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[ros-announce] ReactOS 0.3.13 Released
by Aleksey Bragin 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

The ReactOS team is proud to announce the release of ReactOS 0.3.13. This version continues building on the work first previewed in 0.3.12, ranging from memory management improvements to better sound and display control. A Coverity scan also occurred between 0.3.12 and 0.3.13, helping the team clean up potential security holes and also help improve general stability by enforcing more care in memory operations. Some of the biggest system changes happened with memory management with the introduction of a new heap manager based on the Windows 2003/ Vista architecture, significantly increasing ReactOS’ compatibility with advanced memory allocation types and providing proper kernel mode heap management used by win32k. Performance should also see a significant boost for many memory operations even without the addition of optimizations on top of the new heap. The addition of a debug heap manager late in the release cycle also spurred on a series of fixes to memory usage across ReactOS, from the operating system to bundled applications. These changes should significantly improve system stability, moving ReactOS one step closer to being a viable daily use operating system. Other improvements include the merging in of work done in the yarotows branch for improved display driver loading and dynamic mode changing, significantly increasing ReactOS’ usability. During the preparation of this release, 282 bugs were fixed, including 50 regressions with the oldest regression being issue #4811 ("comctl32.dll sync broke Abiword toolbar"). The oldest bug fixed is #1567 "Taskmanager still showing processes while they are closed" (almost 5 years old). 382 new bugs were opened since the release of 0.3.12. Previous releases 0.3.11 and 0.3.12 were downloaded 238 and 526 thousand times, which totals up to an amazing amount of 764 000 downloads, and a significant increase looks very promising. Some of the most important changes: Implemented dynamic video mode switch and improved graphics drivers compatibillity. Fixed several graphic issues. Completely rewritten heap manager with additional debugging capabilities for detecting out of bounds operations. Improved management of audio mixer lines, preventing application sounds from becoming garbled due to overlapping lines. Heavy bug fixing in user subsystem ( improved handling of user mouse input, messages and timers). Visual artifacts fixed in some apps as Firefox and Thunderbird. Fixed several bugs in the installer. Improved apps compatibility: Stellarium 0.10.2, LHelp, winpcap,FlashPlayer 10.1 and Mono 2.8, OllyDbg 1.10, Xenon 2000, VLC 1.1.5, Foobar 2000, Skype 4.0.0 work now. More SATA devices are supported. Lots of test cases were fixed. Many improvements in the memory manager that fix several bugs and make it more compatible with NT memory manager. The detailed 0.3.13 changelog is also available. Main news link: http://www.reactos.org/en/news_page_65.html Download link: http://www.reactos.org/en/download.html -- Aleksey Bragin ReactOS Foundation President http://www.reactos.org _______________________________________________ Ros-announce mailing list Ros-announce(a)reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-announce

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My sweet home
by Mattia Tristo 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Is possible to write a code to have on the desktop a icon my sweet home and inside it the favourites of video, music, web pages, contacts and more, with graphics all in a simple window? what about it? Whishes Mattia -- -------------------------- Hey You!!! Don't be afraid!!! Tell me that You Love Yourself!!! IT: Hey Tu!!! Non essere preoccupato!!! Dimmi che ti vuoi bene!!! ---------------------------------- Home Page : http://sites.google.com/site/homepagedimattiatristo/ Linux USer : 523480 (http://counter.li.org/) Sprazzi di luce : http://sprazzidiluce.org

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Works
by Mattia Tristo 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Sorry couse i write a message OT before, now i would like to know if the roadmap of §ReACT OS is going on or not. I apologize Best regards MAttia -- -------------------------- Hey You!!! Don't be afraid!!! Tell me that You Love Yourself!!! IT: Hey Tu!!! Non essere preoccupato!!! Dimmi che ti vuoi bene!!! ---------------------------------- Home Page : http://sites.google.com/site/homepagedimattiatristo/ Linux USer : 523480 (http://counter.li.org/) Sprazzi di luce : http://sprazzidiluce.org

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DLL
by Mattia Tristo 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Hi to all there!!! §§Is there a wiki or a page about how DLLs work? If no could you write one? Thank you for your efforts Mattia -- -------------------------- Hey You!!! Don't be afraid!!! Tell me that You Love Yourself!!! IT: Hey Tu!!! Non essere preoccupato!!! Dimmi che ti vuoi bene!!! ---------------------------------- Home Page : http://sites.google.com/site/homepagedimattiatristo/ Linux USer : 523480 (http://counter.li.org/) Sprazzi di luce : http://sprazzidiluce.org

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where can I get VDK?
by Zhang Fan 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi all, ReactOS wiki (http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Transfer_files_from_the_host_OS_to_the_virtual_…) says there is VDK which can mount qemu disk on windows. However, the link address is unavailable. Could you tell me where can I find it? Or is there any similar software which can mount qemu disk on windows? Marvin

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ReactOS Project at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2011
by Colin Finck 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Hi all, Even if it has already been reported through the newsletter, here is the announcement for mailing list readers: The ReactOS Project will have a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2011, the second-largest Open-Source-related exhibition in Germany, from 19th to 20th March. Our project is going to be represented by the ReactOS developers Colin Finck, Timo Kreuzer, Matthias Kupfer, Daniel Reimer and Christoph von Wittich. This year, we will also be joined by Kai Tietz from the MinGW-w64 Project. Like in the last years, you will be able to try out the latest development state of ReactOS as well as getting some merchandising articles. So if you have the time to visit Chemnitz, stop by and say hello at our booth. Cheers, Colin

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sound
by mattias 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

I'm are a visually impaired computer user Are sound working in react os yet?

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Trying to boot via grub4dos without cd
by elliot s 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

I once again tried to install ReactOS via grub4dos starting from a win98 setup. grub4dos successfully runs Puppy Linux.frugal install. Previously, i was on a scsi system. This time it's all ide. Install hangs after ndis.sys line. I tried the atapi.sys -> uniata.sys patch. No difference. I'm using grub4dos version 0.4.4 Is the win98 mbr going thru io.sys the problem? How does anyone else do a cdless install that includes windows? map.lst entry: map --mem (hd0,0)/ReactOS-LiveCD.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) boot

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IPv6 support on the ReactOS Infrastructure
by Colin Finck 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

Hi all, After Christoph has made first progress in November, I've set up IPv6 support on some of our servers today. Apart from some services for ReactOS internal use, the following publicly available services should be accessible using IPv6 now: download.reactos.org git.reactos.org source.reactos.org svn.reactos.org The BuildBot will be added as soon as we do the upgrade. Unfortunately, the actual website requires many more code changes for which I currently don't have any time. If you already connect through IPv6 and use some of the services listed above, please report any problems you encounter. I know that many popular sites refrain from enabling IPv6 support due to rare access problems, but you seldomly get a reproducible problem description. Cheers, Colin

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coming back
by Aleksey Bragin 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi all, I'm travelling back to Russia now, and gonna be available in about 2 days. I really expect trunk to be bootable by that time one way or another. If it doesn't, hard measures will follow (yeah, your guess is right: let's fix it). WBR, Aleksey.

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