Changelog

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

0.0.7 - 2024-08-31

Some packages had version bumps without changing the contents, to fix some missed version bumps before:

  • diskmgr: 1.0 -> 1.0.1
  • startmgr: 0.1.1 -> 0.1.2
  • yahtcc: 0.1-2 -> 0.1-3

phoenix

Package version: 0.0.7

  • Fixed compatibility with CC:T 1.112.0 and later
  • Fixed crash in installer
  • Added overlay mounting capabilities
  • Implemented ^L shortcut to clear terminal screen
  • Improved handling of deeply recursive links
  • Fixed some issues with links in craftos mounts
  • Removed some unnecessary debug log lines

baseutils

Package version: 0.2.2

  • Added -h option to ls
  • Fixed argument passing to mount

dpkg

Package version: 0.2.6

  • Fixed some handling of links
  • Fixed version comparison issues
  • Fixed issues with parsing certain control files

0.0.6 - 2024-07-31

phoenix

Package version: 0.0.6

  • Reduced default quantum to 20,000 instructions
  • Fixed string.pack backport not working on CC older than 1.89.0
  • Fixed some issues around passing tables in system call parameters
  • Added secure_syscall, secure_event yield types (experimental)
  • Added file system events system through the fsevent syscall
    • Call fsevent on a path to receive events when the file or directory is modified
  • Fixed read handles on empty files not working in custom filesystems
  • Fixed environment of user mode callbacks to custom write file handles
  • Fixed root user not having absolute permissions on files
  • Re-added utf8 library to programs
  • Changed VT key combo to Ctrl+Shift+Fn
  • Text mode cursor color is now set to the active foreground color
  • Fixed (GFX)Terminal.nativePaletteColor being missing
  • Added tty.write and tty.sendEvent methods
  • Fixed issues with standard handle redirection relating to frontmost processes
  • Added require/package implementation in the kernel environment
  • Added getfenv syscall to get the process environment table
  • Fixed global metatables per process using kernel global APIs
  • Added atexit syscall to run a function before the process quits
  • Mutexes can now be shared across processes properly
  • Fixed panic from resizing an attached monitor
  • Fixed missing initialization function for speakers
  • Fixed small bug on HTTP failures

libsystem

Package version: 0.1.5

  • Added filesystem.fsevent, filesystem.absolute, process.getfenv, process.atexit, sync.synctab
  • Added transparency option to framebuffer.framebuffer
  • Added range check to colors in graphics.drawFilledBox

libcraftos

Package version: 0.2.3

  • Added cc.strings library to libcc
  • Fixed fs.getFreeSpace, fs.getCapacity, and fs.move not finding mount info when destination path doesn’t exist
  • Fixed fs.getName not working
  • Moved event conversion logic into os._convertEvent(event, param)
  • Fixed peripheral.hasType not working
  • term.native() now returns a copy of the TTY handle

aes (new)

Package version: 1.0

  • Initial release
  • Provides functions to encrypt and decrypt data using the AES algorithm.
  • Ported from https://gist.github.com/afonya2/489c3306a7d85f8f9512df321d904dbb

ar

Package version: 1.1.1

  • Fixed issue with long file names in some archives

asn1 (new)

Package version: 1.0

  • Initial release
  • Handles serializing and deserializing tables in ASN.1 DER format.

ccryptolib

Package version: 1.2.2

  • This version adds a way to initialize the generator from noise present in VM instruction timings. This is a reworked version of the previous approach used for initializing the ecc.lua random generator.

compressfs (new)

Package version: 1.0

  • Initial release
  • Implements a file system that compresses disk contents automatically.

deflateans (new)

Package version: 1.0

  • Initial release
  • A variant of DEFLATE that uses asymmetrical numeral systems instead of Huffman coding, increasing decompression speed with similar compression ratios.

dpkg

Package version: 0.2.5

  • Fixed error when a package has Conflicts
  • Fixed --force-depends-version not working

encryptfs (new)

Package version: 1.0

  • Initial release
  • Implements a file system that encrypts disk contents automatically.

libcert (new)

Package version: 1.0

  • Initial release
  • Implements a library for working with X.509 and PKCS container formats.

libdeflate

Package version: 1.0.2-2

  • Added link to capitalized name in case a program uses it

luz

Package version: 0.1.1

  • Fixed issue in init code

spanfs

Package version: 0.1.1

  • Refactored some userspace code for safety

typescript

Package version: 1.22.0

  • Updated to newer upstream version

yellowbox (new)

Package version: 0.1

  • Initial release
  • Kernel module that implements a ComputerCraft emulator in the Phoenix kernel.

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

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