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util-ironclad 0.1.0 released
     posted by streaksu, Tue 04 Mar 2025 09:42:15 PM UTC

This release marks the first release of util-ironclad, the ironclad
alternative for util-linux that distro maintainers can use for
providing system management userland utilities like blkid, ps, dmesg,
lspci, mount/umount, and the like. [...]

Moving from Paypal to Stripe for donations and payment processing
     posted by streaksu, Sun 02 Mar 2025 07:37:36 PM UTC

Ironclad will be moving for its donations to Stripe from Paypal. This
is done to make our processing easier and allowing people to do
donations without a PayPal account, just using a credit card or
bank transfer. We feel this is way more privacy respecting and will [...]

Ironclad 0.6.0 released
     posted by streaksu, Fri 31 Jan 2025 11:39:17 PM UTC

This release comes after a long gap of releases, and has had massive work done on
almost every aspect of the kernel. Because of this, I find it hard to summarize
the changes, but a gist of it is:

This is a non-exhaustive list of the big changes included in this release: [...]

Ironclad @ FOSDEM 2025
     posted by streaksu, Mon 30 Dec 2024 06:34:06 PM UTC

Ironclad will have an in-person presentation delving into why Ada was chosen for development, advantages of Ada compared with alternatives like C and Rust for the use case of low level development, and how these advantages are used inside Ironclad with the concrete example of driver development inside the kernel, as part of FOSDEM 2025 in [...]

A new face for Ironclad
     posted by streaksu, Fri 13 Dec 2024 12:07:46 AM UTC

Since the beginning of Ironclad, the design of Takao, the mascot and logo of the project, has served us well, but as Ironclad is starting to be featured in presentations, stickers, and the like, a less mspaint-y, cleaner, SVG logo is in order. The new design was made by myself, trying to retain as much of the [...]

Ironclad joins the NLNet NGI0 Core initiative
     posted by streaksu, Sun 13 Oct 2024 11:22:07 AM UTC

I am glad to announce Ironclad has been given a grant by the NLNet foundation, as part of its NGI Zero Core initiative. NLNet's announcement can be found here. [...]

AEiC 2024 presentation
     posted by streaksu, Sun 09 Jun 2024 04:30:08 PM UTC

Ada-Europe holds a convention every year, hosting a program packed with everything Ada. This year's edition will be held in Barcelona, Spain.

Ironclad will have an in-person presentation about the project at large and on the operating system's internals the 14th of June, as part of the [...]

Ironclad distributions and the xz-utils backdoor
     posted by streaksu, Sat 30 Mar 2024 04:27:06 AM UTC

xz-utils, a popular set of data compression software tools used by tons of software and operating systems has been actually, unbeknownst to us, maintained by a malicious actor for the past 2+ years, and a backdoor (and potentially more) have been added to it. [...]

Ironclad 0.5.0 released
     posted by streaksu, Tue 31 Oct 2023 03:47:28 PM UTC

This release brings a lot of improvements to mainly the scheduling, time keeping, userland, and networking subsystems.

This is a non-exhaustive list of the big changes included in this release:

- Implemented a new scheduling algorithm, based on ARINC partitions. [...]

Ada Monthly Meetup presentation!
     posted by streaksu, Thu 19 Oct 2023 03:44:37 AM UTC

The Ada community holds a meetup every month over Jitsi, presenting projects and language news. There will be an Ironclad presentation accompanying it for November's edition. Join if you are interested! It will take place on November 4th 2PM UTC, check out the forum post for further information, or join directly once the time comes here.


Older News Approved
New domain: ironclad.cx posted by streaksu, Thu 31 Aug 2023 11:21:48 PM UTC
Ironclad 0.4.0 posted by streaksu, Thu 31 Aug 2023 07:11:54 PM UTC
Ironclad 0.3.0 released posted by streaksu, Sun 02 Apr 2023 08:01:26 AM UTC
Ironclad 0.2.0 released posted by streaksu, Wed 16 Nov 2022 10:05:01 AM UTC
Ironclad 0.1.0 released posted by streaksu, Sun 16 Oct 2022 11:35:40 AM UTC

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