ChangeLog-0.3.15

This is the changelog for ReactOS™ version 0.3.15 (released CLASSIFIED), 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 0.3.14.

General

Contributors

Core Developers

• Giannis Adamopoulos
• Johannes Anderwald
• Aleksey Bragin
• Dmitry Chapyshev
• Thomas Faber
• Benedikt Freisen
• Jérôme Gardou
• Dmitry Gorbachev
• Cameron Gutman
• Rafał Harabień
• Kamil Horníček
• Gabriel Ilardi
• Alex Ionescu
• Amine Khaldi
• Eric Kohl
• Timo Kreuzer
• Matthias Kupfer
• Michael Martin
• Roel Messiant
• Ged Murphy
• Sylvain Petreolle
• ReactOS Portable Systems Group
• Daniel Reimer
• Gregor Schneider
• Pierre Schweitzer
• James Tabor
• Christoph von Wittich
• Art Yerkes

Patch Submitters

• Carlo Bramini
• Vincenzo Cotugno
• Elton Chung
• Peter Hater
• Alex Henrie
• Katayama Hirofumi
• Edijs Kolesnikovics
• Marcel Leyendeckers
• numitus (domovoi94 at gmail dot com) r57058
• Victor Martinez
• Guido Pola
• Ben Pye
• Rodion overclocker@list.ru r56097
• Lee Schroeder
• Samuel Serapion
• vort r58083
• Alexander Yastrebov

Support Staff

• Colin Finck
• Ziliang Guo
• Olaf Siejka

Generic 0.3.15 Changes

• Headers have been cleaned up to reduce the number of dependencies dragged in by code.
• Annotations for use with Visual Studio's static analyzer have been added to many modules.
• Improvements to the various SDKs to increase compatibility and add new new data structures and interfaces for developing drivers, applications, and native applications.
• A variety of bugs found by Visual Studio 2012's static code analyzer was fixed.
• The project has switched over entirely to using CMake and rbuild support has been dropped. Continued work has been done to improve the build process.

Installer

• Removable media is now selectable as an installation target.
• Unpartitioned space calculation now works if the first partition starts below the disk's track size.
• ATL is now registered before anything else.

Wine Syncs

• ADVPACK (1.5.19)* AMSTREAM (1.3.37)* ATL (1.5.19)* ATL100 (1.5.19)* AVIFIL32 (1.3.37)* BCRYPT (1.3.37)* CABINET (1.5.19)* COMCTL32 (1.5.26)* CREDUI (1.3.37)* CRYPT32 (1.3.37)* CRYPTDLG (1.3.37)* CRYPTNET (1.3.37)* CRYPTUI (1.3.37)* DBGHELP (1.3.37)* DWMAPI (1.3.37)* FUSION (1.5.4)* GDIPLUS (1.5.4)* HLINK (1.5.4)* HNETCFG (1.3.37)* HTTPAPI (1.3.37)* IMAADP32.ACM (1.3.37)* IMAGEHLP (1.3.37)* IMM32 (1.5.19)* INETCOMM (1.3.37)* INETMIB1 (1.3.37)* INSENG (1.3.37)* ITSS (1.5.4)* KERNEL32: FormatMessage() (1.5.4)* MCIAVI32 (1.3.37)* MCICDA (1.3.37)* MCISEQ (1.3.37)* MCIWAVE (1.5.4)
• MCOQTZ32 (1.5.4)* MLANG (1.3.37)* MSADP32.ACM (1.3.37)* MSCMS (1.5.4)* MSCOREE (1.5.4)* MSCTF (1.3.37)* MSFTEDIT (1.3.37)* MSG711.ACM (1.3.37)* MSI (1.5.19)* MSIMTF (1.3.37)* MSISIP (1.3.37)* MSSIGN32 (1.5.4)* MSTASK (1.3.37)* MSXML (1.5.12)* MSXML2 (1.5.12)* MSXML3 (1.5.12)* MSXML4 (1.5.12)* MSXML6 (1.5.12)* NDDEAPI (1.3.37)* NTPRINT (1.3.37)* OBJSEL (1.3.37)* ODBCCP32 (1.3.37)* OLE32 (1.5.19)* OLEAUT32 (1.5.19)* PRINTUI (1.3.37)* PSTOREC (1.5.4)* QUERY (1.3.37)* RASAPI32 (1.3.37)* RICHED20 (1.5.19)* RSAENH (1.5.4)* SHLWAPI (1.5.13)* SPOOLSS (1.5.4)* STDOLE2.TLB (1.3.37)* STDOLE32.TLB (1.3.37)* STI (1.5.4)* SXS (1.5.4)* TOOLS/UNICODE (1.3.37)* TRAFFIC (1.5.4)* URL (1.5.4)* USER32 (1.5.10)* USP10 (1.5.24)* WIDL (1.5.11)* WINDOWSCODECS (1.5.19)* WINEMP3.ACM (1.3.37)* WINHTTP (1.5.4)* WININET (1.5.4)* WINTRUST (1.5.4)* WS2_32: async.c (1.5.4)* WTSAPI32 (1.3.37)* WUAPI (1.5.4)* XCOPY (1.3.37)* XMLLITE (1.5.19)

