0.7.0

Highlights

• Detect memory from fdt by @duanyu-yu in #1074
• fuse: reduce copying and handle errors by @cagatay-y in #1084
• build(deps): bump hermit-entry from 0.9.10 to 0.10.0 by @mkroening in #1132
  • Hermit now requires at least the Hermit loader v0.5.0 or Uhyve v0.3.0

What's Changed

• Use a trait for the common Virtq interface by @cagatay-y in #1053
• improve compatibility to the BSD socket layer by @stlankes in #1085
• remove obsolete code by @stlankes in #1086
• ignore unsupported kernel flags by @stlankes in #1094
• add option to start a simple shell as async task by @stlankes in #1096
• introduce feature flag nostd to boot the kernel without std by @stlankes in #1098
• feat: implement system calls with attribute proc macro by @mkroening in #1105
• fix(fuse): fix fat pointer metadata by @mkroening in #1112
• fuse: fix incorrect len field in command headers by @cagatay-y in #1113
• feat(shutdown): always try qemu debug exit for error codes by @mkroening in #1119
• feat: align Uhyve mount path to virtiofsd by @mkroening in #1120
• fix(riscv64): make time stubbing warning less noisy by @mkroening in #1131
• refactor: make platform matches non-exhaustive by @mkroening in #1133

New Contributors

• @duanyu-yu made their first contribution in #1074

Full Changelog: v0.6.9...v0.7.0

0.6.9

What's Changed

• refactor(eventfd): use ready! to extract Poll::Ready by @mkroening in #1067
• fix(executor): replace Pin::new_unchecked with pin! by @mkroening in #1072
• prepare kernel to use it as monolithic kernel by @stlankes in #1069
• refactor(scheduler): use ready! for extracting Poll::Ready by @mkroening in #1077
• improve compatibility to BSD sockets by @stlankes in #1081
• add error number in thread local storage by @stlankes in #1082

Full Changelog: v0.6.8...v0.6.9

0.6.8

Hightlights

• add basic support of a virtual filesystem by @stlankes in #1013
• add support of a unix-like poll function by @stlankes in #1046
• add basic support a linux-like syscall evendfd by @stlankes in #1052
• Refactor FUSE by @cagatay-y in #1047
• fix(x86_64): support GNU variant of TLS by @mkroening in #1062

What's Changed

• add feature syscall to run kernel as standalone application by @stlankes in #1011
• if the feature syscall is enabled, don't switch the stack by @stlankes in #1012
• rename the feature "syscall" to "common-os" by @stlankes in #1026
• doc: fix broken internal links by @cagatay-y in #1023
• using crate semihosting on aarch64 by @stlankes in #1040
• fix: overflow in time calculation on AArch64 by @mkroening in #1041
• chore: add .vscode/settings.json by @mkroening in #993
• forward error code to the host by @stlankes in #1048
• unlink is only able to delete a file by @stlankes in #1049
• Remove Pinned by @cagatay-y in #983
• add CI tests for the MIO support by @stlankes in #1061
• perf(fs/mem): minimize locking duration of pos by @mkroening in #1066
• fix(eventfd): add explicit guard drop to avoid deadlock by @mkroening in #1065
• refactor(PollEvent): simplify flag propagation by @mkroening in #1064

Full Changelog: v0.6.7...v0.6.8

0.6.7

Highlights

• feat: make ready for instrumentation by @mkroening in #991
• feat: make hermit-builtins a workspace root by @mkroening in #1004
• feat: add sys_image_start_address by @mkroening in #999
• add recvfrom and sendto support by @stlankes in #1007

What's Changed

• ci: test everything with SMP by @mkroening in #994
• chore: update Rust to nightly-2023-12-01 by @mkroening in #996
• ci: use latest Firecracker after 1.5.1 release by @mkroening in #1000
• fix(AP Boot): remove nops by @mkroening in #1001
• build: upgrade to nightly-2023-12-15 by @mkroening in #1006
• chore: release version 0.6.7 by @mkroening in #1009

