Midsummer - there couldn't be a better time for releasing a new version of Genode. Among the highlights of version 12.08 are a new base platform that enables the framework to run on bare ARM hardware without a separate kernel, the largely reworked support for the NOVA hypervisor, and comprehensive device drivers for OMAP4-based hardware platforms.

Quick overview of the changes that come with version 12.08:

- Base platforms - New base-hw platform for running the framework on bare ARM hardware - NOVA support for x86_64, object integrity protection, core-only kernel-resource allocation - New OMAP4 SoC device drivers - HDMI output - SD-card - USB HID - Networking - New FFAT-based file-system service - New TAR file-system service - Improved Noux runtime - New port of the Lynx web browser - Shell scripting support - 3rd-party libraries - New ports of openssl, pcre, expat - MPC, libgmp for x86_64 and ARM - lwIP updated to version 1.4.1-rc1 - New port of the lighttpd web server

Those and many more improvements are described in full detail in the release notes:

http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/12.08

Have fun with exploring the new version!

Norman