ReactOS 0.4.13 released

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ReactOS 0.4.13 released

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The ReactOS Team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.4.13. As with prior releases, keywords are noted representing the release itself and highlighting key improvements. In this particular case, the 0.4.13 version shows the results of significant hard work to bring improvements to the USB stack, further development on the Xbox port boot process, an Explorer File Search for the Shell module, as well as many other changes.

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USB Improvements
USB (Universal Serial Bus) is an important standard adopted throughout the industry and used widely on many devices such as external storage, keyboards, mice, and various other devices. Notably, there are a great number of computers that do not come with a CD-ROM drive these days, with the only option being USB in order to boot or install an operating system. The USB stack itself is arguably a very complicated one, the code to support it is complex, and maintaining it is not an easy task. ReactOS currently lags behind an advanced USB implementation as various bugs and regressions still plague the system. Despite this, many people have worked hard and contributed code to improve USB functionality in ReactOS.

Vadim Galyant and Victor Perevertkin have brought in a new USB stack which provides many fixes as well as improvements to various areas, improving USB support in general. Although there is a long journey ahead towards an advanced and perfectly functional USB stack within ReactOS, the new module already supports HID and storage devices.

Explorer File Search Bring-Up
The graphical shell (aka Explorer) is a vital component that allows the user to interact with the system. The shell itself, though, lacks a lot of stuff which deeply limits the overall ability for the user to interact with the system in an easy and flexible way. However, with work done during the Google Summer of Code 2019, the shell has seen a new feature implemented - file search. Thanks to student Brock Mammen, this feature will help the user find the exact location of a file without the hassle of having to search for content manually or to rely on third-party programs. The screenshot below demonstrates the search feature in action:

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Xbox ReactOS Port Improvements
Once upon a time, ReactOS had an Xbox architecture port specifically to boot ReactOS onto the first generation of Xbox console hardware. With ReactOS code making significant changes over time, the port was not maintained and had been largely ignored by developers who were focused on other issues.

Due to the significant amount of changes in various areas that ReactOS was receiving, it was discovered that the OS could no longer boot on Xbox hardware. Now, this is no longer the case as ReactOS contributor Stanislav Motylkov, with the help from Matt Borgerson, have brought changes to the port which show tremendous improvement. And as is often the case with porting code to a new system, the work has also helped ReactOS more broadly by exposing nasty bugs in some fundamental modules of the system.

The following screenshot shows ReactOS running in an Xbox emulator, XQEMU:

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FreeLoader FAT Boot Speed-Up
In past releases, booting ReactOS on a system that was partitioned using the FAT filesystem could be a burden, as you had to wait some time for ReactOS to boot. FreeLoader (the ReactOS bootloader) has to do a lot of stuff in order to get ReactOS ready for boot, but unfortunately it was
doing this in an unoptimized way. In this release, Victor Perevertkin did a great job optimizing the FAT driver of FreeLoader, significantly improving the boot speed when using this filesystem for USB-RAM boot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEsNzuXzcHQ

Accessibility
In the area of accessibility in ReactOS, new software was introduced - the Accessibility Utility Manager. Developed by ReactOS contributor Bișoc George, the Accessibility Utility Manager, as the name implies, manages the accessibility applications of ReactOS. The following screenshot shows the program in operation:
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Similarly, the On-Screen Keyboard has seen some improvements to theming support and there have been some additional features and minor bug fixes in the Magnifier.

Font Management
Developer Katayama Hirofumi has continued his work to bring ReactOS’ font support closer to that of Windows. With the merging of two large
pull requests, system font management is now done via the registry rather than in an ad-hoc way. This brings improved compatibility and
stability to ReactOS.

Other Improvements
Besides the highlighted points of this release, we should not forget that the whole of ReactOS - components such as DLLs, applications, and other modules have been improved.

In addition to the improvements to accessibility features mentioned above, Bișoc George also fixed some common dialog boxes where the “Apply” button enabled itself unconditionally even though the user had not taken any action. Furthermore, he also fixed an issue regarding disk space where the Recycle Bin could occupy more than the available disk space.

The 64-bit ReactOS build is getting better and better such that now ReactOS is fully booting and working in an x64 environment thanks to Timo Kreuzer’s work continuing to progress further.

Third Party Syncs
ReactOS is an open source project that collaborates with various other open source projects all around the globe. The following list shows the 3rd party libraries that other projects share with ReactOS, and with the responsible committers that have synced the libraries with the ReactOS project.

