Thema: Alternative Betriebssysteme (ReactOS, Visopsys)

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Changelog

Bug Fixes

    CORE-4436 - Wrong behaviour of createfile with \ terminated path.
    CORE-6000 - Minimize, Maximize, and Close Buttons are not drawn properly with theme
    CORE-6125 - theme service, graphical glitches
    CORE-6742 - Can't dynamically change the resolution by resizing in VirtualBox
    CORE-6829 - Explorer: drawing issues with theming
    CORE-7155 - KeyView2: CreateFont call with FIXED_PITCH param does not return fixed width characters
    CORE-7278 - ScrollBar class seems to not be receiving any messages
    CORE-7988 - Scroll bars with uxtheme don't work correctly.
    CORE-8255 - PaperBoy cannot run - EGA, CGA, TANDY PC (?)
    CORE-8344 - (Pressed) buttons aren't themed
    CORE-8387 - garbled font rendering for the VirtualBox guest additions setup
    CORE-8434 - bootcd-63873-dbg - improper copying folders.
    CORE-8525 - JRE installer and Winrar shows Marlett font instead the proper one
    CORE-8534 - Theming issues, unicode vs. ansi
    CORE-8606 - Explorer-new + Lautus vs Explorer-win + Lautus
    CORE-9224 - Opening files from USB drive causes the debug log to be spammed
    CORE-9294 - Start menu button show always gray color
    CORE-9601 - SeaMonkey shows themes glitches
    CORE-9667 - Start menu borders are transparent when themed
    CORE-9668 - Explorer: Remove Thick frame when theming is enabled
    CORE-9689 - Drive's properties theming problem
    CORE-9725 - [PATCH] Missing italian translations in ReactOS
    CORE-9988 - assertion in fastfat code on media change (i.e floppy)
    CORE-10064 - On-screen keyboard should respect selected input language
    CORE-10379 - Drag and drop replication/duplication of folders within folders, not refreshing with files
    CORE-10392 - Device Manager: clicking with right mouse button does not work in some cases
    CORE-10455 - [sndrec32 & eventvwr] Buttons are not drawn when using themes
    CORE-10474 - Plex Server AKA Firefox 39 rendering problems
    CORE-10508 - Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable has SQUARES everywhere
    CORE-10575 - [Explorer] The implementation of startbutton drawing is wrong and should be rewritten
    CORE-10594 - When applied theme, start button text displayed incorrectly
    CORE-10761 - [PATCH] Themed controls don't draw borders
    CORE-10864 - ReactOS theming problems
    CORE-11027 - PATCH: Initialize returned Result in co_CallHook
    CORE-11086 - [Themes] Tooltips are drawn as black
    CORE-11135 - Safari 5.1.7 browser can not browse, spam in log
    CORE-11204 - Uninitialized "ht" variable in ThemeHandleButton()
    CORE-11232 - unbootable system after recreating the boot partition
    CORE-11233 - ReactOS loses access to network
    CORE-11277 - It is not possible to boot ReactOS in PCem 10.1 if hdd is present
    CORE-11343 - Assertion error after login to Evernote 5.9.8
    CORE-11369 - WinSCP: annoying black regions when moving the sliding bars
    CORE-11403 - [OLEAUT32] recent REGRESSION Click&Type Virtual KeyBoard Drawing glitch
    CORE-11601 - PATCH: Use RtlMoveMemory in BlReplaceBootOptions() when source and destination overlaps
    CORE-11640 - Draging desktop icons is impossible
    CORE-11642 - [RAPPS-DB] UltraVNC 1.2.1.0 link is dead
    CORE-11691 - PATCH: Fix LoadSetupData() failure paths
    CORE-11692 - PATCH: Initialize the Status variable in BlpDisplayReinitialize()
    CORE-11783 - Explorer's folders band, at press "Open" option from popup menu don't open control panel and others.
    CORE-11894 - Multiple restarts causes problems at startup
    CORE-11895 - Setup > Partitions configuration > Scroll in partitions list doesn't work
    CORE-11896 - Setup > Sets incorrect system date and time
    CORE-11907 - Russian fonts are broken in EA Origin
    CORE-12074 - Debug spam: "Warning, not handling dirty bit"
    CORE-12095 - Incorrect display of Russian font.
    CORE-12121 - Buffer overrun in FsRtlIsNameInExpressionPrivate
    CORE-12145 - Assertion failure in NtAcceptConnectPort when running Windows wordpad
    CORE-12207 - [REGRESSION] Problems with display of Russian letters in some applications.
    CORE-12217 - Steam crashing and starts incorrect at Fsenic N300
    CORE-12218 - Steam do not display fonts
    CORE-12325 - Crash Calc.exe on div "/"
    CORE-12464 - Updating group box text causes garbage
    CORE-12482 - Accessibility : typo (french)
    CORE-12490 - Adjust audio properties not translated (french)
    CORE-12561 - Drag'n'drop to the source folder.. makes file disappear !
    CORE-12568 - Font smoothing : wrong method selected
    CORE-12590 - AHK: zz_winrar_3.80, Test: 4.drag_and_drop crashes
    CORE-12623 - freeldr/arch/i386/hardware.c (PnP code): incorrect check of 'PnpBufferSize' max boundary
    CORE-12667 - Toolbar shows wrong tooltip(s) after toolbar buttons being hidden
    CORE-12670 - devmgmt_new: HTREE\ROOT\0 is shown as "Unknown device" in Device Manager
    CORE-12677 - Wrong output Tree command-line in Russian language
    CORE-12717 - ReactOS Daily Build 73605-dbg will not install on ASUS A8V-MX/S
    CORE-12727 - Nullsoft install system font problem
    CORE-12732 - PNP_DETECTED_FATAL_ERROR bugcheck at installation or HD boot, related to new USB Plug and Play
    CORE-12733 - RealHW-Keyboard not working in usetup
    CORE-12735 - Standard Test KM4M Hardware
    CORE-12743 - Unable to "Edit" Service command line
    CORE-12745 - Dell Latitude D531 - USBOHCI.SYS crash at Setup
    CORE-12760 - [explorer] Radio button used instead of check mark
    CORE-12763 - SetScrollRange incorrectly checks for overflow
    CORE-12771 - Controls don't receive non-client messages
    CORE-12776 - Structure not initialized in uxtheme
    CORE-12784 - memleak in ksfilter->KsCreateDefaultClock CID 1322124
    CORE-12787 - WSPSocket directly returns error codes
    CORE-12792 - Initialize hPrintMonitor in PrintRawJob
    CORE-12795 - Fix broken RegQueryValue call in CAutoComplete::Init()
    CORE-12797 - Memleaks in ksfilter KsCreateDefaultAllocatorEx
    CORE-12798 - Fix a case where Status was unset in GetEventUserName()
    CORE-12799 - Fix CFSFolder::_LoadDynamicDropTargetHandlerForKey() logic
    CORE-12800 - No InstallShield buttons with Lautus theme
    CORE-12801 - Icon context menu is not drawn when themes are active
    CORE-12806 - Fix deadcode in NSP_LookupServiceNextW()
    CORE-12811 - Add the MOF compiler stub from Wine to satisfy Office 2010 last installation step
    CORE-12816 - incorrect handling of allocated buffer with error paths
    CORE-12818 - fatal error 0x000000ca after GSoC 2016 USB merge at r73605
    CORE-12824 - PNP_DETECTED_FATAL_ERROR bugcheck in setup during language selection (OptiPlex 170L)
    CORE-12829 - Error in dynamic menu of MSPAINT
    CORE-12852 - Crash in ws2_32 when starting Word 2010 for the first time
    CORE-12855 - Invalid calls to LoadLibrary(Ex) during Office 2010 installation
    CORE-12858 - IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY_EX in ReactOS is different from Windows 7
    CORE-12859 - "Stamina" program's installer: Wrong font or charset used?
    CORE-12880 - Fix some ws2_32 bugs & code defects
    CORE-12886 - [PATCH] shutdown -t causes crash
    CORE-12887 - [PATCH] Fix themed taskbar borders paintings
    CORE-12893 - IoPageWrite failed / Freeing dirty VACB debug spam
    CORE-12917 - ATL: CStringT should work even if the source string is integer resource
    CORE-12933 - Themed scrollbars are not correctly painted for console windows
    CORE-12952 - Invalid function call in KdpWriteIoSpaceExtended
    CORE-12970 - Incorrect handling of allocated buffer
    CORE-12984 - usbechi/usbohci and usbuhci leaks m_CompletionEvent
    CORE-12985 - List entry corruption in KiRetireDpcList
    CORE-12991 - Testbot timeout due to explorer division by zero
    CORE-12993 - PXE boot failure (Assert) of livecd-74238-dbg.iso on Acer D270
    CORE-13010 - PortableApps.com_Platform_Setup_14.4 gives error on shutdown
    CORE-13031 - isohybrid does not build with MSVC < 2013
    CORE-13038 - Font engine should trust the PANOSE pitch info
    CORE-13052 - Memory allocated for DeviceRelations in HidClassPDO_CreatePDO is one element bigger than needed.
    CORE-13055 - Build proces is broken after r74288
    CORE-13061 - USBSTOR_SendIrp dosen't free the Irp->MdlAddress after USBSTOR_SendInquiryIrp or USBSTOR_SendFormatCapacityIrp request is completed.
    CORE-13068 - 'Pathname' input parameter of the AcpiEvaluateObject must be null-terminated string.
    CORE-13074 - Heap corruption in winlogon
    CORE-13095 - Half\bad fix in r74348 for new hardware wizard
    CORE-13097 - Additional failures and heap corruption in user32:monitor and user32:sysparams
    CORE-13115 - Crash in kernel with vbox shared folders
    CORE-13117 - unneeded brace in /dll/win32/cryptnet/cryptnet_main.c
    CORE-13130 - Little improvements/fixes for GetCPInfoExW and GetGeoInfoW
    CORE-13132 - GdiSelectPen's error code
    CORE-13143 - Cdfs doesn't set IoStatus.Information correctly for IRP_MN_QUERY_DIRECTORY
    CORE-13155 - explorer.exe in 0.4.5rc1 leaks 3GDI handles per seconds and will exhaust resources in less than 24hours when doing nothing

