Release archive

Release notes summary for the version 24.05

• Sculpt OS running on Genode's custom microkernel

• Fine-grained and dynamic assignment of USB devices/interfaces

• On-target debugging on Sculpt OS using GDB

• Suspend/resume for PC platforms

• Completed transition to new audio interfaces

• Intel graphics enabled for high-resolution displays

• Mesa updated to version 24.0.1

• Improved VirtualBox network throughput

• USB pass-through to the Seoul VMM

• Revisited storage-encryption infrastructure

• Goa SDK updated for Sculpt OS 24.04

• Annual update of the "Genode Foundations" book

Read the complete release notes for the version 24.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 24.02

• Revised audio infrastructure

• Sculpt OS as remote test target for Goa SDK

• TCP/IP based on DDE-Linux 6.1.20

• Suspend/resume awareness of GPU, AHCI, NVMe drivers

• Improved human-interface device handling

• Multi-client use of Vivante GPUs

• De-privileged light-weight event tracing

Read the complete release notes for the version 24.02 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 23.11

• Kernel-agnostic DMA protection

• PC power, frequency, temperature sensing and control

• Modernized virtualization interface

• New API for low-complexity interactive applications

• Seoul virtual machine monitor for 64-bit guest OSes

• Ports of Linphone VoIP stack, socat, SDL2 libraries

• USB device drivers updated to Linux 6.1.20

• Improved build-system for quick development-test cycles

Read the complete release notes for the version 23.11 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 23.08

• New multi-component debug monitor

• Goa tool support for working with multiple projects

• New NIC server for raw uplink connectivity

• New PC network driver based on DDE-Linux

• New USB host drivers for i.MX6 and Raspberry Pi

• New PinePhone support for buttons and screensaver

• New depot-remove component

• Improved drivers for Intel GPU, Intel display, Wifi, and audio

• Internal core and base-framework modernization

Read the complete release notes for the version 23.08 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 23.05

• Goa tool updated to Sculpt OS 23.04

  • Ubuntu-Touch-UI toolkit

  • Initial support for Rust cargo

• New tool chain based on GCC 12.3

• C++20 enabled by default

• Annual documentation update

• Uniform Wifi stack across PC and ARM platforms

• Revision of Genode's custom block-encryption infrastructure

• Linux device-driver environment updated to Linux 6.1.20

• Improved USB, Intel display, and NVMe drivers

• VirtualBox 6.1.44

• Initial x86 virtualization via the base-hw microkernel

• Updated seL4 microkernel to version 12.1

• NetBSD rump kernel on RISC-V

Read the complete release notes for the version 23.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 23.02

• First system image of mobile Sculpt OS (PinePhone)

• Interactive graphical VMs on ARM

• Custom IP block for DMA protection on AMD/Xilinx Zynq

• Optimized GPU and VFS performance

• On-target system-update and rollback mechanism

• Device-driver improvements for NXP i.MX (USB-C, network)

• Distinction of Intel P&E cores on the NOVA kernel

• Suspend/resume and improved scheduling for the base-hw kernel

• Streamlined work flow for building and publishing libraries

Read the complete release notes for the version 23.02 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 22.11

• Hardware-software co-design with Genode on Xilinx Zynq

• Hardware-accelerated graphics with Intel GEN12+ GPUs

• Unified device-driver infrastructure across PC and ARM

• Low-level support for suspend/resume on PC hardware

• Device drivers

  • New PinePhone drivers for audio, camera, and power control

  • New PCI and network drivers for NXP i.MX

  • Intel display-driver support for 12th-Gen hardware

  • PC audio driver updated to OpenBSD 7.1

• Forthcoming Sculpt OS variant for the PinePhone

• Virtualization

  • Improved usability of the ARM VMM

  • Virtio device models for the Seoul VMM on PCs

• MSI support for the base-hw microkernel

Read the complete release notes for the version 22.11 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 22.08

• Emerging phone variant of Sculpt OS

  • Modem driver with support for telephony and mobile data

  • Drivers for USB, Mali-400 GPU, SD-card ported from Linux

  • Custom touch-friendly administrative user interface

• Chromium-based Morph web browser

• Enhanced tooling for system tracing

• Improved network performance

• USB networking via Ethernet control model

• Optimizations of the Linux-device-driver environment

• Qt5 updated to version 5.15.2

• Support for USB smart cards via PKCS#11

• VirtIO block, network, input, and display drivers for RISC-V

• Improved UEFI support

Read the complete release notes for the version 22.08 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 22.05

