Xyris 0.5 - Tengu

Once again it's time for the yearly Xyris release. This time we've got a lot of foundational changes, but a couple of cool new features as well, like the addition of a proper framebuffer, complete with a font for text output.

• Rename from Panix to Xyris
• Add Scuba (Docker) support
• Add Github CI support
• Move documentation to Github pages
• Switch to using Limine bootloader
• Add generic bootloader information parsing
• Add kernel argument handling
• Framebuffer drawing and text printing
• Framebuffer double buffering (Thanks @Jmallone!)
• Improve kernel library (Ring buffer, linked list, bitsets)
• Improve kernel library time keeping (Thanks @Jmallone!)
• Improve kernel logging
• Add kernel library unit tests
• Convert all GAS assembly to NASM (Thanks @the-grue!)
• Convert boot assembly to C
• Increase architecture specific code separation
• Many other important organizational, architectural, and repository changes

Special thanks to @the-grue, @Jmallone, and @mauryafunez for your amazing contributions!

Xyris 0.4 - Phoenix

The latest Xyris release hot off the press! In this release you can find many new and exciting features:

• Added mutual exclusion primitives (mutexes and semaphores) @Kfeavel
• Switched compiler to Clang @Kfeavel
• Added more compiler warnings, enabled -Werror, and fixed the resulting compile errors @Kfeavel
• Enabled optimizations utilizing SSE @micahswitzer
• Added a pre-emptive round-robin scheduler @micahswitzer
• A new heap implementation based on liballoc @micahswitzer
• Switched compiler back to GCC @Kfeavel
• Significantly refactored makefiles to build libraries and to detect header dependencies @Kfeavel
• Made mutual exclusion multitasking aware @micahswitzer
• Added support for global initialization @Kfeavel and @micahswitzer
• Added mutexes to critical sections of code @Kfeavel
• Improved the RS232 printing experience @Kfeavel and @micahswitzer
• Added a prime computing task for demoing multitasking capabilities @micahswitzer