wiki:ReleaseNotes/Mainline

Version 188 (modified by Jiri Svoboda, 14 months ago) ( diff )

Task bar → taskbar

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

  • Updated toolchain used to build the OS
    • GCC 13.2 (from 8.2)
    • Binutils 2.41 (from 2.31.1)

Kernel

User Interface

  • Added a Start menu to the taskbar
  • Windows can now be minimized (and unminimized)
  • Active window is now highlighted in the taskbar
  • Added system menu to make WM functions accessible via keyboard (use F10, arrow keys)
  • Added generic list control (in addition to file list)
  • Menu entries can now be disabled
  • Menus will pop up above the menu bar if the do not fit below
  • Menus will not be obscured by taskbar
  • Support for multple seats (i.e. multi-seat)
  • Fixed menu accelerator keys not working when Caps Lock is enabled

Services and Drivers

  • In addition to Ctrl-key and Shift-key, serial console now supports Alt-key combinations
    • Useful e.g. for opening menus

File Systems

Networking

Applications

  • New UI and command-line display configuration utilities (display-cfg and disp) for configuring seats
  • New ofw command-line utility for printing the OpenFirmware device tree (only on ppc32 and sparc64)
  • Taskbar no longer requires window management service to start (i.e. you can use it when system is running in console mode)
  • GFX Demo improvements
    • Quit more promptly
    • Only quit on Ctl-Q or Escape, not just on any key (e.g. Alt)
    • Handle keyboard events in console mode (gfxdemo console)
    • Detect screen size in console mode (instead of assuming 80x25)
    • Downsize window when running with text UI (gfxdemo -d cons@ ui)

Libraries

  • loc_server_register() can be called more than once
    • So that more components in one task can independently register services
    • Added complementary function loc_server_unregister()
  • New library libofw for enumerating the OpenFirmware device tree

Miscellaneous

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

  • For the list of known bugs still not fixed in this release, see this report.
  • For the list of all open tickets, see this report.

Attachments (2)

  • edit.png (4.0 KB ) - added by Jiri Svoboda 3 years ago. Text Editor ported to UI library (with menu bar and dialog window)
  • nav.png (13.9 KB ) - added by Jiri Svoboda 3 years ago. Navigator (HelenOS file manager)

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