• New WireGuard VPN component

• New generation of DDE-Linux-based PC drivers

  • Feature-complete USB host-controller driver

  • Intel wireless stack with support for 802.11ax

  • Intel display driver supporting generations 11 and 12

• Modernized platform driver for PC hardware

• Dynamic device management and SD-card support on Xilinx Zynq

• PinePhone with custom SCP firmware and basic telephony

• New revisions of Genode Foundations and Platforms documents

• Improved usability of light-weight event tracing

Read the complete release notes for the version 22.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 22.02

• Framework for special-purpose Sculpt-based operating systems

  • First version Sculpt OS on the Pinephone

  • Sculpt OS running on the Linux kernel

• Modularized source-code organization

• Base framework and OS-level infrastructure

  • Tightened API and default warning levels

  • VFS plugin for packet-level network access

  • Black-hole server component

• Device drivers

  • New Linux-device-driver environment for PC drivers

  • GPU-driver improvements

  • Pinephone modem access

• Audio improvements and 3D acceleration for VirtualBox 6

• Completed C and stdc++ support for the RISC-V architecture

Read the complete release notes for the version 22.02 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 21.11

• Modularization of Genode's board-support code base

• Drivers

  • Interactive scenarios on the Pinephone (touch + graphics)

  • New USB driver for NXP i.MX8

  • New Vivante GPU driver and etnaviv Mesa driver

  • New VirtIO input and framebuffer drivers

  • Hardware-accelerated graphics with Intel Gen9+ GPUs

  • New support for the Xilinx Zynq-based USRP E310 board

• Feature completion of VirtualBox 6

• Sculpt OS for 64-bit ARM in addition to x86

• Audio and OpenGL support for libSDL2

• Automated boot-image creation for i.MX8, Zynq, Allwinner

Read the complete release notes for the version 21.11 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 21.08

• Linux-device-driver environment re-imagined

• New device drivers

  • i.MX8mq framebuffer driver

  • i.MX8mq SD-card driver

  • Pinephone framebuffer

  • Pine-A64-LTS networking driver

  • RAM framebuffer driver for Qemu

• Revived GPU support

  • Mesa 21.0.0

  • Architectural integration of GPU multiplexing

• Refined user-level network routing

• Updated and improved VirtualBox

• Media playback and SSL validation for Qt5 and QtWebEngine

• Modular integration of LTE modem stack in Sculpt OS

• Tool-chain support for RISC-V

Read the complete release notes for the version 21.08 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 21.05

• Webcam support

• Tool chain updated to GCC 10.3 and Binutils 2.36

• New documentation "Genode Platforms"

• File vault based on the CBE encrypter

• Genode/Linux on 64-bit ARM

• I2C and reset-domain support for i.MX8

• Network driver on RISC-V

• Evolving support for the Pine-A64-LTS board

• New tools for porting Linux drivers

Read the complete release notes for the version 21.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 21.02

• Pluggable network device drivers

• LTE modem stack

• VirtualBox 6.1.14

• Improved USB pass-through for VirtualBox 5

• VirtIO block devices for virtual machines on ARM

• Power-gating of PCI devices on x86

• Pine-A64-LTS single board computer

• RISC-V update to privileged ISA 1.10

• VFS support for named pipes

• OpenSSL 1.1.1i, curl 7.70.0

Read the complete release notes for the version 21.02 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 20.11

• CPU-load balancing

• Sculpt OS on 64-bit ARM hardware (i.MX8 EVK)

• Multicore virtualization on ARM

• VFS: Open Sound System ioctl emulation

• VirtIO networking

• Improved support for OpenBSD audio drivers

• HWP support for recent PC hardware

• NOVA: I/O-MMU support for AMD

Read the complete release notes for the version 20.11 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 20.08

