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==Changes between 4.0 and 4.1-beta1==
(unreleased)

; general : added auto-loading of ata_legacy.ko if no other ATA drivers are loaded. That supports some (more) legacy boards out-of-the-box. (Can be disabled by adding "NOLEGACY" on the kernel command line.)
: avoid loading packages twice.
: replace old mail script with busybox sendmail. It allows user authentication, provding a FQDN and connecting via SSL/TLS (untested)and is a lot smaller. (fixes Trac ticket #53)
; kernel : updated to version 2.6.35.13
: including a kernel review to remove useless options/modules from different kernels/images (still under construction)
: added modules for some USB-to-Ethernet adaptors: asix.ko, kaweth.ko, pegasus.ko, rtl8150.ko
: Fixed link state flood in syslog for r6040 (kernel bug #29122)
; shorewall : updated to version 4.4.20.3, closes also Trac ticket #44
; openssh : updated to version 5.8p1
; openvpn : updated to version 2.2.0
; zlib : updated to version 1.2.5
; binutils : updated to version 2.21 for gcc 4.6.0 (e.g. on Fedora 15), closes also Trac ticket #49
; keepalived : updated to version 1.2.2 
; nttcp : the binary has been long around for tcp performance tests - now packaged. Closes Trac ticket #28
; at : compiles without the need of (/usr/bin/)sendmail on build host.
; igb : updated Intel Gigabit drivers to 3.0.22
; bind : add new package ''bind''
; openswan: updated to version 2.6.33
; haserl : updated to version 0.9.29
; uclibc : enabled WCHAR (wide character) support
; mysql : added _r (reeentrant) library to libmysql.lrp
; openldap : added OpenLDAP 2.4.25 client library, libldap.lrp
; radius : replaced Cistron RADIUS 1.6.8 with FreeRADIUS 2.1.10. Closes Trac ticket #43
; dibbler-server : new Package dibbler-server.lrp which implements a DHCPv6 server
; webconf : updated webconf to version 1.2, which accommodates changes for haserl-0.9.x, a GUI for ping, traceroute and reboot and a javascript framework for tooltips.
; netsnmp : add support for lmsensors
; busybox : enabled 'nice' command (required for Asterisk) and also 'cpio' command (fixes Trac ticket #26)
; isolinux : now forcibly loads floppy & i2c-core Modules in case floppy drive is not auto-detected (fixes Trac ticket #48)
; radvd : updated to latest upstream version 1.8
; etc : fix inetd start/stop

==Changes between 4.0 and 4.0.1==
(released 9 July 2011)
; general (backported from 4.1): added auto-loading of ata_legacy.ko if no other ATA drivers are loaded. That supports some (more) legacy boards out-of-the-box. (Can be disabled by adding "NOLEGACY" on the kernel command line.)
: avoid loading packages twice.
; webconf : fixing various issues - thanks to ijabott, closes Trac tickets #50, #51 and #52
; hdsupp : added file /usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin
; tor : updated to version 0.2.1.30
; hash shaper : fixed bug crash on initialization more than 9 networks up to /24 width
; kernel : added modules for some USB-to-Ethernet adaptors: asix.ko, kaweth.ko, pegasus.ko, rtl8150.ko
; isolinux : now forcibly loads floppy & i2c-core Modules in case floppy drive is not auto-detected (fixes Trac ticket #48)

==Changes between 4.0-rc1 and 4.0==
(released 15 May 2011)

; buildimage : remove verbose=1 from kernel commandline - while it is useful during testing, it shouldn't be necesssary in a stable version. Removing debug output is another (small) step to minimize the boot time of a LEAF box. Fixes Trac ticket #12
; openswan : added RCDLINKS to /etc/init.d/ipsec - fixes Trac ticket #42
; kernel : added <tt>lp</tt> and <tt>ppdev</tt> Modules to restore 3.x functionality for p9100 print server - fixes Trac ticket #45
: Fixed booting i486 kernel on Advantech ARK-1310 (+ possible other EVA-X4150 based) boards.
: Changed config for the i486 platform to cover the SCx200 architecture.

