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Release Notes for HelenOS mainline
Note: This document is a draft describing a future HelenOS release and is subject to change. The software described here has not been released yet. To get these latest and greatest features now, check out our Git master. (But you will also get the latest bugs).
HelenOS version (codename) was released on date.
This document contains a summary of changes made to HelenOS since release previous release.
Special Notes for this Release
Features Introduced in This Release
General
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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
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
- All device-related stuff that could be moved out of C library moved to new
- 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 report.
- Notable regressions
Fixed Logged Bugs & Enhancements
- For the list of all logged defects fixed in this release, see this report.
- For the list of all logged enhancements integrated in this release, see this report.
Known Bugs
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Navigator (HelenOS file manager)
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