This release integrates much better with VirtualBox, implementing ACPI shutdown support, mouse integration, and more reliable PS/2 support.

To shutdown, run sudo shutdown from a terminal.

In addition, automatic resolution setting in VirtualBox, and manual resolution setting from the command line in QEMU will be available in a coming release.

This release comes with a load of sweet changes. The most important should be that the usage of Redox OS in VirtualBox has been significantly improved. All three Intel ethernet controllers are supported, and IRQ handling has been fixed.

Here is a rendering of this page in Redox OS, in VirtualBox

Here are the VirtualBox settings used, in version 5.1.6

Very Important Changes

Kernel

• Switched interrupt handling to use manual EOI, which should be more compatible and should fix VirtualBox issues

Filesystem

• Fixed path parsing issue, which caused a open("/example/non_existent/file", O_CREAT) to create /example/file

Very Cool Changes

CLI

• Significant updates to ion, fixing many syntax issues and adding many features. See the changes here.
• Added test program, which now compiles for Redox
• Updated coreutils and extrautils
• Modify wget and pkg to use hyper, removing a lot of unnecesary code

GUI

• Updated cursor theme, added resize cursors for right, bottom, and bottom right edges
• Scrolling in the file manager
• Use of hyper in the browser
• Allow the browser to open local html with file://
• Fixes for browser panics
• Fixes for browser handling of Content-Type
• Improve terminal render speed
• Add terminal window titles

Very Boring Changes

Drivers

• Updated drivers
• Added PCI IDs for more Intel ethernet controllers

Rust

• Update Rust to new nightly

Orbital Feature Rush

This release adds support for resizing windows, mouse scroll, changing window titles, and improves the look and feel of many Redox applications.

Mirrors

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# sha256sum livedisk.iso
5f70040ae8c81736b517c7afb27c38526f5fc05b345a29db2d6caa7ef8fb88ef  livedisk.iso

Screenshots

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Changelog

Orbital

• Fira Sans for window fonts
• Resizable backgrounds, with zoom, scale, fill, and center modes
• Multiple background support
• Window resizing, using border dragging
• Ability to change window title
• Pass scroll events to applications

Orbclient

• Add scroll events
• Add resize window flag
• Catch resize and move events
• Fix SDL2 backend to provide the same events as the Orbital backend

Orbutils

• Improve performance of file manager
• Use TTF font in terminal
• Improve look and feel of launcher
• Allow viewer to resize
• Allow browser to resize
• Browser can scroll with mouse wheel

For more information about this release, see the Reddit post

The UI has been overhauled, marking a good point for a minor version bump.

The build log can be found here: https://travis-ci.org/redox-os/redox/builds/204817563

This release does the following:

• Updates the kernel IRQ model to solve issues with IRQs.
• Moves PIC initialization to the kernel from the bootloader
• Updates the file manager to fix navigation and display issues
• Updates the browser to add HTTPS
• Updates ion to fix if behavior with variables
• Updates smith

Fix for VirtualBox lockups. Update of drivers and kernel for better error handling.

The ISO will be available when this build completes: https://travis-ci.org/redox-os/redox/builds/199501117

The Redox installer is present in this release, and can be used to build a container.

# Create a Redox container at "sysroot"
redox_installer /etc/installer/minimal.toml
# Enter the new Redox container
sudo contain sysroot
# Show processes, RNS and ENS will change based on current container
ps

Updates to all submodules, including the kernel, drivers, coreutils, orbutils, and Rust. Addition of the Redox installer and screenfetch. Fixes for init. Initial HTTPS support in wget.

ISO release will happen when this build completes: https://travis-ci.org/redox-os/redox/builds/197724728

If you had issues with 0.0.5, many of them have been fixed with 0.0.6, or are better reported.

If you encounter any issues, please try to capture the serial port output and upload it in a GitHub issue.

This release fixes an issue with kernel grants not being cleaned up correctly before a context is reaped. This should fix #764 and #767

This release fixes kernel paging issues causing a kernel panic in the event that ipd does not find a network interface. This may also fix random freezes caused by the same paging issue.