= 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.
  * Converted the ATA driver ata_bd to DDF

=== 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  * The read-only `ext2fs` server was superseded by a more complete `ext4fs` server, with write support and some aspects of ext3 and ext4.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.

=== Networking ===

  * DNS host name resolution
  * SLIP protocol support 

=== 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 [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].