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Genode OS Framework release 18.08 | 2018-08-30
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| Genode 18.08 advances the framework's device drivers to accommodate modern
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| PC hardware, introduces a new microcode-update mechanism for Intel CPUs, and
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| enhances the networking and VFS infrastructure. With the new version,
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| Sculpt OS enters the next stage by moving towards an interactive graphical
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| user interface.
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With Genode 18.08, we enter the third episode of our story of developing the
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Sculpt general-purpose OS. The release addresses four crucial concerns of
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general-purpose computing, namely the support of modern hardware, the
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ability to timely respond to the discovery of new CPU-level vulnerabilities
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by the means of applying microcode updates, the scalability of application
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workloads, and the interactive usability of the system. The latter is
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particularly exciting as Genode allows us to explore new user-interface
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paradigms to lay the power of capability-based security into the hands of
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the user.
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The most prominent aspect of the current release is the framework's
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device-driver support, which includes the update of all Linux-based drivers
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to kernel version 4.16.3, a largely reworked wifi stack, the split of the
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USB driver into multiple components, and improved hardware compatibility of
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the PS/2 and network drivers. The release also introduces an experimental
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runtime for hosting drivers of Google's Fuchsia OS as Genode components.
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Among the many further improvements are an extended Ada language runtime,
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added multi-processor support for our custom base-hw microkernel on x86,
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the ability to route network traffic between an arbitrary number of
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physical NICs, and a new way to select the networking stack of a
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component between lwIP and the Linux TCP/IP by a mere configuration change.
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All improvements are covered in detail by the
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[https:/documentation/release-notes/18.08 - release documentation of version 18.08...]
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Sculpt for The Curious | 2018-06-13
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Sculpt for The Curious | 2018-06-13
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