The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS operating system has published their April 2025 status report to outline interesting changes made over the past several weeks to this innovative project.

Some of the recent Redox OS enhancements include:

- Redox Summer of Code will see student developers working on Unix Domain Sockets, System Services Manager for a system health monitor, and porting SpiderMonkey and the Servo browser engine to Redox OS. Redox OS currently uses the NetSurf web browser and without full JavaScript support.

- Redox OS has seen work to finish its user-space process manager.

- Student developers recently worked on system health monitoring and recovery daemon capabilities for Redox OS.

- Redox OS landed work to provide better user authentication security.

- RISC-V compilation fixes.

- Various hardware driver improvements/fixes and other system enhancements.

- FreeCiv and other games/apps have seen updates to their recipes for running on Redox OS:

More details on these improvements to this open-source Rust-based OS via [1]Redox-OS.org .



[1] https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-250430/