= Improvements since R1/Alpha1 =

Haiku R1 Alpha1 was released on September 14, 2009 as r33109
This page outlines some of the more notable changesets since then.
Additions and corrections are encouraged.

	* Enabled font hinting in freetype, 
		* r33789
		* The patent for Freetype's TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER expired some time before Oct. 27, 2009.
		* Note: subpixel rendering is disabled by default
	
	* Various vendor software has been updated, most notably bash from 2.x to 4.x

	* Locale kit merged to trunk, some applications and preflet already localized and translated to some languages

	* Creation of a Localization team for translating the User Guide and other documents.
 
	* Vastly improved USB mass storage performance through a better page mapping strategy

	* API/ABI Changes
		* BJoystick -- fixed a BeOS compatibility issue
		* GCC 4 ABI changes that require apps to be recompiled
		* Introduced library versioning
	
	* WiFi merged into trunk from external repo
		* As of r35515, drivers and if needed, associated firmware need to be added via UserBuildConfig
		* Encryption is not implemented
	
	* SpicyKeys integrated as Shortcuts

	* Huge speedups -- specifically with compilation times.

 	* Many lock contentions have been improved

 	* Numerous code refactoring to kernel/VM subsystems

 	* Compile times of Haiku from within Haiku have greatly been reduced
 	
	* HDA on nvidia chipset improvements

	* Haiku GCC4 can now be compiled directly on a 64bit Linux distro. GCC2 still requires the use of `linux32`
 
	* DriveSetup will now install a basic bootloader when partitioning a disk. r33263 
 
	* r33417 , r33418  RemoteDesktop client
 
	* PackageFS 
		* initial commit r34172
		* basically working
		* for proper integration a UnionFS needs to be implemented, such that one can edit a file that has been inserted by a package (like config files).
		* thorough testing required
		* test packages need to be created
 
	* Bug fixes galore