201]
• m68k: Switch to GDB 5.3. [christos 20030923]
• m68k: Switch to GCC 3.3.1. [matt 20031127]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-x68k.

Changes to NetBSD/xen 2.0

• None recorded in changes log.
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-xen.

Non port-specific changes (top)

/etc/daily

• Suppress empty security reports by default. [jhawk 20030221]

/etc/security

• Allow more flexibility in warnings from check_passwd and check_mtree. [jhawk 20030213]
• Produce unified diffs by default. [jhawk 20030221]

aac(4)

• Add support for Adaptec 2200S (Vulcan 2M) & Dell PERC 320/DC [gendalia 20040326]

agp(4)

• Add support for i865G integrated graphics. [tron 20030826]

am-utils

• upgrade to 6.1b1 [christos 20021129]
• update to 6.1b2 [christos 20030309]

amd(8)

• add new mount option "xlatecookie" to support NFS v3 mounts with cookie translation. [tron 20020614]

amdpm(4)

• driver for AMD768 Power Management Controller (but currently an interface to rnd(4) only.) [enami 20020602]

artsata(4)

• Split i31244 support out of piixide(4) and into the new artsata(4) driver. [thorpej 20031213]

as(1)

• Fixed bug in how NetBSD ARM ELF binaries were marked. They now properly reflect ATPCS + Soft-VFP. [thorpej 20021121]

auich(4)

• Added support for ICH4 and SiS 7012. [kent 20020807]
• Added support for nForce2 MCP-T. [gendalia 20030116]
• Added support for four channels and six channels audio playback. [kent 20030928]

auvia(4)

• Added support for VT8233/VT8235 [kent 20021005]
• Enabled sampling rate conversion for fixed-rate AC'97 codec [kent 20021008]

awk(1)

• Updated gawk to 3.1.3. [wiz 20031006]
• switched from GNU awk to The One True New AWK by B.W.Kernighan. [jdolecek 20040313]

basename(3)

• Change to return pointer to static storage, rather than modifying their input arguments. The new behavior is explicitly allowed by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. [thorpej 20021016]

binutils

• updated to FSF binutils 2.13.2.1 release. [mrg 20030228]
• updated to FSF binutils 2.14 release. [mrg 20031126]
• Switch all platforms to binutils 2.14. [mrg 20031203]

boot(8)

• allow path to init(8) to be entered when booting with RB_ASKNAME ("boot -a"). [lukem 20020823]

bpm(1)

• add a text-only menu-based binary package manager [agc 20031221]

brconfig(8)

• add ipf support. [perseant 20030216]

bridge(4)

• add ipf support. [perseant 20030216]

build system

• Users and groups for the build are now obtained from src/etc instead of the host systems' passwd(5) and group(5) databases. [lukem 20021219]
• Releases are now installed under ${RELEASEDIR}/${MACHINE} instead of ${RELEASEDIR}. [lukem 20030103]

build.sh

• add '-k kernel', to configure and build the given kernel using the new toolchain. From Alan Barrett in PR#18739. [lukem 20021021]
• add -E, to enable "expert mode", which allows builds to DESTDIR=/. [lukem 20021208]
• Add '-i installworlddir', to run "make installworld" after all other operations have completed. [lukem 20021225]
• Rework command line into command line options followed by a list of operations to perform. [lukem 20030123]
• Provide defaults for DESTDIR and RELEASEDIR if not in expert mode. Display summary of operations performed at end. [lukem 20030508]
• Add "sourcesets" option to build the source sets. [lukem 20030510]
• Add '-N noisyness', to control how "noisy" the build is. [lukem 20031025]
• add -x and -X to control building of xsrc. [lukem 20040206]

ccdconfig(8)

• add CCDF_NOLABEL to ignore the on-disk (raw) disklabel when creating a ccd. [lukem 20031017]

cgd(4)

• Add CryptoGraphic Disk driver, cgd(4). [elric 20021004]

chflags(1)

• Change default behaviour to follow symlinks on the command line rather than ignoring them, finally fixing PR 563. [bjh21 20020707]

chgrp(1)

• Change default behaviour to follow symlinks on the command line rather than ignoring them, finally fixing PR 563. [bjh21 20020707]

chmod(1)

• Change default behaviour to follow symlinks on the command line rather than ignoring them, finally fixing PR 563. [bjh21 20020707]

chown(8)

• Change default behaviour to follow symlinks on the command line rather than ignoring them, finally fixing PR 563. [bjh21 20020707]

compat_irix(8)

• sproc emulation supports share groups with private memory mappings. [manu 20020922]

config(9)

