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              * Kolibri OS  0.7.7.0+ *

              *    February 2010     *

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   The latest release of the OS is available on the official site:

            http://kolibrios.org

   If you have questions - look for support on our forum:

            http://board.kolibrios.org (rus+eng)

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             *  What is new in this release?   *

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    The following changes, revisions, fixes in the kernel have been made:

  From Evgeny Grechnikov (Diamond) - Russian Federation

    1) Improvement of drives detection using BIOS service (V86)

    2) Kernel bugfixes.

  From Sergey Semyonov (Serge) - Russian Federation

    1) Driver for ATI videocards updated.

    2) Linux-like kernel mutexes

  From Mihail Semenyako (mike.dld) - Republic of Belarus

    1) Refactoring of window subsystem.

  From 

    1) Processing API functions in order to completely remove the shift-register-call

    2) Refactoring, optimization, bugfixes of some places in the kernel.

  From A.Jerdev (art_zh) - United Kingdom

    1) Memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) access from the userworld.

    2) PCIe Extended configuration space access (auto-adjust for AMD-NPT since Athlon64).

  From turbanoff

    1) Read from ext2fs/ext3fs.

  From Marat Zakiyanov (Mario79) - Russian Federation

    1) Improvements in the processing of mouse clicks.

  From hidnplayr

    1) Rewriting of the entire network subsystem.

  From Asper

   1) Drivers for the sound cards VT823(X) and EMU10K1X.

  From tsdima

    1) Driver for the sound card ForteMedia fm801.

  From Maxis

    1) changes in free memory checks.

    The following changes, revisions, fixes in applications have been made:

   * New versions of applications and new applications:

    FTPS     - tsdima, some improvements

    VIEW3DS  - macgub, version 0.054

    FASM     - Pavel Rymovski (Heavyiron), updated to version 1.69.11

               IgorA, use the library box_lib, russification,

               Marat Zakiyanov (Mario79) fix bugs encountered

               Evgeny Grechnikov (Diamond), fix of window wrapping

    PCIDEV   - art_zh,  MMIO sample dumps added;  vendors database

                trimmed to reduce the distro size. 

    BOARD    - Evgeny Grechnikov (Diamond), do not throw out existing

                messages at the program start

    UNVWATER - Asper, demo ported from OctaOS

                (the author is Octavio Vega Fernandez).

    HEED     - staper, version 0.14: use the library box_lib;

                Ctrl+C/X/V, Ctrl+B to select a block

               Marat Zakiyanov (Mario79), using of OpenDialog component,

                little optimization of the code    

    SHELL    - Albom, version 0.4.2

    CPU      - Evgeny Grechnikov (Diamond) at the suggestion of

               Kirill Lipatov (Leency), do not show system processes

                by default

    HTMLV    - Kirill Lipatov (Leency), version 0.62a

    EOLITE   - Kirill Lipatov (Leency), version 0.98.7a

    RTFREAD  - Sorcerer, cosmetic fix

               dunkaist, menu_bar and scroll_bar from box_lib, 'end' hotkey

    E80      - Albom, version 0.5.1

    KIV      - Evgeny Grechnikov (Diamond), file name in the window

                title, configurable keyboard shortcuts for next/prev

                images in the current folder

    SUDOKU   - staper, port of Sudoku game - that is a puzzle with digits, where you

                have to fill free cells with digits from 1 to 9 so that every row,

                every column and every small square 3x3 contain each digit just one time.

                There are 9 levels in the game.

    REVERSI  - staper, port of strategy game Reversi (Othello)

    MSQUARE  - staper, math puzzle "magic square": sum of the numbers in rows, columns 

                (less often in diagonals) should be equal

    FINDN-S  - Artemonische, a simple game in which you have to collect all the numbers 

                in the order of 10 to 90

    PANEL    - Evgeny Grechnikov (Diamond), a little change in the panel clock

                and reanimation of backlight on the Alt+[Shift+]Tab press.

    AC97SND  - Asper, support of playlists in m3u format.

    @NOTIFY  - SoUrcerer, program for popup text messages

    DOSBOX   - Evgeny Grechnikov (Diamond), version 0.74

    ASCIIVJU - Konstantin Dutkevich (Nazarus), program shows ASCII table 

    PIPETKA  - Rock_maniak_forever, program to get color of a pixel on the screen

    SNAKE    - dunkaist, yet another implementation of classic game

   * New versions of dynamic libraries and new dynamic libraries:

    libini   - Evgeny Grechnikov (Diamond), added function to read

                keyboard shortcuts

    box_lib  - IgorA, update component tree_list, new component

                text_editor, documentation on the library

               Marat Zakiyanov (Mario79) refinement of ŽpenDialog component, rewriting 

                of some applications to use it, new component PathShow

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* Dates of publication of the distribution kits *

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RE N1           30.08.2003

RE N2           07.10.2003

RE N3           26.11.2003

RE N4           23.12.2003

RE N5           15.02.2004

RE N6           27.03.2004

KOLIBRI N1      16.05.2004

RE N7           11.06.2004

KOLIBRI N2      28.08.2004

RE N8           01.12.2004

KOLIBRI N3      22.02.2005  

        Beta 2: 20.03.2005

KOLIBRI N4      07.06.2005

KOLIBRI 0.5.0.0 04.10.2005

        0.5.1.0 12.10.2005

        0.5.2.0 02.12.2005

        0.5.3.0 18.03.2006

        0.5.8.0 09.07.2006

        0.5.8.1 25.07.2006

        0.6.0.0 04.09.2006

        0.6.3.0 31.10.2006

        0.6.5.0 14.02.2007

        0.7.0.0 07.06.2007

        0.7.1.0 23.09.2007

        0.7.5.0 31.01.2009

        0.7.7.0 13.12.2009