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Updated: Mon Sep 6 16:32:25 2010

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September 2010

• acpi(4)
  The ACPI driver will no longer attach if the BIOS release year is 2000 or older. To override this behaviour, set acpi_force_load=1 or add options ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0 to your kernel config. [jmcneill 20100906]

August 2010

• omapfb
  a simple driver for OMAP 3xxx on-chip video, especially the Beagleboard [macallan 20100831]
• ntp
  switch build to ntp 4.2.6 (imported 20091213 in external/bsd/ntp) [kardel 20100827]
• awk
  upgrade to 20100523 [christos 20100826]
• tests
  Convert the libdes tests to ATF. [jmmv 20100825]
• network
  Added NPF - a new packet filter. [rmind 20100822]
• acpicpu(4)
  add a driver for ACPI-based processor functionality. [jruoho 20100815]
• bind
  Update to 9.7.2b1. [christos 20100806]
• wpa
  New wpa_supplicant and hostapd 0.7.2 [christos 20100804]
• tests
  Convert the sort tests to ATF. [jmmv 20100801]
• bebox
  Support xserver. It tested only s3(TRIO 64V+). [kiyohara 20100801]

July 2010

• hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh
  Switch to using Xorg servers and binaries. [tsutsui 20100731]
• i386
  Add PAE support. [jym 20100727]
• amd64, i386
  Intel Firmware Hub Random Number Generator support moved from pchb(4) to fwhrng(4) at ichlpcib(4). [jakllsch 20100723]
• tests
  Convert the lint1 and libobjc tests to ATF. [jmmv 20100718]
• tests
  Convert the include and csu tests to ATF. [jmmv 20100717]
• tests
  Convert the libposix, libprop, libpthread, librt, libskey and libutil tests to ATF. [jmmv 20100716]
• prep
  Support xserver. It tested only on-board s3(864). [kiyohara 20100712]
• kernel
  Add direct select()/poll() support. [rmind 20100708]
• compat_linux(8)
  Update linux emulation to support NPTL. We now claim to be linux kernel version 2.6.18. [chs 20100706]
• upgt(4)
  Add a driver for Conexant/Intersil PrismGT SoftMAC USB IEEE 802.11b/g WLAN device, ported from OpenBSD by FUKAUMI Naoki. [tsutsui 20100704]
• atf(7)
  Import 0.10. [jmmv 20100703]

June 2010

• network
  Add mpls(4) - MultiProtocol Label Switching support [kefren 20100626]
• hp700
  Add support for uturn(4) based machines. [skrll 20100624]
• kernel
  Add high-priority xcall(9) support. [rmind 20100622]
• httpd(8)
  Import bozohttpd-20100621. [mrg 20100621]
• mkubootimage(1)
  Added tool to generate u-boot kernel images. [jmcneill 20100618]
• vnsubr(9)
  Remove recursive vnode locks. [hannken 20100618]
• atf(7)
  Add support for expected test failures. [pooka 20100616]
• arm
  Added support for Cortex-A8 CPUs. [jmcneill 20100616]
• ofppc
  Support Gigabit Ethernet Controller for MV64361 on PegasosII by mvgbe@gt. [kiyohara 20100609]
• lcd(4)
  Driver for hp700 lcds added. [skrll 20100601]
• acpi(4)
  Updated ACPICA to 20100528. [jruoho 20100606]
• vnode(9)
  Remove member v_vnlock. [hannken 20100605]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.2.4. [roy 20100604]
• atf(7)
  Import 0.9. [jmmv 20100604]
• rump
  Implement a pagedaemon which releases weakly referenced memory in case of a memory shortage. [pooka 20100603]

May 2010

• x11
  Added support for xf86-video-geode and xf86-video-openchrome. [mrg 20100527]
• radeondrm(4)
  Ported across several updates from FreeBSD drm, Mesa 7.7.1 r600 (Radeon HD 3000/4000 series) driver now works. [mrg 20100523]
• x11
  Updated many packages, notably: Mesa 7.7.1, xextproto 7.1.1, libXext 1.1.1, libXi 1.3 (XInput2), libX11 1.3.3, pixman 0.18.2, xinput 1.5.1, xf86-input-keyboard 1.4.0, xf86-input-mouse 1.5.0, xf86-video-ati 6.13.0, xf86-video-mga 1.4.12, xf86-video-nv 2.1.17, xf86-video-siliconmotion 1.7.4, xf86-video-vesa 2.3.0, xf86-video-vmware-11.0.1. [mrg 20100523]
• btmagic(4)
  Added Apple Magic Mouse driver. [plunky 20100522]
• puffs(3)
  Support extended attributes. [pooka 20100521]
• rump
  Add uniprocessor locking routines. They can be used in virtual uniprocessor configurations for a significant performance boost. [pooka 20100518]
• bozohttpd
  Update to bozohttpd-20100509. [mrg 20100509]
• atf(7)
  Import 0.8. [jmmv 20100508]
• cron
  Import 4.1 from isc. [christos 20100506]
• xen
  Enable no-execute bit feature for i386pae and amd64 kernels. [jym 20100505]
• sandpoint
  Added support for Marvell-SKnet in netboot. [phx 20100503]
• hpcsh
  Add sysinst(8) support. [tsutsui 20100503]
• rump
  Support audio(9). [pooka 20100501]

April 2010

• rump
  Autogenerate /dev device nodes. [pooka 20100430]
• hp700
  Add support for elroy(4), astro(4) and ssio(4) based 64-bit machines running in 32-bit mode. [skrll 20100430]
• tftpd(8)
  Add -c so files can be uploaded without requiring them to be created before the upload. See the section on security considerations before enabling. [hubertf 20100429]
• rump
  Properly support virtual SMP on x86 hosts and default to the same number of CPUs as on the host (configurable with RUMP_NCPU). [pooka 20100428]
• rump
  Autoload host kernel modules from /stand/arch/modules on x86 archs. [pooka 20100426]
• libc
  Added a space-efficient write-once database (cdbr(3), cdbw(3)). The database cache for services(5) has been updated to use this. services_mkdb(8) can still be used to create the old format. [joerg 20100425]
• kernel
  Enforce RLIMIT_FSIZE above the file system. This fixes the feature for some file systems. [pooka 20100423]
• acpiwmi(4)
  Added two mappings (child devices) for the ACPI WMI. [jruoho 20100419]
• acpi(4)
  Statistical event counters were added to hw.acpi.stat sysctl(8) tree. Dynamic debug output messages provided by the interpreter were added for ACPI_DEBUG kernels. These are controllable from the hw.acpi.debug sysctl(8) namespace. Furthermore, the ACPI device wake-up sysctl(8) tree was moved from hw.wake to hw.acpi.wake. [jruoho 20100419]
• hpcarm
  Add support for Sharp W-ZERO3 series. [nonaka 20100417]
• rump
  Support file system snapshots. [pooka 20100412]
• fsck_msdos(8)
  add -x option which allows to run fsck_msdos -n on a snapshot of a live file system. [hannken 20100411]
• fss(4)
  Add snapshot support for MSDOS file systems. [hannken 20100409]
• acpi(4)
  Updated ACPICA to 20100121. [jruoho 20100408]
• evbsh3
  Add support for Alpha Project MS104-SH4, TAC T-SH7706LAN Rev.3 and TAC T-SH7706LSR Rev.1. [nonaka 20100407]
• sdmmc(4)
  Add support for SD 4bit bus width. [nonaka 20100406]
• agp(4)
  Add support for the Intel 82855GM AGP port. [jakllsch 20100404]
• atari
  Add support for the EtherNEC, ISA NE2000 based Ethernet connected to Atari ROM cartridge slot. [tsutsui 20100401]
• dbcool(4)
  Added support for ADM1031 therman sensor / fan controller [macallan 20100401]
• nca(4)
  Added PCI attachment for Domex DMX-3191D SCSI board. [jakllsch 20100401]

March 2010

• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.2.2. [roy 20100331]
• rump
  Support unionfs, layerfs, nullfs and umapfs. [pooka 20100330]
• cgtwelve
  A driver for Sun CG12 / Matrox SG3 graphics boards [macallan 20100323]
• rump
  Support bluetooth. [pooka 20100322]
• aibs(4)
  Remove aiboost(4) as obsolete and redundant since the introduction of aibs(4). [cnst 20100319]
• atari
  Add support for the SMC Elite Ultra Ethernet with the SMC_TT VME-ISA bridge. [tsutsui 20100313]
• config(1)
  Add experimental "pseudo-root" keyword which can be used to specify any interface as the local root. When used in conjunction with ioconf, this creates the device tree from the pseudo-root downward (pseudo-root itself not included). [pooka 20100308]
• openldap
  Update to 2.4.21. [lukem 20100308]
• uhso(4)
  Add a driver for Option N.V. Wireless WAN modems. [plunky 20100306]
• module
  Make it possible to disable builtin modules and re-enable them. [pooka 20100305]
• module
  Remove all kernel compile time #defines indicating file system support (e.g. fs_ffs.h / -DFFS). [pooka 20100303]
• ddb(4)
  Add 'mach frame' for hp700. [skrll 20100302]

Febuary 2010

• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.2.1. [roy 20100227]
• ld.so_elf
  Implement negative symbol lookup cache [roy 20100227]
• netstat(8)
  Add -h which humanizes numbers from -bi. [pooka 20100224]
• wcfb
  A driver for 3Dlabs Wildcat graphics cards [macallan 20100224]
• wbsio(4)
  New driver for Winbond Super I/O attachment of lm(4) on any port. [cnst 20100221]
• u3g(4)
  Support Huawei K3765. [pooka 20100219]
• aibs(4)
  New driver for ASUSTeK AI Booster (ACPI ASOC ATK0110) hardware monitor with limit support. [cnst 20100209]
• mfi(4)
  Add support for LSI's newer (GEN2) RAID controller from OpenBSD. [msaitoh 20100209]
• network
  Derive the mbuf cluster (NMBCLUSTERS) at boot time from the available memory. The default can be raised by changing kern.mbuf.nmbclusters. [joerg 20100208]
• uthum(4)
  Add a driver for TEMPer and TEMPerHUM usb thermometers. Adapted from OpenBSD [tonio 20100206]
• acpismbus(4)
  Add my experimental ACPI SMBus Control Method Interface driver. [pgoyette 20100206]
• config(1)
  Add an experimental "ioconf" keyword which makes config output only the device attachment tree in ioconf.c instead of the entire kernel build infrastructure. [pooka 20100203]
• terminfo(3)
  Import my terminfo implementation to replace termcap. [roy 20100203]
• amigappc
  A CSPPC system with ahsc(4) or cbiiisc(4) boots into multiuser for the first time. [phx 20100202]

