+New in 2.02:
+
+* New/improved filesystem and disk support:
+ * Big-endian UFS1.
+ * Experimental 64-bit ext2 support.
+ * Various fixes for non-512-byte sector devices.
+ * New `proc' filesystem framework, used by LUKS disks.
+ * Fix DM-RAID partition handling.
+ * New `nativedisk' command to switch from firmware to native disk drivers.
+ * Compressed HFS+.
+ * DragonFly BSD labels.
+ * CBFS (coreboot).
+ * Handle partitioned LVM properly.
+ * Use LVM UUIDs whenever possible.
+ * GPT PReP.
+ * New `progress' module that shows progress information while reading
+ files.
+ * ZFS features support.
+ * ZFS LZ4 support.
+ * XFS V5 format support.
+ * LVM RAID1 support.
+
+* New/improved terminal and video support:
+ * Monochrome text (matching `hercules' in GRUB Legacy).
+ * Morse code output using system speaker.
+ * `spkmodem' output (simple data protocol using system speaker).
+ * Handle Japanese special keys.
+ * coreboot framebuffer.
+ * Serial on ARC.
+ * Native vt100 handling for grub-emu, replacing the use of the curses
+ library.
+ * New gfxmenu options for terminal window positioning, theme background
+ image handling, and scrollbar padding, plus `item_pixmap_style' and
+ `highlight_overlay'.
+ * Support several more image types (paletted and greyscale).
+
+* Boot protocol improvements:
+ * Support Apple FAT binaries on non-Apple platforms.
+ * Improve FreeDOS direct loading support compatibility.
+ * Enable `linux16' on all x86 platforms, not just BIOS.
+ * New TrueCrypt ISO loader.
+ * multiboot2 boot-services EFI specification.
+ * multiboot2 EFI memory map specification.
+ * multiboot2 full-file specfication.
+
+* New/improved network support:
+ * New variables `net_default_*' containing properties of the default
+ interface.
+ * Autoload `http' and `tftp' modules if necessary.
+ * Improve TFTP robustness.
+ * Parse `nd' disk names in GRUB Legacy configuration files.
+ * Issue separate DNS queries for IPv4 and IPv6.
+ * Support IPv6 Router Advertisement to configure default router.
+ * New variable net_<interface>_next_server containing next server
+ from BOOTP reply.
+
+* Coreboot improvements:
+ * CBFS support both in on-disk images (loopback) and flash.
+ * Ability to launch another payload from flash or disk
+ * Coreboot framebuffer
+ * CBMEMC support (both logging and inspecting logs)
+ * Command for inspecting coreboot timestamps (`coreboot_boottime').
+ * Command for inspecting coreboot tables (`lscoreboot').
+ * New target default_payload.elf.
+ * Increased maximal core size.
+ * Prefer pmtimer for TSC calibration.
+
+* New/improved platform support:
+ * New `efifwsetup' and `lsefi' commands on EFI platforms.
+ * New `cmosdump' and `cmosset' commands on platforms with CMOS support.
+ * New command `pcidump' for PCI platforms.
+ * Improve opcode parsing in ACPI halt implementation.
+ * Use the TSC as a possible time source on i386-ieee1275.
+ * Merge PowerPC grub-mkrescue implementation with the common one.
+ * Support grub-mkrescue on i386-ieee1275, sparc64, bootinfo machines such
+ as pSeries, and mips-arc.
+ * Make grub-mkrescue better support Apple Intel Macs on CD.
+ * Enable GRUB Legacy configuration file parsing on EFI.
+ * Support halt for Loongson 2E.
+ * ARM U-Boot and EFI ports.
+ * Reorganise platform-dependent code in utilities to avoid #ifdef mess.
+ * AROS and Haiku support for userspace utilities.
+ * Xen PV port.
+ * Fix EFI stack alignment.
+ * ARM64 EFI port.
+ * On Linux, read partition start offsets from sysfs if possible.
+ * New grub-macbless utility, and better integration with Mac firmware in
+ grub-install.
+ * Support Yeeloong 3A.
+ * Add `cpuid --pae' option to detect Physical Address Extension on x86.
+ * Support for USB debug dongles.
+ * Support for *-emu on all platforms (previously only i386/x86_64 worked).
+ * Support *-emu on Windows.
+ * New platform `none' which builds only user level utilities. This is now
+ default if target CPU is not supported.
+ * Support for booting little-endian Linux kernel on powerpc.
+ * Support network boot with Oracle sun4v vnet devices.