==Changes between 4.0-beta3 and 4.0-rc1==
(released 4 April 2011)

; initrd : added <tt>usbhid</tt> Module to all initrd variants for USB keyboard support at first boot
; kernel : (re)add parallel port support
; kernel-i486 : add support for ISA bus 
; busybox : add route applet, adds -r option to netstat, fixes Trac ticket #40
; dnsmasq : updated to version 2.57
; vsftpd : updated to version 2.3.4
; pmacctd : updated to version 0.12.5
; moddb : add bitrev.ko, prerequisite for via-rhine.ko, fixes Trac ticket #38
; devtools : add missing libraries, fixes Trac ticket #37
; openswan : fix ipsec.ko for geode and i486 architecture
; yate : updated to version 3.2.0-1, fixes Trac ticket #35
; dhcpcd : updated to version 5.2.11 and added <code class="filename">/etc/resolv.conf.head</code> & <code class="filename">/etc/resolv.conf.tail</code> files to lrcfg menu
; p9100 : updated to version 0.95
; shorewall-lite, shorewall6-lite, shorewall, shorewall6 : change Options -f to Options -q in /etc/default/shorewall*. Fixes the problem, that changes are not detected by /etc/init.d/shorewall restart. "-q" reduces verbosity to warnings only. You may change it by setting Options="" in /etc/default/shorewall*
; lmsensors : updated to version 3.3.0
; config : enhanced hwdetect script (lrcfg menu "f"), fixes Trac ticket #13
; beep : updated to version 1.3, fixes Trac ticket #39.
; disk images : added ip6tables to default LRP list in leaf.cfg for all disk images, fixes Trac ticket #41

==Changes between 4.0-beta2 and 4.0-beta3==
(released 9 March 2011)

; kernel : updated to version 2.6.35.11
; busybox : enabled ifconfig applet as workaround for openswan et al
; libpcap, tcpdump : patch to the makefile for libpcap to fix a tcpdump bug (Trac ticket #25)
; hdparm (part of hdsupp) : updated to latest upstream version (6.9 -> 9.37)
; pcre : updated to the latest upstream version ( 6.7 -> 8.12)
; ebtables : updated to the latest upstream version 2.0.9-2
; lzo : updated to the latest upstream version 2.04
; irqbalance : fix description and homepage
; shorewall, shorewall6, shorewall-lite, shorewall6-lite : fix date format in logs
; config : fix apkg.mergefile (Trac ticket #29)
; libssh2 : new Package, required by '''curl'''
; curl : new Package which is expected to be used by '''asterisk''' and might help with PXE booting
; kmodules : fix wrong permission of /lib/modules in moddb-geode.lrp
; dropbear : updated to latest upstream version 0.53
; openssl : updated to latest upstream version 0.9.8r
; daemontools : fix svscan error (Trac ticket #18)

== Changes between 4.0-beta1 and 4.0-beta2==
(released 23 January 2011)

; general : update syslinux to version 4.03
: new image Bering-uClibc_i486_syslinux_ser (e.g for WRAP boards)
: add UCLIBC_HAS_FULL_RPC and UCLIBC_HAS_REENTRANT_RPC in uClibc config (for NFS server)
: changed syslog-ng.conf to reduce the appearance of log messages in various log files
: bootstrapping into tmpfs for rootfs - enables df -h and spacecheck for rootfs and prevents out-of-memory errors for rootfs (like in Bering-uClibc 3.x)

; busybox : enable mktemp
: enable less
: new upstream version 1.18.2

; initrd : move busybox ntpd configuration files to a seperate package (bbntpd.lrp)

; images : add mawk.lrp to leaf.cfg LRP list (required by iptables)
: add the lwp files for webconf to the images

; buildtool : fix kernel version

; kernel : kernel updated to 2.6.35.10
: enabled kernel panic (& reboot if specified in sysctl.conf) on soft-lockup
: added warnings about hung tasks
: added ESFQ support
: added <tt>pata_sc1200</tt> Module for PC Engines WRAP IDE controller

; shorewall : new upstream version 4.4.15.3
: add missing tcrules config skeleton
: change macro syntax in LEAF default settings to current shorewall layout
: added '''new packages shorewall-lite and shorewall6-lite''' for review and testing

; openssl : new upstream version 0.9.8q

; quagga,zebra,ripd, ospfd, etc. : remove requirement of librt.lrp (lib's already included in initrd)

; ipset : fix requires and help section

; iptables : add mawk.lrp as requirement

; hdsupp : fix /sbin/fdisk
: fix segfault in mke2fs
: new upstream version 1.41.14

; ppp-hsh : modified to work with 2  upstream interfaces (for ex., one - for Internet and one - for local traffic-exchange point or LAN), now incoming traffic is sorted by iptables and then classified by fwmarks (mark 1 - high-priority, mark 2 - IX traffic); outgoing traffic is redirected to IFB (if there is no need of speed differentiation) or shaped on 2 outgoing interfaces separately.