January 2010

• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.1.5. [roy 20100131]
• network
  Make TCP window size autoscaling the default. [pooka 20100126]
• bpf(9)
  Make bpf interface with an ops vector backed by stubs if bpf is not present in the kernel. The client linkage is now always the same. [pooka 20100119]
• security.conf(5)
  Add check_pkg_vulnerabilities and check_pkg_signatures to validate the installed packages against the vulnerabilities database and the expected checksums for their files. [jmmv 20100119]
• daily.conf(5)
  Add fetch_pkg_vulnerabilities to keep the packages vulnerabilities database up to date, if it exists. [jmmv 20100119]
• wscons(4)
  Add fonts for eastern european languages. [ahoka 20100118]
• shark
  Add support for new-style kernel modules. [jmmv 20100118]
• macppc
  Add support for new-style kernel modules. [jmmv 20100118]
• tn3270
  Removed from base [roy 20100116]
• sparc
  Add apc(4), a driver for the Aurora Personality Chip (APC) found on SPARCstation-4/5 and qemu. Allows to idle the CPU when in the idle loop. [bouyer 20100115]
• mount_puffs(8)
  Add a utility for querying puffs arguments to make mount -vv work for puffs mounts. [pooka 20100114]
• cobalt
  Add LBA48 support to bootloader so that it can safely load a kernel from NetBSD partition beyond >137GB boundary. [tsutsui 20100110]
• puffs(3)
  Support unmounting the file system from the file server. [pooka 20100107]
• mount_psshfs(8)
  Add -u and -g for uid/gid remapping. [pooka 20100107]
• cas(4)
  Add a driver for Sun Cassini and Cassini+ Ethernet hardware. From OpenBSD [jdc 20100107]

December 2009

• libc
  Import tzcode2009k [mlelstv 20091231]
• wm(4)
  Add support for i82583V [msaitoh 20091230]
• gfb
  Add a driver for Sun XVR-1000 graphics boards [macallan 20091229]
• openssh
  Import 5.3. [christos 20091226]
• openssl(1)
  Import SNAP-20091226 [christos 20091226]
• bind
  Update to 9.7.0-rc1. [christos 20091226]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.1.4. [roy 20091223]
• atf(7)
  Import 0.7. [jmmv 20091222]
• sysinst(8)
  Make SHA1 the default option for cyphers. [ahoka 20091216]
• mips
  First merge of the matt-nb5-mips64 branch. Added support for 64-bit MIPS processors (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported). Added support for RMI XLS6ATX_7A board and XL SoC family. [matt 20091214]
• zaurus
  Add support Xorg. [nonaka 20091213]
• ntp
  Import ntp-4-2-4p8. [kardel 20091208]
• network
  Add "net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho" sysctl(7) support, to disable ICMP replies to the broadcast address. [christos 20091207]
• mount_portal(8)
  Remove the kernel portalfs driver and replace mount_portal with a version implemented using puffs. [pooka 20091205]
• playstation2
  Port deleted. [pooka 20091205]
• resolvconf(8)
  Import openreslv-3.3.4. [roy 20091204]
• lvm(8)
  Import new lvm2tools 2.02.56 version and libdevmapper 1.02.40. [haad 20091202]
• rump
  Support binding threads to a specific CPU. [pooka 20091201]

November 2009

• udl(4)
  Add a driver for DisplayLink DL-1x0/1x5 based USB LCDs and USB-VGA adaptors. Ported from OpenBSD by FUKAUMI Naoki with many modification. [tsutsui 20091130]
• build.sh
  Handle externally added programs and libraries and create sets. [uebayasi 20091130]
• sparc64
  Add real UltraSPARC-III* CPU support. [mrg 20091130]
• ws(4)
  Added the xf86-input-ws input driver for touchpanels that report absolute position data through wscons(4), e.g. those support by ums(4). [mbalmer 20091128]
• ums(4)
  Added touchpanel support. [mbalmer 20091127]
• rump
  Load rump virtual kernel symbol table at boot. This enables the use of the kernel linker in a rump kernel. [pooka 20091126]
• resolvconf(8)
  Import openreslv-3.3.3. [roy 20091121]
• build.sh
  Add "rumptest" for fast testing of rump compilation and linking. It is useful mostly for developers. [pooka 20091118]
• bnx(4)
  Added support for Broadcom BCM5709 and BCM5716 chips. [bouyer 20091118]
• raid(4)
  RAIDframe parity maps, which greatly improve parity rewrite times after unclean shutdown; jld's GSoC 2009 project. [jld 20091117]
• xf86-video-igs
  an Xorg driver for IGS CyberPro 20x0 graphics controllers, currently only for rev. 5 sharks [macallan 20091110]

October 2009

• pm2fb
  A driver for Permedia2-based graphics cards like Sun's PGX32 [macallan 20091028]
• yacc(1)
  Import byacc-20091028 [christos 20091028]
• m4(1)
  Import the OpenBSD one since it implements features from gm4 that the new flex wants [christos 20091026]
• routed(8)
  Merge 2.32 changes [christos 20091025]
• flex(1)
  Import flex-2.5.35 [christos 20091025]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.1.3. [roy 20091025]
• bind
  Update to 9.7.0-b1. [christos 20091024]
• kernel
  Remove support for uarea swap-out. [rmind 20091021]
• sysinst(8)
  Give the option to use tmpfs for /tmp in sysinst instead of the older mfs on i386 and amd64. [ahoka 20091018]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.1.2. [roy 20091016]
• rump
  Add a virtual CPU scheduler which maps the current thread to an available virtual CPU on entry to the rump kernel. [pooka 20091015]
• rump
  Introduce public interface specifications and autogenerate entrypoint wrappers. [pooka 20091014]
• rump
  Create proper prototypes for varargs system calls. [pooka 20091013]
• hdaudioctl(8)
  Add tool to manipulate hdaudio(4) devices [sborrill 20091011]
• man(1)
  Display manpage when specified with a path [cegger 20091007]
• ukfs(3)
  Support disklabel partitions. [pooka 20091007]
• libm(3)
  Add f{dim,max,min}{,f,l} from FreeBSD [christos 20091004]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.1.1. [roy 20091002]
• i386
  Add support for VIA C7 temperature sensors. [jmcneill 20091002]
• acpiwmi(4)
  Add a driver for the ACPI WMI Mapper interface. [jmcneill 20091002]
• i386
  Add support for enhanced speedstep on VIA C7 Esther CPUs. [jmcneill 20091002]
• lom(4), sparc64
  Add a driver for LOMlite lights out management hardware monitor and watchdog timer. [nakayama 20091002]

September 2009

• mdnsd(8), dns-sd(1), libdns_sd
  import mDNSResponder 212.1 [tsarna 20090929]
• wb(4)
  Add a driver for Winbond W83L518D SD/MMC readers. [jmcneill 20090930]
• ichlpcib(4)
  Add gpio(4) support. [jakllsch 20090927]
• xen
  add support for request-rx-copy in the virtual network device backend. This is required by recent Xen linux kernels. [bouyer 20090925]
• gpioctl(8)
  Support the new GPIO_PIN_PULSATE attribute for pins using the "pulsate" keyword. [mbalmer 20090925]
• gpio(4)
  Add the GPIO_PIN_PULSATE attribute to let a pin pulsate at a hardware defined frequency and duty cycle. [mbalmer 20090925]
• rump
  Support autoloading of modules from linksets. [pooka 20090924]
• ld.elf_so(1)
  Support dlinfo(), currently limited to RTLD_DI_LINKMAP. [pooka 20090924]
• xen
  add support for feature-flush-cache in block device backend. Use it in block device frontend for DIOCCACHESYNC. [bouyer 20090923]
• pfsync(4)
  PFSYNC from OpenBSD 4.2 imported [degroote 20090914]
• kernel
  remove POOL_INIT from the kernel, replace with dynamic constructors which call pool_init(). [pooka 20090913]
• rc(8)
  Output is now logged to /var/run/rc.log. A new rc_silent option suppresses output to the console; it can be set in rc.conf(5) or by booting in silent mode (e.g. "boot netbsd -z" on i386 or amd64). [apb 20090911]
• sysctl(7)
  Add kern.boothowto variable. [apb 20090911]
• build.sh
  Add a modules operation which builds kernel modules and installs them into DESTDIR. [jnemeth 20090907]
• sysinst(8)
  Install the new modules.tgz set. [jnemeth 20090907]
• sets
  Move kernel modules out of base.tgz and into a new modules.tgz. [jnemeth 20090907]
• rump_smbfs(8)
  Support smbfs as a userspace server. [pooka 20090906]
• hdaudio(4)
  New standards-compliant Intel High Definition Audio driver written to replace azalia(4). [sborrill 20090906]
• zx(4)
  imported the xf86-video-sunleo 1.2.0 driver from Xorg [macallan 20090905]
• rumpcrypto
  Add rump component for kernel crypto routines. [pooka 20090903]
• unzip(1)
  A libarchive-based unzip frontend, emulating most of infozip's command line. [joerg 20090903]

August 2009

• postfix(1)
  Import version 2.6.5 [tron 20090831]
• tcx(4)
  imported the xf86-video-suntcx driver and added hardware acceleration [macallan 20090827]
• amd64, i386
  Suspend and resume is now supported when using the genfb(4) display driver. [jmcneill 20090823]
• iasl(1)
  The ACPICA ASL (ACPI Source Language) compiler/decompiler is now included with i386 and amd64 installations. [jmcneill 20090818]
• acpi(4)
  Updated ACPICA to 20090730. This release includes full support for the ACPI 4.0 specification. [jmcneill 20090818]
• nbperf(1)
  A minimal perfect hash function generator. [joerg 20090815]
• secmode_keylock, keylock, gpiolock(4)
  Add support for multi-position keylocks. [mbalmer 20090814]
• mips
  removed a.out support [matt 20090812]
• voyagerfb(8)
  a driver for the Gdium Liberty 1000's video controller [macallan 20090812]
• gpioiic(4)
  New driver to create an I2C bus using GPIO pins in bit-banging mode. [mbalmer 20090809]
• evbarm
  Support for Gumstix Verdex and Verdex Pro. [kiyohara 20090809]
• smsh(4)
  Add a SMSC LAN9118 Family Ethernet driver. [kiyohara 20090809]
• zfs
  Import OpenSolaris zfs source code to NetBSD, add NetBSD patches. [haad 20090808]
• rumpvfs
  Use unmodified kernel vnode pager. [pooka 20090806]
• tcx(8)
  support wsdisplay and acceleration [macallan 20090806]
• openssl(1)
  Import SNAP-20090805 to fix the namespace issues (BLOCK, CSTRING, etc) [christos 20090805]
• acpi(4)
  It is now possible to configure devices other than the lid switch and sleep/power buttons as a method of waking the machine from sleep. Any ACPI device node with a _PRW method is now a candidate, and the device nodes are listed in the hw.wake namespace. By default, the following device node types are enabled as wakeup devices if the firmware supports it: lid switch, sleep/power button, PC keyboard controller. [jmcneill 20090804]
• rumpfs
  Add support for registering external files which are accessed from the host OS fs namespace instead of from inside the rump virtual kernel. [pooka 20090803]
• libbluetooth
  add device access API bt_dev(3). [plunky 20090803]

July 2009

• xen
  dropped Xen 2 support. [cegger 20090728]
• bind
  Update to 9.6.1-P1. [christos 20090728]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.0.7. [roy 20090728]
• mvsata(4)
  Support Marvell Hercules-I/II SATA Controllers [kiyohara 20090727]
• secmodel_44bsd(9), secmodel_securelevel(9)
  Add provisions to control access to gpio(4) pins. [mbalmer 20090725]
• gpioctl(8)
  New commandline syntax to reflect gpio(4) changes. [mbalmer 20090725]
• gpiosim(4)
  New driver for development/testing purposes to simulate a gpio(4) device. [mbalmer 20090725]
• gpio(4)
  Complete rework to integrate with kauth(9), allow for runtime driver attachment, naming of individual pins. [mbalmer 20090725]
• rumpdev
  Support devices and kernel config framework. [pooka 20090720]
• openssl(1)
  Import SNAP-20090710 under the new crypto/external framework [christos 20090719]
• ip(4)
  Add IP_MINTTL option to discard packets with a TTL lower than the option value. [minskim 20090717]
• ip(4)
  Add IP_RECVTTL option to let recvmsg(2) return the TTL of the received datagram. [minskim 20090716]
• libc
  Add getdelim(3) and getline(3) conforming to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (``POSIX.1'') [roy 20090713]
• sysmon_envsys(8)
  Enhancements to allow access to driver-internal limit values [pgoyette 20090710]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.0.6 [roy 20090708]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.0.5 [roy 20090704]

