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Updated: Thu Jan 3 00:30:07 2013

Changes by date (Most recent first) (top)

January 2013

• postfix(1)
  Import version 2.9.5 [tron 20130102]
• units(1)
  add -l and -L options. [apb 20130101]

December 2012

• kernel
  allow MD kernel code to use PCUs [matt 20121226]
• arm
  support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.6.6 [roy 20121219]
• postfix(1)
  Import version 2.8.13 [tron 20121218]
• ibmcd(4)
  Add a driver for the IBM 4810 BSP cash drawer port. [mbalmer 20121217]
• ptcd(4)
  Add a driver for the Protech PS3100 cash drawer port. [mbalmer 20121216]
• openssh
  Import 6.1. [christos 20121212]
• arm
  enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops. [matt 20121211]
• arm
  enable direct-mapped poolpage support. [matt 20121211]
• arm
  fix EHCI support for OMAP3. [jmcneill 20121211]
• openresolv(8)
  Import openresolv-3.5.3 [roy 20121206]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.6.4 [roy 20121206]
• arm
  ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
• bind
  update to 9.9.2-P1 to fix the DNS64 vulnerability. [spz 20121204]

November 2012

• z3rambd(4)
  Add driver for Zorro III RAM boards as block devices. [rkujawa 20121126]
• xsurf(4)
  Add X-Surf IDE controller support. [rkujawa 20121119]
• amiga
  A2000-style RTCs are now driven by the msm6242b(4) driver. [rkujawa 20121114]
• msm6242b(4)
  Add MI OKI MSM6242B driver. [rkujawa 20121114]
• zoneinfo
  Import tzdata2012j. [apb 20121113]
• voodoofb(4)
  Add 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee support. [rkujawa 20121109]
• zoneinfo
  Import tzdata2012i. [apb 20121104]
• flock(1)
  Add a utility to provide locks to shell scripts similar to shlock(1) [christos 20121101]

October 2012

• libc
  Update to tzcode2012h. [christos 20121028]
• zoneinfo
  Import tzdata2012h. [apb 20121027]
• libc
  Import tzcode2012g. [christos 20121023]
• kernel
  Added experimental support for the (mostly SSD specific) "discard", or ATA "TRIM" command to wd(4) and ffs [drochner 20121019]
• zoneinfo
  Import tzdata2012g. [apb 20121018]
• x68k
  Add support for formatting floppy. [tsutsui 20121014]
• x68k
  Add network bootloader for Neptune-X and Nereid Ethernet. [tsutsui,isaki 20121012]
• wpa
  New wpa_supplicant(8) and hostapd(8) 1.0 [christos 20121007]
• kernel
  add clock_nanosleep(2) [christos 20121001]

September 2012

• zoneinfo
  Import tzdata2012f. [apb 20120927]
• mfi(4)
  add a command pass-through ioctl, and associated COMPAT_LINUX support. This allows to use the LSI MegaCLI linux binary on a NetBSD host. [bouyer 20120919]
• bge(4)
  Add support for BCM57762, found in Apple's Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. PR/46961 [tsutsui 20120917]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.6.2 [roy 20120903]

August 2012

• arm
  Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph). Add initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly). Add L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7. Add support for BCM5301X SoC. Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial support for Freescale i.MX6. Add new common boot/kvminit code. [matt 20120831]
• share/mk
  Add placeholder test programs (with some very basic test cases within) for common bsd.*.mk modules. [jmmv 20120826]
• mkdep(1)
  Add -P option. [jmmv 20120826]
• mfi(8)
  Added support for LSI SAS2208-based controllers. [bouyer 20120823]
• mfi(8)
  Added tagged queuing support. [bouyer 20120823]
• arm
  Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards. [matt 20120822]
• libc
  Update to tzcode2012e. [christos 20120809]
• modstat(8)
  Add -A, -a, and -e options for testing module loadability. [jnemeth 20120803]
• kernel, libc
  Add modctl(MODCTL_EXISTS, ...) to determine if modules can be loaded. [jnemeth 20120803]
• kernel
  Add BPF JIT compiler, currently supporting amd64 and i386. [rmind 20120802]

