Community Changelog-0.4.15

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Kernel:

• IO: Properly check the Ft volumes. This fixes regression that Unix drives are not assigned a drive letter. (Pierre Schweitzer)
• IO: Rewritten letter assigning to disks to make NT5-compliant. (Pierre Schweitzer)
• FreeLoader: Work with Xbox GPU memory registers properly. (Stanislav Motlykov)
• FreeLoader: Added vertical screen scrolling for Xbox with console mode. (Dmitry Borisov)

Setup:

• Optimize font loading. (Herve Poussineau)
• Support a custom way to extract files for cabinet files. This will be used to extract files from cabinet to memory, instead of

writing them to disk. (Herve Poussineau)

Win32 subsystem:

• win32ss/ntuser: Allocate a buffer for a classname that is too long. This fixes .NET WPF applications not starting. (Mark Jansen)
• win32ss/fonts: Added Selawik as a substitution for Segoe UI. (William Kent)
• reactx/ntddraw: Fixed a bug causing DirectX 1-7 games not starting. (Oleg Dubinskiy)
• user32: Fixed display corruption issues when scrolling in Change Icon dialog and a number of cases. (Jose Carlos Jesus)
• smss: Fixed bug causes truncation of processor names. (Hermes Belusca-Maito)
• userinit: Added unattend.inf functionality to LiveCD. (Mark Jansen)

Drivers:

• floppy: Make floppy drives letters being handled by the mount manager. (Pierre Schweitzer)
• usbccgp: Fixed some bugs found by Driver Verifier. (Thomas Faber)
• tcpip: Fixed "Socket is not connected" error when using SUMo/DUMo. (Sylvain Deverre)
• isapnp: Enabled the driver with major bug fixes. (Herve Poussineau)
• blue: Add an IOCTL to directly choose which font to use (instead of codepage). (Herve Poussineau)
• xboxvmp: Work with Xbox GPU memory registers properly. (Stanislav Motylkov)

Shell:

• shell32: Command 'start C:' now opens drive C. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ)
• shell32: Enable Del/Delete key to delete the selected folder in "Browse for Folder" dialog. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ)
• shell32: Improve Recent Documents in Start Menu. Add items of "My Documents" and "My Pictures" into Recent menu item. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ)
• shell32: Fixed "Open With..." spamming registry MRU keys. (Kyle Katarn)
• shell32: Set the Run dialog to use the newer style browse for file dialog. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ)
• shell32: Notify filesystem changes. Now creating or deleting files/folders will be responsive in Explorer. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ)
• shell32: Distinguish floppy drive and non-floppy removable drive in icon and description. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ)
• shell32: Show error if the drive type is unknown or there is no volume mounted. (Charles Ambrye)
• shimgvw: Correctly draw display border. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ)
• zipfldr: Fixed date on extraction. (Mark Jansen)

System DLLs:

• ntdll/rtl: Some work towards debug information. (Mark Jansen)
• ntdll/rtl: Implemented functionality allows viewing unloaded modules in Windbg. (Mark Jansen)
• ntdll/crt: Implemented __chkstk function for ARM. This makes ReactOS applications compiled for ARM running on ARM Windows. (Mohamed Mediouni)

User-mode DLLs:

• comdlg32: Fixed bug that causes glitches in Registry Editor. (Kyle Katarn)
• comdlg32: Fixed ALT+F4 not closing the application if focus is on treeview component (example Regedit, Event Viewer). (Kyle Katarn)
• comdlg32: Added Recent Documents and My Network Places to the places bar in the open file dialog. (Jared Smudde)
• shlwapi: Fixed bug causes main application of TuneUp Utilities 2014 not starting. (Oleg Dubinskiy)
• appwiz: Make shortcut name selected on creation. (Jose Carlos Jesus)
• setupapi: Fixed bug causes D-LINK DWA-123 USB wireless dongle driver installation to fail. (Oleg Dubinskiy)
• syssetup: Fixed a bug causes Windows Media Encoder 9 not installing. (Oleg Dubinskiy)
• ole32: Fixed a bug SUMo causes "Scan folder" command to fail on second attempt in SUMo. (Kyle Katarn, Nikolay Sivov, Doug Lyons)
• profmap: Added initial DLL. (Oleg Dubinskiy)

Commands and utilities:

• control: Fixed a hang in Control Panel. (wimh, Robert Naumann)
• sysdm.cpl: Fixed System Properties unduely closing when Users Profile sub-dialog closed with ESC. (Kyle Katarn)
• powercfg.cpl: Rearranged and fixed minor bugs. (Kyle Katarn)
• netid.cpl: Improved the Computer Name property page along with other minor bug fixes. (Eric Kohl)
• notepad: Add the saved file to Recent Documents. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ)
• mspaint: Add the saved file to Recent Documents. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ)
• mspaint: Rewritten loading/saving image file. (Katayama Hirofumi MZ)
• regedit: Fixed a memory leak. (Kyle Katarn)
• iexplore: Make DuckDuckGo our default search engine. (Victor Perevertkin)
• rapps: Added error messages on all download failure cases. (Kyle Katarn)
• arp: Minor bug fixes. (Eric Kohl)
• umpnpmgr: Some more progress. (Eric Kohl)

Tasks:

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