Minix 3
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| Release date | Description |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 3.1.0  (OSDI3) | 2005-10-18 |  The first release of Minix 3 (Book Release), under BSD-3-Clause. |
| 3.1.1  (SOSP) | 2005-10-24 |  The last version under the standard BSD-3-Clause license. |
| 3.1.2 | 2006-04-18 |  The first version under the custom BSD-3-Clause license. |
| 3.1.2a | 2006-05-29 |  New Packman package manager.  Fixed an installation issue with auto-partitioning disks. |
| 3.1.3 | 2007-04-13 |  Added new virtual file system |
| 3.1.3a | 2007-06-08 |  Bug fixes. |
| 3.1.4 | 2009-06-09 |  Virtual memory support.  Improved virtual machine support (when Minix runs as guest). |
| 3.1.5 | 2009-11-05 |  Improvements performance  Shared memory  setitimer function  ISO 9660 file system  Open Sound System  Trap NULL accesses now, for user convenience  Improved signal handling  Better support for debuggers (ptrace improvements, etc.)  Network card autodetection (for supported PCI cards), improved network configuration |
| 3.1.6 | 2010-02-08 |  New Network drivers: Atheros L2, Intel E1000, Realtek 8169, DEC Tulip  PipeFS – removed pipe handling from filesystem drivers  HGFS – support for mounting VMware shared folders as file system  VFS: supplemental group support and sticky bit support  Floating-point unit support  System Event Framework (SEF)  Experimental APIC support |
| 3.1.7 | 2010-06-16 |  Userspace scheduling and a scheduling server  Proper support for multiple Ethernet cards of the same type  Boot monitor allows loading images > 16 MB  Buildsystem support for building Minix with GCC  Support for Windows-1251 and KOI8-U charsets |
| 3.1.8 | 2010-10-04 |  New package management infrastructure: pkgsrc and pkgin  Unix domain socket support  Multiboot support  ext2 support  ACPI driver  full APIC mode including I/O APICs  Experimental AHCI support |
| 3.2.0 | 2012-02-29 |  Porting GNU Debugger to Minix 3 and implementing core dumping support  FUSE support with experimental NTFS-3G file system  Gradually replacing userland, from Minix to NetBSD  Replacing the default compiler ACK with Clang; GCC is also supported  Switch to ELF and NetBSD libc libraries  Pkgsrc upstreaming and application porting  Asynchronous virtual filesystem (VFS) server  Replacing the bootloader from Minix to NetBSD  NCQ support in the AHCI driver |
| 3.2.1 | 2013-02-21 |  Support for dynamically linked executables  Removal of Intel segments  Dropped support for a.out binaries  Cross-compilation support  Device Driver Environment kit support  VBFS – support for mounting VirtualBox Shared Folder as file system |
| 3.3.0 | 2014-09-15 |  ARM architecture support; cross-compilable  Support for mmap() I/O mechanism; allows for shared dynamic libraries and lower memory needs  New input infrastructure: input server and keyboard driver separated from TTY  VND: vnode disk (loopback) block driver  LLVM Bitcode build of the system  Import of LLVM and clang in the sources  Unified block cache shared by FSes and VM  Improved NetBSD compatibility: utilities, calls, types (lots of 64-bit), toolchain, codebase, and packages  C type for messages: cleaner, bigger[netleştirme gerekli]  Improved driver modularity: UDS separate from PFS, PTY from TTY, one controller per at_wini instance, LOG removed from boot image  Packages are now dynamically linked |
| 3.4.0 rc6 | 2017-05-09 | X11 is now part of the operating system. |
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Minix 3, 24 Ekim 2005'te Andrew Tanenbaum tarafından Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Sempozyumu İşletim Sistemleri İlkeleri konferansının zirvesindeki açılış konuşması sırasında kamuoyuna duyuruldu. Hala Tanenbaum ve Woodhull'un ders kitabının yeni baskısı için bir örnek teşkil etse de, "kaynak sınırlı ve gömülü bilgisayarlarda ve yüksek güvenilirlik gerektiren uygulamalarda ciddi bir sistem olarak kullanılabilir" olacak şekilde kapsamlı bir şekilde yeniden tasarlandı.
Başlangıçta, Minix'in 2000'den beri lisanslandığı aynı BSD-3-Clause lisansı altında yayınlandı. 2005 sonlarında telif hakkı sahibi değiştirildi ve dördüncü bir madde eklendi.