What's New in Haiku development
The Haiku source is continually built and released for testing purposes nearly every day. You can download and install these latest snapshots to check out the latest features and bug-fixes.
Be aware that nightly images may be unstable. Additionally, some packages included with official releases need to be installed separately.
If you're OK with this, you can find further instructions at our Nightly image page.
As we work to stabilize Haiku and move closer to the R1 beta releases, USB driver issues are becomming more apparent.
At the moment, bugs with our XHCI (usb 3.0) stack are high on the problem list. New hardware is beginning to ship with XHCI-only controllers, which means we can no-longer fall back to our stable EHCI (usb 2.0) stack.
A large number of bug reports have been opened around these kinds of issues:
Greetings It has been a while since the last Report. So here I go. Firstly, I would like to thank all the Haiku mentors and developers for the first GSoC evaluation, thank you for believing in me. Now coming to the report.
Progress I am still at the Linux compatibility layer, adding new headers and dependencies one by one. Things are not moving as fast as I would like them to, mainly because of my lack of understanding of Haiku’s internals.
Hello everyone.
Since my last report, apart from working on the remaining changes, I have been more focused towards testing the tcp module against the already made changes. In the first week of the previous month I did try to port a testing tool to Haiku but did not succeed. So I have been writing a tool of my own to artifically inject packets into the stack and read the replies.
Hello World.
It’s been almost 3 weeks since my last update. The first evaluation was complete, I’d like to thank Haiku for recognizing my work so far. And here’s an update on what I worked on for the past few weeks.
I replaced all IconView with BButton, since it has built in functions for label, icon handling.
I worked on categorizing all preflets based on their categories, and sorted them into respective BBox.
TL;DR: Compiling Swift programs works, added C library interoperability and adding support for running the test-suite.
Hello Everyone, This report covers my activities done since the first evaluation of GSoC. I spent the first week looking into the most critical aspects of the compiler and focused my attention on the TaskQueue class. Whenever a task is executed, the TaskQueue tries to read its data via a pipe and it was found that it read 0 bytes from it, despite poll() reporting that there is still data available for reading.
Hello Everyone!
It has been three weeks since my last blog post. In this post I would update you with the current progress on the Calendar Application.
I have been working on the following since the past three weeks:
Writing the Event and Category class. Working on UI of Event Manager. Working on UI of Category Manager and Category Edit Window. Working on a pop-up Calendar control to select event start and end date.
Hello again, Sorry for late report, things are not going as I planned. In order to implement tree manipulation or copy-on-write function, I must first have a blocks/extents allocator that works well. Also, those things need to handle transactions as well.
In the previous weeks, I did some “edgy” works that are supported functions, add some on-disks structures, modify some parts of the source code, etc. Currently, I am implementing the extent allocator, it can now dump all the free extents and used extents for all roots, included backup roots.
Hey there, it's time for the monthly report again!
This report covers hrev51196-hrev51253.
Kernel time_t now uses 64-bit on 64-bit systems. This fixes the year 2038 bug for 64-bit Haiku, so we can continue to run it after 2038. This breaks the ABI, so all the 64bit packages were rebuilt.
Some bug fixes in packagefs, to avoid some annoying issues when updating the system or repeatedly installing and uninstalling packages without rebooting.
Hello everyone. It's been substantial time since I started working on the project and here's the progress report.
On the reading end Finally got over with reading the source code. What took it so long was that I first read most of the rfcs, including those I will be implementing even later on, before reading the current code. That kind of helped me not only to understand the code better but to also jot down the areas, where a change would have to be made, as and when encountering them.
Hello everyone! This report covers the span of the last two weeks of my porting efforts to get swift running on Haiku. I started debugging the runtime library ‘libswiftCore’ on both Haiku and Linux and focused my attention specifically to the ImageInspection logic in order to fully understand how the runtime extracts ‘type metadata’ from a swift generated shared object. My mentor korli, recommended me to use the get_next_image_info() function, which is the Haiku equivalent of iterating through the list of loaded libraries in a executable.
