package mirage

v4.5.1 (2024-05-17)

• BREAKING: remove ~name parameter from Mirage.Runtime_args.create (#1541 @samoht, fixes #1532)

• BREAKING: remove ~name parameter from Mirage.runtime_arg, and use a string (instead of a format string) as third parameter (#1541 @samoht)

• constrain the start function to unit Lwt.t. Previously, there was no restrictions, and lots of time was spent in debugging when a unikernel resulted in unit Lwt.t Lwt.t (@Julow #1524)

• revise man page sections and ordering: ARGUMENTS, OPTIONAL, NETWORK OPTIONS, DISK OPTIONS, LOG AND MONITORING OPTIONS, OCAML RUNTIME OPTIONS. Previously, the ARGUMENTS and OPTIONS were put later, and were hard to find. These are the sections where unikernel-specific arguments are put by default (#1531 @hannesm @reynir)

• add --net=host and --net=ocaml to reduce confusion. --net=host uses the TCP/IP socket stack, --net=ocaml the OCaml network stack (#1525 @hannesm)

• quote Runtime_arg.call (#1522 @Julow)

• documentation fixes (inline examples @Julow #1523, @hannesm #1537 (fixes #1512 reported by @reynir), Runtime_args.create #1541 @samoht)

• fix the build instructions of the generated opam file: since 4.5.0 mirage build is no longer available, use make "build" (#1527 @hannesm)

• add RELEASE.md, a guide on how to cut a mirage release (#1519 @samoht)

• allow git 3.16 (#1536 @hannesm)

• use mirage-bootvar (using dune variant) instead of parse-argv and mirage-bootvar-xen, mirage-bootvar-solo5, mirage-bootvar-unix (#1533 @hannesm)

• BUGFIX: reset the lexer location before applying functors in generated code (#1539 @samoht, fixes #1520 @hannesm)

• BUGFIX: fix off-by-one locations for mirage/main.ml (#1540 @samoht, fixes #1528 @hannesm)

v4.5.0 (2024-04-09)

• This release introduces a significant change in the Mirage tool by splitting the definition of command-line arguments used at configure-time and runtime. Command-line arguments used in the configure script (also called 'configuration keys' and defined in the Key module) are essential during the setup of module dependencies for the unikernel, allowing for a specialized production of a unikernel for a given target runtime environment. On the other hand, command-line arguments that the unikernel can use at runtime (defined in the Runtime_arg module) are useful for customizing deployments without altering the dependencies of the unikernels. (#1449, #1450, #1451, #1455 @samoht, review by @hannesm)

  • API changes:

    • There is no more ~stage parameter for Key.Arg.info.

    • Key now define command-line arguments for the configuration tool.

    • There is a new module Runtime_arg to define command-line arguments for the unikernel.

    • As there are no more keys type 'Both, users are now expected to create two separated keys in that case (one for configure-time, one for runtime) or decide if the key is useful at runtime of configure-time.

  • Intended use of configuration keys (values of type 'a key):

    • Used to set up module dependencies of the unikernel, such as the target (hvt, xen, etc.) and whether to use DHCP or a fixed IP address.

    • Enable the production of specialized unikernels suitable for specific target runtime environments and dedicated network and storage stacks.

    • Similar keys will produce reproducible binaries to be uploaded to artifact repositories like Docker Hub or https://builds.robur.coop/.

  • Intended use of command-line runtime arguments (values of type a runtime_arg):

    • Allow users to customize deployments by changing device configuration, like IP addresses, secrets, block device names, etc., post downloading of binaries.

    • These keys don’t alter the dependencies of the unikernels.

    • A runtime keys is just a reference to a normal Cmdliner term.

  • key_gen.ml is not generated anymore, so users cannot refer to Key_gen.<key_name> directy.

    • Any runtime argument has to be declared (using runtime_arg and registered on the device (using ~runtime_args). The value of that argument will then be passed as an extra parameter of the connect function of that device.

    • Configuration keys are not available at runtime anymore. For instance, Key_gen.target has been removed.

• Code migration:

  (* in config.ml *)
  let key =
    let doc = Key.Arg.info ~doc:"A Key." ~stage:`Run [ "key" ] in
    Key.(create "key" Arg.(opt_all ~stage:`Run string doc))
  

  becomes:

  (* in unikernel.ml *)
  open Cmdliner
  
  let key =
    let doc = Arg.info ~doc:"A Key." [ "key" ] in
    Arg.(value & opt_all string [] doc)
  

  (* in unikernel.ml *)
  let start _ =
    let key = Key_gen.hello () in
    ...
  

  becomes:

  (* in config.ml *)
  let hello = runtime_arg ~pos:__POS__ "Unikernel.hello"
  let main = main ~runtime_args:[hello] ...
  

  (* in unikernel.ml *)
  let hello =
    let open Cmdliner in
    let doc = Arg.info ~doc:"How to say hello." [ "hello" ] in
    Arg.(value & opt string "Hello World!" doc)
  
  let start _ hello =
    ...
  

• bump minimal ocaml-solo5 version bound to 0.8.2 to avoid fast memory usage error (#1507, @palainp)

• BREAKING: the packages functoria and functoria-runtime are removed. The respectives libraries became mirage.functoria and mirage-runtime.functoria (#1509, @samoht)

• BREAKING: Mirage.keys is renamed to Mirage.runtime_args (#1506, @samoht)

• BREAKING: remove Mirage.foreign. Use Mirage.main` instead (#1505, @samoht)

• BREAKING: Mirage.main does not take a ?extra_deps parameter anymore (#1505, @samoht)

• BREAKING: the Mirage.connect functions passed to create devices (with Mirage.impl) now take values of type 'a Mirage.code instead of string. Value of type code are created using a new Mirage.code function, that takes ~pos:__POS__ as parameter. This is used to generate better locations in the generated code, leading to better error messages (#1504, @samoht)

• BUGFIX: fix mirage describe output (#1446 @samoht), add test (#1458 @samoht)

• Remove ipaddr from runtime (#1437 @samoht, #1465 @hannesm)

• BREAKING: Mirage.register no longer have ?packages and ?keys arguments (#1433, #1434 @hannesm)

• BREAKING: Remove deprecated bindings and types (#1461 @hannesm)

• BREAKING: Remove mirage build subcommand, use dune build in Makefile (#1404 @hannesm), put --profile release in Makefile instead of dune-workspace (#1470 @hannesm)

• Increase dune version to 2.9 in generated dune-project (#1443 @samoht)

v4.4.2 (2024-02-13)

• Fix GC documentation (space overhead is 120 since best-fit is default) (#1491 @hannesm)

• use Option in printing of GC keys (#1491 @hannesm)

• allow to use git 3.15 (#1491 @hannesm)

• allow empty noop job (addresses an issue with #1428) solves an issue reported by @MisterDA in mirage/mirage-www#815 (#1491 @hannesm)

v4.4.1 (2023-11-20)

• Document exit codes in --help (#1485 @hannesm)

• Avoid dependency on environment variable (removing MIRAGE_LOGS #1484 @hannesm)

• BUGFIX: dune.config mark "dist" as data-only-dir to allow config.ml being compiled (#1475 @memst)

• Allow git 3.14 (#1474 @hannesm)

• Default to best-fit allocation (#1473 @hannesm)

• FEATURE: Add a key "--delay" to all unikernels (#1472 @hannesm, fixes #1468)

• Fix Unix target dune rule (add a deps) (#1469 @hannesm)

• Optionally pass tcp in direct_stackv4v6, static_ipv4v6, generic_stackv4v6 (#1467 @hannesm)

• FEATURE: Support mirage version indication in first line of config.ml: (* mirage >= 2.3.4 & < 5.0.0 *) (#1466 @hannesm, fixes #1381)