New Feature

    CORE-6904 - Hebrew translation
    CORE-10838 - [PATCH] Explorer band implementation (folder treeview) + base bar fixes
    CORE-11523 - Add NET framework 4.0 to RAPPS
    CORE-12337 - Adding a Computer Description doesn't seem to work
    CORE-12540 - Shell32: Implement TreeView of Folder Options
    CORE-12749 - Add a font substitutes editor
    CORE-12902 - FontSubstitutes: Support charset number
    CORE-13032 - update uniata to 46e3 version

Task

    CORE-12753 - Sync zlib to version 1.2.11
    CORE-12775 - Upgrade libpng to 1.6.28, libjpeg to 9b, libtiff to 4.0.7
    CORE-12833 - Update ACPICA to version 20170119
    CORE-12834 - Update mbedTLS to version 2.4.0
    CORE-12878 - [FONTS] Add LibreFranklin font as Franklin Gothic replacement
    CORE-12885 - Update ACPICA to version 20170303

Improvement

    CORE-5960 - devmgmt: device listing should present correct CPU model
    CORE-7355 - fontview: unicodification and implementation of the install button
    CORE-9654 - PATCH +Bugfix: UXTHEME draw text with shadows, fix GetThemeSysColor
    CORE-10710 - Disable COMMAND.COM debugging messages for 0.4 release
    CORE-11666 - [rapps] Add Wine Gecko to RAPPS list
    CORE-11748 - Add "TortoiseSVN" in "ReactOS App Manager"
    CORE-12339 - 'My Documents' and 'Recycle Bin' desktop icons, dragging a file to them doesn't work
    CORE-12362 - Updating Turkish Translation
    CORE-12525 - [Translation] Small Russian update
    CORE-12679 - Improve mspaint registry settings
    CORE-12711 - Special Pool: support "MmSpecialPoolTag = '*'"
    CORE-12729 - ntoskrnl/mm/, MmFreeMemoryAreaByPtr(): remnant declaration since r48999
    CORE-12768 - Do not use magic constants for PEB->AppCompatFlags
    CORE-12773 - Add rossym support to dbghelp
    CORE-12777 - winmine: mines.bmp vertical align
    CORE-12826 - ReiserFs: Define __GCC__, which is not __GNUC__
    CORE-12847 - RtlNtPathNameToDosPathName is unimplemented
    CORE-12907 - Minor corrections in Uzbek
    CORE-12909 - SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED bugcheck from uniata.sys when booting in PCem
    CORE-12937 - NDK: Should it always automatically imply #define UNICODE?
    CORE-12944 - Implement fontview /p parameter support
    CORE-12949 - Update freetype to version FreeType 2.7.1
    CORE-12956 - Improve CJK Font Substitutes settings
    CORE-12961 - TRANSLATION: Russian translation update
    CORE-12999 - base/setup/usetup/it-IT translation patch
    CORE-13014 - added en-GB to desk.cpl
    CORE-13017 - Replace rapps with rapps_new
    CORE-13046 - AddFontMemResourceEx is unimplemented
    CORE-13056 - Fonts are not cleaned up
    CORE-13099 - TRANSLATION: Romanian resources maintenance

Sub-task

    CORE-7307 - cabman: memory leaks in failure paths
    CORE-8215 - crt: redundant assignment of variable to itself
    CORE-9615 - Split font substitution settings for CJK languages

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Visopsys (VISual OPerating SYStem) is an alternative operating system for PC-compatible computers, written “from scratch”, and developed primarily by a single hobbyist programmer since 1997.

Visopsys is free software and the source code is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.  The libraries and header files are licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

The bulk of Visopsys is a fully multitasking, 32-bit, virtual-memory, massively-monolithic-style kernel.  Added to this is a bare-bones C library and a minimalist suite of applications — together comprising a small but reasonably functional operating system which can operate natively in either graphical or text modes.  Though it’s been in continuous development for a number of years, realistically the target audience remains limited to operating system enthusiasts, students, and assorted other sensation seekers.  The ISO and floppy images available from the download page can install the system, or operate in ‘live demo’ mode.

