diff --git a/doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.24 b/doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.24 index 1b36ce56..cd876e78 100644 --- a/doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.24 +++ b/doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.24 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Mes has now been ported to M2-Planet and can be bootstrapped using stage0-posix[0], starting from the 357-byte hex0 binary of the bootstrap-seeds[1], as was promised at FOSDEM'21[2]. -We are exciteda that the NlNet Foundation[4] is again sponsoring this +We are excited that the NlNet Foundation[4] is again sponsoring this work! What's next? diff --git a/doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.25 b/doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.25 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..81ed1751 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.25 @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ + +Subject: GNU Mes 0.25 released + +<#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> + +We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.25! + +Although it's been only nine months since the previous release, this +release represents 116 commits over two years by six people. This +release brings RISC-V64-linux support. + +We are excited that the NLnet Foundation is sponsoring this work! + +What's next? + +Bringing the Full Source Bootstrap to NixOS. Full Guile compatible +module support, and support for running Gash and Gash-Utils. Support +for bootstrapping gcc-4.6.4, and a Full Source Bootstrap for +armhf-linux, and riscv64-linux. + +Enjoy! + +* About + + GNU Mes is a Scheme interpreter and C compiler for bootstrapping the + GNU System. It has helped to decimate the number and size of binary + seeds that were used in the bootstrap of GNU Guix 1.0. Recently, + version 0.24.2 has realized the first Full Source Bootstrap for Guix + . + The final goal is to help create a full source bootstrap as part of + the bootstrappable builds effort for any + UNIX-like operating system. + + Mes + MesCC + Mes C Library can build a bootstrappable TinyCC + that is self-hosting. Using this + bootstrappable-tcc and the Mes C library we can build an ancient + version of the GNU tools triplet: glibc-2.2.5, binutils-2.20.1, + gcc-2.95.3. This is enough to bootstrap Guix for i686-linux, + x86_64-linux, armhf-linux and aarch64-linux. + + Mes was inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: LISP-1.5 -- + John McCarthy page 13, Guix's source/binary packaging transparency and + Jeremiah Orians's Stage0 , a + ~500-byte self-hosting hex assembler. + +* Download + + git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/mes.git + + Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]: + https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mes/mes-0.25.tar.gz + https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mes/mes-0.25.tar.gz.sig + + Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: + https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mes/mes-0.25.tar.gz + https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mes/mes-0.25.tar.gz.sig + + Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums: + + xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mes-0.25.tar.gz + xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mes-0.25.tar.gz + + [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the + .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file + and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: + + gpg --verify mes-0.25.tar.gz.sig + + If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, + or that public key has expired, try the following commands to update + or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. + + gpg --recv-keys 1A858392E331EAFDB8C27FFBF3C1A0D9C1D65273 + + Alternatively, Mes can be installed or updated using Guix: + + guix pull + guix install mes + + +* Changes in 0.25 since 0.24.2 + + ** Core + *** Support for riscv64-linux. + ** Build + *** Support M2-Planet build for x86_64-linux. + *** Building with M2-Planet-1.11.0 is now supported. + *** The requirement for M2-Planet's --bootstrap-mode was dropped. + ** Noteworthy bug fixes + *** In the REPL, `include', `load', and `,use MODULE' now work. + *** Using mes' `access' with R_OK now respects read permissions. + *** On 64bit, displayed values are no longer truncated. + *** On 64bit, MesCC now correctly supports 8-byte immediate values. + *** MesCC now initializes struct fields to 0. + *** The MesCC test suite passes with gcc >= 10 + An array overflow bug was fixed in `63-struct-cell.c'. + +Join bug-mes@gnu.org and #bootstrappable on irc.libera.chat for +discussions. + +Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release: + + 11 Andrius Štikonas + 1 Efraim Flashner + 25 Ekaitz Zarraga + 1 Emily Trau + 63 Janneke Nieuwenhuizen + 15 W. J. van der Laan