• Use \033 instead of \e in generated Makefile (fixes the output on non-Linux systems #1464 @hannesm)

• Adapt to mirage-logs 2.0.0 (#1460 @hannesm)

• Allow version 0.8.0 of solo5 (#1432 #1490 @hannesm @palainp)

v4.4.0 (2023-06-19)

• Fail configure if jobs without arguments are present (fixes #873 #1426, #1428 @hannesm)

• mirage-runtime & functoria-runtime: remove fmt dependency (#1417 @hannesm)

• Fix tests on macOS (#1425 @samoht)

• Adapt to happy-eyeballs 0.6.0 release (#1427 @hannesm)

• Adapt to logs-syslog 0.4.0 release (#1424 @hannesm)

• Adapt to docteur 0.0.6 release (#1419 @dinosaure)

• Upgrade tests to cmdliner 1.2.0 (#1418 @hannesm)

• Fail if jobs without arguments are registered (reported #873 @kit-ty-kate #1426 @reynir @PizieDust, fixed #1428 @hannesm and #1431 @reynir)

• Console is marked as deprecated (#1429 @hannesm)

• Tracing has been removed, since it was not used anymore and not supported with solo5-xen-pvh (#1430 @hannesm)

v4.3.6 (2023-03-28)

• Allow paf 0.4 and 0.5 (#1414 @hannesm)

• Remove bytes dependency from functoria-runtime (#1411 @hannesm)

• Allow git-mirage 3.13 (#1412 @dinosaure @hannesm)

v4.3.5 (2023-03-20)

Changed

• Remove OCaml dependency to allow OCaml 5 being chosen (#1409 @palainp)

• Disallow empty key names (#1407 @reynir)

• Allow tls-mirage 0.17 (#1405 @hannesm)

• Allow tcpip 8.0 (#1410 @hannesm)

• Fix typo in generated Makefile (#1406 @hannesm)

v4.3.4 (2023-02-23)

Fixed

• Add -f to Makefile output (#1394 @hannesm)

Added

• Add tar_kv_ro and tar_kv_rw (#1389 @reynir)

Changed

• Improved documentation of mirage.mli (#1390 #1391 @reynir)

• Deprecate Mirage.archive (use tar_kv_ro, #1389 @reynir)

• Removed deprecated device git_happy_eyeballs (#1388 @TaeminHa)

• Adapt bounds: mirage-crypto 0.11.0 (#1392 @hannesm) git-mirage 2.13.0 (#1396 @hannesm) dns 7.0.0 tls 0.16.0 (#1399 @hannesm) mirage-block-ccm (#1400 @hannesm)

• mirage-runtime: conflict with ppxlib 0.29 (#1397 @hannesm)

• add upper bound to dune 3.7 until a release of chamelon with fixes lands (see https://github.com/mirage/mirage/pull/1401#issuecomment-1440762994)

v4.3.3 (2023-01-30)

Fixed

• add (merlin) to the dune-workspace file -- this allows merlin to properly work with unikernels (#1385, fixes #1384 @TheLortex @hannesm)

• add "build" stanzas to packages that are supposed to be vendored (#1383, @Leonidas-from-XIV) for "opam-monorepo 0.3.5" compatibility

Changed

• raise upper bound for git to 3.12 (#1387 @dinosaure)

v4.3.2 (2022-12-12)

Fixed

• use "printf" instead of "echo -e" in Makefiles for macOS support (#1370, @gridbugs)

Changed

• raise lower bound of solo5 to 0.7.5 (#1380 @dinosaure)

• remove "-warn-error -A" from generated dune file (for config) (#1379 @hannesm)

Added

• CCM device for block device encryption (#1364 @dinosaure)

• ALPN client and mimic device (#1376 @dinosaure)

v4.3.1 (2022-10-25)

Fixed

• adapt to conduit 6.0.1 API (delay the parsing of the nameserver list) (#1362 #1369, @reynir @hannesm, fixes #1360)

• improve the generic_dns_client documentation (#1365, @dinosaure)

• upgrade to git 3.10.0 (#1366, @dinosaure)

Changed

• mirage-runtime: use Logs.level_of_string / level_to_string, avoid manual construction of Cmdliner.Arg.conv types (use the Cmdliner.Arg.conv function instead) (#1358, @hannesm)

Added

• functoria-runtime: provide argument_error exit code (#1361, @hannesm)

• add a http_server device using paf (#1367, @dinosaure)

v4.3.0 (2022-09-26)

Fixed

• The chamelon format example invocation had the arguments in the wrong order (#1351, @hannesm)

• tar-mirage: allow the 2.x release series (#1352, @hannesm)

• Fix the separator for list and pair combinator (command-line arguments, #1354, @dinosaure, reported in #1349 #1348 by @rand00)

• Update references (hyperlinks) to erratique.ch documentation (#1343, @reynir)

Changed

• Allow more log levels (None / quiet) (#1275, @reynir, closes #1273 & #1274)

• Improve Functoria CLI: don't fail if context cache is invalid, handle situation when global arguments have a parse error (#1350, @TheLortex)

• Remove v4 & v6 stack, and other deprecated bindings (#1341, @hannesm)

• Remove FS remnants, and kv_ro of archive, and brittle shell scripts that used to generate FAT block storage devices (#1353, @hannesm)

• Update to OCamlFormat 0.23.0 (#1351, @dinosaure)

v4.2.1 (2022-08-25)

Fixed

• In the generated opam file, also run "depext-lockfile" (#1342, @hannesm)

v4.2.0 (2022-07-26)

Fixed

• Remove non-existing mirage-repo-add and mirage-repo-rm from PHONY in generated Makefile (#1332, @hannesm)

• Update deprecated references (#1337, @reynir)

Changed

• Prepare for reproducing unikernels with generated opam file (#1335, @hannesm)

  • split x-mirage-configure (mirage configure), x-mirage-pre-build (make lock pull), and build instructions in opam file

  • embed x-mirage-extra-repo (a list of opam repositories to use)

  • take relative paths up to git repository into account

  • include x-mirage-opam-lock-location (relative to git repository root)

• Adapt constraints for mirage-solo5 0.9.0 and mirage-xen 8.0.0 (ocaml-solo5 0.8.1 with trim and improved memory metrics) (#1338, @hannesm, based on @palainp work)

• Require opam-monorepo 0.3.2 (#1332 #1334, @hannesm @dinosaure)

• Use OPAMVAR_monorepo instead of OPAMVAR_switch in generated opam file (#1332, @hannesm)

• Remove name from opam file (#1332, @hannesm)

v4.1.1 (2022-04-05)

Fixed

• Update constraints on generated OPAM files (d21de15, @dinosaure)

v4.1.0 (2022-05-02)

Changed

• Be able to make a docteur image with a relative path (@dinosaure, #1324)

• Update the project with ocamlformat.0.21.0 (@gpetiot, @dinosaure, #1286)

• Upgrade the mirage tool with opam-monorepo.0.3.0 and generate a single OPAM file (@TheLortex, @hannesm, @dinosaure, #1327)

  You should check the opam-monorepo.0.3.0 release to get more details about updates and fixes.