Changelog

Overview: This maintenance version polishes the 0.8 release with bug fixes, enhanced hardware support, mouse scroll-wheel integration, better EXT4 filesystem handling, and improved reliability and performance.

    Added mouse scroll-wheel support to the USB mouse driver (it was already in the PS2 driver), and updated various parts of the GUI to respond to scrolling.
    The USB 3 XHCI driver now supports 64-bit contexts.
    Added CPU detection of x86_64 processors
    Added support for deep EXT4 extent inodes.
    For improved performance, mouse pointer drawing has been returned to the mouse interface’s interrupt handling context.
    Added some new recognized device classes and subclasses to the PCI driver.
    Disk performance statistics in the Program Manager now calculate throughput per second/millisecond, instead of system timer ticks.
    When the user clicks on a window that has an active dialog window, the GUI will now raise or focus the parent window as well, instead of only focusing the dialog, so that the parent window becomes visible over some other window that might have had the focus.
    Improved the appearance of GUI menu bars and menus when using small fonts, such as the built-in font of the ‘basic’ mode installation. Tweaked the layout of menu bars and menu items, and reduced the default minimum window size to 4×4 (just borders).
    Modified the framebuffer graphics driver’s rectangle drawing function driverDrawRect() so that it doesn’t need to allocate and free memory.
    Enhanced the kernelLinkedList code so that when iterating through the list, it will check whether the current item has been removed (iteration is performed without a lock on the list). If so, it will restart from the beginning.
    For improved reliability, the GUI’s window list has been converted to a kernelLinkedList.
    Added a GUI WINDOW_COMPFLAG_CANDRAG component parameters flag, so that window components can discriminate about whether to perform certain actions when dragged. The primary example is an icon, which can be dragged to new locations around the desktop, but doing so in other contexts (such as the taskbar or shutdown dialog) might be nonsensical and/or crashy.
    For improved reliability, the FAT boot sector no longer has the OS loader’s starting sector written into it. Rather, it now uses the starting cluster number, to better survive operations such as a cluster resize.
    Re-engineered the kernel’s existing network DHCP functionality, in preparation for proper network support in 0.9.
    Removed incomplete TCP implementation from the network layer.
    Additional maintenance of the existing network code, including solving a hang that was happening when enabling the PcNet network adapter. Added some network debugging, and tweaked some of the main network and device code.
    Removed a bunch of legacy hardware detection stuff from the OS loader and the information it passes to the kernel.
    Updated translation strings in the kernel message files, and in the Disk Manager’s German message file.
    Added -d and -e command line options to the Network Devices (ifconfig) program, for (e)nabling or (d)isabling systemwide networking.
    Changed the allocation of the memory manager’s used memory block list so that it’s dynamic, like the free memory bitmap, rather than compiled into the kernel as 90K of static uninititialized data.
    The kernel’s file copy function now limits its buffer allocation to the maximum size of the disk cache.
    Increased the SCSI USB disk driver’s read/write timeout so that it’s proportional to the number of sectors being operated upon.
    The floppy disk driver now has a workaround to handle broken emulation software (VMware) that always sets the ‘media changed’ bit. Previously the filesystem layer would interpret this as the media having been removed.
    The VSH library function vshFileList() now prints the amount of free space in megabytes, gigabytes, etc., rather than than bytes, when the numbers are large.
    Before the OS loader sets the A20 address line, it now queries the BIOS about allowable methods, and if any are set, doesn’t attempt the other methods.
    Removed the unused kernelMemoryBlockInfo() function, as it is not needed for the realloc() libc function.
    Added some additional constants such as MS_PER_SEC to .
    Moved operating system loader definitions from a kernel header file to <sys/osloader.h>.
    Moved ELF binary/object format definitions from a kernel header file to <sys/elf.h>.
    Removed the makepot.sh script from the utils directory, which was used to create all of the translation templates by hand. Added a new script called langstrings.sh which automates the whole process (making templates, merging translations) for all of the things that are currently translated.
    Parameterized the utils/wget-site.sh script for the name of the website, and it now deletes some extra WordPress droppings.
    Fixed: The ‘iconwin’ program that shows lists of icons (‘Programs’, ‘Administration’, etc) was not correctly finding its language-specific configuration files.
    Fixed: The File Browser would frequently fail to correctly classify new files written into the current directory, because it was attempting to do so too quickly, before enough of the file had been written. The update detection is now more sophisticated, checking the directory mod time, latest file mod time, and sum of file sizes.
    Fixed: Window menu bars were overlapping window borders on the right hand side, due to previous changes in support of on-the-fly language switching. Added a bit more intelligence re: maximum sizing of the menu bar and the coordinates of its component container.
    Fixed: Booting problems on larger FAT filesystems. The loaderCalcVolInfo function was calculating the cluster buffer memory location using the entire on-disk size of the FATs, rather than the smaller number of sectors that we actually load into memory.
    Fixed: APIC driver initialization would fail in the presence of multiple I/O APICS, as local APIC initialization for the boot CPU was being done inside of the I/O APIC loop.
    Fixed: The APIC driver is now more flexible about I/O memory already having been mapped into the virtual address space.
    Fixed: The APIC driver now only creates identity-mapped ISA interrupts for the first (starting IRQ=0) I/O APIC.
    Fixed: The scheduling of a number of mostly-idle kernel threads and other processes was driving the CPU load to near 100%. Tweaked the scheduler and the chooseNextProcess() function so that, if a process has already yield()ed the current timeslice, it is less likely to be chosen again until the next timeslice.
    Fixed: For device drivers (e.g. PCI-oriented) that share/chain interrupt vectors, if they don’t service the interrupt and don’t have a saved vector to call, they now send an acknowledgement to the interrupt controller, so that further interrupts to that vector are not locked out.
    Fixed: The image-cd.sh script was generating an ISO image with incorrect file names (in particular, some of the font files). The arguments to ‘mkisofs’ have been changed to use ‘-iso-level 4’ (ISO9660 version 2) instead of -U (‘untranslated’).
    Fixed: The AHCI SATA driver no longer calls the multitasker to wait for I/O when multitasking is not enabled (e.g. during initial disk enumeration).
    Fixed: A kernel log corruption in flushLogStream() that would happen when the waiting buffered output was larger than 512 bytes and didn’t have a terminating NULL character.
    Fixed: The kernel API and EXT filesystem driver were returning 64-bit values incorrectly. The userspace filesystemGetFreeBytes() function wasn’t working for values of > 32 bits.
    Fixed: When installed in ‘basic’ mode, all filesystem format operations were failing, since libntfs was being dynamically linked to the format program. Both the Disk Manager and the format program now use dlopen()/dlsym() to check whether ntfsFormat() is available, and act accordingly (i.e. NTFS formatting is not available in ‘basic’ installations, but formatting other filesystem types is supposed to work).
    Fixed: When installed in ‘basic’ mode, and using the kernel’s small built-in font, radio button circles were overlapping one another, and checkboxes didn’t align well with their labels.
    Fixed: Improved handling of non-default desktop colours to the kernel and window system initializaion.
    Fixed: When logging out from the ‘Exit’ menu, there was an error message (mostly just in the kernel.log) “It’s not possible to kill the kernel process”.
    Fixed: When installed in ‘basic’ mode, the login program would emit spurious error messages whilst attempting to load keyboard maps and the Visopsys logo image.
    Fixed: When installed in ‘basic’ mode, the Disk Manager would emits a spurious error message attempting to load its icon image.
    Fixed: the version numbers of the API documents

