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@@ -1,17 +1,14 @@ --*- Text -*- - -Changes between version 1.3 and unreleased - -The calculation of the number of blocks for the floppy drives has been -fixed. - -The check for BSD labels in impossible situations has been removed. -This removes a spurious warning at boot time for extended partitions. - -The keyboard LEDs can be set. - +2013-09-27 +Version 1.4 + +Really too many to list them individually. Highlight include numerous bug and +stability fixes, a Xen port for 32-bit x86 including basic support for Physical +Address Extension (PAE), an initial AHCI driver (SATA hard disks), a new SLAB +memory allocator to replace the previous zone allocator, support for memory +object proxies, access restrictions for x86 I/O ports, support for some PCMCIA +devices based on the pcmcia-cs package. -Changes between version 1.2 and version 1.3 +Version 1.3 The kernel now directly supports "boot scripts" in the form of multiboot module names with the same syntax as the Hurd's `serverboot' program. @@ -31,9 +28,8 @@ it perform better on today's machines. The console supports ANSI escape sequences for colors and attributes. Support for the terminal speeds B57600 and B115200 has been added. - -Changes between version 1.1 and version 1.2 +Version 1.2 Many bug fixes. @@ -57,9 +53,8 @@ former will install only the kernel, and the latter will install only the header files. Print out Mach device names instead of Linux ones. - -Changes between versions 1.0 and 1.1: +Version 1.1 Cross-compilation support is much improved. Any of various popular libc's is now sufficient for building clib-routines.o. |