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Updated: Sun Nov 9 00:32:35 2008

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August 2002

• openssl
  update to 0.9.6g. [itojun 20020809]
• openssl
  update to 0.9.6f for security fixes. [itojun 20020808]
• ntpd(8)
  chrootable ntpd with out of the box configuration from rc.conf [manu 20020801]

July 2002

• openssl
  Update to 0.9.6e for security fixes. [itojun 20020731]

June 2002

• mac68k
  move to sysinst as the preferred method of installation. [scottr 20020629]
• bind
  upgrade to BIND 8.3.3 from ISC. plugs security hole in resolver [itojun 20020628]
• ssh(1)
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 3.4 around 20020626. [itojun 20020626]
• ssh(1)
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 3.3 around 20020624. [itojun 20020624]
• bind
  upgrade to BIND 8.3.2 from ISC. [itojun 20020620]
• openssl
  update to 0.9.6d. [itojun 20020609]

May 2002

• window(1)
  use openpty() to deal with the new pty naming scheme. [simonb 20020530]
• xsrc
  xterm - use openpty() in xterm to deal with the new pty naming scheme. [simonb 20020530]
• rc.conf(5)
  add rc_rcorder_flags (extra flags to rcorder(8) in /etc/rc) and rcshutdown_rcorder_flags (extra flags to rcorder(8) in /etc/rc.shutdown). [lukem 20020519]
• file(1)
  update to 3.38. [pooka 20020518]
• sparc
  enable NFS_BOOT_DHCP in the GENERIC and INSTALL kernels, and try bootp before bootparams in boot.net. [lukem 20020515]
• bind
  upgrade to BIND 8.2.4 from ISC. [itojun 20020517]
• sysctl(8)
  rename net.inet6.ip6.bindv6only to net.inet6.ip6.v6only. [itojun 20020514]
• ssh(1)
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 3.2.1 around 20020513. [itojun 20020513]
• faithd(8)
  deprecate support for rsh/rlogin protocol relaying, due to security drawbacks. [itojun 20020509]
• xsrc
  Add Xvideo support to the NeoMagic driver in the XF4 tree. From xfree-current. [mrg 20020502]
• misc
  Added _LP64 when generating LP64 code. [eeh 20020502]
• crunchgen(1)
  generated makefile should be parallel-build safe. [sommerfeld 20020502]
• ipf(8)
  updated to version 3.4.27. [martti 20020502]
• misc
  Add experimental/optional page loaning code to sosend(). Use of this option achieves zero-copy for the TCP and UDP transmit path. [thorpej 20020502]
• mbufs
  Changed semantics of ext_free to make them more useful for arbitrary kinds of external storage. [thorpej 20020502]

April 2002

• sshd(8)
  configuration file renamed from /etc/ssh/sshd.conf to /etc/ssh/sshd_config. [lukem 20020429]
• ssh(1)
  configuration file renamed from /etc/ssh/ssh.conf to /etc/ssh/ssh_config. [lukem 20020429]
• stat(1)
  Added to tree. Provides a simple formatted interface to the data returned by stat(2). [atatat 20020427]
• mk.conf(5)
  Add support for NETBSDSRCDIR, which specifies the top level of the NetBSD source tree. [lukem 20020427]
• /etc/postinstall
  Added; check for or fix configuration changes that have occurred in NetBSD. [lukem 20020426]
• aac(4)
  Add a driver for Adaptec FSA RAID controllers. [ad 20020426]
• wscons.conf(5)
  Add support for "setvar". [lukem 20020426]
• cron(8)
  Add support for CRON_TZ and CRON_WITHIN variables in crontab files. [atatat 20020425]
• eso(4)
  Add support for the on-board game port. [kleink 20020425]
• esiop(4)
  Add a driver which improve performances for ncr53c825, 875 and newer adapters. [bouyer 20020423]
• icp(4)
  Add a driver for ICP-Vortex GDT and Intel Storage RAID controllers. [ad 20020422]
• ssh(1)
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 3.2 around 20020422. [itojun 20020422]
• opms(4)
  Removed opms(4) from the i386 and bebox ports, since it has been superseded by pms(4). [wiz 20020418]
• siop(4)
  Add support for software-driven activity LED of some 53c895-based adapters. [bouyer 20020418]
• ifwatchd(8)
  Invoke up-script and down-script with parameters matching exactly those used by pppd(8). [tron 20020415]
• wi(4)
  added support for Symbol 802.11b CF card. [onoe 20020415]
• arm32
  Reworked a lot of the arm32 pmap between 1.5 to 1.6. This has included work to improved cache consistency, improve performance and generally make the code more readable. Still lots of room to improve though. [thorpej,rearnsha,chris 20020413]
• tlp(4)
  add support for built-in NWay autonegotiation on 2114[23], Macronix 98713A, 98715, 98715A, 98725, and Lite-On 82C115. [chs 20020408]
• sysinst
  Added polish language translation to sysinst. Compile with "make release SYSINSTLANG=pl". [hubertf 20020409]
• compat_linux(8)
  The default Linux kernel version on the i386 port is now 2.4.18. [tron 20020404]
• tlp(4)
  added support for Cogent EM100 (aka Adaptec ANA-6911). [chs 20020403]

March 2002

• sgimips
  IRIX binary compatibility option available [manu 20020315]
• compat_linux(8)
  Changed linux_setregs() to use GDT's instead of LDT's [thanks sommerfeld], and fixed a socket size problem in connect. Now opera6 works with full thread support, and async DNS. Kernel default linux version will move to 2.4.18 as soon as we have a linux package for it. I expect this version to be able to run most applications that 2.4.18 can run. [christos 20020329]
• url(4)
  added support for Realtek RTL8150L USB-Ether bridge chip. [ichiro 20020329]
• wm(4)
  New device driver for the Intel i82542, i82543, and i82544 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. [thorpej 20020327]
• evbarm
  Add support for the Intel IQ80321 eval board for the i80321 I/O Processor. [thorpej 20020327]
• arm
  Add support for the Intel i80321 I/O Processor (XScale core). [thorpej 20020327]
• tlp(4)
  added support for SMC 9332DST. [chs 20020326]
• mac68k
  Switch to using ELF binary format by default. [shiba 20020325]
• mvme68k
  Added mvme68k-specific support for sysinst. [scw 20020324]
• sysctl(8)
  Added -q flag to suppress output for write operations [sommerfeld 20020323]
• misc
  etcupdate(8) added. [martti 20020322]
• rc.conf(5)
  Add $swapoff, to enable removal of block-type swap devices at shutdown time. [lukem 20020322]
• rc.d(8)
  Support $command_interpreter in rc.d scripts. [lukem 20020321]
• sysctl(3), sysctl(8)
  Added new emul subtree for emulation specific sysctl data. Implemented emul.linux.kern.{osname,osrelease, osversion} so that we can set the kernel version. [christos 20020319]
• compat_linux(8)
  Added signals 32-63 and mapped them to the real time signals. Now jdk1.4 works. [christos 20020319]
• kernel
  added signals 34->63 and bumped NSIG to 64. Defined all of them as RT signals now, to be fixed later. Defined SIGRTMIN and SIGRTMAX in kernel space only since we don't really support real-time posix semantics on those signals yet. The libc arrays have been updated with additional information. [christos 20020319]
• kernel
  EPASSTHROUGH added to kernel, primarily for ioctl code, and ERESTART moved to -3. ioctl(2) code reorganized mildly to take advantage of this and make these calls properly restartable. [atatat 20020317]
• ptrace(2)
  Add PT_IO as proposed by Artur Grabowski on the <bsd-api-discuss@wasabisystems.com> mailing list. [thorpej 20020317]
• tlp(4)
  added support for Adaptec ANA-6911 and ANA-6911A. [chs 20020316]
• newsmips
  Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20020316]
• bzip2(1), libbz2
  Update to 1.0.2. [mjl 20020315]
• tlp(4)
  added support for Phobos P430. [chs 20020314]
• ipf(8)
  added support for MSS-clamping to NAT [martin 20020314]
• ipf(8)
  updated to version 3.4.25. [martti 20020314]
• tlp(4)
  added support for Adaptec ANA-6944A. [chs 20020313]
• audiocs(4)
  add EBus attachment that supports both playback and recording, add recording support for SBus attachment. [uwe 20020312]
• sparc
  the nell driver (stp4020 sbus to pcmcia bridge) is working for all 8bit only cards (endianess issues and problems with the sparc bus_spac_{read,write}_* implementation need to be resolved to support 16bit cards) [martin 20020311]
• uaudio(4)
  Enable sampling rate and mono-stereo conversion. [kent 20020311]
• auich(4)
  Enable sampling rate and mono-stereo conversion. [kent 20020311]
• audio
  Add capability to convert sampling rate and mono-stereo. [kent 20020311]
• ssh(1)
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 3.1 around 20020308. [itojun 20020308]
• makewhatis(8)
  if called without arguments, regenerate whatis databases specified in /etc/man.conf [jdolecek 20020308]
• makewhatis(8)
  whatis entries are prefixed with appropriate subdirectory name for architecture-specific manpages [jdolecek 20020307]
• less(1)
  updated to less-374. [mrg 20020305]
• ipip(4)
  removed, as redundant with gif(4); it's been rotting in-tree for a while. [sommerfeld 20020304]
• pkill(1)
  add pkill and pgrep utilities; search the process table on the running system for processes with a particular set of characteristics, and then print or signal the matching set. [ad 20020304]

Febuary 2002

• rc.conf(5)
  replace $critical_filesystems_beforenet with $critical_filesystems_local, and $critical_filesystems with $critical_filesystems_remote. [lukem 20020227]
• rc.d(8)
  support optional ${_arg}_postcmd method. [lukem 20020213]
• mvmeppc
  New NetBSD port to Motorola MVMEPPC boards. [scw 20020227]
• prep
  support systems based on Motorola Ultra Plus and Ultra 60x boards. [kleink 20020226]
• prep
  add ISA attachment for MI mk48txx driver. [kleink 20020225]
• pmax
  add two-stage network boot loader [gmcgarry 20020225]
• prep
  support direct-mapped PCI configuration space. [kleink 20020224]
• evbarm
  Added gzboot, for booting gzip'd kernels (possibly containing ramdisk images) from flash. [thorpej 20020224]
• tcpdump(8)
  import tcpdump.org tree, version 3.7.1. [itojun 20020218]
• tlp(4)
  added support for Adaptec ANA-6922. [chs 20020214]
• bind
  upgrade to BIND 8.2.3 from ISC. [itojun 20020211]
• kernel
  switch default to the new, faster pipe implementation, which has lower overhead and uses UVM Page Loan [jdolecek 20020211]
• arm
  system calls now use SWIs in our officially-assigned range. [bjh21 20020210]
• mtree(8)
  support '/unset all'. [lukem 20020205]

