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We're alive, ish

Posted 09 Apr 2026 by Noam Preil

The KnightOS SDK has been unable to build packages for years, as the prior host<br>of packages.knightos.org has been offline, and no replacement was forthcoming.<br>Recently, Max Leiter set up an alternative host with some core packages, and<br>patched the SDK to support using it.

This spurred my attention and, despite recent setbacks (cough house fire<br>cough unemployment cough), I finally found the time to get the SDK repaired<br>and packages.knightos.org back online :)

We don’t have proper web indexing, at the moment, but all the core packages<br>found in Max’s repo are now<br>hosted on the new and unimproved packages.knightos.org server, and the SDK has<br>been updated to be able to fetch them!

New compilers and C libraries also complain about some bugs in kpack, so those<br>are fixed too. kpack 1.2.0 is now released, which fixes handling of some string<br>duplication.

With those fixes, new projects now build! :)

The default assembler for the SDK has also been switched over to scas, which<br>should be complete enough for most userspace code. Sass is available as a<br>fallback as needed.

With any luck, more to share soon. Toodles!

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