On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:40:05AM -0700, Bruce Edge wrote: > Is there a release notes page for the upcoming 1.99 release? > (Or any other 1.99 specific info either for that matter)
There was only one entry for 1.99 in our NEWS file. I've gone through ChangeLog and fleshed that out a lot. Here's what I have so far. Developers, please do review this, correct anything that's wrong, and add anything important that's missing. Entries are roughly in reverse chronological order, like ChangeLog. * New relocator. Allows for more kernel support and more straightforward loader writing. * Handle USB pendrives exposed as floppies. * New Automake-based build system. * Add `sendkey' command (i386-pc only). * ZFS support in `grub-install' and `grub-mkconfig'. Note: complete functionality requires external ZFS implementation (available from grub-extras). * Support 1.x versions of mdadm metadata. * Fix corruption when reading Reiserfs directory entries. * Bidirectional text and diacritics support. * Skip LVM snapshots. * MIPS Yeeloong firmware port. * Change grub-mkdevicemap to emit /dev/disk/by-id/ names where possible on GNU/Linux. * Add `grub-mkconfig' support for Xen with Linux. * Add `grub-mkconfig' support for initrd images on Fedora 13. * Support >3GiB and <16MiB RAM in i386-qemu. * Add support for Cirrus 5446 and Bochs video cards. * Load more appropriate video drivers automatically in `grub-mkconfig'. * USB improvements, including hotplugging/hotunplugging, hub support, and USB serial support. * AMD Geode CS5536 support. * Extensive updates to the Texinfo documentation. * Add `grub-probe' support for the btrfs filesystem, permitting / to reside on btrfs as long as /boot is on a filesystem natively supported by GRUB. * Handle symbolic links under /dev/mapper on GNU/Linux. * Handle installation across multiple partition table types. * Add `cmostest' command (i386/x86_64 only). * Add support for DM-RAID disk devices on GNU/Linux. * Remove `grub-mkisofs'. `grub-mkrescue' now uses GNU xorriso to build CD images. * `grub-mkrescue' support for EFI, coreboot, and QEMU platforms. * Unify `grub-mkimage' source code across platforms. * Fix VGA (as opposed to VBE) video driver, formerly a terminal driver. * Add menu hotkey support. * Add support for the nilfs2 filesystem. * `grub-probe' and `grub-mkconfig' support for NetBSD. * Support setting a background image in `grub-mkconfig'. * Support multiple terminals in `grub-mkconfig'. * Regexp support. * MIPS multiboot2 support. * Multiboot2 tag support. * sunpc partition table support. * Add a number of new language features to GRUB script: `for', `while', `until', `elif', function parameters, `break', `continue', and `shift'. * Support nested partition tables. GRUB now prefers to name partitions in the form `(hd0,msdos1,bsd1)' rather than `(hd0,1,a)'. * Speed up consecutive hostdisk operations on the same device. * Compile parts of `grub-emu' as modules. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