January 2002

• rc.d(8)
  rename 'NETWORK' dummy dependency to 'NETWORKING', and provide backward-compatible PROVIDE. [lukem 20020131]
• kernel
  implement the CLOCK_MONOTONIC clock for the posix/opengroup realtime clock_*() functions. [simonb 20020131]
• amiga
  added experimental Toccata driver. [is 20020126]
• ipf(8)
  updated to version 3.4.23. [martti 20020124]
• pax(8)
  added -N dbdir, to specify different location for user and group databases. [lukem 20020124]
• makefs(8)
  added -N dbdir, to specify different location for user and group databases. [lukem 20020124]
• mtree(8)
  added -N dbdir, to specify different location for user and group databases. [lukem 20020124]
• libc
  added pwcache_userdb(3), pwcache_groupdb(3). [lukem 20020124]
• screenblank(1)
  added "-i device" to specify additional devices to monitor for input activity. [lukem 20020124]
• wscons
  added blanking support to VGA. [lukem 20020124]
• gdb(1)
  enable "target sim" support for PowerPC. [mrg 20020122]
• checknr(1)
  Add basic mdoc(7) support. [wiz 20020121]
• init
  Always attempt mfs dev if missing /dev/console, handle errors more gracefully, including missing MAKEDEV. [abs 20020121]
• wi(4), wiconfig(8)
  Force AP Scanning support. [ichiro 20020121]
• xsrc
  import XFree86 4.2.0 [tron 20020119]
• kernel
  RAIDFrame+autoconfig is now the default in a number of GENERIC configs. Little-used RAID types are no longer enabled by default. 8 RAID devices is now the default. [oster 20020119]
• audiorecord(1)
  WAV output support. [mrg 20020115]
• audioplay(1)
  better WAV support. [mrg 20020115]
• lots of man pages
  Sort SEE ALSO, bring sections in standard order (see mdoc.samples(7)), fix .Dt and .Dd arguments. Also reduce number of trailing crossreferences considerably. [wiz 20020115]
• sunlabel(8)
  Add der Mouse's sunlabel program, for reading and writing Sun disklabels. [mrg 20020110]
• misc
  Add DIOCGCACHE and DIOCSCACHE ioctls to get/set disk cache enables in a generic way. Add support for these ioctls to the SCSI disk driver. [thorpej 20020108]
• isa(4)
  Overhaul autoconfiguration in order to support direct-config of ISA devices. [thorpej 20020107]
• mount_mfs(8)
  Allow the user, group and permissions of the MFS to be specified on the command line. [simonb 20020107]
• esa(4)
  Add recording support to the esa(4) driver. [jmcneill 20020107]
• esa(4)
  Add support for the ESS Allegro-1 / Maestro-3 family of PCI audio accelerators. [jmcneill 20020106]
• bktr(4)
  Add support for radio(4) interface. [jmcneill 20020106]
• misc
  Add support for writing ELF core files, and dump ELF core files for ELF emulations. [thorpej 20020103]
• lint(1)
  Use the correct size for a target's non-float types. Add a BITFIELDTYPE lint comment to suppress non-portable and illegal bitfield type warnings and errors. [thorpej 20020102]
• compat_sunos(8)
  moved SO_BROADCAST hack out of the generic kernel code allowing COMPAT_SUNOS to be built as an LKM. [mrg 20020103]
• radio(4)
  Import drivers for radio cards from OpenBSD, together with radioctl(1) to control the radio. [augustss 20020101]

December 2001

• newfs(8)
  If the block size is not given on the command line nor in the disklabel then calculate it from the file system size. [augustss 20011230]
• newfs(8)
  If -c isn't provided, automatically choose the largest support value based on the other parameters. [lukem 20011231]
• usb
  Introduce an extra device layer for HID devices, uhidev, so that devices that use multiple report ids can be used. Also update (and rename) libusbhid(3). [augustss 20011228]
• compat_linux(8)
  Now supports Mips ports [manu 20011226]
• x68k
  Switch to using ELF binary format by default. [minoura 20011224]
• ffs
  bring over free block tracking and directory block allocation fixes for softdeps from FreeBSD [fvdl 20011218]
• kernel
  kernel configs can now be embedded in the kernel binary itself for later retrieval. See the INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE kernel config options in options(4). [atatat 20011217]
• amiga
  New two-stage bootloader capable of loading ELF or a.out kernels as well as compressed kernels. [mhitch 20011216]
• pciide(4)
  Add support for Promise Ultra100TX2, Ultra100TX2v2, and Ultra133 controllers. [bouyer 20011217]
• kernel
  NTFS now supports Windows 2000 NTFS (NTFS5). [jdolecek 20011216]
• pppoe
  Completed support for PPP over ethernet (RFC 2516), see pppoe(8) for details. [martin 20011216]
• m68k
  Switched all OBJECT_FMT=elf m68k ports to new-toolchain. [scw 20011216]
• usb
  add driver, uirda(4), for USB-IrDA bridges. [augustss 20011214]
• dump(8)
  add tape autoload capability for multivolume dumps. [bouyer 20011214]
• hp300
  new console attachment interface [gmcgarry 20011214]
• kernel
  Converted remaining ports to use new MI kernel build machinery. [atatat 20011209]
• hp300
  add support for the generic softintr(9) API. [gmcgarry 20011208]
• libc
  add putwc(3), putwchar(3), fputwc(3), getwc(3), getwchar(3), fgetwc(3), fwide(3). [yamt 20011207]
• ssh(1)
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 3.0.2 around 20011206. [itojun 20011206]
• malloc_roundup(9)
  new interface which returns the actual size of the allocation unit for the given value. [enami 20011205]
• irda
  Basic kernel support for IrDA frame level driver added. Serial dongles and the oboe drivers are the only hardware supported so far. The frame level driver can be used by the comms/birda package. [augustss 20011205]
• od(1)
  Added POSIX-like -j and -N options. [bjh21 20011205]
• kernel
  added <sys/hash.h> which implements hash32_buf(), hash32_str(), and hash32_strn(). [lukem 20011205]
• i386
  Use new __HAVE_PTRACE_MACHDEP and __HAVE_PROCFS_MACHDEP to export XMM (standard FP + SSE/SSE2) registers to ptrace(2) and procfs. [thorpej 20011205]
• ptrace/profcs
  Added hooks to allow machdep code to specify machine-dependent ptrace(2) requests and procfs node types. [thorpej 20011205]
• mca
  add esp(4) attachment for NCR SCSI Adapter (53C90) [jdolecek 20011205]
• malloc(9)
  added M_CANFAIL flag, to allow failure in M_WAITOK case in cases where panic is not appropriate [jdolecek 20011205]
• ftpd(8)
  new ftpd.conf(5) directives: `denyquick' - prevent denied users after `USER' instead of `PASS', `private' - don't list class information in `STAT' output. [lukem 20011205]
• curses(3)
  The curses library now supports the resizeterm function which allows the curses screen to be resized dynamically. Also added newterm and set_term to allow multi-screen applications. [blymn 20011202]

November 2001

• atapi
  Add support for ATAPI tape drives. [bouyer 20011130]
• misc
  Kernel sets are now named for their kernel config file, e.g. kern-GENERIC.tgz, and platforms are no longer required to provide a GENERIC (it simply can't be done for some). Sysinst updated to now require the user to select a kernel set to install if the platform provides more than one. [thorpej 20011129]
• kernel
  Struct ucred, cr_ref and cr_ngroups widening (1.5Z) [christos 20011129]
• pc532
  Add support for device_register() and nuke dk_establish(). [simonb 20011129]
• ssh(1)
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 3.0.1 around 20011127. [itojun 20011127]
• usb
  Add a very preliminary driver for ehci(4); the host controller for USB 2.0. Use at your own risk. [augustss 20011126]
• vmstat(1)
  rename '-h histname' to '-u histname' (UVM history for histname), rename '-H' to '-U' (all UVM histories), add '-h hashstat' to display hash statistics for hashstat, add '-H' to display all hash statistics, '-L' to list available hashes. [lukem 20011126]
• distrib/notes
  Add a table of contents to the release notes. [jhawk 20011126]
• makefs(8)
  support size suffix parsing as per dd(1). [lukem 20011125]
• dd(1)
  support 'g' (gigabyte) and 't' (terabyte)' suffixes on sizes. [lukem 20011125]
• mca
  IBM PS/2 MCA DMA controller access bus_dma'fied, uses i386 ISA bus_dma routines to bounce buffers on machines with >16MB RAM, edc(4) and mca/ed(4) fixes [jdolecek 20011124]
• install(1)
  handle links and the -r flag correctly. [simonb 20011123]
• kernel
  options(4) to control kgdb are now more orthogonal, and are: KGDB, KGDB_DEV, KGDB_DEVADDR, KGDB_DEVMODE, KGDB_DEVNAME, KGDB_DEVRATE. [lukem 20011120]
• audio
  add autri(4) driver for Trident 4DWAVE based PCI audio. [someya 20011118]
• acorn32
  New port formed as part of the splitting of the arm32 port. [reinoud 20011118]
• malloc(9)
  add M_ZERO to zero allocated memory (from FreeBSD). [lukem 20011117]
• kernel
  kernel builds are now mostly port independent. this means that ports (on sparc, i386, alpha, and vax, for now) now use an included file for most of the build machinery and only set relevant variables in their own makefiles. [atatat 20011116]
• getnameinfo(3)
  always assume NI_WITHSCOPEID is on, to sync with recent standards document. [itojun 20011115]
• postfix
  remove IPv6 patch, as it still needs a lot more torture- testing outside of the tree. [itojun 20011111]
• x68k
  Add support of an ethernet part of Nereid. [isaki 20011111]
• mtree(8)
  add -L, to walk the tree logically (following symlinks). add -P, to walk the tree physically (the default). add -X excludefile, a file containing a list of patterns to exclude. add "rmd160" and "sha1" keywords. [lukem 20011107]
• ssh(1)
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 3.0 around 20011107. [itojun 20011107]
• inet6
  correct IPv6 UDP inbound processing. now IPv6 sockets will not grab packets to joined multicast groups after bind(2). exact address match is necessary (the behavior is now closer to 4.4BSD IPv4 stack). [itojun 20011106]
• scsi
  Add a driver for the Tekram DC-395U/UW/F and DC-315/U PCI SCSI host adapters, written by Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg@ms25.url.com.tw>. [tsutsui 20011103]
• misc
  opendisk(3); enforce the iscooked arg to check if the type of the matching file is S_IFBLK or S_IFCHR as appropriate. [lukem 20011101]