Added

• Add chamelon device, a filesystem with littlefs (@dinosaure, @yomimono, #1300)

• Add pair combinator for MirageOS key (@dinosaure, #1328)

v4.0.0 (2022-03-28)

Fixed

• use --solo5-abi=xen for qubes target (#1312, @hannesm)

• Support using a different filename than config.ml with -f (#1309, @dinosaure)

• Fix build with dune 3.0 (#1296, @dinosaure)

• Check that the package name respects opam conventions (#1287, #1304, @TheLortex)

• Allow to specify version of pinned packages (#1295, @Julow)

Changed

• Use the same compilation as dune (#1313, #1316, #1317, @samoht, @hannesm)

• Remove unused --warn-errors and --debug flags (#1320, @samoht)

• Remove the deprecated --target=ukvm (#1321, @hannesm)

• Require cmdliner 1.1 (#1289, @samoht, @dinosaure, @dbuenzli)

• Require opam 2.1 to use MirageOS (#1239, 1311, @hannesm)

• Require conduit 5.1 (#1297, @hannesm)

• Rename ocaml-freestanding to ocaml-solo5 (#1314, @dinosaure, @samoht, @hannesm)

Added

• Add Key.opt_all to allows usage of an argument multiple times (#1292, #1301, @dinosaure, @Drup)

• Add Git devices (#1291, @dinosaure, @samoht, @hannesm, @yomimono)

• Add happy-eyeballs devices (#1307, @dinosaure, @hannesm)

• Add docteur device to manage read-only persistent key-value stores (#1298, @dinosaure, @samoht)

• Add tcpv4v6_of_stackv4v6 device (#1293, @dinosaure)

• Add int64 converter (#1305, @dinosaure)

• Add dns_client device (#1302, #1306, @dinosaure, @hannesm)

v4.0.0~beta3 (2022-02-02)

• Lint constraints on few packages to split the world between MirageOS 3.0 and MirageOS 4.0 (#1280, @dinosaure)

v4.0.0~beta2 (2022-01-31)

• Update the generated minimal constraint required for mirage-runtime as Opam considers 4.0.0~beta* < 4.0.0 (#1276, @dinosaure)

v4.0.0~beta1 (2022-01-29)

Refactor build process to use Dune build system. The motivation is to drop ocamlbuild-induced technical debt and to obtain first-class support for cross-compilation. To learn more about how Dune is able to perform cross-compilation, please refer to the documentation.

Main changes:

• Two opam files are generated when running mirage configure:

  • <unikernel>-switch.opam: for dependencies that are meant to be installed in the user's opam switch. It comprises of build tools such as ocaml-freestanding for Solo5 targets.

  • <unikernel>-monorepo.opam: for unikernel dependencies, they are locally fetched to compose a dune workspace.

• Unikernel dependencies are fetched in the source project using the opam-monorepo tool. This tool reads the <unikernel>-monorepo.opam file and make use of the opam solver to compute the transitive dependency set, saves that as a lockfile, and fetch sources in the duniverse/ subfolder. More info on the Github repository.

• The compilation scheme use dune's concept of a workspace: it's a set of libraries that are built together using the same context. For each compilation target, the Mirage tool is able to generate a context definition able to compile for that target. A context is defined by an OCaml compiler (or cross-compiler) toolchain, as defined by findlib, it can be tuned with environment variables and custom flags for the OCaml or underlying C compiler.

• The usual workflow mirage configure && make depends && mirage build does not change. However, files are now generated in the ./mirage directory (OPAM files, main.ml, key_gen.ml or manifest.json), and the final artefact is created in the ./dist directory.

Breaking changes:

• Unikernel dependencies need to use dune as a build system. Other build systems can be sandboxed, but the recommended way is to switch to dune. Many packages not compiling with dune yet have been ported and are available as an additional opam repository overlay. In addition, a few packages not supporting cross-compilation have been fixed and are available in another opam repository overlay. The mirage tool uses these two opam overlays by default. To only use the default packages provided by Opam, use mirage configure --no-extra-repo.

• Functoria_runtime.info and Mirage_runtime.info now list all the libraries that are statically linked against the unikernel. The packages field have been removed and the libraries field is now accurate and contains the versions computed by dune-build-info.

• Update the DSL to describe devices into the config.ml. We don't use objects anymore, and we replace it with the usage of Mirage.impl that expects the same fields as before.

v3.10.8 (2021-12-17)

• Allow tcpip 7.0.0, arp 3.0.0, ethernet 3.0.0 (#1259 @hannesm)

v3.10.7 (2021-12-09)

• Allow mirage-clock 4.0.0 (@hannesm #1256)

• Use "opam var prefix" instead of "opam config var prefix" (@hannesm)

v3.10.6 (2021-10-20)

• Adapt to conduit 5.0.0 API (and dns 6.0.0) @hannesm #1246

• Avoid deprecated Fmt functions @hannesm #1246

v3.10.5 (2021-10-09)

• Allow tls-mirage 0.14 and 0.15 series (@hannesm)

v3.10.4 (2021-04-20)

• Allow mirage-crypto-rng-mirage 0.10 (@hannesm)

v3.10.3 (2021-04-19)

• Adapt to conduit 4.0.0 and cohttp 4.0.0 (@dinosaure #1221)

v3.10.2 (2021-03-30)

• Adapt to conduit 2.3 and cohttp 4.0 (@samoht @dinosaure #1209)

• Allow mirage-crypto-rng-mirage 0.9 (@hannesm #1218)

• Adapt to tcpip 6.1.0 release (the unix sublibrary is no longer needed)

v3.10.1 (2020-12-04)

• Fix serialising of Mirage_key.Arg.ip_address: remove superfluous '.' character (#1205 @hannesm)

v3.10.0 (2020-12-02)

IPv6 and dual (IPv4 and IPv6) stack support #1187

Since a long time, IPv6 code was around in our TCP/IP stack (thanks to @nojb who developed it in 2014). Some months ago, @hannesm and @MagnusS got excited to use it. After we managed to fix some bugs and add some test cases, and writing more code to setup IPv6-only and dual stacks, we are eager to share this support for MirageOS in a released version. We expect there to be bugs lingering around, but duplicate address detection (neighbour solicitation and advertisements) has been implemented, and (unless "--accept-router-advertisement=false") router advertisements are decoded and used to configure the IPv6 part of the stack. Configuring a static IPv6 address is also possible (with "--ipv6=2001::42/64").

While at it, we unified the boot arguments between the different targets: namely, on Unix (when using the socket stack), you can now pass "--ipv4=127.0.0.1/24" to the same effect as the direct stack: only listen on 127.0.0.1 (the subnet mask is ignored for the Unix socket stack).

A dual stack unikernel has "--ipv4-only=BOOL" and "--ipv6-only=BOOL" parameters, so a unikernel binary could support both Internet Protocol versions, while the operator can decide which protocol version to use.

Please also note that the default IPv4 network configuration no longer uses 10.0.0.1 as default gateway (since there was no way to unset the default gateway #1147).

For unikernel developers, there are some API changes in the Mirage module

• New "v4v6" types for IP protocols and stacks

• The ipv6_config record was adjusted in the same fashion as the ipv4_config type: it is now a record of a network (V6.Prefix.t) and gateway (V6.t option)

Some parts of the Mirage_key module were unified as well:

• Arp.ip_address is available (for a dual Ipaddr.t)

• Arg.ipv6_address replaces Arg.ipv6 (for an Ipaddr.V6.t)

• Arg.ipv6 replaces Arg.ipv6_prefix (for a Ipaddr.V6.Prefix.t)

• V6.network and V6.gateway are available, mirroring the V4 submodule

If you're ready to experiment with the dual stack, here's a diff for our basic network example (from mirage-skeleton/device-usage/network) replacing IPv4 with a dual stack:

diff --git a/device-usage/network/config.ml b/device-usage/network/config.ml
index c425edb..eabc9d6 100644
--- a/device-usage/network/config.ml
+++ b/device-usage/network/config.ml
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ let port =
   let doc = Key.Arg.info ~doc:"The TCP port on which to listen for incoming connections." ["port"] in
   Key.(create "port" Arg.(opt int 8080 doc))