• Redesigned low-level GUI stack

  • Removal of drivers from the trusted computing base

  • Consistent use of 32 bits per pixel

• Improved Qt5 integration and work flows

• Chromium engine and Falkon web browser

• Pluggable crypto and trust anchor for the CBE block encrypter

• Device drivers and platforms

  • ARM Trusted Firmware access

  • Power and clock management for i.MX 8M Quad SoC

• New block server backed by VFS content

• New port of SDL2 library

• Interactive CPU-affinity management for Sculpt OS

Read the complete release notes for the version 20.08 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 20.05

• Capability-based security via seccomp on Linux

• Feature-completeness of our consistent block encrypter

• Consolidation of the framework API and feature set

• New revision of the Genode Foundations book

• Ability to host board support outside the Genode source tree

• Platform-driver architecture for the ARM universe

• Unified virtual-machine monitor for ARMv7 and ARMv8

• Qemu-virt platform support

• MSI-X support on x86

• Improved CPU affinity management on the NOVA hypervisor

Read the complete release notes for the version 20.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 20.02

• Redesign of the user interface of Sculpt OS

• Sculpt OS on 64-bit ARM i.MX8 hardware

• New sandbox library for multi-component applications

• VirtIO support for ARM virtual machine monitor

• Virtual desktops

• Enhanced GUI widget rendering

• Performance optimizations

  • Faster XML parsing

  • Diminished idle load of the Seoul VMM

  • Lower IPC latency of the base-hw kernel

• POSIX compatibility improvements

• Migration to modern block-device API

• Updated audio driver based on OpenBSD 6.6

• Genode running on bare-bone Linux kernel

Read the complete release notes for the version 20.02 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 19.11

• New (preliminary) block-device encryptor

• New virtualization of 64-bit ARM platforms

• New tooling for application development

• Enhanced POSIX compatibility

• More supported Intel wireless devices

• Multi-core 64-bit ARM

• Self-hosting on 64-bit ARM

Read the complete release notes for the version 19.11 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 19.08

• Flexible keyboard layouts

• Custom kernel for 64-bit ARM and NXP i.MX8

• i.MX8 network driver

• Accessing SMBIOS tables on x86

• New tooling for light-weight tracing

• General system time concept

• Clipboard handling

• SSH exec channel support

• Qt5 version 5.13

• Updated Ada/SPARK runtime

• Disposable VM for handling captive portals

• Consolidation of the C runtime and Noux

Read the complete release notes for the version 19.08 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 19.05

• Kernel-agnostic virtualization interface

• Initial support for the 64-bit ARM architecture

• New tool chain based on GCC 8.3.0 and binutils 2.32

• Updated C and SPARK runtimes

• Build directories shared across different boards

• Improved kernel support for Muen, NOVA, seL4, Fiasco.OC

• Performance optimization of the base-hw kernel

• Logging for distributed Genode systems

• Updated Zynq and Intel network drivers

• Ability to run Tomcat and Spring on OpenJDK

Read the complete release notes for the version 19.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 19.02

• Sculpt OS with federated software provisioning

• Showcase of a Java-based IoT network appliance (Boot2Java)

• Showcase for a component-based web service (Genodians.org)

• OpenJDK with JIT on 32-bit ARM and 64-bit x86

• Improved Ada and SPARK support, including AUnit

• Initial support for the OCaml programming language

• Removal of deprecated APIs

• API-safety improvements

• Support of i.MX6 Quad Sabrelite and Nitrogen6 SoloX

Read the complete release notes for the version 19.02 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 18.11

• Quality assurance

  • Automated test infrastructure hosted on top of Genode

  • New tooling for obtaining test-coverage metrics

  • Static code analysis

• Genode as a platform for Mirage-OS unikernels

• Initial version of the Genode SDK

• Component health monitoring

• Modularized window system in Sculpt OS

• Zero-copy networking on Xilinx Zynq

• New SSH terminal server

• New window layouter

Read the complete release notes for the version 18.11 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 18.08

• Sculpt OS with live runtime view

• Device drivers

  • Linux device-driver environment based on kernel 4.16.3

  • Updated and enhanced Intel framebuffer and wireless drivers

  • Decomposed USB stack, support for isochronous devices

  • Improved device compatibility of NIC and PS/2 drivers

  • Experimental runtime for Zircon-based drivers

• Base framework and OS-level infrastructure

  • NIC-router support for multiple uplinks

  • New VFS plugin for using LwIP as TCP/IP stack

  • Cached file-system-based ROM service

  • VFS plugin for importing initial content

  • Enhanced Ada language support

• Libraries and applications

  • Python 3

  • VirtualBox 5.1.38

• Platforms

  • New Intel Microcode update mechanism

  • Multiprocessor support for our custom kernel on x86

  • Updated NOVA and Fiasco.OC kernels

Read the complete release notes for the version 18.08 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 18.05