; libevent : upgrade to latest stable upstream version (1.1a -> 1.4.14b) for development of nfs server code (<tt>libevent</tt> is currently only used by <tt>tor</tt> package)

; devtools : new Package <code class="filename">devtools.lrp</code> containing <code class="filename">/bin/ldd</code> and <code class="filename">/usr/bin/strace</code> (probably only of interest to LEAF developers)

; moddb : add libraries for xt_string.ko
: add act_police.ko, cls_flow.ko and sch_tbf.ko required for shorewall traffic shaping

; iproute : add ESFQ support

; pppoesrv : update to new upstream version rp-pppoe 3.10
: add new package for pppoe relay daemon

; portmap : new Package <code class="filename">portmap.lrp</code> containing an ONCRPC Port Mapper daemon required for an NFS Server

; libnfsidmap : new Package <code class="filename">libnfsidmap.lrp</code> containing ID mapping code required for rpc.idmapd (part of NFS Server)

; nfs-utils : new Package <code class="filename">nfs-utils.lrp</code> containing the user-space utilities for the kernel's NFS Server capability. In conjunction with <tt>portmap</tt>, <tt>libnfsidmap</tt> and the relevant kernel Modules (included in <tt>modules.tgz</tt>) this enables Bering-uClibc to act as an NFS v2, v3 or v4 file server

; ethtool : update to new upstream version 2.6.37

; rsync : update to new upstream version 3.0.7

; tor : update to new upstream version 0.2.1.29

; privoxy : update to new upstream version 3.0.17 (adds ipv6 support)

; radvd : update to new upstream version 1.7

; module-init-tools : update to new upstream version 3.12 for compatibility with make 3.82

; dmidecode : update to new upstream version 2.10

; drivers : Linux driver for Intel® 82575/6 and 82580-based network connections using kernel version 2.4.21 through 2.6.x.


== Changes between 3.1 and 4.0-beta1== 
(released 28 November 2010)

; general : updated kernel to 2.6.35.8
: updated uClibc to 0.9.30.3
: updated busybox to 1.17.1 
: added busybox patch to change default modprobe behavior if there are two or more modules that corresponds to one modalias (it'll load module that have longest 'prefix' before first asterisk in it's modalias)
: updated iproute2 to 2.6.35
: used syslog-ng as logger
: updated gcc in build environement to 4.4.5
: updated automake to 1.9.6
: updated autoconf to 2.68
: provides different images optimised for i486, geode and i686
: provides images with vga or serial support

; core scripts/kernel options changes : removed support of paging file
: disk subsystem moved from old ATA/MFM/RLL drivers to new ATA/SATA (SCSI-like)
: root FS migrated from initrd to initramfs; so syst_size option becomes obsolete (initramfs uses up to half of physical memory)
: included automatic module loading by modaliases in init script and in boot-time modprobe script
: added kernel variable KMODULES that specify modules from initrd that must be loaded before autoprobing for modaliases
: added mdev for automatic creation of device nodes in /dev
: added firmware for NICs in <code class="filename">firmware.tgz</code>
: save firmware in <code class="filename">moddb.lrp</code>

; other packages changes : included full-weight perl 5.12.1
: included accel-pptpd 0.8.5 (kernel-mode PPTP client/server)
: included packages for automatically backup system partition and update .lrp packages if fresh ones are present on update server
: replaced 6wall with (perl-based) Shorewall6
: added igmpproxy.lrp, libnl.lrp

; ppp : included ifb-based shaper for PPP connections (for outgoing traffic)
: added patch for pppd for enabling mppe-128 encryption (allow-mppe-128 instead of require-mppe-128) - that will help to accept both pap/chap/mschap and mschapv2 authentication
: pppoe-discovery added

; busybox : added ntpd and traceroute applet, replacing openntpd.lrp and traceroute.lrp

; package updates : iptables to 1.4.9.1
: quagga to 0.99.17
: hostapd to 0.7.3
: net-snmp to 5.4.3
: shorewall to (perl-based) 4.4.14
: ipvsadmin to 1.25
: kismet to 2010-07-R1
: mysql to 5.0.91
: elvis to 1.4-22
: bash to 3.2.48
: tcpdump to 4.1.1
: libpcap to 1.1.1
: keepalived to 1.1.20
: dhcpcd to 4.0.15
: linux-atm to 2.5.1
: vsftpd to 2.2.2
: wpa_supplicant to 0.5.11
: e2fsprogs to 1.41.12
: openvpn to 2.1.3
: lmsensors to 3.2.0 (plus improved auto-detection)
: tinyproxy to 1.8.2
: libtool to 2.4
: e3 to 2.8


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