= Release Notes for HelenOS 0.11.2 =

HelenOS ''0.11.2 (Kiev) '' was released on ''date''.

This document contains a summary of changes made to HelenOS since release previous release.

 * See also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqQC3Rx-ibs Screencast HelenOS 0.11.2 - What's new] - Screencast

== Special Notes for this Release ==

== Features Introduced in This Release ==

=== General ===

  * New support for 96Boards' [wiki:HiKey960] AArch64-based development board (first real [wiki:Arch/Arm64 arm64] platform)
  * Enable I-cache and branch predictor on ARMv6 (Raspberry Pi) for better performance

=== Kernel ===

  * Fix some bugs in zone merging algorithm

=== Services and Drivers ===

 * Double-click is now supported (used in Navigator)
 * Console now supports mouse input
   * When running in console mode (e.g. EGA or with window system disabled) the mouse can now be used
 * EGA driver can now display any character from code page 437 (as opposed to just 7-bit ASCII)
 * Serial console now outputs UTF-8 for non-ASCII characters instead of '?'
 * Fixed mapping of blue color in serial console
 * [wiki:RaspberryPi Raspberry Pi] display driver can now detect the native display resolution and act accordingly

=== File Systems ===

=== Networking ===

=== Applications ===

  * Added Navigator, a panel-based file manager
    * Currently allows only browsing directories and executing binaries
    * It uses libUI, but is text based at the moment (graphics mode to be added in the future)

    [[Image(nav.png, 240, align=center)]]

  * Calculator now has a menu
  * GFX Demo now displays a status line with description for each demo screen
  * Text Editor (/app/edit) was ported to libui (text mode)
    * It now has a menu and dialog windows

      [[Image(edit.png, 240, align=center)]]

  * Tetris now displays color in EGA text mode / serial console again
  * Hello, Calculator and UI Demo now fully support text mode aside from graphics mode

 || [[Image(hello-gfx.png)]]      || [[Image(hello-text.png)]] ||
 || [[Image(calculator-gfx.png)]] || [[Image(calculator-text.png)]] ||
 || [[Image(uidemo-gfx.png)]]     || [[Image(uidemo-text.png)]] ||

=== Libraries ===

  * GFX
    * A graphic context can now perform clipping
    * A graphic context can now control the hardware cursor
  * User interface library
    * Added menu bar / menu
    * Added message dialog class (displays a message)
    * Added prompt dialog class (prompts user to enter a single line of text)
    * Added file dialog class
    * Text entry now actually supports entering text (and sets I-beam cursor)
    * Improved text-mode support (including color)
  * C library
    * All device-related stuff that could be moved out of C library moved to new {{{device}}} library
  * New code page library
    * Provides code page 437 encoding/decoding

=== Miscellaneous ===

 * Cross-compiler is installed to $XDG_DATA_HOME/HelenOS/cross (i.e. $HOME/.local/share/HelenOS/cross) by default now (instead of /usr/local/cross)
 * On PC platform we now configure serial port parameters for the serial console (38400,8,2.n) instead of relying on previous state

== Regressions in This Release ==
 * For the list of regressions since the previous release, see this [query:keywords=codename_regression report].
 * Notable regressions

== Fixed Logged Bugs & Enhancements ==
 * For the list of all logged defects fixed in this release, see this [query:status=closed&resolution=fixed&milestone=release&type=defect report].
 * For the list of all logged enhancements integrated in this release, see this [query:status=closed&resolution=fixed&milestone=release&type=enhancement report].

== Known Bugs ==
 * For the list of known bugs still not fixed in this release, see this [report:3 report].
 * For the list of all open tickets, see this [report:1 report].