ChangeLog-0.3.6

This is the changelog for ReactOS™ version 0.3.6 (not released yet), 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 0.3.5 (released 30 June, 2008).

General

Translations

• Update Slovak and Czech translations for calc, solitaire, winmine, shell32 and desk.cpl by Mário Kačmár (bug #3519)
• Add/update Spanish and basque translations for notepad, explorer, explorere-new, winlogon, access.cpl, deskadp, deskmon, slayer, shell32 and shimgvw. (Javier Remacha, bug #3376)
• Add/update Ukrainian translation for kbswitch and shell32 by Artem Reznikov (bug #3405).
• Added German translation of Strings in INF-files (media/inf) (bug #3396) (Matthias Kupfer)
• Add/update Slovak translation for shell32, newdev, intl.cpl, mmsys.cpl, media/inf/*.inf, calc, solitare, winemine, setup/reactos and desk.cpl by Mário Kačmár (bug #3414, #3518, #3519)
• Update Czech translation for several win32/cpl files and calc by Radek Liska (bug #3413)
• Update Italian translation for usetup, regedit and sehll32 by Paolo Devoti (bug #3435)
• Update Polish translation of usrmgr by Maciej Bialas (bug #3480)
• Update Slovak, Ukrianian and Polish translations for packmgr by Mário Kačmár (bug #3601)

Core

Bootloader (FreeLoader)

• Reduce Freeldr memory requirements: FreeLoader first reads entire ntoskrnl.exe (about 20M) into memory, then copies it to other address. Now, freeldr reads it straight to the place, not allocating extra memory for buffer (Dmitry Gorbachev, bug #3447)

Kernel and Executive (NTOSKRNL)

EX

• Include a "System Idle Process" as the first item in QSI SystemProcessInformation (Aleksey Bragin)

• Pass thread's CreateTime in QSI SystemProcessInformation (Aleksey Bragin)

• Better implementation of QSI SystemInterruptInformation (Aleksey Bragin)

IO

• Save pointer to driver's section in DriverSection during driver loading (Aleksey Bragin, bug #3221)

• Fix unloading function to check if a driver to be unloaded really has DriverSection set, and if not, fail (Aleksey Bragin, bug #3221)

• Fix Irp flags assignment in case of an IoAllocateIrp call with ChargeQuota set to TRUE (Aleksey Brgin)

KE

• Fix a problem with normal and special APCs being inserted in the wrong order, spotted by Jury Sidorov. Now Borland Turbo Debugger should be able to debug applications, also it can fix hangs in other applications (Aleksey Bragin, Jury Sidorov, bug #3426)

• PDT of CSRSS has no entry for TCB of the thread, fix this problem (Dmitry Gorbachev, bug #3591)

MM

• Prevent boolean flags from being optimized away by compiler (due to PSEH usage) by making them volatile (Jury Sidorov, bug #3408)

• MiGetLastKernelAddress was totally broken on x86 and always returned the highest available physical page, thus the PFN database always end up at the address 0x80000000 and higher (just before the kernel). And when PFN database's size was bigger than usual (e.g. 1Gb of RAM and more), the PFN database zeroed out the kernel. This logic was introduced by 32640 commit. Fix it. (Aleksey Bragin)

PS

• Don't leak critical region when going through failure return branch (Dmitry Gorbachev)

Run Time Library (RTL)

• Prevent crashes when heapPtr is NULL, also fix broken heap magic output (Aleksey Bragin, Roel Messiant)

• Always call ZwRaiseException in user mode and RtlDispatchException in kernel mode. If RtlDispatchException failed call ZwRaiseException in kernel mode. Otherwise unhandled RtlRaiseException() call in kernel mode simply ignored (do nothing)! (Jury Sidorov)

• Call RtlRaiseStatus in RtlRaiseException, if something went wrong (Jury Sidorov)

Kernel Mode Drivers

AFD

• Move IRP completion out of spinlock (Cameron Gutman)
• Fix problems with handling cancelled IRPs (Cameron Gutman)
• Fix a few memory leaks (Cameron Gutman)
• Fix lock releasing issues (Cameron Gutman)
• Don't pass a bad IRP on failure (Cameron Gutman)
• Also cancel the connect IRP (Cameron Gutman)
• Add DeviceObject checks (Cameron Gutman)

TCPIP

• Fix problems in the IRP cancellation routine (Cameron Gutman)
• Fix a problem in which we wait on an event that isn't set (Cameron Gutman)
• Don't mark the IRP as pending while setting its cancel routine (Cameron Gutman)
• Remove a hack from DispTdiSendDatagram (Cameron Gutman)

NDIS

• Reenable commented out spinlocks in MiniIndicateData (Cameron Gutman)
• Don't raise IRQL before calling MiniDoRequest (Cameron Gutman)

BOOTVID

• Fix a problem in VgaIsPresent: Content of the Address Register goes to the Data Register, and vice versa. It also writes content of the Map Select Register (which is number 4) into the Bit Mask Register (number 8) (Dmitry Gorbachev, bug #2125)

SCSIPORT

• Don't release the same spinlock twice on failure (Cameron Gutman) (bug #3520)

NT System Library (NTDLL)

• Initialize TLS expansion bitmap properly, it fixes accessing uninitialized memory when all regular TEB slots for TLS data are occupied (Aleksey Bragin)

Static Libraries

CRT

• Use "size_t" instead of "unsigned int" where appropriate in crt string functions (Samuel Serapión)
• Fix double linking of snprintf, _snprintf should be used in CRT (Aleksey Bragin)
• Implement %p for scanf (Peter Oberndorfer)
• Implement ___setlc_active_func/___unguarded_readlc_active_add_func (Jon Griffiths)

TCP

• Release spinlock on failure path before returning (Cameron Gutman)

Keyboard Layouts

• Add Slovak QWERTY keyboard layout (kbdsk1.dll) by Mário Kačmár (bug #3528)

Win32™ Personality

Kernel-mode subsystem server (Win32K)

• Fix a typo in the DC_ATTR structure (mxDevicetoWorld -> mxDeviceToWorld) (Stefan Ginsberg)
• Check if pool allocation succeeded right after allocation, not at the end of the function, when the pointer has been used quite a few times already (Aleksey Bragin)

Control panel applets

Intl

• Fixed country codes (each country appears once only) (Matthias Kupfer) (bug #3488)

Win32™ Libraries

ADVAPI32

• Check for DELETE access for deleting services (Michael Martin)
• Dependencies param in CreateService is a double terminated string array (Michael Martin)

GDI32

• Fix a typo in the DC_ATTR structure (mxDevicetoWorld -> mxDeviceToWorld) (Stefan Ginsberg)

OpenGL32

• Modified to make use of precompiled headers (Stefan Ginsberg)

SETUPAPI

• Support of [Strings.LanguageID]-sections for INF-files added in setupapi (bug #3396) (Matthias Kupfer)