October 2001

• dump(8)
  Added the ability to time stamp dump(8) log messages and gives the estimated time of completion as well as the estimated interval. The time stamp format can be controlled by the TIMEFORMAT environment variable. [blymn 20011015]
• tun(4)
  interface converted to cloning. [atatat 20011031]
• moused(8)
  add a daemon (from FreeBSD) to take input from serial mice and put them into a wsmux, for easy access via /dev/wsmouse. [augustss 20011029]
• makefs(8)
  imported makefs(8), which creates a file system image from a directory tree. [lukem 20011026]
• cu(1)
  Add -F (default) h/w flow control, -f no h/w flow control, and -q for quiet downloads. [briggs 20011026]
• install(1)
  add -T tags, to write mtree(8) tags out to the -M metalog. [lukem 20011026]
• mtree(8)
  add -W, to prevent permissions from being modified or complained about; used with -du to create missing directories as the current user. [lukem 20011026]
• arm26
  gdb(1) now works. [bjh21 20011025]
• pax(1)
  add -M, which treats stdin as an mtree(8) specfile when doing -w or -rw. [lukem 20011025]
• hp300
  new rtc(4) attachment (mandatory) for the real-time clock [gmcgarry 20011017]
• hp300
  new hil(4) attachment making it an optional component of the kernel [gmcgarry 20011017]
• wc(1)
  -m and -w flags now handle multibyte characters properly. [yamt 20011019]
• misc
  Added port to SONY PlayStation 2. [uch 20011016]
• inet6
  IPV6_BINDV6ONLY socket option is deprecated (binary backward compatibility is kept). use IPV6_V6ONLY for new code instead. [itojun 20011015]
• /etc/security
  augment /etc/changelist with parsing /etc/mtree/special and /etc/mtree/special.local for list of files to monitor. if /sbin/fdisk exists, monitor its output for disks. monitor many more files. [lukem 20011014]
• misc
  add "ntpd" user and group, and move "named" user's homedir from /var/named to /var/chroot/named. [lukem 20011011]
• install(1)
  Add -M metalog, to log the metadata associated with a file to the provided metalog file. [lukem 20011011]
• mtree(8)
  add "device" keyword. [lukem 20011009]
• amiga
  cbiiisc driver (actually, siop2) drives LED now. [is 20011008]
• file(1)
  recognize Amiga Workbench icon (.info) files. [is 20011006]
• mips
  LKM's work for mips. [simonb 20011006]
• mtree(8)
  add support for absolute paths in the specfile. add "all" keyword. [lukem 20011006]
• getnameinfo(3)
  Add support for formatting link-layer addresses. Programs which print link-layer addresses will be migrated to using this interface. [bjh21 20011005]
• kernel
  Add generic properties(9). [eeh 20011004]
• mtree(8)
  add a new keyword - "tags" - for a comma separated list of tags associated with the file. add -E to exclude files from -D with matching tags. add -I to only include files with matching tags from -D. [lukem 20011004]
• crunchgen(1)
  Change to do all builds by default via a reach over make setup. [jmc 20011004]
• /etc/security
  always set timezone to UTC, as we store and later compare the output of programs (like ls) that change their output based on setting of the TZ variable. [cjs 20011003]
• audio
  the internal kernel interface between the high level audio driver and the low level drivers has gained a new method, dev_ioctl, for passing ioctl() down. [augustss 20011003]
• mtree(8)
  add -D to print the provided specfile out in an easier to parse format. add '-R key' to remove key from the list of keywords to display. [lukem 20011001]

September 2001

• /etc/security
  add check_pkgs option to police the installed pkgs list in the same manner as the /etc/changelist stuff. [atatat 20010930]
• audio
  add the esl(4) driver which supports the Eiger Labs audio PCMCIA card. From Jared D. McNeill. [augustss 20010929]
• ksh(1)
  sync'd with latest version (pdksh-5.2.14-patches.2). [wiz 20010929]
• libc
  add wcstod(3), wcstol(3) and wcstoul(3). [yamt 20010927]
• acpi
  commit work-in-progress of ACPI support. Included here is the 20010831 snapshot of the Intel ACPICA reference implementation. [thorpej 20010927]
• ssh
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 2.9.9 around 20010927. Kerberos code is revamped, there could be some configuration differences. [itojun 20010927]
• sparc
  Add support for the generic softintr(9) API. [mrg 20010927]
• sgimips
  If `OSLoadOptions' variable in ARCS is set to `auto', boot straight to multiuser mode. [rafal 20010922]
• mtree(8)
  add -l to perform "loose" permission checks. [perry 20010922]
• dpti
  Add an implementation of the DPT/Adaptec SCSI RAID management interface. This makes it possible to the Linux versions of run dptmgr, raidutil, dptelog and friends under NetBSD. [ad 20010921]
• xdecnetbsd
  Add an Xserver for alpha and wscons'fied pmax. In addition to the graphics adapters catered for by XalphaNetBSD, this supports the CFB, XCFB, TFB, color PM, PX and PXG family. [ad 20010921]
• sh(1)
  do not truncate expr longer than 10 digits. PR 13943. [itojun 20010919]
• execvp(3)
  Use alloca instead of malloc & strdup to plug a memory leak. [simonb 20010918]
• heimdal
  import version 0.4e [assar 20010917]
• krb4
  import version 1.1 [assar 20010917]
• gem
  New driver for Sun GEM, ERI, and Apple GMAC gigabit ethernet controllers [eeh 20010915]
• savecore(8)
  add "-Z level" to control compression level, and change the default level from 6 to 1 (the fastest). [lukem 20010912]
• i386
  add sysinst and kern set bits to support installation on IBM PS/2 [jdolecek 20010913]
• resolv.conf(5)
  add "insecure1" and "insecure2" option. [itojun 20010913]
• agp
  add AGP GART code, ported from code by Doug Rabson in FreeBSD [fvdl 20010910]
• i386
  add systems calls to get/set MTRRs. [fvdl 20010910]
• arm26
  Add eca(4) driver to support Archimedes Econet modules. [bjh21 20010910]
• econet
  Add support for Econet interfaces in general. [bjh21 20010910]
• tcp
  Make TCP timers use callouts, rather than traversing a list of all connections twice per second. [thorpej 20010910]
• pmap(9)
  Add argument to pmap_update to specify the updated pmap, this will help with delaying tlb/cache flushes till as late as possible. [chris 20010910]
• newfs_msdos(8)
  Import better version from FreeBSD. [christos 20010910]
• ipsec
  Add i386 asm versions of des, 3des, and blowfish transforms. [tls 20010909]
• file(1)
  update to 3.37. [pooka 20010909]
• libc
  add __clone(2) [christos 20010907]
• tunefs(8)
  add -g and -h options to control the enhanced ffs_dirpref(). [lukem 20010906]
• newfs(8)
  add -g and -h options to control the enhanced ffs_dirpref(). [lukem 20010906]
• ffs
  incorporate enhanced ffs_dirpref() by Grigoriy Orlov, which noticibly improves performance when creating directories, and subsequently manipulating them. [lukem 20010906]
• useradd
  Allow specifying login-class with -L switch when creating new accounts or changing existing ones. [christos 20010905]
• tunefs(8)
  replace -t with -k, to be consistent with newfs(8). [lukem 20010903]
• sshd(8)
  PermitRootLogin changed to "no", so root may no longer log in directly by default. [cjs 20010902]
• ffs
  incorporate fix from FreeBSD to correctly support file systems with a large number of cylinder groups (~16000 on 32 bit platforms, half that on 64 bit platforms). [lukem 20010902]

August 2001

• pcn(4)
  New driver for the AMD PCnet-PCI family of Ethernet chips. This driver uses direct DMA to mbufs (like other PCI network drivers, and unlike the old "le at pci" driver), and also supports communication with the MII-connected PHYs on the 10/100 boards. [thorpej 20010827]
• pmax
  switch to MI SCSI. [simonb 20010826]
• amiga
  added driver for Repulse audio board. [is 20010825]
• amhphy
  Added driver for the 10BASE-T portion of the AMD 79c901 HomePNA/10BASE-T PHY. [thorpej 20010824]
• pnaphy
  Added generic driver for HomePNA PHYs. [thorpej 20010824]
• acphy
  Added driver for the Altima AC101 low-power 10/100 Ethernet PHY. [thorpej 20010824]
• pmax
  Use PROM bitmap to determine available memory, and use multiple memory segments if present. [mhitch 20010824]
• pmax
  has GENERIC_SOFT_INTERRUPTS. [nisimura 20010822]
• sendmail(8)
  upgrade to 8.11.6 from sendmail.org. [itojun 20010821]
• cdplay(1)
  Major clean-up. Increase stability, and add a shuffle mode. Much of this from Sergey Svishchev. [ad 20010820]
• fsirand(8)
  add -F to fsirand a file system image in a regular file, display statistics upon receipt of SIGINFO. [lukem 20010820]
• tunefs(8)
  add -F to tunefs a file system image in a regular file [lukem 20010819]
• pwd_mkdb(8)
  Add -u and -s options, to allow restriction of updates to one user's records or the secure datbase. Also, increase the cache size for larger password files. [ad 20010818]
• bridge(4)
  Add support for building network bridges. Currently works with Ethernet-like networks. [thorpej 20010817]
• ffs
  fix FFS_EI support in kernel and various tools. [lukem 20010817]
• sun2
  New ec(4) driver for the old 3Com 3c400 Multibus Ethernet card. [fredette 20010816]
• fsck_ffs(8)
  add -F to fsck a file system image in a regular file [lukem 20010815]
• dump(8)
  add -F to dump from a file system image in a regular file [lukem 20010814]
• dumpfs(8)
  add -F to dumpfs from a file system image in a regular file [lukem 20010814]
• lpd(8)
  Add -W parameter to disable the priviledged origin port checking. This may be needed to get certain clients (usually of Windows vintage) to cooperate. [mjl 20010811]
• sparc64
  Support non-faulting loads (which gcc never generates anyway) and new memset/memcpy routines that use VIS instructions. [eeh 20010805]
• dhcp
  upgrade to version 3.0rc10. [drochner 20010803]
• sendmail(8)
  upgrade to 8.11.5 from sendmail.org. [itojun 20010801]
• sparc64
  gcc now generates 32 bit code with `-m32' [mrg 20010830]