June 2009

• cpu_reboot(9)
  tear down stacks of (pseudo-)devices and filesystems in an orderly fashion during shutdown, detaching the devices and unmounting the filesystems. i386 and sparc64 are finished. [dyoung 20090625]
• wake(8)
  New command to send Wake-on-LAN packets to machines on the local Ethernet. [mbalmer 20090625]
• postfix(1)
  Import version 2.6.2 [tron 20090623]
• drm(4)
  Update to mesa-drm 85b9f737db0d2a845e4d7e2bbf9ad12ff9e2227c. [mrg 20090619]
• ehci(4)
  Add quirk for SB600/SB700 chipsets to workaround freeze in USB subsystem. [cegger 20090615]
• ntp
  Import ntp-4-2-4p7. [kardel 20090613]
• modload(8)
  Add various flags to assist in the creation and maintenance of <module>.prop and/or to set MODCTL_NO_PROP. [jnemeth 20090609]
• module
  Add the capability to read an <module>.prop associated with a module and merge a plist passed in by modload(8). Also, add MODCTL_NO_PROP flag to prevent loading <module>.prop. [jnemeth 20090609]
• openssh
  Import 5.2. [christos 20090607]

May 2009

• agr(4)
  Add support for layering vlans on top. Also allow LACP to be disabled. [darran 20090529]
• rumpnet
  Add IPv6 support [pooka 20090527]
• i386, amd64
  CPU topology detection support for AMD processors. [rmind 20090526]
• kernel
  File descriptor access performance improvements. [ad 20090524]
• libc
  Add %s (seconds since the Epoch) to strptime(3) for symmetry with strftime(3). [ginsbach 20090524]
• httpd(8)
  Import bozohttpd-20090522. [mrg 20090522]
• hp700
  com at dino now works [skrll 20090518]
• libc
  Add the getdate(3) and getdate_err value, conforming to IEEE Std 1003.1 (``POSIX.1'') and the Open Group Base Specifications X/Open System Interfaces extension (``XSI''). [ginsbach 20090514]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.0.4 [roy 20090514]
• bluetooth(3)
  Update the Bluetooth service discovery API and merge it into libbluetooth, retiring the separate libsdp. [plunky 20090512]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.0.3 [roy 20090511]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.0.2 [roy 20090510]
• hp700
  ucas (CAS for user-space address) support for hp700. [skrll 20090508]
• file(1)
  Import 5.03 [christos 20090508]
• apropos(1)
  Add -S and -s support, for searching by machine and section [wiz 20090508]
• rpcgen(1)
  Add support for hyper and quad keywords. [ginsbach 20090506]
• hp700
  Enable support for UFS2 boot. [tsutsui 20090503]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.0.1 [roy 20090503]
• build
  Use sha256 instead of sha1 hashes in METALOG and /etc/mtree/set.* files. [apb 20090501]
• install(1)
  Add support for writing sha256, sha384, or sha512 hashes to a METALOG. [apb 20090501]
• libc
  Add stpcpy(3), stpncpy(3), strnlen(3), all from FreeBSD. [perry 20090501]

April 2009

• hppa
  Merge the nick-hppapmap branch which includes a port of the OpenBSD pmap, improves support for machines without the PA7100LC or PA7300LC CPUs, and much more. [skrll 20090430]
• sh3
  Add some support for SH7706. [nonaka 20090430]
• rump
  Add support for remote system calls [pooka 20090429]
• ichlpcib(4)
  Attach 82801IEM LPC Interface Bridge too. [njoly 20090429]
• rc.d(8)
  Add an rc.d script for dhcpcd(8). [roy 20090428]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.0.0. [roy 20090428]
• compat_linux32
  Add IPC_64 support for all semctl(2), following corresponding compat_linux(8) change. [njoly 20090427]
• zx(4)
  Add wscons support [macallan 20090423]
• compat_linux(8)
  Add IPC_64 support for all semctl(2)/msgctl(2). [njoly 20090423]
• landisk
  Enable to build a bootable install disk image. [tsutsui 20090423]
• netpgp
  Import netpgp. This is a heavily-modified version of openpgpsdk, and will replace it. [agc 20090423]
• uftdi(4)
  Add support for USB serial adapter REX-USB60F. [taca 20090421]
• pmax
  Add UFS2 boot support. [tsutsui 20090421]
• landisk
  Add UFS2 boot support. [tsutsui 20090421]
• sdmmc(4)
  Add a driver for SD/MMC from OpenBSD. [nonaka 20090421]
• ale(4)
  Add a driver for Attensic/Atheros L1E Gigabit Ethernet. From OpenBSD and improvements from Kevin Lahey. [cegger 20090420]
• queue(3)
  Add SLIST_FOREACH_SAFE, STAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE, STAILQ_LAST, SIMPLEQ_CONCAT, and SIMPLEQ_LAST. [mschuett 20090420]
• bge(4)
  Add misc quirk code for chip specific bugs. From FreeBSD and OpenBSD. [msaitoh 20090419]
• httpd(8)
  Import bozohttpd-20090418. [mrg 20090418]
• zaurus
  Add recoding support to zaudio(4). [nonaka 20090418]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-4.0.13 [roy 20090417]
• makefs(8)
  Add an experimental source-only makefs based on rump and fs-utils. It currently supports FFS, ext2fs, FAT, cd9660 and sysvbfs. [pooka 20090414]
• re(4)
  Add support for RTL8168CP and RTL8168D. [tsutsui 20090413]
• libbind
  Update to 6.0-rc1. Use md5 for randomid instead of sequential id, add suppport for DS, SSHFP, RRSIG, NSEC, DNSKEY, DHCID, NSEC3, NSEC3PARAM, HIP and DLV, various new API functions. [christos 20090412]
• bind
  Update to 9.6.1-b1. Full NSEC3 support, automatic zone re-signing, new update-policy methods tcp-self and 6to4-self, unbundle libbind, change the default pid file location from /var/run to /var/run/{named,lwresd} for improved chroot/setuid support. [christos 20090412]
• libc
  Add memrchr(3). [christos 20090410]
• newfs_sysvbfs(8)
  Add support creating a file system to a regular file. [pooka 20090409]
• mtree(8)
  Add -S option to sort entries. [apb 20090408]
• libc
  Add glob_pattern_p(3) for new cvs(1). [christos 20090408]
• cvs(1)
  Import 1.12.13 [christos 20090408]
• sysinst(8)
  Make installer reject UFS2 for root partition on ports whose bootloaders don't support UFS2 boot. [tsutsui 20090407]
• pckbd(4)
  Add a Czech keyboard layout. [mkirby 20090406]
• sysinst(8)
  Default to wapbl(4) log for ufs partitions. [ad 20090404]
• amd64, i386
  Default to UFS2 on sysinst(8). [ad 20090404]

March 2009

• ne(4)
  Add proper support for NE2000 8 bit mode. [tsutsui 20090303]
• wm(4)
  Enable hardware vlan(4) support. [darran 20090331]
• wm(4)
  Add workaround for 82543GC. [msaitoh 20090329]
• kmem_alloc(9)
  Add more extensive runtime debugging facilities. [ad 20090329]
• i386
  Use "i486" as GNU_ARCH for i386. [drochner 20090327]
• eject(1)
  Turn on amd(8) support for eject. [christos 20090323]
• re(4)
  Add hardware checksum support for newer PCIe 8168C/8111C/8102E chips. [tsutsui 20090321]
• am-utils
  Import latest from head; adds udf support amd -uu [christos 20090320]
• zoneinfo
  Import tzdata2009c. [kleink 20090316]
• sgimips
  Add TCPv4/UDPv4 RX hardware checksum support for mec(4) Ethernet on O2. [tsutsui 20090316]
• vnd(4)
  Implement DIOCCACHESYNC ioctl. [christos 20090314]
• zaurus
  Add only playback support to zaudio(4). [nonaka 20090313]
• altmem(4)
  Add 'alternative memory' disk device driver. [jmcneill 20090312]
• zaurus
  Add kloader(4) support. [nonaka 20090311]
• module
  Add tprof modules. [yamt 20090310]
• wm(4)
  Add support for 82567LF-3, and fix register access for ICH10DO. [msaitoh 20090310]
• libfetch
  Import libfetch-2.23. [joerg 20090310]
• piixide(4)
  Add support for 82965PM. [christos 20090309]
• crash(8)
  Add a new utility to diagnose kernel crashes. Based upon the in-kernel debugger (ddb). [ad 20090307]
• fxp(4)
  Add TCPv4/UDPv4 RX hardware checksum support for i82559 and later chips. [tsutsui 20090307]
• kernel
  Compute kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs on startup based on physical memory. Default can be overridden via sysctl. [joerg 20090306]
• ar(1)
  Add support to ar(1) for 'deterministic mode'. [christos 20090306]
• xen
  Add XEN3PAE_DOM0, an i386 domain0 kernel with PAE support. requires an i386PAE or x86_64 hypervisor. [bouyer 20090305]
• xen
  Add PCI pass-through support for Xen3. domain0 kernel gets a pciback PCI drivers, to which device specified in the pciback.hide boot parameter will attach. DomU kernels gets a xpci device, to which PCI buses will attach. [bouyer 20090305]
• zaurus
  Add zboot from OpenBSD. [nonaka 20090302]
• ext2fs
  Add support for >128 byte inode. From Frederic Sausmikat. [christos 20090301]

