Hello everyone,

today we have released the version 21.10 of the Sculpt operating system, which incorporates many of Genode's recent developments.

https://genode.org/news/sculpt-os-release-21.10

To highlight the most prominent additions:

- GPU-accelerated graphics for Intel GPUs of generations 8 and newer - Media playback in the Chromium-based web browser - USB webcam support - VirtualBox 6 in addition to VirtualBox 5 - Encrypted file store based on our custom CBE block encrypter

It goes without saying that the new release is accompanied with an updated manual:

https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-21-10 https://genode.org/documentation/sculpt-21-10.pdf

A ready-to-use disk image is provided at the Sculpt download page:

https://genode.org/download/sculpt

We plan to cover individual features by dedicated articles at the https://genodians.org website.

Updating from Sculpt 21.03 --------------------------

Users of Sculpt 21.03 will feel just at home with the new version. When updating to the new version, please nevertheless pay attention to the following changes.

- Should you use a manually managed NIC-router configuration, note that the attribute 'dns_server_from' has been renamed to 'dns_config_from'.

- For using VirtualBox 6 instead of VirtualBox 5, note that the machine configuration file is not 100% compatible. For this reason, version 6 requests a file named 'machine.vbox6'. So you can maintain the machine configurations for both versions side by side. A working template for a 'machine.vbox6' file comes installed along with the vbox6 package. You can find it at depot/genodelabs/raw/vbox6/2021-10-05/machine.vbox6

Note that version 6 is not time-tested yet. Please use it with caution.

- The RTC driver is no longer part of the base system but is now provided as an optional component called "system clock-pc". It is available in the tools menu of the genodelabs depot.

- The recall_fs launcher has been replaced by the recall_fs package, which eases the use of multiple instances of the component, e.g., one in front of the file vault and one behind the file vault.

- Depot index files are now annotated with the CPU architectures supported by the author. Should you provide an index file, please see https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues/4295 for more information.

Have fun with the new version of Sculpt OS!

Norman