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Updated: Wed May 14 18:30:07 2008

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May 2008

fs/udf
Added write support for the UDF file system. [reinoud 20080514]
getent(1)
Added support for "netgroup" database. [tron 20080514]
openssl
Imported 20080509 current snapshot. [christos 20080509]
aac(4)
Added IBM ServeRAID 8k support. [sborrill 20080508]
drm(4)
Added amd64 support. [jmcneill 20080504]
hpqlb(4)
Hotkey driver for HP notebooks. [cegger 20080501]
tests
Convert the tests in the tests/ hierarchy that were written in C++ to C, making use of the libatf-c library that comes with the ATF 0.5 just imported. [jmmv 20080501]
atf(7)
Import 0.5. [jmmv 20080501]

April 2008

prep
Bootable ISO now built automatically. [garbled 20080430]
ppbus(4)
Extend to attach on gpiobus. From Hans Rosenfeld. [cegger 20080429]
gpio(4)
Extend with open/close to handle request/release the ppbus(4) on open/close. From Hans Rosenfeld. [cegger 20080429]
prep
Support for floppy controller/drive. [garbled 20080428]
arm
merge armv6 kernel support from matt-armv6 branch. [matt 20080427]
netiso
Remove obsolete TPCONS support. [plunky 20080423]
amdtemp(4)
AMD CPU Temperature driver. Adapted from OpenBSD. [cegger 20080423]
shark
Support for X on rev. 4 sharks is back [macallan 20080419]
libcurses
Add getwin() and putwin(). [jdc 20080414]
acpi(4)
Updated ACPI-CA to 20080321. [jmcneill 20080412]
opencrypto
Improve performance to 84,000 short modular math ops/sec by adding asynchronous operation and batched submit/ retrieve of requests/results. Rewrite manual page to make it easier to write new code to the API. Donated by Coyote Point Systems, Inc. [tls 20080410]
ofppc
Support for SMP added. [garbled 20080408]
openssh
Import 5.0. [christos 20080406]
hp700
Add support for the SCSI NCR 53C720 SCSI controller found in early HP 9000s for the attachment of an Fast-Wide (16-bit) SCSI-2 bus, utilizing HVD signalling via the siop(4) driver. [skrll 20080405]
finsio(4)
Added a driver for the Fintek Super I/O chips, supporting the Hardware Monitor device. Adapted from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20080403]
zaurus
Add sysinst support. [chris 20080401]

March 2008

asus(4)
Added a driver for ASUS ACPI hotkeys as found in the EeePC. [jmcneill 20080331]
azalia(4)
Added support for the Realtek ALC662-GR codec as found in the EeePC. [jmcneill 20080331]
lii(4)
Added a driver for the Atheros L2 Fast-Ethernet controller, notably found on Asus's EeePC. [cube 20080328]
cobalt
Add kernel support for optional Z85C30 serial on Qube 2700. [tsutsui 20080327]
kerberos
Upgrade to Heimdal-1.1. [mlelstv 20080322]
libcurses
Add termattrs() and term_attrs(). [jdc 20080321]
bzip2(1)
Upgrade to 1.0.5. [christos 20080318]
cobalt
Fix a botched spl(9) bug which could cause network freeze on traffic between two network interfaces. [tsutsui 20080318]
re(4)
Make hardware vlan(4) tag insertion/extraction work properly. [tsutsui 20080318]
cobalt
Add bootloader support for optional Z85C30 serial on Qube 2700. [tsutsui 20080316]
sparc64
SMP support now works on some models. [nakayama 20080314]
cobalt
Print startup and shutdown messages on LCD panel. [tsutsui 20080304]
cobalt
Add netboot support for 21041 on Qube 2700. [tsutsui 20080301]

Febuary 2008

mfi(4)
Added support for LSI SAS1078 and Dell PERC 6, from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20080225]
monop(6)
Save and restore format changed; compatibility with old save files broken, but they were not usable anyway. [dholland 20080223]
puc(4)
Add support for I-O DATA RSA-PCI 2 port serial board. [tsutsui 20080222]
powerpc
Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy(3), memmove(3) and memcmp(3). [garbled 20080221]
ofppc
Add support for the 7046-B50. [garbled 2008-02-13]
iwn(4)
Added a driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless Lan 4965AGN Mini-PCI Adapter, ported from OpenBSD. [ober 20080209]
modules
Added the MKMODULAR option to the build system to easily enable the build of the new kernel modules framework. [jmmv 20080209]
sgimips
Add hardware acceleration for crmfb [macallan 20080205]
atf(7)
Import 0.4. [jmmv 20080204]
gcc(1)
Updated to version 4.1.3-20080202. [mrg 20080202]
cobalt
Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20080202]
arc
Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20080202]

January 2008

azalia(4)
Analog Devices AD1984 codec support has been improved to support headphones and 4 channel playback, and now exposes an outputs.master mixer control that mirrors the inputs.dac mixer control to make libossaudio happy. [jmcneill 20080130]
openpam(3)
upgrade to 20071221 [christos 20080126]
hpcmips
Fix silent hangup problem on TX3922 machines. From Risto Sainio. [tsutsui 20080126]
sgimips
Enable bootinfo passed from bootloader so that now kernel symbol table and ksyms(4) are usable. [tsutsui 20080126]
nfe(4)
Wakeup some newer chips from powerdown mode. From FreeBSD/Linux driver via OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20080126]
hostapd(8), wpa_supplicant(8)
Upgrade to 0.6.2 [christos 20080126]
kernel
The interface for IP checksumming was changed to reduce duplication and more general use. [joerg 20080125]
uhub(4)
The device attachment function has been optimized to improve system startup time. [jmcneill 20080124]
xen
Added support for the i386 PAE extention to Xen3 domU [bouyer 20080123]
compat_linux32
Add ossaudio(3) support. [jmcneill 20080121]
usb(4)
Add uhmodem(4) driver for Huawei E220 wireless modem. [ichiro 20080121]
kernel
All platforms have been converted to use timecounter(9). [joerg 20080120]
fdisk(8)
Fix possible division by zero errors. [tsutsui 20080120]
ofppc
Add support for the IBM 7044-270. [garbled 20080117]
bktr(4)
Added amd64 support. [jmcneill 20080116]
modules
Added new versions of modload(8), modstat(8) and modunload(8) that use modctl(2). Not built by default. [ad 20080116]
kernel
Added a new framework for kernel modules, enabled through the MODULAR kernel option and used through the modctl(2) system call. [ad 20080116]
schedctl(8)
A new program to control scheduling of processes and threads. [rmind 20080115]
libpthread
POSIX real-time extensions. [rmind 20080115]
kernel
Implementation of processor-sets and affinity. [rmind 20080115]
auvia(4)
Make this work on big endian machines. [tsutsui 20080114]
hppa
Added gdb(1) support. [skrll 20080110]
i386
Add sparse kernel core dumps (minidumps) for this platform using a backwards-compatible on-disk core format. Not turned on by default yet. Similar to FreeBSD minidumps but simpler in implementation. Implementation by Jed Davis and Devon O'Dell, contributed to NetBSD by Coyote Point Systems. [tls 20080110]
ofppc
Fix ofwboot to work on an IBM CHRP-based RS/6000. [garbled 20080109]
pc532
Port deleted. [simonb 20080109]
gcscpcib(4)
Added driver for the AMD CS5535 and CS5536 Companion Device with support for Timecounter, Watchdog Timer and GPIO. Adapted from OpenBSD by Yojiro UO. [xtraeme 20080109]
ulpt(4)
Implement non-blocking read. [gdt 20080108]
kernel
All platforms have been converted to use generic todr(9). [gdamore,joerg 20080108]
gem(4)
Add support for Sun SX fibre cards. [jdc 20080105]
ofppc
Support intallation and RAID bootable root. [mrg 20080102]
arcmsr(4)
Added support to create/remove hot-spare, pass-through disks and RAID volumes, start/stop consistency checks in volumes as well as showing information about physical disks (even if they are marked as hot-spare, pass-through or unused). [xtraeme 20080102]
bioctl(8)
Rewritten to handle new features like creating/removing hot-spare, pass-through disks and RAID volumes, start/stop consistency checks in volumes and others. [xtraeme 20080102]
tprof
Add tprof, a simple performance monitor based profiler, inspired from linux oprofile. it's still very experimental. [yamt 20080102]

