From 334208dc0d747075e93f4da45143ae67c2e7fe91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:43:11 +0200 Subject: Update NEWS file --- NEWS | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5d220fab..6a2b259c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,31 @@ +Version 1.6 (2015-10-XX) + +The code has been updated to work with newer versions of the compiler, +and numerous bugs have been fixed throughout the code. + +The lock debugging infrastructure has been revived and improved, and +many locking issues have been fixed. + +The IPC tables and the hash table mapping objects to IPC entries have +been replaced by radix trees. This addresses a scalability issue, as +IPC tables required huge amounts of continuous virtual kernel memory. + +The kernel now allows non-privileged users to wire a small amount of +memory. + +A bug hindering the eviction of inactive pages by the pageout daemon +has been identified and fixed. + +The kernel now keeps timestamps relative to the system boot time. +Among other things this fixes bogus uptime readings if the system time +is altered. + +A reference leak in the exception handling mechanism has been +identified and fixed. + +ANSI escape sequences are now handled when using `printf'. This fixes +the formatting of messages printed by various Linux drivers. + Version 1.5 (2015-04-10) Numerous cleanups and stylistic fixes of the code base. Several -- cgit v1.2.3