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

Screenshot

• hrev36969, hrev37017
• #5862, #3831, #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

Miscellaneous

• zlib : hrev36780
• pci id's : hrev36774
• timezone data (tzdata2010i) : hrev36773
• acpi (acpica-unix-20100428) : hrev36867

API Related

Locale Macros

• TR() --> B_TRANSLATE() and related macros
• hrev36658, hrev36735, hrev36784
• #5408

BNotification API

• hrev36952, hrev36958

MIDI Soundfont Improvement

• hrev37153