redox - 0.5.0 Latest Release

Published by jackpot51 over 5 years ago

Release Notes: https://www.redox-os.org/news/release-0.5.0/

redox - 0.3.5 - New Network Stack

Published by jackpot51 over 6 years ago

Please discuss this release on our Discourse Forum

Notable changes include:

New network stack
More available packages
Improved security
Netsurf web browser
Alpha blended terminal
Terminal ANSI improvements
Rename system call
Kernel ACPI improvements
Graphical kernel debugging during ACPI initialization

Known issues:

The calendar application is not rendering due to a regression in OrbTK
Netsurf has no icon, run netsurf-fb from the terminal

More detail can be found in the following news articles:

This was posted in the following places:

redox - 0.3.4 - Filesystem UUID

Published by jackpot51 about 7 years ago

This release focuses on changes to RedoxFS, the bootloader, and the kernel to enable filesystem UUIDs.

The basic logic is this:

The bootloader loads the kernel from RedoxFS on the disk it is present on
The bootloader passes the UUID as an environmental variable to the kernel
The kernel passes the environmental variables to the init process
The init script for the init filesystem passes this UUID as an argument to RedoxFS
RedoxFS searches all available disks for a filesystem matching this UUID, and mounts it as the root filesystem

This was particularly important for the installation of Redox.

redox - 0.3.3 - Lower Memory Usage

Published by jackpot51 about 7 years ago

This release brings much lower memory usage with ISO - 480 MB instead of 1300 MB. There are also other bug fixes, features, and improvements.

Download the ISO here.

VirtualBox with Intel PRO/1000 Ethernet will be the most feature-complete experience. Only 64-bit x86 systems are supported. Give the VM at least 1 GB of RAM for the best results. The default username is user with an empty password. There is also a root user with a password of password.

Please post your questions and comments here:
Discussion on Hacker News
Discussion on Reddit /r/redox
Discussion on Reddit /r/rust

If you are interested in joining our chat, send an email to info at redox-os.org.

If you would like to donate, you can do so here

kernel

Improve live filesystem implementation
Fix TLS mapping by page aligning end of TLS
Implement pipe events
More verbose crash dumps
Improve debugging code

coreutils

Fix directory handling in mv

ion

Add support for app-dirs
Fix handling of foreground processes

netstack

Send events on connect, improve C socket implementation

orbtk

Fix scrolling in textbox
Add borders to menu entries

termion

Fix issue with piping into less

redox - 0.3.2

Published by jackpot51 about 7 years ago

Discussion on Reddit
Torrent

Updates to ion
Much better login screen
Added open dialog for Editor
Implemented all file menu items in Editor
Improved ACPI implementation
Better window ordering in Orbital

redox - 0.3.1 - POSIXLY_CORRECT

Published by jackpot51 about 7 years ago

Discussion on Reddit

As many of the changes are related to self hosting, by @ids1024, I have named this release POSIXLY_CORRECT. Most changes are managed independently from this repository, making it difficult to track them all. More detailed information can be found in news articles since the last release:

This release runs best if you can meet the following requirements:

2 GB RAM
32 MB VRAM
PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard
Intel 8254x Ethernet
Intel HDA audio
XHCI USB

redox - 0.3.0 - The Return of the Redox

Published by jackpot51 over 7 years ago

Discussion on Reddit

Summary

It has been a while since our last release, on April 22! I cannot possible represent all of the changes to Redox OS since then, so the best way to experience them is to try it out yourself! I have listed the changes I think are biggest below. Here are the changes to our distribution repository since 0.2.0

This release was particularly challenging. The build process has been switched over to using the cookbook, and a cross compiler is now used instead of a gcc wrapper script located here. These two changes required a large amount effort to make the system compile correctly and easily again, and to get Travis builds to work. Improvements have been made to the kernel, ion, newlib, and many other projects.

Cookbook

However, due to this effort, we can now produce Redox installations from the same recipes that produce package builds, meaning that every file in a default Redox install has been installed by a package, and can be managed by the package manager. Due to a change in the bootloader allowing the kernel to be loaded from RedoxFS, this will also include the kernel soon.

