Mini Shell

Version 3.6 (Wed Apr 24 2024)
  - [PORTABILITY] Use -DALIGNMENT_WORKAROUND on arm.
  - [PORTABILITY] Read SMBIOS entry point via kenv on DragonFly BSD.
  - Support for SMBIOS 3.6.0. This includes new memory device types, new
    processor upgrades, and Loongarch support.
  - Support for SMBIOS 3.7.0. This includes new port types, new processor
    upgrades, new slot characteristics and new fields for memory modules.
  - Add bash completion.
  - Decode HPE OEM records 197, 239 and 245.
  - Implement options --list-strings and --list-types.
  - Update HPE OEM records 203, 212, 216, 221, 233, 236, 237, 238 and 242.
  - Update Redfish support.
  - Bug fixes:
    Fix option --from-dump for user root
    Fix enabled slot characteristics not being printed
  - Minor improvements:
    Print slot width on its own line
    Use standard strings for slot width

Version 3.5 (Tue Mar 14 2023)
  - Decode HPE OEM records 216, 224, 230, 238 and 242.
  - Fortify entry point length checks.
  - Add a --no-quirks option.
  - Drop the CPUID exception list.
  - Do not let --dump-bin overwrite an existing file.
  - Ensure /dev/mem is a character device file.
  - Bug fixes:
    Fix segmentation fault in HPE OEM record 240
  - Minor improvements:
    Typo fixes
    Write the whole dump file at once
    Fix a build warning when USE_MMAP isn't set

Version 3.4 (Mon Jun 27 2022)
  - Support for SMBIOS 3.4.0. This includes new memory device types, new
    processor upgrades, new slot types and characteristics, decoding of memory
    module extended speed, new system slot types, new processor characteristics
    and new format of Processor ID.
  - Support for SMBIOS 3.5.0. This includes new processor upgrades, BIOS
    characteristics, new slot characteristics, new on-board device types, new
    pointing device interface types, and a new record type (type 45 -
    Firmware Inventory Information).
  - Decode HPE OEM records 194, 199, 203, 236, 237, 238 and 240.
  - Bug fixes:
    Fix OEM vendor name matching
    Fix ASCII filtering of strings
    Fix crash with option -u
  - Minor improvements:
    Skip details of uninstalled memory modules
    Don't display the raw CPU ID in quiet mode
    Improve the formatting of the manual pages

Version 3.3 (Wed Oct 14 2020)
  - [BUILD] Allow overriding build settings from the environment.
  - [COMPATIBILITY] Document how the UUID fields are interpreted.
  - [PORTABILITY] Don't use memcpy on /dev/mem on arm64.
  - [PORTABILITY] Only scan /dev/mem for entry point on x86.
  - Support for SMBIOS 3.3.0. This includes new processor names, new port
    connector types, and new memory device form factors, types and
    technologies.
  - Add bios-revision, firmware-revision and system-sku-number to -s option.
  - Use the most appropriate unit for cache size.
  - Decode system slot base bus width and peers.
  - Important bug fixes:
    Fix Redfish Hostname print length
    Fix formatting of TPM table output
    Fix System Slot Information for PCIe SSD
    Don't choke on invalid processor voltage
  - Use the most appropriate unit for cache size.

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.