+ * Added SAS disks to the IEEE 1275 Open Firmware device list.
+ * Try multiple methods for TSC (timestamp counter) calibration - PIT, pmtimer,
+ EFI Stall. If everything fails, use hardcoded frequency 800MHz.
+ * Support Hyper-V Gen2 platforms which lack PIT for TSC calibration.
+ * Map UEFI Persistent Memory to E820 persistent memory.
+ * New Xen loader on ARM64.
+ * Respect alignment requirement for block device IO buffers on EFI.
+
+* Security:
+ * Add optional facility to enforce that all files read by the core image
+ from disk have a valid detached digital signature.
+
+* Performance:
+ * Avoid costly division operations in many places.
+ * New boot time analysis framework (`./configure --enable-boot-time').
+ * Initialise USB ports in parallel.
+ * New `testspeed' command to test file read speed.
+ * Speed-up gfxterm by storing intermediate results in more compact format.
+ * Lazy LVM/mdraid scan.
+ * Disk hints.
+
+* Scripting:
+ * New `eval' and `tr' commands.
+ * grub-script-check fails on scripts containing no commands.
+
+* Installation and other utility improvements:
+ * Add option to compress files on installation or image creation.
+ * Using grub-reboot no longer requires setting `GRUB_DEFAULT=saved'.
+ * Support probing EFI System Partition (requires os-prober >= 1.58).
+ * Fix inconsistent use of `GRUB_CRYPTODISK_ENABLE' and
+ `GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK'; the latter is now used consistently.
+ * grub-mount handles symbolic links to directories.
+ * Support disabling submenus with `GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU' configuration key
+ for grub-mkconfig.
+ * grub-install, grub-mknetdir, grub-mkrescue, and grub-mkstandalone
+ rewritten in C. They should now work in supported non-Unix-like
+ environments.
+ * Native mingw support.
+ * Ability to install on EFI under windows.
+ * Reorganise timeout handling using new `timeout_style' environment
+ variable and `GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE' configuration key for grub-mkconfig.
+ Menu hotkeys pressed during a hidden timeout now boot the corresponding
+ menu entry immediately.
+ * New `file' command and grub-file utility to check file types.
+ * New syslinux configuration file parser.
+ * Set menu entry class to primary OS name returned by os-prober to display
+ OS specific icon.
+ * On Linux x86 detect EFI word size in grub-install and automatically select
+ correct platform (x86_64-efi or i386-efi) to install. Requires Linux kernel
+ 4.0 or higher.
+
+* Build system:
+ * Remove all uses of nested functions; GRUB no longer requires an
+ executable stack.
+ * Fix documentation build with Texinfo >= 5.1.
+ * More robust and documented cross-compiling support.
+ * Partial clang support for some platforms (experimental).
+ * Partial mingw64 x86_64-efi compile support (highly experimental).
+ * Partial mingw32 i386-* (other than already present i386-pc)
+ compile support (highly experimental).
+ * Support for grub-mkpasswd on Windows.
+ * Eliminate the use of AutoGen. This allowed some performance
+ improvements to the build system.
+ * Remove variable length arrays.
+ * OpenBSD compile and tools support (NetBSD and FreeBSD were already supported).
+ * Fix build with FreeType >= 2.5.1.
+ * Make gentpl.py compatible with Python 3. It now requires at least
+ Python 2.6.
+ * modinfo.sh contains build information now.
+ * Added many new tests to improve robustness.
+ * Target is built without libgcc now. Necessary builtins are reimplemented
+ directly. This removes requirement for target-specific runtime on build
+ system.
+ * emu libusb support removed (was broken and unmaintained).
+ * powerpc64le compile support.
+ * Use fixed timestamp when generating GRUB image for reproducible builds.
+ * Verify at build time that modules contain only supported relocations and their
+ structure matches what boot-time module loader expects.
+ * Do not require fonts on powerpc-ieee1275.
+
+* Revision control moved to git.
+
+New in 2.00:
+
+* Appearance:
+ * Official theme for gfxmenu (starfield)
+ * Menu is organised with submenus.
+ * Better default video mode selection using EDID.
+
+* New platforms:
+ * Itanium port.
+ * Fuloong2F support (including GRUB as firmware)
+ * Fuloong2E support (except GRUB as firmware)
+ * ARCS (SGI machines) port.
+ * qemu -M mips port.
+
+* grub-mount to mount filesystems using GRUB FS drivers and FUSE.
+
+* Changed security default so entries are locked by default if any superuser is
+ defined.
