GNU Hurd 0.6 released

Hi!

We're pleased to announce version 0.6 of the GNU Hurd, http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/.

The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). More detailed: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/documentation.html, http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.h... >.

GNU Hurd runs on 32-bit x86 machines. A version running on 64-bit x86 (x86_64) machines is in progress. Volunteers interested in ports to other architectures are sought; please contact us (see below) if you'd like to help.

To compile the Hurd, you need a toolchain configured to target i?86-gnu; you cannot use a toolchain targeting GNU/Linux. Also note that you cannot run the Hurd "in isolation": you'll need to add further components such as the GNU Mach microkernel and the GNU C Library (glibc), to turn it into a runnable system.

This new release bundles bug fixes and enhancements done since the last release:

| Version 0.6 (2015-04-10)

Numerous cleanups and stylistic fixes of the code base. Several problems have been identified using static analysis and exercising tools, and have subsequently been fixed.

The message dispatching code in the Hurd servers has been improved. Among other things, we now make use of the protected payloads introduced in GNU Mach 1.5. The embedded gz and bz2 decompressor code has been removed, libz and libbz2 is used instead.

The native fakeroot tool has been greatly improved and is now able to build many packages. The portinfo and rpctrace tools now offer a better debugging experience.

The performance of the integer hashing library has been improved.

The init server has been split into the startup server (handling early system bootstrap and shutdown), and a SysV-style init program (aptly named `init').

The procfs and random translators have been merged.

Many thanks to all the people who are helping!

Releases may be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/, or checked out of Git, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/.

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