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Release notes:
- Add support for loading XNU (MacOS X kernel).
- Password protection support.
- Partition manipulation tool.
- Unicode fonts are now used by default.
- Add support for getting the current date and time from CMOS as variables.
- Add support for RAID levels 4,6 and 10.
- update-grub is replaced by grub-mkconfig.
- When booting from PXE, PXE can be used to load files.
- High resolution timer support.
- Image loaders now support IO buffering.
- Use LZMA compression instead of LZO.
- Support for saving the environment from and loading the environment from a file.
- Allow the UUID to be used as device name.
- The `search' command can use UUIDs now.
- Add support for IEEE 1275 on i386.
- Create partmap.lst and use it to automatically load partition map modules.
- grub-mkconfig supports os-prober to add operating systems to the boot menu.
- The ATA driver supports devices bigger than 2 TiB.
- Add support for the UDF, AFS and EXT4 filesystems.
- The ISO9660 filesystem supports the Joliet extension
- Add support for loading kernels of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
- Support for direct access to AT keyboards.
- New utility `grub-fstest'.
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