* BtrFS v1.4 by Pierre Schweitzer
* ACPICA v20190816 by Thomas Faber
* UniATA v0.47a by Thomas Faber
* mbedTLS v2.7.11 by Thomas Faber
* libpng v1.6.37 by Thomas Faber

Statistics
JIRA Issues fixed of this release - 278
Number of commits as of this release - 1282
Oldest issue fixed as of this release - CORE-4995

* Press Release: https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-0413-released/
* General Notes: https://reactos.org/wiki/0.4.13
* The official Changelog for the 0.4.13 release: https://reactos.org/wiki/ChangeLog-0.4.13
* The less technical Community Changelog for 0.4.13: https://reactos.org/wiki/Community_Changelog-0.4.13
* Application Tests for 0.4.13: https://reactos.org/wiki/Tests_for_0.4.13
* Download page: https://reactos.org/download/

releases/0.4.13 branch was forked from master on 2019-09-30 after 0.4.13-dev-1225-ge413df4
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Re: ReactOS 0.4.13 released

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Good Job !
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Re: ReactOS 0.4.13 released

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Great job
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Re: ReactOS 0.4.13 released

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Nice. I'm just now installing it in a vm
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Re: ReactOS 0.4.13 released

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Good job!
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Re: ReactOS 0.4.13 released

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Nice job, especially the file search is a good addition!
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Files ReacOs 0.4.13

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read os does not run exe files (test: total commander 32bit application). After receiving an error message, I tried stretching the window which caused an error:

Technical information:
*** STOP 0x0000001E (C0000005,0xF71450F3,0xEED9D8A0,0x00000000)
*** WIN32K.SYS - ADRES F71450F3 BASE AT F7131000, DATA STAMP 5E8EF61E

fragments of exe files that are read and unread:

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Windows Xp read all files
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Re: Files ReacOs 0.4.13

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TSL wrote: Tue Nov 03, 2020 9:04 pm read os does not run exe files (test: total commander 32bit application). After receiving an error message, I tried stretching the window which caused an error:

Technical information:
*** STOP 0x0000001E (C0000005,0xF71450F3,0xEED9D8A0,0x00000000)
*** WIN32K.SYS - ADRES F71450F3 BASE AT F7131000, DATA STAMP 5E8EF61E

fragments of exe files that are read and unread:
This is not the place for bug reporting.

Please read this and this.

Unless you have a reason for testing with 0.4.13, then try the latest build.
Please keep the Windows classic 9x/2000 look and feel.
The layman's guides - debugging - bug reporting - compiling - ISO remaster.
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Re: ReactOS 0.4.13 released

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what's new in this release?
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Re: ReactOS 0.4.13 released

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Interwoo wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 12:57 pm what's new in this release?
To answer your question, read the change log.

But 0.4.13 was released almost 12 months ago, so it is now an old release.
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Re: ReactOS 0.4.13 released

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Great job, looking forward to a better result.
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Re: ReactOS 0.4.13 released

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As one full year has passed without a new version (and Nightly builds show 0.4.15 already), what actually happend to version 0.4.14?
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Re: ReactOS 0.4.13 released

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Commander_Keen wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 12:26 am As one full year has passed without a new version (and Nightly builds show 0.4.15 already), what actually happened to version 0.4.14?
It is still not ready for release, due to having too many bugs, but you can find release candidates at SourceForge.
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Re: ReactOS 0.4.13 released

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oldman wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 11:03 am It is still not ready for release, due to having too many bugs, but you can find release candidates at SourceForge.
Is there any measurement (quantitative or qualitative, calculated or empirical) available in public to get a more detailed overall picture?

Thanks from a fly-by guy. :)
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Re: ReactOS 0.4.13 released

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saulius2 wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:55 pm
oldman wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 11:03 am It is still not ready for release, due to having too many bugs, but you can find release candidates at SourceForge.
Is there any measurement (quantitative or qualitative, calculated or empirical) available in public to get a more detailed overall picture?

Thanks from a fly-by guy. :)
This page: https://reactos.org/wiki/Tests_for_0.4.14
They can't release 0.4.14 until the known unfixed regressions number under 16, they're currently at 22. Personally, I wish that someone with the free time would get around to fixing CORE-16742, but there's far more important stuff being worked on right now (AMD64, multiprocessing) so I understand how low priority it is. I would try to fix it myself but I don't know where I'd start.
Currently using: 0.4.15-x86-dev-4872-g8a3db97 (VirtualBox)
Pretty good so far, keep up the good work! :D
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