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)

tcpsvcs

• implement simple tcp/ip services (Ged Murphy)
• includes services for chargen, daytime, echo, discard and Quote Of The Day (Ged Murphy)
• introduce code to run as a service, but not activated yet (Ged Murphy)

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 mode as late as possible (Gé van Geldorp)
• Destroy the desktop window during shutdown (Gé van Geldorp)
• Make FindWindow case insensitive (Gé van Geldorp)
• partial implementation of ShowWindowAsync() to activate the Explorer desktop switcher (Martin Fuchs)

Win32™ Libraries

USER32

• fix repositioning of text (brbak)

Libraries shared with Wine

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

Win32™ Applications

Arp

• display correct interface index (Ged Murphy)
• delete all hosts with -d (Ged Murphy)
• display informative error messages (Ged Murphy)
• better arg control from cmd line (Ged Murphy)

Netstat

• rewrite of the netstat tool to simulate the MS app (Ged Murphy)
• implemented -a -e -n -p -r -s and interval (Ged Murphy)

Route

• alter output to simulate the MS route utility (Ged Murphy)

TraceRoute

• wrote tracert and added it to the build (Ged Murphy)

CMD

• Restore console title after running a command (Gé van Geldorp)
• Complete copy command rewrite to include all features of MS CMD. (Brandon Turner)
• CD rewrite and support paths on different drives. (Brandon Turner)
• Implemented /P in dir for paging. (Brandon Turner)
• Implemented ConOutResPaging. (Brandon Turner)
• Implemented Windows style tab complete. (Brandon Turner)
• Changed the way start and execute parse the file name to allow ". Bug #690 (Brandon Turner)
• Implemented batch file redirection. (Brandon Turner)
• Make sure the path displayed by $P is the correct case. (Brandon Turner)
• Implemented better handling of escape char ^. (Brandon Turner)
• Implemented the proper useage of %PROMPT%. (Brandon Turner)
• Fixed del allow same features as MS CMD. (Brandon Turner)

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)
• Make the explorer taskbar look a bit nicer (navaraf)
• Fix the taskbar button resizing to account for button spacing. (navaraf)
• Update spanish translation (navaraf, patch from Patricio Martínez)
• new tool bar icons for the drive bar (Martin Fuchs)
• dynamic explorer start menu sidebar size (Martin Fuchs)
• new, smaller startmenu pictures using the dynamic explorer start menu sidebar feature (greatlrd)
• MDI/SDI option dialog: pictures for illustration, remove resizable flag (Martin Fuchs)
• new option to open explorer subfolders in separate windows (Martin Fuchs)
• fix directory traversing in explorer SDI windows (Martin Fuchs)
• fix tree list image loading (Martin Fuchs)
• complete german resources for explorer (Martin Fuchs)
• "execute" menu entry (Martin Fuchs)
• activate execution from command bar (Martin Fuchs)
• fix UNICODE control panel calls to handle double clicks on the task bar clock (Martin Fuchs)
• one-click activation of "Start" button (Martin Fuchs)
• implemented command line parser for Explorer (Martin Fuchs)
• Fix for Bug 330: Correctly handle WM_COMMAND messages in web windows without web control (Martin Fuchs)
• replace "search computer" start menu entry by a "not yet implemented" message (Martin Fuchs)

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)

Devmgr

• Added simple device manager (Michael Fritscher, (hpoussin)

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)