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+ | ====== MINIX Past Releases ====== | ||
+ | This page provides some information about the previous MINIX 3 releases. | ||
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+ | You can download release media from the [[http://www.minix3.org/download|download page]]. | ||
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+ | * **[[: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. | ||