Febuary 2009

• rumpnet
  Add virtual interface based on inter-process shared memory. [pooka 20090228]
• evbarm
  Improved support for GPIO support on the EP93xx ARM processors. [kenh 20090227]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-4.0.12. [roy 20090226]
• i386, amd64
  ucas (CAS for user-space address) support for i386/amd64. [rmind 20090223]
• softdep
  The soft dependences / soft updates feature of the fast file system (FFS) has been supplanted by meta data journaling (logging). Logging provides better reliability and better performance for most applications. Soft dependencies will no longer be available from NetBSD 6.0 onwards. We encourage users to enable logging on FFS file systems. [ad 20090222]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-4.0.11. [roy 20090221]
• tests
  Converted some of the kernel tests, including kqueue and ipf, to ATF. Initial work from the GSoC 2008 project by Lukasz Strzygowski. [jmmv 20090220]
• i386
  The vesafb(4) driver has been retired. [jmcneill 20090218]
• compat_linux(8), compat_linux32
  Add IPC_64 support for all shmctl(2) commands, not only for STAT/SET. [njoly 20090218]
• lvm(8)
  Import new lvm2tools 2.02.44 version and libdevmapper 1.02.30. [haad 20090218]
• amd64, i386
  The bootloader has been enhanced to support framebuffer consoles using VESA BIOS extensions. These changes allow the x86 ports to work with the genfb(4) driver, and obsoletes the i386-only vesafb(4) driver. [jmcneill 20090216]
• openssh
  Import 5.1. [christos 20090216]
• libfetch
  Import libfetch-2.22. [joerg 20090214]
• tests
  Converted the awk, basename, bzip2, config, cut, dirname, grep, gzip, libcrypto, m4, make and sdiff tests to ATF. Initial work from the GSoC 2008 project by Lukasz Strzygowski. [jmmv 20090213]
• share/mk
  Enable -Wsign-compare for $WARNS>=4. [lukem 20090212]
• nfe(4)
  Add support for flow control for MCP65. [cegger 20090212]
• sk(4)
  Add support for flow control. [cegger 20090212]
• sgimips
  Add Personal IRIS 4D/20 and 4D/25 (IP6 and IP10) support. [rumble 20090212]
• libc
  Add RFC 2045 MIME Quoted-Printable support. [christos 20090210]
• udf, mount_udf(8)
  add support for session opening/closing on sequential media. Media can be closed on request on unmount by passing the '-c' flag as mount option. [reinoud 20090208]
• dkctl(8)
  Display cache, strategy, and list of wedges if no command is specified in the command line. [uebayasi 20090207]
• module
  Add a module for vnd(4) driver. [haad 20090205]
• kernel
  Add support for loading pseudo-device drivers. [haad 20090202]

January 2009

• x11
  added support for X11FLAVOUR=xorg for NetBSD/alpha. No support for turbochannel graphic cards yet. [bouyer 20090124]
• openpgpsdk
  Imported openpgpsdk 0.9 library (BSD-licensed) into src/crypto/external. The command-line driver program, openpgp, which is shipped with it has been mostly rewritten to be more user-friendly. [agc 20090123]
• msdosfs
  The default behavior when mounting empty file systems has been changed. Previously, msdosfs would assume the -s flag (short filenames) in this case; now msdosfs will assume the -l flag (long filenames). [jmcneill 20090122]
• atf(7)
  Import 0.6. [jmmv 20090119]
• atphy(4)
  Add a driver for Attensic/Atheros F1 PHY. From FreeBSD via OpenBSD. [cegger 20090116]
• age(4)
  Add a driver for Attensic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet. From FreeBSD via OpenBSD. [cegger 20090116]
• rump
  Support __RENAME in syscall interfaces and expose the non-compat symbol name in the header. [pooka 20090113]
• rump
  Implement a virtual block device driver. [pooka 20090113]
• openpgpsdk
  Initial import of openpgpsdk v0.9. [agc 20090112]
• mount(8)
  Add -o rump, which mounts the file system as a userspace server via puffs and rump instead of using a kernel driver. [pooka 20090111]
• make(1)
  Changes to the way .for loops are processed. [dsl 20090111]
• time_t, dev_t
  Change time_t and dev_t to be 64 bit quantities. Fixed POSIX issues in timeval and timespec. [christos 20090110]
• makefs(8)
  Add support for encoding RISC OS metadata into ISO 9660 file systems. [bjh21 20090110]
• rgephy(4)
  Support for flow control. From OpenBSD. [cegger 20090109]
• rgephy(4)
  Support for RTL8211C(L) phy. From FreeBSD. [cegger 20090109]
• bwi(4)
  Add a driver for Broadcom AirForce / Apple Airport Extreme wireless network controllers. From Taylor Campbell. [macallan 20090109]
• rump
  Prepend all symbols within the rump virtual kernel image with the string "rump". This prevents conflicts with the host system symbols. [pooka 20090108]
• module
  Add sysvbfs module. [pooka 20090105]
• rc.d(8)
  Add a script for rndctl(8). [apb 20090104]
• rump
  Include libkern in rumpkern. [pooka 20090104]
• mount_cd9660(8)
  Add nocasetrans option as a synonym for nomaplcase. [christos 20090103]

December 2008

• rump
  i386 and amd64 can use kernel module binaries [pooka 20081230]
• gcscaudio(4)
  Add AMD Geode CS5536 audio driver, from SHIMIZU Ryo. [jmcneill 20081228]
• lvm(8)
  Add LVM functionality to NetBSD; this is done by dm(4) driver in kernel and lvm2 tools made by RedHat. We use the same well known interface as Linux does for managing LVM. [haad 20081222]
• viaide(4)
  Add VT8237S Integrated SATA Controller support. [nonaka 20081221]
• x68k
  pow(4) switches to use MI powerd(8) [isaki 20081220]
• malloc(9)
  Remove MALLOC() and FREE() macros. [cegger 20081217]
• sup(1)
  Add -M user flag to specify the username to send mail to from the command line. [christos 20081217]
• snprintb(3), kprintf(9)
  Share snprintb(3) among kernel and libutil and make it supersede bitmask_snprintf(9). [christos 20081216]
• sparc
  Switch to use wscons. [macallan 20081213]
• pms(4)
  Add Elantech multi-touch trackpad support [jmcneill 20081213]
• boot.cfg(5)
  Add an option to clear the screen. [christos 20081213]
• compat_linux32
  Add clock_nanosleep syscall. [njoly 20081212]
• ath(4)
  Switch from the binary HAL to the open-source HAL released by Sam Leffler. [alc 20081211]
• httpd(8)
  Add rc.d script to control httpd daemon. [mishka 20081211]
• tab(1)
  Add tabs utility, fixes PR bin/11227. [roy 20081211]
• re(4)
  Add support for a 8168C/8111C revision. [alc 20081208]
• ddb(4)
  Add 'show vmem' and 'show all vmems' commands. [cegger 20081207]
• compat_linux32
  Add getresuid() and getresgid() syscalls. [njoly 20081205]
• libc
  Add fdopendir(3), from Solaris/Linux. [ad 20081205]
• module
  Add a layerfs module. [ad 20081205]
• module
  Add a couple of sysctl(8) entries, kern.module.autoload and kern.module.verbose. [ad 20081203]
• compat_osf1(8)
  Fix getdirentries(2). [njoly 20081202]

November 2008

• agp(4)
  Add support for the Intel G45 AGP. [christos 20081129]
• i386
  Make pxeboot(8) understand boot.cfg(5). [ad 20081125]
• module
  Make PPP compressors modules. [cube 20081125]
• compat_osf1(8)
  Add getpgid, needed for Tru64 4.0g ksh. [njoly 20081124]
• nfs
  Avoid noisy nfs_timer/nfs_reply DEBUG output that occurs when the NFS server goes away. [mrg 20081123]
• i386
  Remove most compat and file system options from GENERIC since they are also provided by modules. [ad 20081122]
• i386
  Switch the i386 installation CDs away from RAM disks and instead use the CD-ROM as the root file system. [ad 20081121]
• kernel, libc
  Add new ptree (Patricia / RADIX tree) implementation. [matt 20081120]
• rump(3)
  Move VFS functionality away from librump to a new library: librumpvfs [pooka 20081119]
• module
  Make the emulations, exec formats, coredump, NFS, and the NFS server into modules. [ad 20081119]
• amd64, i386
  Make boot loader autoload a kernel module corresponding to the root file system type. [ad 20081119]
• module
  Make POSIX AIO loadable as a module. [ad 20081114]
• libfetch
  Update to libfetch 2.20. Allow HTTP auth to be provided in URL. [joerg 20081114]
• build.sh
  Add support for new MAKEVERBOSE levels 3 and 4. [apb 20081113]
• module
  Make compat_ndis a module. [ad 20081113]
• module
  Make compat_ossaudio a module. [ad 20081113]
• module
  Allow the POSIX semaphore code to be loaded as a module. [ad 20081112]
• lkm
  Removed. Superseded by the new module framework. [ad 20081112]
• kernel
  Add generic producer/consumer queue. [matt 20081111]
• agp(4)
  Add support for Intel G35. [christos 20081108]

October 2008

• syslog(3)
  Import Martin Schuette's Summer of Code project: Reliable TCP connections, syslog protocol API, encryption. [christos 20081031]

Port specific changes (top)

NetBSD/arm covers (for NetBSD 6.0):

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

NetBSD/hppa covers (for NetBSD 6.0):

• NetBSD/hp700

NetBSD/m68k covers (for NetBSD 6.0):

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

NetBSD/mips covers (for NetBSD 6.0):

• 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 6.0):

• NetBSD/pc532

NetBSD/powerpc covers (for NetBSD 6.0):

• NetBSD/mvmeppc
• NetBSD/prep
• NetBSD/bebox
• NetBSD/ofppc
• NetBSD/amigappc
• NetBSD/rs6000
• NetBSD/walnut
• NetBSD/evbppc
• NetBSD/sandpoint
• NetBSD/ibmnws
• NetBSD/macppc
• NetBSD/pmppc

NetBSD/sh3 covers (for NetBSD 6.0):

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

NetBSD/sh5 covers (for NetBSD 6.0):

• NetBSD/evbsh5

Changes to NetBSD/acorn26 6.0

• arm: Added support for Cortex-A8 CPUs. [jmcneill 20100616]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-acorn26.

Changes to NetBSD/acorn32 6.0

• arm: Added support for Cortex-A8 CPUs. [jmcneill 20100616]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-acorn32.

Changes to NetBSD/algor 6.0

• mips: removed a.out support [matt 20090812]
• mips: First merge of the matt-nb5-mips64 branch. Added support for 64-bit MIPS processors (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported). Added support for RMI XLS6ATX_7A board and XL SoC family. [matt 20091214]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-algor.

Changes to NetBSD/alpha 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/amd64 6.0

• Make boot loader autoload a kernel module corresponding to the root file system type. [ad 20081119]
• The bootloader has been enhanced to support framebuffer consoles using VESA BIOS extensions. These changes allow the x86 ports to work with the genfb(4) driver, and obsoletes the i386-only vesafb(4) driver. [jmcneill 20090216]
• ucas (CAS for user-space address) support for i386/amd64. [rmind 20090223]
• Default to UFS2 on sysinst(8). [ad 20090404]
• CPU topology detection support for AMD processors. [rmind 20090526]
• Suspend and resume is now supported when using the genfb(4) display driver. [jmcneill 20090823]
• Intel Firmware Hub Random Number Generator support moved from pchb(4) to fwhrng(4) at ichlpcib(4). [jakllsch 20100723]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-amd64.

Changes to NetBSD/amiga 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/amigappc 6.0

• A CSPPC system with ahsc(4) or cbiiisc(4) boots into multiuser for the first time. [phx 20100202]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-amigappc.

Changes to NetBSD/arc 6.0

• mips: removed a.out support [matt 20090812]
• mips: First merge of the matt-nb5-mips64 branch. Added support for 64-bit MIPS processors (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported). Added support for RMI XLS6ATX_7A board and XL SoC family. [matt 20091214]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-arc.

Changes to NetBSD/arm26 6.0

• arm: Added support for Cortex-A8 CPUs. [jmcneill 20100616]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-arm26.

Changes to NetBSD/arm32 6.0

• arm: Added support for Cortex-A8 CPUs. [jmcneill 20100616]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-arm32.

Changes to NetBSD/atari 6.0

• Add support for the SMC Elite Ultra Ethernet with the SMC_TT VME-ISA bridge. [tsutsui 20100313]
• Add support for the EtherNEC, ISA NE2000 based Ethernet connected to Atari ROM cartridge slot. [tsutsui 20100401]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-atari.

