v0.15.0 Cunning Conan

Added

• Conan build system
  • Major refactoring of how IncludeOS is built
  • Multiple ARCH is managed by Conan profiles and dependencies
  • 3rd party dependencies are now built and managed in Jenkins. All recipes can be found here
    • Updated to libcxx, libcxxabi 7.0.1
    • Updated to GSL 2.0.0
  • Stable and latest binary packages can be found in bintray
  • A repo to install Conan configs for IncludeOS: conan_config
  • Improvements to Jenkins integration, automatic uploads of latest/stable packages on master-merge/tags
• Experimental IPv6 (WIP) including SLAAC
  • IPv6/IPv4 dual stack integration
  • TCP/UDP client / server
  • Autoconfiguration with SLAAC
  • Configuration with config.json - see #2114
• HAL (work in progress)
  • The OS is now backed by a common Machine structure that makes it easier to create new ports
  • A custom C++ allocator is available very early allowing the use of STL before libc is ready

Changed

• Updates to workflow. All documented in the README
  • No more need for INCLUDEOS_PREFIX in env variables
  • Removed ARCH as part of the path to libraries/drivers/plugins/etc
    • Drivers and Plugins can be created outside includeos
• Moved IncludeOS repository from hioa-cs to includeos organization
• Major breaking changes in the OS API, in particular the OS class is removed, replaced with a smaller os namespace. Much of the code moved to new kernel:: namespace.
• Relocated plugins/libraries/scripts:
  • Hello World example
  • Demos and examples
  • Mana
  • Uplink
  • Vmrunner
  • Diskbuilder
  • Vmbuild
  • MicroLB

Removed / archived

• Cleanup of unused/outdated scripts
  • install.sh is gone as it does no longer work with the Conan workflow
• mender client is archived