= Release Notes for HelenOS mainline =

'''Note:''' This document is a draft describing a future HelenOS release and is subject to change. The software described here has not been released yet. To get these latest and greatest features now, check out our Bazaar mainline. (But you will also get the latest bugs).

HelenOS ''version (codename) '' was released on ''date''.

This document contains a summary of changes made to HelenOS since release previous release.

== Special Notes for this Release ==

== Features Introduced in This Release ==

=== General ===

  * Simple windowing GUI
  * Audio support
  * Support for !BeagleBoard XM and !BeagleBone
  * Support for LEON3 (SPARC V8)
  * Support for Raspberry Pi

=== Kernel ===

  * Tasks are allowed to terminate even if they have unanswered IPC messages.
  * Support for guard pages.
  * Support for large user stacks.
  * Kernel serial driver for arm32/IntegratorCP
  * Scrollback support in the kernel debugging console

=== Services and Drivers ===

  * CMOS real time clock driver
  * Input driver for the isdv4 tablet
  * The `input` server now supports Arabic keyboard layout.
  * Converted the ATA driver ata_bd to DDF
  * Sound Blaster 16 audio driver (works in QEMU)
  * Remote framebuffer protocol (a.k.a. VNC) server
  * Driver for the Realtek 8169 and compatible Ethernet adapters

=== File Systems ===

  * The read-only `ext2fs` server was superseded by a more complete `ext4fs` server, with write support and some aspects of ext3 and ext4.
  * Read-only UDF support in the new `udf` server.
  * CDFS now supports the Joliet extension to ISO 9660 (Unicode long file names)
  * Display disk usage / free space information -- {{{df}}} utility

=== Networking ===

  * `nic` utility to query and manipulate the state of the present NIC adapters
  * Initial IPv6 support
  * DNS host name resolution
  * Automatic network configuration via DHCP 
  * SLIP protocol support
  * HTTP downloader tool {{{download}}}

=== Applications ===

  * `bithenge`
  * Added `date` command.
  * Usability improvements of the `edit` command
  * Added `untar` utility (non-compressed tarballs only)

=== Libraries ===

  * New automatically resizing hash table container type.
  * Userspace logging framework and `logger`.
  * `printf()` support for floating point numbers.


=== Miscellaneous ===

== Regressions in This Release ==

 * For the list of regressions since the previous release, see this [query:keywords=codename_regression report].
 * Notable regressions

== Fixed Logged Bugs & Enhancements ==
  * For the list of all logged defects fixed in this release, see this [query:status=closed&resolution=fixed&milestone=release&type=defect report].
  * For the list of all logged enhancements integrated in this release, see this [query:status=closed&resolution=fixed&milestone=release&type=enhancement report].

== Known Bugs ==

 * For the list of known bugs still not fixed in this release, see this [report:3 report].
 * For the list of all open tickets, see this [report:1 report].