The fourth beta for Haiku R1 over a year and a half of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability, and to make lots more software ports available for use. Over 400 bugs and enhancement tickets have been resolved for this release.
Please keep in mind that this is beta-quality software, which means it is feature complete but still contains known and unknown bugs. While we are increasingly confident in its stability, we cannot provide assurances against data loss.
For information about Haiku's participation in GSoC this year, please see this page.
Qualifying students can apply for a Haiku project (see the list of suggested projects below).
For details about how to apply, please check out How to Apply for a Haiku Idea.
The most successful Google Summer of Code projects are often those proposed by the participants themselves.
The following list represents some of our ideas and wishes for the project. However, suggesting your own idea is always encouraged!
Haiku can be compiled for devices leveraging the ARMv8 64-bit processor architecture.
Please ensure that you have obtained a copy of Haiku’s source code as described in
Get the Haiku Source Code
if you have not already done so.
Unstable
The state of the ARM64 port is extremely early. Roll up your sleeves and help out!
Building the ARM64 compiler toolchain is quite easy using Haiku’s configure tool.
For a complete list of flags for the configure script, see Haiku’s Configure Options
For information about Haiku's participation in GSoC this year, please see this page.
Qualifying students can apply for a Haiku project (see the list of suggested projects below).
For details about how to apply, please check out How to Apply for a Haiku Idea.
The most successful Google Summer of Code projects are often those proposed by the participants themselves.
The following list represents some of our ideas and wishes for the project. However, suggesting your own idea is always encouraged!
The Haiku Promotion Team, in its second iteration (there used to be a Promotion Team but the team slowly languished due to its members becoming inactive in the Haiku community), aims to restart promotion efforts and revitalise Haiku in the process. The promotion team currently consists of:
- jt15s
- scott_puopolo18
- stoltenberg
- shaka444
- mrumbelow
- tthoms
- fox14
- animortis
- AlwaysLivid
- jeremyf
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How can I help out?
Any help with promotion efforts will be extremely appreciated! And no, marketing or public relations experience is not required - the only requirement is that you are enthusiastic and willing to help with promotion. To join the promotion team, simply send a private message to jt15s on the Haiku forums.
This year Haiku mentored 4 students
- Saloni Goyal - Improvements to haiku-format code formatting tool
- Hrithik Kumar - Integration of haiku-format into Concourse continuous integration
- Jaidyn Levesque - Chat-O-Matic instant messaging client
- Xiaojie Yi - XFS filesystem improvements (project was not completed)
For information about Haiku's participation in GSoC this year, please see this page.
Qualifying students can apply for a Haiku project (see the list of suggested projects below).
For details about how to apply, please check out Students: How to Apply for a Haiku Idea.
The most successful Google Summer of Code projects are often those proposed by the students themselves.
The following list represents some of our ideas and wishes for the project. However, suggesting your own idea is always encouraged!
The third beta for Haiku R1 marks twenty months of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability. Since Beta 2, there have been 87 contributors with over 1,248 code commits in total. More than 251 bugs and enhancement tickets have been resolved for this release.
Please keep in mind that this is beta-quality software, which means it is feature complete but still contains known and unknown bugs. While we are mostly confident in its stability, we cannot provide assurances against data loss.
