Release archive

Release notes summary for the version 9.11

Base framework
- Signal-framework refinements
- Binary-size optimizations
Paravirtualized Linux on top of Genode on OKL4
Initial support for the ARM architecture
Operating-system services and libraries
- Packet-streaming interface
- Fully integrated shared-library support
- Light-weight IP stack
- Zero-footprint runtime for Spark/Ada programs
- Port of popular libraries such as Freetype2 and Jpeg
Device drivers
- Support for USB storage
- PS/2 mouse scroll-wheel support
- NIC driver service
Qt4 Webkit
- Support for Jpeg and Freetype2
Applications
- Xvfb integration into Genode on Linux
- Improved configurability of native applications

Base framework
- New lock implementation
- New generic signalling mechanism
- Added support for thread-local storage
Core extension to run Linux on top of Genode on OKL4
Operating-system services and libraries
- Added shared-library support
- Improved XML config handling
- Optimized Nitpicker GUI server
- New timer server
Added support for super pages on L4/Fiasco and L4ka::Pistachio
Added support for write-combined I/O access
Unified startup code and linker scripts among all platforms
Removed glibc dependency from the Linux version

Applications
- Integration of Qt4
- Qt4-based launchpad
OS services and drivers
- Nitpicker performance tweaks
- Virtualized PCI bus for VESA driver
- USB session and device interface
USB support
- USB HID driver
- Host controller drivers for UHCI, OHCI, and EHCI
OKL4 as new platform
64-bit Linux platform support
Base framework refinements

Applications
- Launchpad XML configuration option
- Qt4 core and GUI library port
OS services and drivers
- PS/2 driver scancode set 1 fixes
- Linux 2.6 device driver environment
Networking
- Linux-based driver for AMD Pcnet32
- uIP-based example web server
L4ka::Pistachio as new platform
Revised malloc implementation for the C library
Tool for ISO image creation and boot with Qemu

Base API
- Introduced typification of capabilities
- Improved client-side connection handling
- New semaphore
- New API for asynchronous notifications
- New region-manager fault handling
- New managed dataspaces
- Refined allocator interfaces
- Refined interfaces to consistently use exceptions
OS services and libraries
- New framework called DDE kit for device drivers written in C
- New alarm API for scheduling timed events
- Improved PS/2 driver, supporting scan-code sets 1 and 2
- Optimized output latency of the Nitpicker GUI server
New C runtime ported from FreeBSD
Applications
- Double-buffering for scout widgets
- New execute links for the scout tutorial browser
- Unified handling of child processes among scout and launchpad
- New default document "Walking through Genode" for scout
Platform-specific changes
- Linux: Dissolved dependency from glibc by introducing custom system-call bindings
- L4/Fiasco: Implementation of RM faults, managed dataspaces
- L4/Fiasco: Implementation of cancel-blocking mechanism

The release 8.08 is the first official version of the Genode OS Framework. It contains the following components:

The base framework including all libraries and interfaces as described in the Base API documentation
The 32-bit Linux version of the base framework, which is the recommended platform for testing and developing
The 32-bit L4/Fiasco version of the base framework
Drivers
- Framebuffer driver for VESA and libSDL
- PS/2 keyboard and mouse driver
- PCI driver
- Timer driver
Services and applications
- Nitpicker GUI server
- Scout tutorial browser
- Graphical application launcher
- XML-configurable init process
Complete demonstration scenario with graphical test applications such as liquid framebuffer, testnit, and nitlog.
Ported libraries
- libz
- libpng