or EXTLINUX apply to that specific program only; other changes apply
to all derivatives.
+Changes in 4.04:
+ * PXELINUX: Fix handling of unqualified DNS names.
+ * PXELINUX: Fix timer bug when PXELINUX might be unloaded
+ (Gene Cumm).
+ * core/writedec.inc: Fix duplicate declaration and overflow
+ (Gene Cumm).
+ * GCC 4.5 fixes.
+ * sample directory: Fix Makefile include (Gene Cumm).
+ * ver.com: New universal DOS/COMBOOT application to display
+ version information (includes DRMK) (Gene Cumm).
+ * rosh.c32: updated; Using getopt() for internal commands to aid
+ parsing options; Fix bugs in ls; add warm reboot and echo
+ (Gene Cumm).
+ * com32: fix a file descriptor leak.
+ * gfxboot.c32: handle TEXT..ENDTEXT; error out on no LABELs
+ found (Sebastian Herbszt).
+ * Fix booting on non-partitioned devices.
+ * MBR, isohybrid: Workaround for a BIOS issue on Acer
+ Travelmate and possibly other machines.
+
+Changes in 4.03:
+ * Don't hang if no configuration file is found.
+ * Better support for booting from MBRs which don't pass
+ handover information.
+ * EXTLINUX: Try to be smarter about finding the partition
+ offset.
+ * chain.c32: support chainloading Dell Real Mode Kernel (Gene
+ Cumm).
+ * chain.c32: fix booting in CHS mode.
+ * rosh.c32 updated (Gene Cumm).
+ * Fix the -s option to the syslinux/extlinux installer (Arwin
+ Vosselman).
+ * isohybrid: fix padding of large images (PJ Pandit).
+
+Changes in 4.02:
+ * SYSLINUX: correctly handle the case where the -d option is
+ specified with a non-absolute path, i.e. "syslinux -d
+ syslinux" instead of "syslinux -d /syslinux".
+ * ISOLINUX: recognize the directory names /boot/syslinux and
+ /syslinux, and the filename syslinux.cfg in addition to the
+ isolinux-specific names. Thus, "syslinux.cfg" is now a
+ generic name, whereas "isolinux.cfg" or "extlinux.conf" is
+ specific to different derivative.
+ * chain.c32: support setting alternate config filename for
+ stage2 of GRUB Legacy (Gert Hulselmans).
+ * whichsys.c32: execute specific command, based on Syslinux
+ bootloader variant (Gert Hulselmans).
+ * lua.c32: a lot of new bindings added to the "syslinux"
+ namespace: VESA, PCI, DMI, kernel loading (Marcel Ritter).
+ * btrfs: print a comprehensive error message if compressed or
+ encrypted files are encountered (neither is currently
+ supported.)
+ * SYSLINUX: mtools installer: honor TMPDIR, error out on disk
+ full.
+ * Handle fallbacks from EDD to CHS, to deal with systems which
+ announce EDD support but don't actually have it.
+ * SYSLINUX: the mtools, DOS and win32 installers now use the new
+ command line options.
+ * PXELINUX: fix the use of IP addresses in TFTP :: or tftp://
+ host syntax.
+ * SYSLINUX: experimental Win64 installer (syslinux64.exe).
+
+Changes in 4.01:
+ * ISOLINUX: fix initialization on systems which don't zero
+ low memory.
+ * SYSLINUX/EXTLINUX: fix handing of disk read retries in
+ EDD mode.
+ * ISOLINUX: change the initialization sequence to avoid
+ problems with certain (old) BIOSes. Special thanks to
+ Helmut Hullen for invaluable debugging support.
+ * ifplop.c32: new module which detects if the PLoP Boot Loader
+ already has booted a CDROM or USB drive (Gert Hulselmans).
+ * Correct a severe memory overwrite bug, triggered primarily
+ when selecting a very long command line in the menu system.
+ * lua.c32: Lua script interpreter, currently experimental
+ (Alexey Zaytsev, Marcel Ritter, Geert Stappers).
+ * PXELINUX: new option IPAPPEND 4 to append the system UUID to
+ the kernel command line.
+ * PXELINUX: display BOOTIF and SYSUUID at startup time, and
+ when Ctrl-N is pressed on the command line.
+
+Changes in 4.00:
+ * Major code base changes; all filesystem rewritten in C.
+ This work was done primarily by Liu Aleaxander (Yuanhan Liu).
+ * EXTLINUX: btrfs and ext4 support. btrfs support was done by
+ Alek Du of Intel.
+ * EXTLINUX is no longer a separate derivative; extlinux and
+ syslinux both install the same loader (ldlinux.sys); for the
+ Linux-based installers the extlinux binary is used for a
+ mounted filesystem; the syslinux binary for an unmounted
+ filesystem.
+ * When loading a new configuration file with the CONFIG
+ command, one can now also specify a new current directory
+ with an APPEND statement.
+ * Full ADV support for Syslinux, to boot-once and MENU SAVE
+ works.
