Changelog

This page lists the changes in each major update to Phoenix, broken down by package.

0.0.5 - 2024-01-17

phoenix

Package version: 0.0.5

• Improved support for Lua 5.2 runtimes
• Changed some details about how system calls are run in the kernel
  • Syscalls are now run in a separate coroutine
  • This allows them to yield for events
  • User callbacks to syscalls can yield as well
• Added quiet boot argument to set the log level to warning
• Added new key translation allocation method that doesn’t use bytecode
• Added more protection around kernel panics
• Added checks to make sure the kernel doesn’t yield in the wrong places
• Added implementations of common Lua functions in the kernel environment
• Added unmount method to filesystems
• Added localIP method to PSP socket handles
• Added transfer method to PSP socket handles to transfer the handle to another process
• PSP can now listen to multiple clients on the same port, as long as the remote clients use different outgoing ports
• Fixed a bug in mkdir
• Fixed a vulnerability in loadfile allowing access to the kernel environment
• Fixed a vulnerability in dbprotect allowing accessing the environment of stack functions
• openterm and opengfx now hold references to their handles, allowing them to be called again to get the handle after initialization
• Fixed many issues in PSP layer
• craftos filesystems no longer sync metadata on every write
• Fixed tabs not always aligning correctly
• mklog no longer errors if the log already exists
• Improved how the exit syscall works

pxboot

Package version: 0.1.3

• Fixed support for Lua 5.2
• Added insmod command in entry definitions

libsystem

Package version: 0.1.4

• Added serialization.toml TOML parser
• Added expect.struct, expect.array, expect.match type matchers for expect
• Added process.forkbg, process.startbg to create background tasks
• Fixed error when using filesystem.copy on a source that doesn’t exist
• Fixed some typos in sync.conditionVariable:waitFor and terminal.readline2

libcraftos

Package version: 0.2.2

• Reverted changes to terminal colors
• Fixed bug in disk.isPresent when the requested peripheral isn’t a drive
• Fixed typo in colors.pink
• Fixed environment error in init module
• Fixed some issues with syscalls in shell program

baseutils

Package version: 0.2.1

• Added attach program for CraftOS-PC
• Added automatic /rom mount to /etc/fstab
• Fixed issues displaying infinite drive sizes in df

dpkg

Package version: 0.2.4

• Fixed bug when extracting links
• Fixed bug causing non-empty directories to be deleted when a single package removes them

ccryptolib

Package version: 1.1.0

• Updated to latest upstream version
• This version stabilizes the API in ccryptolib.x25519c.
  • Functions that mixed exchanges with Ed25519 keys were removed.

luz (new)

Package version: 0.1

• Initial release
• Lua script compression and decompression utility, library & kernel module
• Can be used with pxboot to boot Luz-compressed kernel images

phoenix-luz (new)

Package version: 0.0.5

• Initial release
• Alternate distribution of phoenix using Luz compression

fuse (new)

Package version: 0.1

• Initial release
• Implements filesystems in userspace, allowing filesystems to be implemented without using kernel modules

ftp (new)

Package version: 0.1

• Initial release
• RFC 959-compliant File Transfer Protocol client, server, and filesystem driver over PSP

netutils (new)

Package version: 0.1

• Initial release
• Various Linux-inspired utilities to manage the current network configurations

dhcpmgr (new)

Package version: 0.1

• Initial release
• DHCP autoconfiguration server for assigning IP addresses to clients

netmgr (new)

Package version: 0.1

• Initial release
• Network management daemon to set IP addresses from a configuration file, including a DHCP client

Installer

• Added prompt to use phoenix-luz Luz kernel instead of full phoenix kernel
• Added confirmation prompt for passwords