Full Changelog: v0.6.6...v0.6.7

0.6.6

Highlights

• feat: add 64-bit RISC-V support by @mkroening in #800

What's Changed

• chore: upgrade to nightly-2023-10-01 by @mkroening in #939
• chore: remove explicit dependency on tock-registers by @mkroening in #938
• chore: remove clippy allow for false positive by @mkroening in #944
• ci: only cache the main branch by @cagatay-y in #947
• fix(net): deallocate network buffers by @mkroening in #943
• ci: use a matrix for test configurations by @cagatay-y in #940
• ci: improve caches by @mkroening in #954
• refactor: use cfg-if for arch module by @mkroening in #948
• ci: pin firecracker to 1.4.1 by @mkroening in #965
• chore: upgrade to nightly-2023-10-15 by @mkroening in #956
• Minimize casts to pointers by @cagatay-y in #964
• chore: upgrade to nightly-2023-11-01 by @mkroening in #970
• chore: rename rusty-loader to hermit-loader by @mkroening in #971
• collect configuration of mmio devices by @stlankes in #968
• chore: upgrade to nightly-2023-11-15 by @mkroening in #977
• fix(rust-toolchain.toml): remove x86_64-unknown-none by @mkroening in #978
• fix(xtask): misc by @mkroening in #980
• chore: release version 0.6.6 by @mkroening in #990

New Contributors

• @cagatay-y made their first contribution in #947

Full Changelog: v0.6.5...v0.6.6

0.6.5

Highlights

• NASM is no longer required for SMP on x86-64 (#926)

What's Changed

• improve the readability by @stlankes in #845
• avoid unneeded programming of the timer interrupt by @stlankes in #847
• add support of VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF by @stlankes in #848
• build: upgrade Rust to nightly-2023-08-15 by @mkroening in #854
• fix: support lib tests on Apple Silicon by @mkroening in #856
• refactor(Cargo.toml): sort tests, features, dependencies by @mkroening in #858
• feat: rename crate to hermit-kernel by @mkroening in #860
• chore: adapt to hermit-rs' kernel renaming by @mkroening in #863
• chore(Cargo.toml): remove CMakeLists.txt from exclude by @mkroening in #862
• chore: rename RustyHermit to Hermit by @mkroening in #864
• chore: remove GitLab CI config by @mkroening in #861
• build(deps): upgrade zerocopy from 0.6.3 to 0.7.0 by @mkroening in #869
• feat: initialize heap after paging by @mkroening in #857
• chore(Cargo.toml): omit patch version from dependencies by @mkroening in #871
• fix(comments): fix repo links in TODOs by @mkroening in #872
• Updated Logo by @jounathaen in #873
• refactor: remove get_tls_* functions by @mkroening in #874
• ci: set network tests on aarch64 to continue-on-error by @mkroening in #876
• refactor(env): replace get_cmdline, get_cmdsize with args by @mkroening in #875
• create dummy folder to share files between host and guest by @stlankes in #883
• return error also in the closing state by @stlankes in #881
• add basic UDP support by @stlankes in #882
• build(toolchain): update to nightly-2023-09-01 by @mkroening in #885
• build(deps): upgrade talc to version 3 by @mkroening in #890
• add CI test for the UDP support by @stlankes in #891
• ci: change UDP port to 9975 by @mkroening in #892
• ci: run on main branch too to create caches by @mkroening in #893
• ci: cache the kernel workspace too by @mkroening in #894
• fix(aarch64): properly disable interrupts on mutexes by @mkroening in #896
• add KVM tests with uhyve, qemu and firecracker by @stlankes in #895
• fix: proper firecracker shutdown by @mkroening in #901
• ci: reorder kvm job by @mkroening in #902
• ci: install kernel toolchain too by @mkroening in #907
• feat(xtask): add ci subcommand by @mkroening in #879
• fix(scheduler): move cursor creation to first use by @mkroening in #908
• style(xtask): use Self instead of Arch in impl by @mkroening in #909
• refactor(scheduler): simplify add_network_timer by @mkroening in #915
• publish main branch (master isn't longer supported) by @stlankes in #916
• ci: add -y --no-install-recommends for self-hosted by @mkroening in #919
• chore: upgrade hermit-sync to 0.1.5 by @mkroening in #918
• chore: upgrade to nightly-2023-09-15 by @mkroening in #920
• Make core_scheduler sound by @mkroening in #912
• Extend the FUSE support by @stlankes in #917
• Replace HermitCore with Hermit by @mkroening in #927
• feat: remove NASM dependency by @mkroening in #926
• fix(paging): add debug functionality for identity mapped pagetables by @sarahspberrypi in #928
• chore: release version 0.6.5 by @mkroening in #933

