Development updates, technical deep dives, and project announcements
This is the largest stability and security release Aegis has had: roughly 50 verified fixes in one pass, including the multi-core scheduling bug that had defeated every attempt to fix it for months. It was found, root-caused, fixed, and proven — on real hardware. I want to write up both what shipped and how, because the how is unusual.
A small point release. Most of it is cleanup I should have caught before 1.0.1 ever shipped — the GRUB menu on the installed system has never rendered correctly, the installer will happily overwrite your existing install without so much as a shrug, and there’s one honest-to-god kernel regression I can’t reproduce and therefore haven’t fixed yet. Plus one actual new feature (see below).
A small release with one slightly embarrassing kernel bug, two latent crashes the test harness coughed up, and an end-to-end test that finally passes ten times in a row.
A point release with a stack of real fixes, the start of a GUI-subsystem refactor, and one apology.
Active development on Aegis is underway, with incremental security reviews being conducted on the codebase.