July 2012

• kernel
  Add malo(4), a driver for Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network devices, ported from OpenBSD. [degroote 20120730]
• kernel
  safepri is dead; replaced by macro IPL_SAFEPRI. [matt 20120727]
• openssl
  Imported 1.0.1c [christos 20120726]
• powerpc
  Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
• pr(1)
  Add support for POSIX -f and -p options. [ginsbach 20120724]
• kernel
  Change mii_statchg to take "struct ifnet *" instead of "device_t". [matt 20120722]
• tdvfb(4)
  Add 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics (aka Voodoo1) support. [rkujawa 20120720]
• tdvfb(4)
  Add 3Dfx Voodoo2 driver. [rkujawa 20120719]
• kernel
  Add support for sensors to provide entropy to rnd(4) [pgoyette 20120715]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.6.1 [roy 20120712]
• atf(7)
  Import 0.16. [jmmv 20120711]
• kernel, libc
  Add MurmurHash2 function. [rmind 20120708]
• ata(4)
  added support for sata Port MultiPliers (PMP) [bouyer 20120702]

June 2012

• kernel
  Add sysctls to avoid ipv6 DoS attacks (from OpenBSD): net.inet6.ip6.neighborgcthresh = 2048 net.inet6.ip6.maxifprefixes = 16 net.inet6.ip6.maxifdefrouters = 16 net.inet6.ip6.maxdynroutes = 4096 [christos 20120622]
• kernel
  {send,recv}mmsg support [christos 20120621]
• usb(9)
  Added support for SMP to the USB subsytem. By Jared D. McNeill and myself. [mrg 20120609]
• kernel
  Add a new RLIMIT_NTHR limit to limit the number of processes per user and the corresponding kern.maxlwp sysctl. Expose kern.uidinfo.* via sysctl. [christos 20120608]
• empb(4)
  Add ELBOX Mediator PCI 1200 driver. [rkujawa 20120604]
• bind
  update to 9.9.1-P1 to fix the recent rdata exploit. [christos 20120604]

May 2012

• kernel
  Add run(4), a driver for Ralink Technology RT2700U/RT2800U/RT3000U USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network devices, ported from OpenBSD. [nonaka 20120530]
• backtrace(3)
  Add <execinfo.h> and the backtrace family of functions [christos 20120526]
• amiga
  Rework X-Surf driver as xsurf(4). Add support for clockport(4) on top of xsurf(4). [rkujawa 20120515]
• bzip2
  Imported 1.0.6 [wiz 20120507]
• openssh
  Imported 6.0 [christos 20120501]

April 2012

• kernel
  Add support for 256 CPUs on amd64. [rmind 20120420]
• kernel
  add mpii(4), a driver for LSI Logic Fusion-MPT Message Passing Interface II SAS controllers. [bouyer 20120419]
• amiga
  Add clockport(4) layer and a driver for A1200 on-board clockport a1k2cp(4). [rkujawa 20120417]

March 2012

• pdisk(8)
  Make it work for 64 bit hosts, and make it MI. [christos 20120306]
• fstab
  Add NAME=wedgename for fs_spec and routines to parse it. Now wedges can be used in /etc/fstab, even in dynamic environments where disks come and go and wedges get renumbered. [christos 20120306]
• apple
  Recognize the apple disk partitioning scheme, and auto-discover wedges. Fix iPod disk mounting, by adding quirk. [christos 20120306]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.5.6 [roy 20120328]
• openresolv(8)
  Import openresolv-3.5.1 [roy 20120327]
• pcc
  upgrade to 1.1.0.DEVEL 20120325 [plunky 20120325]
• ipf
  upgrade to 5.1.1 with new build framework, no module and test support yet [christos 20120323]
• dhcpcd(8)
  Import dhcpcd-5.5.5 [roy 20120323]
• dbsym(8)
  Add option -p [bsh 20120319]
• evbmips
  Add support for Lemote Yeeloong Notebook. [nonaka 20120302]

