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New in 2.14: * libgcrypt 1.11. * LVM LV integrity and cachevol support. * EROFS support. * GRUB environment block inside the Btrfs header support. * NX support for EFI platforms. * shim loader protocol support. * BLS and UKI support. * Argon2 KDF support. * TPM2 key protector support. * Appended Signature Secure Boot Support for PowerPC. * New option to block command line interface. * Support dates outside of 1901..2038 range. * zstdio decompression support. * EFI code improvements and fixes. * TPM driver fixes. * Filesystems fixes. * CVE and Coverity fixes. * Tests improvements. * Documentation improvements. * ... and tons of other fixes and cleanups... New in 2.12: * GCC 13 support. * clang 14 support. * binutils 2.38 support. * Unification of EFI Linux kernel loader across architectures. * Transition to EFI Linux kernel stub loader for x86 architecture. * Initial support for Boot Loader Interface. * Support for dynamic GRUB runtime memory addition using firmware calls. * PCI and MMIO UARTs support. * SDL2 support. * LoongArch support. * TPM driver fixes. * Many filesystems fixes. * Many CVE and Coverity fixes. * Debugging support improvements. * Tests improvements. * Documentation improvements. * ...and tons of other fixes and cleanups... New in 2.06: * GCC 10 support. * clang 10 support. * SBAT support. * LUKS2 support. * Drop small MBR gap support. * Xen Security Modules (XSM/FLASK) support. * The lockdown mechanism similar to the Linux kernel one. * Disable the os-prober by default. * Many backports of GRUB distros specific patches. * BootHole and BootHole2 fixes. * ...and tons of other fixes and cleanups... New in 2.04: * GCC 8 and 9 support. * Gnulib integration overhaul. * RISC-V support. * Xen PVH support. * Native UEFI secure boot support. * UEFI TPM driver. * New IEEE 1275 obdisk driver. * Btrfs RAID 5 and RIAD 6 support. * PARTUUID support. * VLAN support. * Native DHCP support. * Many ARM and ARM64 fixes. * Many SPARC fixes. * Many IEEE 1275 fixes. * ...and tons of other fixes and cleanups... New in 2.02: * New/improved filesystem and disk support: * Big-endian UFS1. * Experimental 64-bit ext2 support. * Various fixes for non-512-byte sector devices. * New `proc' filesystem framework, used by LUKS disks. * Fix DM-RAID partition handling. * New `nativedisk' command to switch from firmware to native disk drivers. * Compressed HFS+. * DragonFly BSD labels. * CBFS (coreboot). * Handle partitioned LVM properly. * Use LVM UUIDs whenever possible. * GPT PReP. * New `progress' module that shows progress information while reading files. * ZFS features support. * ZFS LZ4 support. * XFS V5 format support. * LVM RAID1 support. * New/improved terminal and video support: * Monochrome text (matching `hercules' in GRUB Legacy). * Morse code output using system speaker. * `spkmodem' output (simple data protocol using system speaker). * Handle Japanese special keys. * coreboot framebuffer. * Serial on ARC. * Native vt100 handling for grub-emu, replacing the use of the curses library. * New gfxmenu options for terminal window positioning, theme background image handling, and scrollbar padding, plus `item_pixmap_style' and `highlight_overlay'. * Support several more image types (paletted and greyscale). * Boot protocol improvements: * Support Apple FAT binaries on non-Apple platforms. * Improve FreeDOS direct loading support compatibility. * Enable `linux16' on all x86 platforms, not just BIOS. * New TrueCrypt ISO loader. * multiboot2 boot-services EFI specification. * multiboot2 EFI memory map specification. * multiboot2 full-file specfication. * New/improved network support: * New variables `net_default_*' containing properties of the default interface. * Autoload `http' and `tftp' modules if necessary. * Improve TFTP robustness. * Parse `nd' disk names in GRUB Legacy configuration files. * Issue separate DNS queries for IPv4 and IPv6. * Support IPv6 Router Advertisement to configure default router. * New variable net_