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Changelog

Kernel:

    NEW: Progress on UEFI boot. Fully working x86 paging support. Current status (Alex Ionescu)
    NEW: Implement new Memory Manager functions as MiMapLockedPagesInUserSpace and MiUnmapLockedPagesInUserSpace. (Thomas Faber)
    NEW: Registry subtrees can now be properly exported as hive and re-mounted. (Hermes Belusca-Maito)
    NEW: FreeLoader can now load custom kernels and HALs. (Hermes Belusca-Maito)
    Fixed bugs and leakages in Memory Manager. (Thomas Faber)
    Fixed PFN tracing. (Thomas Faber)
    Fixed mapping a view of the physical memory sections in Memory Manager. (Thomas Faber)
    Fixed some hardware detection issues in FreeLoader. (Colin Finck)
    Fixed unreliability issues in hive generation. (Thomas Faber)
    Fixed corrupted multi-string entries in the livecd registry hives.(Hermes Belusca Maito)
    Fixed VMware Tools installation hanging. (Serge Gautherie, Sylvain Petreolle)
    Fixed several NTOS:IO important bugs in IopAttachFilterDrivers, PipCallDriverAddDevice, among others. (Thomas Faber)
    Fixed leaks, double-frees and wrong frees in NTOS.
    Improved bootsector checks. This fixes some dual boot issues. (Hermes Belusca-Maito)

Win32 subsystem:

    NEW: Now "net use" can enumerate multiple connections served by multiple networks providers. (Pierre Schweitzer)
    NEW: Rewrite GetFontFamilyInfoForSubstitutes to improve font handling. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ, Mark Jansen)
    NEW: More work on printing support: Several APIs were implemented, and some others fixed, in LOCALSPL, SPOOLSVC and WINSPOOL (Colin Finck and Ivan Rodionov)
    NEW: ReactOS handles properly font names not including style info. (Katayama Hirofumi Mz, Giannis Adamopoulos)
    Implemented some missing functions to enable further DirectX improvements. (Sebastian Gasiorek)
    Implemented a stub user.exe to make DX9 installer happy. (Hermes Belusca-Maito)
    Fixed several bugs in Clipboard. (Thomas Faber, Giannis Adamopoulos)
    Fixed several bugs in NtGDI. (James Tabor)
    Fixed several crashes when running out of GDI handles in Win32k. (Thomas Faber)
    Fixed some GDI leaks. (Thomas Faber)
    Fixed some brush issues. (James Tabor)
    Fixed regression that caused slow drawing. (Mark Jansen)
    Fixed some font breaking issues. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ, Giannis Adamopoulos)
    Fixed crashes with some font types. (Mark Jansen)
    Fixed screen resolution rollback. (James Tabor)
    Improved shape creation and rendering. (James Tabor)

Drivers:

    NEW: Added new USBport and USBhub drivers. Fixed several bugs. (Vadim Galyant, Thomas Faber)
    NEW: Added a NFS driver. (Pierre Schweitzer)
    NEW: Started implementing RDBSS and RXCE. This will enable SMB support in the future. (Pierre Schweitzer)
    NEW: Progress on filter driver. (Ged Murphy)
    NEW: Enabled UDFS driver again. Fixed various bugs and deadlocks. Fixed display file sizing: Now you can open an UDF volume, browse it and display its files. (Pierre Schweitzer, Thomas Faber)
    NEW: Add basic digital TV tuning device driver. (Sylvain Petreolle)
    Fixed a data handling issue in CDFS driver. (Giannis Adamopoulos, Pierre Schweitzer)
    Fixed several bugs in SCSI port driver. (Hermes Belusca-Maito)
    Fixed several bugs in HDAUDBUS driver. (Thomas Faber)
    Updated: Import commits from Ext3Fsd to our EXT2 driver. (Lubomir Rintel)
    Implemented FILE_DELETE_ON_CLOSE on FastFat. (Pierre Schweitzer)
    Implemented creating volatile registry keys for ACPI tables. (Peter Hater)

Shell:

    NEW: Now "Lock Taskbar", "Hide inactive icons", and "Group similar taskbar buttons" settings are properly remembered each time you reboot ReactOS. (Giannis Adamopoulos)
    NEW: Explorer taskbar will get its size from the msstyle theme instead a hardcoded one, and it is resizable now (Giannis Adamopoulos)
    NEW: Start Menu is now themeable. (Giannis Adamopoulos)
    NEW: Implement the minimum taskbar size for the vertical position. (Giannis Adamopoulos)
    Fixed path shown by the addressbar after clicking on a symlink. (David Quintana)
    Fixed toolbar and taskbar size and resize. (Giannis Adamopoulos)

System DLLs:

    NEW: Create a new NTDLL library that exports some of the NTDLL Vista+ functions. (Pierre Schweitzer, Stephan Röger, Timo Kreuzer)
    NEW: Work on the integration of the application compatibility framework in Kernel32. (Mark Jansen)
    Fixed a logic issue in ntdll to fix idling when starting applications, e.g Libreoffice. (Thomas Faber)
    Fixed an issue in HAL to enable boot with more video cards. (Thomas Faber)
    Fixed underlying APIs of RtllCaptureStackBackTrace to capture stack back-traces in user mode. (Thomas Faber)

User-mode DLLs:

    NEW: Major work on NETAPI32. Implemented more than 40 missing APIs. (Eric Kohl)
    NEW: Begin implementing the core of the SHIM engine. (disabled in this release but could be enabled through registry) (Mark Jansen)
    Implement more functionality to net command. (Pierre Schweitzer)
    Fixed several bugs in uxtheme to properly support msstyles. (Giannis Adamopoulos)
    Fixed several bugs in Shell32 (CMenuBand, CDefView, CMenuDeskBar, CFSDropTarget...) needed to support properly msstyles. (Giannis Adamopoulos and Mark Jansen)
    Fixed several bugs in Comctl32 (Toolbar, Rebar, ImageList...) needed to support properly msstyles. (Giannis Adamopoulos)
    Fixed several bugs in Browseui. (CShellBrowser, CInternalToolbar, CBandSite,...) (Giannis Adamopoulos)
    Fixed many leaks, double-frees and wrong frees fixed in browseui, comctl32, user32, shell32. (Giannis Adamopoulos)
    Fixed several bugs in Winsock 2 and related DLLs. (Peter Hater)
    Fixed bugs on mpr. (Pierre Schweitzer)