0.0.4 - 2023-08-03

phoenix

Package version: 0.0.4

• Added bind filesystem type for bind mounts
• Added kernargs syscall to get kernel argument list (intended for init systems)
• Added fsmeta kernel argument to store meta.ltn elsewhere
• Added initrd kernel argument to use a tablefs image as the root, allowing a future init program to use root/rootfstype/init arguments
  • initrd images should have the init program at /init.lua, instead of /sbin/init - the init argument is ignored
• Added filesystem.readhandle and filesystem.writehandle kernel API functions
• Added nice syscall to control nice values for a process (preemption times)
• Added kernel API for exec loader functions
• filesystem.openfifo was renamed to filesystem.fifohandle
• xpcall is no longer overridden on platforms that support 5.2-style xpcall
• Syscall failure logs now add the syscall name in the module field
• ROM files may now have metadata
• tablefs now has three writeability modes
  • ro will make the filesystem fully read-only, erroring on write operations
  • No options will make the filesystem writable, but not flushed to disk
  • rw will make the filesystem writable, and saves changes back to the file
• Kernel initialization code is now properly protected - errors while starting up will now panic instead of crashing the computer
• mount now fully supports remounting the root filesystem
• Process IDs are now sequential instead of using the first free ID
• stdin now properly supports paste events
• Implemented ICH, DCH CSI escape codes
• CSI codes CUF and CUB now wrap lines properly
• Disk drives now keep their own metadata databases
• \x1b[0m now resets the bold attribute as well
• Global type metatables are no longer shared between processes
• Fixed issue where stat on a tmpfs root may leak kernel functions
• Fixed chroot syscall not being functional
• Fixed user mode callbacks not returning anything
• Fixed math.random only returning 0/1 when using integer functions
• Fixed print creating extra newlines when writing near the edge of the screen
• Fixed io.stdin:read() missing newlines
• Fixed some issues with io.popen
• Fixed errors in openterm().get[Text|Background]Color when the color is 10-15
• Fixed drive devices not being registered due to a typo
• Fixed an issue causing devices attached to a modem before startup not being detected
• Fixed an issue causing devices attached to a modem being uncallable

libsystem

Package version: 0.1.3

• Added terminal.readline2 to read lines with history and completion
• Added process.nice to set nice level for a process
• Fixed hardware.hasType erroring
• Fixed hardware.wrap objects failing to set properties
• Fixed log.create objects erroring when using a log level
• Fixed an issue causing process.run to fail to run programs
• Fixed serialization.lua.encode encoding some table keys incorrectly
• Fixed incorrect encoding of special characters in serialization.lua.encode

libcraftos

Package version: 0.2.1

• Added stub gps and rednet APIs
• Added manual pages for craftos and shell programs
• Fixed serialization bugs from libsystem in textutils.serialize
• Fixed issues with color codes in term

baseutils

Package version: 0.2

• Added man, apropos programs for reading manual pages in Markdown
• Added comm program for comparing file contents
• Added compress and uncompress programs for legacy UNIX LZW file compression
• Added df program for displaying filesystem statistics
• Added dirname program
• Added du program for measuring disk usage
• Added eject program to eject disks from drives
• Added env program
• Added expand program to expand tabs to spaces
• Added expr program for calculating expressions
• Added id program to get computer and disk IDs
• Added label program for changing disk and computer labels
• Added logger program for viewing, adding to, and creating and deleting logs
• Added lsdev program to list attached devices
• Added nice, renice programs to run a program with the specified nice level
• Added nm program to list functions and variables exported by a library
• Added pwd program to show current working directory
• Added redstone program to manipulate redstone I/O
• Added unlink program as direct wrapper for remove syscall
• Added startmgr service to automatically mount /etc/fstab entries on boot
• cash now supports history and file/program completion
• cat no longer requires libsystem
• less now supports limited VT-100 color codes
• lua now supports history, and alerts the user when they try to use exit or quit to quit
• mount now supports -a and responds to /etc/fstab
• nano now supports cutting and pasting lines
• Installing manual pages will now trigger man -u to update the database for apropos

pxboot

Package version: 0.1.2

• Added monitor subcommand to run the specified OS on an attached monitor
• Added include command to include other config subfiles using a wildcard pattern

ar

Package version: 1.1

• Phoenix permissions are now better supported
• Fixed some critical bugs when writing files
• Optimized code

ccryptolib (new)

Package version: 1.0.1

• Initial release
• Port of migeyel’s CCryptoLib to Phoenix

diskmgr (new)

Package version: 1.0

• Initial release
• Manager program to automatically mount disks

dpkg

Package version: 0.2.3

• Added --root option to dpkg
• Added ability to extract links properly

initrd-utils (new)

Package version: 0.1

• Initial release
• Contains tools for building an initrd

phoenix-docs (new)

Package version: 0.0.4

• Initial release
• Contains manual pages for Phoenix, libsystem, and baseutils; kept separate from the main packages to save space

spanfs (new)

