[syslinux] Syslinux 6.03 released
Michael D. Setzer II
mikes at kuentos.guam.net
Tue Oct 14 08:11:32 PDT 2014
With the release of 6.03 on October 6th. but page still shows latest as
2013-10-13 : Syslinux 6.02 released.
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project
On 6 Oct 2014 at 9:35, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Date sent: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:35:19 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
To: For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa
<syslinux at zytor.com>
Subject: [syslinux] Syslinux 6.03 released
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have released Syslinux 6.03. It is by and large identical to 6.03-pre20.
>
> I would like to do a short cycle for 6.04, because 64-bit support for
> ext4 has come up as a very high priority. Therefore I do not want to
> stuff too many things into the 6.04 release but hold them for 6.05.
>
> Thanks to Ady for most of the changelog.
>
> Changes in 6.03:
> * chain: Fix chainloading on 6.02 (Raphael S. Carvalho).
> * core: Do not leak the __lowmem and __bss16 macros to modules;
> hide them so modules will not use them.
> * load_linux: Do not use size heuristic for non-relocatable
> kernels, for zImage kernels and for non-Linux kernels.
> * PXELINUX: Fix the SENDCOOKIES feature for HTTP
> (Russel Santillanes).
> * gnu-efi: Add gnu-efi as a submodule.
> * ANSI: Support color tables with more than 256 entries
> (James Buren).
> * EFI: Fix displayed version; add DATE (Gene Cumm)
> * PXELINUX, EFI: Fix bad read of file size over TFTP on EFI64
> (Sylvain Gault).
> * Fix hand over to kernel:
> "Booting kernel failed: Invalid argument" error.
> * ISOLINUX: EDX, LBA values higher than 65535; work around for
> buggy BIOS, where the system would hang, would reboot, or
> would show a "Disk error 01, AX=42" message.
> * core/legacynet: Enable dot quad resolution (Gene Cumm).
> * diag/geodsp improvements (Gene Cumm).
> * DOS: Fix syslinux.com DOS-based installer.
> * Improve gcc 4.3.0 compatibility.
> * syslxint: fix compilation on non-x86 architectures.
> * localboot: Fix "localboot 0x80" and similar cases.
> * Add memset() calls prior to any intcall() and other mem fixes;
> specially relevant for older hardware and/or buggy BIOS.
> * poweroff.c32: Fixes (Gene Cumm).
> * HDT: Fix memory leak in CLI (Felipe Pena).
> * ACPI: Remove memset of buffer; it makes things clearer but
> also prevents some compilation warnings (Erwan Velu).
> * Add manpages for isohybrid, memdiskfind
> (Peter Jones, Gene Cumm).
> * ISOLINUX: Experimental Rock Ridge support (Thomas Schmitt).
> * comapi: Remove the comapi interfaces.
> * EFI: Fixes on PE files and OVMF compatibility
> (Sylvain Gault, Gene Cumm).
> * EFI: Updates and fixes for gnu-efi sub-module
> (Sylvain Gault, Gene Cumm).
> * BIOS: Fix low memory check.
> * Filesystem UUID to SYSAPPEND bit 0x40000 for FAT and ext2
> (Serj Kalichev).
> * Makefiles: Export the firmware type as a cpp variable.
> Additional improvements. Fix "make spotless".
> * core, BIOS: Move __syslinux_shuffler_size to assembly.
> Actually get the shuffler size sanely. Fix booting recent
> Syslinux versions on certain hardware and on certain
> virtualization software (e.g. QEMU 0.11.1, VirtualBox 4.1.x).
> * lua: Upgrade to v.5.2.3 (Ferenc Wágner) and additional fixes.
> * chainload: Fixes to chain.c32 and pxechn.c32.
> * NTFS: Make byte_shift a constant.
> * NTFS: Correct parsing of file runs (Andy Alex).
> * core, BIOS: Correct detection of EDD (Andy Alex).
> * core: Avoid initializing the cache more than once
> (Raphael S. Carvalho).
> * NTFS: Handle fragmented $MFT file (Andy Alex).
> * BIOS: Use int 0x16, ah=0x02 to probe for shift flags. Attempt
> workaround for USB keyboards not responding at boot time.
> * kbd: Getting the keyboard shift state is now a firmware
> method.
> * kbd: Fix force-prompt features.
> * BTRFS: Fix booting on BTRFS.
> * cache, btrfs: Provide a general cached read routine.
> * NTFS: Correct file->offset usage in ntfs_readdir (Andy Alex).
> * New support for UFS/FFS (UFS1/2) (Raphael S. Carvalho).
> * adv: Remove double definition;
> it should fix uses of the ADV, including "--once".
> * memdump: Remove old obsolete COM16 binary.
> * isohybrid: Numerous fixes (Thomas Schmitt).
> * chain.c32: Add an adjustable "strict={0,1,2}" flag, improve
> error reporting (Michal Soltys.)
> * lpxelinux.0: Workaround for various buggy BIOSes (Gene
> Cumm.)
> * PXE: Fix a stack-smashing bug which broke a large number of
> systems.
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