ChangeLog-0.3.8

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FYI, 0.3.7 was branched at r37062

This is the changelog for ReactOS™ version 0.3.8 (released whenever), 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 0.3.7 (released 4 November, 2008).

Host Tools

• Fix compiler warnings treated as errors when using GCC 4.3.2 (Dmitry Gorbachev, bug #3849)
• Rearrange "host/typedefs.h" to make it look more logical, fix a wrong definition of INT_PTR and UINT_PTR in this file (Colin Finck)

RBUILD

• Don't decide whether to preprocess .spec files based on Kernel-Mode vs. User-Mode, but on the file extension. Preprocessed files use the .pspec extension now (Colin Finck)
• Removed some checks for uppercased file extensions (Colin Finck)
• Reenable testing on undefined properties, they are treated as being empty now (Colin Finck)

Core

Kernel and Executive (NTOSKRNL)

EX

• Fixed implementation of PsCreateProcessNotifyRoutine (Michael Martin)
• Fixed dereferencing of wrong object, pProcess not Process. (Michael Martin)

Kernel Mode Drivers

VIDEOPRT

• Add missing assignments to all CallingProcess variables in nt10.c. (Michael Martin, Bug #2286)
• Fixed memory corruption in VideoPortInt10 implementation. (Michael Martin, Bug #2286)
• Fixed bug in VideoPortGetAccessRanges, causing the device to not be found on the bus. (Michael Martin, Bug #2286)

Win32™ Personality

Kernel-mode subsystem server (Win32K)

• Fix TransparentBlt in 24bpp mode (Gregor Schneider, bug #1583)
• Fix StretchBlt offset calculation in 8bpp and 16bpp (Gregor Schneider)
• Fix BitBlt MergePaint operation (Gregor Schneider)
• Fix hatched brush color conversion (Gregor Schneider)
• Fix BitBlt coordinate calculation for 1 bit masks (Gregor Schneider, bug #2372)
• Add several PS_NULL, PS_INSIDEFRAME and PS_ALTERNATE brush improvements (Gregor Schneider)
• Fix DrawIcon and DrawIconEx in 32bpp mode (Gregor Schneider)

Services

DHCP

• Modified inet_aton so that it does not fail for address 255.255.255.255. (Michael Martin, Bug #3962)

Win32™ Applications

Notepad

• Fix the display of Line and Column in the Status Bar and add language resources for this (Carlo Bramini, bug #3702)

Solitaire

• Fix winning infinitely bug by dealing cards again (Lucas Suggs, bug #3288)
• Fix status bar overlay problems (Gregor Schneider, bug #3336, bug #3820)

Win32™ Libraries

MSVCRT

• Add parameter checks to strftime (Daniel Zimmermann, bug #3910)
• Add support for floating point operations in sprintf (Gregor Schneider, bug #1533, bug #3727, bug #3878)
• Update and fix undname, makepath, locale and several mbstring functions for increased compatibility (Gregor Schneider)

Regression tests

Rosautotest

• Wrote a new tool for running automatic regression tests, superseding our previous syssetup/cmd/dbgprint hack (Colin Finck)

Wcstombs-tests

• Add some tests for WC_NO_BEST_FIT_CHARS, which pass under Windows XP SP3 (Colin Finck)