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[GSoC 2024] Implementing Mouse Support
Success! Now MiniBrowser displays things once again. Here is MiniBrowser showing https://review.haiku-os.org/ So, yeah, there’s still plenty of work left to do. Text isn’t rendered properly, keyboard...
View Article[GSoC 2024] Improving the Userland Debugging Experience - Progress Report #2
Project status overview Completed tasks The GDB port is feature-complete. A recipe has been submitted to HaikuPorts. This took a bit longer than expected due to complexities in building the full GDB...
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[GSoC 2024] Virtio Sound: Playback showcase
intro Hello, once again! vid? We made it! I previously stated that we had achieved playback, but I never got to show it. So here it is, a short video showing you that playback actually works. So you...
View Article[GSoC 2024] Improving the Userland Debugging Experience - Progress Report #3
Project status overview Completed tasks The goal of this phase was to stabilize GDB, making it suitable for debugging complex and multi-threaded applications (including most Be API applications). After...
View ArticleHaiku Activity & Contract Report, July 2024
This report covers hrev57802 through hrev57900. Performance improvements: elimination of various bottlenecks The major item I spent the most time on last month was general system performance and...
View Article[GSoC 2024] Can I get discuss.haiku-os.org to work?
So I’ve implemented mouse support. It also turned out to be really easy to fix text rendering. So, what’s next? Well, some websites like https://discuss.haiku-os.org cause WebKit to crash. This crash...
View Article[GSoC 2024] Improving the Userland Debugging Experience - Final Report
Project overview A part of Google Summer of Code 2024, this project aimed to improve the userland debugging experience for Haiku app developers, boosting the process of building and porting complex...
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[GSoC 2024] Porting WebKit2 Final Report
The goal of this document is to be an overview of everything I did during GSoC. It should be readable even if you haven’t read any of the previous blog posts and don’t know much about Haiku or WebKit...
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[GSoC 2024] Hardware Virtualization: Final Report
Project overview QEMU is a virtual machine which allows running an operating system inside of another. While there already is a Haiku port, it currently does not support any acceleration system through...
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[GSoC 2024] Virtio Sound: Final Report
Overview During this GSoC period, I focused on developing the virtio sound driver for Haiku, aiming to enhance its performance as a guest OS in virtualized environments. This journey began with some...
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[GSoC 2024]: Implementing Incremental Search [Final Report]
Introduction The goal of this post is to document the changes I’ve successfully made during the GSoC period, the current state of the project, future enhancement goals, and a few other topics. I also...
View ArticleHaiku Activity & Contract Report, August 2024
This report covers hrev57901 through hrev58042. R1/beta5 was of course released just a few days ago, and many (though not all) of the changes in this report made it in to the release. Applications...
View ArticleHaiku Activity & Contract Report, September 2024 (ft. packagefs memory usage...
This report covers hrev58043 through hrev58187. We’re now back to development “as usual” after the release of R1/beta5 (though some of the changes in this report did make it in to the release itself.)...
View ArticleHaiku Activity & Contract Report, October 2024
This report covers hrev58188 through hrev58291. Applications nipos adjusted Icon-O-Matic to open file panels in the same folder as the current file, fixed a bug in FontDemo that was preventing direct...
View ArticleHaiku Activity & Contract Report, November 2024
This report covers hrev58292 through hrev58368. Applications apl added an “installed” indicator to icons in HaikuDepot’s list view, and continued the refactoring of its internal data model. humdinger...
View ArticleHaiku Activity & Contract Report, December 2024 (ft. Iceweasel)
This report covers hrev58369 through hrev58486. Iceweasel The biggest piece of news from last month is the arrival of “Iceweasel”, a web browser built from Mozilla Firefox source code but without any...
View ArticleHaiku Activity & Contract Report, January 2025
This report covers hrev58487 through hrev58583. Applications omesh-barhate contributed a patch to add a context menu to WebPositive’s bookmark bar items, to allow them to be edited more easily....
View ArticleHaiku Activity & Contract Report, February 2025
This report covers hrev58584 through hrev58696. Applications jscipione fixed opening folders by double-clicking the “Location” column in query results in Tracker. He also fixed hard-coded values for...
View ArticleHaiku Activity & Contract Report, March 2025
This report covers hrev58697 through hrev58787. Applications jscipione did some minor code cleanups in Tracker. humdinger added some more translator credits to AboutSystem. OscarL adjusted...
View ArticleHaiku Activity & Contract Report, April 2025
This report covers hrev58788 through hrev58847. Applications jackburton79 fixed a case where the cursor color in Terminal wouldn’t be initialized, especially notable when running Terminal as a...
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