Redox OS 0.6.0
By jackpot51 on
You can download the 0.6.0 images here
Overview
A number of new projects have been introduced during this release cycle, and many improvements have been landed. Very many bugs have been squashed. This list is an extreme over-simplification of the thousands of commits done since the last release. Hopefully, releases will happen more often so this is not always the case.
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rmm, a complete rewrite of the kernel memory manager. This has eliminated kernel memory leaks, which became quite an issue with the previous memory manager. Additionally, multi-core support is far more stable.
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Much of the work of RSoC, sponsored by donations to Redox OS, has been integrated into this new release. This includes work on ptrace, strace, gdb, disk partitioning, logging, io_uring, and more.
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relibc has seen a large amount of work, culminating in improvements for anything that depends on it (i.e. everything in userspace).
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pkgar is a new package format. It is much faster to create and extract than the previous tar format.
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cookbook has been redesigned to support a new rust-based build system. This build system uses toml files instead of shell scripts, and a number of packages have been ported to it.
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A large portion of this release cycle was spent struggling with a breaking change in Rust nightlies, where the
asmmacro was redesigned. This change was completed many months ago, but other issues kept us from a release.
Code Changes
Please use the following links to see many of the code changes since the last release:
- redox
- cookbook
- kernel
- relibc
- Many other repositories have changed, but are not tracked in the main Redox repository. I encourage you to browse through our projects on the Redox OS GitLab