Release 24.06

Supported Hardware

• NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin
• NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX
• Generic x86 (PC)
• Polarfire Icicle Kit
• Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11
• Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10
• New in this release: NXP iMX8-MPlus

What is New in ghaf-24.06

• NixOS updated to NixOS 24.05 and further to nixos-unstable
• Labwc used as a default compositor on all platforms. Support for weston removed.
• Static networking with external DNS server support only. Internal DHCP and DNS removed
• affects all new guest VM networking
• Windows VM must be configured with static IP and DNS
• Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 10/11:
• Image compression using zstd
• Initial vTPM implementation for Application VMs added
• Audio VM with Pipewire backend and pulseaudio TCP remote comms layer
• Multimedia function key passthrough
• Initial implementation of IDS-VM as a defensive network mechanism
• Support for Element chat application
• AppFlowy using Flutter application framework
• GPS location sharing through Element application
• Nvidia Jetson Orin:
• UARTI passthrough
• Jetpack baseline software updates and fixes.
• Further refactoring and modularization of the Ghaf framework
• Development, testing, and performance tooling improvements.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bugs that were in the ghaf-24.03 release:
• Applications do not open from icons when netvm is restarted
• Closing and re-opening a deck lid of an X1 laptop with running Ghaf causes instability