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 ​Git master. (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

Kernel

User Interface

• Windows can now be minimized (and unminimized)
• Active window is now highlighted in the task bar
• Added system menu to make WM functions accessible via keyboard (use F10, arrow keys)
• Added generic list control (in addition to file list)
• Menu entries can now be disabled
• Menus will pop up above the menu bar if the do not fit below
• Menus will not be obscured by task bar
• Support for multple seats (i.e. multi-seat)
• Fixed menu accelerator keys not working when Caps Lock is enabled

Services and Drivers

• In addition to Ctrl-key and Shift-key, serial console now supports Alt-key combinations
  • Useful e.g. for opening menus

File Systems

Networking

Applications

• New UI and command-line display configuration utilities (display-cfg and disp) for configuring seats

Libraries

• loc_server_register() can be called more than once
  • So that more components in one task can independently register services
  • Added complementary function loc_server_unregister()

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.