• Allow pseudo-devices to be parents of "real" devices. [thorpej 20021009]
• Allow options to register dependencies on attributes (the way it already can for other options). [thorpej 20021010]
• Allow devices to be orphaned in the kernel config file, but emit an informational message when this happens. [thorpej 20021010]

cpio(1)

• We are now using pax(1) for those instead of the gnu version. [christos 20021016]
• removed GNU cpio (replaced by pax frontend). [wiz 20030118]

cron(8)

• Move default cron log from /var/cron/log to /var/log/cron [perry 20030402]

crunchgen(1)

• Use "objcopy --redefine-syms-file". [simonb 20030129]

cvs(1)

• upgrade to 1.11.2 [christos 20021127]
• upgraded to 1.11.4 [wiz 20030116]
• upgraded to 1.11.5. [wiz 20030121]
• $CVS_RSH defaults to ssh (instead of rsh). [itojun 20030620]
• upgrade to 1.11.10 [itojun 20031210]
• upgrade to 1.11.11 [itojun 20040102]
• update to 1.11.15. [itojun 20040416]
• cvs-1.11.16 via patch [christos 20040519]
• cvs upgraded to 1.11.17 [christos 20040616]

dab(6)

• Import Dots+Boxes game. [christos 20031226]

daily.conf(5)

• Suppress empty security reports by default. [jhawk 20030221]

db(1)

• Added. Manipulates db(3) btree(3) and hash(3) databases. [lukem 20021211]
• Add '-S chr', '-T str' and '-X str' to specify (with options) strvis(3) encoding of keys/values when reading a database. Add '-U chr' to specify strunvis(3) decoding of keys/values when writing a database or deleting entries from a database. [seb 20030519]

df(1)

• add -g argument for output in gigabytes [grant 20030418]

dge(4)

• add support for Intel PRO/10GbE ethernet adapter. [ragge 20040312]

diff(1)

• upgraded to diffutils-2.8.1 [wiz 20030126]

diff3(1)

• upgraded to diffutils-2.8.1 [wiz 20030126]

dirname(3)

• Change to return pointer to static storage, rather than modifying their input arguments. The new behavior is explicitly allowed by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. [thorpej 20021016]

disklabel(8)

• On i386 & amd64, preserve the MBR and partition table even on disks without a NetBSD MBR partition. [lukem 20040119]

dlsym(3)

• Add support for RTLD_DEFAULT, RTLD_NEXT and RTLD_SELF [christos,skrll 20030812]

dmover(4)

• Added dmover(4) API, interface to hardware-assisted data movers. [thorpej 20020801]

du(1)

• add -g argument for output in gigabytes [grant 20030418]

dump(8)

• remove setgid tty, as "wall -g operator" is now used to notify operators. [lukem 20030327]

dump_lfs(8)

• remove setgid tty, as "wall -g operator" is now used to notify operators. [lukem 20030327]

eap(4)

• Add support for second DAC [pooka 20021104]

editline(3)

• Provide public interfaces to the internal line tokenization routines. [lukem 20031205]

edquota(8)

• Added command-line options to allow setting quotas from command line. [bouyer 20021204]

etc/postinstall

• Add support for examining the obsolete sets for obsolete entries to check or remove. [lukem 20021117]

etc/release

• Create & install as part of "make build", based on work by Hubert Feyrer. [lukem 20040104]

ex(4)

• Added support for 3c905CX-TX. [gendalia 20030116]

factor(6)

• Use a Pollard Rho algorithm to factor arbitrary sized numbers. [simonb 20020615]

fdisk(8)

• Preserve the Drive Serial Number at bytes 440-443 of the MBR. [lukem 20040322]

file(1)

• update to 3.39. [pooka 20020709]
• update to 4.00. [pooka 20030326]
• update to 4.03. [pooka 20030525]
• update to 4.04. [pooka 20030925]
• update to 4.06. [pooka 20031027]
• update to 4.08. [pooka 20040323]

find(1)

• allow preceding +/- on numeric arg to -user. [jhawk 20030130]

fparseln(3)

• migrated from libutil to libc. [lukem 20021130]

fsdb(8)

• add a findblk command, which lists the inode(s) owning the disk sector(s) specified as argument. [bouyer 20030426]

fss(4)

• Add file system snapshot pseudo driver. [hannken 20031210]

ftp(1)

• $FTPUSERAGENT overrides the default HTTP User-Agent. [lukem 20030731]

ftpd(8)

• optionally and experimentally use mmap(2) instead of read(2) for binary file transfer [enami 20020530]

gcc(1)

