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Welcome to the GenOS news page! We keep our development notes here, newest first.
GenOS is still Experimental / ALPHA. These are reports from the development tree, not stable release announcements. Please do not use it for production or important data.
- — Changes in the development tree
We've been busy in the GenOS development tree with console workflows, selectable child quotas, TCP handling, and firmware memory-map checks. We're also reviewing resource ownership and keeping regression evidence, including deadline failures and remaining acceptance gaps. Please remember that GenOS is experimental ALPHA software, not for production work or important data.
- — Changes in the development tree
We have 176 new commits in the GenOS development tree, with work on TCP reassembly and retransmission timing, CPU mappings, storage handling, and firmware exit paths. We’ve also been tending the test harnesses, retaining validation evidence, and clarifying the work still on our roadmap. As always, please remember that GenOS is experimental ALPHA software, not for production work or important data.
- — Console, storage and network work; welcome to the home page!
We have added working directories and relative file paths managed by the kernel. The development tree also has offline backup and read-only restore for our GFS2 file system, plus a limited way to launch native utilities. Network work covers TCP replies that confirm only part of a transmission, and limited IPv6 UDP datagrams; integration and broader testing remain unfinished.
Welcome to the GenOS Home Page! We put the website online on 2026-10-19, with generated project status, news and commit history. GenOS is still Experimental / ALPHA.
- — Reference VM notes: QEMU 11.1.2
We have updated the candidate reference VM — the exact virtual computer setup we aim to test — to QEMU 11.1.2. A follow-up commit records a full test-suite run for this updated v4 setup. We still need someone to reproduce the results independently, along with broader checks before we can call the setup qualified.
- — From the development tree: console components and shell restart
We have added pieces for passing text between programs, including pipelines that let one program feed another, along with tests for starting and stopping those pieces. We also have code and test fixtures for leaving the guest shell and starting a new session. Connecting these parts into the running system and completing shutdown still need work.
Last modified (page generated): 2026-10-21 19:00:32 UTC. Source: commit 956acde on roadmap/codex-2026-10-14.