We are proud to announce the next step in the Year of Sculpt with the release of Genode 18.05 and Sculpt for The Curious (TC). This incarnation of Genode as a general-purpose operating system comes with a new graphical user interface, which enables the user to interactively perform fundamental tasks like storage and network connectivity management as well as installation and deployment of software. The resulting system uncovers the flexibility of Genode with easiness and fun.

Beside Sculpt TC the release comes with the following highlights.

- 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

All details can be found in the release documentation available at

https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/18.02

Happy sculpting