Commands and utilities:

    NEW: .msstyles files now can be opened in Display Properties. (Giannis Adamopoulos)
    NEW: Add a basic implementation of Gflags utility. (Pierre Schweitzer)
    NEW: Many new improvements and features in console configuration. (Hermes Belusca-Maito)
    New features and fixes on International Settings. (Eric Kohl, Victor Martinez Calvo)
    Fixed default font settings in Notepad. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ)
    Fixed tiled, centered and stretched wallpapers. (Benedikt Freisen)
    Fixed bugs in console fonts (and settings). (Katayama Hirofumi MZ and Hermes Belusca-Maito)
    Fixes several bugs in uxtheme: fixed parsing fonts styles, special buttons... (Giannis Adamopoulos)
    Fixed color corruption in Remote Desktop and implemented CryptoAPI functions. (Peter Hater)
    Fixed Paint to be properly themed. (Benedikt Freisen)
    Fixed incorrect file extension management and incorrect image resizing in Paint. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ)
    Added confirmation screen with timeout when changing resolution. (Eric Kohl)
    Added new software to ReactOS Application Manager. (Daniel Reimer)

Setup and Loader:

    Fixed bootsector validation during the setup to avoid detecting a bootsector as invalid when it is not. (Hermes Belusca-Maito)
    Fixed primary and extended partitions handling avoiding corruption of the partition list structures. (Hermes Belusca-Maito)
    Patch all our ISOs (bootcd, bootcdregtest, livecd, hybridcd) with isohybrid in order to make them bootable from HDDs or any kind of USB drives in the future. (Colin Finck)

Translations:

    NEW: Add support for Esperanto and add a proper keyboard layout. (Mike Swanson)
    Added and updated Japanese, French and Russian translations. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ, Pierre Schweitzer, amber)

Tasks:

    NEW: Added a Wiki page to follow the current Printing support https://reactos.org/wiki/Printing (Colin Finck)
    NEW: ReactOS installation ISOs are now flashable to USB drivers, but still NO USB BOOT at the moment. (Colin Finck)
    Fix wide-covering bugs detected by Coverity and other tools. (Victor Martinez Calvo)
    Updated ReactOS with Wine Staging 2.9. DirectX DLLs are again synced. DirectX sync is not included in release due to unresolved regressions. (Amine Khaldi)
    Updated remote desktop application to rdesktop 1.83. (Peter Hater)
    Updated acpica to 20170629. (Thomas Faber)
    Updated the PCI hardware IDs database. (Hermes Belusca-Maito)
    Updated FreeType to 2.8.2. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ, Amine Khaldi)
    Updated libsamplerate updated to 1.0.9. (Thomas Faber)
    Updated libpng to 1.6.29. (Thomas Faber)
    Updated libmpg123 to 1.25.0. (Thomas Faber)
    Updated mbedtls to 2.4.2. (Thomas Faber)
    Updated libtiff to 4.0.8. (Thomas Faber)
    Updated libtirpc from rom the nfs41 project. (Pierre Schweitzer)

Outside the tree:

    Preparation work for 1st stage GUI setup along with diverse improvements. (Hermes Belusca-Maito)
    Major USB work: Work on usbehci and usbuhci is still ongoing.
    GSoC 2017 is finished: NTFS driver improvements, Quick Launch toolbar and some system tray icons, RAPPS improvements, and a new USB 3.0 driver. More info about the GSOC results soon.

