Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 20.11 released

[Norman Feske]

We just released Genode version 20.11 today. With this version, we
continue this year's overarching theme of supporting 64-bit ARM
hardware. Thanks to intensive work on the framework's driver
infrastructure and the actual device drivers, Sculpt OS has now become
able to run on 64-bit ARM hardware, specifically the NXP i.MX8 EVK board.

A second highlight of this release is the first version of our new
CPU-load balancing mechanism, which aims at improving the CPU
utilization when running complex multi-threaded workloads like a web
browser on top of Genode.

As with every Genode release, these major highlights are accompanied by
many improvements throughout the framework, as listed here:

- CPU-load balancing
- Sculpt OS on 64-bit ARM hardware (i.MX8 EVK)
- Multicore virtualization on ARM
- VFS: Open Sound System ioctl emulation
- VirtIO networking
- Improved support for OpenBSD audio drivers
- HWP support for recent PC hardware
- NOVA: I/O-MMU support for AMD

Please find the detailed release documentation at:

  https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/20.11

Cheers
Norman

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Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske
Genode Labs

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