Febuary 2012

• file(1)
  upgraded to 5.11 [christos 20120222]
• pkg_add(1)
  imported 20120221 version from pkgsrc [wiz 20120221]
• window(1)
  Removed from the base system in favor of tmux(1). Use the pkgsrc/misc/window package from now on. [jmmv 20120215]

Port specific changes (top)

NetBSD/arm covers (for NetBSD 7.0):

• 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 7.0):

• NetBSD/hp700

NetBSD/m68k covers (for NetBSD 7.0):

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

NetBSD/mips covers (for NetBSD 7.0):

• NetBSD/algor
• NetBSD/evbmips
• NetBSD/emips
• 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 7.0):

• NetBSD/pc532

NetBSD/powerpc covers (for NetBSD 7.0):

• 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 7.0):

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

NetBSD/sh5 covers (for NetBSD 7.0):

• NetBSD/evbsh5

Changes to NetBSD/acorn26 7.0

• arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards. [matt 20120822]
• arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph). Add initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly). Add L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7. Add support for BCM5301X SoC. Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial support for Freescale i.MX6. Add new common boot/kvminit code. [matt 20120831]
• arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
• arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3. [jmcneill 20121211]
• arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support. [matt 20121211]
• arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops. [matt 20121211]
• arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-acorn26.

Changes to NetBSD/acorn32 7.0

• arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards. [matt 20120822]
• arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph). Add initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly). Add L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7. Add support for BCM5301X SoC. Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial support for Freescale i.MX6. Add new common boot/kvminit code. [matt 20120831]
• arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
• arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3. [jmcneill 20121211]
• arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support. [matt 20121211]
• arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops. [matt 20121211]
• arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-acorn32.

Changes to NetBSD/algor 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/alpha 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/amd64 7.0

• None recorded in changes log.
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-amd64.

Changes to NetBSD/amiga 7.0

• Add clockport(4) layer and a driver for A1200 on-board clockport a1k2cp(4). [rkujawa 20120417]
• Rework X-Surf driver as xsurf(4). Add support for clockport(4) on top of xsurf(4). [rkujawa 20120515]
• A2000-style RTCs are now driven by the msm6242b(4) driver. [rkujawa 20121114]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-amiga.

Changes to NetBSD/amigappc 7.0

• powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-amigappc.

Changes to NetBSD/arc 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/arm26 7.0

• arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards. [matt 20120822]
• arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph). Add initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly). Add L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7. Add support for BCM5301X SoC. Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial support for Freescale i.MX6. Add new common boot/kvminit code. [matt 20120831]
• arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
• arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3. [jmcneill 20121211]
• arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support. [matt 20121211]
• arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops. [matt 20121211]
• arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-arm26.

Changes to NetBSD/arm32 7.0

• arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards. [matt 20120822]
• arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph). Add initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly). Add L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7. Add support for BCM5301X SoC. Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial support for Freescale i.MX6. Add new common boot/kvminit code. [matt 20120831]
• arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
• arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3. [jmcneill 20121211]
• arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support. [matt 20121211]
• arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops. [matt 20121211]
• arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-arm32.

Changes to NetBSD/atari 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/bebox 7.0

• powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-bebox.

Changes to NetBSD/cats 7.0

• arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards. [matt 20120822]
• arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph). Add initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly). Add L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7. Add support for BCM5301X SoC. Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial support for Freescale i.MX6. Add new common boot/kvminit code. [matt 20120831]
• arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
• arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3. [jmcneill 20121211]
• arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support. [matt 20121211]
• arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops. [matt 20121211]
• arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-cats.

