NEWS: Update for 6.03 release

Thanks to Ady <ady-sf@hotmail.com> for most of this writeup.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6468951..d1a5b2c 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,81 @@ 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 6.03:
+       * chain: Fix chainloading on 6.02 (Raphael S. Carvalho).
+       * core: Do not leak the __lowmem and __bss16 macros to modules;
+         hide them so modules will not use them.
+       * load_linux: Do not use size heuristic for non-relocatable
+         kernels, for zImage kernels and for non-Linux kernels.
+       * PXELINUX: Fix the SENDCOOKIES feature for HTTP
+         (Russel Santillanes).
+       * gnu-efi: Add gnu-efi as a submodule.
+       * ANSI: Support color tables with more than 256 entries
+         (James Buren).
+       * EFI: Fix displayed version; add DATE (Gene Cumm)
+       * PXELINUX, EFI: Fix bad read of file size over TFTP on EFI64
+         (Sylvain Gault).
+       * Fix hand over to kernel:
+         "Booting kernel failed: Invalid argument" error.
+       * ISOLINUX: EDX, LBA values higher than 65535; work around for
+         buggy BIOS, where the system would hang, would reboot, or
+         would show a "Disk error 01, AX=42" message.
+       * core/legacynet: Enable dot quad resolution (Gene Cumm).
+       * diag/geodsp improvements (Gene Cumm).
+       * DOS: Fix syslinux.com DOS-based installer.
+       * Improve gcc 4.3.0 compatibility.
+       * syslxint: fix compilation on non-x86 architectures.
+       * localboot: Fix "localboot 0x80" and similar cases.
+       * Add memset() calls prior to any intcall() and other mem fixes;
+         specially relevant for older hardware and/or buggy BIOS.
+       * poweroff.c32: Fixes (Gene Cumm).
+       * HDT: Fix memory leak in CLI (Felipe Pena).
+       * ACPI: Remove memset of buffer; it makes things clearer but
+         also prevents some compilation warnings (Erwan Velu).
+       * Add manpages for isohybrid, memdiskfind
+         (Peter Jones, Gene Cumm).
+       * ISOLINUX: Experimental Rock Ridge support (Thomas Schmitt).
+       * comapi: Remove the comapi interfaces.
+       * EFI: Fixes on PE files and OVMF compatibility
+         (Sylvain Gault, Gene Cumm).
+       * EFI: Updates and fixes for gnu-efi sub-module
+         (Sylvain Gault, Gene Cumm).
+       * BIOS: Fix low memory check.
+       * Filesystem UUID to SYSAPPEND bit 0x40000 for FAT and ext2
+         (Serj Kalichev).
+       * Makefiles: Export the firmware type as a cpp variable.
+         Additional improvements. Fix "make spotless".
+       * core, BIOS: Move __syslinux_shuffler_size to assembly.
+         Actually get the shuffler size sanely. Fix booting recent
+         Syslinux versions on certain hardware and on certain
+         virtualization software (e.g. QEMU 0.11.1, VirtualBox 4.1.x).
+       * lua: Upgrade to v.5.2.3 (Ferenc Wágner) and additional fixes.
+       * chainload: Fixes to chain.c32 and pxechn.c32.
+       * NTFS: Make byte_shift a constant.
+       * NTFS: Correct parsing of file runs (Andy Alex).
+       * core, BIOS: Correct detection of EDD (Andy Alex).
+       * core: Avoid initializing the cache more than once
+         (Raphael S. Carvalho).
+       * NTFS: Handle fragmented $MFT file (Andy Alex).
+       * BIOS: Use int 0x16, ah=0x02 to probe for shift flags. Attempt
+         workaround for USB keyboards not responding at boot time.
+       * kbd: Getting the keyboard shift state is now a firmware method.
+       * kbd: Fix force-prompt features.
+       * BTRFS: Fix booting on BTRFS.
+       * cache, btrfs: Provide a general cached read routine.
+       * NTFS: Correct file->offset usage in ntfs_readdir (Andy Alex).
+       * New support for UFS/FFS (UFS1/2) (Raphael S. Carvalho).
+       * adv: Remove double definition;
+         it should fix uses of the ADV, including "--once".
+       * memdump: Remove old obsolete COM16 binary.
+       * isohybrid: Numerous fixes (Thomas Schmitt).
+       * chain.c32: Add an adjustable "strict={0,1,2}" flag, improve
+         error reporting (Michal Soltys.)
+       * lpxelinux.0: Workaround for various buggy BIOSes (Gene
+         Cumm.)
+       * PXE: Fix a stack-smashing bug which broke a large number of
+         systems.
+
 Changes in 6.02:
        * efi64: Add support for booting 32-bit kernels.
        * efi: Use the EFI handover protocol when booting kernels if