It's my pleasure to announce today's release of Genode version 22.08. The new version puts the spotlight on the emerging phone variant of Sculpt OS, which is the culmination of the intensive work towards our vision of a Genode-based smart phone over the past 18 months. For the first time, we are able to browse https://genodians.org via a mobile-data connection with Genode on the PinePhone! Calling me excited would be a gross understatement.
With the growing sophistication of Genode systems like this comes the desire for system-wide performance analysis for taking informed optimization steps. This is where the new trace recorder enters the picture, which allows for the gathering of detailed behavioral traces of components and their interplay. As the first success story of the new tooling, the release profoundly improves Genode's network performance.
It goes without saying that the new version touches many more topics. Here is a quick summary:
- 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
For the whole story, please enjoy the detailed release documentation:
https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/22.08
Cheers Norman