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Sep 1, 2009: The experimental version is quite stable and will be merged very soon. It has been renamed to 0.8 (instead of 0.9) because there is already space for new features. There is another merge under way: fuseext2 project (in virtualsquare) and fuse-ext2 project (by Alper Akcan). The experimental version of fuse-ext2 (by Alper Akcan and Renzo Davoli) is now fully umview compatible, includes all the features from both projects and several new fixes. Virtualsquare will soon move to the new fuse-ext2 code.

Aug 17, 2009: A lot of new code in the experimental branch. ViewFS now manages permissions and ownership. BinFmt can select different interpreters for executable depending on the path. Management of UID and extendend attributes (xattr) in xmview core.

Aug 07, 2009: ViewOS 0.8 beta (in svn rd235 branch). The core/module interface is completely new. There is a global hash table that tracks all the mounted partitions/sockets/system calls. The whole structure is highly scalable.

Jul 23, 2009: ViewOS: The new svn version is able to run with mount/umount standard commands. [ku]mview now virtualize uid/gid and setuid/setgid. /bin/[u]mount run as uid=0 and euid=0. The new version has succesfully passed all our standard tests. viewmount/viewumount have been deprecated and will be removed from svn soon.

Jul 22, 2009: Due to a change in the code of mount/umount the standard commands are not compatible with View-OS (umview-kmview) since util-linux-ng v.2.15-rc1. In case mount/umount answers "mount: only root can do that", use the new commands viewmount/viewumount instead (check out the latest svn version to have them). The syntax of viewmount/viewumount is the same as mount/umount.

Jul 02, 2009: IPN character devices: data can flow into Inter Process Networks through sockets, network interfaces and now devices.

May 22, 2009: Umview-Kmview can be used as login shells to give each user his/her own view

Jan 10, 2009: New VDE public network experimental service launched: see howto below!

Jan 01, 2009: Virtual Square @ FOSDEM. Bruxelles February 8th: seminar on IPN and msockets

Jul 23, 2008: new source tarballs for View-OS: LWIPv6. Fixed LWIPv6 on x86_64.

Jun 19, 2008: new source tarballs for View-OS: XMView, LWIPv6. Debian packages uploaded.

Jun 17, 2008: new source tarballs for VDE: VDE, vdetelweb. Debian packages uploaded.

Apr 28, 2008: multistack networking, nested multistack networking and new syscalls added to the svn.

Feb 6, 2008: new source tarballs and Debian packages for purelibc (0.3) and LWIPv6 (1.1a); new Debian package for vde2 (2.2.0-pre2), tarball coming soon.

Nov 5, 2007: we have added the E-mail addresses info <at> v2.cs.unibo.it and bugs <at> v2.cs.unibo.it for info requests and bugs report respectively.

Aug 30, 2007: we are moving our View-OS software repository from Savannah to Sourceforge. When the move is complete we will stop updating the software on Savannah.