• Fixed bug in how NetBSD ARM ELF binaries were marked. They now properly reflect ATPCS + Soft-VFP. [thorpej 20021121]
• Import GCC 3.3.1-20030720. [mrg 20030723]
• Import GCC 3.3.1. [mrg 20030809]
• Import GCC 3.3.2. [mrg 20031018]
• Import GCC 3.3.3-20040209. [mrg 20040210]
• Import GCC 3.3.3. [mrg 20040301]

gcore(1)

• Add it back. [christos 20030123]

gdb(1)

• Import gdb-5.3 and add support for i386 [christos 20030814]
• All platforms updated to GDB 5.3. [mrg 20031127]

geodeide(4)

• Added driver for the AMD Geode CS5530A IDE controller [bouyer 20040709]

greconfig(8)

• obsoleted. use ifconfig(8) for configuration. [itojun 20020609]

grep(1)

• upgraded to 2.5. Warning: -o is now a valid GNU grep option (--only-matching (-o)), so we will not be supporting the 4.4BSD -o any longer -- use -H instead. [wiz 20030127]
• upgraded to 2.5.1. [wiz 20030213]

groff(1)

• Updated to 1.19. [wiz 20030630]

gspahextoc

• was obsoleted by the -c option to gspa(1) a long time ago, and has thus been removed [is 20020607]

gzip(1)

• Switch to non GPL gzip. [mrg 20040326]

hunt(6)

• Synced with current version from 2003-04-16, which is BSD licensed. [wiz 20030610]

huntd(6)

• Synced with current version from 2003-04-16, which is BSD licensed. [wiz 20030610]

i2c

• New generic i2c framework, supporting bit-bang and "intelligent" controllers. [thorpej 20030929]

iavc(4)

• Add support for AVM B1 PCI CAPI-compatible ISDN adapters. [pooka 20030925]

iconv(1)

• Added. [tshiozak 20030627]

identd(8)

• Replaced with a newly written one that has all the features of pidentd, plus ipv6 support and cleaner implementation. This version of identd is written by Peter Postma. [christos 20040131]

ifmedia(4)

• Added new "ibss", "ibss-master", and "hostap" ifmedia media options for 802.11 interfaces. [thorpej 20020810]

inet(3)

• align signatures of inet_addr(), inet_network(), inet_makeaddr(), inet_lnaof(), and inet_netof() with XNS and POSIX. [bjh21 20030505]

inetd(8)

• Use kqueue(2) for enhanced performance and scalability. [tron 20030212]

install(1)

• added -N dbdir, to specify different location for user and group databases. [lukem 20021219]
• Make "copy the file" (the -c option) the default behaviour. [simonb 20031229]
• Add -h {none,md5,rmd160,sha1} to determine the appropriate hash (digest) of a copied file to store in the -M METALOG. [lukem 20040129]

installboot(8)

• On i386, preserve BIOS Parameter Block and MBR partition table. [lukem 20031008]
• Add support for next68k. [cl 20031027]

iop(4)

• Add support for Adaptec 2000S and 2005S [msaitoh 20021108]

iostat(8)

• report read/write stats in iostat -x. [mrg 20021101]

ipf(8)

• updated to version 3.4.29. [martti 20020919]
• updated to version 4.1.1. [martti 20040328]

ipsec

• support hmac-ripemd160 and aes-xcbc-mac for AH/ESP auth. support aes-ctr for ESP. [itojun 20030725]

ipsec(4)

• support hmac-sha2 for AH/ESP auth. [itojun 20030722]

isdncapi(4)

• Add a support layer for CAPI to i4b. [pooka 20030925]

iwic(4)

• Add driver for Winbond W6692 ISDN [pooka 20020924]