-let main = foreign ~keys:[Key.abstract port] "Unikernel.Main" (stackv4 @-> job)
+let main = foreign ~keys:[Key.abstract port] "Unikernel.Main" (stackv4v6 @-> job)

-let stack = generic_stackv4 default_network
+let stack = generic_stackv4v6 default_network

 let () =
   register "network" [
diff --git a/device-usage/network/unikernel.ml b/device-usage/network/unikernel.ml
index 5d29111..1bf1228 100644
--- a/device-usage/network/unikernel.ml
+++ b/device-usage/network/unikernel.ml
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 open Lwt.Infix

-module Main (S: Mirage_stack.V4) = struct
+module Main (S: Mirage_stack.V4V6) = struct

   let start s =
     let port = Key_gen.port () in
-    S.listen_tcpv4 s ~port (fun flow ->
-        let dst, dst_port = S.TCPV4.dst flow in
+    S.listen_tcp s ~port (fun flow ->
+        let dst, dst_port = S.TCP.dst flow in
         Logs.info (fun f -> f "new tcp connection from IP %s on port %d"
-                  (Ipaddr.V4.to_string dst) dst_port);
-        S.TCPV4.read flow >>= function
+                  (Ipaddr.to_string dst) dst_port);
+        S.TCP.read flow >>= function
         | Ok `Eof -> Logs.info (fun f -> f "Closing connection!"); Lwt.return_unit
-        | Error e -> Logs.warn (fun f -> f "Error reading data from established connection: %a" S.TCPV4.pp_error e); Lwt.return_unit
+        | Error e -> Logs.warn (fun f -> f "Error reading data from established connection: %a" S.TCP.pp_error e); Lwt.return_unit
         | Ok (`Data b) ->
           Logs.debug (fun f -> f "read: %d bytes:\n%s" (Cstruct.len b) (Cstruct.to_string b));
-          S.TCPV4.close flow
+          S.TCP.close flow
       );

     S.listen s

Other bug fixes include #1188 (in #1201) and adapt to charrua 1.3.0 and arp 2.3.0 changes (#1199).

v3.9.0 (2020-10-24)

The Xen backend is a minimal legacy-free re-write: Solo5 (since 0.6.6) provides the low-level glue code, and ocaml-freestanding provides the OCaml runtime. The PV-only Mini-OS implementation has been retired.

The only supported virtualization mode is now Xen PVH (version 2 or above), supported since Xen version 4.10 or later (and Qubes OS 4.0).

The support for the ARM32 architecture on Xen has been removed.

Security posture improvements:

With the move to a Solo5 and ocaml-freestanding base MirageOS gains several notable improvements to security posture for unikernels on Xen:

• Stack smashing protection is enabled unconditionally for all C code.

• W^X is enforced throughout, i.e. .text is read-execute, .rodata is read-only, non-executable and .data, heap and stack are read-write and non-executable.

• The memory allocator used by the OCaml runtime is now dlmalloc (provided by ocaml-freestanding), which is a big improvement over the Mini-OS malloc, and incorporates features such as heap canaries.

Interface changes:

• With the rewrite of the Xen core platform stack, several Xen-specific APIs have changed in incompatible ways; unikernels may need to be updated. Please refer to the mirage-xen v6.0.0 change log for a list of interfaces that have changed along with their replacements.

Other changes:

• OCaml 4.08 is the minimum supported version.

• A dummy dev-repo field is emitted for the generated opam file.

• .xe files are no longer generated.

• Previous versions of MirageOS would strip boot parameters on Xen, since Qubes OS 3.x added arguments that could not be interpreted by our command line parser. Since Qubes OS 4.0 this is no longer an issue, and MirageOS no longer strips any boot parameters. You may need to execute qvm-prefs qube-name kernelopts ''.

Acknowledgements:

• Thanks to Roger Pau Monné, Andrew Cooper and other core Xen developers for help with understanding the specifics of how PVHv2 works, and how to write an implementation from scratch.

• Thanks to Marek Marczykowski-Górecki for help with the Qubes OS specifics, and for forward-porting some missing parts of PVHv2 to Qubes OS version of Xen.

• Thanks to @palainp on Github for help with testing on Qubes OS.

v3.8.1 (2020-09-22)

• OCaml runtime parameters (OCAMLPARAM) are exposed as boot and configure arguments. This allows e.g. to switch to the best-fit garbage collection strategy (#1180 @hannesm)

v3.8.0 (2020-06-22)

• Emit type=pv in xl (instead of builder=linux), as required by xen 4.10+ (#1166 by @djs55)

• adapt to ipaddr 5.0.0, tcpip 5.0.0, mirage-crypto 0.8 (#1172 @hannesm)

v3.7.7 (2020-05-18)

• handle errors from Bos.OS.Cmd.run_out

• use PREFIX if defined (no need to call "opam config var prefix")

• adapt to conduit 2.2.0, tls 0.12, mirage-crypto 0.7.0 changes

v3.7.6 (2020-03-18)

• fix conduit with 3.7.5 changes (#1086 / #1087, @hannesm)

v3.7.5 (2020-03-15)

• use mirage-crypto (and mirage-crypto-entropy) instead of nocrypto, also tls-mirage and up-to-date conduit (#1068 / #1079, @hannesm @samoht)

v3.7.4 (2019-12-20)

• use git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD instead of git branch --show-current for emitting branch information into the opam file. The latter is only available in git 2.22 or later, while the former seems to be supported by old git releases. (#1024, @hannesm)

v3.7.3 (2019-12-17)

• mirage configure now emits build and install steps into generated opam file this allows to use opam install . to actually install a unikernel. (#1022 @hannesm)

• refactor configure, build and link step into separate modules (#1017 @dinosaure)

v3.7.2 (2019-11-18)

• adjust fat-filesystem constraints to >= 0.14 && < 0.15 (#1015, @hannesm)

v3.7.1 (2019-11-03)

• clean opam files when mirage configure is executed (#1013 @dinosaure)

• deprecate mirage-types and mirage-types-lwt (#1006 @hannesm)

• remove abstraction over 'type 'a io' and 'buffer', remove mirage-*-lwt packages (#1006 @hannesm)

• unify targets in respect to hooks (Mirage_runtime provides the hooks and registration)

• unify targets in respect to error handling (no toplevel try .. with installed anymore, mirage-unix does no longer ignore all errors)

v3.7.0 (2019-11-01)

• mirage-runtime: provide at_enter_iter/at_exit_iter/at_exit hooks for the event loop (#1010, @samoht @dinosaure @hannesm)

• call exit 0 after the Lwt event loop returned (to run at_exit handlers in freestanding environments) (#1011, @hannesm)

• NOTE: this release only contains the mirage-runtime opam package to unblock other releases, there'll be a 3.7.1 soon

v3.6.0 (2019-10-02)

• solo5 0.6 support for multiple devices (#993, by @mato) please read https://github.com/Solo5/solo5/blob/v0.6.2/CHANGES.md for detailed changes observable mirage changes:

  • new target -t spt for sandboxed processed tender (seccomp on Linux)

  • new functions Mirage_key.is_solo5 and Mirage_key.is_xen, analogue to Mirage_key.is_unix

• respect verbosity when calling ocamlbuild -- verbose if log level is info or debug (#999, by @mato)

v3.5.2 (2019-08-22)

• Adapt to conduit 2.0.0 release, including dns 4.0.0 (#996, by @hannesm)

• Adjust mirage-xen constraints to < 5.0.0 (#995, by @reynir)

v3.5.1 (2019-07-11)

• Adapt to new tracing API (#985, by @talex5)

• Remove stubs for qrexec and qubes gui (qubes 3 is end of life, qubes 4 makes it configurable) (#984, by @linse & @yomimono)

