[Minios-devel] Unikraft 0.4 Rhea Release

[Simon Kuenzer <simon.kuenzer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

the Unikraft team is proud to announce that a new release is out:
    0.4 Rhea

This release is tagged with `RELEASE-0.4` in the repositories.
It includes many exciting features, the biggest ones are:

 - Support for external platforms, and in particular solo5
 - Cloud-based deployments (GCP, AWS, Digital Ocean)
 - Native support for many programming languages and environments:
   C++, Python/Micropython, Go, Lua, Web Assembly (WAMR),
   JavaScript (Duktape), Ruby
 - Improvements to the ARM64 platform, including virtio and
   multi-thread support
 - Basic musl support
 - pthread and TLS support
 - Trace point sub-system
 - Filesystem support (9pfs, devfs, ramfs)
 - Applications: Click, SQLite, nginx, redis
 - Additional lib ports: uuid, http-parser, intel-intrinsics, openssl,
   boost, protobuf, etc.

Together with this release, we are proudly introducing `kraft`. It is a 
new tool which greatly simplifies the process of building and running 
Unikraft-built unikernels. You can check it out at:
 https://github.com/unikraft/kraft

We want to send a big thank you to all contributors:
Without your effort we wouldn't have achieved so much!

  Costin Lupu                     270 (22.0%)
  Vlad-Andrei BĂDOIU              155 (12.7%)
  Simon Kuenzer                   127 (10.4%)
  Felipe Huici                     98 (8.0%)
  Yuri Volchkov                    75 (6.1%)
  Sharan Santhanam                 74 (6.0%)
  Florian Schmidt                  69 (5.6%)
  Jia He                           60 (4.9%)
  Wei Chen                         45 (3.7%)
  Mihai Pogonaru                   37 (3.0%)
  Gaulthier Gain                   36 (2.9%)
  Cristian Banu                    31 (2.5%)
  Charalampos Mainas               29 (2.4%)
  Roxana Nicolescu                 28 (2.3%)
  Jianyong Wu                      15 (1.2%)
  Andrei Gogonea                   12 (1.0%)
  Hugo Lefeuvre                    11 (0.9%)
  Bogdan Lascu                     10 (0.8%)
  Teodora Serbanescu                8 (0.7%)
  Stefan Teodorescu                 8 (0.7%)
  Santiago Pagani                   8 (0.7%)
  Alexander Jung                    7 (0.6%)
  Haibo Xu                          7 (0.6%)
  Cyril Soldani                     2 (0.2%)
  Juan Picca                        1 (0.1%)
  Alina Volchkova                   1 (0.1%)
  Radu Nicolau                      1 (0.1%)

         (Numbers are based on Signed-off-by tags)

Another thank you goes to all of our reviewers:
Thank you so much for your efforts!

  Felipe Huici                    356 (33.3%)
  Costin Lupu                     189 (17.7%)
  Simon Kuenzer                   158 (14.8%)
  Sharan Santhanam                 90 (8.4%)
  Vlad-Andrei BĂDOIU (78692)       61 (5.7%)
  Florian Schmidt                  56 (5.2%)
  Stefan Teodorescu                39 (3.6%)
  Roxana Nicolescu                 27 (2.5%)
  Gaulthier Gain                   24 (2.2%)
  Santiago Pagani                  19 (1.8%)
  Charalampos Mainas               17 (1.6%)
  Yuri Volchkov                    13 (1.2%)
  Jia He                           11 (1.0%)
  Mihai Pogonaru                    5 (0.5%)
  Alexander Jung                    3 (0.3%)
  Julien Grall                      1 (0.1%)

         (Numbers are based on Reviewed-by tags)

We also want to send our special thanks to

  Mujahid Ali and Alexander Jung
   for the `kraft` tool and deploying unikraft.org.

  Mujahid Ali and Alexander Jung
   for providing image support for Amazon Web Services,
   Google Cloud, and Digital Ocean.

  Davide Sanvito, Alexander Jung, and Santiago Pigani
   for their work on the CI system that we are starting
   to use for automated testing.

  Julien Grall
   for his reviewing support.

Thanks,
Simon

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