• Sculpt OS for The Curious (TC)

• New revision of the Genode Foundations book

• Storage

  • Enhanced VFS library and plugin interface

  • New audit and copy-on-write VFS plugins

  • Creating and modifying GUID partition tables on target

• Dynamic reconfiguration of user-level network routing

• GUI stack

  • UTF-8 support for graphical components

  • New font-rendering and text-output facilities

  • Modernized API for input-event processing

• Device drivers

  • NVMe storage devices

  • Improved USB-storage driver

  • PCI access via ECAM/MMCONF

• Libraries and Applications

  • Packaged Qt5 framework

  • New Java language support

  • Improved Ada language support

  • Updated Seoul VMM on NOVA

• Updated seL4 kernel to version 9.0.1

• Updated Muen separation kernel

Read the complete release notes for the version 18.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 18.02

• Sculpt for Early Adopters (EA)

• On-target package installation and deployment

• Improved networking stack

• Support for servers written in the Nim language

• VirtualBox version 5.1.32

• New trace-logging component

• Ethernet-driver for i.MX-based Wandboard

• SMP support for Xilinx Zynq hardware

Read the complete release notes for the version 18.02 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 17.11

• Base framework and OS-level infrastructure

  • Dynamic device-driver management

  • NIC-router ability to act as DHCP client and server

  • Improved input processing, including mouse acceleration, mouse-wheel emulation, capslock and numlock handling

  • Revised GUI stack, covering broader use cases

  • Refined Rump-kernel-based file-system support

• Platform support

  • UEFI boot, consistent use of GRUB2 on x86

  • Enabling MMU-based threat mitigations by default

  • seL4 updated to kernel branch 7.0

  • Wrapping up internal redesign of Genode's custom kernel

• Runtimes, applications, and libraries

  • Cultivation of the Nim language for Genode components

  • Native execution of Libretro-based game-console emulators

  • Reworked libSDL backend with support for resizing

• Improved tooling for validating configurations

Read the complete release notes for the version 17.11 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 17.08

• Hardware-accelerated graphics for Intel Gen-8 GPUs

• The seL4 6.0 kernel on ARM and 64-bit x86 hardware

• Genode as Xen DomU

• Preliminary UEFI support for NOVA, base-hw, and seL4

• New server for capturing reports to files

• New runtime for the sequential execution of components

• Support for boot-time initialized frame buffer

• FatFS-based VFS plugin

• Extended non-blocking operation of the VFS

• Refined time handling

• Updated Muen separation kernel

Read the complete release notes for the version 17.08 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 17.05

• New approach and tools for package management

• Updated revision of the "Genode Foundations" book

• Completion of Genode's API modernization

• GNU compiler collection (GCC) 6.3 including Ada support

• Qt5 updated to version 5.8

• Feature-complete VirtualBox 5.1.22 for NOVA

• Nim programming language

• Interpolated wall-clock times

• New network-traffic and CPU-time monitoring tools

• Muen separation kernel updated latest version

Read the complete release notes for the version 17.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 17.02

• Genode application binary interface (ABI)

• Enhanced infrastructure for virtual file systes (VFS)

  • VFS support for synchronous I/O and reconfiguration

  • Rump-kernel-based file systems as VFS plugin

  • Linux TCP/IP stack as VFS plugin

• New execution model of the C runtime

• Dynamically reconfigurable init component

• Generic user-input-processing component

• Improved SD-card drivers, added support for i.MX6

• Muen separation kernel updated to version 0.8

Read the complete release notes for the version 17.02 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 16.11

• Base framework

  • Redesigned interplay between parent and child components

  • Improved RPC mechanism

• Ongoing transition to modernized framework API

• Extended virtual-networking capabilities

• New timeout-handing API

• Support for smart cards

• Time-based password generation

• NOVA hypervisor

  • VirtualBox updated to versions 4.3.40 and 5.1.10

  • New asynchronous map operation

Read the complete release notes for the version 16.11 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 16.08

