[syslinux] Syslinux 5.10 released

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 06/04/2013 06:16 PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Finally, Syslinux 5.10 has been released. This release includes a merge
> of the 4.10 development branch, which means that there's a new network
> stack availble, based on the lwIP embedded TCP/IP stack. The jump from
> the previous 5.01 release to 5.10 may be a little confusing, but a new
> network stack is such a large change that it deserved a significant bump
> in the version minor number.
> 
> To use the new stack you'll need to deploy lpxelinux.0. Using
> lpxelinux.0 gets you support for HTTP/FTP out of the box. The legacy
> stack is still available as pxelinux.0.
> 
> Also a number of regressions have been fixed that were introduced in
> Syslinux 5.00. The shortlog appended below shows the changes since
> Syslinux-5.10-pre1 because I've just realised I didn't send an
> announcement for -pre2.
> 
> There are still a number of fairly important bugs that are causing
> people issues and unfortunately I haven't had the time to fix them in
> this release. But they are still on the TODO list.
> 
> ---
> 
> H. Peter Anvin (3):
>       pxe: disentangle the legacy and lwip stacks without #ifdef
>       font: load data as a single block
>       serial: Clean up and abstract handling of serial ports
> 
> Josh Triplett (1):
>       Fix support for Linux kernel images with no protected mode code
> 
> Matt Fleming (12):
>       ldlinux: Always update ConfigName when opening a config file
>       readconfig: Don't display "(null)" labels when hitting TAB
>       Partially revert "pxe: Pass absolute path to pxe_chdir()"
>       ldlinux: Fixup lwip merge botch
>       pxe: Fix compiler warnings and real bug
>       load_linux: update errno before returning
>       linux: Clear up error message
>       font: increment pointer to fontbuf by font height
>       serial: fix SERIAL directive for ports > 0
>       font: write to 'fontbuf', not random memory
>       NEWS: Clarify network stack files
>       NEWS: Mention noteworthy changes in 5.10
> 

Nice, thanks for this release.

I guess can be a good time, to take again issues with PXE booting with
special dhcp-options 209, 210, that I recently tested with 5.10 (but
using the new stack) and still fails. Sending details again in a new
message if needed...

PS: gpxelinux.0 looks broken, at least on qemu-1.5.0, the machine is
rebooted automatically, too quickly to read what happens. (lpxelinux.0
and pxelinux.0 works)

-- 
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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