= [Draft] Haiku R1/beta2 Release Notes

This page is intended as a draft for the release notes. Eventually these should be formatted for and published on the main website.

== Sources
Use [https://dev.haiku-os.org/query?status=closed&type=%5Eenhancement&resolution=fixed&milestone=%5ER1%2Fbeta2&group=component&col=id&col=summary&col=type&col=status&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority this query] to get all closed enhancement tickets with resolution type fixed between September 28 2018 and April 13 2020, to find a list of enhancements.

Haiku Activity Reports:
 * [https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2020-03-22-haiku_activity_report_feb_mar_2020/ Feb/Mar 2020]
 * [https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2020-02-15-haiku_field_trip_report_jan_2020/ Jan 2020]
 * [https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/reds/2020-01-14_haiku_monthly_activity_report_-_012019/ Dec 2019]
 * [https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2019-12-05_haiku_monthly_activity_report_-_november_2019/ Oct/Nov 2019]
 * [https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2019-10-03_haiku_monthly_activity_report_-_september_2019/ Sep 2019]
 * [https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2019-09-07_haiku_monthly_activity_report_august_2019/ Aug 2019]
 * [https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2019-07-11_haiku_monthly_activity_report_june_2019/ Jun 2019]
 * [https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2019-05-01_haiku_monthly_activity_report_april_2019/ Mar/Apr 2019]
 * [https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2019-03-02_haiku_monthly_activity_report_february_2019/ Feb 2019]
 * [https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2019-01-03_haiku_monthly_activity_report_december_2018/ Dec 2018]
 * [https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2018-12-02_haiku_monthly_activity_report_november_2018/ Nov 2018]


== Some highlights
 - New Input preferences, support for more than 3 mouse buttons as well as horizontal scroll wheel
 - Driver fixes: xHCI (much better USB3 compatibility), hda, intel_extreme, NVMe (experimental and broken, we may disable it by default), network?, i2c touchpads/touchscreens if that gets merged in time
 - Installation smoothening: better EFI integration (still incomplete), optional packages in Installer, improved DriveSetup (shows partition used space, shows encrypted volumes, etc)
 - Probably something about haikuports and stats about new and updated packages too?
 - DeskBar improvements (new mini mode, better scaling, ...)
 - HiDPI displays compatibility (did we make some progress on that since beta1?)
 - Lowered memory requirements (to be checked - how low can we go now?)
 - Security fixes (syscall audit, smap/smep violations fixing, ...)
 - #15294 Meta key in Terminal - has a great description of what it does.
 - #5126 Improvements to the Tracker API


== Applications

=== Deskbar
 - #4971 Resize Deskbar from the Deskbar settings, our by using the CTRL-ALT-right click drag
 - #8537 In menus, the size of the icon will now always be the same size as your chosen font size
 - #8691 The icons of replicants are running in the Deskbar, will scale according to the settings
 - #13304 Auto-raised deskbar will now also auto-unraise

=== DriveSetup
 - #10098 Encrypted disks will actually display that they are encrypted instead of empty

=== HaikuDepot
 - #10358 When a package is queued for download and installation, it will now have the status 'queued' in the interface.
 - #11652 When showing all packages, the installed packages are part of the list by default. Before they were hidden by default. 
 - #12198 HaikuDepot can now display multiple screenshots, when the package has multiple to show.
 - #12428 It is possible to switch between a view with all tabs, and a view with featured packages, by using the tabs at the top of the window.
 - #13806 The application will now clearly show when it is downloading screenshots for the packages you are looking at.
 - #13808 Overall, it is more clear when HaikuDepot is contacting the web to retrieve information or updates.


=== Installer
 - #14310 The installer now supports the user showing and selecting optional packages, when they are available on the installation medium

=== Launchbox
 - #11237 Launchbox will now start automatically at boot, when that has been configured in its settings.
 - #13835 Icons of 96x96 and 128x128 pixels are now supported.

=== MediaPlayer
 - #6628 When MediaPlayer is opened by opening a media file from Tracker, there will be a mark at the timestamp at the point where the user last stopped listening/viewing that file. 

=== People
 - #9397 It is possible to quickly create a new Person file from Tracker, with the 'Create new...' feature

=== SoftwareUpdate
 - #14002 When updating the system packages itself, SoftwareUpdater will now display a 'Restart' button to inform the user that a restart is necessary.

=== Terminal
 - #15294 Support for an emulated Meta key

=== Tracker
 - #1264 multi-range selection in Tracker and list views
 - #3011 Directories with a large number of files are now loaded quicker
 - #5126 Improvements to the Tracker API
 - #10529 For files that are part of a package, show information about that package in the info window.

=== WebPositive
 - #14845 Allow selecting any font size (was previously limited to 18pt).

