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<h1>News about Debian GNU/Hurd</h1>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2021-08-14"):></h3>

<p>Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 <em>released</em>!</p>

<p>It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the 
<strong>release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2021</strong>. <br />
This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian
"Bullseye" release (August 2021), so it is mostly based on the same sources.  It is <em>not</em> an
official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.</p>

<p>The installation ISO images can be downloaded from
<a href="https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/11.0/hurd-i386/">cdimage</a>
in the usual three Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Besides the friendly
Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available, making it even easier to try
Debian GNU/Hurd. The easiest way to run it is
<a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install">inside a VM such as qemu</a></p>

<p>Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 architecture with about
70% of the Debian archive, and more to come!</p>

<ul>
<li>The port of go is complete</li>
<li>Support for file record locking was added</li>
<li>Some parts of experimental APIC, SMP and 64bit support was added</li>
<li>Userland IRQ delivery was reworked</li>
<li>An experimental rump-based userland disk driver was introduced. This
  means dropping the Linux glue from the GNU Mach kernel is getting
  very close!</li>
<li>Many fixes, including some important security fixes.</li>
</ul>

<p>Please make sure to read the
<a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install">configuration information</a>,
the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.html">FAQ</a> (or <a href="http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/faq/">its latest version</a>),
and the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.html">translator primer</a>
to get a grasp of the great features of GNU/Hurd.</p>

<p>We would like to thank all the people who have worked on GNU/Hurd <a
href=https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html>in the past</a>.
There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people
today, please <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing.html">join</a>!), but in the end a lot of people have
contributed one way or the other. <strong>Thanks everybody!</strong></p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2019-07-07"):></h3>

<p>Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 <em>released</em>!</p>

<p>It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the 
<strong>release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2019</strong>. <br />
This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian
"buster" release (July 2019), so it is mostly based on the same sources.  It is <em>not</em> an
official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.</p>

<p>The installation ISO images can be downloaded from
<a href="https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/hurd-i386/">cdimage</a>
in the usual three Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Besides the friendly
Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available, making it even easier to try
Debian GNU/Hurd. The easiest way to run it is
<a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install">inside a VM such as qemu</a></p>

<p>Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 architecture with about
80% of the Debian archive, and more to come!</p>

<ul>
<li>An ACPI translator is available, it is currently only used to shut down the
system.</li>
<li>The LwIP TCP/IP stack is now available as an option.</li>
<li>A PCI arbiter has been introduced, and will be useful to properly manage PCI
access, as well as provide fine-grain hardware access.</li>
<li>Support for LLVM was introduced.</li>
<li>New optimisations include protected payloads, better paging management and
message dispatch, and gsync synchronization.</li>
</ul>

<p>Please make sure to read the
<a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install">configuration information</a>,
the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.html">FAQ</a> (or <a href="http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/faq/">its latest version</a>),
and the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.html">translator primer</a>
to get a grasp of the great features of GNU/Hurd.</p>

<p>We would like to thank all the people who have worked on GNU/Hurd <a
href=https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html>in the past</a>.
There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people
today, please <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing.html">join</a>!), but in the end a lot of people have
contributed one way or the other. <strong>Thanks everybody!</strong></p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2017-06-18"):></h3>

<p>Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 <em>released</em>!</p>

<p>It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the 
<strong>release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2017</strong>. <br />
This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian
"stretch" release (May 2017), so it is mostly based on the same sources.  It is <em>not</em> an
official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.</p>

<p>The installation ISO images can be downloaded from
<a href="https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/9.0/hurd-i386/">cdimage</a>
in the usual three Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Besides the friendly
Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available, making it even easier to try
Debian GNU/Hurd. The easiest way to run it is
<a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install">inside a VM such as qemu</a></p>

<p>Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 architecture with about
80% of the Debian archive, and more to come!</p>

<ul>
<li>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.</li>
<li>The native fakeroot tool has been greatly improved, allowing to be used for
   building packages, making that quite faster and safer.</li>
<li>It is now possible to run subhurds as unprivileged user, thus providing easy
lightweight virtualization.</li>
<li>The supported memory size was extended beyond 3GiB.</li>
</ul>

<p>Please make sure to read the
<a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install">configuration information</a>,
the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.html">FAQ</a> (or <a href="http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/faq/">its latest version</a>),
and the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.html">translator primer</a>
to get a grasp of the great features of GNU/Hurd.</p>