July 2001

• libsa
  Arrange to be able to load ELF kernels without backwards seeks, taking advantage of the recent DDB change. [bjh21 20010731]
• ddb(4)
  Locate the correct ELF string table without resorting to looking at the section names to find it. [bjh21 20010731]
• mly(4)
  Add a driver for Mylex AcceleRAID and eXtremeRAID controllers. Based off the FreeBSD driver of the same name. [ad 20010730]
• newfs(8)
  add -F to create file system image in regular file, -Z to pre-zero image file, SI suffix support on all numeric arguments. [lukem 20010729]
• gif(4)
  With old code, IFF_UP is raised when the physical (outer) address is configured. The behavior was incorrect and is now removed. [itojun 20010729]
• arm26
  A new bootloader, boot26(8), written in C and with support for gzipped kernels. [bjh21 20010728]
• ep(4)
  Finally made the 3Com 3c515 10/100 ISA Ethernet card work. [thorpej 20010726]
• stge(4)
  Added device driver for the Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet controller. [thorpej 20010725]
• file(1)
  update to 3.36. [pooka 20010722]
• route(8)
  -prefixlen now works on IPv4 too. [itojun 20010720]
• lfs
  lfs on-disk layout version 2, allowing better interaction with physical disk configuration, keeping the atime information on the ifile rather than in the inodes, and allowing the possibility for undelete without further disk layout changes. Roll-forward is enabled for v2 filesystems. [perseant 20010716]
• arm
  Changes made to libc & csu, support added to ld.elf_so to support common ELF shared libraries for both armv2/armv4+ [matt 20010716]
• syslogd(8)
  Better error reporting, flags to setuid/setgid/chroot syslogd (PR #13400) [manu 20010716]
• hpcarm
  Add support for PCIC of iPAQ [ichiro 20010715]
• dev_mkdb(8)
  Add flags to choose source directory and target database, like with pwd_mkdb(8) or cap_mkdb(8) [manu 20010713]
• raidctl(8)
  add -G, which outputs the configuration of the given raid device in the same format that -c and -C use. [lukem 20010710]
• mvme68k
  replace simulated software interrupts with h/w assisted software interrupts. [scw 20010706]
• compat_linux(8)
  Added socket address family number translation, necesary to make e.g. IPv6 work under emulation (PR #13279). [jdolecek 20010704]
• inet
  Update ARP logic to support multiple IPv4 addresses on an interface better. There still are items to be done. [itojun 20010704]
• cdplay(1)
  Add support for skipping to the previous and next tracks. [gmcgarry 20010701]
• userconf(4)
  In-kernel device configuration manager. Written by Mats O Jansson <moj@stacken.kth.se> and reworked by Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@NetBSD.org>. [gmcgarry 20010701]
• config(8)
  Don't pack locators by default. Introduce a new commandline option (-P) to pack locators. [gmcgarry 20010701]
• syslogd(8)
  now it is possible to filter UDP syslog messages by libwrap. [itojun 20010701]

June 2001

• ifmcstat(8)
  drop setgid bit for safety. only root needs this tool. [itojun 20010626]
• tcpdump(8)
  import tcpdump.org tree, version 3.6. change the build tree organization to use src/dist/tcpdump. [itojun 20010625]
• ssh
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 2.9 around 20010624. authorized_keys2 and known_host2 are integrated into those without "2". existing known_hosts2 file is still read, but won't get updated. [itojun 20010624]
• ste(4)
  Added driver for the Sundance Tech. ST-201 10/100 Ethernet chip, found on the D-Link DFE-550TX. [thorpej 20010619]
• sf(4)
  Added driver for the Adaptec AIC-6915 10/100 Ethernet chip, found on several Adaptec Ethernet boards. [thorpej 20010618]
• bsd.*.mk, libc
  Add a MKSOFTFLOAT make variable to control soft/hard float userland builds. [simonb 20010618]
• fsck(8)
  don't check file systems which are mounted read-write. [lukem 20010618]
• kernel
  John S. Dyson's FreeBSD high performance pipe implementation ported, optionally available with 'options NEW_PIPE'. [jdolecek 20010616]
• rc(8)
  in rc.shutdown, implement an optional watchdog timer which will terminate rc.shutdown after the number of seconds specified in in $rcshutdown_timeout. [lukem 20010616]
• net
  the meaning of ifnet.if_lastchange is changed to meet RFC1573 ifLastChange MIB. [itojun 20010614]
• misc
  Added a port to the IBM PowerPC 405GP Reference Board (the "walnut"). [simonb,eeh 20010613].
• arc
  obtain secondary cache size from ARC firmware, to support NEC Express RISCserver. by Bob Meader. [soda 20010613]
• xsrc
  import XFree86 4.1.0 [tron 20010609]
• sparc
  make SMP inter-processor-interrupts work. [mrg 20010608]
• sparc64
  make sunos32, svr4_32 & netbsd32 compat & exec modules work as LKM's. [mrg 20010607]
• powerpc
  New pmap module added for MPC6xx PowerPC CPUs. Move MPC6xx specific files to their own directory. [matt 20010606]
• scsi
  Add a driver for the Initio INIC-940/950 PCI SCSI controllers. [tsutsui 20010603]
• bzip2(1), libbz2
  Update to 1.0.1 - note there is a completely new API. [simonb 20010603]
• inet
  Add support for hardware-assisted IPv4/TCP/UDP checksumming and for caching the IPv6 TCP pseudo-header. Support checksum offloading on the DP83820 Gigabit Ethernet, 3Com 3c90xB, 3Com 3c90xC, and Alteon Tigon/Tigon2 Gigabit Ethernet. [thorpej 20010602]
• algor
  Added support for the P-4032 board. [thorpej 20010601]
• i386
  g/c COMPAT_OLDBOOT from bootblocks [jdolecek 20010601]

May 2001

• mvme68k
  intrcnt/intrnames deprecated in favour of generic evcnt(9) interface. [scw 20010531]
• sendmail(8)
  upgrade to 8.11.4 from sendmail.org. [itojun 20010529]
• misc
  Added port to Algorithmics MIPS evaluation boards (NetBSD/algor). The P-5064 is currently supported, Revision D board tested. Thanks to Allegro Networks for providing me with a board. [thorpej 20010528]
• dump(8)
  Improve support for backing up unmounted file-systems which are listed in /etc/fstab as well as mounted file-systems which are not listed. [lukem 20010528]
• macppc
  Honour RTC_OFFSET. [wiz 20010528]
• hcsc(4)
  New driver for the HCCS 8-bit SCSI podule, based on the MI ncr5380 driver. [bjh21 20010526]
• oak(4)
  Made the driver for the Oak Solutions 16-bit SCSI card work on NetBSD/arm26 as well as NetBSD/arm32. [bjh21 20010526]
• hpcarm
  Add support for PCIC of JORNADA720 [toshii 20010523]
• bind
  upgrade to BIND 8.2.4 from ISC. [itojun 20010517]
• ndbootd(8)
  Imported ndbootd(8), used to netboot Sun2s. [fredette 20010517]
• gsip(4)
  Added driver for National Semiconductor DP83820 Gigabit Ethernet chip, found on NetGear GA-622 and Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIX. [thorpej 20010517]
• macppc
  Support AirMac wavelan card. [tsubai 20010516]
• ssh
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 2.9 around 20010515. [itojun 20010515]
• gif(4)
  remove multi-destination mode support [itojun 20010514]
• amd(8)
  upgraded to 6.0.6 [veego 20010513]
• rc.d(8)
  change the default "stop" mechanism to wait until the command terminates before returning. This improves the reliability of "restart" as well. [lukem 20010509]
• postfix
  upgrade to 20010228-pl02, with KAME IPv6 patch. [itojun 20010508]
• dump(8)
  Add a -e option to eject the tape automatically if a tape change is required. [tron 20010507]
• mlx(4)
  Add an EISA front-end for this driver. name. [ad 20010506]
• vax
  Support for the Interlan NI1010 Ethernet interface and the DEC DDCMP DMC-11/DMR-11 interface [ragge 20010506]
• savecore(8)
  Use the formatted panic string if available [simonb 20010506].
• ktrace(1)
  Add a -s option to open the trace file for synchronized writes [simonb 20010504]
• mca
  detect the presence of MCA bus on i386 via bios call, no longer hardcoded for MCA-enabled kernels [jdolecek 20010502]
• x68k
  Add the voice synthesizer driver. Based on the code written by Tetsuya Isaki <isaki@par.odn.ne.jp>. [minoura 20010502]
• kernel
  poll(2) support added to tty line-disciplines. [scw 20010502]
• vax
  Added support for the 400/705A, from Michael Kukat. [ragge 20010501]

April 2001

• scsi
  Add a MI driver for the Symbios/NCR 53c710 SCSI controller. [tsutsui 20010430]
• uvm
  Implement round-robin page coloring. [thorpej 20010428]
• ifconfig(8)
  -A is now default. all IPv4 alias addresses are printed by default. [itojun 20010428]
• mca
  Add le(4) driver for SK-NET Personal and MC2+ [jdolecek 20010427]
• scsipi(4)
  pull up thorpej_scsipi branch: cleaner interfaces between different layers, kernel thread to handle error recovery out of interrupt context. [bouyer 20010425]
• arp(8)
  Add a way to delete all arp entries without having to use a shell contruct [atatat 20010424]
• i386
  remove DIAGNOSTIC option from GENERIC kernels and create a GENERIC_DIAGNOSTIC kernel [fvdl 20010422]
• mca
  add ne(4) attachment,for Novell NE/2 and clones [jdolecek 20010420]
• groff(1)
  import groff-1.16.1 [wiz 20010419]
• mca
  add edc(4)/ed(4) driver for IBM ESDI Controller [jdolecek 20010419]
• rc(8)
  support "poll" as an argument to the /etc/rc.d scripts, which spins until all the processes for the service exit. Use this to make "restart" more robust. [lukem 20010418]
• arm26
  randomize statclock periods. [bjh21 20010416]
• kernel
  Remove splimp() from the NetBSD kernel. splnet() is the only spl*() call allowed to protect data structures used by network devices. [thorpej 20010413]
• libcrypto, libssl
  upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.6a. [itojun 20010412]
• net
  Add PFIL_HOOKS filtering points to network interfaces, and perform pfil processing for Ethernet. [thorpej 20010410]
• ssh
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 2.5.4 around 20010410. NOTE: ssh(1) now defaults to SSH protocol version 2. [itojun 20010410]
• powerpc
  add compat_linux(8) to macppc, ofppc, prep, bebox, sandpoint and amigappc. [manu 20010407]
• seeq8005
  support multicast and the 80C04. [bjh21 20010405]
• arm32
  ea(4) and eb(4) now use MI seeq8005 driver. [bjh21 20010405]

