MINIX Past Releases
This page provides some information about the previous MINIX 3 releases.
You can download release media from the download page.
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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)
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full APICs
Experimental AHCI support
Known Issues:
VirtualBox: Minix 3.1.8 cannot be installed w/o hardware acceleration support (VT-x, AMD-V)
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)
VirtualBox 3.1 cannot boot Minix. Please use VirtualBox 3.2.
VirtualPC: the DEC Tulip network driver is broken
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)
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)
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:
Release 3.1.3a
Release date: June 8, 2007
Release 3.1.3
Release 3.1.2a
Release date: May 29, 2006
Major Features:
Known Issues:
Release 3.1.0 (Book Release)
Release date: October 24, 2005
First release of MINIX 3
Corresponds with source discussed in OSDIv3.