Changes between Version 18 and Version 19 of R1/Alpha3/ReleaseNotes

Timestamp:

Jun 7, 2011, 9:40:16 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

stippi

Comment:

Tried to unify the language in the new features list. Lined up the spelling of file systems with Wikipedia.

R1/Alpha3/ReleaseNotes

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 This is a glimpse into some of the more notable improvements and additions to Haiku, since the previous release, R1 Alpha 2. It should be noted that over [query:status=closed&changetime=05/10/10..05/16/11&resolution=fixed&group=component&max=1000&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=component 800 bugs closed as fixed] since R1 Alpha 2. Additionally, more than 250 subtle bugs have been fixed, which were discovered by Coverity.
 
-Improved read (and write support) for various filesystems, which includes btrfs, exFAT, ext2, ext3, ext4, ntfs, udf, and others.
+Improved read (and write support) for various filesystems, which includes btrfs, exFAT, ext2, ext3, ext4, NTFS, UDF, and others.
 
-Implemented a partial fallback for displaying missing glyphs. For example some Japanese and Chinese characters will now display.
+Partial fallback for displaying unsupported glyphs of any font. For example some Japanese and Chinese characters will now display.
 
-Utilized Gutenprint to provide additional printer support.
+Gutenprint is utilized to provide additional printer support.
 
-Various enhancements for hardware support, such as IO-APIC, acpi, video drivers, network drivers and USB.
+Various enhancements for hardware support, such as IO-APIC, ACPI, video drivers, network drivers and USB.
 
-Updated the secondary and experimental compiler to GCC 4.4.4 (Available for experimental use via `setgcc gcc4`).
+Update of the secondary and experimental compiler to GCC 4.4.4 (Available for experimental use via `setgcc gcc4`).
 
-Support for weak symbols and symbol preemption in GCC 4 has been introduced.
+Support for weak symbols and symbol preemption in GCC 4.
 
-Integrated StackAndTile, which was originally pioneered by the University of Auckland (Available for experimental use via `setdecor SATDecorator`).
+Integration of StackAndTile, which was originally pioneered by the University of Auckland (available via `setdecor SATDecorator`).
 
 Additional window management controls for moving and resizing windows (CTRL + CMD + first mouse button, CTRL + CMD + second mouse button).
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 MediaKit's support for decoding and encoding file formats has been improved.
 
-Added a general MIDI SoundFont by Tim Brechbill.
+Addition of a general MIDI SoundFont by Tim Brechbill which enables support for many BeOS MIDI applications.
 
 More applications now use Haiku's Layout API, making their GUI's more resilient to font changes and localization. Furthermore, the layout API has continued to progress towards being stable and public. However, this API is not finalized: it may change at any time, so developers beware.
 
-Extend and consolidate locale support to use a single backend (ICU) for both Haiku's native and POSIX's locale. Improve interface and reliability of Locale and Time preflet considerably.
+The locale support was extended and consolidated to use a single backend (ICU) for both Haiku's native and POSIX's locale API. The interface and reliability of the Locale and Time preflet were improved considerably.
 
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