v0.5.0 (Tethys)

We are proud to announce the latest version of Unikraft. In this release, we introduce many new improvements, including critical bug fixes, improved stability and new features. To summarise:

• Support for multiple, concurrent memory allocators
• Support for non-executable pages on x86;
• Support for IEEE 802.1q and IEEE 802.1ad tagged frames;
• Access to the TSC-clock for accurate boot and system time;
• Memory stack-protection;
• Recursive PCI-bus enumeration;
• Better error reporting;
• Support for arm64 fp;
• Automatic libc-style system call stubs;
• Improved console I/O;
• virtio block driver;
• signals support
• ANSI-colored output; …and much more!

We have also been hard at work increasing the number of available applications and libraries supported by Unikraft, including:

• tflite - ML for Mobile and Edge Devices
• dnnl - Deep Neural Network Library
• nnpack - an acceleration package for neural network computations
• tlsf - Memory allocator real time embedded systems
• allocregion - A simple region-based memory allocator
• tinyalloc - A tiny allocator designed for tiny embedded systems
• mimalloc - A general purpose allocator with excellent performance characteristics
• nettle - A low-level cryptographic library
• gemmlowp - Low-precision matrix multiplication
• liblzma - A compression library with an API similar to that of zlib
• protobuf - Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.
• zydis - Fast and lightweight x86/x86-64 disassembler library
• farmhash - FarmHash provides hash functions for strings and other data
• flatbuffers - FlatBuffers is an efficient cross platform serialization library