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+Version 3.2 (Wed Sep 14 2018)
+ - [COMPATIBILITY] The UUID is now displayed using lowercase letters, per
+ RFC 4122 (#53569). You must ensure that any code parsing it is
+ case-insensitive.
+ - Support for SMBIOS 3.2.0. This includes new processor names, new socket
+ and port connector types, new system slot state and property, and support
+ for non-volatile memory (NVDIMM).
+ - Support for Redfish management controllers.
+ - A new command line option to query a specific structure by its handle.
+ - A new command line option to query the system family string.
+ - Support for 3 ThinkPad-specific structures (patch #9642).
+ - Support for HPE's new company name.
+ - Support UEFI on FreeBSD.
+ - Important bug fixes:
+ Fix firmware version of TPM device
+ Fix the HPE UEFI feature flag check
+ - (biosdecode) A new command line option to fully decode PIR information
+ (support request #109339).
+
+Version 3.1 (Tue May 23 2017)
+ - Support for SMBIOS 3.1.0 and 3.1.1. This includes new chassis types, new
+ processor family names, new processor family upgrade names, and new slot
+ types, as well as support of larger BIOS ROM sizes and cache sizes, and a
+ new structure type (43, TPM Device.)
+ - A new command line option to query OEM strings.
+ - All error messages are now printed on stderr (#47274, #48158.)
+ - Several bug fixes related to 64-bit entry points (#50037 and more.)
+ - Important bug fixes:
+ #46176 (Unexpected end of file error)
+ #46066 (Crash with SIGBUS)
+ - Various minor fixes, improvements and cleanups.
+
+Version 3.0 (Thu Sep 03 2015)
+ - Support for SMBIOS 3.0. This includes new chassis types, new
+ processor family names, new processor family upgrade names, new slot
+ types, and new memory device types.
+ - Support for the new 64-bit entry point (_SM3_) defined in SMBIOS 3.0.
+ - Support for the new kernel interface (as of Linux v4.2) as an
+ alternative to relying /dev/mem to access the entry point and DMI
+ table.
+ - Decoding of Acer-specific DMI type 170.
+ - Decoding of HP-specific DMI types 212, 219 and 233.
+ - Various minor fixes and output format cleanups.
+
+Version 2.12 (Wed Apr 17 2013)
+ - Support of the SMBIOS 2.8.0 specification.
+
+Version 2.11 (Wed Jan 19 2011)
+ - Support of the SMBIOS 2.7.0 specification:
+ - UEFI support
+ - Virtual machine flags in BIOS characteristics
+ - Limited support for the Management Controller Host Interface
+ - Various fixes that address stability.
+
+Version 2.10 (Sun Nov 23 2008)
+ - Support for Solaris (x86 only, of course).
+ - Possibility to dump the SMBIOS/DMI table to a small binary file
+ (option --dump-bin).
+ - Possibility to read the SMBIOS/DMI table from such binary files
+ (option --from-dump).
+ - Support for SMBIOS 2.6. This includes new chassis types, new
+ processor family names, new processor family upgrade names, bus
+ address for system slots, and a new entry type for on-board devices,
+ amongst many other minor changes.
+ - Support for DMI entry type 31 (Boot integrity services).
+ - Many processor family names taken from the CIM Schema document.
+ - (vpddecode) No longer ask users to report broken records.
+ - (vpddecode) Fix --quiet option.
+
+Version 2.9 (Mon Feb 26 2007)
+ - Support of the SMBIOS 2.5 specification. It adds many enumerated
+ values for recent hardware, as well as CPU core and thread count
+ reporting.
+ - Decoding of 3 HP-specific entries. More vendor-specific entries can
+ be supported later if vendors contribute code or documentation.
+ - Run-time detection of EFI, so that a single binary can support
+ Intel-based Macintosh machines and regular x86 machines.
+ - Better IA-64 support.
+ - Fixes to the decoding of individual fields, including the CPU
+ signature of recent CPU models.
+ - (biosdecode) Support of the FJKEYINF entry point type (for Fujitsu laptops).
+ - (vpddecode) The product name look-up table was dropped. It was unreliable
+ and a burden to maintain.
+ - biosdecode, ownership and vpddecode are no longer built on IA-64.
+
+Version 2.8 (Sat Feb 04 2006)
+ - Option --string has four additional keywords available:
+ system-uuid, chassis-type, processor-family and processor-frequency.
+ These needed additional work because, technically speaking, they are
+ not DMI strings.
+ - IPMI interface type SSIF was added. This is a new interface type
+ defined by IPMI 2.0.
+ - (vpddecode) New --string option, much similar in spirit to
+ dmidecode's. Available keywords are bios-build-id, box-serial-number,
+ motherboard-serial-number, machine-type-model and bios-release-date.
+ - (vpddecode) 9 product names were added to the lookup table.
+ - A few bug fixes, cleanups and minor improvements all around the place.
+
+Version 2.7 (Thu Aug 04 2005)
+ - New command line interface. For example, it is now possible to limit
+ the output of dmidecode to a given DMI type, or to extract a single
+ string from the DMI table. The documentation has been updated
+ accordingly.
+ - The default output of dmidecode was slightly modified to be more
+ easily readable by humans. This might break tools parsing its output.
+ Such tools may benefit from the new command line interface, although
+ this interface shouldn't be considered stable until version 2.8.
+ - (vpddecode) New command line interface.
+ - (vpddecode) 6 product names were added.
+
+Version 2.6 (Mon Feb 28 2005)
+ - Fixes a 2 GB memory limit regression.
+ - Basic command-line handling.
+ - BeOS and Cygwin support.
+
+Version 2.5 (Thu Nov 11 2004)
+ - Code cleanups.
+ - Compatibility fixes.
+ - Documentation updates.
+
+Version 2.4 (Fri Mar 19 2004)
+ - Manual pages added.
+ - (vpddecode) Many improvements.
+ - A few fixes and minor improvements.
+
+Version 2.3 (Sun Oct 19 2003)
+ - Support of x86_64 systems.
+ - Support of systems with 2 GB and more memory.
+ - Loads of bug fixes and corrections.
+ - New tool "vpddecode" added.
+
+Version 2.2 (Fri Aug 08 2003)
+ - Support of IA-64 systems.
+ - Support of IBM and Fujitsu-Siemens laptops.
+ - Many minor bug fixes.
+ - New tool "ownership" added.
+
+Version 2.1 (Tue Jun 10 2003)
+ - Support of the SMBIOS 2.3.4 specification.
+ - Better support of IPMI.
+ - Minor bugs fixed.
+ - Documentation added.