<p>We would like to thank all the people who have worked on GNU/Hurd <a
href=https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html>in the past</a>.
There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people
today, please <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing.html">join</a>!), but in the end a lot of people have
contributed one way or the other. <strong>Thanks everybody!</strong></p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2015-04-25"):></h3>

<p>Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 <em>released</em>!</p>

<p>It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the 
<strong>release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2015</strong>. <br />
This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian
"jessie" release (April 2015), so it is mostly based on the same sources.  It is <em>not</em> an
official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.</p>

<p>The installation ISO images can be downloaded from
<a href="https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/8.0/hurd-i386/">Debian Ports</a>
in the usual three Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Besides the friendly
Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available, making it even easier to try
Debian GNU/Hurd. The easiest way to run it is
<a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install">inside a VM such as qemu</a></p>

<p>Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 architecture with more
than 80% of the Debian archive, and more to come!</p>

<p>Since the last snapshot release coinciding with "wheezy", the init system has been
switched to sysvinit for a more Debian-like experience. Further changes since 
the last snapshot include:</p>

<ul>
<li>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.</li>
<li>The networking drivers were migrated to user-space drivers using the NetDDE 
   framework and a  Linux-2.6.32 codebase.</li>
</ul>

<p>
Notable new or upgraded packages which required considerable porting effort and/or 
are known to work well on Debian GNU/Hurd include Iceweasel 31 ESR, Xfce 4.10, 
X.org 7.7 and Emacs 24.4.
</p>

<p>Please make sure to read the
<a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install">configuration information</a>,
the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.html">FAQ</a> (or <a href="http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/faq/">its latest version</a>),
and the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.html">translator primer</a>
to get a grasp of the great features of GNU/Hurd.</p>

<p>We would like to thank all the people who have worked on GNU/Hurd <a
href=https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html>in the past</a>.
There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people
today, please <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing.html">join</a>!), but in the end a lot of people have
contributed one way or the other. <strong>Thanks everybody!</strong></p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2013-05-21"):></h3>

<p>Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 <em>released</em>!</p>

<p>It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the 
<strong>release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013</strong>. <br />
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 <em>not</em> an
official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.</p>

<p>The installation ISO images can be downloaded from
<a href="https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/7.0/hurd-i386/">Debian Ports</a>
in the usual three Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Besides the friendly
Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available, making it even easier to try
Debian GNU/Hurd.</p>

<p>Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 architecture with more than 75% of the Debian archive, and more to come!</p>

<p>Please make sure to read the
<a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install">configuration information</a>,
the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.html">FAQ</a>,
and the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.html">translator primer</a>
to get a grasp of the great features of GNU/Hurd.</p>

<p>Due to the very small number of developers,
our progress of the project has not been as fast as other successful
operating systems, but we believe to have reached <a
href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/status.html">a very decent
state</a>, even with our limited resources. </p>

<p>We would like to thank all the people who have worked on GNU/Hurd <a
href=https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html>over the past
decades</a>. There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people
today, please <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing.html">join</a>!), but in the end a lot of people have
contributed one way or the other. <strong>Thanks everybody!</strong></p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2011-06-11"):></h3>

<p>Various bugs of the debian-installer based image were fixed, there is no
known issue except that GNOME and KDE are not installable yet.<br/>
See the <a href="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2011-02-15"):></h3>

<p>The debian-installer based image was updated to squeeze d-i packages.<br/>
See the <a href="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2010-09-01"):></h3>

<p>A debian-installer based image is available.<br/>
See the <a href="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2009-10-19"):></h3>

<p>The L1 DVD images are now available.<br/>
See the <a href="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2007-12-21"):></h3>

<p>The K16 CD images are now available.<br/>
See the <a href="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2007-11-19"):></h3>

<p>The K15 CD images are now available.<br/>
See the <a href="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2006-11-27"):></h3>

<p>The K14 CD images are now available.<br/>
See the <a href="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2006-04-26"):></h3>

<p>The K11 CD mini image is now available.<br/>
See the <a href="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2005-10-26"):></h3>

<p>The K10 CD and DVD images are now available.<br/>
See the <a href="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2005-05-14"):></h3>

<p>The K9 CD Images are now available.<br/>
See the <a href="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2004-12-30"):></h3>

<P>The K8 CD Images are now available. These Images  support Filesystems bigger
than 2 GB and feature an update of the network device drivers.<br/>
See the <A HREF="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2004-03-06"):></h3>

<P>After a long time of not being updated, new CVS snapshots of <a
href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hurd">the Hurd</a> and <a
href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gnumach">GNU Mach</a> are uploaded.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2003-07-31"):></h3>

<P>The K4 CD images are now available.  
See the <A HREF="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2003-04-30"):></h3>

<P>The K3 CD images are now available. 
They have been renamed to GNU-K3-CDx.iso <br>
See the <A HREF="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>


<h3><:=spokendate ("2003-03-06"):></h3>

<P>The K2 CD images are now available.  
See the <A HREF="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2002-10-10"):></h3>

<P>The J2 CD images are now available.  
See the <A HREF="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>


<P>Upgrading Debian GNU/Hurd from a libio-based system before
2002-08-12 (including J1 CD series).

