unikraft/unikraft RELEASE-0.8.0

v0.8.0 Enceladus

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We are proud to announce the latest version of Unikraft, v0.8.0 (Enceladus)! In this release, we introduce many new improvements, including critical bug fixes, improved stability and new features. To summarise:

🚀 New Features

• Introduce Pointer Authentication (PAuth) support (#369) by @michpappas
• Virtual Memory API (x86_64, kvm) (#338) by @marcrittinghaus
• Support for partial checksumming / checksum offloading (#308) by @skuenzer
• Add uk_event for new trap interface (#227, #230, #231) by @marcrittinghaus
• Additional interrupt context safe functions (#192) by @cristian-vijelie
• TAP network device driver (#251) by @hisharanwithu
• Add basic test suite to ukargparse (#392, #431) by @StefanJum
• Add uk_list_last_entry_or_null (#396) by @marcrittinghaus
• Add mprotect (#394) by @marcrittinghaus
• Add support for arm64 on linuxu (#418) by @maniatro111

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Rewrite of ubsan library (#404) by @marcrittinghaus
• Migrate and update docs (#252) by @nderjung
• Allow mkcpio to quietly gzip compress CPIO images (#359) by @aadhi0319
• Enhance arm(64)/x86_64 Bitscan Functions (#395) by @marcrittinghaus
• Add getgrgid to export (#410) by @marcrittinghaus
• Do not invoke rustc if ukrust is not enabled (#403) by @michpappas
• Fixes layout of assert table on ARM64 (#397) by @marcrittinghaus
• Add dependency to lib/ukalloc for linuxu (#430) by @skuenzer
• Fix quoted whitespaces handling (#433) by @StefanJum
• Fix build warning for _uk_printd definition (#432) by @gabrielmocanu
• Fix build warning for halt definition (#429) by @gabrielmocanu
• Fix build errors introduced by #251 (#412) by @vladandrew
• Fix conditional definition of functions (#399) by @george-hopkins
• Fix some bugs (#394) by @marcrittinghaus
• Fix and introduce more range macros (#370) by @skuenzer
• Fixing various bugs (#411) by @marcrittinghaus
• Complete syscall lists on arm and aarch64 (#423) by @razvanvirtan
• Replace EDOOFUS macro (#416) by @maniatro111
• Remove uk_free call on request dequeue (#413) by @mschlumpp
• Move alloc out of critical section in sys_open (#408) by @marcrittinghaus
• Use types from shareddefs.h (#407) by @marcrittinghaus
• Use non-prototyped no-ops (#405) by @marcrittinghaus
• Do not pass -march with -mcpu (#368) by @michpappas
• Do not allocate IRQ handler entries dynamically (#240) by @hlef

A big thank you also to all those who helped in the review process: @cristian-vijelie, @michpappas, @mschlumpp, @skuenzer, @adinasm, @florin-diaconescu, @gabrielmocanu, @mogasergiu, @razvand, @StefanJum, @razvanvirtan, @craciunoiuc, @danield20 and @vladandrew.

For more information, check out the accompanying blog post or view the full changelog.