kernel

• Socket buffer insertion is now O(C). This can provide a substantial performance boost to some applications which use large socket buffers. [thorpej 20020703]
• Removed the old rmap code, <sys/map.h> and kern/subr_rmap.c. [thorpej 20020925]
• Overhaul device parent matching; now record attributes in a "parent spec" in the kernel. [thorpej 20020925]
• Don't reference cfdriver structures directly in the cfdata entries; instead, a string names the driver, which is looked up from a list that is built at run-time. [thorpej 20020926]
• Don't reference cfattach structures directly in the cfdata entries; instead, a string names the attachment, which is looked up from a list that is built at run-time. [thorpej 20021003]
• kqueue branch merged [jdolecek 20021023]
• keep separate read & write disk statistics. [mrg 20021101]
• Added two sysctl(8) flags to stop process just after creation by fork(2) or exec(2). [manu 20021106]
• Added a sysctl(8) flag to control whether the kernel dumps to the dump device on panic. [atatat 20030210]
• SMBFS support, ported from FreeBSD. [jdolecek 20030218]
• Top down memory management option added, initially for i386, but others are following. [atatat 20030220]
• Add LFSv2 support to libsa [simonb 20030224]
• Add MBUFTRACE kernel option. Change all MGET*(...M_WAIT,...) to m_get*(M_WAIT, ...) to shrink kernel. Add m_clget analogue to MCLGET and use it if M_WAIT is passed. Adapt netinet, if_loop, gem, tulip, fxp driver to MBUFTRACE. Bump version to 1.6P. [matt 20030226]
• Report correct child CPU times. [dsl 20030305]
• Use common code for set{u,g}id functions. [dsl 20030305]
• let LFS use the UBC system natively. This should provide complete coherency between mmap(2) and read(2)/write(2) on LFS, in addition to allowing it to use much more memory for its buffers. [perseant 20030308]
• New pid allocator - avoids all the searching in pfind() etc. Bump version to 1.6Q. [dsl 20030319]
• SMBFS uses low-overhead NT Directory Change Notify SMB to watch for vnode kqueue(2) events on directories [jdolecek 20030407]
• hostap power saving mode support [kml 20030407]
• pool caches now have the ability to cache physical addresses of objects. [thorpej 20030409]
• mbufs use new cached physical address feature of pools, and can provide other information about external buffers to save work for bus_dma back-ends. Use this information in the ARM and x86 bus_dma back-ends to improve network performance. [thorpej 20030409]
• added a sysctl(8) flag to check and reject packets arriving on the "wrong" interface. [christos 20030412]
• Add support for non-executable mappings for many platforms. Map the stack and heap non-executable. [chs 20030824]
• Enhance LKM versioning, and improve compatibility checking on LKM load [jdolecek 20030906]
• Add support for SA_SIGINFO on i386 [christos 20030907]
• Add support for SA_SIGINFO on powerpc. [matt 20030925]
• Add a /dev/constty device (minor 1 on console), use for terminal sessions on 'console'. Stops terminal output being 'stolen' by the TIOCCONS ioctl. [dsl 20031003]
• new memory allocation scheme for the buffer cache. [pk 20031230]
• New "audiobell" code to play console bells through audio device. [bjh21 20040117]
• add underlying support needed to support multiple mbuf cluster sizes. [matt 20040209]
• Abstracted device interface presented by pckbd(4) so that the same pckbd(4) and pms(4) drivers can be used on systems with different controller chips. [bjh21 20040313]

kernel and userland

• UFS2 support from Kirk McKusick via FreeBSD. [fvdl 20030402]

kprintf(9)

• Add "aprint" family of autoconfiguration message printing routines that change their behavior based on flags in boothowto. [thorpej 20021231]

less(1)

• update to less-381. [mrg 20030414]

lib/csu

• Split crtbegin/crtend into crti/crtbegin/crtend/crtn. This is inline with what other ELF systems do, and paves the way to using GCC-supplied crtbegin/crtend. [thorpej 20021121]

libc

• Add _Exit(), the C99 name for _exit(). [bjh21 20030301]
• added slovak language libc message catalog. [salo 20030414]
• Add iconv support. [tshiozak 20030627]
• Add strcasestr(3), case insensitive version of strstr(3). [junyoung 20040703]

libcrypt

• support bcrypt password entries. can be chosen with "blowfish" keyword in passwd.conf. from openbsd [itojun 20020524]

libcrypto

• mdc2 is a patented algorithm, so move it out of libcrypto. if you need mdc2, define MKCRYPTO_MDC2 to get libcrypto_mdc2.a. [itojun 20020926]
• upgrade to 0.9.7b. [itojun 20030724]
• upgrade to 0.9.7c. [itojun 20031104]

libcurses

• add KEY_RESIZE, SIGWINCH handler and support for more colour pairs. [jdc 20040322]
• add *echochar() functions. [jdc 20040328]

libm

• Add C99 functions round(3) and roundf(3). [junyoung 20040710]

libmagic

• add libmagic, which is currently used by file(1) [pooka 20030326]

libpthread

• Add pthread_{,attr}_{get,set}name_np() API, compatible with Tru64 Unix. [thorpej 20030227]

libtelnet

• no longer shipped under /usr/lib [itojun 20030716]

locale(1)

• Added. Obtained from FreeBSD. [tshiozak 20030704]

locate(1)

• Make locate.updatedb customizable by configuration file /etc/locate.conf. [itohy 20040206]

lpd(8)

• add libwrap support. [itojun 20020812]

makedev(8)

• platform device creation script is now generated from unified template driven by platform config file and MD device major lists. [jdolecek 20031024]
• use mknod(8) -r for faster operation and to retain permissions on existing devices. [lukem 20031221]

malloc(9)

• Add extensible kernel malloc types, adapted from FreeBSD. [thorpej 20030131]

mdsetimage