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0.5.0

5 years ago

Release Notes: https://www.redox-os.org/news/release-0.5.0/

0.3.5

6 years ago

Please discuss this release on our Discourse Forum

Notable changes include:

New network stack
More available packages
Improved security
Netsurf web browser
Alpha blended terminal
Terminal ANSI improvements
Rename system call
Kernel ACPI improvements
Graphical kernel debugging during ACPI initialization

Known issues:

The calendar application is not rendering due to a regression in OrbTK
Netsurf has no icon, run netsurf-fb from the terminal

More detail can be found in the following news articles:

This was posted in the following places:

0.3.4

6 years ago

This release focuses on changes to RedoxFS, the bootloader, and the kernel to enable filesystem UUIDs.

The basic logic is this:

The bootloader loads the kernel from RedoxFS on the disk it is present on
The bootloader passes the UUID as an environmental variable to the kernel
The kernel passes the environmental variables to the init process
The init script for the init filesystem passes this UUID as an argument to RedoxFS
RedoxFS searches all available disks for a filesystem matching this UUID, and mounts it as the root filesystem

This was particularly important for the installation of Redox.

0.3.3

6 years ago

This release brings much lower memory usage with ISO - 480 MB instead of 1300 MB. There are also other bug fixes, features, and improvements.

Download the ISO here.

VirtualBox with Intel PRO/1000 Ethernet will be the most feature-complete experience. Only 64-bit x86 systems are supported. Give the VM at least 1 GB of RAM for the best results. The default username is user with an empty password. There is also a root user with a password of password.

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kernel

Improve live filesystem implementation
Fix TLS mapping by page aligning end of TLS
Implement pipe events
More verbose crash dumps
Improve debugging code

coreutils

Fix directory handling in mv

ion

Add support for app-dirs
Fix handling of foreground processes

netstack

Send events on connect, improve C socket implementation

orbtk

Fix scrolling in textbox
Add borders to menu entries

termion

Fix issue with piping into less

0.3.2

6 years ago

Discussion on Reddit Torrent

Updates to ion
Much better login screen
Added open dialog for Editor
Implemented all file menu items in Editor
Improved ACPI implementation
Better window ordering in Orbital

0.3.1

6 years ago

Discussion on Reddit

As many of the changes are related to self hosting, by @ids1024, I have named this release POSIXLY_CORRECT. Most changes are managed independently from this repository, making it difficult to track them all. More detailed information can be found in news articles since the last release:

This release runs best if you can meet the following requirements:

2 GB RAM
32 MB VRAM
PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard
Intel 8254x Ethernet
Intel HDA audio
XHCI USB

0.3.0

6 years ago

Discussion on Reddit

Summary

It has been a while since our last release, on April 22! I cannot possible represent all of the changes to Redox OS since then, so the best way to experience them is to try it out yourself! I have listed the changes I think are biggest below. Here are the changes to our distribution repository since 0.2.0

This release was particularly challenging. The build process has been switched over to using the cookbook, and a cross compiler is now used instead of a gcc wrapper script located here. These two changes required a large amount effort to make the system compile correctly and easily again, and to get Travis builds to work. Improvements have been made to the kernel, ion, newlib, and many other projects.

Cookbook

However, due to this effort, we can now produce Redox installations from the same recipes that produce package builds, meaning that every file in a default Redox install has been installed by a package, and can be managed by the package manager. Due to a change in the bootloader allowing the kernel to be loaded from RedoxFS, this will also include the kernel soon.

To view all of the currently available packages, view the repository listing, or the repository description file

Self-hosting

Also, due to using a real cross compiler for the build, we have been able to significantly improve support for C software. Massive steps have been made in the direction of self-hosting, with the porting of binutils, newlib, gcc, nasm, llvm, and rustc to Redox. Work, mostly by @ids1024, is currently focusing on porting git. This has also identified and fixed many problems with our POSIX support, and improved the overall functionality of Redox.

Posts from @ids1024 about self-hosting can be found here:

ACPI

In addition to these two changes, the kernel has been improved. @CWood1 has written a shiny, new ACPI stack that includes an AML parser. This allows shutdown on Redox to be done correctly on nearly all systems. Support for the HPET has also been added, with a fallback to the PIT when it is not present. Eventually I hope that we will be able to correctly suspend and resume Redox by running the parsed AML.

Ion

Ion has gone through a huge amount of development, mostly by @mmstick, who has been maintaining it. There have been 139 commits to ion since the last release, adding new syntax, improving bugs, and adding new features. View them here

TWiRx

In addition, This Week in Redox has been restarted by @goyox86. Here are the articles since the last release:

0.2.0

7 years ago

:tada: :cake: As of 2017-04-20, Redox OS has been on GitHub for two years! :cake: :tada:

Due to the number of positive changes that have happened, the version has been bumped to 0.2!

Please discuss this release on Reddit.

The most major changes are an increase in kernel performance, a complete implementation of frame allocation (and deallocation) in the kernel, a new sys:iostat to inspect all open file handles, resizing and scrolling in the editor, and more ion shell features.

This list of changes came from a line-by-line review of all changes since 0.1.5, which was released 13 days before this release.

