From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1PeQHL-0006Es-HD for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 05:56:11 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45397 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PeQHI-0006EA-3R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 05:56:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PeQHG-0007A3-BZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 05:56:07 -0500 Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:60071) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PeQHG-00079x-30 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 05:56:06 -0500 Received: by wyj26 with SMTP id 26so4304374wyj.0 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:56:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=UVuyftkpDOGleSLr/8A1xjswrvEfWXPh6M8HeYgr0vw=; b=qp1k3yTK3QVmAsVjcGEmOWN8blcJpzvfeBvRh+hy0YdnO+R2Nf3WNjw4XRSp5rH3oi 2rNfKm7EjkL3+IXA/zNkdcXVIKBYb47VsRiLQM/EX1XzDmF/G/QmRnC3xih8f6fWrY1N ZAuELvYUqUS+VIkgPOVziVt/po5I4MxR1Ians= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=EvkWmS5EoaSjnlW+RtFoL/K6Su43wn0/85KJCTGquDRhPHGF1PHx0JimwT5tfQfXem eXMoc1y1+ajyFhtvoGARlOtCaw3W++XfGZnV64jw8+tYUB4veRWf3E8rjLo0kSS+fLsn BEwX3EdPchxn8QLPChXpxcRe26RRo8HDh7Mrs= Received: by 10.216.8.199 with SMTP id 49mr2128265wer.101.1295175364905; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:56:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (74-230.203-62.cust.bluewin.ch [62.203.230.74]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c54sm1713756wer.30.2011.01.16.02.56.01 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:56:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D32CEB7.2050305@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:55:51 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101226 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig772AE5FB0A8D80C1EE76E5E7" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Cc: Danny Clark , admin@osunix.org, David Miller , Colin Watson , Seth Goldberg Subject: GRUB 1.99~rc1 released. X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:56:09 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig772AE5FB0A8D80C1EE76E5E7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, all I'm proud to announce the release of GNU GRUB version 1.99~rc1. This is a prerelease. I was able to personaly verify that following ports are functional: i386-pc, mipsel-yeeloong (including as firwmare), sparc64-ieee1275, powerpc-ieee1275. Additionaly automated tests were done with qemu. However I can't verify everything myself. So please give it a good test, especially if you have a particular hardware, configuraton or requirement= s. The release file is bigger than it should be because of autogeneration issues. Other than the size these issues have no impact but their fixing is scheduled for next release. The release is scheduled 2 weeks from now. GRUB, also known as the GRand Unified Bootloader, is a modular, portable bootloader that supports a number of platforms, including standard BIOS-based PCs, IEEE-1275 platforms (such as the OLPC and some PowerPC/Sparc64 hardware), coreboot, the free (as in freedom) pre-boot initialization framework, and Yeeloong, free (as in freedom) Loongson-2F-based (MIPS compliant CPU) laptop. This time we also include the ability of GRUB to be firmware on Yeeloong.= This is also the first time we officially include ZFS support. Other major improvements include (extract from NEWS file): * Keyboard layouts support. * Parser for GRUB Legacy configuration files. * Extend `vbeinfo' and `vbetest' commands to non-VBE graphics, as `videoinfo' and `videotest'. * New `lsefisystab', `lssal', and `lsefimmap' commands on EFI platforms. * Support explicit user claim that a device is BIOS-visible. Devices listed in device.map will be assumed to be readable using only BIOS facilities, rather than anything more complex such as LVM or RAID. * New bash-completion script for GRUB utilities. * Use ACPI to shut down if possible. * New `lsacpi' command. * New `--boot-directory' option to `grub-install', `grub-reboot', and `grub-set-default', with clearer semantics than the previous `--root-directory' option. * Rename CD-ROM device to "cd" on BIOS platforms. * Transparent decompression filters. * Simpler PXE image generation. New `grub-mknetdir' utility to generate netboot directory trees. * New relocator. Allows for more kernel support and more straightforward loader writing. * Handle USB pendrives exposed as floppies. * New Automake-based build system. * Add `sendkey' command (i386-pc only). * Support 1.x versions of mdadm metadata. * Fix corruption when reading Reiserfs directory entries. * Bidirectional text and diacritics support. * Change grub-mkdevicemap to emit /dev/disk/by-id/ names where possible on GNU/Linux. * Add `grub-mkconfig' support for Xen with Linux. * Add `grub-mkconfig' support for initrd images on Fedora 13. * Support >3GiB and <16MiB RAM in i386-qemu. * Add support for Cirrus 5446 and Bochs video cards. * Load more appropriate video drivers automatically in `grub-mkconfig'. * USB improvements, including hotplugging/hotunplugging, hub support, and USB serial support. * AMD Geode CS5536 support. * 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. * Add `cmostest' command (i386/x86_64 only). * Add support for DM-RAID disk devices on GNU/Linux. * Remove `grub-mkisofs'. `grub-mkrescue' now uses GNU xorriso to build CD images. * `grub-mkrescue' support for EFI, coreboot, and QEMU platforms. * Unify `grub-mkimage', `grub-setup', and `grub-install' source code across platforms. * Fix VGA (as opposed to VBE) video driver, formerly a terminal driver. * Add menu hotkey support. * Add support for the nilfs2 filesystem. * `grub-probe' and `grub-mkconfig' support for NetBSD. * Support setting a background image in `grub-mkconfig'. * Support multiple terminals in `grub-mkconfig'. * Regexp support. * MIPS multiboot2 support. * Multiboot2 tag support. * sunpc partition table support. * Add a number of new language features to GRUB script: `for', `while', `until', `elif', function parameters, `break', `continue', `shift', multi-line quoted strings, positional parameters with `setparams', `return', filename wildcard expansion, and `!'. * Support nested partition tables. GRUB now prefers to name partitions in the form `(hd0,msdos1,bsd1)' rather than `(hd0,1,a)'. * Speed up consecutive hostdisk operations on the same device. A source tarball for the new release can be found at: http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.99~rc1.tar.gz and its GPG detached signature [*]: http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.99~rc1.tar.gz.sig [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify grub-1.99~rc1.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys E82E4209 and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.67 Automake 1.11.1 GCC 4.4 is the recommended version for building it, although any version starting with 4.1.3 is supported in this release. I hope you enjoy using GRUB as much as we enjoyed developing it. --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig772AE5FB0A8D80C1EE76E5E7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk0yzsAACgkQNak7dOguQglIMgEAk2aItAYsEWEpCs8SWujn2isU tEqJlSnCTrIj5mBvBi8A/j+E3xJc+ycysBfWg1QjyxFKuvY5otMHEy5mDXsuWw4D =mhL6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig772AE5FB0A8D80C1EE76E5E7--