Genode OS Framework 22.08 released Aug 30, 2022

The overarching theme of Genode 22.08 is the emerging phone variant of Sculpt OS, touching topics as diverse as USB ECM, Mali-400 GPU, SD-card access, telephony, mobile-data connectivity, the Morph web browser, and a custom user interface. Among the further highlights are new tracing tools, improved network performance USB smart-card support, and VirtIO drivers for RISC-V.

The vision of a Genode-based smart phone is certainly our most ambitious undertaking since we created Sculpt OS for the PC. Over the past two years, we relentlessly pursued this vision while targeting the PinePhone as hardware platform of choice.

Genode's version 22.08 bears the fruit of this intense work, touching topics as diverse as USB, GPU, SD-card access, audio routing, telephony, mobile-data connectivity, the Morph web browser, and a custom user interface. All these puzzle pieces are coming together now in the form of an emerging phone variant of Sculpt OS. The release documentation tells the story behind this line of work in great detail.

Among the further highlights of Genode 22.08 are new tracing tools, improved network performance, USB smart-card support via PKCS#11, and VirtIO drivers for RISC-V. For the complete picture, please enjoy the official release documentation of version 22.08.