December 2007

systrace(1)
Removed. [ad 20071231]
compat_hpux
Removed. [ad 20071231]
hp700
Kernels are now compiled with -O2. [skrll 20071230]
usermode
Add port of the NetBSD kernel to userspace. [jmcneill 20071229]
itesio(4)
Added support for the Watchdog Timer. [xtraeme 20071229]
msdosfs
Significantly improved writing speed (up to 16x faster). [reinoud 20071228]
kernel
Address Space Layout Randomization support in the kernel and dynamic linker, see security(8). [elad,christos 20071226]
thinkpad(4)
Add driver for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad hotkeys and brightness controls. [jmcneill 20071221]
newsyslog(8)
newsyslog.conf flag 'J' will bzip2 logfiles. [dogcow 20071221]
sparc64
Add support for Sun PGX32 / TechSource Raptor GFX 8P to genfb ( mostly workarounds for firmware bugs ), also build XFree86's glint driver for accelerated X. [macallan 20071219]
i386, amd64
Add support for ACPI S3 (suspend-to-RAM) on MP systems. [joerg 20071218]
openssh
Import 4.7. [christos 20071217]
rs6000
New port of NetBSD to the MCA based IBM RS/6000 7006-41T. [garbled 20071217]
nfe(4)
Handle a quirk of newer MCP6x chips on reading MAC address. [tsutsui 20071217]
makedev(8)
Use pax(1) in preference to mknod(8) to create device nodes more efficiently; use mount_tmpfs(8) in preference to mount_mfs(8) when creating a memory file system. [apb 20071215]
ifconfig(8)
Add 'list scan' to ifconfig, which list access point in the neighbourhood. [adegroot 20071216]
kernel
Added a new power management framework, see pmf(9) for details. [jmcneill,joerg 20071211]
acpi(4)
Updated ACPI-CA to 20070320. [jmcneill 20071211]
macppc
Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [macallan 20071211]
sandpoint
Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [nisimura 20071211]
ofppc
Added support for the bplan/Genesi Pegasos II. [garbled 20071210]
ofppc
Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [garbled 20071210]
fxp(4)
Fix some TX timeout and RX pool corruption problems. Mostly from OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20071208]
arcmsr(4)
Areca Technology Corporation SATA RAID controller driver, ported from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20071204]
toolchain
Install the linker scripts on amd64, which allows to link x86 32bits objects using the native ld(1). [bouyer 20071202]
bcsp(4)
Add support for BlueCore Serial Protocol. [kiyohara 20071202]
libsa
Add ext2fs support. [tsutsui 20071201]

November 2007

i386
Create a boot.cfg on the install CD to allow the end-user to select either the standard or non-ACPI kernel easily. [sborrill 20071123]
xen
Added support for amd64 architecture, both as dom0 and domU. [bouyer 20071122]
pud(4)
Add a driver via which it is possible to implement block and character devices in userspace. [pooka 20071120]
i386, amd64
Add support for /boot.cfg to configure the bootloader. This includes optionally displaying menus, altering banner text and changing options such as timeouts and console device which previously required use of installboot. [sborrill 20071120]
newfs_ext2fs(8)
Add a native newfs_ext2fs(8) command. Closes PR bin/16175. [tsutsui 20071117]
ahcisata(4)
Add support for ATAPI devices. [bouyer 20071112]
tests
Converted the regress/games tree to use ATF and migrated it to tests/games. [jmmv 20071112]
tests
Converted the regress/sys/fs/tmpfs tree to use ATF and migrated it to tests/fs/tmpfs. [jmmv 20071112]
tests
Converted the regress/bin tree to use ATF and migrated it to tests/util. [jmmv 20071112]
sysinst
Add support to install the new tests.tgz set. [jmmv 20071112]
atf(7)
Initial import of the Automated Testing Framework, version 0.3. Provides a framework to easily define and run test cases for the NetBSD operating system. Work until 0.1 sponsored by Google Summer of Code 2007 and mentored by martin. [jmmv 20071112]
r128fb(4)
New accelerated console driver for ATI Rage 128 graphics controllers. [macallan 20071111]
pad(4)
Added the pseudo-audio device driver, for feeding back raw PCM data to userland. [jmcneill 20071111]
putter(9)
A Pass-to-Userspace Transporter, a generic request-response handler for kernel-attached userspace daemons (e.g. puffs(4)). [pooka 20071110]
btkey(1)
A new utility to manage Bluetooth link keys in OS and and device storage. [plunky 20071109]
nsclpcsio(4)
Added support for the VLM logical device. This provides 14 voltage sensors in addition to the previous 3 temperature sensors provided in the TMS logical device. From OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20071109]
ofppc, macppc
Convert to shared ofw_autoconf. [garbled 20071107]
ofppc
Stop using ofbus driver, rewrite console code [garbled 20071104]

October 2007

i386, amd64
Added support for Intel 82G965 chipset. [jnemeth 20071030]
coretemp(4)
Driver for Intel Core's on-die thermal sensor, available on Core or newer CPUs. Ported from FreeBSD. [xtraeme 20071029]
shark
Removed pccons(4), obsoleted by wscons(4). [jmmv 20071028]
ofppc
New ofwpci configuration methods, add rtas device. [garbled 20071025]
prep
Convert to generic powerpc IPI/SMP framework. [garbled 20071017]
macppc
Convert to generic powerpc SMP framework. [macallan 20071017]
powerpc
New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
macppc
Convert to generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc
New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
macppc
Add support for bus speed control found in some Intrepid-based *Books like the 800MHz iBook G4. [macallan 20071017]
macppc
Switch to new ADB subsystem. [macallan 20071017]
macppc
Use genfb(4) as the default framebuffer instead of ofb. [macallan 20071017]
bebox
Convert to generic powerpc PCI/ISA framework. [ober 20071017]
ofppc
Completely rewrite ofppc port from scratch. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc
Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
macppc
Convert to generic powerpc bus_space. [garbled 20071017]
macppc
Convert to generic powerpc bus_dma. [matt 20071017]
sandpoint
DHCP/NFS bootloader. [nisimura 20071017]
powerpc
Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
mvmeppc
Convert to generic powerpc clock.c/PCI/interrupt framework. [garbled 20071017]
ibmnws
Convert to generic powerpc clock.c/PCI/interrupt framework. [rjs 20071017]
pmppc
Remove pmppc as a port, and move it to a supported board under evbppc. [garbled 20071017]
pmppc
Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI/interrupt framework. [garbled 20071017]
macppc
Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI framework. [macallan 20071017]
sandpoint
Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI/ISA framework. [nisimura 20071017]
sandpoint
Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework. [nisimura 20071017]
sandpoint
Convert to generic soft interrupts. [nisimura 20071017]
prep
Convert to generic powerpc clock. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc
New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines. [garbled 20071017]
prep
Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework. [garbled 20071017]
bebox
Convert to generic soft interrupts. [matt 20071017]
prep
Convert to generic powerpc ISA framework. [garbled 20071017]
macppc
Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework. [macallan 20071017]
powerpc
New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
prep
Convert to generic powerpc PCI framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc, prep, pmppc, evbppc, macppc, ibmnws, bebox, sandpoint, ofppc
Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
kernel
A new SCHED_M2 scheduler, improves the performance on MP systems, supports real-time and time-sharing classes, ready for the CPU affinity. [rmind 20071009]
malloc(3)
Replace the default memory allocator with 'jemalloc', designed to perform well in both single- and multi- threaded processes. This provides a significant performance boost for many threaded workloads that make use of malloc, such as MySQL. [ad 20071006]
gre(4)
Available encapsulations increase to IPv6, UDP in IPv6, and UDP in IPv4. The Mobile IP encapsulation is no more. [dyoung 20071005]
kernel
The new socket option SO_NOHEADER tells the network stack to strip the protocol header from packets received on a raw socket. [dyoung 20071005]
kernel
Added support for kernel core dumps to RAID 1 sets. [oster 20071004]

