Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 12.08 released

[Norman Feske]

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

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Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske
Genode Labs

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