To view all of the currently available packages, view the repository listing, or the repository description file

Self-hosting

Also, due to using a real cross compiler for the build, we have been able to significantly improve support for C software. Massive steps have been made in the direction of self-hosting, with the porting of binutils, newlib, gcc, nasm, llvm, and rustc to Redox. Work, mostly by @ids1024, is currently focusing on porting git. This has also identified and fixed many problems with our POSIX support, and improved the overall functionality of Redox.

Posts from @ids1024 about self-hosting can be found here:

ACPI

In addition to these two changes, the kernel has been improved. @CWood1 has written a shiny, new ACPI stack that includes an AML parser. This allows shutdown on Redox to be done correctly on nearly all systems. Support for the HPET has also been added, with a fallback to the PIT when it is not present. Eventually I hope that we will be able to correctly suspend and resume Redox by running the parsed AML.

Ion

Ion has gone through a huge amount of development, mostly by @mmstick, who has been maintaining it. There have been 139 commits to ion since the last release, adding new syntax, improving bugs, and adding new features. View them here

TWiRx

In addition, This Week in Redox has been restarted by @goyox86. Here are the articles since the last release:

redox - 0.2.0 - 2 Years of Redox

Published by jackpot51 over 7 years ago

🎉 🍰 As of 2017-04-20, Redox OS has been on GitHub for two years! 🍰 🎉

Due to the number of positive changes that have happened, the version has been bumped to 0.2!

Please discuss this release on Reddit.

The most major changes are an increase in kernel performance, a complete implementation of frame allocation (and deallocation) in the kernel, a new sys:iostat to inspect all open file handles, resizing and scrolling in the editor, and more ion shell features.

This list of changes came from a line-by-line review of all changes since 0.1.5, which was released 13 days before this release.

Redox Distribution

View changes here

Add Cargo.lock, to track dependencies in GIT
Add the following as submodules, to track changes: event, extra, jpeg-decoder, mio, orbclient, orbfont, orbimage, orbtk, pager, ralloc, ransid, same-file, syscall, tar, termion
Readd binutils, games, and sodium as submodules
Update recommended rustc to 2017-04-22 nightly
Increase default size of filesystem to 128 MB
Update Rust submodule
Implement fcntl in ptyd
Implement fpath in randd

Kernel

View changes here

Add __rust_allocate_zeroed in alloc_kernel
Fix initfs generation listing bug
Remove Copy implementation from context::File
Add flags to context::File
Increase performance of memcpy, memmove, memset, and memcmp
Implement kernel closest-fit page frame allocator (removes memory leak from the old bump allocator)
Free page frames recursively, to free all empty tables
Implement handles in debug:, so that O_NONBLOCK and fcntl can be used
Implement fcntl and fpath for debug:, env:, event:, initfs:, irq:, live:, memory:, null:, pipe:, root:, time:, and zero:
Create a sys:iostat that can be used to inspect all open file descriptors
Implement O_CLOEXEC in the kernel
Implement #! interpreted scripts in exec
Fix bug causing grandparents of exited parents of exited children to not receive the error status of exited children
Add linker-flavor to targets

Coreutils

View changes here

Add uniq command
Use buffered output in ls
Add -f, -F, and -s to tail
Fix issue with -a in tee not creating files
Calculate characters with UTF-8 in wc
Cleanup coreutils library in lib.rs
Add a UTF-8 test file

Drivers

View changes here

Implement fpath in ahcid and e1000d
Switch vesad to use handles and support per-handle flags, like O_NONBLOCK
Fix bug in port layout in xhcid

Extrautils

View changes here

Add keymap utility (not yet functional)
Human readable format for screenfetch uptime
Move tar into extrautils

Init

View changes here

Open stdio without O_CLOEXEC
Cleanup run.d

Ion

View changes here

Add script arguments $0, $1, $2, ...
Improve syntax and performance
Implement piping for built-ins
Add echo, calc, test, and time as built-ins
Add description to all built-ins
Refactor modules
Update README.md

Netutils

View changes here

Exit wget with error when remote server returns an error status

Orbutils

View changes here

Implement URL dialog in browser (press enter to open)
Implement resizing for character_map, editor, and file_manager
Implement scrolling in editor
Refactor launcher
Add time to launcher
Remove O_CLOEXEC from stdio in terminal
Reduce redraws in terminal
Close terminal after exit

Orbdata

View changes here

Convert orbital configuration to TOML

Orbital

View changes here

Use TOML for configuration
Refactor to use fevent, rather than using two blocking threads

Pkgutils

View changes here

Implement install of local packages
Use io:copy to reduce memory usage for package downloads

RedoxFS

View changes here

Fix seek bug
Implement O_APPEND

redox - 0.1.5

Published by jackpot51 over 7 years ago

This list of changes came from a line-by-line review of all changes since 0.1.4. Some changes outside of the redox repository, and its submodules, have not been captured.

