This is a major code restructuring and features release. The biggest changes are support for the ext4 and btrfs filesystems, GPT partition tables, disks larger than 2 TiB, and the ability to list disk contents from the command line.
This release adds support for emulating CD-ROM images from .ISO files using MEMDISK, support for arbitrary screen resolutions in the VESA menu, video mode setting for Multiboot, and future support for PM operating system drivers in MEMDISK. It also adds a number of bugfixes, including fixing the DOS installer for MS-DOS 7.x/8.x and fixing PC-DOS images in MEMDISK.
This release adds some minor new features, including the ability to add overrides to DHCP options in the pxelinux binary, a new version of the Hardware Detection Tool, and some fixes to the Gfxboot module. It also includes some additional workarounds for broken BIOSes.