[ros-announce] ReactOS 0.4.5 Released

[Colin Finck]

The ReactOS Project is pleased to release version 0.4.5 as a
continuation of its three month cadence. Beyond the usual range of bug
fixes and syncs with external dependencies, a fair amount of effort has
gone into the graphical subsystem. Thanks to the work of Katayama
Hirofumi and Mark Jansen, ReactOS now better serves requests for fonts
and font metrics, leading to an improved rendering of applications and a
more pleasant user experience. Your continued donations have also funded
a contract for Giannis Adamopoulos to fix every last quirk in our
theming components. The merits of this work can be seen in ReactOS
0.4.5, which comes with a smoother themed user interface and the future
promises to bring even more improvements. In another funded effort,
Hermès Bélusca-Maïto has got MS Office 2010 to run under ReactOS,
another application from the list of most voted apps. Don’t forget to
install our custom Samba package from the Application Manager if you
want to try it out for yourself.
On top of this, there have been several major fixes in the kernel and
drivers that should lead to stability improvements on real hardware and
on long-running machines.

- Press Release: https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-045-released
- General Notes: https://reactos.org/wiki/0.4.5
- Tests: https://reactos.org/wiki/Tests_for_0.4.5
- Changelog: https://reactos.org/wiki/ChangeLog-0.4.5
- Community Changelog: https://reactos.org/wiki/Community_Changelog-0.4.5
- Download page: https://reactos.org/download