This implements terminal resizing, and VirtualBox screen resizing. If you resize the terminal, run:

eval $(resize)

This will fix the COLUMNS and LINES variables.

Redox (Distribution)

Remove binutils and games by default, they can be installed with pkg
Remove cookbook submodule, it must be out-of-tree due to Cargo.toml
Add timeout example
Remove liner replacement
Add termion replacement
Update README.md
Improve example installer file /etc/installer.toml
Add pkg remote repository configuration in /etc/pkg.d
Remove display passthrough in contain
Use login by default as the starting program in contain
Add read and write timeouts to tcp: and udp:

Drivers

Updated to newest master
Added alxd driver for Atheros ethernet, still WIP
Updated pcid to enable PCI memory and I/O spaces by default
Added AZERTY and BEPO keymap to ps2d
Add VirtualBox screen resizing features
Implement resizing in vesad
Fix off-by-one panics in vesad
Implement cursor position queries in vesad

Installer

Updated to newest master
Ability to install from source using cookbook
Cleanup of package installation by using pkgutils directly

Kernel

Updated to newest master
Combine arch and kernel to simplify design
Fix typos in README.md
Implement timeouts with time: scheme
Fix serial interrupt handling
Cleanup allocations to use new API

Libc Artifacts

Updated to newest master
Fix linker warning messages

Coreutils

Updated to newest master
Fix typo in ls
Add --unique option to sort

Extrautils

Updated to newest master
Added gunzip, gzip, and resize

Ion

Updated to newest master
Massive improvements to syntax
Update README.md
More examples
Bug fixes
Update dependencies

Netutils

Updated to newest master
Use timeouts in dhcpd and wget
Improve wget errors

Orbital

Updated to newest master
Implement screen resizing
Add unclosable flag
Fix maximize bug

Orbutils

Updated to newest master
Add timeouts to browser
Flow browser based on window size
Implement Open in editor
Use mime and mime_guess to cleanup icon logic in file_manager
Resize launcher when screen resizes
Cleanup orblogin with variables
Make orblogin unclosable
Implement resizing in terminal
Implement ANSI mouse encoding in terminal
Implement alternate screen in terminal
Fix scrolling in terminal
Fix Linux support for terminal

Pkgutils

Updated to newest master
Add configurable remote repositories in /etc/pkg.d
Use timeouts in pkg
Cleanup pkgutils library with Repo abstraction
Make it possible to install with a prefix

Smith

Updated to newest master
Update termion
Refactor state machine
Update README.md

Userutils

Updated to newest master
Ask for password in sudo, if it exists
Fail sudo after 3 attempts

Rust

Updated to newest master

redox - 0.1.4

Published by jackpot51 over 7 years ago

This release improves VirtualBox networking, fixes bugs, and improves user experience

Kernels and Drivers

Fixed kernel issue causing infinite wakeups after nanosleep
Switched drivers from using pause and cli to yield_now without any cli
Added link detection to e1000d

CLI

Updated coreutils and ion
Fixed head and tail

GUI

Changed algorithm for automatic window placement in orbital
Set sane sizes for all orbutils programs, they will fit screen size on smaller screens

redox - 0.1.3 - VirtualBox Integration

Published by jackpot51 over 7 years ago

This release integrates much better with VirtualBox, implementing ACPI shutdown support, mouse integration, and more reliable PS/2 support.

To shutdown, run sudo shutdown from a terminal.

In addition, automatic resolution setting in VirtualBox, and manual resolution setting from the command line in QEMU will be available in a coming release.

redox - 0.1.2 - Fix VirtualBox (Hopefully)

Published by jackpot51 over 7 years ago

This release comes with a load of sweet changes. The most important should be that the usage of Redox OS in VirtualBox has been significantly improved. All three Intel ethernet controllers are supported, and IRQ handling has been fixed.