March 2001

• vi(1)
  upgrade to nvi 1.79. [aymeric 20010331]
• libc
  add XSH5 timezone and daylight interfaces. [kleink 20010331]
• mca
  add ite(4) attachment, for ATI AT1720X cards [jdolecek 20010331]
• compat_linux(8)
  make unimplemented syscalls return ENOSYS, don't send SIGSYS to the process, so that Linux glibc fallback mechanism works [jdolecek 20010330]
• audio
  add yds(4) driver for Yamaha DS-1 PCI audio controller. [minoura 20010331]
• ncr53c9x
  added fas support to ncr53c9x driver [petrov 20010328]
• child_max
  bumped default to 160. [mrg 20010328]
• usb
  add umct(4) driver for MCT USB-RS232 Converter [ichiro 20010329]
• wscons
  support entering the kgdb remote connection wait if the KS_Cmd_Debugger key sequence (CTRL-ALT-ESC) is pressed. [lukem 20010323]
• libc
  add support for nl_langinfo(CODESET). [tshiozak 20010326]
• mca
  split ISA we(4) to generic backend and ISA-specific frontend and add support for MCA variants of WD80x3 cards and its clones [jdolecek 20010323]
• mca
  add ep(4) attachment, for 3Com 3c529 [jdolecek 20010322]
• sendmail(8)
  enable STARTTLS. [itojun 20010321]
• netinet
  add experimental implementation of RFC1948 (cryptographic hash for TCP ISS generation). Disabled by default, this code should only be played with by people who know what they are doing. Make RFC1323 TCP timestamp values 0-based for all TCP connections. Avoids leaking uptime information. [thorpej 20010320]
• ssh
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 2.5.2 around 20010319. [itojun 20010319]
• news68k
  Switch to using ELF binary format by default. [tsutsui 20010319]
• nfsstat(1)
  cleanup output to show percentages. [lukem 20010319]
• xsrc
  import XFree86 4.0.3 [veego 20010318]
• sparc
  implement MP DDB. [mrg 20010318]
• file(1)
  update to 3.34. [pooka 20010317]
• mca
  add elmc(4) - 3Com EtherLink/MC (3c523) driver [jdolecek 20010316]
• postfix
  upgrade to release-20010228, with KAME IPv6 patch. [itojun 20010313]
• amiga
  make the ioblix serial master clock frequency patchable and a kernel option. ioblix at zbus is now in the GENERIC configuration. [is 20010310]
• routed(8)
  updated to 2.24 [christos 20010310]
• libc
  Add shquote(3) and shquotev(3). [cgd 20010309]
• sparc64
  E250 support seems to work. [mrg 20010306]
• sparc
  include a 32-bit sun4u kernel. [mrg 20010304]
• misc
  remove unused `falken' user and `ingres' user and group. [lukem 20010304]
• pci(9)
  allow MD to control device & function probe order. [mrg 20010302]

Febuary 2001

• sendmail(8)
  upgrade to 8.11.3 from sendmail.org. [itojun 20010228]
• hme
  match the `SUNW,qfe' `quad fast ethernet' cards. [mrg 20010228]
• alpha
  LKM's work for alpha. [mrg 20010226]
• sparc64
  LKM's work for sparc64. [mrg 20010225]
• mount_ados(8)
  automatically fall back to mounting read-only when encountering the EROFS error. [is 20010225]
• sun3
  Switch to using ELF binary format by default. [chs 20010222]
• racoon(8)
  upgrade to 2/22 KAME codebase. there can be intereoperability issue with past KAME racoon, as we now use more popular interpretation for bundle proposals. if this raises problem, use "complex_bundle" directive in config file. [itojun 20010222]
• compat_svr4(8)
  Support 64-bit SVR4 (64-bit Solaris 8) binaries. [eeh 20010221]
• arm32
  vidcvideo0 renamed to vidcconsole to aid wscons transition [reinoud 20010221]
• printcap(5)
  save the trees, add `:sh:' to examples. [mrg 20010221]
• hpcarm
  initial import of hpcarm port, for StrongARM-based WinCE machines. [ichiro 20010220]
• ssh
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 2.5.1 around 20010219. [itojun 20010219]
• libc
  Add getprogname(3) and setprogname(3). [cgd 20010219]
• amigappc
  Integrated Adam Ciarcinskis first version of interrupt support. [is 20010218]
• arm32
  Wrote and imported a new bootloader for the Acorn machines and derivatives including RiscPC,A7000,RC7500 featuring RISC OS version independence and relocating before running the kernel. [reinoud 20010218]
• ssh
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 2.5.0 around 20010217. [itojun 20010217]
• netkey
  When processing an SADB_DELETE message, allow SADB_EXT_SA to be blank. In this case, we delete all non-LARVAL SAs that match the src/dst/protocol. This is particularly useful in IKE INITIAL-CONTACT processing. Idea from Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@east.sun.com>, who implemented it in post-Solaris8. [thorpej 20010216]
• libc
  Reimplement hcreate(3), hsearch(3) and hdestroy(3). [cgd 20010214]
• ssh
  rnd(4) random number device is now mandatory to run ssh/sshd and related tools. [itojun 20010214]
• compat_svr4(8)
  Add COMPAT_SVR4_32 for 32-bit SVR4 binaries on 64-bit machines. [eeh 20010210]
• od(1)
  Add -t option to specify output types and add a manpage to document the od(1) command. From Andrew Brown. [hubertf 20010209]
• amiga
  Support for BSC ISDN Master II. [is 20010208]
• libpcap
  always write out dump files using 32bit timeval. [itojun 20010208]
• ssh
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 2.3.1 around 20010208. [itojun 20010208]
• accept(2)
  return errno = ECONNABORTED if TCP RST arrives before accept(2), rather than 0-length sockaddr (or junk sockaddr). the behavior conforms to SUSv2. no userland changes necessary (as ECONNABROTED will be handled just like other errors). [itojun 20010207]
• nfs
  use real vnode locks [fvdl 20010206]
• vax
  Added support for MicroVAX 3100m90, MicroVAX 3100m95, VAX 4000/100, VAX 4000/105A, VAX 4000/108, VAX 4000/400, VAX 4000/500 and VAX 4000/600. From Michael Kukat. [ragge 20010204]
• mlx(4)
  Add a driver for the Mylex DAC960 family (including DEC SWXCR RAID). Based upon the FreeBSD driver of the same name. [ad 20010204]
• sparc64
  make COMPAT_SUNOS work on the 64-bit kernel. [mrg 20010202]
• netbsd32
  clean up, fix several bugs, prepare for sunos32. [mrg 20010201]

January 2001

• usb
  add umidi(4) driver. [tshiozak 20010131]
• amiga
  add ZEUS ISDN-link and Individual Computers ISDN surfer support [is 20010128]
• usb
  update uplcom(4) driver. support I/O DATA USB-RSAQ. [ichiro 20010128]
• bind
  upgrade to 8.2.3. 8.2.3 includes security fixes so be sure to upgrade. [itojun 20010127]
• net
  mark cloned routes with RTF_CLONED. cloned routes can now be overwritten by explicit route addition requests (fixes PR 11916). cloned routes goes away if parent route (RTF_CLONING) goes away. [itojun 20010127]
• libc
  enable multibyte LC_CTYPE locale support, from citrus XPG4DL codebase. [itojun 20010125]
• ipsec/ipf
  ipf now looks into wire-format packet only (not the form after get decapsulated by IPsec). It will make it very simple to configure NAT box and IPsec tunnel gateway in the same box. NOTE: if you are using ipf to filter decapsulated IPsec packets, please be warned. [itojun 20010124]
• usb
  add uplcom(4) driver for Prolific PL-2303 USB-RS232 bridge chip. e.g., I/O DATA USB-RSAQ2. [ichiro 20010123]
• audio
  add clct(4), a driver for Cirrus Logic CS4281. Driver by Tatoku Ogaito. [augustss 20010121]
• net
  integrated isdn4bsd userland, kernel stack and drivers for pci/isa/isapnp/pcmcia/zbus boards. [martin,is 20010122]
• amiga
  pcmcia support is now in standard kernel configurations (GENERIC, AMIGA, INSTALL). [is 20010122]
• amiga
  the machine-independent wdc is now the default driver for the A1200 IDE connector. [is 20010122]
• net
  pull post-4.4BSD change to sys/net/route.c. rt_addrinfo is passed all the way down to rtrequest logic. 3rd argument to ifa->ifa_rtrequest is now rt_addrinfo *. [itojun 20010117]
• hpcsh
  initial import of hpcsh port, for SH3-based WinCE machines. [itojun 20010117]
• ssh
  upgrade OpenBSD-based Secure Shell, based on OpenSSH 2.3.0 around 20010105. [itojun 20010114]
• xsrc
  Initial support for Alpha PCI video cards in XFree86 4.0.2. [simonb 20010114]
• sysinst
  Rework large portions of sysinst disk and filesystem handling, /etc support, IPv6 support and general clean ups. [mrg 20010114]
• sort(1)
  Switched to BSD sort, GNU sort nuked. [jdolecek 20010113]
• netinet
  apps can now specify interface index with multicast set/getsockopt (instead of interface addresses), using network byteorder value within 0.0.0.0/8. [itojun 20010113]
• wi(4)
  Default mode is now BSS-mode, not ad hoc mode. [jhawk 20010111]
• /etc/ifconfig.xxn
  now able to take shell script fragment on lines start with "!". [itojun 20010112]
• usb
  Add usscanner, a driver for some SCSI-over-USB scanners, e.g., HP5300. [augustss 20010111]
• libedit
  Support arbitrarily long input lines. [jdolecek 20010110]
• audio
  Add esm driver for the ESS Technology Maestro-2/2e AC97 PCI Audio Accelerator. [rh 20010108]
• hp300
  Switch to using ELF binary format by default. [simonb 20010106]
• sushi(8)
  Initial import of sushi. Sushi is an interactive, menu-based program that is designed to aid the user or administrator with administrative and complex tasks on thier machines. [garbled 20010105]
• libcdk
  initial import of CDK-4.9.9-20000407-myc3 [garbled 20010104]
• sendmail(8)
  upgrade to 8.11.2 from sendmail.org. [itojun 20010104]
• _diagassert(3)
  allow user to control behaviour with $LIBC_DIAGASSERT. [lukem 20010104]
• i386
  bump maximum partition number to 16 [tron 20010102]
• pmax
  MI TCDS option cards work. [mrg 20010101]
• xsrc
  import XFree86 4.0.2 [veego 20010101]