September 2007

i386
i386 bootblocks are now able to boot amd64 kernels. support for a.out kernels has been removed. [ad 20070927]
i386, amd64
pcc is now able to compile most of the i386 kernel. a number of changes have been made for LKM and preemption safety. [ad 20070927]
aps(4)
driver for IBM Thinkpad Active Protection System, provides support for some sensors exported through the envsys(4) framework. Ported by Pierre Pronchery from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070911]
kernel
Added support for POSIX message queues. [rmind 20070907]
libpthread
scalability and performance enhancements. The MySQL sysbench benchmark in read-only mode now scales to 900 simultaneous client threads on a 4xCPU i386 system before serious performance drop-off occurs. [ad 20070907]
amd64, i386
cgd(4) is part of GENERIC. [joerg 20070906]
uchcom(4)
Add support for WinChipHead CH341/340 USB-Serial adapter. [tshiozak 20070903]

August 2007

ag10e(4)
Add XFree86 driver to run the AG-10e in 24bit with acceleration. [macallan 20070830]
agten(4)
Add support for Fujitsu AG-10e graphics cards working as accelerated framebuffer console. [macallan 20070826]
ichlpcib(4)
The driver has added support for the TCO (watchdog) on ICH6 or newer chipsets plus timecounter support. Also it can be used on EM64T systems running the amd64 port. Adapted from FreeBSD and OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070826]
libm
Add C99 complex support (float/double). [drochner 20070820]
btbc(4)
Add support for AnyCom BlueCard. [kiyohara 20070820]
spdmem(4)
Add Serial Presence Detect driver/support. This decodes technical specifications stored in the eeprom on common types of memory modules. [tnn 20070818]
slhci(4)
Replace to Matthew Orgass's slhci(4). [kiyohara 20070815]
mount_sysctlfs(8)
sysctl(3) to file system translator. [pooka 20070809]
libpthread
Another performance improvement, and a fix for an issue that could cause threaded applications to hang under rare circumstances. [ad 20070807]
wtf(6)
Search pkgsrc's help database when ran inside a package directory. [hubertf 20070806]
wscons(4)
Add scrollback support to vcons, this should work with any framebuffer console driver that uses vcons. [macallan 20070805]
rump
Add the Runnable Userspace Meta Program framework to sys/rump. These are programs which compile in a part from the standard kernel sources and run in userspace. Their main use is testing/debugging. Currently supported are a number of file systems (e.g. ffs) through puffs(3). [pooka 20070805]
libpthread
Make some significant performance improvements around thread synchronization, and fix a minor problem with detaching running threads. [ad 20070804]
cpuctl(8)
A new utility which allows setting CPUs online/offline. [ad 20070804]
agp(4)
Add support agp_amd64. Imported from FreeBSD. [kiyohara 20070804]
tcp(4)
TCP socket buffers automatic sizing, ported from FreeBSD. [rmind 20070802]

July 2007

shark
Switched the installation disk to use wscons instead of pccons. [jmmv 20070731]
sparc
The cgfourteen(4) driver now supports wscons. [macallan 20070730]
shark
Add dhclient(8) to the install disk image to be able to configure network interfaces through DHCP. [jmmv 20070729]
ichsmb(4)
Add support for Intel ICH SMBus controller. [kiyohara 20070728]
alpha
Add timecounter(9) support and switch to MI todr(9) with MI mc146818 driver. [tsutsui 20070721]
dbri(4)
Added support for audio input. [macallan 20070712]
nfsmb(4)
Add support for NVIDIA nForce 2/3/4 SMBus controller and SMBus driver. [kiyohara 20070711]
i386
Add gcscehci(4) driver for the EHCI controller found in the AMD Geode CS5536 companion controllers. [jmcneill 20070708]
mount_puffsportal
Add experimental version of portalfs based on puffs(3). [pooka 20070708]
envsys(4), sysmon_envsys(9)
Imported envsys2. New API with the following features: - Cleaned up the API for simplicity and efficiency. - Ability to send capacity/critical/warning events to powerd(8). - Added support for a 'dictionary based communication channel' between sysmon_power(9) and powerd(8), that means there is no 32 bytes event size event restriction anymore. - Binary compatibility with old envstat(8) and powerd(8) via COMPAT_40. And more, please see envsys(4) and sysmon_envsys(9) for more information. [xtraeme 20070701]

June 2007

efs
Added read-only Silicon Graphics EFS file system. [rumble 20070629]
fast_ipsec(4)
Add support for IPsec NAT-T. [degroote 20070627]
tcpdrop(8)
Ported by anon ymous (from FreeBSD/OpenBSD). [christos 20070625]
ntp
Updated to version 4.2.4p2. [kardel 20070624]
gcc(1)
Updated to version 4.1.3-20070620. [mrg 20070621]
tcp(4)
Per socket keepalive timer settings. Ability to change connection timeout. [christos 20070620].
mac68k
Switch sn(4) Ethernet on mac68k to using MI SONIC driver. [tsutsui 20070610]
zyd(4)
Added OpenBSD's driver. Supports ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device. [kiyohara 20070609]
file(1)
Update to 4.21. [pooka 20070607]
smsc(4)
Added a driver for the hardware monitoring portion of the SMSC LPC47B397. [blymn 20070601]
powerpc
Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]

May 2007

libcurses
Merge in wide curses work done by Ruibiao Qui as a Google Summer of Code project. [blymn 20070529]
top(1)
Allow a single process to be selected by pid. Add a 'thread mode' that displays LWPs. [ad 20070524]
uslsa(4)
Added CP210x USB-RS232 ucom driver, as submitted by Jonathan A. Kollasch in PR kern/33496. [dogcow 20070520]
ld.elf_so(1)
Support Solaris $ORIGIN etc. expansions in paths. [christos 20070518]
idlelwp
yamt-idlelwp branch was merged. 1. separate context switching and thread scheduling. 2. implement idle lwp. 3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces. 4. make scheduler(s) modular. [yamt 20070518]
pf(4)
Make 'nat' and 'rdr' translation rules obey state policy flags ('if-bound', 'group-bound', 'floating'). Extend pf.conf(5) syntax to express the translation-state policies. [dyoung 20070510]
kernel
Add the TFTPROOT kernel option for TFTP'ing root RAMdisk at root mount time. [manu 20070508]
puffs(3)
Add puffs_framebuf(3), which abstracts the buffer management and event loop for networked file systems using puffs_cc(3). Convert mount_psshfs(8) and mount_9p(8) to use it. [pooka 20070505]

