Changes between Version 17 and Version 18 of ReleaseNotes/Mainline


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Timestamp:
2014-12-07T18:59:01Z (9 years ago)
Author:
Martin Decky
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cleanup from template

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  • ReleaseNotes/Mainline

    v17 v18  
    1313=== General ===
    1414
    15   * Simple windowing GUI
    16   * [wiki:UsersGuide/Audio Audio support]
    17   * Support for !BeagleBoard XM and !BeagleBone
    18   * Support for LEON3 (SPARC V8)
    19   * Support for Raspberry Pi
    20 
    2115=== Kernel ===
    22 
    23   * Tasks are allowed to terminate even if they have unanswered IPC messages.
    24   * Support for guard pages.
    25   * Support for large user stacks.
    26   * Kernel serial driver for arm32/IntegratorCP
    27   * Scrollback support in the kernel debugging console
    2816
    2917=== Services and Drivers ===
    3018
    31   * CMOS real time clock driver
    32   * Input driver for the isdv4 tablet
    33   * Sound Blaster 16 audio driver (works in QEMU)
    34   * Intel High Definition Audio driver
    35   * Driver for the Realtek 8169 and compatible Ethernet adapters
    36   * Mouse on IntegratorCP is now supported
    37   * The `input` server now supports Arabic keyboard layout.
    38   * Added Remote framebuffer protocol (a.k.a. VNC) server
    39   * Converted some drivers to DDF (ata_bd, pl050)
    40 
    4119=== File Systems ===
    42 
    43   * The read-only `ext2fs` server was superseded by a more complete `ext4fs` server, with write support and some aspects of ext3 and ext4.
    44   * Read-only UDF support in the new `udf` server.
    45   * CDFS now supports the Joliet extension to ISO 9660 (Unicode long file names)
    46   * Display disk usage / free space information -- {{{df}}} utility
    4720
    4821=== Networking ===
    4922
    50   * `nic` utility to query and manipulate the state of the present NIC adapters
    51   * Initial IPv6 support
    52   * DNS host name resolution
    53   * Automatic network configuration via DHCP
    54   * SLIP protocol support
    55   * HTTP downloader tool {{{download}}}
    56 
    5723=== Applications ===
    5824
    59   * `bithenge`
    60   * Added `date` command.
    61   * Usability improvements of the `edit` command
    62   * Added `untar` utility (non-compressed tarballs only)
    63   * `wavplay` plays Wave Audio File format (.wav) files
    64   * `modplay` plays Amiga-style tracker modules (.mod, .xm)
    65 
    6625=== Libraries ===
    67 
    68   * New automatically resizing hash table container type.
    69   * Userspace logging framework and `logger`.
    70   * `printf()` support for floating point numbers.
    71 
    7226
    7327=== Miscellaneous ===