December 2000

• bktr(4)
  Merge with bktr driver v2.18 (from FreeBSD). [wiz 20001230]
• make(1)
  support for use of -j (spawn jobs in parallel) in recursive builds; all make processes in a build cooperate to limit the total number of compile jobs. [sommerfeld 20001230]
• df(1)
  Add -m option. Similar to -k, use megabyte (1024*1024 bytes) as size unit. [hubertf 20001230]
• du(1)
  Add -m option. Similar to -k, use megabyte (1024*1024 bytes) as size unit. [hubertf 20001230]
• usbhidaction(1)
  a new command to perform actions when USB HID items take on certain values. [augustss 20001230]
• racoon(8)
  KAME IKE daemon for IPsec key negotiation. [itojun 20001229]
• mbrlabel(8)
  by default only display the changed disk label; only update the label if -f is given. be saner about adding entries from the MBR to the NetBSD disk label. [lukem 20001224]
• libc
  enable citrus LC_CTYPE locale framework. single byte only, multibyte will be enabled shortly. [itojun 20001221]
• arm26
  New eh(4) driver for older i-cubed EtherLan cards. [bjh21 20001220]
• m68k
  All m68k-based ports now share a common kernel syscall() function. [scw 20001219]
• fdisk(8)
  Print out contents of extended partitions. [lukem 20001220]
• sb(4)
  Add support for Avance Logic ALS100+ [mjl 20001219]
• ftpd(8)
  new command line flag: `-X' - syslog wu-ftpd style xferlog entries. new ftpd.conf(5) directive: `advertise' - change the address advertised by PASV (useful for certain firewall environments). [lukem 20001218].
• tc
  added drivers for the DEC PixelStamp family of graphics accellerators. [ad 20001218]
• audiorecord(1)
  If we can't output a valid sun header, don't output any header at all. [mrg 20001213]
• pcmcia
  added an(4) driver for Aironet 4500/4800 and Cisco Aironet 340 series from FreeBSD. [onoe 20001213]
• pkg_install
  Added support for creating and adding bzip2 compressed packages (expected suffix: .tbz). [hubertf 20001213]
• libc
  switch to tzcode strftime() implementation. [kleink 20001212]
• ldd_elf(1)
  add handling of a.out binaries. [simonb 20001212]
• arm26
  support for "Unix" backplanes (with interrupt masking) via unixbp(4). [bjh21 20001209]
• kernel
  Added infrastructure to load emulations and their executable support dynamically via LKM. [jdolecek 20001208]
• rpc.yppasswdd(8)
  Add `-d /directory' option to specify the root directory of the passwd file. [tron 20001208]
• mvme68k
  Native object file format changed to ELF, using gas.new and ld.new. [scw 20001207]
• vipw(8)
  Add `-d /directory' option to specify the root directory of the passwd file. [tron 20001206]
• libutil
  added pw_getprefix() and pw_setprefix() to get and set the root directory used by the passwd file update functions. [tron 20001206]
• mount_mfs(8)
  allow an 'm' suffix to the file system size option to specify the size of the mfs in megabytes. [simonb 20001201]

November 2000

• ncr53c9x
  add TAG QUEUE support [eeh 20001130]
• ffs
  vfs.ffs.doreallocblks is now on by default. [jdolecek 20001130]
• kernel
  lfs support is now loadable via LKM. [jdolecek 20001130]
• eeprom(8)
  make this work on the sparc64. [mrg 20001128]
• auich(4)
  added driver for Intel ICH integrated AC'97 audio. [thorpej 20001127]
• kernel
  Integrate the UBC (unified buffer cache) project. [chs 20001126]
• file(1)
  update to 3.33. [pooka 20001123]
• compat_linux(8)
  ptrace(2) emulation improved for i386: PTRACE_{SET|GET}FPREGS is now fully supported, PTRACE_{PEEK|POKE}USER partially; linux gdb can now attach to running linux process and show first function on stack backtrace, info float works. [jdolecek 20001121]
• amd(8)
  upgraded to 6.0.4 [wiz 20001120]
• compat_linux(8)
  Now works on the Alpha port. [erh 20001120]
• mvme68k
  Added support for MVME-172 and MVME-177 m68060-based boards. [scw 20001120]
• swapctl(8)
  new `-z' option to display dump device. [mrg 20001117]
• ftpd(8)
  new ftpd.conf(5) directives: `maxfilesize' - limit maximum size of upload files, `sanenames' - only permit uploaded filenames that don't start with `.' and only contain `[-+,._A-Za-z0-9]'. new command line options: `-e emailaddr' for %E escape, `-P dataport' different dataport, `-q' enable pidfiles (default), `-Q' disable pidfiles, `-u' write utmp, `-U' don't write utmp (default), `-w' write wtmp (default), `-W' don't write wtmp. NOTE: -U meaning changed from `write utmp' to `don't write utmp" to be consistent with -q/-Q and -w/-W. old use of -U won't enable an unwanted feature, it just won't enable a wanted feature. [lukem 20001117]
• ftp(1)
  implement `mreget'. allow choosing of alternate .netrc with `-N netrc' and $NETRC. [lukem 20001115]
• openfirm
  add a MI /dev/openfirm to interrogate OpenFirmware about the device tree (currently works on arm32(SHARK) and macppc). [matt 20001114]
• usb
  add the uscanner device driver for USB scanners. From FreeBSD. [augustss 20001114]
• pfil(9)
  rework the pfil interface to be more generic, allowing an arbitrary number of filtering points. [thorpej 20001110]
• named(8)
  upgrade to 8.2.2-P7 from ISC. [itojun 20001110]
• cnmagic(9)
  allows the console magic key sequence to break into the debugger or ROM monitor to be managed and customized. [eeh 20001108]
• iop(4)
  Add support for I2O adapters, and SCSI, FC-AL and block class peripherals. [ad 20001107]
• audio
  Add a driver for the NeoMagic 256 AC'97 audio, found in many laptops. [thorpej 20001104]
• kernel
  Add a watchdog timer framework, and support for the watchdog timer function on the PC-Weasel serial console board. [thorpej 20001104]

October 2000

• gettext(1)
  import GNU gettext suite. userland tools only - libintl is from Citrus xpg4dl tree. [itojun 20001031]
• libintl
  bring in libintl from Citrus project xpg4dl tree. it is BSD-licensed implementation, and is fully compatible with GNU libintl from GNU gettext. [itojun 20001030]
• i386
  Add support to the bootblocks for booting off RAIDframe RAID1 mirrors (even though installboot(8) can't install them onto a RAID1 mirror yet). [lukem 20001030]
• bktr(4)
  Merge with bktr driver v2.17 (from FreeBSD). [wiz 20001028]
• cvs(1)
  import cvs-1.11. [wiz 20001026]
• siop(4)
  rework the driver for lower interrupt and PCI load, and add tagged command queuing support. [bouyer 20001024]
• cvs(1)
  deprecate LOCALID compile-time option in favour of a new 'tag' keyword in CVSROOT/config (repository-specific). [wiz 20001021]
• twe(4)
  add support for the 3ware Escalade family of RAID controllers. [ad 20001019]
• ca(4)
  this has been replaced by the `ld' driver. [ad 20001019]
• dhcpd(8)
  upgrade to version 3 beta 2 patchlevel 9. [taca 20001017]
• newsmips
  add support for tulip based 100BaseTX card: NWB-5852A. [onoe 20001012]
• sendmail(8)
  upgrade to 8.11.1 from sendmail.org. [itojun 20001001]
• ethernet
  move the check for "promisc + unicast + not for us" into ether_input(), and change Ethernet drivers to always pass all received frames to ether_input(). [thorpej 20001001]
• sparc64
  sbus ethernet devices (LANCE & HME) now work. Fixes from Andrei Petrov <and@genesyslab.com>. [mrg 20001025]

September 2000

• vlan(4)
  add support for 802.1Q virtual LANs. [ad 20000928]
• cac(4)
  add support for EISA controllers and latest PCI controllers. [ad 20000926]
• kernel
  New boot flags -v (bootverbose) and -q (bootquiet) added for all ports. To be used by kernel code to optionally print information on boot. [jdolecek 20000925]
• pppd(8)
  update to 2.4.0; cleans up gpl code, adds new tty abstraction, and api to multilink support (not implemented for NetBSD yet). [christos 20000923]
• kernel
  New option, NFS_V2_ONLY, for a slimmer NFS client [bjh21 20000919]
• expr(1)
  Reimplemented as yacc-style parser grammar (this also fixes PR #10995), arithmetic now uses 64 bit integers. [jdolecek 20000919]
• fmt(1)
  Add -C - centre lines [abs 20000918]
• sparc64
  Work around many GCC building the tree. [mrg 20000918]
• mount(8)
  If device and mountpoint given, check disklabel for fstype. [abs 20000918]
• kernel
  Number of available pty's is now settable via sysctl kern.maxptys, kernel pty resources are allocated on demand. [jdolecek 20000909]
• mvme68k
  Added support for MVME162-LX 200/300 series of boards. [scw 20000906]
• cvs(1)
  Add cvs-1.10.8 to gnusrc [christos 20000904]

August 2000

• mvme68k
  Support for VMEbus slave mode added to mvme147 and mvme167. [scw 20000820]
• disklabel(8)
  Be case insensitive when looking up up filesystem and disk types. Display supported types in interactive mode if `?' is given at the prompt. [lukem 20000815]
• arp(4)
  Add kernel counters (displayable with netstat -s) for various arp events. [jhawk 20000815]
• depca(4)
  Add support for the DEC DE422 Ethernet. [thorpej 20000810]
• ddb(4)
  add options DDB_BREAK_CHAR to override break for entering ddb when using the com driver. [jeffs 20000803]
• xsrc
  add support for XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1. [tron 20000806]
• zoneinfo
  install UTC as the default time zone. [kleink 20000803]

July 2000

• libc
  non-IPv4 hostname lookup over NIS. follows Solaris 8 practice, look up ipnodes.{byname,byaddr}. [itojun 20000729]
• ftpd(8)
  add -W - don't log to wtmp. [lukem 20000726]
• tcpdump(1)
  decode IEEE 802.1Q encapsulated packets. [ad 20000724]
• arm26
  ea(4) now aligns payloads of incoming packets, fixing many bugs. [bjh21 20000722]
• ifconfig(8)
  add nwkey support to enable/disable WEP encryption and to get/set WEP key for IEEE802.11 wireless network interfaces [onoe 20000721]
• newsyslog(8)
  more changes. most importantly, log files can now be rotated at specific times. [ad 20000718]
• ftp(1)
  add support for FEAT & OPTS (from RFC 2389), and MLSD & MLST (from draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-11). other fixes and cleanups. [lukem 20000718]
• rc(8)
  in rc.shutdown only run scripts with a 'KEYWORD: shutdown' in them at shutdown, making the process faster and more robust. [lukem 20000717]
• rcorder(8)
  implement `# KEYWORD:' support, with two new arguments to either keep (-k) or skip (-s) files which have the matching keyword. [mrg 20000717]
• pppd(8)
  update to 2.3.11 [tron 20000717]
• openssl
  update to 0.9.5a. [mrg 20000716]
• vax
  ld.elf_so can now load and run dynamically linked VAX ELF programs. [matt 20000714]
• newsyslog(8)
  completely overhaul this. add a new flag, `C' (create log file). [ad 20000708]
• misc
  add passwd.conf: allows selection of password encryption scheme. may be different for local and yp passwords, thus improving NIS inter-operability. [ad 20000706]
• libc
  add `RIPEMD-160' message digest functions. [ad 20000705]
• systat(1)
  allow selection of statistics update mode for IP displays. [ad 20000705]
• pcmcia
  added WEP encryption to awi driver, for AMD 79c930-based IEEE802.11 FH and DS cards. [onoe 20000704]
• faithd(8)
  now it can be invoked via inetd(8). [itojun 20000704]

