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 Devicesdnnl- Deep Neural Network Librarynnpack- an acceleration package for neural network computationstlsf- Memory allocator real time embedded systemsallocregion- A simple region-based memory allocatortinyalloc- A tiny allocator designed for tiny embedded systemsmimalloc- A general purpose allocator with excellent performance characteristicsnettle- A low-level cryptographic librarygemmlowp- Low-precision matrix multiplicationliblzma- A compression library with an API similar to that of zlibprotobuf- Google’s language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.zydis- Fast and lightweight x86/x86-64 disassembler libraryfarmhash- FarmHash provides hash functions for strings and other dataflatbuffers- FlatBuffers is an efficient cross platform serialization library