Changes between Version 25 and Version 26 of ReleaseNotes/Mainline

Timestamp:

2017-10-12T19:55:01Z (7 years ago)

Author:

Jakub Jermář

Comment:

Update release notes, still needs some work

ReleaseNotes/Mainline

@@ -15 +15 @@
 === Kernel ===
 
+  * Basic support for capabilities
+   * IPC phones have in fact been a sort of capabilities since the beginning. This work generalizes some of the IPC code to support more kernel object types.
+   * IRQ structures are now managed using capabilities. It is no longer possible to unregister someone else's IRQ.
+   * The limit of 64 IPC phones has been removed and is now virtually infinite.
+   * The kernel is now using the resizable hash table which has been already used in uspace since 2012.
+
 === Services and Drivers ===
+
+  * The naming service was converted to use the async framework
+  * CUDA driver was converted to the Device Driver Framework
 
 === File Systems ===
@@ -25 +34 @@
   * Overhaul of the [wiki:FilesystemAPITutorial client interface]; all APIs begin with the vfs_ prefix and can be used after including vfs/vfs.h
   * Removal of some POSIX-ish headers and definitions
+  * File system probing
+  * Volume label support
 
 === Networking ===
+
+  * Lots of networking fixes in TCP, DNS and HTTP protocols
+  * TCP unit tests
 
 === Applications ===
 
 === Libraries ===
+
+  * Effort towards greater C11 compliance and a clearer cut between HelenOS-specific, C11 and POSIX code
 
 === Miscellaneous ===