I am pleased to announce that a release of Qubes Mirage Firewall is just out (0.8.5). This release focused on solving:
- complete crash at startup Internal error: libxenlight and Mirage-Firewall Booting Error · Issue #177 · mirage/qubes-mirage-firewall · GitHub, reported by @huaopeng (and @xaki23 on github), fix confirmed by @xaki23
- memory ballooning issues New usability issues - Dom0 processes making system unusable and Memory allocation problem (remains in low allocation, for minutes), reported by @oijawyuh and @rrn, fix confirmed @rrn
I really want to thank everyone for tracking bugs and fixing issues for this release!
If you have any comments, please let us know, on this forum or on github.
The work in progress for the next release is to support OpenBSD as netvm (Help in setting up OpenBSD as a NetVM alongside Mirage-Firewall and Consider support for openbsd HVM as netvm · Issue #146 · mirage/qubes-mirage-firewall · GitHub) and dynamical uplink (loss of connectivity on upstream VM restart · Issue #156 · mirage/qubes-mirage-firewall · GitHub)!