I was originally planning for a 1.9.0 release on Nov 6th. However, a couple of issues were raised this past week (python2.7 dependency in buildversion.py, USB3 failures, reboot race condition). As a result, I think we should push back the release a week (target Nov 16th).
Here are my draft release notes for 1.9.0:
* The default boot menu key is now the ESC key (instead of F12) * Initial support for Trusted Platform Module (TPM) hardware and BIOS calls * Initial support for chain loading SeaBIOS from Grub (via multiboot support) * virtio 1.0 device support * The build will no longer include the build hostname or build time on "clean" builds. This makes the build binaries more "reproducible". * SeaVGABIOS improvements: * Improved support for old versions of x86emu (the "leal" instruction is now emulated) * Several bug fixes and code cleanups
Comments? -Kevin