Changelog
grub2 (1.99~20101122-1) experimental; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* New Bazaar snapshot. Too many changes to list in full, but some of the
more user-visible ones are as follows:
- GRUB script:
+ Function parameters, "break", "continue", "shift", "setparams",
"return", and "!".
+ "export" command supports multiple variable names.
+ Multi-line quoted strings support.
+ Wildcard expansion.
- sendkey support.
- USB hotunplugging and USB serial support.
- Rename CD-ROM to cd on BIOS.
- Add new --boot-directory option to grub-install, grub-reboot, and
grub-set-default; the old --root-directory option is still accepted
but was often confusing.
- Basic btrfs detection/UUID support (but no file reading yet).
- bash-completion for utilities.
- If a device is listed in device.map, always assume that it is
BIOS-visible rather than using extra layers such as LVM or RAID.
- Add grub-mknetdir script (closes: #550658).
- Remove deprecated "root" command.
- Handle RAID devices containing virtio components.
- GRUB Legacy configuration file support (via grub-menulst2cfg).
- Keyboard layout support (via grub-mklayout and grub-kbdcomp).
- Check generated grub.cfg for syntax errors before saving.
- Pause execution for at most ten seconds if any errors are displayed,
so that the user has a chance to see them.
- Support submenus.
- Write embedding zone using Reed-Solomon, so that it's robust against
being partially overwritten (closes: #550702, #591416, #593347).
- GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY and GRUB_DISABLE_NETBSD_RECOVERY merged
into a single GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY variable.
- Fix loader memory allocation failure (closes: #551627).
- Don't call savedefault on recovery entries (closes: #589325).
- Support triple-indirect blocks on ext2 (closes: #543924).
- Recognise DDF1 fake RAID (closes: #603354).
[ Robert Millan ]
* Use dpkg architecture wildcards.
[ Updated translations ]
* Slovenian (Vanja Cvelbar). Closes: #604003
* Dzongkha (dawa pemo via Tenzin Dendup). Closes: #604102
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:24:56 +0000