• Update mirage-logs and charrua-client-mirage version constraints (#982, by @hannesm)

• Remove unused dockerfile, travis updates (#982 #990, by @hannesm)

v3.5.0 (2019-03-03)

• Rename Mirage_impl_kv_ro to Mirage_impl_kv, and introduce rw (#975, by @hannesm)

• Adapt to mirage-kv 2.0.0 changes (#975, by @hannesm)

• Adapt to mirage-protocols and mirag-net 2.0.0 changes (#972, by @hannesm)

• mirage-types-lwt: remove unneeded io-page dependency (#971, by @hannesm)

• Fix regression introduced in 3.4.0 that "-l *:debug" did no longer work (#970, by @hannesm)

• Adjust various upper bounds (mirage-unix, cohttp-mirage, mirage-bootvar-xen) (#967, by @hannesm)

v3.4.1 (2019-02-05)

• Provide a httpaf_server device, and a cohttp_server device (#955, by @anmonteiro)

• There can only be a single prng device in a unikernel, due to entropy harvesting setup (#959, by @hannesm)

• Cleanup zarith-freestanding / gmp-freestanding dependencies (#964, by @hannesm)

• ethernet is now a separate package (#965, by @hannesm)

• arp now uses the mirage/arp repository by default, the tcpip.arpv4 implementation was removed in tcpip 3.7.0 (#965, by @hannesm)

v3.4.0 (2019-01-11)

• use ipaddr 3.0 without s-expression dependency (#956, by @hannesm)

• use mirage-clock 2.x and tcpip 3.6.x libraries (#960, #962, by @hannesm)

• default to socket stack on unix and macos (#958, by @hannesm)

• use String.split_on_char in mirage-runtime to avoid astring dependency (#957, by @hannesm)

• add build-dependency on mirage to each unikernel (#953, by @hannesm)

3.3.1 (2018-11-21)

• fix regression: --yes was not passed to opam in 3.3.0 (#950, by @hannesm)

3.3.0 (2018-11-18)

New target: (via solo5) Genode: "Genode is a free and open-source operating system framework consisting of a microkernel abstraction layer and a collection of userspace components. The framework is notable as one of the few open-source operating systems not derived from a proprietary OS, such as Unix. The characteristic design philosophy is that a small trusted computing base is of primary concern in a security oriented OS." (from wikipedia, more at https://genode.org/ #942, by @ehmry)

User-visible changes

• use mirage-bootvar-unix instead of OS.Env.argv (deprecated since mirage-{xen,unix,os-shim}.3.1.0, mirage-solo5.0.5.0) on unix (#931, by @hannesm)

  WARNING: this leads to a different semantics for argument passing on Unix: all arguments are concatenated (using a whitespace " " as separator), and split on the whitespace character again (by parse-argv). This is coherent with all other backends, but the whitespace in "--hello=foo bar" needs to be escaped now.

• mirage now generates upper bounds for hard-coded packages that are used in generated code. When we now break the API, unikernels which are configured with an earlier version won't accept the new release of the dependency. This means API breakage is much smoother for us, apart from that we now track version numbers in the mirage utility. The following rules were applied for upper bounds:

  • if version < 1.0.0 then ~min:"a.b.c" ~max:"a.(b+1).0"

  • if version > 1.0.0 then ~min:"a.b.c" ~max:"(a+1).0.0"`

  • exceptions: tcpip (~min:"3.5.0" ~max:"3.6.0"), mirage-block-ramdisk (unconstrained)

  WARNING: Please be careful when release any of the referenced libraries by taking care of appropriate version numbering. (initial version in #855 by @avsm, final #946 by @hannesm)

• since functoria.2.2.2, the "package" function (used in unikernel configuration) is extended with the labeled argument ~pin that receives a string (e.g. ~pin:"git+https://github.com/mirage-random/mirage-random.git"), and is embedded into the generated opam file as pin-depends

• mirage-random-stdlib is now used for default_random instead of mirage-random (which since 1.2.0 no longer bundles the stdlib Random module). mirage-random-stdlib is not cryptographically secure, but "a lagged-Fibonacci F(55, 24, +) with a modified addition function to enhance the mixing of bits.", which is now seeded using mirage-entropy. If you configure your unikernel with "mirage configure --prng fortuna" (since mirage 3.0.0), a cryptographically secure PRNG will be used (read more at https://mirage.io/blog/mirage-entropy)

• mirage now revived its command-line "--no-depext", which removes the call to "opam depext" in the depend and depends target of the generated Makefile (#948, by @hannesm)

• make depend no longer uses opam pin for opam install --deps-only (#948, by @hannesm)

• remove unused io_page configuration (initial discussion in #855, #940, by @hannesm)

• charrua-client requires a Mirage_random interface since 0.11.0 (#938, by @hannesm)

• split implementations into separate modules (#933, by @emillon)

• improved opam2 support (declare ocaml as dependency #926)

• switch build system to dune (#927, by @emillon)

• block device writes has been fixed in mirage-solo5.0.5.0

3.2.0 (2018-09-23)

• adapt to solo5 0.4.0 changes (#924, by @mato) Upgrading from Mirage 3.1.x or earlier

Due to conflicting packages, opam will not upgrade mirage to version 3.2.0 or newer if a version of mirage-solo5 older than 0.4.0 is installed in the switch. To perform the upgrade you must run opam upgrade mirage explicitly.

Changes required to rebuild and run ukvm unikernels

As of Solo5 0.4.0, the ukvm target has been renamed to hvt. If you are working out of an existing, dirty, source tree, you should initially run:

mirage configure -t hvt
mirage clean
mirage configure -t hvt

and then proceed as normal. If you are working with a clean source tree, then simply configuring with the new hvt target is sufficient:

mirage configure -t hvt

Note that the build products have changed:

The unikernel binary is now named <unikernel>.hvt, the ukvm-bin binary is now named solo5-hvt.

• adapt to mirage-protocols, mirage-stack, tcpip changes (#920, by @hannesm)

This is a breaking change: mirage 3.2.0 requires mirage-protocols 1.4.0, mirage-stack 1.3.0, and tcpip 3.5.0 to work (charru-client-mirage 0.10 and mirage-qubes-ipv4 0.6 are adapted to the changes). An older mirage won't be able to use these new libraries correctly. Conflicts were introduced in the opam-repository.

In more detail, direct and socket stack initialisation changed, which is automatically generated by the mirage tool for each unikernel (as part of main.ml). A record was built up, which is no longer needed.

Several unneeded type aliases were removed: netif from Mirage_protocols.ETHIF ethif and prefix from Mirage_protocols.IP ip from Mirage_protocols.{UDP,TCP} netif and 'netif config from Mirage_stack.V4 'netif stackv4_config and socket_stack_config in Mirage_stack

• squash unnecessary warning from mirage build (#916, by @mato)

3.1.1 (2018-08-01)

• for the unix target, add -tags thread, as done for the mac osx target (#861, suggested by @cfcs)

• bump minimum mirage-solo5* and solo5-kernel* to 0.3.0 (#914, by @hannesm, as suggested by @mato)

• use the exposed signature in functoria for Key modules (#912, by @Drup)

• add ?group param to all generic devices (#913, by @samoht)

3.1.0 (2018-06-20)

• solo5 v0.3.0 support (#906, by @mato @kensan @hannesm): The major new user-visible features for the Solo5 backends are: ukvm: Now runs natively on FreeBSD vmm and OpenBSD vmm. ukvm: ARM64 support. muen: New target, for the Muen Separation Kernel. ukvm: Improved and documented support for debugging Solo5-based unikernels.

