v0.12.0

We are proud to announce the latest version of Unikraft, v0.12.0 (Epimetheus)! This release comes with a bag of new exciting features and more stability to the existing ones. Here is the full updates list:

🚀 New Features

Expose HANDLED_CONT return value in include/event (#738) by Marc Rittinghaus
Register mkdirat to syscall shim in lib/vfscore (#732) by Eduard Vintilă
Fault-safe memory access in lib/uknofault (#725) by Marc Rittinghaus
Boot code refactoring (#722) by Marc Rittinghaus
Make TCB overlap configurable in arch/libcontext (#720) by Eduard Vintilă
Add _SC_PHYS_PAGES and _SC_AVPHYS_PAGES to sysconf in lib/posix-sysinfo (#719) by osmten
Add setattr function for 9pfs in lib/9pfs (#710) by Ștefan Jumărea
Update rust version to latest nightly in lang/rust (#709) by Fabian Patraș
Add comments to vfs.h file in lib/vfscore (#707) by Radu Nichita
Add README.md file in lib/ramfs (#705) by Delia Pavel
Add comments to ramfs.h file in lib/ramfs (#704) by Delia Pavel
Update documentation of ukarch_random (#703) by Michalis Pappas
Use ukarch_random_seed to seed MTE keys in arch/arm64 (#702) by Michalis Pappas
Add IRQ events in plat/* (#699) by Marco Schlumpp
Implement ukarch_random in arch/x86_64 (#695) by Michalis Pappas
Handle error code returns from event handlers in include/event (#691) by Marco Schlumpp
Use correct variable name for sect-strip.py tool in lib/ukdebug (#690) by Marco Schlumpp
Use the ukarch_random API to generate PAuth keys and enable Pointer Authentication on KVM (#686) by Michalis Pappas
9p2000.L support in lib/{uk9p,9pfs} (#671) by Dinh Ngoc Tu
Implement subclass matching in plat/common/pci (#624) by Marco Schlumpp
Add additional flags for compatibility in lib/vfscore (#623) by Marco Schlumpp
Expose rmdir/rename from nolibc in lib/nolibc (#622) by Marco Schlumpp
Add lib/ukvmem and lib/posix-mmap (#603) by Marc Rittinghaus
Add README.md file in lib/uktest (#555) by Ștefan Jumărea
Upgrade musl to latest version (1.2.3) (#34) by Eduard Vintilă
Upgrade libsqlite version (#4) by Eduard Mihăilescu
Add configuration file for textlint in .github (#178) by Razvan Deaconescu
Add make-based build workflow (#177) by Ștefan Jumărea
Add CONTRIBUTING.md file referencing the website (#174) by Ștefan Jumărea
Add instructions on contributing to documentation (#171) by Ștefan Jumărea
Split coding style content (#162) by Ștefan Jumărea
Port the informations on the Makefile.uk, exportsyms.uk and extra.ld files from the Unikraft old documentation (#126) by Ștefan Jumărea

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

Fix typecast for PT_BUFP in uk_prsyscall for lib/syscall_shim (#750) by Simon Kuenzer
Fix lstat() infinite loop in lib/vfscore (#711) by Maria Sfîrăială
Fix gcc-ism for clang compilation in plat/pci_ecam.c (#701) by Maria Sfîrăială
Comment out unused sysinfo buffer in lib/posix-info (#673) by Razvan Deaconescu
Fix a memory leak in lib/ukallocbbuddy (#689) by Noureddine Taleb
Fix race condition during context switch in lib/uksched (#694) by Eduard Vintilă
Fix segments in ELF output images in build (#698) by Marco Schlumpp
Align the stack to 16 bytes in arch/x86_64 (#684) by Marco Schlumpp
Update ukrust to work alongside Cargo in lib/ukrust (#680) by Vlad Badoiu
Use Linux-compatible stat structure in lib/nolibc (#675) by Razvan Deaconescu
virtio-net fixes (#669) by Dinh Ngoc Tu
Flip argument names of VOP_SYMLINK in lib/vfscore (#629) by Marco Schlumpp
Prefer local include dirs in support/build (#625) by Marco Schlumpp
Ensure time monotonicity for tscclock in plat/kvm (#617) by Marco Schlumpp
16-byte align syscall stack in plat/common/x86 (#748) by Marc Rittinghaus
Align allocated stacks to arch requirement in lib/uksched (#747) by Simon Kuenzer
Fix for .tdata warning (#746) by Marc Rittinghaus
Cast initrd vbase to (void *) in lib/vfscore (#744) by Simon Kuenzer
Fix initrd0 macro in include/uk/plat (#742) by Marc Rittinghaus
Fix cmdline parsing in plat/kvm/x86 (#741) by Marc Rittinghaus
Fix various warnings (#739) by Marc Rittinghaus
Fix dependency for nanosleep() in app-helloworld (#13) by Michalis Pappas
Adapt forced polling mode to uknetdev flag rename (#30) by Marco Schlumpp
Adapt memory region usage in patch (#7) by Marc Rittinghaus
Remove hash templates for pthread_t (#26) by Dinh Ngoc Tu
Move _XOPEN_SOURCE define to library CFLAGS (#33) by Marco Schlumpp
Remove outdated vendored features.h (#32) by Marco Schlumpp
Fix typos in the en/docs/contributing (#179) by Radu Nichita
Fix kraft via pip installation step (#176) by Martin Kröning
Ignore md104 rule when inside shortcodes in github/linter (#173) by Ștefan Jumărea
github/linter: Remove .png keyword in github/linter (#172) by Ștefan Jumărea