Redox Distribution

View changes here

Add Cargo.lock, to track dependencies in GIT
Add the following as submodules, to track changes: event, extra, jpeg-decoder, mio, orbclient, orbfont, orbimage, orbtk, pager, ralloc, ransid, same-file, syscall, tar, termion
Readd binutils, games, and sodium as submodules
Update recommended rustc to 2017-04-22 nightly
Increase default size of filesystem to 128 MB
Update Rust submodule
Implement fcntl in ptyd
Implement fpath in randd

Kernel

View changes here

Add __rust_allocate_zeroed in alloc_kernel
Fix initfs generation listing bug
Remove Copy implementation from context::File
Add flags to context::File
Increase performance of memcpy, memmove, memset, and memcmp
Implement kernel closest-fit page frame allocator (removes memory leak from the old bump allocator)
Free page frames recursively, to free all empty tables
Implement handles in debug:, so that O_NONBLOCK and fcntl can be used
Implement fcntl and fpath for debug:, env:, event:, initfs:, irq:, live:, memory:, null:, pipe:, root:, time:, and zero:
Create a sys:iostat that can be used to inspect all open file descriptors
Implement O_CLOEXEC in the kernel
Implement #! interpreted scripts in exec
Fix bug causing grandparents of exited parents of exited children to not receive the error status of exited children
Add linker-flavor to targets

Coreutils

View changes here

Add uniq command
Use buffered output in ls
Add -f, -F, and -s to tail
Fix issue with -a in tee not creating files
Calculate characters with UTF-8 in wc
Cleanup coreutils library in lib.rs
Add a UTF-8 test file

Drivers

View changes here

Implement fpath in ahcid and e1000d
Switch vesad to use handles and support per-handle flags, like O_NONBLOCK
Fix bug in port layout in xhcid

Extrautils

View changes here

Add keymap utility (not yet functional)
Human readable format for screenfetch uptime
Move tar into extrautils

Init

View changes here

Open stdio without O_CLOEXEC
Cleanup run.d

Ion

View changes here

Add script arguments $0, $1, $2, ...
Improve syntax and performance
Implement piping for built-ins
Add echo, calc, test, and time as built-ins
Add description to all built-ins
Refactor modules
Update README.md

Netutils

View changes here

Exit wget with error when remote server returns an error status

Orbutils

View changes here

Implement URL dialog in browser (press enter to open)
Implement resizing for character_map, editor, and file_manager
Implement scrolling in editor
Refactor launcher
Add time to launcher
Remove O_CLOEXEC from stdio in terminal
Reduce redraws in terminal
Close terminal after exit

Orbdata

View changes here

Convert orbital configuration to TOML

Orbital

View changes here

Use TOML for configuration
Refactor to use fevent, rather than using two blocking threads

Pkgutils

View changes here

Implement install of local packages
Use io:copy to reduce memory usage for package downloads

RedoxFS

View changes here

Fix seek bug
Implement O_APPEND

0.1.5

7 years ago

This list of changes came from a line-by-line review of all changes since 0.1.4. Some changes outside of the redox repository, and its submodules, have not been captured.

This implements terminal resizing, and VirtualBox screen resizing. If you resize the terminal, run:

eval $(resize)

This will fix the COLUMNS and LINES variables.

Redox (Distribution)

Remove binutils and games by default, they can be installed with pkg
Remove cookbook submodule, it must be out-of-tree due to Cargo.toml
Add timeout example
Remove liner replacement
Add termion replacement
Update README.md
Improve example installer file /etc/installer.toml
Add pkg remote repository configuration in /etc/pkg.d
Remove display passthrough in contain
Use login by default as the starting program in contain
Add read and write timeouts to tcp: and udp:

Drivers

Updated to newest master
Added alxd driver for Atheros ethernet, still WIP
Updated pcid to enable PCI memory and I/O spaces by default
Added AZERTY and BEPO keymap to ps2d
Add VirtualBox screen resizing features
Implement resizing in vesad
Fix off-by-one panics in vesad
Implement cursor position queries in vesad

Installer

Updated to newest master
Ability to install from source using cookbook
Cleanup of package installation by using pkgutils directly

Kernel

Updated to newest master
Combine arch and kernel to simplify design
Fix typos in README.md
Implement timeouts with time: scheme
Fix serial interrupt handling
Cleanup allocations to use new API

Libc Artifacts

Updated to newest master
Fix linker warning messages

Coreutils

Updated to newest master
Fix typo in ls
Add --unique option to sort

Extrautils

Updated to newest master
Added gunzip, gzip, and resize

Ion

Updated to newest master
Massive improvements to syntax
Update README.md
More examples
Bug fixes
Update dependencies

Netutils

Updated to newest master
Use timeouts in dhcpd and wget
Improve wget errors

Orbital

Updated to newest master
Implement screen resizing
Add unclosable flag
Fix maximize bug

Orbutils

Updated to newest master
Add timeouts to browser
Flow browser based on window size
Implement Open in editor
Use mime and mime_guess to cleanup icon logic in file_manager
Resize launcher when screen resizes
Cleanup orblogin with variables
Make orblogin unclosable
Implement resizing in terminal
Implement ANSI mouse encoding in terminal
Implement alternate screen in terminal
Fix scrolling in terminal
Fix Linux support for terminal

Pkgutils

Updated to newest master
Add configurable remote repositories in /etc/pkg.d
Use timeouts in pkg
Cleanup pkgutils library with Repo abstraction
Make it possible to install with a prefix

Smith

Updated to newest master
Update termion
Refactor state machine
Update README.md

Userutils

Updated to newest master
Ask for password in sudo, if it exists
Fail sudo after 3 attempts

Rust

Updated to newest master

0.1.4

7 years ago

This release improves VirtualBox networking, fixes bugs, and improves user experience

Kernels and Drivers

Fixed kernel issue causing infinite wakeups after nanosleep
Switched drivers from using pause and cli to yield_now without any cli
Added link detection to e1000d

CLI

Updated coreutils and ion
Fixed head and tail

GUI

Changed algorithm for automatic window placement in orbital
Set sane sizes for all orbutils programs, they will fit screen size on smaller screens