From 811009d18b098a07b813f04c24912fe0bcc1b44d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Norman Feske Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 16:42:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] News item about Sculpt 21.03b update --- doc/news.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/news.txt b/doc/news.txt index 86ff0525c4..cbbacc57a9 100644 --- a/doc/news.txt +++ b/doc/news.txt @@ -4,6 +4,29 @@ =========== +Sculpt OS 21.03 boots now in 2.5 seconds | 2021-05-03 +##################################################### + +| We have released an updated Sculpt 21.03 image featuring several +| hardware-compatibility tweaks and performance improvements. + +Since the official Sculpt OS 21.03 release end of March, we continued our +efforts with refining the user experience and broadening hardware +compatibility, thanks to the user feedback we received. We have now released +an updated system image that includes those refinements as well as several +performance optimizations that boost the boot time of Sculpt to less than 2.5 +seconds from the first life sign of the kernel to the graphical user +interface (measured on a 5-years old Lenovo x250 laptop). + +You can get the new version of the system image named sculpt-21-03b at the +[https://genode.org/download/sculpt - Sculpt OS download] page. +It is binary compatible with the original release version. So you can use it +as a drop-in-replacement. + +For manually reproducing the image, please refer to the corresponding +[https://github.com/chelmuth/genode/commits/sculpt_21_03b - Git branch]. + + Sculpt OS release 21.03 | 2021-03-24 ####################################