Changes between Version 17 and Version 18 of ReleaseNotes/Mainline
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- 2014-12-07T18:59:01Z (8 years ago)
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ReleaseNotes/Mainline
v17 v18 13 13 === General === 14 14 15 * Simple windowing GUI16 * [wiki:UsersGuide/Audio Audio support]17 * Support for !BeagleBoard XM and !BeagleBone18 * Support for LEON3 (SPARC V8)19 * Support for Raspberry Pi20 21 15 === 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/IntegratorCP27 * Scrollback support in the kernel debugging console28 16 29 17 === Services and Drivers === 30 18 31 * CMOS real time clock driver32 * Input driver for the isdv4 tablet33 * Sound Blaster 16 audio driver (works in QEMU)34 * Intel High Definition Audio driver35 * Driver for the Realtek 8169 and compatible Ethernet adapters36 * Mouse on IntegratorCP is now supported37 * The `input` server now supports Arabic keyboard layout.38 * Added Remote framebuffer protocol (a.k.a. VNC) server39 * Converted some drivers to DDF (ata_bd, pl050)40 41 19 === File Systems === 42 43 * The read-only `ext2fs` server was superseded by a more complete `ext4fs` server, with write support and some aspects of ext3 and ext4.44 * Read-only UDF support in the new `udf` server.45 * CDFS now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}}} utility47 20 48 21 === Networking === 49 22 50 * `nic` utility to query and manipulate the state of the present NIC adapters51 * Initial IPv6 support52 * DNS host name resolution53 * Automatic network configuration via DHCP54 * SLIP protocol support55 * HTTP downloader tool {{{download}}}56 57 23 === Applications === 58 24 59 * `bithenge`60 * Added `date` command.61 * Usability improvements of the `edit` command62 * Added `untar` utility (non-compressed tarballs only)63 * `wavplay` plays Wave Audio File format (.wav) files64 * `modplay` plays Amiga-style tracker modules (.mod, .xm)65 66 25 === Libraries === 67 68 * New automatically resizing hash table container type.69 * Userspace logging framework and `logger`.70 * `printf()` support for floating point numbers.71 72 26 73 27 === Miscellaneous ===