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- [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/redox_os)
- [Merch](https://redox-os.creator-spring.com/)
## Massive Performance Improvements
## Servo and Redox Proposal for NGI Sargasso
4lDO2 reduced the time to make a context switch by 60-70% !
[Servo](https://servo.org/) and Redox have partnered for a joint application for funding by [NGI Sargasso](https://ngisargasso.eu/)!
Redox is becoming faster than Linux in some workloads (with all exploit mitigations disabled), more exciting optimizations are coming.
The proposed project includes porting SpiderMonkey and WebRender to Redox,
improvements to Servo's cross-compilation support, and a written-in-Rust font stack.
The application was submitted for NGI Sargasso's Open Call 4, and we await their response.
## POSIX Signals
Thanks to [Igalia](https://www.igalia.com/) and the Servo team for partnering with us!
4lDO2 started to move the POSIX signals implementation from the kernel to userspace.
## NLnet Redox Signals project
You can read his post about the work on [this](https://www.redox-os.org/news/kernel-11/) link.
The funding for the [Redox OS Unix-style Signals](https://nlnet.nl/project/RedoxOS-Signals/) project has been finalized!
As part of the [NGI Zero Core Fund](https://nlnet.nl/core), NLnet will be donating 26,500 EUR,
covering implementation of POSIX-style signals and process lifecycle management in userspace.
4lDO2 has moved the bulk of the signal handling code into our libc alternative, `relibc`.
He has also implemented a large chunk of process lifecycle management,
so Redox now handles the Session/Process Group/Process/Thread hierarchy more correctly.
One area that has shown lots of improvement is the handling of thread and process exit.
Some programs that were hanging on exit are now exiting cleanly;
this is most notable for build tools, including Cargo.
You can read about some of this work in his recent news post, [Towards userspaceification of POSIX - part I](https://www.redox-os.org/news/kernel-11/).
## Web Servers
We successfully compiled and executed the first web server on Redox!
Redox now has a working web server!
[Simple HTTP Server](https://github.com/TheWaWaR/simple-http-server) is an advanced HTTP web server written in Rust, the contributor lgh-127001 successfully served a website.
[Simple HTTP Server](https://github.com/TheWaWaR/simple-http-server) is an advanced HTTP web server written in Rust.
Contributor Bendeguz Pisch has gotten the server to work and has successfully served a website.
He is also improving the Apache HTTP Server port.
## Self-Hosting Update
We finally successfully built C and C++ Hello World programs!
We finally successfully built Hello World programs in Rust, C and C++!
4lDO2 also fixed Cargo and built a Hello World program from it.
It's a first step to test the compilation of more complex programs.
## Kernel Improvements
- Andrey Turkin improved the ARM64 code on the kernel.
- Andrey Turkin fixed the debug code of the kernel.
Andrey Turkin improved the ARM64 code on the kernel, and fixed some of the debug code.
## UEFI Improvements
bjorn3 fixed a violation of the UEFI specification (calling runtime services with interrupts enabled) and added workarounds for buggy firmware.
These changes will allow more computers to boot Redox.
## Userspace Improvements
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- 4lDO2 fixed a panic on the inputd driver and updated the dependencies of all drivers.
- The contributor Ramla Ijaz fixed some bugs.
- bjorn3 updated most drivers to use the new scheme format.
- bjorn3 improved the driver development by adding a symbolic link on the `drivers-initfs` recipe configuration to use the source code of the `drivers` recipe, now developers will have less problems to test their changes inside of Redox.
- bjorn3 did a cleanup of the graphics subsystem and ran `rustfmt` on the entire code.
## Relibc Improvements
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wget is finally working thanks to 4lDO2 and Ribbon!
Now COSMIC Terminal and Nushell can exit properly.
- 4lDO2 fixed most known bugs on the COSMIC programs
- Ron Williams fixed the Helix text editor.
- bjorn3 converted the Orbital recipes to TOML, fixing the "desktop-minimal" variant.
- Ribbon converted more recipes to TOML to remove obsolete and broken code from our package system.
More exciting Rust programs were packaged as usual.
## Orbital Improvements
- Ribbon configured Orbital to launch the FFMPEG media player (ffplay) when video and audio files are opened from graphical programs.
## Build System Improvements
- bjorn3 updated the system configuration on the filesystem configuration to use the new scheme format.
- bjorn3 converted the standalone Orbital recipes to TOML.
- bjorn3 improved the driver development experience by adding a symbolic link to the `drivers` code in the `drivers-initfs` recipe.
This eliminates the duplication of the source tree of the `drivers` recipe,
so any driver changes/debug code will appear in both the regular and `initfs` versions automatically.
- Ribbon improved the `dev.toml` filesystem configuration to improve our tests inside of Redox, like self-hosting compilation.
- Ribbon renamed the `vga` and `efi` QEMU options to `gpu` and `uefi`, it avoid confusion with the VGA interface (the `vga` option on QEMU select the video type) and the old UEFI revision (the final revision of EFI is called UEFI)
- Ribbon renamed the `vga` and `efi` QEMU options to `gpu` and `uefi`, to avoid confusion with the VGA interface (the `vga` option on QEMU to select the video type) and the old UEFI revision (the final revision of EFI is called UEFI)
- Ribbon enabled the `shell` data type to easily change the default terminal shell before boot.
- Ribbon updated the GCC and LLVM package versions for the MacOSX target, GCC was updated from versions 4.9/7.x to 14.x and LLVM from 16 to 18.
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A list of the improvements this month:
- The contributor Deft Punk improved the wording and grammar of the book.
- Now the book recommend the [Gentoo](https://gentoo.org) package documentation for dependency configuration on recipes and [FreeBSD](https://freebsd.org) to find C/C++ feature flags easily, the Gentoo dependency classification helps a lot with not/badly documented C/C++ programs and libraries.
- Now the book recommends the [Gentoo](https://gentoo.org) package documentation for dependency configuration on recipes and [FreeBSD](https://freebsd.org) to find C/C++ feature flags easily. The Gentoo dependency classification helps a lot with not/poorly documented C/C++ programs and libraries.
- The "Weekly Images" section was renamed "Daily Images" on the "Running Redox in a virtual machine" and "Running Redox on real hardware" pages, it was called "weekly" because breaking changes stopped the image update for weeks, but they are configured to be created daily.
- Some sections of the website FAQ were copied to the book, it improved the reading and information distribution (more easy to find).
- The "Scripts" section on the "Build System" page was improved, he added a command to sort in alpahbetical order the output of the include-recipes.sh script, it will save time from packagers adding recipes to the package build server configuration.
- Some sections of the website FAQ were copied to the book, it improved the reading and information distribution (to make things easier to find).
- The "Scripts" section on the "Build System" page was improved, a command was added to sort in alpahbetical order the output of the include-recipes.sh script, it will save time from packagers adding recipes to the package build server configuration.
- Now the website and book READMEs recommend the [lychee](https://lychee.cli.rs/) tool to verify broken links
- Now the website READMEs has instructions to install [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/)
- Ribbon added explanation comments on most configuration files of the build system.