We are pleased to announce the release 8.11 of the Genode OS
Framework. Beside many improvements of the base API, we aimed for
enabling real-world applications on top of Genode and introduced two
major features: C runtime and device-driver API. We regard the
presence of device drivers and a way to reuse existing library code as
fundamental prerequisites for achieving our goal of a widely
applicable OS framework.
Furthermore, we extended the base API by a number of exciting feature
such as support for asynchronous notifications, capability
typification, and managed dataspaces.
Release-notes summary for version 8.11
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* 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
Learn more about all the new features and changes described in our
comprehensive release notes at our website
http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/8.11
Download the release 8.11 of the Genode OS Framework from
http://genode.org/download/latest-release
Regards
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Christian Helmuth
Genode Labs
http://www.genode-labs.com/ ยท http://genode.org/