June 2000

• vm
  Mach VM is dead! Long live UVM! [mrg 20000629]
• sparc
  the sun4/400 class of machines (using a more elaborate 3-level MMU) is finally supported [pk 20000621]

Port specific changes (top)

NetBSD/arm covers (for NetBSD 1.6):

• 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 1.6):

• NetBSD/hp700

NetBSD/m68k covers (for NetBSD 1.6):

• 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 1.6):

• 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 1.6):

• NetBSD/pc532

NetBSD/powerpc covers (for NetBSD 1.6):

• 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 1.6):

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

NetBSD/sh5 covers (for NetBSD 1.6):

• NetBSD/evbsh5

Changes to NetBSD/acorn26 1.6

• arm: Changes made to libc & csu, support added to ld.elf_so to support common ELF shared libraries for both armv2/armv4+ [matt 20010716]
• arm: system calls now use SWIs in our officially-assigned range. [bjh21 20020210]
• arm: Add support for the Intel i80321 I/O Processor (XScale core). [thorpej 20020327]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-acorn26.

Changes to NetBSD/acorn32 1.6

• arm: Changes made to libc & csu, support added to ld.elf_so to support common ELF shared libraries for both armv2/armv4+ [matt 20010716]
• New port formed as part of the splitting of the arm32 port. [reinoud 20011118]
• arm: system calls now use SWIs in our officially-assigned range. [bjh21 20020210]
• arm: Add support for the Intel i80321 I/O Processor (XScale core). [thorpej 20020327]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-acorn32.

Changes to NetBSD/algor 1.6

• Added support for the P-4032 board. [thorpej 20010601]
• mips: LKM's work for mips. [simonb 20011006]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-algor.

Changes to NetBSD/alpha 1.6

• LKM's work for alpha. [mrg 20010226]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-alpha.

Changes to NetBSD/amiga 1.6

• m68k: All m68k-based ports now share a common kernel syscall() function. [scw 20001219]
• the machine-independent wdc is now the default driver for the A1200 IDE connector. [is 20010122]
• pcmcia support is now in standard kernel configurations (GENERIC, AMIGA, INSTALL). [is 20010122]
• add ZEUS ISDN-link and Individual Computers ISDN surfer support [is 20010128]
• Support for BSC ISDN Master II. [is 20010208]
• make the ioblix serial master clock frequency patchable and a kernel option. ioblix at zbus is now in the GENERIC configuration. [is 20010310]
• added driver for Repulse audio board. [is 20010825]
• cbiiisc driver (actually, siop2) drives LED now. [is 20011008]
• m68k: Switched all OBJECT_FMT=elf m68k ports to new-toolchain. [scw 20011216]
• New two-stage bootloader capable of loading ELF or a.out kernels as well as compressed kernels. [mhitch 20011216]
• added experimental Toccata driver. [is 20020126]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-amiga.

Changes to NetBSD/amigappc 1.6

• Integrated Adam Ciarcinskis first version of interrupt support. [is 20010218]
• powerpc: add compat_linux(8) to macppc, ofppc, prep, bebox, sandpoint and amigappc. [manu 20010407]
• powerpc: New pmap module added for MPC6xx PowerPC CPUs. Move MPC6xx specific files to their own directory. [matt 20010606]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-amigappc.

Changes to NetBSD/arc 1.6

• obtain secondary cache size from ARC firmware, to support NEC Express RISCserver. by Bob Meader. [soda 20010613]
• mips: LKM's work for mips. [simonb 20011006]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-arc.

Changes to NetBSD/arm26 1.6

• ea(4) now aligns payloads of incoming packets, fixing many bugs. [bjh21 20000722]
• support for "Unix" backplanes (with interrupt masking) via unixbp(4). [bjh21 20001209]
• New eh(4) driver for older i-cubed EtherLan cards. [bjh21 20001220]
• randomize statclock periods. [bjh21 20010416]
• arm: Changes made to libc & csu, support added to ld.elf_so to support common ELF shared libraries for both armv2/armv4+ [matt 20010716]
• A new bootloader, boot26(8), written in C and with support for gzipped kernels. [bjh21 20010728]
• Add eca(4) driver to support Archimedes Econet modules. [bjh21 20010910]
• gdb(1) now works. [bjh21 20011025]
• arm: system calls now use SWIs in our officially-assigned range. [bjh21 20020210]
• arm: Add support for the Intel i80321 I/O Processor (XScale core). [thorpej 20020327]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-arm26.

Changes to NetBSD/arm32 1.6

• Wrote and imported a new bootloader for the Acorn machines and derivatives including RiscPC,A7000,RC7500 featuring RISC OS version independence and relocating before running the kernel. [reinoud 20010218]
• vidcvideo0 renamed to vidcconsole to aid wscons transition [reinoud 20010221]
• ea(4) and eb(4) now use MI seeq8005 driver. [bjh21 20010405]
• arm: Changes made to libc & csu, support added to ld.elf_so to support common ELF shared libraries for both armv2/armv4+ [matt 20010716]
• arm: system calls now use SWIs in our officially-assigned range. [bjh21 20020210]
• arm: Add support for the Intel i80321 I/O Processor (XScale core). [thorpej 20020327]
• Reworked a lot of the arm32 pmap between 1.5 to 1.6. This has included work to improved cache consistency, improve performance and generally make the code more readable. Still lots of room to improve though. [thorpej,rearnsha,chris 20020413]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-arm32.

Changes to NetBSD/atari 1.6

• m68k: All m68k-based ports now share a common kernel syscall() function. [scw 20001219]
• m68k: Switched all OBJECT_FMT=elf m68k ports to new-toolchain. [scw 20011216]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-atari.

Changes to NetBSD/bebox 1.6

• powerpc: add compat_linux(8) to macppc, ofppc, prep, bebox, sandpoint and amigappc. [manu 20010407]
• powerpc: New pmap module added for MPC6xx PowerPC CPUs. Move MPC6xx specific files to their own directory. [matt 20010606]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-bebox.

Changes to NetBSD/cats 1.6

• arm: Changes made to libc & csu, support added to ld.elf_so to support common ELF shared libraries for both armv2/armv4+ [matt 20010716]
• arm: system calls now use SWIs in our officially-assigned range. [bjh21 20020210]
• arm: Add support for the Intel i80321 I/O Processor (XScale core). [thorpej 20020327]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-cats.

Changes to NetBSD/cesfic 1.6

• m68k: All m68k-based ports now share a common kernel syscall() function. [scw 20001219]
• m68k: Switched all OBJECT_FMT=elf m68k ports to new-toolchain. [scw 20011216]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-cesfic.

Changes to NetBSD/cobalt 1.6

• mips: LKM's work for mips. [simonb 20011006]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-cobalt.

Changes to NetBSD/dreamcast 1.6

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

Changes to NetBSD/evbarm 1.6

• arm: Changes made to libc & csu, support added to ld.elf_so to support common ELF shared libraries for both armv2/armv4+ [matt 20010716]
• arm: system calls now use SWIs in our officially-assigned range. [bjh21 20020210]
• Added gzboot, for booting gzip'd kernels (possibly containing ramdisk images) from flash. [thorpej 20020224]
• arm: Add support for the Intel i80321 I/O Processor (XScale core). [thorpej 20020327]
• Add support for the Intel IQ80321 eval board for the i80321 I/O Processor. [thorpej 20020327]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbarm.

Changes to NetBSD/evbmips 1.6

• mips: LKM's work for mips. [simonb 20011006]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbmips.

Changes to NetBSD/evbsh3 1.6

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

Changes to NetBSD/hp300 1.6

• m68k: All m68k-based ports now share a common kernel syscall() function. [scw 20001219]
• Switch to using ELF binary format by default. [simonb 20010106]
• new hil(4) attachment making it an optional component of the kernel [gmcgarry 20011017]
• new rtc(4) attachment (mandatory) for the real-time clock [gmcgarry 20011017]
• add support for the generic softintr(9) API. [gmcgarry 20011208]
• new console attachment interface [gmcgarry 20011214]
• m68k: Switched all OBJECT_FMT=elf m68k ports to new-toolchain. [scw 20011216]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-hp300.

Changes to NetBSD/hp700 1.6

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

Changes to NetBSD/hpcarm 1.6

• initial import of hpcarm port, for StrongARM-based WinCE machines. [ichiro 20010220]
• Add support for PCIC of JORNADA720 [toshii 20010523]
• Add support for PCIC of iPAQ [ichiro 20010715]
• arm: Changes made to libc & csu, support added to ld.elf_so to support common ELF shared libraries for both armv2/armv4+ [matt 20010716]
• arm: system calls now use SWIs in our officially-assigned range. [bjh21 20020210]
• arm: Add support for the Intel i80321 I/O Processor (XScale core). [thorpej 20020327]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcarm.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcmips 1.6

• mips: LKM's work for mips. [simonb 20011006]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcmips.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcsh 1.6

• initial import of hpcsh port, for SH3-based WinCE machines. [itojun 20010117]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcsh.

Changes to NetBSD/i386 1.6

• Add support to the bootblocks for booting off RAIDframe RAID1 mirrors (even though installboot(8) can't install them onto a RAID1 mirror yet). [lukem 20001030]
• bump maximum partition number to 16 [tron 20010102]
• remove DIAGNOSTIC option from GENERIC kernels and create a GENERIC_DIAGNOSTIC kernel [fvdl 20010422]
• g/c COMPAT_OLDBOOT from bootblocks [jdolecek 20010601]
• add systems calls to get/set MTRRs. [fvdl 20010910]
• add sysinst and kern set bits to support installation on IBM PS/2 [jdolecek 20010913]
• Use new __HAVE_PTRACE_MACHDEP and __HAVE_PROCFS_MACHDEP to export XMM (standard FP + SSE/SSE2) registers to ptrace(2) and procfs. [thorpej 20011205]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-i386.

