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+[[!meta date="2016-05-18 15:30 UTC"]]
+
+GNU Hurd 0.8, GNU Mach 1.7, GNU MIG 1.7 released.
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+
+We're pleased to announce new releases!
+
+  * **GNU Hurd 0.8**,
+    [NEWS](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/tree/NEWS?id=v0.8):
+
+        Version 0.8 (2016-05-18)
+        
+        The netfs library is using the lockless reference-counting primitives
+        for both peropen and node objects now, and the global reference
+        counting lock has been removed.
+        
+        The integer hashing library gained a new interface to use non-integer
+        keys.  It is now used in libdiskfs' and nfs' node cache, and the ftpfs
+        translator.
+        
+        Several bugs in our native fakeroot tool have been fixed improving
+        stability and correctness of the translation.
+        
+        The devnode translator and the hurd-slab library have been merged into this
+        repository.
+        
+        The code has been cleaned up, and we fixed numerous bugs, most notably
+        a crash in pfinet, a locking bug in libdiskfs, and an out-of-bounds
+        access in ext2fs' block cache.
+
+    Release tarballs may be downloaded from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/>,
+    <http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/>, or checked out of Git,
+    <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git>.  SHA1 checksums:
+
+        38585aed93645704477d91d01136e1ae750a5ecb  hurd-0.8.tar.bz2
+        531d5035427830e87828a79bf6794531250784d0  hurd-0.8.tar.bz2.sig
+        6383479f30933d760c6d981fdd37df27adb5f0bb  hurd-0.8.tar.gz
+        63f58d392cb6e0c0ebd71e725938a13a5cab2392  hurd-0.8.tar.gz.sig
+
+    The [[**GNU Hurd**|hurd]] is the GNU project's replacement for the [[Unix]]
+    kernel.  It is a collection of [[servers|hurd/translator]] that run on the
+    Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access
+    control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or
+    similar kernels (such as Linux).  More detailed: [[hurd/documentation]],
+    [[hurd/what_is_the_GNU_Hurd]].
+
+  * **GNU Mach 1.7**,
+    [NEWS](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/gnumach.git/tree/NEWS?id=v1.7):
+
+        Version 1.7 (2016-05-18)
+        
+        The code has been updated to work with newer versions of GCC, and numerous bugs
+        have been fixed throughout the code, including a pageout deadlock.  The code
+        uses integer types from <stdint.h> now instead of the old Mach types.
+        
+        The VM cache policy change has been merged.  The kernel now caches
+        unreferenced VM objects unconditionally instead of using a fixed
+        limit.
+        
+        The physical page allocator of the X15 kernel has been integrated, and
+        is now used directly by the slab allocator.  This increases the kernel
+        heap addressing important scalability issues.
+        
+        The gsync synchronization mechanism was added, similar to the Linux kernel's
+        futexes, to allow efficient and powerful userland synchronization.
+        
+        Support for profiling kernel code from userland through sampling was added.
+
+    Release tarballs may be downloaded from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnumach/>,
+    <http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnumach/>, or checked out of Git,
+    <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/gnumach.git>.  SHA1 checksums:
+
+        4438c7c10f8eef019ada45b749c0796d620d08de  gnumach-1.7.tar.bz2
+        6cdf299118066e3280dcc68f75477659fc783f7d  gnumach-1.7.tar.bz2.sig
+        5474b2cdc01cb002149db08d745fdab741470c65  gnumach-1.7.tar.gz
+        018aa0551e87c4b5eeb900934491811f46ab8b78  gnumach-1.7.tar.gz.sig
+
+    [[**GNU Mach**|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] is the GNU distribution of the
+    [[Mach microkernel|microkernel/mach]], upon which a GNU Hurd system is
+    based.  The [[microkernel]] provides an [[Inter Process Communication
+    (IPC)|ipc]] mechanism that the Hurd uses to define interfaces for
+    implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the services a
+    traditional operating system kernel provides.  More detailed:
+    [[microkernel/mach/documentation]].
