Aleksey Bragin announced the 0.3.8 release of ReactOS a Free Software replacement for Microsoft Windows(TM).
Change Summary:
- Various bugfixes and enhancements to Kernel core services (e.g. registry, system information routines, sync primitives like guarded mutex, IO support and other)
- An initiative has been started to fix the remaining unstable parts of the kernel: Memory Manager, caching code and filesystems driver APIs and other dependencies of Mm
- Introduction of a new Portable Structured Exception Handling mechanism (PSEH 2.0), which is much closer to the native compiler SEH syntax
- A few longstanding bugs are fixed (such as multipartition HDD support by LiveCD, Task Manager CPU graph)
- Various GDI drawing problems were fixed
- A minimal open source version of the KernelDebugger protocol has been implemented, allowing basic MS WinDbg functionality
- CRT and RTL library improvements
- A number of problems were fixed in base system drivers: NPFS, CDFS, FASTFAT, FS_REC, SCSIPORT
- Video driver improvements for better real hardware support
- Ongoing Win32-subsystem work
- Continued work on supporting MSVC
- Build tool chain fixes and improvements (also as part of the MSVC support work)
- Core tools and components shared with Wine were updated to the latest version
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