Changes to NetBSD/cesfic 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/cobalt 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/dreamcast 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/emips 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/evbarm 7.0

• arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards. [matt 20120822]
• arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph). Add initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly). Add L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7. Add support for BCM5301X SoC. Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial support for Freescale i.MX6. Add new common boot/kvminit code. [matt 20120831]
• arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
• arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3. [jmcneill 20121211]
• arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support. [matt 20121211]
• arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops. [matt 20121211]
• arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbarm.

Changes to NetBSD/evbmips 7.0

• Add support for Lemote Yeeloong Notebook. [nonaka 20120302]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbmips.

Changes to NetBSD/evbppc 7.0

• powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbppc.

Changes to NetBSD/evbsh3 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/evbsh5 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/ews4800mips 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/hp300 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/hp700 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/hpcarm 7.0

• arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards. [matt 20120822]
• arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph). Add initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly). Add L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7. Add support for BCM5301X SoC. Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial support for Freescale i.MX6. Add new common boot/kvminit code. [matt 20120831]
• arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
• arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3. [jmcneill 20121211]
• arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support. [matt 20121211]
• arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops. [matt 20121211]
• arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcarm.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcmips 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/hpcsh 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/i386 7.0

• None recorded in changes log.
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-i386.

Changes to NetBSD/ibmnws 7.0

• powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-ibmnws.

Changes to NetBSD/iyonix 7.0

• arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards. [matt 20120822]
• arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph). Add initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly). Add L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7. Add support for BCM5301X SoC. Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial support for Freescale i.MX6. Add new common boot/kvminit code. [matt 20120831]
• arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
• arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3. [jmcneill 20121211]
• arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support. [matt 20121211]
• arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops. [matt 20121211]
• arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-iyonix.

Changes to NetBSD/landisk 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/luna68k 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/mac68k 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/macppc 7.0

• powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-macppc.

Changes to NetBSD/mipsco 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/mmeye 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/mvme68k 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/mvmeppc 7.0

• powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-mvmeppc.

Changes to NetBSD/netwinder 7.0

• arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards. [matt 20120822]
• arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph). Add initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly). Add L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7. Add support for BCM5301X SoC. Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial support for Freescale i.MX6. Add new common boot/kvminit code. [matt 20120831]
• arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
• arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3. [jmcneill 20121211]
• arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support. [matt 20121211]
• arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops. [matt 20121211]
• arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-netwinder.

Changes to NetBSD/news68k 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/newsmips 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/next68k 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/ofppc 7.0

• powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-ofppc.

Changes to NetBSD/pc532 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/playstation2 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/pmax 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/pmppc 7.0

• powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-pmppc.

Changes to NetBSD/prep 7.0

• powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-prep.

Changes to NetBSD/rs6000 7.0

• powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-rs6000.

Changes to NetBSD/sandpoint 7.0

• powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sandpoint.

Changes to NetBSD/sbmips 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/sgimips 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/shark 7.0

• arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards. [matt 20120822]
• arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph). Add initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly). Add L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7. Add support for BCM5301X SoC. Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial support for Freescale i.MX6. Add new common boot/kvminit code. [matt 20120831]
• arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
• arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3. [jmcneill 20121211]
• arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support. [matt 20121211]
• arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops. [matt 20121211]
• arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-shark.

Changes to NetBSD/sparc 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/sparc64 7.0

• None recorded in changes log.
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sparc64.

Changes to NetBSD/sun2 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/sun3 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/vax 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/walnut 7.0

• powerpc: Add support for FPU emulation on BookE. [matt 20120722]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-walnut.

Changes to NetBSD/x68k 7.0

• Add network bootloader for Neptune-X and Nereid Ethernet. [tsutsui,isaki 20121012]
• Add support for formatting floppy. [tsutsui 20121014]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-x68k.

