News #46: ReactOS 0.3.7

2008-11-04, Aleksey Bragin
ReactOS 0.3.7
A new release of the ReactOS operating system

ReactOS 0.3.7 Released

Version 0.3.7 got delayed due to a couple of blocker bugs, however they are fixed now and we are ready to release.

This release along with the rest of the 0.3.x series is still considered alpha quality software.

ReactOS 0.3.7 continues further work on the main three principles of current ReactOS development: bugfixes, compatibility and stability.

A consolidation of all changes in great details can be found in the changelog. Summing up the most important changes:

Improved x64 architecture support
The start of a real MSVC compiler support project
Kernel improvements and bugfixes in quite a few parts: Configuration Manager, IO Manager, KE, Memory Manager, Object Manager, Process Manager
Network stack improvements: leakage fixes, increased functionality
Filesystem driver fixes, making them more compatible with the Microsoft NT cache manager
Win32 subsystem improvements and synching of most of the Wine usermode DLLs