Changes to NetBSD/luna68k 1.6

• m68k: All m68k-based ports now share a common kernel syscall() function. [scw 20001219]
• m68k: Switched all OBJECT_FMT=elf m68k ports to new-toolchain. [scw 20011216]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-luna68k.

Changes to NetBSD/mac68k 1.6

• m68k: All m68k-based ports now share a common kernel syscall() function. [scw 20001219]
• m68k: Switched all OBJECT_FMT=elf m68k ports to new-toolchain. [scw 20011216]
• Switch to using ELF binary format by default. [shiba 20020325]
• move to sysinst as the preferred method of installation. [scottr 20020629]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-mac68k.

Changes to NetBSD/macppc 1.6

• powerpc: add compat_linux(8) to macppc, ofppc, prep, bebox, sandpoint and amigappc. [manu 20010407]
• Support AirMac wavelan card. [tsubai 20010516]
• Honour RTC_OFFSET. [wiz 20010528]
• powerpc: New pmap module added for MPC6xx PowerPC CPUs. Move MPC6xx specific files to their own directory. [matt 20010606]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-macppc.

Changes to NetBSD/mipsco 1.6

• mips: LKM's work for mips. [simonb 20011006]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-mipsco.

Changes to NetBSD/mmeye 1.6

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

Changes to NetBSD/mvme68k 1.6

• Support for VMEbus slave mode added to mvme147 and mvme167. [scw 20000820]
• Added support for MVME162-LX 200/300 series of boards. [scw 20000906]
• Added support for MVME-172 and MVME-177 m68060-based boards. [scw 20001120]
• Native object file format changed to ELF, using gas.new and ld.new. [scw 20001207]
• m68k: All m68k-based ports now share a common kernel syscall() function. [scw 20001219]
• intrcnt/intrnames deprecated in favour of generic evcnt(9) interface. [scw 20010531]
• replace simulated software interrupts with h/w assisted software interrupts. [scw 20010706]
• m68k: Switched all OBJECT_FMT=elf m68k ports to new-toolchain. [scw 20011216]
• Added mvme68k-specific support for sysinst. [scw 20020324]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-mvme68k.

Changes to NetBSD/mvmeppc 1.6

• powerpc: add compat_linux(8) to macppc, ofppc, prep, bebox, sandpoint and amigappc. [manu 20010407]
• powerpc: New pmap module added for MPC6xx PowerPC CPUs. Move MPC6xx specific files to their own directory. [matt 20010606]
• New NetBSD port to Motorola MVMEPPC boards. [scw 20020227]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-mvmeppc.

Changes to NetBSD/netwinder 1.6

• arm: Changes made to libc & csu, support added to ld.elf_so to support common ELF shared libraries for both armv2/armv4+ [matt 20010716]
• arm: system calls now use SWIs in our officially-assigned range. [bjh21 20020210]
• arm: Add support for the Intel i80321 I/O Processor (XScale core). [thorpej 20020327]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-netwinder.

Changes to NetBSD/news68k 1.6

• m68k: All m68k-based ports now share a common kernel syscall() function. [scw 20001219]
• Switch to using ELF binary format by default. [tsutsui 20010319]
• m68k: Switched all OBJECT_FMT=elf m68k ports to new-toolchain. [scw 20011216]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-news68k.

Changes to NetBSD/newsmips 1.6

• add support for tulip based 100BaseTX card: NWB-5852A. [onoe 20001012]
• mips: LKM's work for mips. [simonb 20011006]
• Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20020316]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-newsmips.

Changes to NetBSD/next68k 1.6

• m68k: All m68k-based ports now share a common kernel syscall() function. [scw 20001219]
• m68k: Switched all OBJECT_FMT=elf m68k ports to new-toolchain. [scw 20011216]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-next68k.

Changes to NetBSD/ofppc 1.6

• powerpc: add compat_linux(8) to macppc, ofppc, prep, bebox, sandpoint and amigappc. [manu 20010407]
• powerpc: New pmap module added for MPC6xx PowerPC CPUs. Move MPC6xx specific files to their own directory. [matt 20010606]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-ofppc.

Changes to NetBSD/pc532 1.6

• Add support for device_register() and nuke dk_establish(). [simonb 20011129]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-pc532.

Changes to NetBSD/playstation2 1.6

• mips: LKM's work for mips. [simonb 20011006]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-playstation2.

Changes to NetBSD/pmax 1.6

• MI TCDS option cards work. [mrg 20010101]
• has GENERIC_SOFT_INTERRUPTS. [nisimura 20010822]
• Use PROM bitmap to determine available memory, and use multiple memory segments if present. [mhitch 20010824]
• switch to MI SCSI. [simonb 20010826]
• mips: LKM's work for mips. [simonb 20011006]
• add two-stage network boot loader [gmcgarry 20020225]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-pmax.

Changes to NetBSD/prep 1.6

• powerpc: add compat_linux(8) to macppc, ofppc, prep, bebox, sandpoint and amigappc. [manu 20010407]
• powerpc: New pmap module added for MPC6xx PowerPC CPUs. Move MPC6xx specific files to their own directory. [matt 20010606]
• support direct-mapped PCI configuration space. [kleink 20020224]
• add ISA attachment for MI mk48txx driver. [kleink 20020225]
• support systems based on Motorola Ultra Plus and Ultra 60x boards. [kleink 20020226]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-prep.

Changes to NetBSD/sandpoint 1.6

• powerpc: add compat_linux(8) to macppc, ofppc, prep, bebox, sandpoint and amigappc. [manu 20010407]
• powerpc: New pmap module added for MPC6xx PowerPC CPUs. Move MPC6xx specific files to their own directory. [matt 20010606]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sandpoint.

Changes to NetBSD/sbmips 1.6

• mips: LKM's work for mips. [simonb 20011006]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sbmips.

Changes to NetBSD/sgimips 1.6

• If `OSLoadOptions' variable in ARCS is set to `auto', boot straight to multiuser mode. [rafal 20010922]
• mips: LKM's work for mips. [simonb 20011006]
• IRIX binary compatibility option available [manu 20020315]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sgimips.

Changes to NetBSD/shark 1.6

• arm: Changes made to libc & csu, support added to ld.elf_so to support common ELF shared libraries for both armv2/armv4+ [matt 20010716]
• arm: system calls now use SWIs in our officially-assigned range. [bjh21 20020210]
• arm: Add support for the Intel i80321 I/O Processor (XScale core). [thorpej 20020327]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-shark.

Changes to NetBSD/sparc 1.6

• the sun4/400 class of machines (using a more elaborate 3-level MMU) is finally supported [pk 20000621]
• include a 32-bit sun4u kernel. [mrg 20010304]
• implement MP DDB. [mrg 20010318]
• make SMP inter-processor-interrupts work. [mrg 20010608]
• Add support for the generic softintr(9) API. [mrg 20010927]
• the nell driver (stp4020 sbus to pcmcia bridge) is working for all 8bit only cards (endianess issues and problems with the sparc bus_spac_{read,write}_* implementation need to be resolved to support 16bit cards) [martin 20020311]
• enable NFS_BOOT_DHCP in the GENERIC and INSTALL kernels, and try bootp before bootparams in boot.net. [lukem 20020515]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sparc.

Changes to NetBSD/sparc64 1.6

• sbus ethernet devices (LANCE & HME) now work. Fixes from Andrei Petrov <and@genesyslab.com>. [mrg 20001025]
• gcc now generates 32 bit code with `-m32' [mrg 20010830]
• Work around many GCC building the tree. [mrg 20000918]
• make COMPAT_SUNOS work on the 64-bit kernel. [mrg 20010202]
• LKM's work for sparc64. [mrg 20010225]
• E250 support seems to work. [mrg 20010306]
• make sunos32, svr4_32 & netbsd32 compat & exec modules work as LKM's. [mrg 20010607]
• Support non-faulting loads (which gcc never generates anyway) and new memset/memcpy routines that use VIS instructions. [eeh 20010805]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sparc64.

Changes to NetBSD/sun2 1.6

• m68k: All m68k-based ports now share a common kernel syscall() function. [scw 20001219]
• New ec(4) driver for the old 3Com 3c400 Multibus Ethernet card. [fredette 20010816]
• m68k: Switched all OBJECT_FMT=elf m68k ports to new-toolchain. [scw 20011216]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sun2.

Changes to NetBSD/sun3 1.6

• m68k: All m68k-based ports now share a common kernel syscall() function. [scw 20001219]
• Switch to using ELF binary format by default. [chs 20010222]
• m68k: Switched all OBJECT_FMT=elf m68k ports to new-toolchain. [scw 20011216]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-sun3.

Changes to NetBSD/vax 1.6

• ld.elf_so can now load and run dynamically linked VAX ELF programs. [matt 20000714]
• Added support for MicroVAX 3100m90, MicroVAX 3100m95, VAX 4000/100, VAX 4000/105A, VAX 4000/108, VAX 4000/400, VAX 4000/500 and VAX 4000/600. From Michael Kukat. [ragge 20010204]
• Added support for the 400/705A, from Michael Kukat. [ragge 20010501]
• Support for the Interlan NI1010 Ethernet interface and the DEC DDCMP DMC-11/DMR-11 interface [ragge 20010506]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-vax.

Changes to NetBSD/walnut 1.6

• powerpc: add compat_linux(8) to macppc, ofppc, prep, bebox, sandpoint and amigappc. [manu 20010407]
• powerpc: New pmap module added for MPC6xx PowerPC CPUs. Move MPC6xx specific files to their own directory. [matt 20010606]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-walnut.

Changes to NetBSD/x68k 1.6

• m68k: All m68k-based ports now share a common kernel syscall() function. [scw 20001219]
• Add the voice synthesizer driver. Based on the code written by Tetsuya Isaki <isaki@par.odn.ne.jp>. [minoura 20010502]
• Add support of an ethernet part of Nereid. [isaki 20011111]
• m68k: Switched all OBJECT_FMT=elf m68k ports to new-toolchain. [scw 20011216]
• Switch to using ELF binary format by default. [minoura 20011224]
• Non port specific changes that may affect port-x68k.

Non port-specific changes (top)

/etc/ifconfig.xxn

• now able to take shell script fragment on lines start with "!". [itojun 20010112]

/etc/postinstall

• Added; check for or fix configuration changes that have occurred in NetBSD. [lukem 20020426]

/etc/security

• add check_pkgs option to police the installed pkgs list in the same manner as the /etc/changelist stuff. [atatat