<P>Updating a Debian GNU/Hurd system in August 2002 requires to follow
the procedure outlined in the <A HREF="extra-files/hurd-upgrade.txt">upgrade
manual</A>.  This update procedure is necessary because the Hurd
interfaces went through an incompatible change to prepare support of
long files.

<h3><:=spokendate ("2002-08-05"):></h3>

<P>The J1 CD images are now available.  
See the <A HREF="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2002-02-26"):></h3>

<P>The H3 CD images are now available.  
See the <A HREF="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2001-12-15"):></h3>

<P>The H2 CD images are now available.  
See the <A HREF="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2001-11-11"):></h3>

<P>The H1 CD images are now available.  
See the <A HREF="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2001-10-05"):></h3>

<P>The G1 CD images are now available.  
See the <A HREF="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2001-08-07"):></h3>

<p>
Today is the first time we crossed the 40% mark in the <a
href="https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph.png">statistic about
up-to-date packages</a> per architecture.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2001-07-31"):></h3>

<P>The F3 CD images are now available.  
See the <A HREF="./hurd-cd">Hurd CD page</a> for further information.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("2001-07-12"):></h3>

<p>Marcus Brinkmann has made available his presentation about the hurd.
It is currently available from:</p>
<a href="http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/talks.en.html">http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/talks.en.html</a>

<h3><:=spokendate ("1999-11-01"):></h3>

<p>
Cleaned up some outstanding bug reports which were closed by now. Going to
upload some more packages, in addition to those uploaded in the last days
(inetutils, grub, man-db, now coming hostname, mtools, ...). All those now
compile without any changes, which is a good thing. Seems we are slowly
stabilizing the basic set of packages.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("1999-09-29"):></h3>

<p>
There are <a
href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/">patches to glue
Linux character devices into GNU Mach</a> now. These patches are very
experimental, and the tty driver does not work correctly with the term
translator, but we are working on it and hope to be able to provide a
binary soon. Note that this will bring the Linux console to the Hurd
(including color and virtual consoles), as well as drivers for various
non standard mice and other serial devices.</p>

<p>
I heard that some people are concerned about the size of GNU Mach, as
well as it becoming a subset of Linux. Please note that we are only
searching for a temporary solution here, until we have the time to
redesign the driver interface in GNU Mach (or use another
Microkernel). The microkernel is not at all that important as the Hurd
servers are which run on top of it.</p>

<p>
On the package side, we have now a proper <code>shadow</code> package
(which produces <code>passwd</code> (thanks, BenC!)). Also,
<code>man-db</code> should work out of the box now even with long
filenames, but I haven't checked the other changes. All in all, the
base section is getting into a good shape. Torin has applied my patch
for <code>perl</code>, and that's another package I have to check out
if it can be `finalized' now.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("1999-08-31"):></h3>

<p>
<code>debianutils 1.12</code> does now compile without patch.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("1999-08-05"):></h3>

<p>
Source NMU for <code>passwd</code> (<code>shadow</code>) should fix
all remaining problems in this package. This should make for a
smoother install.  On the other side, <code>mutt</code> requires a
small patch.</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("1999-07-27"):></h3>

<p>
New packages of the core system are finished now. The Hurd has a new
way to boot (the part that happens after init is started), take a look
at <code>/libexec/runsystem</code>. This is useful for the
<code>sysvinit</code> package, which is almost done. Fixed a buglet in
GNU Lib C and one in GNU Mach. Autodetection of all network cards
should work now, but maybe we need to tweak the order a bit (3c5x9
before 3c59x).</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("1999-07-22"):></h3>

<p>
<code>cpio 2.4.2-25</code> fixes the remaining Hurd compatibility issue
and can now be compiled without changes. Thanks Brian!</p>

<h3><:=spokendate ("1999-07-05"):></h3>

<p>
Perl 5.005.03 patches submitted to the maintainer. The upstream code
was already clean (thanks, Mark!), but the Debian packaging scripts
were linux specific.</p>