Changes to NetBSD/bebox 6.0

• Support xserver. It tested only s3(TRIO 64V+). [kiyohara 20100801]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-bebox.

Changes to NetBSD/cats 6.0

• arm: Added support for Cortex-A8 CPUs. [jmcneill 20100616]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-cats.

Changes to NetBSD/cesfic 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/cobalt 6.0

• mips: removed a.out support [matt 20090812]
• mips: First merge of the matt-nb5-mips64 branch. Added support for 64-bit MIPS processors (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported). Added support for RMI XLS6ATX_7A board and XL SoC family. [matt 20091214]
• Add LBA48 support to bootloader so that it can safely load a kernel from NetBSD partition beyond >137GB boundary. [tsutsui 20100110]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-cobalt.

Changes to NetBSD/dreamcast 6.0

• sh3: Add some support for SH7706. [nonaka 20090430]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-dreamcast.

Changes to NetBSD/evbarm 6.0

• Improved support for GPIO support on the EP93xx ARM processors. [kenh 20090227]
• Support for Gumstix Verdex and Verdex Pro. [kiyohara 20090809]
• arm: Added support for Cortex-A8 CPUs. [jmcneill 20100616]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbarm.

Changes to NetBSD/evbmips 6.0

• mips: removed a.out support [matt 20090812]
• mips: First merge of the matt-nb5-mips64 branch. Added support for 64-bit MIPS processors (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported). Added support for RMI XLS6ATX_7A board and XL SoC family. [matt 20091214]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbmips.

Changes to NetBSD/evbppc 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/evbsh3 6.0

• sh3: Add some support for SH7706. [nonaka 20090430]
• Add support for Alpha Project MS104-SH4, TAC T-SH7706LAN Rev.3 and TAC T-SH7706LSR Rev.1. [nonaka 20100407]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbsh3.

Changes to NetBSD/evbsh5 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/ews4800mips 6.0

• mips: removed a.out support [matt 20090812]
• mips: First merge of the matt-nb5-mips64 branch. Added support for 64-bit MIPS processors (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported). Added support for RMI XLS6ATX_7A board and XL SoC family. [matt 20091214]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-ews4800mips.

Changes to NetBSD/hp300 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/hp700 6.0

• hppa: Merge the nick-hppapmap branch which includes a port of the OpenBSD pmap, improves support for machines without the PA7100LC or PA7300LC CPUs, and much more. [skrll 20090430]
• Enable support for UFS2 boot. [tsutsui 20090503]
• ucas (CAS for user-space address) support for hp700. [skrll 20090508]
• com at dino now works [skrll 20090518]
• Add support for elroy(4), astro(4) and ssio(4) based 64-bit machines running in 32-bit mode. [skrll 20100430]
• Add support for uturn(4) based machines. [skrll 20100624]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-hp700.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcarm 6.0

• Add support for Sharp W-ZERO3 series. [nonaka 20100417]
• arm: Added support for Cortex-A8 CPUs. [jmcneill 20100616]
• Switch to using Xorg servers and binaries. [tsutsui 20100731]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcarm.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcmips 6.0

• mips: removed a.out support [matt 20090812]
• mips: First merge of the matt-nb5-mips64 branch. Added support for 64-bit MIPS processors (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported). Added support for RMI XLS6ATX_7A board and XL SoC family. [matt 20091214]
• Switch to using Xorg servers and binaries. [tsutsui 20100731]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcmips.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcsh 6.0

• sh3: Add some support for SH7706. [nonaka 20090430]
• Add sysinst(8) support. [tsutsui 20100503]
• Switch to using Xorg servers and binaries. [tsutsui 20100731]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcsh.

Changes to NetBSD/i386 6.0

• Make boot loader autoload a kernel module corresponding to the root file system type. [ad 20081119]
• Switch the i386 installation CDs away from RAM disks and instead use the CD-ROM as the root file system. [ad 20081121]
• Remove most compat and file system options from GENERIC since they are also provided by modules. [ad 20081122]
• Make pxeboot(8) understand boot.cfg(5). [ad 20081125]
• The bootloader has been enhanced to support framebuffer consoles using VESA BIOS extensions. These changes allow the x86 ports to work with the genfb(4) driver, and obsoletes the i386-only vesafb(4) driver. [jmcneill 20090216]
• The vesafb(4) driver has been retired. [jmcneill 20090218]
• ucas (CAS for user-space address) support for i386/amd64. [rmind 20090223]
• Use "i486" as GNU_ARCH for i386. [drochner 20090327]
• Default to UFS2 on sysinst(8). [ad 20090404]
• CPU topology detection support for AMD processors. [rmind 20090526]
• Suspend and resume is now supported when using the genfb(4) display driver. [jmcneill 20090823]
• Add support for enhanced speedstep on VIA C7 Esther CPUs. [jmcneill 20091002]
• Add support for VIA C7 temperature sensors. [jmcneill 20091002]
• Intel Firmware Hub Random Number Generator support moved from pchb(4) to fwhrng(4) at ichlpcib(4). [jakllsch 20100723]
• Add PAE support. [jym 20100727]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-i386.

Changes to NetBSD/ibmnws 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/iyonix 6.0

• arm: Added support for Cortex-A8 CPUs. [jmcneill 20100616]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-iyonix.

Changes to NetBSD/landisk 6.0

• Add UFS2 boot support. [tsutsui 20090421]
• Enable to build a bootable install disk image. [tsutsui 20090423]
• sh3: Add some support for SH7706. [nonaka 20090430]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-landisk.

Changes to NetBSD/luna68k 6.0

• None recorded in changes log.
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-luna68k.

Changes to NetBSD/mac68k 6.0

• None recorded in changes log.
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-mac68k.

Changes to NetBSD/macppc 6.0

• Add support for new-style kernel modules. [jmmv 20100118]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-macppc.

Changes to NetBSD/mipsco 6.0

• mips: removed a.out support [matt 20090812]
• mips: First merge of the matt-nb5-mips64 branch. Added support for 64-bit MIPS processors (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported). Added support for RMI XLS6ATX_7A board and XL SoC family. [matt 20091214]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-mipsco.

Changes to NetBSD/mmeye 6.0

• sh3: Add some support for SH7706. [nonaka 20090430]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-mmeye.

Changes to NetBSD/mvme68k 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/mvmeppc 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/netwinder 6.0

• arm: Added support for Cortex-A8 CPUs. [jmcneill 20100616]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-netwinder.

Changes to NetBSD/news68k 6.0

• None recorded in changes log.
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-news68k.

Changes to NetBSD/newsmips 6.0

• mips: removed a.out support [matt 20090812]
• mips: First merge of the matt-nb5-mips64 branch. Added support for 64-bit MIPS processors (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported). Added support for RMI XLS6ATX_7A board and XL SoC family. [matt 20091214]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-newsmips.

Changes to NetBSD/next68k 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/ofppc 6.0

• Support Gigabit Ethernet Controller for MV64361 on PegasosII by mvgbe@gt. [kiyohara 20100609]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-ofppc.

Changes to NetBSD/pc532 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/playstation2 6.0

• mips: removed a.out support [matt 20090812]
• Port deleted. [pooka 20091205]
• mips: First merge of the matt-nb5-mips64 branch. Added support for 64-bit MIPS processors (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported). Added support for RMI XLS6ATX_7A board and XL SoC family. [matt 20091214]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-playstation2.

Changes to NetBSD/pmax 6.0

• Add UFS2 boot support. [tsutsui 20090421]
• mips: removed a.out support [matt 20090812]
• mips: First merge of the matt-nb5-mips64 branch. Added support for 64-bit MIPS processors (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported). Added support for RMI XLS6ATX_7A board and XL SoC family. [matt 20091214]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-pmax.

Changes to NetBSD/pmppc 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/prep 6.0

• Support xserver. It tested only on-board s3(864). [kiyohara 20100712]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-prep.

Changes to NetBSD/rs6000 6.0

• None recorded in changes log.
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-rs6000.

Changes to NetBSD/sandpoint 6.0

• Added support for Marvell-SKnet in netboot. [phx 20100503]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sandpoint.

Changes to NetBSD/sbmips 6.0

• mips: removed a.out support [matt 20090812]
• mips: First merge of the matt-nb5-mips64 branch. Added support for 64-bit MIPS processors (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported). Added support for RMI XLS6ATX_7A board and XL SoC family. [matt 20091214]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sbmips.

Changes to NetBSD/sgimips 6.0

• Add Personal IRIS 4D/20 and 4D/25 (IP6 and IP10) support. [rumble 20090212]
• Add TCPv4/UDPv4 RX hardware checksum support for mec(4) Ethernet on O2. [tsutsui 20090316]
• mips: removed a.out support [matt 20090812]
• mips: First merge of the matt-nb5-mips64 branch. Added support for 64-bit MIPS processors (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported). Added support for RMI XLS6ATX_7A board and XL SoC family. [matt 20091214]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sgimips.

Changes to NetBSD/shark 6.0

• Add support for new-style kernel modules. [jmmv 20100118]
• arm: Added support for Cortex-A8 CPUs. [jmcneill 20100616]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-shark.

Changes to NetBSD/sparc 6.0

• Switch to use wscons. [macallan 20081213]
• Add apc(4), a driver for the Aurora Personality Chip (APC) found on SPARCstation-4/5 and qemu. Allows to idle the CPU when in the idle loop. [bouyer 20100115]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sparc.

Changes to NetBSD/sparc64 6.0

• Add a driver for LOMlite lights out management hardware monitor and watchdog timer. [nakayama 20091002]
• Add real UltraSPARC-III* CPU support. [mrg 20091130]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sparc64.

Changes to NetBSD/sun2 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/sun3 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/vax 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/walnut 6.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/x68k 6.0

• pow(4) switches to use MI powerd(8) [isaki 20081220]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-x68k.

Changes to NetBSD/xen 6.0

• Add PCI pass-through support for Xen3. domain0 kernel gets a pciback PCI drivers, to which device specified in the pciback.hide boot parameter will attach. DomU kernels gets a xpci device, to which PCI buses will attach. [bouyer 20090305]
• Add XEN3PAE_DOM0, an i386 domain0 kernel with PAE support. requires an i386PAE or x86_64 hypervisor. [bouyer 20090305]
• dropped Xen 2 support. [cegger 20090728]
• add support for feature-flush-cache in block device backend. Use it in block device frontend for DIOCCACHESYNC. [bouyer 20090923]
• add support for request-rx-copy in the virtual network device backend. This is required by recent Xen linux kernels. [bouyer 20090925]
• Enable no-execute bit feature for i386pae and amd64 kernels. [jym 20100505]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-xen.

Changes to NetBSD/zaurus 6.0

• Add zboot from OpenBSD. [nonaka 20090302]
• Add kloader(4) support. [nonaka 20090311]
• Add only playback support to zaudio(4). [nonaka 20090313]
• Add recoding support to zaudio(4). [nonaka 20090418]
• Add support Xorg. [nonaka 20091213]
• arm: Added support for Cortex-A8 CPUs. [jmcneill 20100616]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-zaurus.

