Announcement: Sculpt OS 21.10 released

[Norman Feske]

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
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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- The recall_fs launcher has been replaced by the recall_fs package,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

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Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske
Genode Labs

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