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Expand Up @@ -444,6 +444,20 @@ perform the Xous firmware upgrade. This requires running manual update commands,
- Incorporate more stability fixes and formatting changes from @xobs
- Clean up warning and breakages due to Rust 1.75.0. Note that cleaning up one warning forces the code to be
backward-incompatible with earlier versions of Rust. 😖
- Fixed a long-dormant bug in a kernel asm.S that came to light with the clean-up pass of the kernel (see #474)
- A kernel patch was introduced by @xobs which ensures that every page is owned by only one process. As a result,
it was discovered that XIP processes have been broken, because XIP processes map their code space into their own
process space, but their code space was also mapped into `root-keys` so that it can inspect the code for signing.
This has been fixed, see [#472](https://github.com/betrusted-io/xous-core/issues/472) for an extensive discussion,
but the TL;DR is that the kernel is now signed using ed25519ph (the pre-hash version of the algorithm), and the
hash is computed by the loader at boot time. This also closes a TOCTOU between when the loader verifies the
filesystem signature before jumping to the kernel, at the expense of being more vulnerable to any breaks in SHA-512,
or a runtime break in the `root-keys` process that gains an arbitrary write primitive and is able to remodel
the stored hash value before it is signed.
- Environment variables are now a feature of programs. They are stashed just beyond the top of stack by the loader.
They are mostly intended for test & debug tooling, where the loader is in the host environment, but this mechanism
is also used to resolve the above issue.


## Roadmap
- Lots of testing and bug fixes
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