dban-1.0.1 stable; urgency=low * Check whether lseek and BLKGETSIZE64 agree about the device size. * Recompiled the kernel and system library with BLOCK_SIZE 512 and BLOCK_SIZE_BITS 9 so that the last odd sector is wiped on disks with odd sector counts. Thanks to Cory Altheide for reporting the problem and verifying the fix. -- Darik Horn Mon, July 15 2003 19:04:16 -0500 dban-1.0.0 stable; urgency=low * Replaced wipe with dwipe. * Changed the rc script to support dwipe. * New feature: Graphical user interface. * New feature: Device selection. * New feature: Partition support. * New feature: Concurrent device wiping. * New feature: Random Gutmann pass ordering. * New feature: Rounds option. * New feature: Options are exposed in the 'syslinux.cfg' file. * New method: DoD 5220-22.M standard wipe. * New method: RCMP TSSIT OPS-II standard wipe. * New method: PRNG Stream wipe. * New verification modes: Off, Last Pass, and All Passes. * Linux 2.4.20 upgrade. * BusyBox 0.60.5 upgrade. * uClibc 0.9.19 upgrade. * SysLinux 2.04 upgrade. -- Darik Horn Mon, May 26 2003 18:24:16 -0500 dban-0.4.0 stable; urgency=low * New feature: Added a quick disk erase before the secure disk wipe. * New feature: Added prng seed file loading. * New feature: Added log file saving. * Busybox 0.60.4 upgrade. * Enabled CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST for Promise IDE controllers. * Enabled CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, the floppy disk driver. * Enabled CONFIG_MSDOS_FS, the MS-DOS filesystem. * Enabled CONFIG_CRAMFS, the compressed rom filesystem. * Enabled CONFIG_TMPFS, the virtual memory filesystem. * Disabled CONFIG_MINIX_FS, the Minix filesystem. * Disabled CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE. * Renamed kernel.bgz to kernel.bzi in the boot filesystem image. * Made sundry changes to the syslinux configuration file. * Removed the ramdisk_size option from the syslinux configuration file. * Made small cosmetic changes to the rc script. * Changed the rc script so that it checks for a floppy drive only once. * Increased the final warning timeout from 10 seconds to 20 seconds. * Ran unix2dos against all text files in the distribution package. * Changed the dd example in the readme file to use a wildcard. * Unbundled the ISO file from the ZIP file. * Tweaked the installation instructions. * Mentioned FreshMeat subscriptions in the readme file. * Added a Microsoft URL file that points to the project homepage. * Added the project homepage url to the warning.txt and about.txt files. * Added grep to test for sanity errors. * Added the /proc/scsi/scsi sanity check. * Added the end-of-rc sanity check. * Added dmesg, tar, gzip, and cp to create log files. * Added dd to load entropy files from a floppy disk into urandom. * Added a memory test to better set the wipe chunk size. * Changed DBAR to DBAN in the install.bat file. * Changed the short 8.3 tilde name to a wildcard in the install.bat file. * Made cosmetic changes to the install.bat file. * Changed the root filesystem from minix to cramfs. * Added the "you may remove the boot media now" message to syslinux. * Added the "please wait" message to the kernel loader. * Enabled large file support in both uClibc and Busybox. -- Darik Horn Tue, Oct 29 2002 20:51:33 -0500 dban-0.3.1 stable; urgency=low * Changed the splash screen * Added syslinux F-key information pages. * Added emphasis to the failure and success messages. * Added a beep loop to the failure function. * Moved all version information to a separate file. * Removed a testing barnacle from the root filesystem. * Added the wipe readme file. * Added the notes file. -- Darik Horn Thu, Sep 19 2002 22:12:03 -0500 dban-0.3.0 stable; urgency=low * linux-2.4.19 update. * Changed root=/dev/rd/0 to root=/dev/ram0. The new kernel will not boot with root=/dev/rd/0, but the /dev/ram0 name now seems to be hardcoded. This violates the DevFS documentation and is probably a kernel bug. * Used full-length file names in the iso image. * Included component license files. -- Darik Horn Fri, Sep 13 2002 21:50:36 -0500 dban-0.2.0 stable; urgency=critical * wipe-2.1.0 upgrade. * uclibc-0.9.15 upgrade. * syslinux-1.76 upgrade. * Removed the I2C kernel option. * Added a serial console comment to the syslinux configuration file. * Made cosmetic changes to the syslinux configuration file. * Changed the build script to use mkdosfs instead of mformat. * Copied the ide.c kernel options to the ide.txt file in the boot image. * Made cosmetic changes to the rc script. * Corrected documentation errors. -- Darik Horn Thu, Sep 12 2002 15:59:20 -0500 dban-0.1.0 stable; urgency=low * First public release. -- Darik Horn Wed, 15 May 2002 01:39:43 -0500