From 962d56bd3720f10e38ee48df8654c5a6d413a394 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Justus Winter Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 17:58:12 +0200 Subject: Update NEWS file --- NEWS | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e8bb33f2..bc9143f4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,17 @@ +Version 1.7 (2016-04-XX) + +The code has been updated to work with newer versions of the compiler, +and numerous bugs have been fixed throughout the code. The code uses +integer types from 'stdint.h' now instead of the old Mach types. + +The VM cache policy change has been merged. The kernel now caches +unreferenced VM objects unconditionally instead of using a fixed +limit. + +The physical page allocator of the X15 kernel has been integrated, and +is now used directly by the slab allocator. This increases the kernel +heap addressing important scalability issues. + Version 1.6 (2015-10-31) The code has been updated to work with newer versions of the compiler, -- cgit v1.2.3