Core Functionality

Audio/Video Stack

VIDEOPRT

• The DEVICEMAP\VIDEO key is now created with a proper length by taking into account the NULL terminator, an issue originally exposed in ARWINSS.

Client/Server Runtime

SMSS

A new session manager subsystem has been implemented that will be used in conjunction with an upcoming rewrite of the Console/Server Runtime Subsystem. Currently it still works with the old CSRSS.

• A new header that precisely documents the packet structure and protocols used for communication between SMSS and CSRSS has been added. The definitions match NT5.2.

Filesystems

FASTFAT

• An error in VfatCreateFile that caused access denied to always be returned when opening a volume has been fixed.

HAL

• PCI device names are no longer truncated in debug output.
• IrqlToSoftVector() is now implemented and used in HalRequestSoftwareInterrupt, ensuring the correct interrupt is triggered on AMD64.
• The IRQL in HalpAllocateSystemInterrupt is now correctly set to the lowest vector.

Kernel

• Interlocked operations are now used for reference counting device objects.
• KeUpdateSystemTime has been refactored, making it 64bit portable and resolving potential concurrency issues.

Libraries

KERNEL32

• IntReadConsoleOutputCharacter has been fixed to copy the correct number of characters.
• ReadProcessMemory/WriteProcessMemory no longer attempt to write to an argument that could potentially be a NULL pointer.
• WriteProcessMemory now returns STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION instead of just BOOL due to third party code relying on this behavior.
• InitCommandLines has been rewritten.
• GetProcessAffinityMask now uses BaseStaticServerData from CSRSS instead of querying for system information each time.
• GetProcessShutdownParameters/SetProcessShutdownParameters now correctly use the LPC status code from CSRSS instead of the LPC API status code.
• GetProcessWorkingSetSizeEx/SetProcessWorkingSetSizeEx has been implemented and is now used by GetProcessWorkingSetSize/SetProcessWorkingSetSize.
• GetExitCodeProcess now checks for VDM processes to get the appropriate exit code.
• GetStartupInfoA is now thread safe and no longer assumes all ANSI to Unicode conversions will succeed.
• GetStartupInfoW now correctly supplies ShellInfo data and crashes if given a NULL input.
• ExitProcess now uses SEH and the PEB lock.
• TerminateProcess now correctly sets the ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE error code.
• FatalAppExitA no longer always assumes success.
• FatalAppExitW now raises a hard error.
• FatalExit now displays a debugger input interface on checked build just like Windows.
• SetPriorityClass now tries to acquire the real time privilege as needed and handles failures to do so.
• GetProcessVersion has been rewritten.
• lpfnGlobalRegisterWaitForInputIdle has been renamed to UserWaitForInputIdleRoutine.

NETSHELL

NETSHELL has been converted into C++ to improve readability.

RTL

• RtlSetCurrentDirectory_U is now implemented, also fixing reference counting in RtlpDosPathNameToRelativeNtPathName_Ustr.
• RtlSetThreadIsCritical has been implemented.

SMLIB

• NT compatible SmConnectToSm and SmExecPgm functions have been implemented.

UXTHEME

uxtheme has now been forked from Wine and is solely maintained by this project.

• Loading of MENUEX resources has been fixed.

Network Stack

WINSOCK32

• Invalid AQ_WIN16 comparisons fix was imported from Wine.

Services

• Log files opened via the event log service are should only be closed when its owning service has stopped.
• Attempting to open a non-existent backup log file now fails while attempting to open an existing backup log file will only allow for reads.

Startup/Shutdown

FreeLoader

• A wrong buffer size calculation that could cause memory corruption was fixed.