Community Changelogs

Introduction

Community Changelogs are started by me, Can Taşan, a member of ReactOS community. Each time before a release rolls out, I write these changelogs to forum, and wait for corrections. Just crediting our community for using this is enough, in favor of our community and devs.

Changelogs are available since 0.4.1.

FAQ

Q: What is the purpose of this changelogs? There are already available official changelogs!

A: Before 0.3.16; long, technical and rather boring-for-average-user changelogs are available. Things changed since 0.3.17, only bugfixes list from JIRA are available. Disappointing. Also, I think official announcements lack some interesting things.

To show important changes in ReactOS for end users, I decided to prepare changelogs like Wine and Haiku. They explain what they have done point by point, and I leave happily. Does ReactOS deserve this disappointment? NEVER!

Now, noticed work gets noticed, major fixes (and sometimes apps that started to work) are mentioned, users are shown ReactOS is progressing nicely, devs gain morale... EVERYONE BENEFITS from this effort!

Q: Is it official, and correct?

A: It's unofficial. I prepare this voluntarily, and community corrects my mistakes. This changelog is carefully prepared by looking at SVN commit history, and JIRA bugs.

Q: Can I/we use it?

A: Yes! You can also spread this to news sites, forums... and even your friends!

Q: How can I contribute?

A: Before placing any changelog into Wiki, I write it first into our forum. If you notice any type of mistake (grammar, incorrect information, etc) or missing thing, just write it in changelog topic, or send a PM to me.

Q: Who to credit?

A: Community.

Changelogs

Community Changelog-0.4.5
Community Changelog-0.4.4
Community Changelog-0.4.3
Community Changelog-0.4.2
Community Changelog-0.4.1