I'm putting in the finishing touches this week: 0.13 should be out next
weekend at the latest (unless some new bug shows up), and I hope to get
it ready by Thursday. I'll definitely call it 0.95, making clear that
version 1.0 isn't that far away.
0.95 will have these features:
- faster floppy (based on cdiffs by entropy (Lawrence Foard), but I
didn't patch in the formatting code). Untaring from a floppy is no
longer a pain.
- VFS-stubs (based on cdiffs by proven (Chris Provenzo), but again my
version does not contain all of his code, and I added some changes of
my own too.)
- Better VC handling (works on other cards that EGA/VGA), thanks to
pmacdona (Peter McDonald). I think 0.13 finally contains most of the
VC code things: screen blanking, corrected vt100-codes etc.
- Swapon system call (swapping from files as well as block devices),
based on patches by Simmule Turner. This one needs some additional
work still.
- poe-IGL-1.2 (or close to it).
- ptrace (by Ross Biro) - not guaranteed, but I think we'll get gdb
working in 0.95.
- bugfixes and minor enhancements: file protections, nonblocking IO,
UK and Danish keyboards, rename etc.
Most of the patches have been heavily edited by me (indeed, very few of
them are patched in automatically with 'patch'), and not all of the
functionality of all the patches will be there. I've mostly written in
the patches by hand, so the author of the code will not necessarily even
recognize his own work. As with the VC patches, some of these patches
will probably evolve for a few releases before they get their final form
(especially VFS which was easily the biggest patch to date).
Changes that haven't been seen as patches that will be in 0.95:
- many minor corrections (rename corrected, ^S/^Q corrected, better (?)
buffer-cache handling, some corrected error-returns).
- lockup bugs (two of them) removed: I hope that was the last of them
(yeah, sure..).
- minor race-conditions with swapping ...
