v0.8.0 Enceladus

[nderjung]

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

• arch/arm/arm64: Introduce Pointer Authentication support #369 by @michpappas
• Virtual Memory API (x86_64, kvm) #338 by @marcrittinghaus
• uknetdev, plat/kvm: Support for partial checksumming / checksum offloading #308 by @skuenzer
• include/event: Add uk_event for new trap interface #227, plat/x86: Use event-based trap interface #230, plat/arm64: Use event-based trap interface #231 by @marcrittinghaus
• Provide additional interrupt context safe functions #192 by @cristian-vijelie
• plat/linuxu: TAP netdev driver #251 by @hisharanwithu
• lib/ukargparse: Add basic test suite #392, lib/ukargparse: Improve testing of ukargparse lib #431 by @StefanJum
• include/uk/list.h: Add uk_list_last_entry_or_null #396 by @marcrittinghaus
• lib/ukmmap: Fix some bugs and add mprotect #394 by @marcrittinghaus
• plat/linuxu: Add support for arm64 on linux userspace #418 by @maniatro111

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• lib/ubsan: Rewrite of ubsan library #404 by @marcrittinghaus
• doc: Migrate and update docs #252 by @nderjung
• support/scripts: Allow mkcpio to quietly gzip compress CPIO images #359 by @aadhi0319
• Enhance arm(64)/x86_64 Bitscan Functions #395 by @marcrittinghaus
• lib/posix-user: Add getgrgid to export #410 by @marcrittinghaus
• lib/ukrust: Do not invoke rustc if ukrust is not enabled #403 by @michpappas
• lib/uktest: Fixes layout of assert table on ARM64 #397 by @marcrittinghaus
• plat/linuxu: Add dependency to lib/ukalloc #430 by @skuenzer
• lib/ukargparse: Fix quoted whitespaces handling #433 by @StefanJum
• lib/syscall_shim: Fix build warning for _uk_printd definition #432 by @gabrielmocanu
• plat/*: Fix build warning for halt definition #429 by @gabrielmocanu
• plat/linuxu: Fix build errors introduced by #251 #412 by @vladandrew
• lib/uksglist: Fix conditional definition of functions #399 by @george-hopkins
• lib/ukmmap: Fix some bugs and add mprotect #394 by @marcrittinghaus
• include/essentials: Fix and introduce more range macros #370 by @skuenzer
• lib/vfscore: Fixing various bugs #411 by @marcrittinghaus
• lib/syscall_shim: Complete syscall lists on arm and aarch64 #423 by @razvanvirtan
• lib/uksglist: Replace EDOOFUS macro #416 by @maniatro111
• plat/drivers/virtio-blk: Remove uk_free call on request dequeue #413 by @mschlumpp
• lib/vfscore: Move alloc out of critical section in sys_open #408 by @marcrittinghaus
• lib/nolibc: Use types from shareddefs.h #407 by @marcrittinghaus
• lib/vfscore, lib/*fs: Use non-prototyped no-ops #405 by @marcrittinghaus
• arch/arm64: 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.

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

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