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+IPMIUTIL NEWS 
+
+This project started in October 2001 as part of the Carrier Grade Linux effort.
+It was then known as 'panicsel' ("http://panicsel.sf.net") and included a kernel patch to write a Linux panic event to the IPMI firmware log, as well as utilities.  
+
+This code was first included in MontaVista CGE Linux 2.1 in July 2002.
+The panicsel functionality was included in OSDL CGL 1.0 and 2.0 requirements.
+The kernel panic functionality was included in the OpenIPMI driver for 2.6 Linux kernels, and in the Intel IMB Linux driver v28 and greater.
+
+A Linux rpm and a Windows setup package for ipmiutil is included on 
+the platform CD with Intel carrier-grade servers.
+
+The ipmiutil (or panicsel) rpm is known to be included in the following 
+Linux distributions:
+MontaVista CGE 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, SuSE SLES9, SLES10, RedFlag 5.0
+
+See http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net for binaries, documentation, etc.
+
+In Oct 2001 (0.8.1), started panicsel.
+In Dec 2001 (1.0.0), released with Intel Telecom Linux Technology project
+In July 2002 (1.2.1), released with MontaVista CGE 2.1
+In Jan 2004 (1.4.1), compile flags for Windows 2000 & 2003 support were added.
+In August 2004 (1.4.8), the project was moved from panicsel.sf.net to 
+     ipmiutil.sf.net.  The new name more clearly reflects the purpose of the 
+     project in its current state.  
+In November 2004 (1.5.0), support for IPMI LAN was added using FreeIPMI.
+     The FreeIPMI library includes KCS and IPMI LAN protocols.
+In May 2006 (1.7.0), built-in IPMI LAN support was added.
+In August 2006 (1.7.5), driverless direct I/O support was added, to no longer 
+     depend upon libfreeipmi.so, since ipmilan.c and ipmidir.c replace that 
+     functionality, so the utilities are now more portable.
+In Jan 2007 (1.8.0), two major new features were added:
+     1) The 'ipmiutil' meta-command, which may be more user-friendly for some 
+        users, and maintains the existing syntax for each sub-command.  
+     2) Support for IPMI LAN 2.0 RMCP+ in both Linux and Windows.  Support for 
+        IPMI LAN 1.5 or 2.0 is detected by default, or can be explicitly 
+        specified/forced with the -Flan2 option.
+In Feb 2007 (1.9.2), Linux Serial-Over-Lan console feature was added.
+In Oct 2007 (2.0.0), Windows SOL console and remote soft-shutdown features 
+     were added.
+In Mar 2008 (ipmiutil-2.1.0), the Windows SOL client application was completed.
+In Aug 2008 (ipmiutil-2.2.0), a new function was added to save/restore the BMC 
+     configuration parameters for lan, serial, user, channel, pef, and sol.  
+     The command is "ipmiutil config" for this.  
+In Sep 2008 (2.2.1), support for the Microsoft IPMI driver was added.
+In Nov 2008 (2.3.0), support for the Sun Solaris bmc driver was added.
+In Mar 2009 (2.3.5), support for the FreeBSD OS was added.
+In Oct 2009 (2.5.0), added several new features:
+     Full ANSI VT100 emulation for Windows SOL console
+     Two-character escape sequence (~.) for SOL console, adding send-Break.
+     Added canonical output option -c for fru,config,sensor,health,lan
+     Added ipmiutil getevt -r to run specified script when an event occurs
+In Feb 2010 (2.6.0), new subcommand naming scheme:
+     Renamed subcommands to match the meta-command name plus the prefix 'i'. 
+     For instance, 'showsel' is now 'isel' and 'pefconfig' is now 'ilan'.  
+     This may affect some scripts that use the old subcommand shortcuts.
+     Also included some spec file cleanup/standardization.
+     Support added for some CG2100 firmware differences. 
+In Apr 2010 (2.6.2) ifruset was added to set all FRU Product Area fields
+In Jun 2010 (2.6.5) added picmg and firewall functionality
+In Aug 2010 (2.6.8) Fedora 14 version of ipmiutil submitted
+In Sep 2010 (2.6.9) added fwum/hpm functionality, and OEM Fujitsu sensor/sel 
+In Sep 2010 (2.7.0) added sunoen, ekanalyzer, fru_picmg, oem_kontron
+In Sep 2010 (2.7.1) added ppc64, mips64, sparc arch support
+In Nov 2010 (2.7.2) added Debian package support
+In Nov 2010 Fedora 14 released with ipmiutil-2.6.8
+In Dec 2010 (2.7.3) added SuperMicro OEM functions
+In Mar 2011 OpenSuSE 11.4 released with ipmituil-2.7.2
+In May 2011 (2.7.6) added VLAN support and WIN64 fixes
+In Sep 2011 (2.7.8) added Dell OEM functions, PICMG 2.3, IPv6, systemd, tsol
+In Oct 2011 (2.7.9) support Wind River and ARM cross-compile, Intel S2600
+In Dec 2011 (2.8.0) added DCMI 1.1 commands, devel pkg, MSI package
+In Feb 2012 (2.8.1) added Quanta S99Q functions, Dell fixes, Intel ME fixes
+