Announcement: Genode 12.08 improves NOVA and ARM support

Today Genode Labs released the 4th anniversary version of the Genode
OS Framework. Most notable are the NOVA microhypervisor platform
improvements for x86 64bit, object-integrity protection, and
centralized kernel-resource allocation in core as well as
comprehensive support for the OMAP4 SoC used in the PandaBoard.

A quick overview of all changes that come with version 12.08:

- Base platforms
  - New base-hw platform for running the framework on
    bare ARM hardware
  - NOVA support for x86_64, object integrity protection,
    core-only kernel-resource allocation
- New OMAP4 SoC device drivers
  - HDMI output
  - SD-card
  - USB HID
  - Networking
- New FFAT-based file-system service
- New TAR file-system service
- Improved Noux runtime
  - New port of the Lynx web browser
  - Shell scripting support
- 3rd-party libraries
  - New ports of openssl, pcre, expat
  - MPC, libgmp for x86_64 and ARM
  - lwIP updated to version 1.4.1-rc1
- New port of the lighttpd web server

More details are described in the release notes

  http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/12.08

Have fun with our new release
-- 
Christian Helmuth
Genode Labs

http://www.genode-labs.com/ · http://genode.org/ · /ˈdʒiː.nəʊd/

Genode Labs GmbH · Amtsgericht Dresden · HRB 28424 · Sitz Dresden
Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth

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