From a9cee5826454e06318bc0f29c1f32f34160f5391 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Norman Feske Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:00:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] News item for version 18.02 --- doc/news.txt | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/news.txt b/doc/news.txt index bba4222a3..0e74acdca 100644 --- a/doc/news.txt +++ b/doc/news.txt @@ -4,6 +4,35 @@ =========== +Genode OS Framework release 18.02 | 2018-02-28 +############################################## + +| Genode version 18.02 kicks off the Year of Sculpt by featuring the +| first revision of the Sculpt operating system for general-purpose +| computing. Further highlights of the new release range from +| network-stack improvements, over a new tracing utility, to the +| experimental use of the Nim programming language. + +Since we announced the Year of Sculpt on our +[https://genode.org/about/road-map - roadmap], our team anticipated the +release of version 18.02 with excitement. The current release officially +presents the first revision of the Sculpt operating system, which is targeted +at the use of Genode as day-to-day OS. In fact, the system has been in +use internally at Genode Labs for several months. We feel confident in +sharing it with a broader community now. + +Driven by the demands of Sculpt, the most prominent topics of this release +are Genode's new mechanisms for installing, updating, and deploying software +from within a running Genode system. Further highlights are the experimental +use of the Nim programming language for the implementation of Genode servers, +a new tracing utility that makes Genode's existing tracing infrastructure much +easier to use, improvements across the entire user-level networking stack, and +updates of many 3rd-party software packages. + +These and many more topics are covered in detail by the +[https:/documentation/release-notes/18.02 - release documentation of version 18.02...] + + Road Map for 2018 | 2018-01-17 ##############################