Non port-specific changes (top)

acpi(4)

• It is now possible to configure devices other than the lid switch and sleep/power buttons as a method of waking the machine from sleep. Any ACPI device node with a _PRW method is now a candidate, and the device nodes are listed in the hw.wake namespace. By default, the following device node types are enabled as wakeup devices if the firmware supports it: lid switch, sleep/power button, PC keyboard controller. [jmcneill 20090804]
• Updated ACPICA to 20090730. This release includes full support for the ACPI 4.0 specification. [jmcneill 20090818]
• Updated ACPICA to 20100121. [jruoho 20100408]
• Statistical event counters were added to hw.acpi.stat sysctl(8) tree. Dynamic debug output messages provided by the interpreter were added for ACPI_DEBUG kernels. These are controllable from the hw.acpi.debug sysctl(8) namespace. Furthermore, the ACPI device wake-up sysctl(8) tree was moved from hw.wake to hw.acpi.wake. [jruoho 20100419]
• Updated ACPICA to 20100528. [jruoho 20100606]
• The ACPI driver will no longer attach if the BIOS release year is 2000 or older. To override this behaviour, set acpi_force_load=1 or add options ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0 to your kernel config. [jmcneill 20100906]

acpicpu(4)

• add a driver for ACPI-based processor functionality. [jruoho 20100815]

acpismbus(4)

• Add my experimental ACPI SMBus Control Method Interface driver. [pgoyette 20100206]

acpiwmi(4)

• Add a driver for the ACPI WMI Mapper interface. [jmcneill 20091002]
• Added two mappings (child devices) for the ACPI WMI. [jruoho 20100419]

age(4)

• Add a driver for Attensic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet. From FreeBSD via OpenBSD. [cegger 20090116]

agp(4)

• Add support for Intel G35. [christos 20081108]
• Add support for the Intel G45 AGP. [christos 20081129]
• Add support for the Intel 82855GM AGP port. [jakllsch 20100404]

agr(4)

• Add support for layering vlans on top. Also allow LACP to be disabled. [darran 20090529]

aibs(4)

• New driver for ASUSTeK AI Booster (ACPI ASOC ATK0110) hardware monitor with limit support. [cnst 20100209]
• Remove aiboost(4) as obsolete and redundant since the introduction of aibs(4). [cnst 20100319]

ale(4)

• Add a driver for Attensic/Atheros L1E Gigabit Ethernet. From OpenBSD and improvements from Kevin Lahey. [cegger 20090420]

altmem(4)

• Add 'alternative memory' disk device driver. [jmcneill 20090312]

am-utils

• Import latest from head; adds udf support amd -uu [christos 20090320]

apropos(1)

• Add -S and -s support, for searching by machine and section [wiz 20090508]

ar(1)

• Add support to ar(1) for 'deterministic mode'. [christos 20090306]

atf(7)

• Import 0.6. [jmmv 20090119]
• Import 0.7. [jmmv 20091222]
• Import 0.8. [jmmv 20100508]
• Import 0.9. [jmmv 20100604]
• Add support for expected test failures. [pooka 20100616]
• Import 0.10. [jmmv 20100703]

ath(4)

• Switch from the binary HAL to the open-source HAL released by Sam Leffler. [alc 20081211]

atphy(4)

• Add a driver for Attensic/Atheros F1 PHY. From FreeBSD via OpenBSD. [cegger 20090116]

awk

• upgrade to 20100523 [christos 20100826]

bge(4)

• Add misc quirk code for chip specific bugs. From FreeBSD and OpenBSD. [msaitoh 20090419]

bind

• Update to 9.6.1-b1. Full NSEC3 support, automatic zone re-signing, new update-policy methods tcp-self and 6to4-self, unbundle libbind, change the default pid file location from /var/run to /var/run/{named,lwresd} for improved chroot/setuid support. [christos 20090412]
• Update to 9.6.1-P1. [christos 20090728]
• Update to 9.7.0-b1. [christos 20091024]
• Update to 9.7.0-rc1. [christos 20091226]
• Update to 9.7.2b1. [christos 20100806]

bluetooth(3)

• Update the Bluetooth service discovery API and merge it into libbluetooth, retiring the separate libsdp. [plunky 20090512]

bnx(4)

• Added support for Broadcom BCM5709 and BCM5716 chips. [bouyer 20091118]

boot.cfg(5)

• Add an option to clear the screen. [christos 20081213]

bozohttpd

• Update to bozohttpd-20100509. [mrg 20100509]

bpf(9)

• Make bpf interface with an ops vector backed by stubs if bpf is not present in the kernel. The client linkage is now always the same. [pooka 20100119]

btmagic(4)

• Added Apple Magic Mouse driver. [plunky 20100522]

build

• Use sha256 instead of sha1 hashes in METALOG and /etc/mtree/set.* files. [apb 20090501]

build.sh

• Add support for new MAKEVERBOSE levels 3 and 4. [apb 20081113]
• Add a modules operation which builds kernel modules and installs them into DESTDIR. [jnemeth 20090907]
• Add "rumptest" for fast testing of rump compilation and linking. It is useful mostly for developers. [pooka 20091118]
• Handle externally added programs and libraries and create sets. [uebayasi 20091130]

bwi(4)

• Add a driver for Broadcom AirForce / Apple Airport Extreme wireless network controllers. From Taylor Campbell. [macallan 20090109]

cas(4)

• Add a driver for Sun Cassini and Cassini+ Ethernet hardware. From OpenBSD [jdc 20100107]

cgtwelve

• A driver for Sun CG12 / Matrox SG3 graphics boards [macallan 20100323]

compat_linux(8)

• Add IPC_64 support for all shmctl(2) commands, not only for STAT/SET. [njoly 20090218]
• Add IPC_64 support for all semctl(2)/msgctl(2). [njoly 20090423]
• Update linux emulation to support NPTL. We now claim to be linux kernel version 2.6.18. [chs 20100706]

compat_linux32

• Add getresuid() and getresgid() syscalls. [njoly 20081205]
• Add clock_nanosleep syscall. [njoly 20081212]
• Add IPC_64 support for all shmctl(2) commands, not only for STAT/SET. [njoly 20090218]
• Add IPC_64 support for all semctl(2), following corresponding compat_linux(8) change. [njoly 20090427]

compat_osf1(8)

• Add getpgid, needed for Tru64 4.0g ksh. [njoly 20081124]
• Fix getdirentries(2). [njoly 20081202]

config(1)

• Add an experimental "ioconf" keyword which makes config output only the device attachment tree in ioconf.c instead of the entire kernel build infrastructure. [pooka 20100203]
• Add experimental "pseudo-root" keyword which can be used to specify any interface as the local root. When used in conjunction with ioconf, this creates the device tree from the pseudo-root downward (pseudo-root itself not included). [pooka 20100308]

cpu_reboot(9)

• tear down stacks of (pseudo-)devices and filesystems in an orderly fashion during shutdown, detaching the devices and unmounting the filesystems. i386 and sparc64 are finished. [dyoung 20090625]

crash(8)

• Add a new utility to diagnose kernel crashes. Based upon the in-kernel debugger (ddb). [ad 20090307]

cron

• Import 4.1 from isc. [christos 20100506]

cvs(1)

• Import 1.12.13 [christos 20090408]

daily.conf(5)

• Add fetch_pkg_vulnerabilities to keep the packages vulnerabilities database up to date, if it exists. [jmmv 20100119]

dbcool(4)

• Added support for ADM1031 therman sensor / fan controller [macallan 20100401]

ddb(4)

• Add 'show vmem' and 'show all vmems' commands. [cegger 20081207]
• Add 'mach frame' for hp700. [skrll 20100302]

dev_t

• Change time_t and dev_t to be 64 bit quantities. Fixed POSIX issues in timeval and timespec. [christos 20090110]

dhcpcd(8)

• Import dhcpcd-4.0.11. [roy 20090221]
• Import dhcpcd-4.0.12. [roy 20090226]
• Import dhcpcd-4.0.13 [roy 20090417]
• Import dhcpcd-5.0.0. [roy 20090428]
• Import dhcpcd-5.0.1 [roy 20090503]
• Import dhcpcd-5.0.2 [roy 20090510]
• Import dhcpcd-5.0.3 [roy 20090511]
• Import dhcpcd-5.0.4 [roy 20090514]
• Import dhcpcd-5.0.5 [roy 20090704]
• Import dhcpcd-5.0.6 [roy 20090708]
• Import dhcpcd-5.0.7. [roy 20090728]
• Import dhcpcd-5.1.1. [roy 20091002]
• Import dhcpcd-5.1.2. [roy 20091016]
• Import dhcpcd-5.1.3. [roy 20091025]
• Import dhcpcd-5.1.4. [roy 20091223]
• Import dhcpcd-5.1.5. [roy 20100131]
• Import dhcpcd-5.2.1. [roy 20100227]
• Import dhcpcd-5.2.2. [roy 20100331]
• Import dhcpcd-5.2.4. [roy 20100604]

dkctl(8)

• Display cache, strategy, and list of wedges if no command is specified in the command line. [uebayasi 20090207]

dns-sd(1)

• import mDNSResponder 212.1 [tsarna 20090929]

drm(4)

• Update to mesa-drm 85b9f737db0d2a845e4d7e2bbf9ad12ff9e2227c. [mrg 20090619]

ehci(4)

• Add quirk for SB600/SB700 chipsets to workaround freeze in USB subsystem. [cegger 20090615]

eject(1)

• Turn on amd(8) support for eject. [christos 20090323]

ext2fs

• Add support for >128 byte inode. From Frederic Sausmikat. [christos 20090301]

file(1)

• Import 5.03 [christos 20090508]

flex(1)

• Import flex-2.5.35 [christos 20091025]

fsck_msdos(8)

• add -x option which allows to run fsck_msdos -n on a snapshot of a live file system. [hannken 20100411]

fss(4)

• Add snapshot support for MSDOS file systems. [hannken 20100409]

fxp(4)

• Add TCPv4/UDPv4 RX hardware checksum support for i82559 and later chips. [tsutsui 20090307]

gcscaudio(4)

• Add AMD Geode CS5536 audio driver, from SHIMIZU Ryo. [jmcneill 20081228]

gfb

• Add a driver for Sun XVR-1000 graphics boards [macallan 20091229]

gpio(4)

• Complete rework to integrate with kauth(9), allow for runtime driver attachment, naming of individual pins. [mbalmer 20090725]
• Add the GPIO_PIN_PULSATE attribute to let a pin pulsate at a hardware defined frequency and duty cycle. [mbalmer 20090925]

gpioctl(8)

• New commandline syntax to reflect gpio(4) changes. [mbalmer 20090725]
• Support the new GPIO_PIN_PULSATE attribute for pins using the "pulsate" keyword. [mbalmer 20090925]

gpioiic(4)

• New driver to create an I2C bus using GPIO pins in bit-banging mode. [mbalmer 20090809]

gpiolock(4)

• Add support for multi-position keylocks. [mbalmer 20090814]

gpiosim(4)

• New driver for development/testing purposes to simulate a gpio(4) device. [mbalmer 20090725]

hdaudio(4)

• New standards-compliant Intel High Definition Audio driver written to replace azalia(4). [sborrill 20090906]

hdaudioctl(8)

• Add tool to manipulate hdaudio(4) devices [sborrill 20091011]

httpd(8)

• Add rc.d script to control httpd daemon. [mishka 20081211]
• Import bozohttpd-20090418. [mrg 20090418]
• Import bozohttpd-20090522. [mrg 20090522]
• Import bozohttpd-20100621. [mrg 20100621]

iasl(1)

