v0.9.0

Platform support

• OpenStack support using IDE boot device
• Injectable support for platform specific protocols, like Unik instance registration

Instrumentation

• Backtrace from ELF symbols
• Context buffer for crashes
• Real-time stack sampling for profiling

Boot

• Stack and heap randomization
• Multiboot support

Kernel features

• ACPI tables, ACPI shutdown
• xAPIC support
• Basic SMP support
• MSI-X support
• APIC timer
• Memory map of named, fixed memory ranges
• Improved timer system
• RTC that is auto-calibrated and inexpensive
• New driver injection system
• Statman: centrally located statistics for anything

Networking

• Inet4 is now driver independent
• TCP modularized with lots of API changes and improvements

Tooling and testing

• Building kernel with minimal code and stripped symbols
• Improvements to install scripts
• Automatic builds using Jenkins for PRs and main branches
• New automatic test suite for unit testing, using LEST

Misc

• IPv4 addresses can now be created from string
• Code refactoring to make use of new C++ features and Core Guidelines
• Lots of bugfixes