Hello everyone, apparently we made it to 2021! This year we will see the 20th
anniversary of Haiku.
This report covers hrev54806-hrev54947.
Architectures, ports, bootloaders
PulkoMandy fixed the build of the openfirmware bootloader for PowerPC. It had been broken by changes for SPARC support. The openfirmware code to set up the splash screen was also fixed to work on sparc.
tqh continues his work on cleaning and simplifying our EFI support. We have started from GNU EFI, which everyone seems to use as a reference project for how to do an EFI bootloader. However, their code is not very clear and it makes it difficult to improve it and make changes. So we are slowly rewriting parts in simpler and cleaner ways.
Welcome to the November-December activity report!
This report covers hrev54716-hrev54805 (about 5 weeks of work).
Code cleanup
mt fixed various warnings, use-after-free, memory leaks, and dead code problems detected by the clang static analyzer.
X512 reworked app_server memory management to use owning pointers and avoid some
memory leaks and use-after-free cases. This led to a rework of the classes used for that
purpose, in particular AutoDeleter and its variants, to be more efficient and more flexible.
Welcome to the October activity report!
I had managed to get other people to write the report for a few months, but
not for October, apparently. So, I’m back!
This report covers hrev54609-hrev54715 (about a month and a half work).
The focus is not much on new and exciting features this month, there is a lot
of bug fixing and cleanup work going on, as well as some performance improvements,
and compatibility fixes for easier application porting.
Welcome to the May-June 2020 activity report!
Are we released yet?
Yes! You probably already know, the Beta 2 version has shipped and is available for download.
There was a lot of work done towards the release, and then some of us decided to take a break
from Haiku for a few weeks to compensate for it.
Google Summer of Code
The Google Summer of Code is already reaching it’s mid-point with the end of
the first month of coding period. Patches from our 4 students are getting merged
as they go. You can follow their progress on their respective blogs.
Welcome to the April 2020 activity report!
Are we released yet?
The big news first: a timeline has been set for Beta 2! If all goes well, it will
be released by the end of May. Of course, this means everyone has been scrambling
for last minute changes this month instead of stabilizing everything. We are now
in “soft freeze”, and the branch will be created on Friday.
Now is a good time to test nightly builds on all your machines, help with the
translations, and make that bugreport you’ve been postponing for months.
Hello!
The previous report involved a lot of travelling around and attending various
events and conferences. This month is quite different as some of us are locked
home due to the ongoing pandemic. We already know some of the next planned
events such as the JDLL and FLISOL are cancelled (for good reasons).
Anyway, the activity on Haiku has not slowed down, so let’s see what’s happening
there. This report covers hrev53875-hrev53995.
Hi there!
It’s time for the monthly report for January (and half of February as well).
This report convers hrev53715-hrev53874 and some real world activities.
Unit Tests
It’s about time the unit tests for Haiku get some serious attention and fixes.
Kyle Ambroff-Kao is currently working on them and fixing various issues.
This month he fixed problems in the app and support kits tests, identifying
deviations fro, BeOS, some on purpose, some that could be regressions.
I have not used this blog in a while, except for the monthly activity report.
But it’s time for a clarification.
Lately, several people (some newcomers, some long time members of the community)
have started contacting me by private messages (either by e-mail or IRC chat).
Sometimes it was the right thing to do, there are parts of the code for which
I’m indeed the best person to ask, and sometimes things are not to be discussed
on public channels (for example, because it involves personal data that should
stay private).
The last two months have been quite busy for me and I had no time to write up a report. Remember
that everyone is welcome to contribute to the website and if you wand to write the report from time
to time, this would be much appreciated, by me because I wouldn’t need to do it, and by others
because they will enjoy reading things written with a different style and perspective.
Hi there, it’s time for the monthly report!
This report covers hrev53461-hrev53529. Let’s see what happened this month in Haiku.
Non-x86 support
Some initial work for ARM64 was completed by kallisti5. This includes setting up the Haikuports
package declarations, writing the early boot files, and in general getting the buildsystem going.
Jaroslaw Pelczar also contributed several further patches (some of these still undergoing review),
providing the initial interrupt handling support, and various stubs to let things compile
