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title = "Redox OS 0.9.0"
author = "Jeremy Soller and Ron Williams"
date = "2024-04-18"
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## Overview
It's been a while since we had our last release, but we have been heads-down working hard this whole time,
and Release 0.9.0 is packed with improvements. Here are just a few of the highlights!
- Huge improvements to portability of Linux command-line programs
- Phase one of creating of a stable API
- Improved paging and memory management, and faster system calls
- Wide-ranging clean-up and debugging of the kernel, PCIe support and drivers
- USB HID support
- Improved filesystem performance
- VirtIO drivers for better performance in virtual machines
- Relibc (our `libc` replacement) is now almost 100% Rust and much more complete
- A 100% Rust `libm`
- Significant progress on Aarch64/Arm64, including partial support for Raspberry Pi 3B+
- Redox's sandboxing driver Contain has been expanded and is available as a demo
- Slint, Iced and winit GUI libraries support the Redox Orbital Window Manager
- Key Cosmic Desktop apps available as demos
- Nano and Helix editors now supported
- RustPython available as a demo
- Many Build system improvements
- Tons more documentation, including examples, troubleshooting and a FAQ
## In Depth
We should do a bit of a deep dive on some key topics, and we should link to other news posts where they exist.
## All the Details
We should capture a list of all changes here to make sure we don't miss anything.
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