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
• Support for BeagleBoard XM

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

Services and Drivers

• CMOS real time clock driver
• Input driver for the isdv4 tablet
• The input server now supports Arabic keyboard layout.

File Systems

• The read-only ext2fs server was superseded by a more complete ext4fs server, with write support and some aspects of etx3 and ext4.
• Read-only UDF support in the new udf server.

Networking

Applications

• bithenge
• Added date command.
• Usability improvements of the edit command

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 report.
• Notable regressions

Fixed Logged Bugs & Enhancements

• For the list of all logged defects fixed in this release, see this report.
• For the list of all logged enhancements integrated in this release, see this report.

Known Bugs

• For the list of known bugs still not fixed in this release, see this report.
• For the list of all open tickets, see this report.