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More than 35 developers have contributed to this project since the fork in 1995. As of March 2015, development of the ELKS project was again active, reaching a milestone 1,000 source code commits on March 8, 2015. As of June 2018, many bug fixes and improvements were performed with 583 more commits, leading to the 0.2.1 release. In March 2019, the project completed its transition from the obsolete BCC compiler to the more recent GCC-IA16, and development activity increased as Gregory Haerr took the helm as lead developer. During 2019 and 2020 ELKS moved from a 'bootable, unstable' status to a stable Linux-like system for small machines with Ethernet, TCP/IP, FAT16/32, multiuser serial and many more functions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ELKS v0.4.0 Pre-release version history and credits · Issue #873 · jbruchon/elks|url=https://github.com/jbruchon/elks/issues/873|access-date=2021-04-09|website=GitHub|language=en}}</ref> As ELKS 0.4.0 was released in November 2020, the number of commits had passed 3,000.

Building on the foundation created by 0.4.0, development activity continued during 2021, still with Gregory Haerr as lead developer, supported by 5 active contributors. The team delivered 220 commits from October 2021 to 0.5.0 release on February 8th8, 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Release ELKS v0.5.0 · jbruchon/elks|url=https://github.com/jbruchon/elks/releases/tag/v0.5.0|access-date=2022-02-09|website=GitHub|language=en}}</ref> Four months later, on Jun 7th 2022, 0.6.0 was released, setting a new level or release frequency and indicating a very high level of activity.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Release ELKS v0.6.0 · jbruchon/elks |url=https://github.com/jbruchon/elks/releases/tag/v0.6.0 |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=GitHub |language=en}}</ref>

== Version 0.4.0 ==

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== Version 0.6.0 ==

Released on June 7th7, 2022, 0.6.0 defined a new level for ELKS, as indicated by the much shorter than usual release cycle. The speed at which the system evolves and improves, combined with its recently acquired reliability and usability created a demand for 'updated packaged releases' from new users.

0.6.0 included lots of enhancements and optimizations on both system and application level. New additions included:<ref name=":0" />