+
+* New drivers:
+ * EHCI.
+ * AHCI.
+ * ESCC serial.
+ * IEEE1275 serial.
+ * EFI serial.
+ * Network stack for BIOS, IEEE1275, EMU and EFI, including TFTP, HTTP and DNS.
+
+* New filesystem, filters and disks formats:
+ * DVH partition map.
+ * Plan9 partition map.
+ * Big-endian mdraid.
+ * Big-endian cpio.
+ * ODC and NEWC cpio.
+ * ExFAT.
+ * Minix3fs.
+ * Big-endian minixfs.
+ * RomFS.
+ * Squash4.
+ * Support non-512B disk blocks.
+ * LUKS and GELI support.
+ * LDM read support (no install yet).
+ * LZOP.
+
+* Improved filesystem and disks formats support:
+ * HFS+ label support.
+ * Improved reiserfs support.
+ * multidevice, mirrored and raidz(2,3) ZFS support.
+ * RAID LVM (internal RAIDing) support.
+ * ZFS crypto support.
+ * ZLE, LZ4 and GZIP on ZFS support.
+ * Support ZFS up to 33.
+ * HFS string is now treated like mac-roman and not UTF-8
+ * HFS mtime support.
+ * Improved AFFS and SFS support.
+ * LZO-compressed btrfs support.
+ * cpio and tar symlinks support.
+ * Better FS detection to reduce false positives.
+
+* New boot protocols:
+ * Ability to load another coreboot payload when on coreboot.
+ * Plan9.
+ * Freedos.
+ * Ntldr/bootmgr (to load Windows bootloader).
+ * chainloader --bpb support to patch FAT or NTFS BPB in memory to correct
+ wrong partition offset.
+ * PXE chainloading support.
+ * Darwin 11 (Mac OS X Lion) protocol support.
+
+* Boot protocol improvements:
+ * Multiple initrd support.
+ * Basic illumos and xnu autoconfig.
+
+* Testing and debugging:
+ * New grub-fstest commands: cat, zfsinfo, testload xnu_uuid
+ * grub-fstest recursive directory compare for quickly checking that
+ a directory is read correctly.
+ * Backtace on crash (if gdb module is loaded, x86 only)
+ * Disk cache statistics gathering.
+ * GDB stub and GDB support script.
+ * "make check" and "make bootcheck" expanded to almost all platforms
+ (except i386-ieee1275, mips-arc, sparc64-ieee1275, ia64-efi and emu)
+ * New `time' command.
+
+* Performance:
+ * Lazy scanning to avoid accessing devices which aren't really used.
+ This avoids boot delay due to slow device scanning.
+ * Use CPU cache when accessing video memory.
+ * Search hints to first try the most likely device when searching for a
+ device with given UUID. This avoids slow scanning in most cases.
+
+* Internationalisation:
+ * Updated to Unicode 6.0.
+ * $"..." syntax for translation in grub scripting language. This allows easy
+ translation of grub.cfg at runtime.
+ * Translations to many languages included in official distribution.
+
+* Scripting:
+ * $grub_cpu and $grub_platform variables for conditioning grub.cfg on platform
+ at runtime.
+ * $feature_* variables to condition scripts on available features.
+ * Use of ids to identify menu entries.
+ * all_video module which is empty but depends on all video modules thus
+ allowing easy loading of all of them.
+
+* Installation:
+ * grub-mknetdir script for easy creation of netbootable GRUB directory.
+ * Itanium and mips support in grub-mkrescue.
+ * grub-install support for all platforms except emu.
+ * PreP partition install support.
+ * No files conflict between flavours (except grub-mkrescue for ppc). This
+ allows easy install of GRUB for several platforms.
+ * grub-mkstandalone script for easy creating of image including all modules
+ for platforms with generous limit on image size.
+ * program-transform-name now functions according to usual conventions.
+ Use --grubdir and --bootdir to get old behaviour.
+
+* ADLER32 and CRC64 support (for XZ and hashsum).
+
+* ofconsole renamed to console
+
+* Experimental support for compiling with Apple toolchain.
+
+* grub-mkdevicemap removed. Now all devices are detected on invocation of
+ any grub utility.
+
New in 1.99:
* Keyboard layouts support.
* New `lsacpi' command.
-* Basic btrfs support (detection and UUID).
+* Btrfs support.
* New `--boot-directory' option to `grub-install', `grub-reboot', and
`grub-set-default', with clearer semantics than the previous
* 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.
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