• Base platforms

  • Interactive and dynamic workloads on top of the seL4 kernel

  • Binary compatibility across all supported kernels

  • Xilinx Zynq board support for Parallela, Zedboard, ZC706, ZC702

• Networking

  • Virtual networking (routing, NAT)

  • New TOR component

  • ROM sessions in a network-distributed Genode system

• Virtualization

  • VirtualBox 4 on top of the Muen separation kernel

  • Experimental version of VirtualBox 5 for NOVA

• Libraries and components

  • Improved ACPI integration

  • Growing library of "shim" services such as a framebuffer scaler, an input remapper, a ROM fallback service, and a LOG duplicator

  • Ported 3rd-party software such as diffutils, less, mbed TLS, libxml2, RISC-V front-end server

  • New file-downloading component

• Statistical profiling

Read the complete release notes for the version 16.08 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 16.05

• Fundamental revision of the framework API

• New revision of the "Genode Foundations" book

• Enhanced ACPI support on x86

• Device drivers

  • Updated Linux-based drivers to Linux version 4.4.3 (Intel wireless, Intel graphics, USB, TCP/IP stack)

  • Updated OpenBSD-based audio driver to version 5.9

• GNU debugger running on 64-bit NOVA

• Rust programming language for Genode components

• Tool-chain update

Read the complete release notes for the version 16.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 16.02

• Assignment of USB devices to virtual machines

• New support for the RISC-V CPU architecture

• GUI stack usability improvements

• Device drivers

  • Reconfigurable USB host-controller driver

  • Custom USB mass-storage driver

  • Improved audio output on Linux

• Libraries and applications

  • New "Genode world" repository for 3rd-party software

  • Updated lynx, OpenSSH, tar, libssh, lighttpd

• Platforms

  • Enhanced SMP and cache support for base-hw

  • Muen SK version 0.7 with MSI support

  • seL4 version 2.1

Read the complete release notes for the version 16.02 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 15.11

• Desktop OS features

  • Vastly impoved GUI stack

  • Dynamic audio-mixer settings

  • Copy and paste between subsystems

• New VFS server and VFS improvements

• New LOG aggregator

• Improved support for dynamic component configurations

• VirtualBox support for 64-bit guest OSes

• Device drivers

  • Intel KMS framebuffer driver

  • Framebuffer driver for Exynos 4

  • AHCI for non-NCQ devices

  • Ability to connect to hidden wireless networks

• Platforms

  • Xilinx Zynq-7000 support, including networking

  • Improved TrustZone support on USB Armory

  • Simplified memory management on NOVA

• Booting via iPXE over HTTP

• New tool for creating preconfigured U-Boot images

Read the complete release notes for the version 15.11 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 15.08

• Genode on top of the Muen separation kernel

• Genode/NOVA used as day-to-day operating system

• Kernel-resource management on NOVA and our custom base-hw kernel

• Base framework and low-level OS infrastructure

  • Improved audio support

  • Unified networking components

  • Enhanced tracing and file-system facilities

  • Low-complexity software rendering

• Device drivers

  • Raspberry Pi and Odroid-X2 on Fiasco.OC, including USB support

  • BCM57cxx network cards

• VirtualBox

  • Guest-host integration (policy-based mouse shapes, dynamic adaptation to screen size changes, audio)

  • Multi-processor support

Read the complete release notes for the version 15.08 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 15.05

• Comprehensive architectural documentation

• Feature completion of the our custom kernel

  • Kernel-protected capabilities

  • Principal support for the 64-bit x86

  • Dynamic thread weights

• Revised device-driver infrastructure

• Device drivers

  • New AHCI driver

  • Multi-touch support

  • Audio drivers ported from OpenBSD

  • SD-card drivers for i.MX53 and Raspberry Pi

  • Board support for i.MX6-based Wandboard

• Support for GPT partitions

• Proof-of-concept support for the seL4 kernel

• NOVA kernel mechanism for signals

• Tool chain updated to GCC 4.9.2 and binutils 2.25

Read the complete release notes for the version 15.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 15.02

