Debian GNU/Hurd Changelog

What's new in Debian GNU/Hurd 2017

Jun 18, 2017
  • The core GNU Hurd and GNU Mach packages were updated to versions 0.9 and 1.8, respectively. Besides numerous other improvements, they bring vastly improved stability under memory load and prolonged uptime.
  • The native fakeroot tool has been greatly improved, allowing to be used for building packages, making that quite faster and safer.
  • It is now possible to run subhurds as unprivileged user, thus providing easy lightweight virtualization.
  • The supported memory size was extended beyond 3GiB.

New in Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 (May 1, 2015)

  • The core GNU Hurd and GNU Mach packages were updated to versions 0.6 and 1.5, respectively. Besides numerous other improvements, they bring vastly improved stability under load and prolonged uptime.
  • The networking drivers were migrated to user-space drivers using the NetDDE framework and a Linux-2.6.32 codebase.

New in Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 (May 22, 2013)

  • This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the Debian "wheezy" release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.