- Ensure uniqueness of RAID array numbers even if some elements have a
name (closes: #609804).
- Remove unnecessary brackets from tr arguments (closes: #612564).
- Add grub-mkrescue info documentation (closes: #612585).
- Avoid generating invalid configuration when something that looks like
a Xen hypervisor is present without any Xen kernels (closes: #612898).
- Fix memory alignment when calling 'linux' multiple times on EFI
(closes: #616638).
- Fix grub-install on amd64 EFI systems (closes: #617388).
- Automatically export pager variable (closes: #612995).
- Fix parser error with "time" (closes: #612991).
- Ignore case of bitmap extensions (closes: #611123).
- Skip vmlinux-* on x86 platforms (closes: #536846, #546008).
- Accept old-style Xen kernels (closes: #610428).
- Skip damaged LVM volumes (closes: #544731).
- Handle LVM mirroring (closes: #598441).
- Detect spares and report them as not RAID members (closes: #611561).
- Don't enable localisation unless gfxterm is available (closes:
#604609).
- Fix partitioned RAID support (closes: #595071, #613444).
- Dynamically count the number of lines for the lower banner (closes:
#606494).
- Improve quoting in grub-mkconfig, to support background image file
names containing spaces (closes: #612417).
- Flush BIOS disk devices more accurately (closes: #623124).
* Update branch_embed-sectors.patch:
- Detect sector used by HighPoint RAID controller (closes: #394868).
- Don't check amount of low memory, as reportedly INT 12h can be broken
and if low memory is too low we wouldn't have gotten into
grub_machine_init anyway (closes: #588293, LP: #513528).
- Submenu default support (LP: #691878).
- Fix optimisation-dependent grub-mklayout crash (closes: #609584).
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).
- Bidi and diacritics support.
+ Use terminfo for ieee1275 terminals (closes: #586953).
- Don't use empty grub_device in EFI grub-install (closes: #587838).
- Fix grub-setup core.img comparison when not embedding (thanks, Matt
Kraai and M. Vefa Bicakci; closes: #586621).
