HTTP Network Services Preview in R1 Beta 4

Blog post by nielx on Fri, 2022-12-30 00:00

The newest beta of Haiku includes a preview of a redesigned, modern HTTP library as the initial part of an renewed Network Services Kit. The primary goal of including the library is to get developers to experiment with it and give feedback on how it works within their software. The secondary goal is to gather some feedback on the use of modern C++ and some additional experimental features. This article provides a background to the new kit, some pointers on how to get started, and some notes on experimental designs that utilize modern C++ features.

Haiku Activity & Contract Report, November 2022

Blog post by waddlesplash on Mon, 2022-12-12 22:30

As is the usual way of things, the monthly Activity Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report.

This report covers hrev56565 through hrev56626.

Haiku Activity & Contract Report, October 2022

Blog post by waddlesplash on Mon, 2022-11-14 23:40

As is the usual way of things, the monthly Activity Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report.

This report covers hrev56505 to hrev56564.

Haiku Activity & Contract Report, September 2022

Blog post by waddlesplash on Mon, 2022-10-10 23:50

As is the usual way of things, the monthly Activity Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report.

This report covers hrev56400 to hrev56504.

GSoC 2022 Final Report: Improving the Calendar Application

Blog post by HarshitSharma on Mon, 2022-09-12 15:04

Project Description A Calendar application is a must have application for any operating system and is beneficial for end users as well as developers. Having a feature-rich Calendar might not sound like a big deal, but it can drastically impact your performance at work and personal life. The basic idea of my project was to improve the Calendar Application, by implementing the the following features: Filter Utility Reminders Utility Calendar Profiles (After some discussion, we decided not to work on this) Hence, I ended up implementing the Filters and Reminders

[GSoC 2022] Ham: Final Report

Blog post by dominicm on Sat, 2022-09-10 10:42

Hello everyone. Thank you for having me the past few months; it’s been a busy, fun ride. This is the final report for Ham, a replacement to the Jam build system. I’d like to thank Stephan Aßmus for taking the time to mentor me, and the rest of the Haiku community for being responsive and receptive to Ham’s development. You can find the Ham repo on Github, as well as a project board for current issues.

Haiku Activity & Contract Report, August 2022

Blog post by waddlesplash on Fri, 2022-09-09 22:00

As is the usual way of things, the monthly Activity Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report.

This report covers hrev56321 to hrev56399.

David Karoly, who has been doing a lot of work in and around the ARM ports, was granted commit access last month. Welcome to the team, David!

[GSoC 2022] XFS : Final Report

Blog post by mashijams on Fri, 2022-09-09 00:00

Hello! Hope everyone is doing well. GSoC 2022 is nearing its end so here is the final report on my project, which aims at adding more XFS file system support on Haiku. You can see all my patches submitted during program here Work done during program This is short overview of all the work I did during GSoC : XFS version 5 support Implemented version 5 read support for all forms of directories Implemented version 5 read support for all forms of files.

Haiku Activity & Contract Report, July 2022

Blog post by waddlesplash on Tue, 2022-08-09 23:00

As is now the usual way of things, the monthly Activity Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report.

This report covers hrev56236 to hrev56320.

[GSoC 2022] ARM port and device tree support Phase 1

Blog post by Zhihong Niu on Thu, 2022-07-28 00:00

Hello everyone. It’s been a rough month, I’m having issues with the ARM port and it’s holding me back. Anyway, I’m on my way, which is great news. TODO Continue the ARM port The latest issue is a page fault occur at thread 778(which is the user thread). 778: init: libz.so.1 vm_page_fault: vm_soft_fault returned error 'Bad address' on fault at 0x0, ip 0x0, write 0, user 1, exec 1, thread 0x30a thread_hit_serious_debug_event(): Failed to install debugger: thread: 778 (launch_daemon): Bad port ID Prepare fdt