ChangeLog-0.3.1

THIS IS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS !!!

This is the changelog for ReactOS™ version 0.3.1, 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 0.3.0 (released 27 August, 2006).

Highlights of this Release

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Full Changelog

General

Generic 0.3.1 Changes

• Various spelling corrections (GreyGhost)
• Unicode corrections (janderwald)

RBUILD

• See 25424, need to check with arty
• Dependency Map added by (Christoph von Wittich) and checking implemented by (janderwald)
• See 25437, need to check with janderwald
• Clean Log added and Help for individual commands (Peter Ward)
• Space in name issues fixed (Christoph von Wittich)
• ROS_PREFIX allowed on MS Windows platforms for cross compiling (Hervé Poussineau)

Translations

• Added French translation to ipconfig (Sylvain Petreolle)
• Updated French translations for Explorer desktop (Pierre Schweitzer)
• Tai keyboard layout added (Dmitry G. Gorbachev)
• Italian translation for Control Panel, fixes bugs 1974, 1975, 1976, and 1983 (Paolo Devoti)
• Czech translation for Contrl Panel, fixes bug 1959 (Kamil Hornicek)

ReactOS Core

Kernel and Executive (NTOSKRNL)

• Implemented ObReferenceProcessHandleTable (Alex Ionescu)
• Implemented ObDereferenceProcessHandleTable (Alex Ionescu)
• Implemented ObpReferenceProcessObjectByHandle (Alex Ionescu)
• Simplified ObDuplicateObject (Alex Ionescu)
• Bug : 1953 : Patch by (Dmitry G. Gorbachev), fixes invalid sync after loading BLUE.SYS
• Various warnings fixed (Thomas Weidenmuller)
• Cleanup of locking and lookup macros (Alex Ionescu)
• Added calls to ObpInitializeDirectoryLookup and ObpCleanupDirectoryLookup (Alex Ionescu)
• Fix calls to ObpAcquireDirectoryLockExclusive (Alex Ionescu)
• Add code to ObpLookupDirectoryEntry (Alex Ionescu)
• Insanity checks for ObInsertObject (Alex Ionescu)
• Fixed SeSubProcessToken (Alex Ionescu)
• Fixed insertion of \Device\PhysicalMemory (Alex Ionescu)
• Removed boot-time driver object insertions (Alex Ionescu)

Win32™ Personality

Kernel-mode subsystem server (Win32K)

• Implemented NtUserGetKeyboardLayoutName (Magnus Olsen)
• Fixed Alpha Blending Support in DrawIconEx (Magnus Olsen)
• New keyboard driver and layout structure implemented (Jim Tabor)
• Have IntSystemParametersInfo send WM_SETTINGCHANGE when needed (Timo Kreuzer)
• Bug : 843: Patch from (Timo Kreuzer) which removed focus from windows
• NtUserSetFocus accepts Null window (Timo Kreuzer)

Control Panel Applets

• Added currency controls with format information (Eric Kohl)
• Hit-testing added for caption buttons (Eric Kohl)

SYSDM

• Sysdm has been overhauled and now looks more like XP's (Ged Murphy)

Win32™ Applications

Calc

• Calc.exe refused to accept zeros after a decimal point, this bug has been fixed (see bug 2019) (Magnus Olsen)

Cmd

• Fixed a possible buffer overflow (see bug 2017) (Magnus Olsen)

Downloader

• Added the Download! Utility for downloading various free software (Maarten Bosma)

Explorer

• Explorer does not leak icons and bitmaps anymore (see bug 1554) (ThePhysicist)

Imagesoft

• Implemented Contrast (Ged Murphy)

Userinit

• Read the shell name from HKCU, if it does not exist fail back to HKLM, if this does not exist use "explorer.exe" and "cmd.exe" (Hervé Poussineau)

Win32™ Libraries

COMCTL32

• Implemented TOOLTIPS_NotifyFormat, now returns the type of the string (ThePhysicist)

DirectX Libraries

• Added experimental Code for CreateSurface (Magnus Olsen)
• Added BackBuffer Support (Magnus Olsen)
• Implemented full Support for GetPixelFormat (Magnus Olsen)

GDI32

• Implemented NtGdiPolyDraw, based on Wine's Implementation (Saveliy Tretiakov)

USER32

• Fix some window focus issues (Timo Kreuzer)

3rd Party Software

• Updated DejaVu Font to Version 2.13 (Magnus Olsen)
• Updated Buslogic Driver to Version 1.2.0.4 (see bug 1891) (Christoph von Wittich)

FreeLdr

• Improved Compatibility with Intel Macs (Michael Steil)