Release Notes for HelenOS Trunk

Note: This is the draft for a future HelenOS release. As such it is a work in progress. The software described here has not been released yet. To get these latest and greatest features now, check out our SVN trunk. (But you will also get the latest bugs).

HelenOS version was released on date.

Features Introduced in This Release

Drivers

• Ramdisk driver (rd) now uses an abstract block device interface.
• New block device drivers: gxe_bd (for GXemul disk device), ata_bd (for ATA disks simulated in Qemu), file_bd (block device backed by a file)

Regressions in This Release

• Mouse support temporarily removed. This was too ugly. A new mouse driver will be reintroduced in a near future release.

Known Bugs