April 2007

kernel
Added support for POSIX Asynchronous I/O. [rmind 20070430]
prep
Add support for the MTX604 RAVEN based machine. Other RAVEN based machines are also likely to work now. [garbled 20070426]
kernel
Remove the CHECK_ALT_xxx() defines and emul_find() used to locate files within an emulation's root directory. Instead get namei() to check the emulation root first. [dsl 20070422]
mount_9p(8)
Add support to mount a 9P file service with puffs. [pooka 20070421]
xargs(1)
Bring in xargs from FreeBSD to gain -I, -J etc. but keep our GNU compatible exit values. [christos 20070418]
puffs(4)
Support NFS exporting puffs file servers. [pooka 20070416]
sparc64
Add support for hardware monitoring on Ultra Enterprise 450. See envctrl(4). [tnn 20070414]
sgimips
Import mavb(4) audio device driver for SGI O2 from OpenBSD. [jmcneill 20070412]
sgimips
Add support for SGI O2 PS/2 controller macekbc(4) and onboard display adapter crmfb(4). [jmcneill 20070412]
genfb(4)
Generic framebuffer console driver with PCI and SBus frontends. [macallan 20070411]

March 2007

libc
Add support for LC_TIME. [manu 20070328]
kernel
Import of DRM (Direct Rendering Manager). Not yet enabled by default. [drochner 20070320]
i386, amd64
Intel(R) On Demand Clock Modulation driver, to save power and overheating in CPUs supporting the Thermal Monitor feature (TM). Adapted from OpenBSD/FreeBSD. See options(4) for more information. [xtraeme 20070320]
evbmips
Add Infineon ADM5120 port. [dyoung 20070320]
aiboost(4)
ASUS AI Booster ACPI Hardware monitor driver, adapted from FreeBSD for envsys(4). [xtraeme 20070313]
openssh
Import 4.6. [christos 20070310]
ipv6
Add ipv6 fast forward. [liamjfoy 20070307]
hfs
Add read-only Apple HFS+ file system support. [dillo 20070305]
file(1)
Update to 4.20. [pooka 20070304]
luna68k
Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304]
x68k
Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304]
makedev(8), makedev.local(8)
Let MAKEDEV.local use functions defined in MAKEDEV. [apb 20070303]

Febuary 2007

eeprom(8)
Add the missing kernel bits on arm and powerpc that kept eeprom from actually changing firmware settings. [macallan 20070228]
mutex(9), rwlock(9)
Support priority inheritance. [yamt 20070226]
btuartd(8)
Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) daemon. [kiyohara 20070221]
btuart(4)
Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) driver. [kiyohara 20070221]
sdiff(1)
Replaced by OpenBSD sdiff(1) (public domain). [rmind 20070219]
i386
Added an opencrypto provider for VIA ACE (AES encryption instructions), ported from OpenBSD. [daniel 20070217]
refuse
Added FUSE (file system in userspace) compatibility functionality, layered on top of libpuffs. [agc 20070211]
news68k
Implement generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070210]
newlock2
Merge the newlock2 branch. Introduces a number of new kernel synchronization primitives, improves scalability on MP systems, and replaces the existing SA threads model with a 1:1 threading model. [ad 20070209]
i386, amd64
Add cmos(4), driver for x86 CMOS RAM. [dyoung 20070206]

January 2007

scsictl(8)
Added setspeed command, to set the highest speed that the optical drive should use for reading data, contributed by Kimura Fuyuki. [bouyer 20070122]
acpitools
Added from FreeBSD via fvdl. [christos 20070114]
gcc(1)
Updated to version 4.1.2-20070110. [mrg 20070111]
kernel
Global 'securelevel' variable removed; it is now internal to the secmodel. [elad 20070110]
ntp
Import ntp 4.2.4 (20061228). Tracking of network interface address changes is now supported - no more ntpd restarts when interface addresses are re-configured (WLAN/DSL/ppp/...). [kardel 20070106]
i386
Add support for Microsoft Xbox. [jmcneill 20070105]
zaurus
Add support for Sharp C3x00 PDA. [ober 20070105]

December 2006

mount_psshfs(8)
Add puffs sshfs. [pooka 20061229]
nfs
Remove NQNFS support from kernel. [yamt 20061227]
ixp425
Add support for NPE Ethernet. [scw 20061210]
mac68k
Add support for four more Nubus video cards, including the VillageTronic MacPicasso 340. [hauke 20061206]
evbppc
Add support for Xilinx Virtex II-Pro/4-FX. [freza 20061202]

June 2006

newgrp(1)
Add POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 / Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6) User Portability Utility to change effective group ID. [ginsbach 20060621]

Port specific changes (top)

acorn26	acorn32	algor	alpha	amd64	amiga	amigappc	arc	arm26	arm32	atari
bebox	cats	cobalt	dreamcast	evbarm	evbmips	evbppc	evbsh3	evbsh5	ews4800mips	hp300
hp700	hpcarm	hpcmips	hpcsh	i386	ibmnws	iyonix	luna68k	mac68k	macppc	mipsco
mmeye	mvme68k	mvmeppc	netwinder	news68k	newsmips	next68k	ofppc	pc532	playstation2	pmax
pmppc	prep	sandpoint	sbmips	sgimips	sparc	sparc64	sun2	sun3	vax	walnut
x68k	xen	zaurus

Changes to NetBSD/acorn26 5.0

arm: merge armv6 kernel support from matt-armv6 branch. [matt 20080427]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-acorn26.

Changes to NetBSD/acorn32 5.0

arm: merge armv6 kernel support from matt-armv6 branch. [matt 20080427]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-acorn32.

Changes to NetBSD/algor 5.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/alpha 5.0

Add timecounter(9) support and switch to MI todr(9) with MI mc146818 driver. [tsutsui 20070721]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-alpha.

Changes to NetBSD/amd64 5.0

Add cmos(4), driver for x86 CMOS RAM. [dyoung 20070206]
Intel(R) On Demand Clock Modulation driver, to save power and overheating in CPUs supporting the Thermal Monitor feature (TM). Adapted from OpenBSD/FreeBSD. See options(4) for more information. [xtraeme 20070320]
cgd(4) is part of GENERIC. [joerg 20070906]
pcc is now able to compile most of the i386 kernel. a number of changes have been made for LKM and preemption safety. [ad 20070927]
Added support for Intel 82G965 chipset. [jnemeth 20071030]
Add support for /boot.cfg to configure the bootloader. This includes optionally displaying menus, altering banner text and changing options such as timeouts and console device which previously required use of installboot. [sborrill 20071120]
Add support for ACPI S3 (suspend-to-RAM) on MP systems. [joerg 20071218]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-amd64.

Changes to NetBSD/amiga 5.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/amigappc 5.0

powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]
powerpc: Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy(3), memmove(3) and memcmp(3). [garbled 20080221]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-amigappc.

Changes to NetBSD/arc 5.0

Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20080202]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-arc.

Changes to NetBSD/arm26 5.0

arm: merge armv6 kernel support from matt-armv6 branch. [matt 20080427]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-arm26.

Changes to NetBSD/arm32 5.0

arm: merge armv6 kernel support from matt-armv6 branch. [matt 20080427]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-arm32.