• generate libvirt.xml for virtio target (#903, by @bramford)

• don't make xen config documents for target qubes (#895, by @yomimono)

• use a path pin when making depends (#891, by @yomimono)

• move block registration to configure section (#892, by @yomimono)

• allow to directly specifying xenstore ids (#879, by @yomimono)

3.0.8 (2017-12-19)

• when passing block devices to xen, pass the raw filename rather than trying to infer the xenstore ID (#874, by @yomimono)

• make homepage in opam files consistent (#872, by @djs55)

3.0.7 (2017-11-24)

• the released version of cohttp-mirage is 1.0.0 (not 3.0.0) (#870 by @hannesm)

3.0.6 (2017-11-16)

• remove macOS < yosemite support (#860 by @hannesm)

• rename mirage-http to cohttp-mirage (#863 by @djs55) See [mirage/ocaml-cohttp#572]

• opam: require OCaml 4.04.2+ (#867 by @hannesm)

3.0.5 (2017-08-08)

• Allow runtime configuration of syslog via config keys --syslog, --syslog-port and --syslog-hostname (#853 via @hannesm).

• Switch build of tool and libraries to Jbuilder (by @samoht)

• Fix a warning when connecting to a ramdisk device (#837 by @g2p)

• Fix reference to tar library when using --kv-ro archive (#848 by @mor1)

• Adapt to latest functoria API (#849 by @samoht)

• Add a --gdb argument for ukvm targets so that debuggers can be attached easily. This allows mirage configure --gdb -t ukvm to work (@ricarkol in #847).

• Adapt to latest functoria (#849 by @samoht)

• Adapt to latest charrua, tcpip (#854 by @yomimono)

• Switch to jbuilder (#850 by @samoht)

Packaging updates for latest opam repository:

• ARP is compatible with MirageOS3 since 0.2.0 (#851 by @hannesm)

3.0.4 (2017-06-15)

• add a --block configure flag for picking ramdisk or file-backed disk

• add lower bounds on packages

• fallback to system $PKG_CONFIG_PATH

• update for mirage-qubes-ipv4

3.0.2 (2017-03-15)

• restore ocamlbuild colors when TERM <> dumb && Unix.isatty stdout (#814, by @hannesm)

3.0.1 (2017-03-14)

• remove "-color always" from ocamlbuild invocation (bugfix for some scripts interpreting build output) (#811, by @hannesm)

• provide a "random" module argument when invoking IPv6.Make (compat with tcpip 3.1.0) (#801, by @hannesm)

• add a "depends" target to the generated Makefile (controversial and may be removed) (#805, by @yomimono)

• allow qubesdb to be requested in config.ml when the target is xen (#807, by @talex5)

3.0.0 (2017-02-23)

• rename module types modules: V1 -> Mirage_types, V1_LWT -> Mirage_types_lwt (#766, by @yomimono, @samoht, and @hannesm)

• split type signatures and error printers into separate libraries (#755, #753, #752, #751, #764, and several others, by @samoht and @yomimono)

• use mirage-fs instead of ocaml-fat to transform FS into KV_RO (#756, by @samoht)

• changes to simplify choosing an alternate ARP implementation (#750, by @hannesm)

• add configurators for syslog reporter (#749, by @hannesm)

• filter incoming boot-time arguments for all Xen backends, not just QubesOS (#746, by @yomimono)

• give mirage-types-lwt its own library, instead of a mirage-types sublibrary called lwt (#735, by @hannesm)

• remove format function and Format_unknown error from FS module type (#733, by @djs55)

• ocamlify FAT name (#723 by @yomimono)

• remove type error from DEVICE module type (#728, by @hannesm)

• UDP requires random for source port randomization (#726 by @hannesm)

• drop "mir-" prefix from generated binaries (#725 by @hannesm)

• BLOCK and FS uses result types (#705 by @yomimono)

• depext fixes (#718 by @mato)

• workflow changes: separate configure, depend, build phases, generate opam file during configure (#703, #711 by @hannesm)

• tap0 is now default_network (#715, #719 by @yomimono, @mato)

• ARP uses result types (#711 by @yomimono)

• ipv4 key (instead of separate ip and netmask) (#707, #709 by @yomimono)

• CHANNEL uses result types (#702 by @avsm)

• no custom myocamlbuild.ml, was needed for OCaml 4.00 (#693 by @hannesm)

• revert custom ld via pkg-config (#692 by @hannesm)

• result types for FLOW and other network components (#690 by @yomimono)

• removed is_xen key (#682, by @hannesm)

• mirage-clock-xen is now mirage-clock-freestanding (#684, by @mato)

• mirage-runtime is a separate opam package providing common functionality (#681, #615 by @hannesm)

• add qubes target for making Xen unikernels which boot & configure themselves correctly on QubesOS. (#553, by @yomimono)

• revised V1.CONSOLE interface: removed log, renamed log_s to log (#667, by @hannesm)

• remove Str module from OCaml runtime (#663, in ocaml-freestanding and mirage-xen-ocaml, by @hannesm)

• new configuration time keyword: prng to select the default prng (#611, by @hannesm)

• fail early if tracing is attempted with Solo5 (#657, by @yomimono)

• refactor ipv4, stackv4, and dhcp handling (#643, by @yomimono)

• create xen-related helper files only when the target is xen (#639, by @hannesm)

• improvements to nocrypto handling (#636, by @pqwy)

• disable warning #42 in generated code for unikernels (#633, by @hannesm)

• V1.NETWORK functions return a Result.t rather than polyvars indicating success or errors (#615, by @hannesm)

• remove GNUisms and unnecessary artifacts from build (#623, #627, by @mato and @hannesm)

• remove type id from DEVICE module type. (#612, by @yomimono and @talex5)

• revise the RANDOM signature to provide n random bytes; provide nocrypto_random and stdlib_random (#551 and #610, by @hannesm)

• expose direct as an option for kv_ro. (#607, by @mor1)

• require a mem function in KV_RO, and add Failure error variant (#606, by @yomimono)

• connect functions are no longer expected to return polyvars, but rather to raise exceptions if connect fails and return the value directly. (#602, by @hannesm)

• new documentation using odig (#591, #593, #594, #597, #598, #599, #600, and more, by @avsm)

• change build system to topkg from oasis. (#558, #590, #654, #673, by @avsm, @samoht, @hannesm, @dbuenzli)

• express io-page dependency of crunch. (#585, by @yomimono and @mato)

• deprecate the CLOCK module type in favor of PCLOCK (POSIX clock) and MCLOCK (a monotonically increasing counter of elapsed nanoseconds). (#548 and #579, by @mattgray and @yomimono)

• emit an ocamlfind predicate that matches the target, reducing the amount of duplication by target required of library authors (#568, by @pqwy)

• implement an is_unix key (#575, by @mato)

• use an int64 representing nanoseconds as the argument for TIME.sleep, instead of a float representing seconds. (#547, by @hannesm)

• expose new targets virtio and ukvm via the solo5 project. (#565, by @djwillia, @mato, and @hannesm).

• remove users of base_context, which includes command-line arguments --unix and --xen, and config.ml functions add_to_ocamlfind_libraries and add_to_opam_packages. As a side effect, fix a long-standing error message bug when invoking mirage against a config.ml that does not build. (#560, by @yomimono)

• link libgcc.a only on ARM & other build improvements (#544, by @hannesm)

• allow users to use crunch on unix with kv_ro; clean up crunch .mlis on clean (#556, by @yomimono)

• remove console arguments to network functors (#554, by @talex5 and @yomimono)

• standardize ip source and destination argument names as src and dst, and source and destination ports as src_port and dst_port (#546, by @yomimono)

• a large number of documentation improvements (#549, by @djs55)

• require pseudoheader function for IP module types. (#541, by @yomimono)

• always build with ocamlbuild -r, to avoid repetitive failure message (#537, by @talex5)

2.9.1 (2016-07-20)

• Warn users of command-line arguments --unix and --xen that support for these will soon be dropped. Instead, use -t unix and -t xen respectively. (see https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/pull/475#issuecomment-233802501) (#561, by @yomimono)

• Warn users of functions add_to_opam_packages p and add_to_ocamlfind_libraries l that support for these will soon be dropped. Instead, use register ~libraries:l and register:~packages:p respectively. (#561, by @yomimono).

