Redox OS is a Unix-like general-purpose microkernel-based operating system
written in Rust. December was a very exciting month for Redox! Here's all the latest news.
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## FOSDEM 2025
Jacob Lorentzon (4lDO2) will be presenting his work on Redox Signals in the Microkernels room February 1 at FOSDEM in Brussels. He will also do a short introductory presentation in the Kernel room on February 2.
Anhad Singh successfully compiled GCC, GNU Binutils, GNU Make and GNU Bash with dynamic linking, this is one part of the goals to allow more programs to work on Redox and dynamically link relibc to speed up the Redox development.
He also implemented dynamic linking support for the Redox triple on GCC.
## Kernel Improvements
- Andrey Turkin fixed the Raspberry Pi 3 support
- Zhouqi Jiang improved the [OpenSBI](https://github.com/riscv-software-src/opensbi) support for RISC-V
## Driver Improvements
- bjorn3 did many improvements and cleanup on graphical drivers
- bjorn3 did many refactorings on the graphics and input subsystems
- bjorn3 created the `driver-graphics` library to unify code
- bjorn3 created the `graphics-ipc` library to unify code
- bjorn3 reduced the `fbcond` daemon and created the `fbbootlogd` daemon to fix boot deadlocks
- bjorn3 updated the `redox-scheme` library version
- bjorn3 fixed some warnings
- Andrey Turkin fixed the BCM2835 driver (Raspberry Pi 3 B+)
## VirtIO Improvements
- bjorn3 improved the VirtIO-GPU driver to allow Redox guest video size to follow the QEMU window size on the host system
- bjorn3 implemented window resizing support using VirtIO-GPU
- bjorn3 fixed a crash on the VirtIO-GPU driver when multiple displays are attached
- bjorn3 fixed a memory bug on the VirtIO-GPU driver
- bjorn3 improved the VirtIO-GPU driver performance
## System Improvements
- bjorn3 migrated the remaining system components to the new scheme format
- bjorn3 implemented `sendfd` handling on the `redox-scheme` library
- The contributor rm-dr did a cleanup on RedoxFS
- Tim Crawford updated the `redox_hwio` library to the Rust 2021 edition
- Tim Crawford removed the support for non-x86 architectures on PIO from the `redox_hwio` library
## Relibc Improvements
- Anhad Singh fixed the dynamic linker
- Anhad Singh implemented lazy binding and scopes on the dynamic linker
- Anhad Singh implemented dynamic linker configuration through environment variables
- Anhad Singh fixed a delay on the Makefile
- Anhad Singh improved the debugging
- Josh Megnauth fixed a memory overflow
- Josh Megnauth fixed the shebang implementation
- Josh Megnauth implemented missing structs on `netinet.h` function group
- Josh Megnauth implemented the `stdnoreturn.h` function group
- bitstr0m implemented the `cpio.h` function group
- bitstr0m implemented the `glob.h` function group
- Guillaume Gielly implemented the `monetary.h` function group
- Guillaume Gielly implemented the `strfmon()` function
- Darley Barreto implemented the missing functions on the `string.h` function group
- Ron Williams fixed the `popen()` function and fixed/improved its tests
- plimkilde added TODOs for the remaining POSIX functions
## Networking Improvements
- Steffen Butzer fixed some bugs in the implementation of the Address Resolution Protocol
- Guillaume Gielly implemented the `ifconfig` tool for network management on the Redox network stack
- Guillaume Gielly improved the `ping` tool
- Guillaume Gielly did a code cleanup and fixed compilation warnings
## Programs
- Josh Megnauth fixed and updated Lua
- Josh Megnauth ported the LZ4 compressor
- Josh Megnauth fixed GLib
- Josh Megnauth added a demo for OpenJazz
- Amir Ghazanfari improved the process to quit the Sodium text editor
- Ron Williams fixed the GNU Bash glob
## Build System Improvements
- Andrey Turkin fixed the recipe operations on the installer after `pkgutils` removal
- Andrey Turkin fixed the configuration for Raspberry Pi 3B emulation on QEMU
- Anhad Singh implemented dynamic linking functions on Cookbook
- Anhad Singh implement a way to install the runtime dependencies of recipes using the installer
- Ribbon fixed the Debian/Ubuntu target on the `native_bootstrap.sh` script
- Ron Williams fixed the build system after breaking changes
- Ron Williams improved the error messages from the installer
## Documentation Improvements
- The contributor rm-dr improved the RedoxFS code documentation
- Ribbon documented how to [download the relibc sources](https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/relibc#download-the-sources) and [build it](https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/relibc#build-instructions)
- Ribbon documented [how to mount a RedoxFS partition](https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redoxfs#how-to-mount-a-partition)
- Jack Lin fixed broken links on the Cookbook README
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