+
+  * **GNU MIG 1.7**,
+    [NEWS](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/mig.git/tree/NEWS?id=v1.7):
+
+        Version 1.7 (2016-05-18)
+        
+        * MIG now has a test suite.  It includes a set of valid and invalid
+          definition files that MIG will try to process.  For valid
+          definitions, GCC will compile the stubs to check if valid C code was
+          generated.
+        
+        * The generated code uses integer types from <stdint.h> now instead of
+          the old Mach types.
+        
+        * Code that was hard-coding the word size has been identified and
+          fixed.
+        
+        * Support for the obsolete kinds of RPC routines 'functions',
+          'procedures', and 'simple procedures' has been removed.
+        
+        * MIG now emits code that casts objects translated from capabilities
+          to the correct C type.
+
+    Release tarballs may be downloaded from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/>,
+    <http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/>, or checked out of Git,
+    <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/mig.git>.  SHA1 checksums:
+
+        25d87f0271678d044a8af1f45492a96bee32e486  mig-1.7.tar.bz2
+        481dce92b8eb718231bf9d409c0e0c9337dc1f90  mig-1.7.tar.bz2.sig
+        f1bd05d1b353653f49dbbb44a4624e65c7be0a2e  mig-1.7.tar.gz
+        59f71517cd1be26635a27da423bcf75e2399a42e  mig-1.7.tar.gz.sig
+
+    [[**GNU MIG**|microkernel/mach/mig/gnu_mig]] is the GNU distribution of the
+    [[Mach 3.0 Interface Generator (MIG)|microkernel/mach/mig]].  This tool
+    translates [[Remote Procedure Call (RPC)|rpc]] definition files to C code,
+    and is required to compile any packages that are receiving or invoking
+    RPCs, such as GNU Mach, GNU Hurd, and the GNU C Library (glibc) when
+    compiled for the Hurd.  More detailed:
+    [[microkernel/mach/mig/documentation]].
+
+  * **glibc-2.19-hurd+libpthread-20160518**
+
+    Based on the [[glibc]] 2.19 release, we include additional changes for GNU
+    Hurd support, and bundle GNU Hurd's [[libpthread]].
+
+    Snapshot tarballs may be downloaded from <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/>,
+    <http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/>, or checked out of Git,
+    <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/glibc.git> and
+    <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/libpthread.git>.  SHA1 checksums:
+
+        3722b7f52aac89c66f064e1e6d19ec9b92ffc9e0  glibc-2.19-hurd+libpthread-20160518.tar.bz2
+        69dfe1297013056b4b0d6436a1b3906c1bb67a52  glibc-2.19-hurd+libpthread-20160518.tar.bz2.sig
+        2795bacc85c799a028577089c422ff4ef9b876bc  glibc-2.19-hurd+libpthread-20160518.tar.gz
+        a7af1d2500f35413003f08801e258f3666dfcb87  glibc-2.19-hurd+libpthread-20160518.tar.gz.sig
+
+    The [[**GNU C Library** (glibc)|glibc]] implements a system's standard
+    library functions (as described by ISO C, and POSIX, for example).  An
+    important part of the Hurd actually resides in glibc: here, the system
+    interfaces are implemented on top of the [[Hurd IPC
+    protocols|hurd/interface]].  This is different to the Linux port, where
+    most simple system interfaces are in fact simply forwarded to/implemented
+    as [[system_call]]s.
+
+Many thanks to all the people who are helping!
+
+If you want to give the Hurd a try, you may easily do so with [[Debian
+GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]].
+
+The GNU Hurd system currently runs on 32-bit x86 machines.  To compile the
+Hurd, you need a toolchain configured to target `i?86-gnu`; you cannot use a
+toolchain targeting GNU/Linux.
+
+Please read the [[FAQ]].
+Bug reports should be sent to [[mailing_lists/bug-hurd]] or filed on
+<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=hurd>.  Requests for assistance
+should be sent to [[mailing_lists/help-hurd]] or filed on
+<http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=hurd>.  You can also find us on
+the Freenode IRC network in the [[#hurd|IRC]] channel.
+
+"""]]