Kernel stability in this version comes from the Memory Manager, File system and Cache Manager fixes. Jérome has not just fixed this issue but also a palette regression in DirectX which was garbling colors when playing games. In 0.4.7, several games were having trouble initializing properly when using native graphics drivers. Adding these reports, plus the debug logs, will provide ReactOS developers a good amount of information to understand what went wrong and how to create the needed fixes. Therefore, this new tool should help us understand what went wrong when the software crashed. This crash dump details the list of modules and threads loaded, stack traces, hexdumps, and register state. Quicktime for Vista and 7 working in ReactOS!Ī new tool, a DrWatson32 alike, has been created by Mark and added to 0.4.8, so now any application crashing will create a log file on the desktop. Microsoft coined the term backwards compatibility, ReactOS the forward compatibility one. Although in a really greenish and experimental state, the new additions in 0.4.8 should start helping several software pieces created for Vista and upwards to start working in ReactOS. Giannis has finished the side-by-side support and the implicit activation context, Colin has changed Kernel32 to accept software made for NT6+, and Mark keeps working on the shim compatibility layer. Colin, Giannis and Mark are creating the needed logic in NTDLL and LDR for this purpose. With software specifically leaving NT5 behind, ReactOS is expanding its target to support NT6+ (Vista, Windows 8, Windows 10) software. Regarding internationalization, now when changing the language in ReactOS, the font substitution settings are properly overwritten thanks to Katayama, and time is now correctly set due to Doug’s work.Ĭombine all these features with the Kernel and Filesystem fixes that 0.4.8 is bringing and you'll understand why the ReactOS team is so excited regarding this new release. As a bonus, now ReactOS also detects more themes and is much faster when rendering big amounts of text. Also, now Network drives can be dismounted directly from explorer due to Pierre’s work, and Eject and Disconnect menu items are now implemented thanks to Katayama.įrom the visual point of view, several glitches related to the redrawing of static text elements, scrollbars, button captions, fonts and text background colors were fixed in this version. Deletion and renaming of folders and files should work reliably after Pierre fixed a major leak.Īdditional new features included in this release should also boost the user experience, such as the shell autocompletion brought to you by Mark, a nice bonus on top of the improved relative path handling done by Stanislav. His amazing work doesn't stop there, bugs related to property dialogs have been squashed, like the one preventing drive and folders capacity from being shown. Selecting multiple desktop icons was impossible prior 0.4.8. This is something that Windows doesn't even provide with Win10, and many Windows users may have noticed.Īt the bottom right you can see the Notifications working Talking about the notification tray, due to Ged’s work, icons of killed and finished process are now automatically removed, even when apps crash. Thanks to him, Giannis and Hermès, now balloon notifications are properly supported, queued and shown while a range of tooltip problems have been solved. Meanwhile, David fixed several bugs and glitches of the notification area. These settings were visible before but as you might have noticed they've never been working at all. Taskbar settings and dialogs have been rewritten by Giannis so now the auto-hide, toggle lock and always on top options work. Therefore the ReactOS User Interface in 0.4.8 has received extra care. ReactOS keeps pushing to bring the best possible user experience. Thanks to all of them, and the ReactOS regular devs, 209 new Pull Requests and 1094 commits have made it through to this 0.4.8 version. These forks represent a nice amount of newcomers: translators, designers, coders and testers. A nice amount understanding ReactOS is not a framework or a library, but a final product. Since ReactOS reached GitHub, it has been forked 248 times. 0.4.8 is the nice sequel and a good way to measure the GitHub impact on the ReactOS project. The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.4.8 as we continue to work on releasing every three months.Īs you may know, our previous 0.4.7 version was the first one developed in our Git/GitHub repository.
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