=== Command Line Utilities
 - #10288 `uname` now shows which specific Haiku nightly revision is built
 - #12665 the built in `ftp` is now replaced with [https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/net/tnftp/README.html tnftp]

== Drivers

=== Audio
The `hda` driver has had some improvements, that will allow it to work properly on more devices. If you had problem in R1/beta1, then it is worth a shot to try it again.

=== Other notes

 - #9910 NVMe device support
 - #5056 Intel Extreme: support X4500HD
 - #12723 Intel Extreme: support hardware panel scaling for chipsets that support it
 - #13987 FreeBSD Network Drivers: upgrade network drivers to FreeBSD 11.1

== Preferences

 - #10171 Support configuration of advanced mice and trackballs

== System

 - #10139 Add UEFI Loader (the Beta 1 DVD image shipped with an EFI loader, but it was added manually to the release image)


== Translator Improvements
 - #10354 WebP images now support images with an alpha channel.

= Localization

Haiku is available in 26 languages, and the User Guide is available in 20 languages.

 - Friulan translation added.
 - Turkish translation added.
 - (to complete with the list of added and removed translation)


= For Developers and Porters

== POSIX
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit?id=38ce902686b9b6d4d19bfde134b18f997192ba01 fcntl.h] A non-functioning version of `posix_fadvice()` has been added, to make it easier to port software.
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/headers/posix/net/if_tun.h?id=b110fce124c8603201228da1b67119b56e41cf7e net/if_tun.h] A public API for the tun/tap device compatible with the Linux API has been added.
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?h=hrev53087 net/if_types.h] Add some constants for `IFT_LOCALTALK`, `IFT_TUN`, `IFT_L2VLAN` and `IFT_BRIDGE`
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?h=hrev52972&id=901c3d44b047f83b914f7a3cd1f532964255771a pthread.h] Implement `pthread_attr_[get|set]stack()` 
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?h=hrev52840&id=af615399189deeec8d412ec165ab638326471ab1 spawn.h] Add `POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID`
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?h=hrev53281&id=e1a822a95f318ca23e41a93d1416322dce439421 stdlib.h] Make `putenv()` conform to POSIX standard (no source/binary change)
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?id=8ae2e95643ee7ba3f46b0e8a73df1466f23aa7be sys/resource.h] Add `[gs]etpriority()` from the POSIX-1.2013 standard.
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?h=hrev53464&id=af0281a8c20afe53d805b5f3f14935a59b214bdb unistd.h] Add the `_SC_HOST_NAME_MAX`, `_SC_REGEXP`, `_SC_SYMLOOP_MAX`, and `_SC_SHELL` for `sysconf()`
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?h=hrev52776&id=b9c25b0d0ec7bb16d72dca4b6f529af604e66df6 unistd.h] Add `nice()` from the POSIX.1-2008 standard.

== Game Kit
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?h=hrev53625&id=69f814cded60c5f977a61a2ab747e4456323e6f2 FileGameSound.h] Allow initialisation of the `BFileGameSound` from a `DataIO` object, to allow for opening game sound files from sources other than files.

== Interface Kit
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?h=hrev52499&id=efafab643ce980e3f3c916795ed302599f6b4f66 Deskbar.h] Add MaxItemWidth() and MaxItemHeight() as part of the work to support variable size icons for Deskbar replicants.
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/headers/os/interface/View.h?id=5bbf7f1be073d376e37da34681c8e6c7acfcf198 View.h] New `B_MOUSE_BUTTON` macro that helps you identify which mouse button was clicked on a mouse with more than three buttons.
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/headers/os/interface/View.h?id=47102c074278637c3b33935b451d53f7ad176658 View.h] Add a the new `B_TRANSPARENT_BACKGROUND`, to identify views that have a transparant background (i.e. the background will not be drawn for those views).
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/headers/os/interface/View.h?id=c67dde0f2ccb45d550af410cf6d73fee39d10504 View.h] Add Tiled Background methods to `BView` objects to asynchronously draw bitmaps as background tiles for the view, using the overloaded `DrawTiledBitmapAsync()` method.

== Locale Kit
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/headers/os/locale/Country.h?id=70cdd7d4f5fc62e8b3e220646f84235ec3d444d5 Country.h] Add a `SetTo()` and an `InitCheck()` method to the `BCountry` class.

== Package Kit
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/headers/os/package/PackageRoster.h?id=e2c7bb900cf83fe0a3834ad2189577687ffaa03f PackageRoster.h] Add a `IsRebootNeeded()` method to the `BPackageRoster` class.
 - [https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/headers/os/package/PackageRoster.h?id=b711002d345e2e9e0075be46a37492624f73ccdd PackageRoster.h] Add a `IsPackageActive()` method to the `BPackageRoster` class.