Improvements since R1/Alpha 4

Haiku R1 alpha 4 -- Release Date: 2012-11-14 -- Revision: hrevr1alpha4-44702

This page outlines some of the more notable changesets since then. Additions and corrections are encouraged.

Kernel Drivers or Filesystems

• Virtio support:
  • block devices (supported features: configuration change)
  • SCSI devices (supported features: capacity change)
  • PCI: legacy/MSI/MSI-X interrupts supported
• SCSI:
  • fixed support for non zero luns.
  • maximum lun count is now a bus configuration.
• MSI-X support: activated in the FreeBSD compat layer.
• MSI: activated for AHCI and USB host controller drivers, fixed for some AMD based systems.
• intel_gart: bridge detection is fixed.
• PCI: use pcie mechanism for config space access
• x2APIC support (opt-in boot option)
• iso9960, exfat, fat: Corrected time conversion mistakes.
• cdda, fat, iso9660: clear tv_nsecs fields in the stat struct.
• bfs, btrfs, exfat, extfs: Return more than a single dirent at a time in btrfs_read_dir().
• ext2: fixed sparse file support
• Support for ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) and DEP (data execution prevention) added
• Added KeyStore server for securely storing passwords
• TRIM support (AHCI only, experimental)
• RAM Disk Driver (experimental)

Upgrades

• GCC 4.7.3
• Update network drivers to the FreeBSD 9.2 release
• Update ACPICA to 20130823.

Applications

• Numerous fixes and improvements to Debugger
• Add gravity screensaver based on GCI 2012 work
• KeymapSwitcher updated
• Added ResourceEdit application
• New/better color schemes in Terminal
• Increase the font size options in Terminal
• Merge changes from Fonzoterm into Terminal
• Add a hyperlink mode to Terminal
• Node monitoring and on-the-fly textencoding added to StyleEdit
• StatusView encoding context menu implemented in StyledEdit
• Added PatchBay midi demo application
• Added HaikuDepot graphical package management application
• NetworkStatus now uses the network API

Misc

• Initial work on support for Raspberry PI (experimental)
• Swapped Polish typist's keymap with much more frequently used programmer's keymap.
• Numerous 64-bit fixes
• haiku.image now supports the target x86_64 (including acpi and lan/wlan drivers)
• Added support for LLVMpipe for gcc4
• Deskbar clock settings moved to Time Preferences
• Unifying unsaved changes alerts.
• Add MIME type for XAR archives (GCI work)
• ReadOnlyBootPrompt is now FirstBootPrompt
• Implemented GPT partition read and write support
• Numerous NFS4 fixes and updates
• Terminal OSC and color management support improved
• Update Tracker's Find Panel to use the Layout API.
• Switch to using terminfo instead of termcap

