New
Release 0.55.0 "Stork"
This new release focuses on improving documentation, build system, and testing. It also introduces Travis-based CI/CD pipeline to publish artifacts to "nightly repo". In addition, it also adds many new features/improvements:
- preliminary virtio-fs support
- QEMU microvm machine support
- numerous improvements to dynamic linker including local-exec TLS
- kernel smaller by 300 K
- new HTTP monitoring API
- less memory utilization with ROFS
Highlights
- Revised existing documentation and added a new one
- Main README
- Dynamic Linker
- Memory Allocation
- Automated Testing Framework
- Building from host guide
- Improved build process
- Setup Travis-based CI/CD pipeline to automatically build and publish kernel and artifacts
- Setup process to publish OSv build docker images to docker hub
- Cleaned up build process by eliminating the "build from externals" mode
- Migrated python scripts to version 3
- Removed dependency on JDK to build the kernel