Changes to NetBSD/atari 5.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/bebox 5.0

powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]
powerpc: Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
Convert to generic soft interrupts. [matt 20071017]
powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
Convert to generic powerpc PCI/ISA framework. [ober 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy(3), memmove(3) and memcmp(3). [garbled 20080221]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-bebox.

Changes to NetBSD/cats 5.0

arm: merge armv6 kernel support from matt-armv6 branch. [matt 20080427]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-cats.

Changes to NetBSD/cobalt 5.0

Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20080202]
Add netboot support for 21041 on Qube 2700. [tsutsui 20080301]
Print startup and shutdown messages on LCD panel. [tsutsui 20080304]
Add bootloader support for optional Z85C30 serial on Qube 2700. [tsutsui 20080316]
Fix a botched spl(9) bug which could cause network freeze on traffic between two network interfaces. [tsutsui 20080318]
Add kernel support for optional Z85C30 serial on Qube 2700. [tsutsui 20080327]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-cobalt.

Changes to NetBSD/dreamcast 5.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/evbarm 5.0

arm: merge armv6 kernel support from matt-armv6 branch. [matt 20080427]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbarm.

Changes to NetBSD/evbmips 5.0

Add Infineon ADM5120 port. [dyoung 20070320]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbmips.

Changes to NetBSD/evbppc 5.0

Add support for Xilinx Virtex II-Pro/4-FX. [freza 20061202]
powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]
powerpc: Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy(3), memmove(3) and memcmp(3). [garbled 20080221]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbppc.

Changes to NetBSD/evbsh3 5.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbsh3.

Changes to NetBSD/evbsh5 5.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbsh5.

Changes to NetBSD/ews4800mips 5.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-ews4800mips.

Changes to NetBSD/hp300 5.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-hp300.

Changes to NetBSD/hp700 5.0

Kernels are now compiled with -O2. [skrll 20071230]
hppa: Added gdb(1) support. [skrll 20080110]
Add support for the SCSI NCR 53C720 SCSI controller found in early HP 9000s for the attachment of an Fast-Wide (16-bit) SCSI-2 bus, utilizing HVD signalling via the siop(4) driver. [skrll 20080405]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-hp700.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcarm 5.0

arm: merge armv6 kernel support from matt-armv6 branch. [matt 20080427]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcarm.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcmips 5.0

Fix silent hangup problem on TX3922 machines. From Risto Sainio. [tsutsui 20080126]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcmips.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcsh 5.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/i386 5.0

Add support for Microsoft Xbox. [jmcneill 20070105]
Add cmos(4), driver for x86 CMOS RAM. [dyoung 20070206]
Added an opencrypto provider for VIA ACE (AES encryption instructions), ported from OpenBSD. [daniel 20070217]
Intel(R) On Demand Clock Modulation driver, to save power and overheating in CPUs supporting the Thermal Monitor feature (TM). Adapted from OpenBSD/FreeBSD. See options(4) for more information. [xtraeme 20070320]
Add gcscehci(4) driver for the EHCI controller found in the AMD Geode CS5536 companion controllers. [jmcneill 20070708]
cgd(4) is part of GENERIC. [joerg 20070906]
pcc is now able to compile most of the i386 kernel. a number of changes have been made for LKM and preemption safety. [ad 20070927]
i386 bootblocks are now able to boot amd64 kernels. support for a.out kernels has been removed. [ad 20070927]
Added support for Intel 82G965 chipset. [jnemeth 20071030]
Add support for /boot.cfg to configure the bootloader. This includes optionally displaying menus, altering banner text and changing options such as timeouts and console device which previously required use of installboot. [sborrill 20071120]
Create a boot.cfg on the install CD to allow the end-user to select either the standard or non-ACPI kernel easily. [sborrill 20071123]
Add support for ACPI S3 (suspend-to-RAM) on MP systems. [joerg 20071218]
Add sparse kernel core dumps (minidumps) for this platform using a backwards-compatible on-disk core format. Not turned on by default yet. Similar to FreeBSD minidumps but simpler in implementation. Implementation by Jed Davis and Devon O'Dell, contributed to NetBSD by Coyote Point Systems. [tls 20080110]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-i386.

Changes to NetBSD/ibmnws 5.0

powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]
powerpc: Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines. [garbled 20071017]
Convert to generic powerpc clock.c/PCI/interrupt framework. [rjs 20071017]
powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy(3), memmove(3) and memcmp(3). [garbled 20080221]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-ibmnws.

Changes to NetBSD/iyonix 5.0

arm: merge armv6 kernel support from matt-armv6 branch. [matt 20080427]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-iyonix.

Changes to NetBSD/luna68k 5.0

Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-luna68k.

Changes to NetBSD/mac68k 5.0

Add support for four more Nubus video cards, including the VillageTronic MacPicasso 340. [hauke 20061206]
Switch sn(4) Ethernet on mac68k to using MI SONIC driver. [tsutsui 20070610]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-mac68k.

Changes to NetBSD/macppc 5.0

powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]
powerpc: Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework. [macallan 20071017]
powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines. [garbled 20071017]
Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI framework. [macallan 20071017]
powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
Convert to generic powerpc bus_dma. [matt 20071017]
Convert to generic powerpc bus_space. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
Use genfb(4) as the default framebuffer instead of ofb. [macallan 20071017]
Switch to new ADB subsystem. [macallan 20071017]
Add support for bus speed control found in some Intrepid-based *Books like the 800MHz iBook G4. [macallan 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
Convert to generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
Convert to generic powerpc SMP framework. [macallan 20071017]
Convert to shared ofw_autoconf. [garbled 20071107]
Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [macallan 20071211]
powerpc: Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy(3), memmove(3) and memcmp(3). [garbled 20080221]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-macppc.

Changes to NetBSD/mipsco 5.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/mmeye 5.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/mvme68k 5.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-mvme68k.

Changes to NetBSD/mvmeppc 5.0

powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]
powerpc: Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines. [garbled 20071017]
Convert to generic powerpc clock.c/PCI/interrupt framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy(3), memmove(3) and memcmp(3). [garbled 20080221]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-mvmeppc.

Changes to NetBSD/netwinder 5.0

arm: merge armv6 kernel support from matt-armv6 branch. [matt 20080427]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-netwinder.

Changes to NetBSD/news68k 5.0

Implement generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070210]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-news68k.

Changes to NetBSD/newsmips 5.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/next68k 5.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-next68k.

Changes to NetBSD/ofppc 5.0

powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]
powerpc: Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
Completely rewrite ofppc port from scratch. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
New ofwpci configuration methods, add rtas device. [garbled 20071025]
Stop using ofbus driver, rewrite console code [garbled 20071104]
Convert to shared ofw_autoconf. [garbled 20071107]
Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [garbled 20071210]
Added support for the bplan/Genesi Pegasos II. [garbled 20071210]
Support intallation and RAID bootable root. [mrg 20080102]
Fix ofwboot to work on an IBM CHRP-based RS/6000. [garbled 20080109]
Add support for the IBM 7044-270. [garbled 20080117]
Add support for the 7046-B50. [garbled 2008-02-13]
powerpc: Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy(3), memmove(3) and memcmp(3). [garbled 20080221]
Support for SMP added. [garbled 20080408]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-ofppc.

Changes to NetBSD/pc532 5.0

Port deleted. [simonb 20080109]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-pc532.

Changes to NetBSD/playstation2 5.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-playstation2.

