= 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
* Added a PSD translator.


=== 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