2.9.0 (2016-04-29)

• Add logging support. A new reporter parameter to register is now available. This parameter defines how to configure the log reporter, using Logs and Mirage_logs. Log reporters can also be configured at configuration AND runtime using on the new -l or --logs command-line argument. (#534, by @samoht, @talex5 and @Drup)

• Allow to disable command-line parsing at runtime. There is a new argv parameter to the register function to allow to pass custom command-line argument parsing devices. Use register ~argv:no_argv to disable command-line argument parsing. (#493, by @samoht and @Drup)

2.8.0 (2016-04-04)

• Define an ICMP and ICMPV4 module type. ICMPV4 is included in, and surfaced by, the STACKV4 module type. The previous default behavior of the IPv4 module with respect to ICMP is preserved by STACKV4 and the tcpip_stack_direct function provided by mirage. (#523, by @yomimono)

• Explicitly require OCaml compiler version 4.02.3 in opam files for mirage-types and mirage.

2.7.3 (2016-03-20)

• Fix another regression introduced in 2.7.1 which enable -warn-error by default. This is now controlled by a --warn-error flag on mirage configure. Currently it's default value is [false] but this might change in future versions (#520)

2.7.2 (2016-03-20)

• Fix regression introduced in 2.7.1 which truncates the ouput of opam install and breaks opam depext (#519, by @samoht)

2.7.1 (2016-03-17)

• Improve the Dockerfile (#507, by @avsm)

• Use Astring (by @samoht)

• Clean-up dependencies automatically added by the tool

  • do not require lwt.syntax, cstruct.syntax and sexplib, which should make the default unikernels camlp4-free (#510, #515 by @samoht)

  • always require mirage-platform (#512, by @talex5)

  • ensure that mirage-types and mirage-types-lwt are installed

• Turn on more warnings and enable "warning as errors".

• Check that the OCaml compiler is at least 4.02.3 (by @samoht)

2.7.0 (2016-02-17)

The mirage tool is now based on functoria. (#441 #450, by @drup @samoht) See https://mirage.io/blog/introducing-functoria for full details.

• Command line interface: The config file must be passed with the -f option (instead of being just an argument).

• Two new generic combinators are available, generic_stack and generic_kv_ro.

• get_mode is deprecated. You should use keys instead. And in particular Key.target and Key.is_xen.

• add_to_ocamlfind_libraries and add_to_opam_packages are deprecated. Both the foreign and the register functions now accept the ~libraries and ~packages arguments to specify library dependencies.

• If you were using tls without the conduit combinator, you will be greeted during configuration by a message like this:

The "nocrypto" library is loaded but entropy is not enabled! Please enable the entropy by adding a dependency to the nocrypto device. You can do so by adding ~deps:[abstract nocrypto] to the arguments of Mirage.foreign.