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Bug Fixes

    CORE-4107 - Firefox 3.X/4.X don't register as default web browsers
    CORE-4361 - Total Commander 7.04a "explorer is not responding" error during installation
    CORE-4975 - Opera: in v9.64 Speed Dial doesn't work correctly
    CORE-6993 - Flat Assembler (fasm) IDE visual glitch
    CORE-7454 - shell32: When the Properties Window of a drive is opened, the contextual menu of other Drives doesn't appear
    CORE-7542 - Shell Executions do not work properly when paths include spaces
    CORE-7630 - Opening Networking tab of Windows Task Manager causes ROS to BSOD
    CORE-7721 - anti-aliasing font unreadable on disabled GUI text
    CORE-8039 - Mozilla Firefox 3.6 - 2X font issue
    CORE-8076 - SetVolumeLabelW and GetVolumeInformationW fixes
    CORE-8077 - GetDiskFreeSpaceW fixes
    CORE-8131 - Firefox 29.0 locking up ReactOS build 63094
    CORE-8369 - AkelPad 4.8.9 Mouse does not work. bootcd-63724-dbg.iso
    CORE-8407 - bootcd-63798-dbg - doublecmd-0.5.10.i386-win32 - popup tooltips are hidden under the panel
    CORE-8414 - bootcd-63814-dbg - WinDjView-2.0.2 - Browsing stripes. Icon, strip.
    CORE-8498 - Magnifier not work properly
    CORE-8757 - Drive Properties Dialog shows messed up info space chart
    CORE-8868 - QT WEB (latest version) fails to load any web site
    CORE-8878 - The new explorer's taskbar lacks support for toolbars
    CORE-8990 - Cannot show LAN connection status from the network connections folder
    CORE-9053 - Libreoffice runs, but crashes when exiting the formular editor
    CORE-9126 - Dropbox client v3.0.5 not started
    CORE-9217 - Office 2000 can't be installed
    CORE-9222 - ReactOS is missing the System font
    CORE-9280 - Quick launch toolbar is unimplemented
    CORE-9340 - Freeloader memory problem in r66087 on some systems
    CORE-10252 - Audacity: black background for some toolbar icons
    CORE-10355 - explorer: file copying works only once
    CORE-10735 - Opening volume mixer control multiple times leads to crash
    CORE-10876 - Problem with russian fonts in bold in Firefox and Wine Browser
    CORE-11386 - Firefox incorect text or caption
    CORE-11457 - Unable to set the cursor into combobox edit zone
    CORE-11472 - I see an error when copy picture from ReactOS
    CORE-11790 - It does not work the possibility of arranging a vertical taskbar
    CORE-11798 - Incorrect & - keys in the Explorer menu on Russian
    CORE-11814 - It does not work properly "Apply" in the form of "Properties" in Explorer
    CORE-11826 - I cannot see new folder in "Folders Panel"
    CORE-11931 - Paste file after copying doesn't work
    CORE-12007 - [SHELL32?] DoubleCommander folder-properties via context-menu crashes
    CORE-12142 - EnumFontFamiliesA fails to find Tahoma and System font
    CORE-12302 - Explorer crashes while doing two consecutive copy and paste operations.
    CORE-12340 - Deleting files and folders is permanent: they don't end up in Recycle Bin
    CORE-12355 - Unable to copy/paste files in explorer
    CORE-12507 - Could not open HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\VIDEO registry error with Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 native drivers
    CORE-12515 - Explorer's Copy-Paste function isn't working.
    CORE-12564 - QuickLaunch is inoperative
    CORE-12662 - rapps crashes when no network connection is available instead of displaying an error box
    CORE-12674 - No paste available when files and folders copied
    CORE-12820 - Bitvise SSH Server crashes in win32k.sys with page fault
    CORE-12881 - FREELDR memory allocation failed: out of memory. Since 66087.
    CORE-12913 - Window Paint Problem
    CORE-13040 - Bug in TransparentBlt with 32bpp bitmaps and alpha channel
    CORE-13048 - i8042prt/keyboard.c: Restore 1 "Irql =" (which was lost in r30000)
    CORE-13128 - Wrong result GetLocaleInfo for LCType=LOCALE_SABBREVLANGNAME
    CORE-13158 - [RAPPS-DB] Total Commander 8.52 link is down
    CORE-13163 - [rapps_new] in windowed mode does not allow resizing details section
    CORE-13167 - Far Manager 3.0 Build 4700 file-properties from context menu does not work
    CORE-13170 - Lazarus 1.6 some button captions are not drawn
    CORE-13175 - Total Commander link is broken in RAPPS
    CORE-13184 - BSOD when booting ReactOS ISO from HDD
    CORE-13323 - ERROR_BAD PATH_NAME in nVidia DisplayDriver 368.81 setup
    CORE-13434 - VMware Horizon Client for 32-bit Windows installation failed
    CORE-13460 - [LIBTIRPC] our implementation is affected by CVE-2017-8779
    CORE-13464 - Violet parts on some themes
    CORE-13511 - Copying 2 folders at once from ReactOS CD to My Document isn't working.
    CORE-13564 - My Network Places missing from desktop
    CORE-13566 - Traywnd: misleading comment
    CORE-13590 - RDP Client: Connection failure with BSOD
    CORE-13597 - [ATL] CAtlList copy constructor issue
    CORE-13610 - [RDBSS,RXCE] fails to compile in release config with MSVC2010SP1 compiler
    CORE-13619 - LiveCD crashes when pressing next / previous buttons in the initial screen
    CORE-13621 - Some dlls need to be registered early in the setup process
    CORE-13629 - WIN32K BSOD while using Bochs 2.6.8
    CORE-13632 - Files cannot be renamed on NFS share
    CORE-13635 - MoveFileW leaks handle when encountering a reparse point
    CORE-13636 - Files cannot be deleted on NFS share
    CORE-13665 - LibreOffice 5.4.0.3 has issues displaying german umlauts in bold text
    CORE-13674 - [SHELL32] missing german translation and sort treeview alphabetically
    CORE-13676 - reproducible WIN32K BSOD after unhandled exception thrown from IntQueryTrackMouseEvent
    CORE-13681 - Deleting large folder via explorer is extremely slow
    CORE-13685 - Stack corruption in ndis.sys when installing EM4579 wireless USB adapter driver
    CORE-13686 - East Asian people can't logon first time since r72476 of Linux build
    CORE-13695 - Improve support for shell extensions
    CORE-13704 - Debug spam "HDA_InterruptService c0000000" when booting on VMware with HD Audio sound enabled
    CORE-13716 - GetSysColorBrush() uses SetLastError() when it shouldn't.
    CORE-13717 - CreateWindow not setting error on success.
    CORE-13718 - CreateWindow() should test for invalid parent parameter
    CORE-13744 - Notepad: Multiple Find/Replace dialogs
    CORE-13780 - RAPPS from GSOC2017 - when rapps is started windowed mode the search-edit may overlap other menu items
    CORE-13800 - System hangs if open "Edit compatibility Modes" dialog
    CORE-13805 - Secondary FAT volumes get excusilvely locked on boot
    CORE-13813 - bootcd-75915 hangs on first boot right after installation
    CORE-13823 - It is not possible to update list of apps in RAPPS on real h\w. RAPPS closes immediately
    CORE-13826 - mbedtls unconditionally uses SSE2 instructions
    CORE-13829 - Test KVM AHK times out
    CORE-13850 - Add CFI annotations for better assembly debugging with GDB
    CORE-13856 - Italian translation for timeout utility.
    CORE-13865 - Diablo II shareware setup crashes (with unhandled exception or heap assertion) upon startup (due to AC97 heap corruption)
    CORE-13879 - 2nd stage setup of ReactOS hangs with Assertion failed
    CORE-13896 - Upgrade WinBtrfs driver to 1.0.1
    CORE-13925 - Shell Dialog to select a folder does not allow changing the folder-name for "make new folder" (observed in Code-Blocks)

Fixed Regressions

    CORE-13445 - Regression: Flash Player 19 Installer does not draw buttons
    CORE-13486 - [WINED3D] regression: MSAOE1 trial dies with unhandled exception in d3dwine.dll upon startup
    CORE-13487 - [Regression] ROS causes BSOD if you close the window dxdiag.exe in the process of testing DirectDraw
    CORE-13680 - [REGRESSION] Applications won't start when launched from start menu.
    CORE-13688 - regression: scrolling with mouse wheel in explorer will freeze the system after some seconds
    CORE-13705 - [SHELL32] REGRESSION: insane amount of handle-leakage when using explorer file-browser
    CORE-13742 - Regression: text in DeletionConfirmationMsgBox has wrong background colour
    CORE-13867 - Regression: Opera 12.18 setup immediately crashes
    CORE-13868 - Regression: Opera 9.64 crashes upon first startup due to unhandled exception
    CORE-13881 - Regression [MSI] Far Manager 3.0 build 4700 setup from rapps crashes with unhandled MSI exception
    CORE-13886 - [REGRESSION] Qt 5.5.1 installer failed
    CORE-13888 - REGRESSION: Java setup creates heap corruptions since r75969 (and its cpl + dependant app do not start up anymore)
    CORE-13902 - REGRESSION: impossible to install MS Visual C++ 2005 Redistr from RAPPS
    CORE-13911 - [SHELL32] regression of r72808 - explorer file-browser leaks one "user object" per directory change
    CORE-13929 - Regression DVDWrite Now 1.5.12 Formatter GUI from rapps, paint issue with background


New Feature

    CORE-8605 - Add command line interface to RAPPS
    CORE-10044 - Implement Timeout utility
    CORE-11389 - GSoC AHCI Project : code to review
    CORE-13360 - Add fit and fill background placement options
    CORE-13543 - Fsutil command line utility
    CORE-13783 - devmgr: Japanese translation
    CORE-13784 - desk.cpl: Improve Japanese translation

Task

    CORE-13625 - Update ACPICA to version 20170728
    CORE-13739 - Update libpng to 1.6.32, mpg123 to 1.25.6, mbedTLS to 2.6.0
    CORE-13825 - Update FreeType to v. 2.8.1