New Contributors

• @sarahspberrypi made their first contribution in #928

Full Changelog: v0.6.4...v0.6.5

v0.6.4

What's Changed

• fix bug in the initialization of the virtio network driver

Full Changelog: v0.6.3...v0.6.4

v0.6.3: improving the performance

What's Changed

• improve network performance
• add option to enable / disable of FUSE support
• remove bug in the initialization of the memory subsystem
• using Talc as memory allocator to improve the overall performance

Full Changelog: v0.6.2...v0.6.3

0.6.2

What's Changed

• disable kaniko cache by @stlankes in #711
• Make CoreLocal repr(C) by @nathanwhyte in #705
• Implements PriorityTaskQueue with std's LinkedList rather than a custom linked list implementation by @michaelRichards99 in #706
• Change alignment of virtiofs structs to be based on the first field. by @joannejchen in #709
• Replace use of internal syscalls by @nathanwhyte in #715
• virtio-net: Replace AsSliceU8 trait with zerocopy::AsBytes. by @joannejchen in #716
• Add basic docs for timer and semaphore syscalls by @nathanwhyte in #719
• remove deprecated functions and use hermit-dtb from crates.io by @stlankes in #723
• add check if the idle task has to give up the processor by @stlankes in #724
• don't initialize IO-APIC for uhyve by @stlankes in #725
• remove obsolete function detect_from_uhyve by @stlankes in #726
• move hardware independent function is_uhyve to env by @stlankes in #728
• remove typo by @stlankes in #729
• remove trailing null characters by @stlankes in #730
• don't leak memory if the environment is empty by @stlankes in #731
• revise aarch64 support by @stlankes in #732
• add RTC support and determine boot time by @stlankes in #733
• revise assertion by @stlankes in #734
• revise TLS handling by @stlankes in #736
• using arm-gic to programm the ARM Generic Interrupt Controller by @stlankes in #741
• Delete bors.toml by @mkroening in #742
• revise PCI support by @stlankes in #745
• test also the virtio network interface by @stlankes in #747
• add option to program the the PCI bars by @stlankes in #748
• remove old socket interface by @stlankes in #681
• remove compiler warnings for the target aarch64 by @stlankes in #751
• remove some clippy warnings by @stlankes in #752
• use within an interrupt handler scheduler::abort instead of syscall exit by @stlankes in #753
• remove unneeded code by @stlankes in #754
• use kernel stack to allocate memory by @stlankes in #755
• Update Cargo.lock by @mkroening in #762
• take always the oldest task from the queue by @stlankes in #764
• Update Rust to nightly-2023-06-14 by @mkroening in #763
• CI (ARM): Pin CPU by @mkroening in #767
• AArch64: use a software-generated interrupt (SGI)to reschedule the system by @stlankes in #765
• Release version 0.6.2 by @mkroening in #766

New Contributors

• @nathanwhyte made their first contribution in #705
• @michaelRichards99 made their first contribution in #706
• @joannejchen made their first contribution in #709

