ChangeLog-0.2.8

This is the changelog for ReactOS™ version 0.2.8 (released (in a near future)), an open-source operating system designed to be binary executable- and device driver-compatible with Microsoft™ Windows NT™ and subsequent Microsoft operating systems such as Windows 2000™ and Windows XP™. ReactOS is written by the ReactOS development team, and the last previous version of ReactOS was version 0.2.7 (released August 22, 2005).

ReactOS Core

Kernel and Executive (NTOSKRNL)

• Make GDB available for release builds (Gé van Geldorp)
• Fix GDB backtrace (Gé van Geldorp)

Kernel Mode Drivers

Input Device

• Fix "AllocConsole failed" bug (Gé van Geldorp)

Storage

• Import VMware BusLogic SCSI driver

Services

EventLog

(Saveliy Tretiakov)

• Implement basic file operations (WindowsNT compatible file format)
• Write events from lpc port to System Log (to read these events, open \ReactOS\system32\config\SysEvent.evt in Windows EventViewer)
• RPC server (stubs)

Networking

• Open handle to afd.sys as asynchromous. (Gé van Geldorp)
• Count each handle which has pending events only once, independent of the number of pending events. (Gé van Geldorp)

Win32™ Personality

Kernel-mode subsystem server (Win32K)

• Add generation of 8/32bpp DIB code (Gé van Geldorp)
• Fix DIB memory leak (Gé van Geldorp)
• Send window-bound timers to the correct message queue (Gé van Geldorp)
• Use the pitch provided by FreeType (Gé van Geldorp)
• SetPixel should return the new color (Goplat)
• Make sure we don't hang forever when activating a window belonging to another thread (Gé van Geldorp)
• Inform HAL about the switch to graphics modeas late as possible (Gé van Geldorp)
• Destroy the desktop window during shutdown (Gé van Geldorp)
• Make FindWindow case insensitive (Gé van Geldorp)

Win32™ Libraries

USER32

• fix repositioning of text (brbak)

Libraries shared with Wine

• Synced to Wine-20050830 and Wine-20059030 (Gé van Geldorp)

Win32™ Applications

CMD

• Restore console title after running a command (Gé van Geldorp)

TASKMGR

• Adjust output graphics when resizing the application window (Martin Fuchs, patch from watz at gmx.net)

EXPLORER

• Fix double-clicking Control Panel items (Gé van Geldorp)
• Handle .msi files (Gé van Geldorp)
• Fix icon alignment when the screen width is not a multiple of the icon spacing (Gé van Geldorp)

WINEFILE

• fixed handle leak in font selection dialog (Martin Fuchs, patch from Christoph at ApiViewer.de)
• added new icon images in 48x48 and 16x16 resolutions (Martin Fuchs)

Calc

• Reset on new calculation (brbak)
• Fix precision bug (Slicencium)

ZoomIn

• Implement ZoomIn's functionality (Martin Fuchs)

VmwInst

• Add installation path for VMware 5.5. (Mike)

FreeLdr

• Properly handle partition(0) to mean active partition (Gé van Geldorp)
• Don't trust the returned date/time from the BIOS. QEmu messes this up sometimes. (Gé van Geldorp)