Data dependencies (such as entropy initialization) are now explicit.
In order to fix this, you need to declare the dependency like so:
```ocaml
open Mirage

let my_functor =
let deps = [abstract nocrypto] in
foreign ~deps "My_Functor" (foo @-> bar)

My_functor.start will now take an extra argument for each dependencies. In the case of nocrypto, this is ().

• Remove nat-script.sh from the scripts directory, to be available as an external script.

2.6.1 (2015-09-08)

• Xen: improve the .xl file generation. We now have

  • name.xl: this has sensible defaults for everything including the network bridges and should "just work" if used on the build box

  • name.xl.in: this has all the settings needed to boot (e.g. presence of block and network devices) but all the environmental dependencies are represented by easily-substitutable variables. This file is intended for production use: simply replace the variables for the paths, bridges, memory sizes etc. and run xl create as before.

2.6.0 (2015-07-28)

• Better ARP support. This needs mirage-tcpip.2.6.0 (#419, by @yomimono)

  • [mirage-types] Remove V1.IPV4.input_arp

  • [mirage-types] Expose V1.ARP and V1_LWT.ARP

  • Expose a Mirage.arp combinator

• Provide noop configuration for default_time (#435, by @yomimono)

• Add Mirage.archive and Mirage.archive_of_files to support attaching files via a read-only tar-formatted BLOCK (#432, by @djs55)

• Add a .merlin file (#428, by @Drup)

2.5.1 (2015-07-17)

• [mirage-types] Expose V1_LWT.FS.page_aligned_buffer = Cstruct.t

2.5.0 (2015-06-10)

• Change the type of the Mirage.http_server combinator. The first argument (the conduit server configuration) is removed and should now be provided at compile-time in unikernel.ml instead of configuration-time in config.ml:

(* [config.ml] ) ( in 2.4 ) let http = http_server (TCP (Port 80)) conduit ( in 2.5 *) let http = http_server conduit

(* [unikernel.ml] ) let start http = ( in 2.4 ) http (S.make ~conn_closed ~callback ()) ( in 2.5 *) http (`TCP 80) (S.make ~conn_closed ~callback ()) ```

• Change the type of the Mirage.conduit_direct combinator. Previously, it took an optional vchan implementation, an optional tls immplementation and an optional stackv4 implemenation. Now, it simply takes a stackv4 implementation and a boolean to enable or disable the tls stack. Users who want to continue to use vchan with conduit should now use the Vchan functors inside unikernel.ml instead of the combinators in config.ml. To enable the TLS stack:

(* [config.ml] *) let conduit = conduit_direct ~tls:true (stack default_console)

(* [unikernel.ml] *) module Main (C: Conduit_mirage.S): struct let start conduit = C.listen conduit (TLS (tls_config, TCP 443)) callback end ```

• [types] Remove V1.ENTROPY and V1_LWT.ENTROPY. The entropy is now handled directly by nocrypto.0.4.0 and the mirage-tool is only responsible to call the Nocrypto_entropy_{mode}.initialize function.

• Remove Mirage.vchan, Mirage.vchan_localhost, Mirage.vchan_xen and Mirage.vchan_default. Vchan users need to adapt their code to directly use the Vchan functors instead of relying on the combinators.

• Remove Mirage.conduit_client and Mirage.conduit_server types.

• Fix misleading "Compiling for target" messages in mirage build (#408 by @lnmx)

• Add --no-depext to disable the automatic installation of opam depexts (#402)

• Support @name/file findlib's extended name syntax in xen_linkopts fields. @name is expanded to %{lib}%/name

• Modernize the Travis CI scripts

2.4.0 (2015-05-05)

• Support mirage-http.2.2.0

• Support conduit.0.8.0

• Support tcpip.2.4.0

• Add time and clock parameters to IPv4 (#362, patch from @yomimono)

• Support for ocaml-tls 0.4.0.

• Conduit now takes an optional TLS argument, allowing servers to support encryption. (#347)

• Add the ability to specify Makefile.user to extend the generated Makefile. Also all, build and clean are now extensible make targets.

• Remove the mirage run command (#379)

• Call opam depext when configuring (#373)

• Add opam files for mirage and mirage-types packages

• Fix mirage --version (#374)

• Add a update-doc target to the Makefile to easily update the online documentation at http://mirage.github.io/mirage/

2.3.0 (2015-03-10)

• Remove the IO_PAGE module type from V1. This has now moved into the io-page pacakge (#356)

• Remove DEVICE.connect from the V1 module types. When a module is functorised over a DEVICE it should only have the ability to use devices it is given, not to connect to new ones. (#150)

• Add FLOW.error_message to the V1 module types to allow for generic handling of errors. (#346)

• Add IP.uipaddr as a universal IP address type. (#361)

• Support the entropy version 0.2+ interfaces. (#359)

• Check that the opam command is at least version 1.2.0 (#355)

• Don't put '-classic-display' in the generated Makefiles. (#364)

2.2.1 (2015-01-29)

• Fix logging errors when mirage output is not redirected. (#355)

• Do not reverse the order of C libraries when linking. This fixes Zarith linking in Xen mode. (#341).

• Fix typos in command line help. (#352).

2.2.0 (2014-12-18)

• Add IPv6 support. This alters some of the interfaces that were previously hardcoded to IPv4 by generalising them. For example:

type v4 type v6

type 'a ip type ipv4 = v4 ip type ipv6 = v6 ip ```

Full support for configuring IPv6 does not exist yet, as this release is intended for getting the type definitions in place before adding configuration support.

2.1.1 (2014-12-10)

• Do not reuse the Unix linker options when building Xen unikernels. Instead, get the linker options from the ocamlfind xen_linkopts variables (#332). See tcpip.2.1.0 for a library that does this for a C binding.

• Only activate MacOS X compilation by default on 10.10 (Yosemite) or higher. Older revisions of MacOS X will use the generic Unix mode by default, since the vmnet framework requires Yosemite or higher.

• Do not run crunched filesystem modules through camlp4, which significantly speeds up compilation on ARM platforms (from minutes to seconds!) (#299).

2.1.0 (2014-12-07)

• Add specific support for MacOSX as a platform, which enables network bridging on Yosemite (#329). The --unix flag will automatically activate the new target if run on a MacOS X host. If this breaks for you due to being on an older version of MacOS X, then use the new --target flag to set either Unix, MacOSX or Xen to the mirage configure command.

• Add mirage.runtime findlib library and corresponding Mirage_runtime module (#327).

• If net driver in STACKV4_direct can't initialize, print a helpful error (#164).

• [xen]: fixed link order in generated Makefile (#322).

• Make Lwt.tracing instructions work for Fish shell too by improving quoting (#328).

2.0.1 (2014-11-21)

• Add register ~tracing to enable tracing with mirage-profile at start-up (#321).

• Update Dockerfile for latest libraries (#320).

• Only build mirage-types if Io_page is also installed (#324).

2.0.0 (2014-11-05)

• [types]: backwards incompatible change: CONSOLE is now a FLOW; 'write' has a different signature and 'write_all' has been removed.

• Set on_crash = 'preserve' in default Xen config.

• Automatically install dependencies again, but display the live output to the user.

• Include C stub libraries in linker command when generating Makefiles for Xen.

• Add Vchan, Conduit and Resolver code generators.

• Generate a *.xe script which can upload a kernel to a XenServer.

• Generate a libvirt *.xml configuration file (#292).

• Fix determination of mirage-xen location for paths with spaces (#279).

• Correctly show config file locations when using a custom one.

• Fix generation of foreign (non-functor) modules (#293)

1.2.0 (2014-07-05)

The Mirage frontend tool now generates a Makefile with a make depend target, instead of directly invoking OPAM as part of mirage configure. This greatly improves usability on slow platforms such as ARM, since the output of OPAM as it builds can be inspected more easily. Users will now need to run make depend to ensure they have the latest package set, before building their unikernel with make as normal.

• Improve format of generated Makefile, and also colours in terminal output.

• Add make depend target to generated Makefile.

• Set OPAMVERBOSE and OPAMYES in the Makefile, which can be overridden.

• Add an ENTROPY device type for strong random sources (#256).

1.1.3 (2014-06-15)

• Build OPAM packages in verbose mode by default.

• [types] Add FLOW based on TCPV4.

• travis: build mirage-types from here, rather than 1.1.0.

1.1.2 (2014-04-01)

• Improvement to the Amazon EC2 deployment script.

• [types] Augment STACKV4 with an IPV4 module in addition to TCPV4 and UDPV4.

• Regenerate with OASIS 0.4.4 (which adds natdynlink support)

1.1.1 (2014-02-21)

• Man page fixes for typos and terminology (#220).

• Activate backtrace recording by default (#225).

• Fixes in the V1.STACKV4 to expose UDPv4/TCPv4 types properly (#226).

1.1.0 (2014-02-05)

• Add a combinator interface to device binding that makes the functor generation significantly more succinct and expressive. This breaks backwards compatibility with config.ml files from the 1.0.x branches.

• Integrate the mirage-types code into types. This is built as a separate library from the command-line tool, via the install-types Makefile target.

1.0.4 (2014-01-14)

• Add default build tags for annot, bin_annot, principal and strict_sequence.

• Renane KV_RO to Crunch

1.0.3 (2013-12-18)

• Do not remove OPAM packages when doing mirage clean (#143)

• [xen] generate a simple main.xl, without block devices or network interfaces.

• The HTTP dependency now also installs mirage-tcp-* and mirage-http-*.

• Fix generated Makefile dependency on source OCaml files to rebuild reliably.

• Support Fat_KV_RO (a read-only k/v version of the FAT filesystem).

• The Unix KV_RO now passes through to the underlying filesystem instead of calling crunch, via mirage-fs-unix.

1.0.2 (2013-12-10)

• Add HTTP support.

• Fix KV_RO configuration for OPAM autoinstall.

1.0.1 (2013-12-09)

• Add more examples to the FAT filesystem test case.

• Fix mirage-tcpip-* support

• Fix mirage-net-* support

1.0.0 (2013-12-09)

• Adapt the latest library releases for Mirage 1.0 interfaces.

0.10.0 (2013-12.08)

• Complete API rewrite

• [xen] XL configuration phase is now created during configure phase, was during run phase.

0.9.7 (2013-08-09)

• Generate code that uses the Ipaddr.V4 interface instead of Nettypes.

0.9.6 (2013-07-26)

• fix unix-direct by linking the unix package correctly (previously it was always dropped).

0.9.5 (2013-07-18)

• completely remove the dependency on obuild: use ocamlbuild everywhere now.

• adapt for mirage-0.9.3 OS.Netif interfaces (abstract type id).

• do not output network config when there are no ip-* lines in the .conf file.

• do not try to install mirage-fs if there is no filesystem to create.

• added nat-script.sh to setup xenbr0 with DNS, DHCP and masqerading under Linux.

0.9.4 (2013-07-09)

• build using ocamlbuild rather than depending on obuild.

• [xen] generate a symbol that can be used to produce stack traces with xenctx.

• mirari run --socket just runs the unikernel without any tuntap work.

• mirari run --xen creates a xl config file and runs xl create -c unikernel.xl.

0.9.3 (2013-06-12)

• Add a --socket flag to activate socket-based networking (UNIX only).

• Do not use OPAM compiler switches any more, as that's done in the packaging now.

• Use fd-passing in the UNIX backend to spawn a process.

0.9.2 (2013-03-28)

• Install obuild automatically in all compiler switches (such as Xen).

• Only create symlinks to mir-foo for a non-Xen target.

• Add a mirari clean command.

• Add the autoswitch feature via mirari --switch=<compiler> or the config file.

0.9.1 (2013-02-13)

• Fix Xen symlink upon build.

• Add a --no-install option to mirari configure to prevent invoking OPAM automatically.

0.9.0 (2013-02-12)

• Automatically install mirage-fs package if a filesystem crunch is requested.

• Remove the need for mir-run by including the final Xen link directly in Mirari.

• Add support for building Xen variants.

• Initial import of a unix-direct version.