Improvements since R1/Alpha 2

Haiku R1 Alpha 2 was released on May 10, 2010 as hrev36769 This page outlines some of the more notable changesets since then. Additions and corrections are encouraged.

intel_extreme driver

• hrev36941
• #3149 partially fixed

notification_server

• based on InfoPopper ​http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/infopopper
• still work-in-progress
• hrev36949
• #1245

IMAP Client

• hrev36995

ICMP

• hrev37647
• First part of ICMP support: this is based on the work by Ivo Vachkov (GSoC 2007), and Yin Qiu (GSoC 2008). And even though I needed to rewrite pretty much all of it because of the countless bugs and problems it had, it still shares the same architectural problems of introducing a domain dependent error mechanism to the upper layers, and needing the net_buffer::network_header hack. This I will rework later.

Screenshot

• hrev36969, hrev37017
• #5862, #4100, #3112, #4878, #4423, #2988

Vision

• hrev36900
• #6040, #4783

PAE & 64-bit

• PAE implemented, helps pave the way for 64-bit compatibility
• numerous changesets for making data structures and classes 64-bit safe

Creation of CorruptionFS

• hrev37247 and many others
• Test file systems for tracking down the file corruptions that still seem to occur in current revisions.

ExtFS write support

• hrev38573 hrev38964 hrev39036 hrev39121 hrev39203 hrev39234 hrev39325 hrev39343

ATA bus manager & SCSI subsystem: support for 2TB+ volumes

• hrev39252 hrev39278 hrev39279 hrev39313

WebPositive

• Many bug fixes and small feature additions

MediaPlayer

• Fullscreen interface
• .SRT subtitle support
• Winding stream forward and backward
• Greatly improved seeking
• Efficiency improvements

Media Kit

• Greatly improved FFmpeg plug-in, replacing most other plug-ins
• Many smaller bug-fixes

Miscellaneous

• zlib : hrev36780
• pci id's : hrev36774
• timezone data (tzdata2010i) : hrev36773
• acpi (acpica-unix-20100428) : hrev36867
• MIDI Soundfont Improvement : hrev37153
• GCC 4 updated to 4.4.4
• IPv6 -- GSoC : hrev37604

API Related

Locale Kit

• TR() --> B_TRANSLATE() and related macros
• hrev36658, hrev36735, hrev36784
• #5408
• implemented posix based locale, merged to trunk in hrev37725
• Much, Much more

Layout API

• Many changes from GSoC

BNotification API

• hrev36952, hrev36958