Improvement

    CORE-10295 - [chcp] Put command into separate program
    CORE-10988 - Populate address bar combobox
    CORE-12099 - Improve german translation for some cpl applets
    CORE-12469 - "configure": 5 "xyz has no base address" (mbedtls + shellbtrfs + 3 "printing")
    CORE-12617 - Upgrade WinBtrfs driver to 0.8
    CORE-12723 - [PATCH] WinMine: Shift+LClick to open cells feature
    CORE-13148 - Upgrade WinBtrfs driver to 0.9
    CORE-13227 - RApps defaults to "C:\\Downloads", whereas it should not assume 'C:'
    CORE-13248 - Russian translation update
    CORE-13365 - Font/freetype: Improve GetFontResourceInfoW
    CORE-13574 - explorer: Improve taskbar property sheet
    CORE-13599 - TRANSLATION: Romanian resources maintenance
    CORE-13690 - Folder Options: Japanese TreeView translation
    CORE-13691 - SysSetup: Japanese translation of Theme dialog
    CORE-13708 - SysSetup: Russian translation of Theme dialog
    CORE-13750 - TRANSLATION: Update Polish translation
    CORE-13763 - Upgrade WinBtrfs driver to 1.0
    CORE-13785 - syssetup: Improve Japanese translation
    CORE-13802 - [TRANSLATION] Polish translation update
    CORE-13809 - explorer: Improve Japanese resource
    CORE-13875 - TRANSLATION: timeout translation update
    CORE-13903 - We are missing CDialogImpl
    CORE-14022 - WinBtrFs: upgrade to 1.0.1 from 1.0

Sub-task

    CORE-11340 - Unable to install even from liveCD
    CORE-13618 - In/Exclude modules

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Overview: This maintenance version features a small number of user-visible improvements and added functionality, plus polish and bug fixes, but much more in terms of refactoring and fixing existing capabilities (particularly of the nascent networking code) and at the developer level.

    Refactored existing network code, fixing things such as DHCP and ICMP, moving the various protocol implementations into their own source files, making adapter connections into kernelLinkedLists, improving packet memory management, etc.
    The networking code can now route IP packets to other networks via the default gateway.
    Implemented network ‘loopback’ capability, via a virtual network adapter that doesn’t normally appear as a network adapter, but which can be explicitly requested by name (‘loop’) or used via the loopback address(es) such as 127.0.0.1.
    Enhanced the intelligence of the function that chooses the best network adapter for a new connection.
    The ‘ping’ program has been enhanced to report response times.
    The compression library can now add/delete files from .tar archives.
    The compression library has a new archiveAddRecursive() function which can add directories recursively.
    Added a new command-line ‘tar’ program for managing TAR archives.
    Clarified the keyboard input of control characters and fixed up all of the existing keymaps.
    Reworked the code that lays out and sizes window containers, and the layout/sizing of the main and system containers during window (re-)sizing.
    Separated the one-time network initialization code from the code that enables networking, since enabling/disabling can be done any number of times.
    Parameterized the building of device strings in the Network Devices (ifconfig) program, for the purpose of future GUI improvements.
    Added kernel API functions networkDeviceHook(), networkDeviceUnhook(), and networkDeviceSniff() for use by userspace packet sniffing/inspection programs.
    C++ development compatibility changes; mostly just renaming a few things that caused errors when compiling C++ using the system header files.
    Implemented speedier versions of the kernelPageRoundUp() and kernelPageRoundDown() macros, that don’t use multiplications and divisions.
    Exported the windowNewMenuBarIcon() function to userspace.
    Created 3 new header files <sys/kernconf.h>, <sys/winconf.h>, and <sys/deskconf.h> to define the strings used in variable names in the corresponding kernel, window, and desktop configuration files.
    Exported the kernel’s cpuGetMs() and cpuSpinMs() functions to user space, for timings and delays with millisecond granularity.
    Added a ‘pointer’ item type to the kernel streams, with the potential to handle pointers of different sizes (e.g. 32-bit or 64-bit) depending on the environment.
    The kernelDebugHex() function has been enhanced so that it shows printable ASCII characters in a parallel column.
    The kernelDebugHex(), kernelDebugHexDwords(), and kernelDebugBinary() functions have been replaced with macros so that they will only produce output when debugging has been turned on for the source file.
    Added proper UNIX/POSIX-style per-process integer file descriptors to the C library.
    Added the C library function uname().
    Added the C library functions opendir(), closedir(), readdir(), readdir_r(), and rewinddir() for reading directory contents.
    Added the C library functions getcwd(), and chdir().
    Added the C library functions mkdir(), and mkdtemp().
    Added the C library functions fdopen(), mkstemp(), rmdir(), and unlink().
    Added the C library function tmpfile().
    The printf() family of C library functions can now print octal numbers using the ‘%o’ format.
    Added the C library function sched_yield(), defined in <sys/sched.h>, for yielding time slices back to the scheduler.
    Added an incomplete implementation of the C library function getaddrinfo() and its companions freeaddrinfo() and gai_strerror().
    Added network-related C library functions getprotobynumber(), getservbyname(), and getservbyport().
    Added the C library function strtok_r().
    Added the C library functions poll(), recv(), and send().
    Added the C library header files <netdb.h>, <poll.h>, <netinet/in.h>, and <sys/socket.h>, and the C library functions connect(), getprotobyname(), inet_ntop(), inet_pton(), and socket().
    Added the network header file <arpa/inet.h>, initially for defining the macros htonl(), htons(), ntohl(), and ntohs().
    Fixed: Dragging a window beyond the left edge of the screen caused a GUI crash and kernel panic.
    Fixed: When resizing an icon list window (File Browser, etc) vertically, so that it was smaller than the original size, the icon list component/container wouldn’t resize to less than its original height, and the bottom of the scrollbar would show outside the window buffer.
    Fixed: Adding windowMenuItems to a menu bar or changing windowMenu titles; tweaked the layout code.
    Fixed: The ELF runtime loader so that it does not ignore ‘weak’ symbols in dynamic libraries.
    Fixed: The ‘nm’ program was crashing partway through the symbol listing.
    Fixed: kernelStream creation item sizes for network input streams and multitasker signal streams.
    Fixed: When running in graphics mode, the PcNet network adapter driver failed to get device memory that was sufficiently low in the physical address space (24-bits maximum). By default, physical and I/O memory requests now attempt to allocate memory starting from 1MB, unless low memory is explicitly requested. The PcNet driver’s write() function now attempts to allocate low memory if required, and blocks until it can be freed.

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Release Notes

The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.4.8 as we continue to work on releasing every three months.

As you may know, our previous 0.4.7 version was the first one developed in our Git/GitHub repository. 0.4.8 is the nice sequel and a good way to measure the GitHub impact on the ReactOS project. Since ReactOS reached GitHub, it has been forked 248 times. A nice amount understanding ReactOS is not a framework or a library, but a final product. These forks represent a nice amount of newcomers: translators, designers, coders and testers. Thanks to all of them, and the ReactOS regular devs, 209 new Pull Requests and 1094 commits have made it through to this 0.4.8 version.

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The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.4.9, the latest in our accelerated cadence targeting a release every three months.

While a consequence of this faster cycle might mean fewer headliner changes, much of the visible effort nowadays comes in the form of quality-of-life improvements in how ReactOS functions. At the same time work continues on the underlying systems which provide more subtle improvements such as greater system stability and general consistency.

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Overview: This maintenance version features user experience enhancements and reliability improvements, and a more capable Archive Manager program. Bug fixes cover a number of GUI flaws and memory leaks, and some of the low-level network infrastructure code has been refined.