+ * Full support of GPT-partitioned disks, including disks
+ and/or parititions larger than 2 TiB (if supported by BIOS.)
+ * The GPT handover protocol adjusted to the current T13
+ committee draft; see doc/gpt.txt.
+ * HDT: code cleanup, small bugfixes
+ * The "linux" syslinux installer (syslinux-nomtools) now has a
+ command-line syntax closer to the extlinux installer. The
+ mtools, dos and win32 installers will get this new syntax
+ eventually, but it is not implemented yet.
+ * chain.c32: support booting GPT partitions by index, GUID, label.
+ * chain.c32: support booting the Syslinux partition with "fs".
+ * chain.c32: implement gpt.txt hand-over protocol.
+ * chain.c32: support for chainloading Grub stage 2.
+ * PXELINUX: TFTP URL syntax (tftp://) supported even when not
+ running gPXE/gpxelinux.
+ * New ls.c32 module to display the contents of the disk from
+ the command line, and pwd.c32 to display the current
+ directory.
+ * rosh.c32 (read only shell) updated and hopefully usable.
+ * PXELINUX: Support "localboot -1", just like the other
+ derivatives.
+ * gfxboot.com removed in favor of gfxboot.c32.
+ * New MENU HELP statement to display fullscreen help text as a
+ result of a menu selection.
+ * memdiskfind utility that can be used with the phram driver
+ in the Linux kernel to mount a memdisk.
+ * ifcpu.c32: Adding usage when no parameters are given,
+ adding PAE support.
+ * ifcpu.c32, ifcpu64.c32: handle more than one argument per
+ target.
+ * isohybrid: C version which does not require Perl.
+ * New command MENU IMMEDIATE to permit hotkeys to activate
+ immediately without needing Enter.
+ * mdiskchk.com supports a --no-sequential (or -n) option to
+ suppress the classic all-drive-probing heuristic. Useful
+ on BIOSes who crash/hang when certain drive numbers are
+ probed.
+ * ElTorito.Sys DOS driver now scans drive numbers upwards
+ instead of downwards, in order to avoid a fairly common
+ bug on some BIOSes where probing drive 0xFF causes a
+ failure.
+ * NASM 2.03 or later required to build. 2.07 or later
+ recommended.
+
+Changes in 3.86:
+ * chain.c32: fix chainloading the MBR of a hard disk (broken
+ in 3.85).
+ * mboot.c32: report the boot loader name in the information
+ structure.
+ * com32: set argv[0] in a com32 module.
+ * core: add a workaround for a bug in Xen HVM older than
+ version 3.3: disable halt on those platforms.
+ * Fix problems where certain operations in com32 modules would
+ cause the core to believe the system was idle.
+ * MEMDISK: fix MBR detection when used with a DOSEMU header or
+ an offset.
+ * MEMDISK: generate the mBFT checksum correctly.
+
+Changes in 3.85:
+ * gPXELINUX: updated to gPXE 1.0.0. gPXELINUX can now do NBP
+ chainloading, and does not require a second DHCP.
+ * vesamenu.c32: unbreak the default "grey hole" background.
+ * We no longer have a built-in default of "linux auto".
+ Instead, if no DEFAULT or UI statement is found, or the
+ configuration file is missing entirely, we drop to the boot:
+ prompt with an error message (if NOESCAPE is set, we stop
+ with a "boot failed" message; this is also the case for
+ PXELINUX if the configuration file is not found.)
+ * chain.c32: support chainloading Grub4DOS; patch by Gert
+ Hulselmans.
+ * New tool: sysdump.c32, can be used to produce system
+ information for debugging via tftp or ymodem (serial port).
+ * "vga=current" on the Linux command line is now supported.
+ * chain.c32: support for Windows Recovery Console, via the
+ "cmldr=" option.
+ * chain.c32: should now support loading NTLDR from different
+ type media than loaded from.
+ * chain.c32: support chainloading to a FAT/NTFS partition with
+ invalid "hidden sectors" via the "sethidden" option.
+ * memdisk: fix the mBFT ACPI table.
+ * vesamenu.c32: if the image is smaller than the screen, tile
+ it across the whole screen.
+ * mkdiskimage: -s option for producing a sparse image.
+ * vesamenu.c32: support arbitrary resolution setting (beyond
+ BIOS support) on some Intel-based video chipsets. This code
+ is a modified version of the "915resolution" tool by
+ Steve Tomljenovic; your mileage might vary.
+
Changes in 3.84:
* SYSLINUX: make the DOS installer work for MS-DOS 7.x/8.x
(Win9x/ME) again.
resolution other than 640x480.
* chain.c32: add support for loading isolinux.bin.
* chain.c32: make sure to always return to text mode.
+ * eltorito.sys: DOS driver for generic CD-ROMs; by Gary Tong
+ and Bart Lagerweij.
Changes in 3.83:
* PXELINUX: clear memory before handing over to a chainloaded
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