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 Control 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)
• Adjustments in SeAccessCheck, returning STATUS_SUCCESS (Alex Ionescu)
• Various optimizations of lookup context and lock (Alex Ionescu)

Win32™ Personality

Kernel-mode subsystem server (Win32K)

• 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)
• same strechblt code for 8,16,32, it does not using putpixel anylonger for 8bpp and 32bpp, and small cleanup (GreatLord)
• Last part of the new strectsblt remove all mul and div from the loop (speed incress). (GreatLord)
• commit freetype cache glyth patch, orginal author of this patch is royce3, modify by tinus so it work again with trunk, ThePhysicist (timo dot kreuzer at web dot de) did fix the last bugs in it. at last long leave freetype glyth patch, now we got faster text output in reactos. and I where up to 38fps in winquake with this patch (debugbuild + serial debug on). This is very fast. I wonder what speed it give in release build or qemu now. See bug 511 for more details. (GreatLord)

Control Panel Applets

• Added currency controls with format information (Eric Kohl)
• Hit-testing added for caption buttons in Display properties - Appearance tab(Eric Kohl)

SYSDM

• Sysdm has been overhauled and now looks more like XP's (Ged Murphy)
• Added CPU detection (Colin Finck)

Win32™ Applications

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 fall 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)

GDI32

• Implemented NtGdiPolyDraw, based on Wine's Implementation (Saveliy Tretiakov)
• fixed a bug in DdDeleteDirectDrawObject Zero the DirectDraw handler if it have sussess been free(GreatLord)

USER32

• Fix some window focus issues (Timo Kreuzer)

3rd Party Software

• Update Zlib from 1.1.4 to 1.2.3 fix some memory leaks (GreatLord)
• Updated DejaVu Font to Version 2.13 (GreatLord)
• Updated Buslogic Driver to Version 1.2.0.4 (see bug 1891) (Christoph von Wittich)
• Freetype, small speed in-cress, remove Freetype ros glue C version of memcpy, memcmp, isalnum, labs and replace it from reactos string.a we got asm version of most of them, so that is reason to the speed in-cress of Freetype (GreatLord)

FreeLdr

• Improved Compatibility with Intel Macs (Michael Steil)