• The ACPICA ASL (ACPI Source Language) compiler/decompiler is now included with i386 and amd64 installations. [jmcneill 20090818]

ichlpcib(4)

• Attach 82801IEM LPC Interface Bridge too. [njoly 20090429]
• Add gpio(4) support. [jakllsch 20090927]

install(1)

• Add support for writing sha256, sha384, or sha512 hashes to a METALOG. [apb 20090501]

ip(4)

• Add IP_RECVTTL option to let recvmsg(2) return the TTL of the received datagram. [minskim 20090716]
• Add IP_MINTTL option to discard packets with a TTL lower than the option value. [minskim 20090717]

kernel

• Add generic producer/consumer queue. [matt 20081111]
• Add new ptree (Patricia / RADIX tree) implementation. [matt 20081120]
• Add support for loading pseudo-device drivers. [haad 20090202]
• Compute kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs on startup based on physical memory. Default can be overridden via sysctl. [joerg 20090306]
• File descriptor access performance improvements. [ad 20090524]
• remove POOL_INIT from the kernel, replace with dynamic constructors which call pool_init(). [pooka 20090913]
• Remove support for uarea swap-out. [rmind 20091021]
• Enforce RLIMIT_FSIZE above the file system. This fixes the feature for some file systems. [pooka 20100423]
• Add high-priority xcall(9) support. [rmind 20100622]
• Add direct select()/poll() support. [rmind 20100708]

keylock

• Add support for multi-position keylocks. [mbalmer 20090814]

kmem_alloc(9)

• Add more extensive runtime debugging facilities. [ad 20090329]

kprintf(9)

• Share snprintb(3) among kernel and libutil and make it supersede bitmask_snprintf(9). [christos 20081216]

lcd(4)

• Driver for hp700 lcds added. [skrll 20100601]

ld.elf_so(1)

• Support dlinfo(), currently limited to RTLD_DI_LINKMAP. [pooka 20090924]

ld.so_elf

• Implement negative symbol lookup cache [roy 20100227]

libbind

• Update to 6.0-rc1. Use md5 for randomid instead of sequential id, add suppport for DS, SSHFP, RRSIG, NSEC, DNSKEY, DHCID, NSEC3, NSEC3PARAM, HIP and DLV, various new API functions. [christos 20090412]

libbluetooth

• add device access API bt_dev(3). [plunky 20090803]

libc

• Add new ptree (Patricia / RADIX tree) implementation. [matt 20081120]
• Add fdopendir(3), from Solaris/Linux. [ad 20081205]
• Add RFC 2045 MIME Quoted-Printable support. [christos 20090210]
• Add glob_pattern_p(3) for new cvs(1). [christos 20090408]
• Add memrchr(3). [christos 20090410]
• Add stpcpy(3), stpncpy(3), strnlen(3), all from FreeBSD. [perry 20090501]
• Add the getdate(3) and getdate_err value, conforming to IEEE Std 1003.1 (``POSIX.1'') and the Open Group Base Specifications X/Open System Interfaces extension (``XSI''). [ginsbach 20090514]
• Add %s (seconds since the Epoch) to strptime(3) for symmetry with strftime(3). [ginsbach 20090524]
• Add getdelim(3) and getline(3) conforming to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (``POSIX.1'') [roy 20090713]
• Import tzcode2009k [mlelstv 20091231]
• Added a space-efficient write-once database (cdbr(3), cdbw(3)). The database cache for services(5) has been updated to use this. services_mkdb(8) can still be used to create the old format. [joerg 20100425]

libdns_sd

• import mDNSResponder 212.1 [tsarna 20090929]

libfetch

• Update to libfetch 2.20. Allow HTTP auth to be provided in URL. [joerg 20081114]
• Import libfetch-2.22. [joerg 20090214]
• Import libfetch-2.23. [joerg 20090310]

libm(3)

• Add f{dim,max,min}{,f,l} from FreeBSD [christos 20091004]

lkm

• Removed. Superseded by the new module framework. [ad 20081112]

lom(4)

• Add a driver for LOMlite lights out management hardware monitor and watchdog timer. [nakayama 20091002]

lvm(8)

• Add LVM functionality to NetBSD; this is done by dm(4) driver in kernel and lvm2 tools made by RedHat. We use the same well known interface as Linux does for managing LVM. [haad 20081222]
• Import new lvm2tools 2.02.44 version and libdevmapper 1.02.30. [haad 20090218]
• Import new lvm2tools 2.02.56 version and libdevmapper 1.02.40. [haad 20091202]

m4(1)

• Import the OpenBSD one since it implements features from gm4 that the new flex wants [christos 20091026]

make(1)

• Changes to the way .for loops are processed. [dsl 20090111]

makefs(8)

• Add support for encoding RISC OS metadata into ISO 9660 file systems. [bjh21 20090110]
• Add an experimental source-only makefs based on rump and fs-utils. It currently supports FFS, ext2fs, FAT, cd9660 and sysvbfs. [pooka 20090414]

malloc(9)

• Remove MALLOC() and FREE() macros. [cegger 20081217]

man(1)

• Display manpage when specified with a path [cegger 20091007]

mdnsd(8)

• import mDNSResponder 212.1 [tsarna 20090929]

mfi(4)

• Add support for LSI's newer (GEN2) RAID controller from OpenBSD. [msaitoh 20100209]

mkubootimage(1)

• Added tool to generate u-boot kernel images. [jmcneill 20100618]

modload(8)

• Add various flags to assist in the creation and maintenance of <module>.prop and/or to set MODCTL_NO_PROP. [jnemeth 20090609]

module

• Allow the POSIX semaphore code to be loaded as a module. [ad 20081112]
• Make compat_ossaudio a module. [ad 20081113]
• Make compat_ndis a module. [ad 20081113]
• Make POSIX AIO loadable as a module. [ad 20081114]
• Make the emulations, exec formats, coredump, NFS, and the NFS server into modules. [ad 20081119]
• Make PPP compressors modules. [cube 20081125]
• Add a couple of sysctl(8) entries, kern.module.autoload and kern.module.verbose. [ad 20081203]
• Add a layerfs module. [ad 20081205]
• Add sysvbfs module. [pooka 20090105]
• Add a module for vnd(4) driver. [haad 20090205]
• Add tprof modules. [yamt 20090310]
• Add the capability to read an <module>.prop associated with a module and merge a plist passed in by modload(8). Also, add MODCTL_NO_PROP flag to prevent loading <module>.prop. [jnemeth 20090609]
• Remove all kernel compile time #defines indicating file system support (e.g. fs_ffs.h / -DFFS). [pooka 20100303]
• Make it possible to disable builtin modules and re-enable them. [pooka 20100305]

mount(8)

• Add -o rump, which mounts the file system as a userspace server via puffs and rump instead of using a kernel driver. [pooka 20090111]

mount_cd9660(8)

• Add nocasetrans option as a synonym for nomaplcase. [christos 20090103]

mount_portal(8)

• Remove the kernel portalfs driver and replace mount_portal with a version implemented using puffs. [pooka 20091205]

mount_psshfs(8)

• Add -u and -g for uid/gid remapping. [pooka 20100107]

mount_puffs(8)

• Add a utility for querying puffs arguments to make mount -vv work for puffs mounts. [pooka 20100114]

mount_udf(8)

• add support for session opening/closing on sequential media. Media can be closed on request on unmount by passing the '-c' flag as mount option. [reinoud 20090208]

msdosfs

• The default behavior when mounting empty file systems has been changed. Previously, msdosfs would assume the -s flag (short filenames) in this case; now msdosfs will assume the -l flag (long filenames). [jmcneill 20090122]

mtree(8)

• Add -S option to sort entries. [apb 20090408]

mvsata(4)

• Support Marvell Hercules-I/II SATA Controllers [kiyohara 20090727]

nbperf(1)

• A minimal perfect hash function generator. [joerg 20090815]

nca(4)

• Added PCI attachment for Domex DMX-3191D SCSI board. [jakllsch 20100401]

ne(4)

• Add proper support for NE2000 8 bit mode. [tsutsui 20090303]

netpgp

• Import netpgp. This is a heavily-modified version of openpgpsdk, and will replace it. [agc 20090423]

netstat(8)

• Add -h which humanizes numbers from -bi. [pooka 20100224]

network

• Add "net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho" sysctl(7) support, to disable ICMP replies to the broadcast address. [christos 20091207]
• Make TCP window size autoscaling the default. [pooka 20100126]
• Derive the mbuf cluster (NMBCLUSTERS) at boot time from the available memory. The default can be raised by changing kern.mbuf.nmbclusters. [joerg 20100208]
• Add mpls(4) - MultiProtocol Label Switching support [kefren 20100626]
• Added NPF - a new packet filter. [rmind 20100822]

newfs_sysvbfs(8)

• Add support creating a file system to a regular file. [pooka 20090409]

nfe(4)

• Add support for flow control for MCP65. [cegger 20090212]

nfs

• Avoid noisy nfs_timer/nfs_reply DEBUG output that occurs when the NFS server goes away. [mrg 20081123]

ntp

• Import ntp-4-2-4p7. [kardel 20090613]
• Import ntp-4-2-4p8. [kardel 20091208]
• switch build to ntp 4.2.6 (imported 20091213 in external/bsd/ntp) [kardel 20100827]

omapfb

• a simple driver for OMAP 3xxx on-chip video, especially the Beagleboard [macallan 20100831]

openldap

• Update to 2.4.21. [lukem 20100308]

openpgpsdk

• Initial import of openpgpsdk v0.9. [agc 20090112]
• Imported openpgpsdk 0.9 library (BSD-licensed) into src/crypto/external. The command-line driver program, openpgp, which is shipped with it has been mostly rewritten to be more user-friendly. [agc 20090123]

openssh

• Import 5.1. [christos 20090216]
• Import 5.2. [christos 20090607]
• Import 5.3. [christos 20091226]

openssl(1)

• Import SNAP-20090710 under the new crypto/external framework [christos 20090719]
• Import SNAP-20090805 to fix the namespace issues (BLOCK, CSTRING, etc) [christos 20090805]
• Import SNAP-20091226 [christos 20091226]

pckbd(4)

• Add a Czech keyboard layout. [mkirby 20090406]

pfsync(4)

• PFSYNC from OpenBSD 4.2 imported [degroote 20090914]

piixide(4)

• Add support for 82965PM. [christos 20090309]

pm2fb

• A driver for Permedia2-based graphics cards like Sun's PGX32 [macallan 20091028]

pms(4)

• Add Elantech multi-touch trackpad support [jmcneill 20081213]

postfix(1)

• Import version 2.6.2 [tron 20090623]
• Import version 2.6.5 [tron 20090831]

puffs(3)

• Support unmounting the file system from the file server. [pooka 20100107]
• Support extended attributes. [pooka 20100521]

queue(3)

• Add SLIST_FOREACH_SAFE, STAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE, STAILQ_LAST, SIMPLEQ_CONCAT, and SIMPLEQ_LAST. [mschuett 20090420]

radeondrm(4)

• Ported across several updates from FreeBSD drm, Mesa 7.7.1 r600 (Radeon HD 3000/4000 series) driver now works. [mrg 20100523]

raid(4)

• RAIDframe parity maps, which greatly improve parity rewrite times after unclean shutdown; jld's GSoC 2009 project. [jld 20091117]

rc(8)