Changes to NetBSD/pmax 5.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/pmppc 5.0

powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]
powerpc: Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines. [garbled 20071017]
Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI/interrupt framework. [garbled 20071017]
Remove pmppc as a port, and move it to a supported board under evbppc. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy(3), memmove(3) and memcmp(3). [garbled 20080221]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-pmppc.

Changes to NetBSD/prep 5.0

Add support for the MTX604 RAVEN based machine. Other RAVEN based machines are also likely to work now. [garbled 20070426]
powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]
powerpc: Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
Convert to generic powerpc PCI framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
Convert to generic powerpc ISA framework. [garbled 20071017]
Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines. [garbled 20071017]
Convert to generic powerpc clock. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
Convert to generic powerpc IPI/SMP framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy(3), memmove(3) and memcmp(3). [garbled 20080221]
Support for floppy controller/drive. [garbled 20080428]
Bootable ISO now built automatically. [garbled 20080430]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-prep.

Changes to NetBSD/sandpoint 5.0

powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]
powerpc: Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines. [garbled 20071017]
Convert to generic soft interrupts. [nisimura 20071017]
Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework. [nisimura 20071017]
Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI/ISA framework. [nisimura 20071017]
powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
DHCP/NFS bootloader. [nisimura 20071017]
powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [nisimura 20071211]
powerpc: Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy(3), memmove(3) and memcmp(3). [garbled 20080221]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-sandpoint.

Changes to NetBSD/sbmips 5.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/sgimips 5.0

Add support for SGI O2 PS/2 controller macekbc(4) and onboard display adapter crmfb(4). [jmcneill 20070412]
Import mavb(4) audio device driver for SGI O2 from OpenBSD. [jmcneill 20070412]
Enable bootinfo passed from bootloader so that now kernel symbol table and ksyms(4) are usable. [tsutsui 20080126]
Add hardware acceleration for crmfb [macallan 20080205]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-sgimips.

Changes to NetBSD/sparc 5.0

The cgfourteen(4) driver now supports wscons. [macallan 20070730]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-sparc.

Changes to NetBSD/sparc64 5.0

Add support for hardware monitoring on Ultra Enterprise 450. See envctrl(4). [tnn 20070414]
Add support for Sun PGX32 / TechSource Raptor GFX 8P to genfb ( mostly workarounds for firmware bugs ), also build XFree86's glint driver for accelerated X. [macallan 20071219]
SMP support now works on some models. [nakayama 20080314]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-sparc64.

Changes to NetBSD/sun2 5.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-sun2.

Changes to NetBSD/sun3 5.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-sun3.

Changes to NetBSD/vax 5.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/walnut 5.0

powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]
powerpc: Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
powerpc: Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy(3), memmove(3) and memcmp(3). [garbled 20080221]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-walnut.

Changes to NetBSD/x68k 5.0

Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-x68k.

Changes to NetBSD/xen 5.0

Added support for amd64 architecture, both as dom0 and domU. [bouyer 20071122]
Added support for the i386 PAE extention to Xen3 domU [bouyer 20080123]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-xen.

Changes to NetBSD/zaurus 5.0

Add support for Sharp C3x00 PDA. [ober 20070105]
Add sysinst support. [chris 20080401]
arm: merge armv6 kernel support from matt-armv6 branch. [matt 20080427]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-zaurus.

Non port-specific changes (top)

aac(4)

Added IBM ServeRAID 8k support. [sborrill 20080508]

acpi(4)

Updated ACPI-CA to 20070320. [jmcneill 20071211]
Updated ACPI-CA to 20080321. [jmcneill 20080412]

acpitools

Added from FreeBSD via fvdl. [christos 20070114]

ag10e(4)

Add XFree86 driver to run the AG-10e in 24bit with acceleration. [macallan 20070830]

agp(4)

Add support agp_amd64. Imported from FreeBSD. [kiyohara 20070804]

agten(4)

Add support for Fujitsu AG-10e graphics cards working as accelerated framebuffer console. [macallan 20070826]

ahcisata(4)

Add support for ATAPI devices. [bouyer 20071112]

aiboost(4)

ASUS AI Booster ACPI Hardware monitor driver, adapted from FreeBSD for envsys(4). [xtraeme 20070313]

amdtemp(4)

AMD CPU Temperature driver. Adapted from OpenBSD. [cegger 20080423]

aps(4)

driver for IBM Thinkpad Active Protection System, provides support for some sensors exported through the envsys(4) framework. Ported by Pierre Pronchery from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070911]

arcmsr(4)

Areca Technology Corporation SATA RAID controller driver, ported from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20071204]
Added support to create/remove hot-spare, pass-through disks and RAID volumes, start/stop consistency checks in volumes as well as showing information about physical disks (even if they are marked as hot-spare, pass-through or unused). [xtraeme 20080102]

asus(4)

Added a driver for ASUS ACPI hotkeys as found in the EeePC. [jmcneill 20080331]

atf(7)

Initial import of the Automated Testing Framework, version 0.3. Provides a framework to easily define and run test cases for the NetBSD operating system. Work until 0.1 sponsored by Google Summer of Code 2007 and mentored by martin. [jmmv 20071112]
Import 0.4. [jmmv 20080204]
Import 0.5. [jmmv 20080501]

auvia(4)

Make this work on big endian machines. [tsutsui 20080114]

azalia(4)

Analog Devices AD1984 codec support has been improved to support headphones and 4 channel playback, and now exposes an outputs.master mixer control that mirrors the inputs.dac mixer control to make libossaudio happy. [jmcneill 20080130]
Added support for the Realtek ALC662-GR codec as found in the EeePC. [jmcneill 20080331]

bcsp(4)

Add support for BlueCore Serial Protocol. [kiyohara 20071202]

bioctl(8)

Rewritten to handle new features like creating/removing hot-spare, pass-through disks and RAID volumes, start/stop consistency checks in volumes and others. [xtraeme 20080102]

bktr(4)

Added amd64 support. [jmcneill 20080116]

btbc(4)

Add support for AnyCom BlueCard. [kiyohara 20070820]

btkey(1)

A new utility to manage Bluetooth link keys in OS and and device storage. [plunky 20071109]

btuart(4)

Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) driver. [kiyohara 20070221]

btuartd(8)

Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) daemon. [kiyohara 20070221]

bzip2(1)

Upgrade to 1.0.5. [christos 20080318]

compat_hpux

Removed. [ad 20071231]

compat_linux32

Add ossaudio(3) support. [jmcneill 20080121]

coretemp(4)

Driver for Intel Core's on-die thermal sensor, available on Core or newer CPUs. Ported from FreeBSD. [xtraeme 20071029]

cpuctl(8)

A new utility which allows setting CPUs online/offline. [ad 20070804]

dbri(4)

Added support for audio input. [macallan 20070712]

drm(4)

Added amd64 support. [jmcneill 20080504]

eeprom(8)

Add the missing kernel bits on arm and powerpc that kept eeprom from actually changing firmware settings. [macallan 20070228]

efs

Added read-only Silicon Graphics EFS file system. [rumble 20070629]

envsys(4)

Imported envsys2. New API with the following features: - Cleaned up the API for simplicity and efficiency. - Ability to send capacity/critical/warning events to powerd(8). - Added support for a 'dictionary based communication channel' between sysmon_power(9) and powerd(8), that means there is no 32 bytes event size event restriction anymore. - Binary compatibility with old envstat(8) and powerd(8) via COMPAT_40. And more, please see envsys(4) and sysmon_envsys(9) for more information. [xtraeme 20070701]

fast_ipsec(4)