Changes to NetBSD/xen 7.0

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

Changes to NetBSD/zaurus 7.0

• arm: Add support for BEAGLEBOARDXM (TI DM37XX cpus) boards. [matt 20120822]
• arm: Add Cortex-A9 support (a9tmr, a9wdt, armgic, armperiph). Add initial MP support (can boot 2nd cpu but dies quickly). Add L1 SuperSection support for ARMv6/ARMv7. Add support for BCM5301X SoC. Add initial support for OMAP4430 and partial support for Freescale i.MX6. Add new common boot/kvminit code. [matt 20120831]
• arm: ARMFPE support had bitrotted and has been removed. [matt 20121205]
• arm: fix EHCI support for OMAP3. [jmcneill 20121211]
• arm: enable direct-mapped poolpage support. [matt 20121211]
• arm: enable VFP-based pmap page zero/copy ops. [matt 20121211]
• arm: support NEON in userland [matt 20121226]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-zaurus.

Non port-specific changes (top)

apple

• Recognize the apple disk partitioning scheme, and auto-discover wedges. Fix iPod disk mounting, by adding quirk. [christos 20120306]

ata(4)

• added support for sata Port MultiPliers (PMP) [bouyer 20120702]

atf(7)

• Import 0.16. [jmmv 20120711]

backtrace(3)

• Add <execinfo.h> and the backtrace family of functions [christos 20120526]

bge(4)

• Add support for BCM57762, found in Apple's Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. PR/46961 [tsutsui 20120917]

bind

• update to 9.9.1-P1 to fix the recent rdata exploit. [christos 20120604]
• update to 9.9.2-P1 to fix the DNS64 vulnerability. [spz 20121204]

bzip2

• Imported 1.0.6 [wiz 20120507]

dbsym(8)

• Add option -p [bsh 20120319]

dhcpcd(8)

• Import dhcpcd-5.5.5 [roy 20120323]
• Import dhcpcd-5.5.6 [roy 20120328]
• Import dhcpcd-5.6.1 [roy 20120712]
• Import dhcpcd-5.6.2 [roy 20120903]
• Import dhcpcd-5.6.4 [roy 20121206]
• Import dhcpcd-5.6.6 [roy 20121219]

empb(4)

• Add ELBOX Mediator PCI 1200 driver. [rkujawa 20120604]

file(1)

• upgraded to 5.11 [christos 20120222]

flock(1)

• Add a utility to provide locks to shell scripts similar to shlock(1) [christos 20121101]

fstab

• Add NAME=wedgename for fs_spec and routines to parse it. Now wedges can be used in /etc/fstab, even in dynamic environments where disks come and go and wedges get renumbered. [christos 20120306]

ibmcd(4)

• Add a driver for the IBM 4810 BSP cash drawer port. [mbalmer 20121217]

ipf

• upgrade to 5.1.1 with new build framework, no module and test support yet [christos 20120323]

kernel

• add mpii(4), a driver for LSI Logic Fusion-MPT Message Passing Interface II SAS controllers. [bouyer 20120419]
• Add support for 256 CPUs on amd64. [rmind 20120420]
• Add run(4), a driver for Ralink Technology RT2700U/RT2800U/RT3000U USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network devices, ported from OpenBSD. [nonaka 20120530]
• Add a new RLIMIT_NTHR limit to limit the number of processes per user and the corresponding kern.maxlwp sysctl. Expose kern.uidinfo.* via sysctl. [christos 20120608]
• {send,recv}mmsg support [christos 20120621]
• Add sysctls to avoid ipv6 DoS attacks (from OpenBSD): net.inet6.ip6.neighborgcthresh = 2048 net.inet6.ip6.maxifprefixes = 16 net.inet6.ip6.maxifdefrouters = 16 net.inet6.ip6.maxdynroutes = 4096 [christos 20120622]
• Add MurmurHash2 function. [rmind 20120708]
• Add support for sensors to provide entropy to rnd(4) [pgoyette 20120715]
• Change mii_statchg to take "struct ifnet *" instead of "device_t". [matt 20120722]
• safepri is dead; replaced by macro IPL_SAFEPRI. [matt 20120727]
• Add malo(4), a driver for Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network devices, ported from OpenBSD. [degroote 20120730]
• Add BPF JIT compiler, currently supporting amd64 and i386. [rmind 20120802]
• Add modctl(MODCTL_EXISTS, ...) to determine if modules can be loaded. [jnemeth 20120803]
• add clock_nanosleep(2) [christos 20121001]
• Added experimental support for the (mostly SSD specific) "discard", or ATA "TRIM" command to wd(4) and ffs [drochner 20121019]
• allow MD kernel code to use PCUs [matt 20121226]