Full Changelog: v0.6.1...v0.6.2

0.6.1

Highlights

• add basic Firecracker support

What's Changed

• Paging: Refactor page size from usize to u64 by @mkroening in #565
• xtask: Print description for llvm_tools::Error::NotFound by @mkroening in #563
• CI: Enable Rust Cache by @mkroening in #557
• Restore network configuration via kernel cli by @JTS22 in #571
• irq::nested_disable: Only disable if necessary by @mkroening in #575
• Reimplement synch::spinlock with lock_api by @mkroening in #574
• CI: Install uhyve with --locked by @mkroening in #579
• update lockfile / dependencies by @striezel in #580
• Rework paging by @mkroening in #545
• CI: Enable kaniko cache by @mkroening in #585
• Format imports by @mkroening in #576
• Omit implicit core,alloc from build-std by @mkroening in #581
• Dockerfile: Update rustup-init to 1.25.1 by @mkroening in #583
• Formatting: Import crates directly by @mkroening in #587
• Use log::set_logger instead of set_logger_racy by @mkroening in #590
• Run clippy, dependabot on hermit-builtins by @mkroening in #591
• Add .git-blame-ignore-revs by @mkroening in #588
• CI: Fix integration tests by @mkroening in #592
• Migrate to hermit-sync by @mkroening in #589
• Don't install clippy, rustfmt by default by @mkroening in #584
• mm: Paging rework fixup for newlib by @mkroening in #602
• scheduler: Fix newlib without smp by @mkroening in #603
• scheduler: Replace panic with unreachable by @mkroening in #604
• processor: Remove static mut by @mkroening in #599
• CI: Check all features by @mkroening in #601
• CI: Make bors require Check by @mkroening in #605
• x86_64 mm: Remove MultibootMemory static mut by @mkroening in #609
• mm: Remove static muts by @mkroening in #607
• lib.rs: Don't take ref of extern static mut by @mkroening in #608
• Rework interrupts by @mkroening in #586
• Rework unit test output by @mkroening in #610
• add support of basic file descriptors by @stlankes in #598
• Rework GDT by @mkroening in #614
• Fix SMP with 3 or more CPUs by @mkroening in #618
• syscalls: Remove static muts by @mkroening in #600
• Rewrite Serial by @mkroening in #611
• Rework GDT (cont.) by @mkroening in #616
• Make scheduler sharing safe by @mkroening in #612
• Fix spurious page faults by @mkroening in #625
• Rework Core-Local Storage by @mkroening in #621
• Upgrade to nightly-2022-12-12 by @mkroening in #627
• Migrate to align-address crate by @mkroening in #623
• Migrate to upstream linked-list-allocator crate by @mkroening in #628
• Put unit tests in modules by @mkroening in #631
• Simplify HW_DESTRUCTIVE_INTERFERENCE_SIZE by @mkroening in #632
• Rewrite BumpAllocator (BootstrapAllocator) by @mkroening in #629
• Reimplement random data generation, add read_entropy syscall by @joboet in #640
• add BSD socket layer by @stlankes in #633
• remove check of the backlog parameter by @stlankes in #642
• Remove some dependencies by @mkroening in #641
• APIC: Replace static mut by @mkroening in #646
• ACPI: Replace static mut by @mkroening in #645
• Systemtime: Remove static mut by @mkroening in #648
• Migrate to upstream pflock by @mkroening in #653
• Disable many unstable Rust features by @mkroening in #651
• Remove specialization on x86_64 by @mkroening in #650
• Provide math.h from hermit-builtins by @mkroening in #654
• bump smoltcp from 0.8.2 to 0.9.1 by @stlankes in #657
• remove obsolete syscall interface for the network driver by @stlankes in #658
• convert virtiofs driver to support the new virtqueue implementation by @stlankes in #661
• allow the parallel usage of the features pci and newlib by @stlankes in #671
• Upgrade to bitflags 2.0 by @mkroening in #672
• Fix newlib with SMP by @mkroening in #673
• switch to the latest nightly compiler by @stlankes in #675
• remove dependencies to a mboot section by @stlankes in #677
• initialize drivers also for the C user interface by @stlankes in #678
• add lseek support for the FUSE interface by @stlankes in #680
• improve debug messages by @stlankes in #682
• don't initialize C network stack for uhyve by @stlankes in #687
• use workaround only for RustHermit by @stlankes in #688
• define the same 32bit gap like uhyve by @stlankes in #689
• Paging: Log any required implicit unmaps by @mkroening in #683
• removed all instances of shutdown by @richiewahidin in #695
• remove obsolete ist0 handling by @stlankes in #699
• add usefull debug messages for all exceptions by @stlankes in #700
• switch to the latest nightly compiler by @stlankes in #696
• add message if rdseed is supported by @stlankes in #702
• use isolated stacks for interrupt handling by @stlankes in #703
• remove workaround, which fix wrong file flags by @stlankes in #704
• CI downloads loader for aarch64 by @stlankes in #707
• add CI tests for the release version on aarch64 by @stlankes in #708
• add support to boot RustyHermit on Firecracker by @stlankes in #663

New Contributors

• @richiewahidin made their first contribution in #695

Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.6.1