====== MINIX Past Releases ======
This page provides some information about the previous MINIX 3 releases.

You can download release media from the [[http://www.minix3.org/download|download page]].

  * **[[:releases:3.2.1:|3.2.1]]**
  * **[[:releases:3.2.0:|3.2.0]]**

====== Older ======
===== Release 3.1.8 =====
Release date: October 4, 2010

Major Features:

  * New package management infrastructure: pkgsrc and pkgin (contributed by Gautam Tirumala)
  * Unix Domain Socket support (contributed by Thomas Cort)
  * Multiboot support (contributed by Feiran Zheng)
  * Ext2 support (contributed by Evgeniy Ivanov)
  * [[:acpi|ACPI]] driver
  * full APICs
  * Experimental AHCI support

Known Issues:

  * VirtualBox: Minix 3.1.8 cannot be installed w/o hardware acceleration support (VT-x, AMD-V)
    * Workaround: See [[:UsersGuide:RunningOnVirtualBox]]
  * VirtualBox 3.1 cannot boot Minix. Please use VirtualBox 3.2.
  * Some packman packages have not been ported to pkgsrc yet

===== Release 3.1.7 =====
Release date: June 16, 2010

Major Features:

  * Userspace scheduling and a scheduling server (contributed by Bjorn Swift)
  * Proper support for multiple ethernet cards of the same type
  * Bugfixes (such as workaround to run on recent KVM)
  * Debug features ("verbose" boot monitor variable, access to debug registers DR0-DR7 in kernel)
  * Boot monitor allows loading images > 16 MB
  * Root partition size increased to 64MB (and setup script can now more or less safely deal with root partitions with non-default sizes)
  * Buildsystem support for building MINIX with GCC
  * Source tree reorganization/cleanup
  * New ports: Git, GCC updated to version 4.4.3
  * Secondary FS cache layer in VM that uses all available memory, reducing I/O wait time a lot
  * Support for the cp1251 and koi8-u charsets (contributed by Roman Ignatov)

Known Issues:

  * VirtualBox: Minix 3.1.7 cannot be installed w/o hardware acceleration support (VT-x, AMD-V)
    * Workaround: See [[:UsersGuide:RunningOnVirtualBox]]
  * VirtualBox 3.1 cannot boot Minix. Please use VirtualBox 3.2.
  * VirtualPC: the DEC Tulip network driver is broken
    * Fix: upgrade to SVN-trunk

===== Release 3.1.6 =====
Release date: February 8, 2010

Major Features:

  * New drivers: Atheros L2, Intel E1000, Realtek 8169, DEC Tulip
  * VirtualPC Network Support (DEC Tulip)
  * PipeFS - removed pipe handling from filesystem drivers
  * HGFS - support for mounting VMware shared folders as file system
  * VFS: supplemental group support
  * VFS: sticky bit support
  * FPU support
  * System Event Framework (SEF)
  * Experimental APIC support (disabled by default)
  * More ports: more recent QEMU, BSD utilities, Benchmarks

Known Issues:

  * VirtualBox 3.1 cannot boot Minix. Please use VirtualBox 3.0 for now.
  * Qemu/KVM 0.12 cannot boot Minix. Please use Qemu/KVM 0.11 for now.
  * VirtualBox: Minix 3.1.6 cannot be installed w/o hardware acceleration support (VT-x, AMD-V)
    * Workaround: See [[:UsersGuide:RunningOnVirtualBox]]

===== Release 3.1.5 =====
Release date: November 5, 2009

Major Features:

  * Better performance
  * Shared memory
  * setitimer function
  * ISO9660 FS
  * Open Source Sound System
  * Trap NULL accesses now, for user convenience
  * Improved signal handling
  * Better support for debuggers (ptrace improvements, etc.)
  * Network card autodetection (for supported PCI cards), improved network configuration
  * More ports: OpenSSH, Tcpdump, Nedit, Gnu Go

Known Issues:

  * VirtualBox: Minix 3.1.5 cannot be installed w/o hardware acceleration support (VT-x, AMD-V)
    * Workaround: See [[:UsersGuide:RunningOnVirtualBox]]
  * VMware: after working correctly for a period of time, the lance driver may stop working silently, causing all network traffic to be dropped for some period of time.
    * Workaround: when this happens, run "service refresh lance" as root to restart the lance driver.
    * This issue has been fixed in the Minix trunk available from Subversion.

===== Release 3.1.4 =====
Release date: June 9, 2009

Major Features:

  * Virtual Memory support
  * Improved Virtual Machine support (when MINIX runs as guest)

===== Release 3.1.3a =====
Release date: June 8, 2007

  * Fixes to 3.1.3

===== Release 3.1.3 =====
Release date: April 13, 2007

Major Features:

  * Virtual File System (VFS)

See http://www.minix3.org/download/releasenotes-3.1.3.html.

===== Release 3.1.2a =====
Release date:  May 29, 2006

Major Features:

  * Packman package manager

Known Issues:

  * Installation issue when auto-partitioning disks.

===== Release 3.1.0 (Book Release) =====
Release date: October 24, 2005

First release of MINIX 3

Corresponds with source discussed in OSDIv3.