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[ad 20081113] build.sh: Add support for new MAKEVERBOSE levels 3 and 4. [apb 20081113] libfetch: Update to libfetch 2.20. Allow HTTP auth to be provided in URL. [joerg 20081114] module: Make POSIX AIO loadable as a module. [ad 20081114] amd64, i386: Make boot loader autoload a kernel module corresponding to the root file system type. [ad 20081119] module: Make the emulations, exec formats, coredump, NFS, and the NFS server into modules. [ad 20081119] rump(3): Move VFS functionality away from librump to a new library: librumpvfs [pooka 20081119] kernel, libc: Add new ptree (Patricia / RADIX tree) implementation. [matt 20081120] i386: Switch the i386 installation CDs away from RAM disks and instead use the CD-ROM as the root file system. [ad 20081121] i386: Remove most compat and file system options from GENERIC since they are also provided by modules. [ad 20081122] nfs: Avoid noisy nfs_timer/nfs_reply DEBUG output that occurs when the NFS server goes away. [mrg 20081123] compat_osf1(8): Add getpgid, needed for Tru64 4.0g ksh. [njoly 20081124] module: Make PPP compressors modules. [cube 20081125] i386: Make pxeboot(8) understand boot.cfg(5). [ad 20081125] agp(4): Add support for the Intel G45 AGP. [christos 20081129] compat_osf1(8): Fix getdirentries(2). [njoly 20081202] module: Add a couple of sysctl(8) entries, kern.module.autoload and kern.module.verbose. [ad 20081203] module: Add a layerfs module. [ad 20081205] libc: Add fdopendir(3), from Solaris/Linux. [ad 20081205] compat_linux32: Add getresuid() and getresgid() syscalls. [njoly 20081205] ddb(4): Add 'show vmem' and 'show all vmems' commands. [cegger 20081207] re(4): Add support for a 8168C/8111C revision. [alc 20081208] tab(1): Add tabs utility, fixes PR bin/11227. [roy 20081211] httpd(8): Add rc.d script to control httpd daemon. [mishka 20081211] ath(4): Switch from the binary HAL to the open-source HAL released by Sam Leffler. [alc 20081211] compat_linux32: Add clock_nanosleep syscall. [njoly 20081212] boot.cfg(5): Add an option to clear the screen. [christos 20081213] pms(4): Add Elantech multi-touch trackpad support [jmcneill 20081213] sparc: Switch to use wscons. [macallan 20081213] snprintb(3), kprintf(9): Share snprintb(3) among kernel and libutil and make it supersede bitmask_snprintf(9). [christos 20081216] sup(1): Add -M user flag to specify the username to send mail to from the command line. [christos 20081217] malloc(9): Remove MALLOC() and FREE() macros. [cegger 20081217] x68k: pow(4) switches to use MI powerd(8) [isaki 20081220] viaide(4): Add VT8237S Integrated SATA Controller support. [nonaka 20081221] lvm: Add LVM functionality to NetBSD; this is done by dm(4) driver in kernel and lvm2 tools made by RedHat. We use the same well known interface as Linux does for managing LVM. [haad 20081222] gcscaudio(4): Add AMD Geode CS5536 audio driver, from SHIMIZU Ryo. [jmcneill 20081228] mount_cd9660(8): Add nocasetrans option as a synonym for nomaplcase. [christos 20090103] rc.d(8): Add a script for rndctl(8). [apb 20090104] module: Add sysvbfs module. [pooka 20090105] bwi(4): Add a driver for Broadcom AirForce / Apple Airport Extreme wireless network controllers. From Taylor Campbell. [macallan 20090109] rgephy(4): Support for RTL8211C(L) phy. From FreeBSD. [cegger 20090109] rgephy(4): Support for flow control. From OpenBSD. [cegger 20090109] makefs(8): Add support for encoding RISC OS metadata into ISO 9660 filesystems. [bjh21 20090110] time_t, dev_t: Change time_t and dev_t to be 64 bit quantities. Fixed POSIX issues in timeval and timespec. [christos 20090110] make(1): Changes to the way .for loops are processed. [dsl 20090111] openpgpsdk: Initial import of openpgpsdk v0.9. [agc 20090112] age(4): Add a driver for Attensic/Atheros L1 gigabit ethernet. From FreeBSD via OpenBSD. [cegger 20090116] atphy(4): Add a driver for Attensic/Atheros F1 PHY. From FreeBSD via OpenBSD. [cegger 20090116] atf(7): Import 0.6. [jmmv 20090119] msdosfs: The default behaviour when mounting empty filesystems has been changed. Previously, msdosfs would assume the -s flag (short filenames) in this case; now msdosfs will assume the -l flag (long filenames). [jmcneill 20090122] openpgpsdk: Imported openpgpsdk 0.9 library (BSD-licensed) into src/crypto/external. The command-line driver program, openpgp, which is shipped with it has been mostly rewritten to be more user-friendly. [agc 20090123] X11: added support for X11FLAVOUR=xorg for NetBSD/alpha. No support for turbochannel graphic cards yet. [bouyer 20090124] udf, mount_udf(8): add support for session opening/closing on sequential media. Media can be closed on request on unmount by passing the '-c' flag as mount option. [reinoud 20090208] share/mk: Enable -Wsign-compare for $WARNS>=4. [lukem 20090212] tests: Converted the awk, basename, bzip2, config, cut, dirname, grep, gzip, libcrypto, m4, make and sdiff tests to ATF. Initial work from the GSoC 2008 project by Lukasz Strzygowski. [jmmv 20090213] newport(4): Imported and adapted to NetBSD Xorg's xf86-video-newport 0.2.1 driver for SGI's NG1 / Newport graphics boards found mostly in Indys. [macallan 20090213] openssh: Import 5.1. [christos 20090216] amd64, i386: The bootloader has been enhanced to support framebuffer consoles using VESA BIOS extensions. These changes allow the x86 ports to work with the genfb(4) driver, and obsoletes the i386-only vesafb(4) driver. [jmcneill 20090216] i386: The vesafb(4) driver has been retired. [jmcneill 20090218] crime(4): add an Xorg driver for the CRIME rendering engine found in SGI's O2 workstations. [macallan 20090219] tests: Converted some of the kernel tests, including kqueue and ipf, to ATF. Initial work from the GSoC 2008 project by Lukasz Strzygowski. [jmmv 20090220] dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-4.0.11. [roy 20090221] softdep: The soft dependences / soft updates feature of the fast file system (FFS) has been supplanted by meta data journalling (logging). Logging provides better reliability and better performance for most applications. Soft dependencies will no longer be available from NetBSD 6.0 onwards. We encourage users to enable logging on FFS file systems. [ad 20090222] sgimips: build Xorg by default [macallan 20080223] dhcpcd(8): Import dhcpcd-4.0.12. [roy 20090226]