A big release. Genesis 26.5 touches nearly every layer of the system: kernel, input handling, UI, filesystem, and more.

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Kernel & Core System

Boredkernel 4.2.0-stable

• Syscall Dispatch Refactor: Swapped out the old if/else chains for dispatch tables.
• Signals, Exec & Wait: Process control is now fully fleshed out — signal handling, exec, pipes, and FD support all in.
• ELF Metadata Support: Two new syscalls (76 & 77) for parsing and validating ELF app metadata at runtime.
• Memory Manager Rewrite: New two-tier slab allocator with dynamic block lists.
• IDT Improvements: Interrupt diagnostics now dump RIP, error codes, and CR2.

Input & Internationalization

This was a long time coming. The input subsystem got a full rewrite:

• UTF-8 Input: Proper UTF-8 handling, with keyboard layout support.
• Multi-Layout Support: Keyboard layouts can be switched dynamically at runtime.
• App Updates: Boredword, browser, grapher, libwidget, terminal, and txtedit all updated for UTF-8 compatibility.

UI & Desktop Environment

• Dynamic Dock: The dock now supports drag-to-reorder, and lets you pin files.
• TrueType Fonts: Terminal and txtedit both support proportional fonts now.
• Colloid Icons: Swapped in Colloid icons in place of hardcoded shape icons.
• Boot Banner: New BoredOS banner in the kernel terminal on boot.

Shell & Userland

Bsh got some quality-of-life work:

• Colored prompts, configurable via bshrc
• Right-aligned prompt support
• Command history
• General input handling cleanup

Graphics & Extras

• Lua 5.5.0: Added the Lua runtime.
• Wallpapers: New wallpaper set.

Build System

• Platform-specific run parameters for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• General Makefile cleanup.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed flickering caused by serial output

Installation

git pull
make clean
make

Or grab the .iso from this release.

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Verification

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SHA-256: 1bf9432b10e81b4142f4cb688c4712767985f620230556b1370a7fcfbf189178

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OS: 26.5-stable · Codename: Genesis · Kernel: Boredkernel 4.2.0-stable