Add support for IPsec NAT-T. [degroote 20070627]

fdisk(8)

Fix possible division by zero errors. [tsutsui 20080120]

file(1)

Update to 4.20. [pooka 20070304]
Update to 4.21. [pooka 20070607]

finsio(4)

Added a driver for the Fintek Super I/O chips, supporting the Hardware Monitor device. Adapted from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20080403]

fs/udf

Added write support for the UDF file system. [reinoud 20080514]

fxp(4)

Fix some TX timeout and RX pool corruption problems. Mostly from OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20071208]

gcc(1)

Updated to version 4.1.2-20070110. [mrg 20070111]
Updated to version 4.1.3-20070620. [mrg 20070621]
Updated to version 4.1.3-20080202. [mrg 20080202]

gcscpcib(4)

Added driver for the AMD CS5535 and CS5536 Companion Device with support for Timecounter, Watchdog Timer and GPIO. Adapted from OpenBSD by Yojiro UO. [xtraeme 20080109]

gem(4)

Add support for Sun SX fibre cards. [jdc 20080105]

genfb(4)

Generic framebuffer console driver with PCI and SBus frontends. [macallan 20070411]

getent(1)

Added support for "netgroup" database. [tron 20080514]

gpio(4)

Extend with open/close to handle request/release the ppbus(4) on open/close. From Hans Rosenfeld. [cegger 20080429]

gre(4)

Available encapsulations increase to IPv6, UDP in IPv6, and UDP in IPv4. The Mobile IP encapsulation is no more. [dyoung 20071005]

hfs

Add read-only Apple HFS+ file system support. [dillo 20070305]

hostapd(8)

Upgrade to 0.6.2 [christos 20080126]

hpqlb(4)

Hotkey driver for HP notebooks. [cegger 20080501]

ichlpcib(4)

The driver has added support for the TCO (watchdog) on ICH6 or newer chipsets plus timecounter support. Also it can be used on EM64T systems running the amd64 port. Adapted from FreeBSD and OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070826]

ichsmb(4)

Add support for Intel ICH SMBus controller. [kiyohara 20070728]

idlelwp

yamt-idlelwp branch was merged. 1. separate context switching and thread scheduling. 2. implement idle lwp. 3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces. 4. make scheduler(s) modular. [yamt 20070518]

ifconfig(8)

Add 'list scan' to ifconfig, which list access point in the neighbourhood. [adegroot 20071216]

ipv6

Add ipv6 fast forward. [liamjfoy 20070307]

itesio(4)

Added support for the Watchdog Timer. [xtraeme 20071229]

iwn(4)

Added a driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless Lan 4965AGN Mini-PCI Adapter, ported from OpenBSD. [ober 20080209]

ixp425

Add support for NPE Ethernet. [scw 20061210]

kerberos

Upgrade to Heimdal-1.1. [mlelstv 20080322]

kernel

Global 'securelevel' variable removed; it is now internal to the secmodel. [elad 20070110]
Import of DRM (Direct Rendering Manager). Not yet enabled by default. [drochner 20070320]
Remove the CHECK_ALT_xxx() defines and emul_find() used to locate files within an emulation's root directory. Instead get namei() to check the emulation root first. [dsl 20070422]
Added support for POSIX Asynchronous I/O. [rmind 20070430]
Add the TFTPROOT kernel option for TFTP'ing root RAMdisk at root mount time. [manu 20070508]
Added support for POSIX message queues. [rmind 20070907]
Added support for kernel core dumps to RAID 1 sets. [oster 20071004]
The new socket option SO_NOHEADER tells the network stack to strip the protocol header from packets received on a raw socket. [dyoung 20071005]
A new SCHED_M2 scheduler, improves the performance on MP systems, supports real-time and time-sharing classes, ready for the CPU affinity. [rmind 20071009]
Added a new power management framework, see pmf(9) for details. [jmcneill,joerg 20071211]
Address Space Layout Randomization support in the kernel and dynamic linker, see security(8). [elad,christos 20071226]
All platforms have been converted to use generic todr(9). [gdamore,joerg 20080108]
Implementation of processor-sets and affinity. [rmind 20080115]
Added a new framework for kernel modules, enabled through the MODULAR kernel option and used through the modctl(2) system call. [ad 20080116]
All platforms have been converted to use timecounter(9). [joerg 20080120]
The interface for IP checksumming was changed to reduce duplication and more general use. [joerg 20080125]

ld.elf_so(1)

Support Solaris $ORIGIN etc. expansions in paths. [christos 20070518]

libc

Add support for LC_TIME. [manu 20070328]

libcurses

Merge in wide curses work done by Ruibiao Qui as a Google Summer of Code project. [blymn 20070529]
Add termattrs() and term_attrs(). [jdc 20080321]
Add getwin() and putwin(). [jdc 20080414]

libm

Add C99 complex support (float/double). [drochner 20070820]

libpthread

Make some significant performance improvements around thread synchronization, and fix a minor problem with detaching running threads. [ad 20070804]
Another performance improvement, and a fix for an issue that could cause threaded applications to hang under rare circumstances. [ad 20070807]
scalability and performance enhancements. The MySQL sysbench benchmark in read-only mode now scales to 900 simultaneous client threads on a 4xCPU i386 system before serious performance drop-off occurs. [ad 20070907]
POSIX real-time extensions. [rmind 20080115]

libsa

Add ext2fs support. [tsutsui 20071201]

lii(4)

Added a driver for the Atheros L2 Fast-Ethernet controller, notably found on Asus's EeePC. [cube 20080328]

makedev(8)

Let MAKEDEV.local use functions defined in MAKEDEV. [apb 20070303]
Use pax(1) in preference to mknod(8) to create device nodes more efficiently; use mount_tmpfs(8) in preference to mount_mfs(8) when creating a memory file system. [apb 20071215]

makedev.local(8)

Let MAKEDEV.local use functions defined in MAKEDEV. [apb 20070303]

malloc(3)

Replace the default memory allocator with 'jemalloc', designed to perform well in both single- and multi- threaded processes. This provides a significant performance boost for many threaded workloads that make use of malloc, such as MySQL. [ad 20071006]

mfi(4)

Added support for LSI SAS1078 and Dell PERC 6, from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20080225]

modules

Added new versions of modload(8), modstat(8) and modunload(8) that use modctl(2). Not built by default. [ad 20080116]
Added the MKMODULAR option to the build system to easily enable the build of the new kernel modules framework. [jmmv 20080209]

monop(6)

Save and restore format changed; compatibility with old save files broken, but they were not usable anyway. [dholland 20080223]

mount_9p(8)

Add support to mount a 9P file service with puffs. [pooka 20070421]

mount_psshfs(8)

Add puffs sshfs. [pooka 20061229]

mount_puffsportal

Add experimental version of portalfs based on puffs(3). [pooka 20070708]

mount_sysctlfs(8)

sysctl(3) to file system translator. [pooka 20070809]

msdosfs

Significantly improved writing speed (up to 16x faster). [reinoud 20071228]

mutex(9)

Support priority inheritance. [yamt 20070226]

netiso

Remove obsolete TPCONS support. [plunky 20080423]

newfs_ext2fs(8)

Add a native newfs_ext2fs(8) command. Closes PR bin/16175. [tsutsui 20071117]

newgrp(1)

