Dear L4 hackers,
we are pleased to announce the release of version 11.05 of the Genode OS Framework. Genode is an OS architecture that promises to align high security and robustness with dynamic application workloads. It is laid out to run on a number of different microkernels and Linux.
After bringing Genode on top of Fiasco.OC with the last release, the new version comprises a lot of new features, and refinements with respect to Fiasco.OC, in particular:
* Shared libraries * Signalling framework * ARM RealView PBX-A9 support * x86 64-bit support
Moreover, we enabled L4Linux to run on top of Genode. Beside these functionality improvements, we discovered a way to seamlessly integrate Fiasco.OC's and L4Linux build process into Genode's build system. Thereby we drastically simplified the process of developing for Genode/Fiasco.OC.
Alongside the improved support of the Fiasco.OC kernel, the new release implies a bunch of new features, and improvements, like:
* New API for type-safe inter-process communication * New experimental GDB support * Device-I/O support for MicroBlaze platform * ARM RealView PBX device drivers for input, display, network, and sdcard * New ready-to-use scripts for easy test-driving of various Genode features such as Qt4, lwIP, Noux, L4Linux, GDB
Please find a more elaborative description of the changes accompanied with a lot of background information in the release notes of version 11.05:
http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/11.05
The new version is ready for download at our download page at Sourceforge and our public SVN repository:
Regards