X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=c8022c6949e1ba87bd3ac901e3ce78af37480dac;hb=a08be00983bcac88ab26db32ec280ce5ce190cdf;hp=0897a6496df62d7085d2319cd25018d55859ba95;hpb=607ef05bb0f2f0f063a761c3b12a799de69ae081;p=profile%2Fivi%2Fsyslinux.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0897a64..c8022c6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,42 @@ Starting with 1.47, changes marked with SYSLINUX, PXELINUX, ISOLINUX or EXTLINUX apply to that specific program only; other changes apply to all derivatives. +Changes in 4.06: + * Support for NTFS, by Paulo Alcantara. + * EXTLINUX: more robust device detection, allow user to override. + * kontron_wdt.c32: Add a new module to enable the hardware + watchdog of some Kontron boards. It allows enabling the watchdog + and then booting a given image. + * HDT updated, and now can display images regarding some detection + steps. Add postexec command to run a particular entry after + HDT's execution, add silent option and various fixes. + * ifcpu.c32: Detect hypervisor presence. + * lua.c32: Add dhcp support and support for native Syslinux + functions syslinux_config(), syslinux_ipappend_strings() and + syslinux_reboot(). + * isohybrid: Workaround for various EFI systems. + * pxechn.c32, a PXE NBP chainloader. More versatile alternative + to pxechain.com and resolves the PXELINUX -> WDS issue with + Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2 (Gene Cumm). + * btrfs: Fix booting off of a subvolume. + * com32: Add device tree support. + * SYSLINUX: Fix relative paths for VFAT. The CONFIG and APPEND + directives now support entirely relative paths. + +Changes in 4.05: + * HDT updated, and now supports uploading data to a TFTP + server. + * ISOLINUX: remove the .img file support; it has been broken + on virtually all systems since the beginning, and has been + totally broken since 4.00 at least. Use MEMDISK instead. + * chain.c32: Support chaining ReactOS' FreeLdr (Shao Miller) + * isohybrid: -m option to add support for Mac EFI booting. + * ifmemdsk.c32: Choose boot option based on presence of + MEMDISK. + * Remove bogus distributed mk-lba-img binary. + * The Syslinux project has a new, cool logo by Abi + "ixxvil" Rasheed (doc/logo/*). + Changes in 4.04: * PXELINUX: Fix handling of unqualified DNS names. * PXELINUX: Fix timer bug when PXELINUX might be unloaded @@ -25,6 +61,33 @@ Changes in 4.04: * HDT: Release 0.4.1 to support ACPI parsing, improved mutli-core/cpu reporting * LUA: Updating to 5.1.4-2 + * SYSLINUX: core/diskstart.inc: Reset DS after checksum in case + it isn't 0 (Gene Cumm). + * win64: Script update for additional mingw compiler names + (Gene Cumm). + * diag: New directory for diagnostic-related tools. Add a + handoff MBR/VBR and geometry display images (Gene Cumm). + * MEMDISK: use "mem=" parameter to mark available memory above + this point as reserved (core already does alignment) (Gene Cumm). + * MEMDISK: Additional disk probe checks and debug output + (Shao Miller, Gene Cumm). + * gpxe: add gpxelinuxk.0, based off of undionly.kpxe + new + script (Gene Cumm). + * isohybrid: install the isohdpfx*.bin/isohdppx*.bin files to + make isohybrid images in one step with GNU xorriso. + * PXELINUX: disable a hack that would make localboot work on + some machines, but break just about as many. Some machines + which worked with "localboot 0" in previous versions may + need "localboot -1" in this one. If you have a machine + which requires "localboot -1", a copy of the dmidecode + or sysdump output would be appreciated. + * Include a set of diagnostics by Gene Cumm. + * Fixes for gcc 4.6 and binutils 2.21.51. + * chain.c32: Allow "uuid" as a synonym to "guid". + * Handle directory names starting with .. for vfat and + iso9660. + * New MENU HIDDENKEY command to provide a one-keystroke way to + activate a boot option from a hidden menu intro screen. Changes in 4.03: * Don't hang if no configuration file is found.