Haiku Activity & Contract Report, August 2024
This report covers hrev57901 through hrev58042.
R1/beta5 was of course released just a few days ago, and many (though not all) of the changes in this report made it in to the release.
madmax fixed a crash in AboutSystem caused by an incorrectly added copyright monopoly entry.
apl made a number of refactors to HaikuDepot’s code, including to the language model, path handling, package data fetching, the display of publishers, and more.
nipos and nephele submitted fixes to the ColumnListView, Debugger, WebPositive, ResEdit, FontDemo, Cortex, Sudoku, and more to remove hard-coded colors and make things look better in “dark mode”. (They also adjusted the computation used in Appearance for some colors in “dark mode” to make them fit in better.)
waddlesplash fixed the disassembler used by Debugger to handle addresses coming from registers in address computations (and submitted the fix upstream, as this is a third-party library.)
jscipione adjusted Tracker to repopulate menus when entering or leaving volumes, and to properly enable and disable some items in the “New” menu whenever menus are updated. He also fixed the “Copy” and “Cut” actions to not alter the selection (and fixed some other issues around Move and Copy, related to redraws), fixed some issues with colors in the “Open with…” window, and made drag-and-drops from virtual folders create symbolic links (instead of copying the underlying file.)
An update
More here:
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Haiku – a spiritual successor to BeOS – is updated
Haiku is a spiritual successor to BeOS, with a focus on a clean and user-friendly design paired with low system requirements.
LWN:
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Haiku R1/beta5 has been released
Version R1/beta5 for the Haiku project, an open-source "
spiritual successor to BeOS
", has been released. Notable changes in this release include a TUN/TAP network driver, basic support for USB audio devices, TCP throughput improvements, a rewritten driver for the FAT filesystem, read-only support for Unix File System 2 (UFS2), as well as hundreds of bug fixes and performance improvements since the last release in December 2022. Thanks to Paul Wise for the tip.