    The Archive Manager program now supports the creation of archives. Extensively enhanced, it now has ‘New’, ‘Open’, ‘Add’ and ‘Delete’ operations, and the ability to navigate through levels of archives. By default, it opens a new, temporary working archive, and will offer to save in uncompressed (.tar) or compressed (.tar.gz) formats.
    The File Browser now launches a thread to generate custom thumbnail icons in the background, rather than processing the entire directory contents before showing anything. This makes a big difference when browsing directories full of images.
    Added the ability to recognize Flash, AVI, MP4, and QuickTime videos to the kernel loader, and for the file browser to display an appropriate icon.
    Added the ability to recognize MP3 and WAV audio files to the kernel loader, and for the file browser to display an appropriate icon.
    Tweaked the XHCI USB 3 driver to be able to handle overlapping input/output device endpoint numbers (e.g. 0x01 and 0x81).
    Added kernel functionality for enabling or disabling individual network devices, and made that available to the user in the Network Devices program, and the command-line version ‘ifconfig’.
    Added a new kernel thread for configuring (e.g. via DHCP) network devices that runs in the background and retries devices for up to 30 seconds. This prevents network startup from holding up system boot.
    Improved some network packet reference counting, memory management, locking, error messages, and tweaked DHCP timeouts.
    Improved the compression library’s efficiency when adding members to a .tar archive. Particulary noticeable when adding many items recursively.
    Overhauled the kernel’s generic data streams functionality for improved correctness and performance, removed its ‘push’ functions, and added ‘peek’ functions.
    Changed the initial GUI container grid layout so that by default, resizable components spanning multiple cells only distribute their excess width/height amongst cells that already contain other resizable components.
    Enhanced the window library’s file selection dialog so that the caller can specify an unknown type, rather than just a file, or just a directory – permitting the user to select either/anything.
    The window library’s file dialog window and file list widget have been modified to improve re-entrancy, getting rid of global data items and using dynamically-allocated memory.
    Converted the kernelEncryptMD5() function to a kernelCryptHashMd5() function, which takes a length argument and is able to hash any data – not just strings.
    Added the network-related C library function shutdown() and renamed the kernel’s shutdown() function to systemShutdown() (kernelSystemShutdown()).
    Added the network-related C library functions accept(), bind(), and listen() – although the accept() function is just a stub, since the kernel’s network code still doesn’t handle incoming connections.
    The scanf() family of C library functions can now read octal numbers using the ‘%o’ format specifier (also added verification in the test program).
    Minor cleanup and formatting edits to the C library functions basename(), dirname(), and strstr().
    Added vshMakeDirRecursive() to the VSH library, removed the files from the ‘shared’ lib directory, and incorporated their code into the vshMakeAbsolutePath() and vshSearchPath() functions.
    Removed libdl from the list of libraries that are linked to program executables by default.
    Fixed – The FAT filesystem driver no longer refuses to read a directory if it can’t count the clusters of every file. A corrupt file could render whole directory trees inaccessible, or if in the root directory, could cause the filesystem to become unmountable, and the system unbootable.
    Fixed – The framebuffer graphics driver’s image drawing functions when drawing images that are partially inside the graphics buffer – particularly when at negative X,Y coordinates – such as when dragging an icon off the left or top edges of the screen.
    Fixed – Window title bars with text that was too long were being shortened incorrectly, leading to crashy behaviour, such as when clicking on small icon images in the file browser.
    Fixed – The GUI’s icon code could crash when the number of label lines overflowed. It now truncates the last line with ‘ …’ if it’s too long.
    Fixed – The image viewer program’s image scaling, memory management, and error handling. Clicking on some supported images in the file browser wasn’t working as it should, and could cause crashlike behaviour. Initial image scaling was off for some images, and should be better now.
    Fixed – The Jpeg image processing code was getting confused about how to handle arrays of multiple Huffman tables in the same marker section, and corrupting memory, or else missing table data and falling back to defaults, potentially hurting image quality. Also sped up the processing of Jpeg headers.
    Fixed – A (rare) kernel panic – double fault – when windows were opening or closing, and the window list was being updated.
    Fixed – Spurious warning messages when resizing images by a large ratio, for example shrinking a large picture to a small thumbnail.
    Fixed – In some cases, the Visopsys client’s host name wasn’t appearing correctly on the DHCP server. Implemented smarter DHCP option handing, and changed the default behaviour when sending both host and domain names back to the server.
    Fixed – A bug could result in receive queue overruns in the AMD PcNet network adapter driver.
    Fixed – An error due to a bug when opening a file stream to write in ‘append’ mode when the existing size is a multiple of the filesystem block size.
    Fixed – The kernel’s runtime loader, in the case where the kernelLoaderClassifyFile() function is passed the name of a directory, it will return an appropriate response (that it’s a directory).
    Fixed – Some window library dialog boxes were leaking icon image memory.
    Fixed – A small memory leak in which the memory for thread command-line arguments was not being deallocated when the thread terminated.
    Fixed – The GUI’s button component, when displaying an image (rather than a text label), was freeing image memory directly, instead of calling the kernelImageFree() function, resulting in a memory leak of the image’s alpha channel data.
    Fixed – The kernelConfigRead() function was freeing its file stream memory before closing the stream, resulting in a memory leak.
    Fixed – File stream buffer memory is now allocated as normal process memory, rather then kernel memory, to prevent leaks if the process fails to close the stream.

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Slack developer Felix Rieseberg has created an app which allows Microsoft Windows 95 to run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It's available in the form of an electron app. Most things work exactly as you'd expect them to, including WordPad, FreeCell, Calculator and Media Player.

License: Open Source

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Whats new:>>

Floppy Disk Support!

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95


Nostalgie pur ! 

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💖 I've been pretty humbled by how much people love this dumb little app. I've added a few features and cleaned a few things up, notably:

    You can now mount the disk image (on Windows 10 and macOS)
    The app auto-updates (Windows does not, it'll stay on Windows 95)
    You can now see the CPU and HDD working
    You can now send Ctrl + Alt + Del and reboot the machine from the window menu

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https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95

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Added more credits
Added more help

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95

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The ReactOS project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.4.10, the latest of our quarterly cadence of releases. The project has seen an increasing emphasis on consistency and stability over the past few months, an emphasis the rapid release schedule helps reinforce to provide a better end-user experience. Even as new pieces of functionality are added, all this would be for naught if a user could not access them reliably.

Quelle & weitere Infos : https://www.reactos.org/project-news/reactos-0410-released

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📝 Readme updated
📝 Docker Instructions updated (Thanks, @toolboc)
📝 Support and purpose clarified (Thanks, @jacobq)
📦 Updated to Electron 3.0.13

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95

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📦 Updated to Electron v4.0.4
💾 A completely new Windows 95 disk image
💾 Installed Microsoft FrontPage, Netscape 2.0, and FrontPage Server
🕹 Installed Doom, Wolfenstein3D, A10 Tank Killer, and Grand Prix Circuit.
🔧 Added ability to "Reset" a machine
🔧 Better support for High-DPI devices
🔈 Support for sound

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95