[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 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.

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

Translator Improvements

• #10354 WebP images now support images with an alpha channel.

Command Line Utilities

• #10288 uname now shows which specific Haiku nightly revision is built
• #12665 the built in ftp is now replaced with ​tnftp