• Output is now logged to /var/run/rc.log. A new rc_silent option suppresses output to the console; it can be set in rc.conf(5) or by booting in silent mode (e.g. "boot netbsd -z" on i386 or amd64). [apb 20090911]

rc.d(8)

• Add a script for rndctl(8). [apb 20090104]
• Add an rc.d script for dhcpcd(8). [roy 20090428]

re(4)

• Add support for a 8168C/8111C revision. [alc 20081208]
• Add hardware checksum support for newer PCIe 8168C/8111C/8102E chips. [tsutsui 20090321]
• Add support for RTL8168CP and RTL8168D. [tsutsui 20090413]

resolvconf(8)

• Import openreslv-3.3.3. [roy 20091121]
• Import openreslv-3.3.4. [roy 20091204]

rgephy(4)

• Support for RTL8211C(L) phy. From FreeBSD. [cegger 20090109]
• Support for flow control. From OpenBSD. [cegger 20090109]

routed(8)

• Merge 2.32 changes [christos 20091025]

rpcgen(1)

• Add support for hyper and quad keywords. [ginsbach 20090506]

rump

• i386 and amd64 can use kernel module binaries [pooka 20081230]
• Include libkern in rumpkern. [pooka 20090104]
• Prepend all symbols within the rump virtual kernel image with the string "rump". This prevents conflicts with the host system symbols. [pooka 20090108]
• Implement a virtual block device driver. [pooka 20090113]
• Support __RENAME in syscall interfaces and expose the non-compat symbol name in the header. [pooka 20090113]
• Add support for remote system calls [pooka 20090429]
• Support autoloading of modules from linksets. [pooka 20090924]
• Create proper prototypes for varargs system calls. [pooka 20091013]
• Introduce public interface specifications and autogenerate entrypoint wrappers. [pooka 20091014]
• Add a virtual CPU scheduler which maps the current thread to an available virtual CPU on entry to the rump kernel. [pooka 20091015]
• Load rump virtual kernel symbol table at boot. This enables the use of the kernel linker in a rump kernel. [pooka 20091126]
• Support binding threads to a specific CPU. [pooka 20091201]
• Support bluetooth. [pooka 20100322]
• Support unionfs, layerfs, nullfs and umapfs. [pooka 20100330]
• Support file system snapshots. [pooka 20100412]
• Autoload host kernel modules from /stand/arch/modules on x86 archs. [pooka 20100426]
• Properly support virtual SMP on x86 hosts and default to the same number of CPUs as on the host (configurable with RUMP_NCPU). [pooka 20100428]
• Autogenerate /dev device nodes. [pooka 20100430]
• Support audio(9). [pooka 20100501]
• Add uniprocessor locking routines. They can be used in virtual uniprocessor configurations for a significant performance boost. [pooka 20100518]
• Implement a pagedaemon which releases weakly referenced memory in case of a memory shortage. [pooka 20100603]

rump(3)

• Move VFS functionality away from librump to a new library: librumpvfs [pooka 20081119]

rump_smbfs(8)

• Support smbfs as a userspace server. [pooka 20090906]

rumpcrypto

• Add rump component for kernel crypto routines. [pooka 20090903]

rumpdev

• Support devices and kernel config framework. [pooka 20090720]

rumpfs

• Add support for registering external files which are accessed from the host OS fs namespace instead of from inside the rump virtual kernel. [pooka 20090803]

rumpnet

• Add virtual interface based on inter-process shared memory. [pooka 20090228]
• Add IPv6 support [pooka 20090527]

rumpvfs

• Use unmodified kernel vnode pager. [pooka 20090806]

sdmmc(4)

• Add a driver for SD/MMC from OpenBSD. [nonaka 20090421]
• Add support for SD 4bit bus width. [nonaka 20100406]

secmode_keylock

• Add support for multi-position keylocks. [mbalmer 20090814]

secmodel_44bsd(9)

• Add provisions to control access to gpio(4) pins. [mbalmer 20090725]

secmodel_securelevel(9)

• Add provisions to control access to gpio(4) pins. [mbalmer 20090725]

security.conf(5)

• Add check_pkg_vulnerabilities and check_pkg_signatures to validate the installed packages against the vulnerabilities database and the expected checksums for their files. [jmmv 20100119]

sets

• Move kernel modules out of base.tgz and into a new modules.tgz. [jnemeth 20090907]

share/mk

• Enable -Wsign-compare for $WARNS>=4. [lukem 20090212]

sk(4)

• Add support for flow control. [cegger 20090212]

smsh(4)

• Add a SMSC LAN9118 Family Ethernet driver. [kiyohara 20090809]

snprintb(3)

• Share snprintb(3) among kernel and libutil and make it supersede bitmask_snprintf(9). [christos 20081216]

softdep

• The soft dependences / soft updates feature of the fast file system (FFS) has been supplanted by meta data journaling (logging). Logging provides better reliability and better performance for most applications. Soft dependencies will no longer be available from NetBSD 6.0 onwards. We encourage users to enable logging on FFS file systems. [ad 20090222]

sup(1)

• Add -M user flag to specify the username to send mail to from the command line. [christos 20081217]

sysctl(7)

• Add kern.boothowto variable. [apb 20090911]

sysinst(8)

• Default to wapbl(4) log for ufs partitions. [ad 20090404]
• Make installer reject UFS2 for root partition on ports whose bootloaders don't support UFS2 boot. [tsutsui 20090407]
• Install the new modules.tgz set. [jnemeth 20090907]
• Give the option to use tmpfs for /tmp in sysinst instead of the older mfs on i386 and amd64. [ahoka 20091018]
• Make SHA1 the default option for cyphers. [ahoka 20091216]

syslog(3)

• Import Martin Schuette's Summer of Code project: Reliable TCP connections, syslog protocol API, encryption. [christos 20081031]

sysmon_envsys(8)

• Enhancements to allow access to driver-internal limit values [pgoyette 20090710]

tab(1)

• Add tabs utility, fixes PR bin/11227. [roy 20081211]

tcx(4)

• imported the xf86-video-suntcx driver and added hardware acceleration [macallan 20090827]

tcx(8)

• support wsdisplay and acceleration [macallan 20090806]

terminfo(3)

• Import my terminfo implementation to replace termcap. [roy 20100203]

tests

• Converted the awk, basename, bzip2, config, cut, dirname, grep, gzip, libcrypto, m4, make and sdiff tests to ATF. Initial work from the GSoC 2008 project by Lukasz Strzygowski. [jmmv 20090213]
• Converted some of the kernel tests, including kqueue and ipf, to ATF. Initial work from the GSoC 2008 project by Lukasz Strzygowski. [jmmv 20090220]
• Convert the libposix, libprop, libpthread, librt, libskey and libutil tests to ATF. [jmmv 20100716]
• Convert the include and csu tests to ATF. [jmmv 20100717]
• Convert the lint1 and libobjc tests to ATF. [jmmv 20100718]
• Convert the sort tests to ATF. [jmmv 20100801]
• Convert the libdes tests to ATF. [jmmv 20100825]

tftpd(8)

• Add -c so files can be uploaded without requiring them to be created before the upload. See the section on security considerations before enabling. [hubertf 20100429]

time_t

• Change time_t and dev_t to be 64 bit quantities. Fixed POSIX issues in timeval and timespec. [christos 20090110]

tn3270

• Removed from base [roy 20100116]

u3g(4)

• Support Huawei K3765. [pooka 20100219]

udf

• add support for session opening/closing on sequential media. Media can be closed on request on unmount by passing the '-c' flag as mount option. [reinoud 20090208]

udl(4)

• Add a driver for DisplayLink DL-1x0/1x5 based USB LCDs and USB-VGA adaptors. Ported from OpenBSD by FUKAUMI Naoki with many modification. [tsutsui 20091130]

uftdi(4)

• Add support for USB serial adapter REX-USB60F. [taca 20090421]

uhso(4)

• Add a driver for Option N.V. Wireless WAN modems. [plunky 20100306]

ukfs(3)

• Support disklabel partitions. [pooka 20091007]

ums(4)

• Added touchpanel support. [mbalmer 20091127]

unzip(1)

• A libarchive-based unzip frontend, emulating most of infozip's command line. [joerg 20090903]

upgt(4)

• Add a driver for Conexant/Intersil PrismGT SoftMAC USB IEEE 802.11b/g WLAN device, ported from OpenBSD by FUKAUMI Naoki. [tsutsui 20100704]

uthum(4)

• Add a driver for TEMPer and TEMPerHUM usb thermometers. Adapted from OpenBSD [tonio 20100206]

viaide(4)

• Add VT8237S Integrated SATA Controller support. [nonaka 20081221]

vnd(4)

• Implement DIOCCACHESYNC ioctl. [christos 20090314]

vnode(9)

• Remove member v_vnlock. [hannken 20100605]

vnsubr(9)

• Remove recursive vnode locks. [hannken 20100618]

voyagerfb(8)

• a driver for the Gdium Liberty 1000's video controller [macallan 20090812]

wake(8)

• New command to send Wake-on-LAN packets to machines on the local Ethernet. [mbalmer 20090625]

wb(4)

• Add a driver for Winbond W83L518D SD/MMC readers. [jmcneill 20090930]

wbsio(4)

• New driver for Winbond Super I/O attachment of lm(4) on any port. [cnst 20100221]

wcfb

• A driver for 3Dlabs Wildcat graphics cards [macallan 20100224]

wm(4)

• Add support for 82567LF-3, and fix register access for ICH10DO. [msaitoh 20090310]
• Add workaround for 82543GC. [msaitoh 20090329]
• Enable hardware vlan(4) support. [darran 20090331]
• Add support for i82583V [msaitoh 20091230]

wpa

• New wpa_supplicant and hostapd 0.7.2 [christos 20100804]

ws(4)

• Added the xf86-input-ws input driver for touchpanels that report absolute position data through wscons(4), e.g. those support by ums(4). [mbalmer 20091128]

wscons(4)

• Add fonts for eastern european languages. [ahoka 20100118]

x11

• added support for X11FLAVOUR=xorg for NetBSD/alpha. No support for turbochannel graphic cards yet. [bouyer 20090124]
• Updated many packages, notably: Mesa 7.7.1, xextproto 7.1.1, libXext 1.1.1, libXi 1.3 (XInput2), libX11 1.3.3, pixman 0.18.2, xinput 1.5.1, xf86-input-keyboard 1.4.0, xf86-input-mouse 1.5.0, xf86-video-ati 6.13.0, xf86-video-mga 1.4.12, xf86-video-nv 2.1.17, xf86-video-siliconmotion 1.7.4, xf86-video-vesa 2.3.0, xf86-video-vmware-11.0.1. [mrg 20100523]
• Added support for xf86-video-geode and xf86-video-openchrome. [mrg 20100527]

xf86-video-igs

• an Xorg driver for IGS CyberPro 20x0 graphics controllers, currently only for rev. 5 sharks [macallan 20091110]

yacc(1)

• Import byacc-20091028 [christos 20091028]

zfs

• Import OpenSolaris zfs source code to NetBSD, add NetBSD patches. [haad 20090808]

zoneinfo

• Import tzdata2009c. [kleink 20090316]

zx(4)

• Add wscons support [macallan 20090423]
• imported the xf86-video-sunleo 1.2.0 driver from Xorg [macallan 20090905]

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