Here is a rendering of this page in Redox OS, in VirtualBox

Here are the VirtualBox settings used, in version 5.1.6

Very Important Changes

Kernel

Switched interrupt handling to use manual EOI, which should be more compatible and should fix VirtualBox issues

Filesystem

Fixed path parsing issue, which caused a open("/example/non_existent/file", O_CREAT) to create /example/file

Very Cool Changes

CLI

Significant updates to ion, fixing many syntax issues and adding many features. See the changes here.
Added test program, which now compiles for Redox
Updated coreutils and extrautils
Modify wget and pkg to use hyper, removing a lot of unnecesary code

GUI

Updated cursor theme, added resize cursors for right, bottom, and bottom right edges
Scrolling in the file manager
Use of hyper in the browser
Allow the browser to open local html with file://
Fixes for browser panics
Fixes for browser handling of Content-Type
Improve terminal render speed
Add terminal window titles

Very Boring Changes

Drivers

Updated drivers
Added PCI IDs for more Intel ethernet controllers

Rust

Update Rust to new nightly

redox - 0.1.1 - Orbital Feature Rush

Published by jackpot51 over 7 years ago

Orbital Feature Rush

This release adds support for resizing windows, mouse scroll, changing window titles, and improves the look and feel of many Redox applications.

Mirrors

Github ISO

Dropbox ISO
Dropbox Torrent

Mega ISO
Mega Torrent

# sha256sum livedisk.iso
5f70040ae8c81736b517c7afb27c38526f5fc05b345a29db2d6caa7ef8fb88ef  livedisk.iso

Screenshots

See more in the album here

Changelog

Orbital

Fira Sans for window fonts
Resizable backgrounds, with zoom, scale, fill, and center modes
Multiple background support
Window resizing, using border dragging
Ability to change window title
Pass scroll events to applications

Orbclient

Add scroll events
Add resize window flag
Catch resize and move events
Fix SDL2 backend to provide the same events as the Orbital backend

Orbutils

Improve performance of file manager
Use TTF font in terminal
Improve look and feel of launcher
Allow viewer to resize
Allow browser to resize
Browser can scroll with mouse wheel

redox - 0.1.0 - Visual Refresh

Published by jackpot51 over 7 years ago

For more information about this release, see the Reddit post

The UI has been overhauled, marking a good point for a minor version bump.

The build log can be found here: https://travis-ci.org/redox-os/redox/builds/204817563

redox - 0.0.9

Published by jackpot51 over 7 years ago

This release does the following:

Updates the kernel IRQ model to solve issues with IRQs.
Moves PIC initialization to the kernel from the bootloader
Updates the file manager to fix navigation and display issues
Updates the browser to add HTTPS
Updates ion to fix if behavior with variables
Updates smith

redox - 0.0.8

Published by jackpot51 over 7 years ago

Fix for VirtualBox lockups. Update of drivers and kernel for better error handling.

The ISO will be available when this build completes: https://travis-ci.org/redox-os/redox/builds/199501117

The Redox installer is present in this release, and can be used to build a container.

# Create a Redox container at "sysroot"
redox_installer /etc/installer/minimal.toml
# Enter the new Redox container
sudo contain sysroot
# Show processes, RNS and ENS will change based on current container
ps

redox - 0.0.7

Published by jackpot51 over 7 years ago

Updates to all submodules, including the kernel, drivers, coreutils, orbutils, and Rust. Addition of the Redox installer and screenfetch. Fixes for init. Initial HTTPS support in wget.

ISO release will happen when this build completes: https://travis-ci.org/redox-os/redox/builds/197724728

redox - 0.0.6

Published by jackpot51 almost 8 years ago

If you had issues with 0.0.5, many of them have been fixed with 0.0.6, or are better reported.

If you encounter any issues, please try to capture the serial port output and upload it in a GitHub issue.

redox - 0.0.5

Published by jackpot51 almost 8 years ago

This release fixes an issue with kernel grants not being cleaned up correctly before a context is reaped. This should fix #764 and #767

redox - 0.0.4

Published by jackpot51 almost 8 years ago

This release fixes kernel paging issues causing a kernel panic in the event that ipd does not find a network interface. This may also fix random freezes caused by the same paging issue.