01.Jun.2026
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Operating system for the Amiga: Eighth alpha version of Serena OS
Dietmar Planitzer is working on what he describes as a "modern operating system for Amiga computers" (amiga-news.de reported). One of the most important new features of alpha version 0.8.0 is the availability of the first beta version of the Serena SDK. The developer has provided a simple tutorial that explains how to set up the development environment and use the SDK to create a sample app for Serena OS. An overview of the other changes:
- Many new APIs to control processes and vcpus
- New APIs to get various bits of information and statistics of processes, vcpus and the system (host) itself
- Significantly faster user space synchronization primitives (mutex, semaphore and condition variables)
- Support for shebang (#!) files
- A number of new shell built-ins and tools
- Significant improvements to the scheduler and context switcher to make it more robust and efficient
- Better 68060 support
The author also refers to the updated wiki and suggests that the next version of Serena OS will be the first official beta version, which means that the focus will be increasingly on testing and bug fixing. (dr)
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