Package version: 0.1

• Initial release
• Contains kernel module for spanned filesystems across multiple disk drives + management tools

startmgr

Package version: 0.1.1

• Implemented list, install and uninstall commands
• Services can now have a .wants folder next to them to add other services that the service requires
  • This is useful for packages to install startup services, e.g. in /etc/startmgr/system/startup.service.wants/
• Moved startup.service to startmgr
• shutdown now logs a message before timed shutdown

usermgr

Package version: 0.1.2

• Moved startup.service to startmgr
• useradd now properly sets the owner of files copied from the skeleton directory

yahtcc

Package version: 1.0-2

• Added manual file

Installer

• Added automatic setup for installing to a span filesystem

0.0.3 - 2023-01-17

phoenix

Package version: 0.0.3

• Added version checking to the kernel to ensure compatible CC:T versions
• Added chroot syscall to change process root
• Added support for symbolic links through the link syscall
• Added support for FIFOs through the mkfifo syscall
• Added new tablefs filesystem which loads the filesystem from a serialized table
• Added nolink option to stat to avoid resolving a final link
• Added new PACKAGE_PATH and PACKAGE_LIBPATH environment variables to control package.path in the environment
• Environment variables are now stored in a separate table from the Lua global environment
• #! now passes the path to the interpreter instead of piping the file to the interpreter’s stdin
• HTTP requests now default to binary mode
• Fixed a bug causing resizing to not redraw properly

libsystem

Package version: 0.1.2

• Added filesystem.link, filesystem.mkfifo, filesystem.chroot, filesystem.mountlist; nolink option for filesystem.stat
• filesystem.move now uses filesystem.rename if the source and destination are on the same filesystem
• Added process.execp to execute commands using the PATH
• Added util.pullEvent as a proxy of coroutine.yield()
• Added TypeScript definitions
• Fixed a bug causing devicetree objects to not be accepted by hardware.*

libcraftos

Package version: 0.2

• Implemented most APIs, allowing more of CraftOS to run (currently missing: gps, rednet, multishell; shell and textutils are half implemented)
• Added shell program to run the CraftOS shell quickly
• Added TypeScript definitions from cc-tstl-template

typescript (new)

Package version: 1.10.1

• Initial release

baseutils

Package version: 0.1.2

• Added chroot, link, mkfifo commands
• mount now outputs a list of all mounts when run without arguments
• Adjusted cash to work with new environment variable semantics
• Adjusted chmod/chown to work with links
• Fixed ls not working when passed a file path

dpkg

Package version: 0.2.2

• Fixed bugs

usermgr

Package version: 0.1.1

• su/sudo can now resolve commands from the PATH
• Adjusted programs to work with new environment variable semantics

libdeflate

Package version: 1.0.2

• Updated to resolve licensing issues
• Removed a few unnecessary functions related to WoW and CLI
• Added TypeScript definitions

muxzcat

Package version: 1.0-2

• Added TypeScript definitions

tar

Package version: 1.0.1

• Fixed bugs

sha2

Package version: 12-2

• Added TypeScript definitions

0.0.2 - 2022-09-11

phoenix

Package version: 0.0.2

• Added basic Discord plugin support (not super good but it works)
• Fixed some problems with _ENV emulation
• Added new driver registration functions to the kernel API
• Added attach/detach syscalls for peripheral emulators
• Fixed issues with updating frontmost processes when using stdout/stdin/stderr
• Other various fixes

libsystem

Package version: 0.1.1

• Added serialization module
• Fixed cursor blink behavior in windows
• Fixed window.restoreCursor missing from windows

pxboot

Package version: 0.1.1

• Fixed support for Discord plugin

baseutils

Package version: 0.1.1

• Fixed some invalid argument issues

dpkg

Package version: 0.2.1

• Added components package installer
• Bug fixes

gfxterm (new)

Package version: 0.0.1

• Initial release

0.0.1 - 2022-08-25

phoenix

Package version: 0.0.1

• Initial release

libsystem

Package version: 0.1

• Initial release

libcraftos

Package version: 0.1

• Initial release

pxboot

Package version: 0.1

• Initial release

baseutils

Package version: 0.1

• Initial release

yahtcc

Package version: 1.0

• Initial release

startmgr

Package version: 0.1

• Initial release

usermgr

Package version: 0.1

• Initial release

ar

Package version: 1.0

• Initial release

diff

Package version: 1.0

• Initial release

libdeflate

Package version: 1.0.0

• Initial release

muxzcat

Package version: 1.0

• Initial release

sha2

Package version: 12

• Initial release

tar

Package version: 1.0

• Initial release

dpkg

Package version: 0.2

• Initial release