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Chapter 2. New Features
• 915resolution was added to change the resolution of the 845G, 855GM, 865G, 915G, 915GM, 945G,
945GM, 965G and 965GM chipsets
• Docking station support for Santa Rosa chipsets were added
• Complete iSCSI support was added to autoyast2
• Add support for --dynamic-list, AMDFAM10h, SSE5 and all POWER6 instructions to binutils
• Updated crash to version 4.0-4.8 and increased the number of supported CPUs to 16384
• Added support of dhcpFailOverPeer objects to dhcp
• Allow online resize of root filesystem on Ext3
• Enable krb4 support in evolution
• eDirectory NMAS support was added to FreeRADIUS
• Added optional SSE5 instructions to gcc
• Full RFC3484 (getaddrinfo/IPv6) support, AF_IUCV and support for up to 4096 CPUs added to glibc
• Added 'start this script before' support to insserv
• Added kdump package and YaST2 frontend with support for saving dumps over network and to filter
kdump images.
• When doing a network install, check if the IP address of the machine to be installed is already in use
by another machine. This check can be suppressed with parameter "forceip=1" either on the command
line or in the configuration file.
• Added support for LUKS and LVM over iSCSI to mkinitrd
• New PAM module 'pam_faildelay' was added to change the delay on failure per application
• Added sblim-cim-client, a CIM Client Class Library for Java applications
• Added StrongSwan 4.1.10, an OpenSource IPsec-based VPN Solution for Linux
• Added support for SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader including a YaST2 module for
configuration
• Added audit support to hwclock
• iSNS support was added to the YaST2 iSCSI modules
• Support for bridge devices, ficon devices and VLANs was added to the YaST2 network module
• The default disk label for disks larger than 2 TB is now GPT
• It is now possible to install on NFS as root partition
• The YaST2 storage module is now able to online resize ext3
• Python bindings for YaST2
