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The time has come to bring the series to the stable release. It added aliases, permanent color setting, and so on.
For beta versions of this series, consult the below link.
On September 4, 2018, this version was made to start the prompt obsoletion movement and make several improvements to the beta versions of 0.0.5.
User-made commands in mods
Added the showaliases command
Permanent color setting
Made several fixes, including the alias parser
Beep command prevents frequencies more than 2048 Hz
Removing aliases now no longer requires a command to be provided
General improvements
Removed prompts
Removed motd, chkn=1, preadduser and hostname arguments
This release only contains improvements to debugging system regarding an area of the kernel. It got released on September 6, 2018.
Improved behavior of debugging logs
Improved a debug message
Made changes to startup banner
It got released on September 9, 2018, to make changes to graphics card parsing.
Made graphics card parsing always on startup
Improved config updater
Removed the gpuprobe argument
On September 22, 2018, it made a major rewrite of the kernel configuration, as well as some additions and improvements. This was the last version that was unsupported on Unix systems.
Added the FTP client
Added more text placeholders, such as shortdate, longdate, etc.
Configuration system refined
Fixed repeating memory messages
General improvements
This was the first version that ran in all Unix systems using the Mono Runtime framework. It was out on October 12, 2018.
Support for Linux systems
Improved hardware probers
Username list on login
help arginj now lists improvements
Other improvements...
On October 13, 2018, several improvements to the kernel regarding Unix support surfaced.
Print current directory in FTP shell
Fixed crash if the executable name is something other than "Kernel Simulator.exe"
Fixed "Quiet Probe" configuration entry being set to some strange value
Fixed a known bug affecting Unix systems
Version command
This version was released on November 1, 2018, to make several improvements to the kernel, but withdraws some features.
This release was declared to be the last release supporting Windows XP systems with .NET Framework 4.5 installed.
Even if one of the hardware failed to parse, the kernel continues to boot
Only administrators can access reloadconfig and alias commands
The kernel no longer beeps when rebooting and shutting down
Beep command no longer exists
Initial documentation for these versions have mentioned the following known bugs in the "troubleshooting" document: (original wording preserved for brevity - only covers pre-2021 releases)
0.0.5.6
0.0.5.7
[Unix] Any error messages that is handled will crash the handler with a continuable kernel error. Investigation found that something ambiguous is going on.