Bugs fixed

• #2446 Add Cc: text field to mails shown when it's not empty.
• #3655 Implemented StatusLine and R5-like ReadOnly mode in StyledEdit
• #4146 Allow Magnify to resize to smaller sizes more gracefully.
• #4446 Replace Tracker add-on filename shortcuts with attributes
• #4857 Don't require holding shift for force identify in Tracker
• #5012 Removed the help menu from Magnify
• #5015 BPopUpMenu / BMenuField graphic glitch
• #5791 Open files in READ_WRITE mode only when necessary in People.
• #6347 LaunchBox crash on empty pad closure
• #6453 StyledEdit text sizes in a selection when a different font family is chosen
• #6513 Drawing artifact in Tracker
• #6536 Pass the B_FILTER_BITMAP_BILINEAR for scaling backgrounds more clearly
• #6610 It should be possible to open disabled menus
• #6654 Reword an alert prompt in Tracker to be less detailed, but more correct.
• #6717 Fix support of East Asian Full Width characters in Terminal
• #6894 It should be possible to open popup menu using attached label
• #6227 Fix GB18030 Chinese encoding support in Terminal.
• #6859 Cmd/Ctrl-Home/End Shift-selection support in BTextView.
• #7209 Font color does not change in Terminal for Polish locale.
• #7321 Localize Attribute List Views (types and display) in FileTypes.
• #7406 Truncate Background image name to avoid layout problem
• #7423 Improve handling of mbyte chars in UTF8Char::IsSpace
• #7523 Intel Extreme driver showing blank with N10 (GMA 3150)
• #7533 Renamed Save button to Apply in Notifications preferences.
• #7630 Windows sent back won't rise again
• #7639 Redraw issue in ColumListView.
• #7726 Time Preferences show time zone tooltip outside of list
• #7734 Avoid race conditions in ToolBar animation of ShowImage
• #7736 Fix memory corruption crash in ShowImage
• #7824 Failure to build a cross-compiler on Haiku.
• #8003 Make ReadOnlyBootPrompt visible on all workspaces.
• #8005 Drawing issues for dragBitmap in Tracker
• #8108 Terminal font size setting only affect active tab
• #8256 Remember color schema settings in Terminal
• #8299 Fix MediaConverter crash, also BeScreenCapture works again.
• #8388 Crash after enabling navigator in Tracker
• #8562 Deskbar prefs i18n updates.
• #8566 Use close button from Web+ for Notifications
• #8614 BWindow::DecoratorFrame returns incorrect results
• #8617 Poorman crashes on page refresh
• #8661 fcntl(fd, F_GETLK, ...) violates POSIX
• #8671 Smarter Zoom behavior for TeamsWindow in Debugger
• #8716 Add FreeType headers dependencies
• #8747 New "Action Stop" icon for WebPositive with better perspective.
• #8770 Correct errno return in link() function
• #8781 Display rotated images with alpha channel properly
• #8817 Update Screen preferences layout.
• #8882 Add gcc version check to gl.h to avoid warnings
• #8913 Monitor turns off booting with HD4870X2
• #8945 Launch ReadOnlyBootPrompt if fresh install
• #8963 Sounds focus cycling using Tab doesn't work
• #8974 'super block' should be 'superblock' (easy)
• #8978 Call UpdateButtons on mouse_movement data for ALPS device
• #9089 Network preference localization
• #9104 Fix Scrollbar arrow button alignment.
• #9119 Update Deskbar to use menu text and selected menu text color prefs.
• #9136 Fix wording of auto swap management in VirtualMemory
• #9145 Revisit intel_extreme mode setting
• #9193 Remove (too general) MPEG2 transport stream (mp2t) sniffer rule
• #9196 get around Screensaver password lock
• #9217 BTextView should clamp given offsets to avoid crashes
• #9218 Don't require a subject to save a draft in Mail
• #9287 Make the EULA and Installer appear on all workspaces.
• #9292 Replace isometric toolbar icons with 2D style in WebPositive
• #9293 Some Terminal enhancements
• #9294 Fix incorrect order of operations in ValueNodeManager in Debugger
• #9302 Selected item wrong in BListView after an AddList Insertion
• #9311 usb_midi fix to handle more "Class-Compliant" devices
• #9316 Correct attribute names "Audio" -> "Media" () in CDDB
• #9323 Make sure glu.h gets placed into image
• #9330 Notifications Window is always inside the screen
• #9339 Localization for ICNS Translator
• #9345 bad redrawing upon switching layouts in Keymaps
• #9368 KDL on boot caused by ipro1000 driver
• #9388 Make Playground find its catalog
• #9391 Renamed "Windows" to "Option" in Shortcuts GUI
• #9399 Renamed the button "Desktop (Live-CD)" to "Boot to Desktop".
