Changes between Version 79 and Version 80 of ReleaseNotes/Mainline

Timestamp:

2018-11-08T14:51:08Z (5 years ago)

Author:

Jiri Svoboda

Comment:

Add stuff and stuff

ReleaseNotes/Mainline

@@ -13 +13 @@
 === General ===
 
+ * Prevent endless loops when printing userspace stack traces
+
 === Kernel ===
+ * Kernel is now stored in standard ELF format 
+ * Ordered dictionary ({{{odict.h}}}) now available in kernel
+   * Container based on red-black trees
+   * Replaced AVL trees (storing task and thread structures)
+   * Replaced some uses of B+ trees
 
 === Services and Drivers ===
@@ -21 +28 @@
   * With custom build (ia32 + CPU=486) you can run in {{{qemu-system-i386 -M isapc}}}
 
+=== GUI ===
+ * Fix some display issues related to a bug in the alpha blending implementation
+
 === File Systems ===
- * Persistent storage / system volume (TODO)
+ * {{{fdisk}}} can now configure mount point for a volume
+ * We can now create Ext4 (Ext2, actually,) file systems
+ * Support volume labels with Ext4
+ * Ext4(2) is the default new file system type for fdisk
+ * Sysinst now creates Ext4(2) to install HelenOS to
+ * {{{vol insert}}} can be used to re-insert a previously ejected volume
+ * Persistent storage / system volume
+   * Sysinst will now configure a persistent /w directory 
+   * Tetris will now store high-score table under /w allowing it to persist across reboots
 
 === Networking ===
 
 === Applications ===
+ * LaiNES, an NES emulator [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuIRIBnj0lk&feature=youtu.be ported]
+ * [https://github.com/jxsvoboda/gzx/commits/master GZX], a ZX Spectrum emulator
+   * Experimental HelenOS support in upstream since January 2018
+ * {{{tester ping_pong}}} benchmark now computes average and standard deviation across multiple runs
+ * {{{contacts}}} is a trivial interactive utility to demonstrate the use of SIF
 
 === Libraries ===
+ * libc
+    * Clean separation of fibrils and async framework
+    * added {{{strtold}}}
+    * replaced {{{<atomic.h>}}} with standard {{{<stdatomic.h>}}}
+    * 'x' fopen file mode modifier from C11
+ * SIF an API for managing structured data
 
 === Miscellaneous ===
+ * Eliminate use of custom linker scripts for user space code
+ * Further work on reviving [http://ci.helenos.org/latest/doxygen/ Doxygen Reference]
+ * Init data is now stored as a tar archive of gzip-compressed files
+ * Server binaries under {{{/srv}}} are now in sub-directories
+ * Init data can now be configured to be uncompressed (used by default ont GTA02 and ski) for faster boot
+ * Can compile with undefined behavior sanitizer in either kernel, user space or both
 
 == Regressions in This Release ==