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.
Version 0.0.5.0
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.
Additions
User-made commands in mods
Added the showaliases command
Improvements
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
Removals
Removed motd, chkn=1, preadduser and hostname arguments
Version 0.0.5.1
This release only contains improvements to debugging system regarding an area of the kernel. It got released on September 6, 2018.
Improvements
Improved behavior of debugging logs
Made changes to startup banner
Version 0.0.5.2
It got released on September 9, 2018, to make changes to graphics card parsing.
Improvements
Made graphics card parsing always on startup
Removals
Removed the gpuprobe argument
Version 0.0.5.5
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.
Additions
Added more text placeholders, such as shortdate, longdate, etc.
Improvements
Configuration system refined
Fixed repeating memory messages
Version 0.0.5.6
This was the first version that ran in all Unix systems using the Mono Runtime framework. It was out on October 12, 2018.
Additions
Support for Linux systems
Improvements
Improved hardware probers
help arginj now lists improvements
Version 0.0.5.7
On October 13, 2018, several improvements to the kernel regarding Unix support surfaced.
Additions
Print current directory in FTP shell
Improvements
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
Removals
Version 0.0.5.8
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.
Improvements
Even if one of the hardware failed to parse, the kernel continues to boot
Only administrators can access reloadconfig and alias commands
Removals
The kernel no longer beeps when rebooting and shutting down
Beep command no longer exists
Known bugs
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)