Add POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 / Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6) User Portability Utility to change effective group ID. [ginsbach 20060621]

newlock2

Merge the newlock2 branch. Introduces a number of new kernel synchronization primitives, improves scalability on MP systems, and replaces the existing SA threads model with a 1:1 threading model. [ad 20070209]

newsyslog(8)

newsyslog.conf flag 'J' will bzip2 logfiles. [dogcow 20071221]

nfe(4)

Handle a quirk of newer MCP6x chips on reading MAC address. [tsutsui 20071217]
Wakeup some newer chips from powerdown mode. From FreeBSD/Linux driver via OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20080126]

nfs

Remove NQNFS support from kernel. [yamt 20061227]

nfsmb(4)

Add support for NVIDIA nForce 2/3/4 SMBus controller and SMBus driver. [kiyohara 20070711]

nsclpcsio(4)

Added support for the VLM logical device. This provides 14 voltage sensors in addition to the previous 3 temperature sensors provided in the TMS logical device. From OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20071109]

ntp

Import ntp 4.2.4 (20061228). Tracking of network interface address changes is now supported - no more ntpd restarts when interface addresses are re-configured (WLAN/DSL/ppp/...). [kardel 20070106]
Updated to version 4.2.4p2. [kardel 20070624]

opencrypto

Improve performance to 84,000 short modular math ops/sec by adding asynchronous operation and batched submit/ retrieve of requests/results. Rewrite manual page to make it easier to write new code to the API. Donated by Coyote Point Systems, Inc. [tls 20080410]

openpam(3)

upgrade to 20071221 [christos 20080126]

openssh

Import 4.6. [christos 20070310]
Import 4.7. [christos 20071217]
Import 5.0. [christos 20080406]

openssl

Imported 20080509 current snapshot. [christos 20080509]

pad(4)

Added the pseudo-audio device driver, for feeding back raw PCM data to userland. [jmcneill 20071111]

pf(4)

Make 'nat' and 'rdr' translation rules obey state policy flags ('if-bound', 'group-bound', 'floating'). Extend pf.conf(5) syntax to express the translation-state policies. [dyoung 20070510]

ppbus(4)

Extend to attach on gpiobus. From Hans Rosenfeld. [cegger 20080429]

puc(4)

Add support for I-O DATA RSA-PCI 2 port serial board. [tsutsui 20080222]

pud(4)

Add a driver via which it is possible to implement block and character devices in userspace. [pooka 20071120]

puffs(3)

Add puffs_framebuf(3), which abstracts the buffer management and event loop for networked file systems using puffs_cc(3). Convert mount_psshfs(8) and mount_9p(8) to use it. [pooka 20070505]

puffs(4)

Support NFS exporting puffs file servers. [pooka 20070416]

putter(9)

A Pass-to-Userspace Transporter, a generic request-response handler for kernel-attached userspace daemons (e.g. puffs(4)). [pooka 20071110]

r128fb(4)

New accelerated console driver for ATI Rage 128 graphics controllers. [macallan 20071111]

re(4)

Make hardware vlan(4) tag insertion/extraction work properly. [tsutsui 20080318]

refuse

Added FUSE (file system in userspace) compatibility functionality, layered on top of libpuffs. [agc 20070211]

rs6000

New port of NetBSD to the MCA based IBM RS/6000 7006-41T. [garbled 20071217]

rump

Add the Runnable Userspace Meta Program framework to sys/rump. These are programs which compile in a part from the standard kernel sources and run in userspace. Their main use is testing/debugging. Currently supported are a number of file systems (e.g. ffs) through puffs(3). [pooka 20070805]

rwlock(9)

Support priority inheritance. [yamt 20070226]

schedctl(8)

A new program to control scheduling of processes and threads. [rmind 20080115]

scsictl(8)

Added setspeed command, to set the highest speed that the optical drive should use for reading data, contributed by Kimura Fuyuki. [bouyer 20070122]

sdiff(1)

Replaced by OpenBSD sdiff(1) (public domain). [rmind 20070219]

shark

Add dhclient(8) to the install disk image to be able to configure network interfaces through DHCP. [jmmv 20070729]
Switched the installation disk to use wscons instead of pccons. [jmmv 20070731]
Removed pccons(4), obsoleted by wscons(4). [jmmv 20071028]
Support for X on rev. 4 sharks is back [macallan 20080419]

slhci(4)

Replace to Matthew Orgass's slhci(4). [kiyohara 20070815]

smsc(4)

Added a driver for the hardware monitoring portion of the SMSC LPC47B397. [blymn 20070601]

spdmem(4)

Add Serial Presence Detect driver/support. This decodes technical specifications stored in the eeprom on common types of memory modules. [tnn 20070818]

sysinst

Add support to install the new tests.tgz set. [jmmv 20071112]

sysmon_envsys(9)

Imported envsys2. New API with the following features: - Cleaned up the API for simplicity and efficiency. - Ability to send capacity/critical/warning events to powerd(8). - Added support for a 'dictionary based communication channel' between sysmon_power(9) and powerd(8), that means there is no 32 bytes event size event restriction anymore. - Binary compatibility with old envstat(8) and powerd(8) via COMPAT_40. And more, please see envsys(4) and sysmon_envsys(9) for more information. [xtraeme 20070701]

systrace(1)

Removed. [ad 20071231]

tcp(4)

Per socket keepalive timer settings. Ability to change connection timeout. [christos 20070620].
TCP socket buffers automatic sizing, ported from FreeBSD. [rmind 20070802]

tcpdrop(8)

Ported by anon ymous (from FreeBSD/OpenBSD). [christos 20070625]

tests

Converted the regress/bin tree to use ATF and migrated it to tests/util. [jmmv 20071112]
Converted the regress/sys/fs/tmpfs tree to use ATF and migrated it to tests/fs/tmpfs. [jmmv 20071112]
Converted the regress/games tree to use ATF and migrated it to tests/games. [jmmv 20071112]
Convert the tests in the tests/ hierarchy that were written in C++ to C, making use of the libatf-c library that comes with the ATF 0.5 just imported. [jmmv 20080501]

thinkpad(4)

Add driver for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad hotkeys and brightness controls. [jmcneill 20071221]

toolchain

Install the linker scripts on amd64, which allows to link x86 32bits objects using the native ld(1). [bouyer 20071202]

top(1)

Allow a single process to be selected by pid. Add a 'thread mode' that displays LWPs. [ad 20070524]

tprof

Add tprof, a simple performance monitor based profiler, inspired from linux oprofile. it's still very experimental. [yamt 20080102]

uchcom(4)

Add support for WinChipHead CH341/340 USB-Serial adapter. [tshiozak 20070903]

uhub(4)

The device attachment function has been optimized to improve system startup time. [jmcneill 20080124]

ulpt(4)

Implement non-blocking read. [gdt 20080108]

usb(4)

Add uhmodem(4) driver for Huawei E220 wireless modem. [ichiro 20080121]

usermode

Add port of the NetBSD kernel to userspace. [jmcneill 20071229]

uslsa(4)

Added CP210x USB-RS232 ucom driver, as submitted by Jonathan A. Kollasch in PR kern/33496. [dogcow 20070520]

wpa_supplicant(8)

Upgrade to 0.6.2 [christos 20080126]

wscons(4)

Add scrollback support to vcons, this should work with any framebuffer console driver that uses vcons. [macallan 20070805]

wtf(6)

Search pkgsrc's help database when ran inside a package directory. [hubertf 20070806]

xargs(1)

Bring in xargs from FreeBSD to gain -I, -J etc. but keep our GNU compatible exit values. [christos 20070418]

zyd(4)

Added OpenBSD's driver. Supports ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device. [kiyohara 20070609]

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