• Virtualization on ARM

• Modular tool kit for automated testing

• Improved performance of VirtualBox on NOVA

• Libraries and protocol stacks

  • Update of rump-kernel based file systems

  • Ports of sqlite and libbz2

• Device drivers

  • Support for USB touchscreen devices

  • New wireless configuration interface

  • New USB session interface

• Platforms

  • Added support for the USB Armory board

  • IPC helping on the base-hw kernel

  • Out-of-order page-fault handling on NOVA

Read the complete release notes for the version 15.02 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 14.11

• Intel wireless stack

• New CPU scheduler for the base-hw kernel

• New dynamic linker

• VirtualBox version 4.3.16 running on NOVA

• Updated Seoul VMM running on NOVA

• New GUI-architecture components

• Improved integration of Qt5

• Extended Raspberry-Pi driver support

• Updated tool chain

Read the complete release notes for the version 14.11 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 14.08

• New GUI architecture

  • Vastly improved nitpicker GUI server

  • New window manager and accompanied components

• C runtime

  • Pluggable VFS file systems

  • Real-time-clock support

  • Jitter-based random-number generator

• OpenVPN

• Improved integration of Qt5

• DDE Linux updated to version 3.14.5

• NOVA microhypervisor

  • Kernel updated, improved timer handling

  • Seoul VMM: Multi-processor support

  • VirtualBox: Networking support

• Execution on bare hardware (base-hw)

  • Branch prediction

  • New source-tree structure

Read the complete release notes for the version 14.08 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 14.05

• New tools for managing ported 3rd-party source code

• New block-level encryption using CDG

• New process-local virtual file systems

• NOVA microhypervisor

  • VirtualBox with guest additions

  • Support for static priorities

• Execution on bare hardware (base-hw)

  • Multi-processor support

  • Sparsely populated core address space

• USB 3.0 on x86-based platforms

Read the complete release notes for the version 14.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 14.02

• VirtualBox running on the NOVA microhypervisor

• Base framework

  • Improved stack management

• Storage

  • NetBSD file systems ported via rump kernels

  • Revised block-driver framework

  • New block cache

  • New FUSE-based NTFS-3g support

  • Ported e2fsprogs to the Noux runtime

• Low-level OS infrastructure

  • New pseudo file system as tracing front end

  • Unified interfaces for graphics

  • New status-reporting mechanism

  • Nitpicker support for dynamic screen resizing

• Libraries and applications

  • Extended Noux runtime with POSIX signals

  • Dynamic ROM service

• Platforms

  • Basic support ODROID XU

Read the complete release notes for the version 14.02 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 13.11

• Base framework

  • Dynamic resource balancing

  • C++11 enabled by default

  • Improved event tracing

• Low-level OS infrastructure

  • Gigabit networking using the Linux TCP/IP stack

  • Improved nitpicker GUI server

  • New terminal services

  • New file-system server for hybrid Genode/Linux systems

  • New C-runtime plugin for accessing block devices

• Device drivers

  • Graphics and USB HID for Raspberry Pi

  • HDMI for Samsung Exynos 5

• Applications and libraries

  • Qt5 with support for OpenGL and QML

  • New file systems based on FUSE

  • Port of DosBox

• Runtime environments

  • Advanced GNU debugger features

  • ARM TrustZone support on Freescale i.MX53

• Platforms

  • Base-HW enabled for dynamic workloads

  • Lifetime management for kernel object on NOVA

  • Ballooning support for L4Linux running on Fiasco.OC

Read the complete release notes for the version 13.11 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 13.08

• Qt5 version 5.1

• Enhanced support for multi-processor systems, i.e., on NOVA

• New light-weight event tracing facility

• Low-level OS infrastructure

  • Networking optimizations

  • Improved POSIX thread support

• New device drivers for Exynos-5

  • SATA 3.0

  • CPU frequency scaling and power gating

• Runtime environments

  • Improved Seoul (aka Vancouver) VMM for disk and console

  • L4Linux updated to version 3.9

• Platforms

  • Update of Fiasco.OC to revision r56

• Build system and tools

  • Integrity checks for downloaded 3rd-party software

Read the complete release notes for the version 13.08 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 13.05

• Tooling for automated testing and benchmarking

• Enhanced terminal infrastructure

• New network performance benchmarks

• Platform support

  • Exynos 5 SoC (USB-3, gigabit networking, eMMC, SATA)

