ChangeLog-0.3.1
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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).
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General
Generic 0.3.1 Changes
RBUILD
Translations
- Added French translation to ipconfig (Sylvain Petreolle)
- Updated French translations for Explorer desktop (Pierre Schweitzer)
ReactOS Core
Kernel and Executive (NTOSKRNL)
- Implemented ObReferenceProcessHandleTable (Alex Ionescu)
- Implemented ObDereferenceProcessHandleTable (Alex Ionescu)
- Implemented ObpReferenceProcessObjectByHandle (Alex Ionescu)
- Simplified ObDuplicateObject (Alex Ionescu)
Run Time Library (RTL)
Kernel Mode Drivers
Services
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 (Jimtabor)
Control Panel Applets
- Added currency controls with format information (ekohl)
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)