Releases: genodelabs/genode
Genode 14.08
Release notes summary for the version 14.08
The current release contains the following changes and new features:
- 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 documentation for the version 14.08 here
Genode 14.05
Release notes summary for the version 14.05
The current release contains the following changes and new features:
- 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 documentation for the version 14.05 here
Genode 14.02
Release notes summary for the version 14.02
The current release contains the following changes and new features:
- 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 documentation for the version 14.02 here
Genode 13.11
Release notes summary for the version 13.11
The current release contains the following changes and new features:
- 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 documentation for the version 13.11 here
Genode 13.08
The current release contains the following changes and new features:
- 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 documentation for version 13.08 here.
Genode 13.05
The current release contains the following changes and new features:
- 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 here.