ChangeLog-0.3.0

This is the changelog for ReactOS™ version 0.3.0, 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 0.2.9 (released 23 December, 2005).

General

Generic 0.3.0 changes

• Add library to deal with recycle bin (not used yet) (Hervé Poussineau)

ReactOS core

WIN32K

• Fix BSOD in IntPrepareDriver (bug 1321) (Hervé Poussineau)

Kernel mode drivers

kbdclass/mouclass

• Make code very similar (Hervé Poussineau)
• Add kbdclass and mouclass as upper filter for keyboard and mouse devices. (Hervé Poussineau)
• Correctly propagate DO_BUFFERED_IO, DO_DIRECT_IO and FILE_DEVICE_SECURE_OPEN flags (Hervé Poussineau)

PCI

• Implement InterfacePciDevicePresent(Ex) of PCI_DEVICE_PRESENT_INTERFACE (Hervé Poussineau)
• Allow PCI bus cascading (Hervé Poussineau)

pciide/pciidex

• Add them to bootcd (Hervé Poussineau)
• Don't claim already claimed IDE channels (Hervé Poussineau)

USB

• OHCI controller driver was imported from Linux-2.5, UHCI imported also but doesn't work yet. Port driver also is imported from Linux-2.5, but no WindowsXP-compatible interface has been developed yet. (Aleksey Bragin)
• Allow more than one USB controller (Hervé Poussineau)
• Add support for USB mouse/keyboard (but only with a reboot now) (Hervé Poussineau)

videoprt

• Implement VideoPortGetAssociatedDeviceExtension and VideoPortCheckForDeviceExistence (Hervé Poussineau)

ADVAPI32

• Registry functions of ADVAPI32 are tested against WINE's, 20+ failures fixed in RegEnumValueKeyA/W, RegOpenKeyA/W, and small fixes in corresponding NT Api functions (NtOpenKey). The only missing things for now are RegSaveKey/RegLoadKey which don't pass WINE tests yet. (Aleksey Bragin)

NEWDEV

• Implement UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevicesW (Hervé Poussineau)
• Search devices on removable media when doing an automatic install (Hervé Poussineau)

SETUPAPI

• Implement CM_Add_IDA, CM_Add_IDW, CM_Add_ID_ExA, SetupCopyOEMInfA/W, SetupDiGetActualSectionToInstallExA/W, SetupDiGetClassDevPropertySheetsW, SetupDiGetClassImageIndex, SetupDiGetClassImageList, SetupDiGetClassImageListExA/W, SetupDiGetDeviceInfoListClass, SetupDiGetDeviceInfoListDetailW, SetupDiGetDeviceInstanceIdW, SetupDiGetDriverInfoDetailW, SetupDiGetSelectedDevice, SetupGetInfFileListW, SetupDiInstallClassExA/W, SetupDiInstallDeviceInterfaces, SetupDiLoadClassIcon, SetupDiSetClassInstallParamsW, SetupDiSetSelectedDevice (Hervé Poussineau)
• Rewrite SetupDiGetActualSectionToInstallExW, to allow the exact semantics (platform extension, version...) (Hervé Poussineau)
• Select the best driver when several are available (Hervé Poussineau)
• Take care of Include and Needs directives in .inf files (Hervé Poussineau)

System control panel

• Intl.cpl - Locale changing implemented (Aleksey Bragin)