libc

• Add MurmurHash2 function. [rmind 20120708]
• Add modctl(MODCTL_EXISTS, ...) to determine if modules can be loaded. [jnemeth 20120803]
• Update to tzcode2012e. [christos 20120809]
• Import tzcode2012g. [christos 20121023]
• Update to tzcode2012h. [christos 20121028]

mfi(4)

• add a command pass-through ioctl, and associated COMPAT_LINUX support. This allows to use the LSI MegaCLI linux binary on a NetBSD host. [bouyer 20120919]

mfi(8)

• Added tagged queuing support. [bouyer 20120823]
• Added support for LSI SAS2208-based controllers. [bouyer 20120823]

mkdep(1)

• Add -P option. [jmmv 20120826]

modstat(8)

• Add -A, -a, and -e options for testing module loadability. [jnemeth 20120803]

msm6242b(4)

• Add MI OKI MSM6242B driver. [rkujawa 20121114]

openresolv(8)

• Import openresolv-3.5.1 [roy 20120327]
• Import openresolv-3.5.3 [roy 20121206]

openssh

• Imported 6.0 [christos 20120501]
• Import 6.1. [christos 20121212]

openssl

• Imported 1.0.1c [christos 20120726]

pcc

• upgrade to 1.1.0.DEVEL 20120325 [plunky 20120325]

pdisk(8)

• Make it work for 64 bit hosts, and make it MI. [christos 20120306]

pkg_add(1)

• imported 20120221 version from pkgsrc [wiz 20120221]

postfix(1)

• Import version 2.8.13 [tron 20121218]
• Import version 2.9.5 [tron 20130102]

pr(1)

• Add support for POSIX -f and -p options. [ginsbach 20120724]

ptcd(4)

• Add a driver for the Protech PS3100 cash drawer port. [mbalmer 20121216]

share/mk

• Add placeholder test programs (with some very basic test cases within) for common bsd.*.mk modules. [jmmv 20120826]

tdvfb(4)

• Add 3Dfx Voodoo2 driver. [rkujawa 20120719]
• Add 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics (aka Voodoo1) support. [rkujawa 20120720]

units(1)

• add -l and -L options. [apb 20130101]

usb(9)

• Added support for SMP to the USB subsytem. By Jared D. McNeill and myself. [mrg 20120609]

voodoofb(4)

• Add 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee support. [rkujawa 20121109]

window(1)

• Removed from the base system in favor of tmux(1). Use the pkgsrc/misc/window package from now on. [jmmv 20120215]

wpa

• New wpa_supplicant(8) and hostapd(8) 1.0 [christos 20121007]

xsurf(4)

• Add X-Surf IDE controller support. [rkujawa 20121119]

z3rambd(4)

• Add driver for Zorro III RAM boards as block devices. [rkujawa 20121126]

zoneinfo

• Import tzdata2012f. [apb 20120927]
• Import tzdata2012g. [apb 20121018]
• Import tzdata2012h. [apb 20121027]
• Import tzdata2012i. [apb 20121104]
• Import tzdata2012j. [apb 20121113]

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