  • i.MX SoC (GPIO, display, touch screen)

  • OMAP4 SoC (LCD)

  • Raspberry Pi

  • Linux/ARM as new base platform

• Device drivers

  • DDE Linux updated to Linux 3.9

  • DDE iPXE update to latest Git version

• Services

  • FS-LOG service

  • Dynamically reconfigurable virtual framebuffer

• 3rd-party libraries

  • Qt4 version 4.8.4

  • libSDL supplemental libraries

Read the complete release notes for the version 13.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 13.02

• DMA protection via IOMMU (NOVA/x86)

• Full virtualization via the Vancouver VMM (NOVA/x86)

• Redesigned audio-output support for low latency

• Base API and OS infrastructure

  • New fault-detection facility

  • New mechanism for file-system notifications

  • New terminal multiplexer

• Device drivers

  • ACPI support for 64-bit machines

  • New OMAP4 UART driver

  • USB support for Samsung Exynos 5250

• Base platforms

  • Custom kernel platform with added support for Samsung Exynos 5250 and Freescale i.MX53

  • NOVA kernel improved for highly dynamic workloads

  • Fiasco.OC kernel forked, Exynos-5250 support added

  • Improved memory management on Linux

Read the complete release notes for the version 13.02 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 12.11

• Self-hosting Genode on Genode

• Custom kernel platform

  • Support for ARM TrustZone

  • Support for OMAP4

  • Support for Freescale i.MX

• Device drivers

  • New device driver environment for the Open Sound System

  • New OMAP4 GPIO driver

  • Updated iPXE networking drivers

• Platform support

  • Largely revisited platform support for Linux

  • NOVA updated and complemented

  • L4ka::Pistachio updated

  • Fiasco.OC updated to rev 40, L4Linux updated to rev 25

• Optimizations

  • lwIP update and performance improvements

Read the complete release notes for the version 12.11 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 12.08

• Base platforms

  • New base-hw platform for running the framework on bare ARM hardware

  • NOVA support for x86_64, object integrity protection, core-only kernel-resource allocation

• New OMAP4 SoC device drivers

  • HDMI output

  • SD-card

  • USB HID

  • Networking

• New FFAT-based file-system service

• New TAR file-system service

• Improved Noux runtime

  • New port of the Lynx web browser

  • Shell scripting support

• 3rd-party libraries

  • New ports of openssl, pcre, expat

  • MPC, libgmp for x86_64 and ARM

  • lwIP updated to version 1.4.1-rc1

• New port of the lighttpd web server

Read the complete release notes for the version 12.08 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 12.05

• Base framework, low-level OS infrastructure

  • Video decoding via libav

  • New concept for system re-configuration at runtime

  • New support for dynamic ROM sessions

  • New loader interface and implementation

  • New file-system infrastructure

  • New in-memory file system

• Libararies, components, and driver drivers

  • New USB stack based on Linux version 3.2

  • POSIX threads and semaphores

  • Video decoding via libav

  • Lua scripting language

  • Audio, timer, and threading support for libSDL

• Noux runtime for Unix software

  • Support for stacked file systems

  • Binutils, GNU compiler collection, GNU make

  • Basic networking support

• Base platforms

  • Lifetime management of kernel resources on Fiasco.OC

  • Support for suing the Linux chroot mechanism

  • Support for Pandaboard

Read the complete release notes for the version 12.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 12.02

• Base framework, low-level OS infrastructure

  • RPC framework refinements

  • API support for enslaving services

  • Support for resizable framebuffers

  • New MMIO access framework

  • Enhanced support for Genode used as component framework on Linux

• New and updated libraries

  • Qt4 updated to version 4.7.4

  • New ports of openjpeg, jbig2dec, and mupdf

• Applications and runtimes

  • New PDF viewer

  • Support for fork in the Noux runtime environment

• Device drivers

  • D3m device-driver manager

  • ACPI support

Read the complete release notes for the version 12.02 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 11.11

• Support for user-level debugging via GDB

• Applications and services

  • Vancouver virtual machine monitor on NOVA

  • VIM executed on the Noux runtime environment

  • Terminal emulator implementing the Linux termcap

  • TCP terminal

• Platforms

  • Fiasco.OC updated to rev 38

  • NOVA updated to version 0.4

  • New IPC implementation for Linux

  • Improved support for hybrid Linux/Genode programs

• L4Linux on Fiasco.OC

  • Integration of L4Android (for both x86_32 and ARM)

