Release v0.2.0 · Solo5/solo5

0.2.0 (2017-01-26)

This release is targeted for use with MirageOS 3.0.

High-level user-visible changes in this release:

Support for building the virtio backend on FreeBSD.
The virtio drivers are now stable and tested on QEMU/KVM, FreeBSD/bhyve and
Google Compute Engine.
A new option (--net-mac) for specifying a user-defined MAC address to ukvm.
A new script solo5-mkimage.sh for building
MBR-partitioned disk images with a bootloader and Solo5 (virtio backed)
unikernel, with integrated support for building images for Google Compute
Engine.
A new script solo5-run-virtio for launching
Solo5 (virtio backed) unikernels on QEMU/KVM and FreeBSD/bhyve.
Improvements to the standalone test programs under tests/, including an
automated test suite.
Standardised license headers and copyright notices across the codebase and
introduced an AUTHORS file listing contributors and their affiliations.

Notable changes under the hood:

Security audit of the ukvm "hypercall" interfaces and ELF loader.
Cleanup and refactoring of the low-level interrupt and trap handling code.
Memory layout improvements and unification between the ukvm and virtio
backends.
Many bug fixes.

Acknowledgements:

The following people helped by filing valuable issues, testing and other
non-code contributions to this release:

Thank you!