After two years of development stable release of modular multi-platform download manager 2.04 (GRand Unified Bootloader). GRUB supports a wide range of platforms, including general BIOS PCs, IEEE-1275 platforms (PowerPC/Sparc64 based hardware), EFI systems, RISC-V, MIPS-compatible Loongson 2E processor based hardware, Itanium, ARM, ARM64 and ARCS (SGI), devices using the free CoreBoot package.
All :
- Support for RISC-V architecture;
- Support for Xen PVH virtualization mode (a combination of paravirtualization (PV) for I / O, interrupt handling, boot organization and interaction with equipment, using full virtualization (HVM) to restrict privileged instructions, isolate system calls and virtualize memory page tables);
- Built-in support for UEFI Secure Boot;
- Inclusion in the TPM-driver (Trusted Platform Module) for UEFI;
- Delivery of a new obdisk driver (OpenBoot) for systems with firmware that complies with the Open Firmware specification (IEEE 1275);
- Support for RAID 5 and RAID 6 modes in Btrfs. Support for zstd compression has also been added, but it is presented as experimental and only with static linking;
- Support for PARTUUID (partition identifier in GPT (GUID Partition Tables));
- VLAN support;
- Built-in DHCP support;
- A large number of fixes related to the SPARC, ARM and ARM64 architectures;
- Improved support for Open Firmware (IEEE 1275);
- Support for GCC 8 and 9 compilers;
- Code redesign for integration with ;
- support for the F2FS file system.
Source: opennet.ru