  • Stub drivers for block devices, NIC, UART

• Device drivers

  • gPXE device driver environment upgraded to iPXE

  • Bidirectional UART driver for PL011 and i8250

  • PL110 display driver

  • Support for ARM Versatile Express Cortex-A9x4

• Libc update to FreeBSD 8.2.0

• New unified tool chain based on GCC 4.6.1

Read the complete release notes for the version 11.11 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 11.08

• Unified workflows for all base platforms

• Device drivers

  • Combined USB HID and USB storage driver

  • Read/write support for ATAPI driver

  • New AHCI driver

  • New SD-card driver for PL180

  • New UART driver for PL110

• Services

  • New block partition server

• Extended ARM support

  • Qt4 on ARMv6 and ARMv7

  • L4Linux on ARM

• Updated base platforms

  • Fiasco.OC rev 36

  • L4ka::Pistachio rev 803

  • L4/Fiasco rev 472

• New tools for automated building and testing

Read the complete release notes for the version 11.08 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 11.05

• New API for type-safe inter-process communication

• Extended Fiasco.OC platform support

  • Shared libraries

  • Signalling framework

  • ARM RealView PBX-A9 support

  • x86 64-bit support

  • L4Linux (IA32 and ARM)

• New experimental GDB support

• Device-I/O support for MicroBlaze platform

• ARM RealView PBX device drivers for input, display, network, and sdcard

• New ready-to-use scripts for easy test-driving of various Genode features such as Qt4, lwIP, Noux, L4Linux, GDB

Read the complete release notes for the version 11.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 11.02

• Fiasco.OC as new base platform

• Running Genode natively on MicroBlaze CPUs

• Support for version 0.3 of the NOVA hypervisor

• Noux execution environment for GNU userland software

• Base framework

  • Core resource accounting using guarded allocators

  • Protocol enhancements for upgrading session quotas

• Qt4 updated to version 4.7.1

• New tool for automated integration and testing

Read the complete release notes for the version 11.02 in the documentation section...

Live CD based on version 10.11

A good way to get a first impression of Genode 10.11 is by downloading and running the available Live-CD images.

Release notes summary for the version 10.11

• Base framework

  • Support for user-level dataspace managers

• Operating-system services and libraries

  • Final transition to new init concept

  • Virtual network bridge (Proxy ARP)

  • Alpha blending and tinted views in Nitpicker GUI server

  • ISO9660 file-system server

• Device drivers

  • Execution environment for gPXE drivers

  • Enhancements of audio-processing infrastructure

  • Revised GEM/DRM support

• Improved integration of paravirtualized Linux with Genode components

• Qt4 nitpicker-plugin widget

• HTTP-based block device in new gems repository

• Platform-specific refinements on OKL4, Pistachio, and Linux

Read the complete release notes for the version 10.11 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 10.08

• Hardware-accelerated 3D graphics via Gallium3D and Intel GEM

• Wireless networking using MadWifi

• ATAPI driver, ISO 9660 file system

• Block device interface, ROM loop service

• Update of Qt4 to version 4.6.3

• Dynamic linker for ARM EABI

Read the complete release notes for the version 10.08 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 10.05

• Mandatory access control and session routing

• Added audio-out support

• OKLinux stub driver for GUI

• New build system optimized for parallel builds

• Arora web browser

• Port of libSDL

Read the complete release notes for the version 10.05 in the documentation section...

Release notes summary for the version 10.02

• Platform support

  • NOVA hypervisor

  • Codezero kernel

• New thread-context management

• Real-time priorities

• Python scripting

Read the complete release notes for the version 10.02 in the documentation section...

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

Read the complete release notes for the version 9.11 in the documentation section...

Release 9.08

• 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

Read the complete release notes for the version 9.08 in the documentation section...

Release 9.05

• 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

Read the complete release notes for the version 9.05 in the documentation section...

Release 9.02

• 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

Read the complete release notes for the version 9.02 in the documentation section...

Release 8.11

• 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

Read the complete release notes for the version 8.11 in the documentation section...

Release 8.08

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