• #9433 BMenuField: fixed broken view color.
• #9444 Setmime misbehaves if not all args are specified
• #9446 [net_server] doesn't bring up newly plugged interfaces
• #9456 Store and read show/hide Deskbar clock setting.
• #9469 Can't enable Show clock in Deskbar with Auto-hide enabled
• #9473 OpenGL demo applications crash
• #9474 Always build the button bar in Mail.
• #9481 Lock BMenuBar::_Track() atomically.
• #9487 GIFLoad array subscript below array bounds
• #9543 Window locking bug in PowerStatus
• #9501 Fix color preview drawing bug in Appearance.
• #9502 SetToolTip code cleanup
• #9522 Build failure with Haiku GCC 4 in userlandFSServer
• #9523 Multi-thread build broken due to libnetapi
• #9524 iso9960, exfat, fat: Corrected time conversion mistakes.
• #9530 Omit Terminal Id title in case single app instance running
• #9531 Remove useless font style/family settings defaults from Terminal
• #9532 Keep color control enabled after color scheme change
• #9555 nfs4 caching too aggressive
• #9556 Wrong error handling in CreateObject in nfs4
• #9558 KDL when trying to run git clone on a nfs4 mount
• #9561 KDL when mounting exports located in directory deeper than 1 level
• #9584 Implement rule AddDirectoryToHaikuImage in installoptionalpackage.
• #9623 Added GitHub as a possible source search location to ReadMe.IntroductionToHaiku
• #9632 Shutdown/restart sometimes slow/never completes on latest builds
• #9636 Fix "Error opening terminal:xterm-256color" issue in Terminal.
• #9649 Fix regression in BUnicodeChar::ToUTF8() introduced in hrev4546
• #9653 Improve File Encoding StatusView cell in StyledEdit.
• #9659 Fix another regression in BUnicodeChar::ToUTF8()
• #9663 When clearing the filter state, don't disable filtering entirely
• #9671 sysinfo misses some extended features
• #9673 Integer overflow in slider for partition size in DriveSetup
• #9682 Add a way to start a new team interactively in Debugger
• #9684 Report generation can hang if reading stack memory fails in Debugger
• #9685 Update Mesa package to fix OpenGL app crashes
• #9687 Add support for kill to handle the kill by name as well as job id.
• #9697 Rework report format as suggested in Debugger.
• #9700 CLI threads command does not include exception/call reason in Debugger
• #9706 VL-Gothic fonts is updated to version 20130422.
• #9714 KDL when booting after hrev45558
• #9726 Beezer no longer works on latest nightlies
• #9734 Receiving from a nonblocking socket causes "Operation timed out" error
• #9735 Draw truncated menu label in BMCPrivate
• #9755 Search field to filter images list in Debugger
• #9753 Menu Field with variable size should truncate label if item is wider than frame
• #9756 Structure images list by path components of entries in Debugger
• #9758 Add optional command line output capture to Debugger
• #9768 Better ProcessController - Debugger integration
• #9770 if_nameindex() returns multiple elements with same if_index
• #9774 Allow re-running a program in Debugger
• #9775 Switch between source and disassembly in Debugger
• #9776 Add context action to open source file to SourceView in Debugger.
• #9777 Improve breakpoint list editing in Debugger
• #9779 Add Type column to VariablesView in Debugger.
• #9788 Fix incorrectly initialized fTransparentMode in GIFTranslator.
• #9807 Fix RealTek RTL8111
• #9813 Check for compilation artist before looking for track specific artist info
• #9816 Entries in BPopUpMenu are truncated
• #9821 Don't call null function pointers in route
• #9822 Fixed statistics words count in StyledEdit
• #9841 Avoid flickering when stepping in Debugger
• #9842 x86-64 panics early in boot when built with KDEBUG_LEVEL 0
• #9851 Forkbomb causes Kernel Screen of Death
• #9853 Fixed bridge detection for intel_gart
• #9854 Debug button doesn't always work in Debugger
• #9855 Add option to stop on image load to Debugger
• #9686 vm_copy_area() could fail for the "commpage" area.
• #9819 Implement keyboard navigation in ColorControl
• #9860 Deskbar crashes on restart if Workspaces were placed to Deskbar.
• #9882 Fix layout issue in Backgrounds preflet.
• #9888 Add parens to fix warnings in IconUtils
• #9895 Dereference of a null pointer in ACPI
• #9909 Memory leak in VFS
• #9915 Update inactive window control focus flag.
• #9928 sprintf() crash with 'a'/'A' format specifier
• #9930 Check the bus number for pcie mechanism fixing KDL