************************ * Kolibri OS 0.7.7.0+ * * February 2010 * ************************ 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) *********************************** * What is new in this release? * *********************************** 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 ˇpenDialog component, rewriting of some applications to use it, new component PathShow /-----------------------------------------------\ * Dates of publication of the distribution kits * \-----------------------------------------------/ 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 /----------------\ * KolibriOS TEAM * \----------------/ This list contains all, who has actively helped to creation and development of KolibriOS, whoever possible. (people are enumerated in the order by time of participation in the project, from bottom to top - from past to future, through present) * Trans \ * VaStaNi | * Ivan Poddubny | * Marat Zakiyanov (Mario79) | * Mihail Semenyako (mike.dld) | system programming * Sergey Kuzmin (Wildwest) | * Andrey Halyavin (halyavin) | loaders, * Mihail Lisovin (Mihasik) | kernel improvements and so on * Andrey Ignatiev (andrew_programmer) | * NoName | * Evgeny Grechnikov (Diamond) | * Iliya Mihailov (Ghost) | * Sergey Semyonov (Serge) | * Johnny_B | * kasTIgar | * SPraid | * Rus | * Alver | * Maxis | * Galkov | * CleverMouse | * tsdima | * turbanoff | * Asper | * art_zh / * Mihail Lisovin (Mihasik) \ * Andrey Ivushkin (Willow) | * Mihail Semenyako (mike.dld) | * Pavlushin Evgeny (Exis) | * Ivan Poddubny | application programming * Marat Zakiyanov (Mario79) | * Sergey Kuzmin (Wildwest) | * Andrey Halyavin (halyavin) | creation of new, * Hex | port of existing * Andrey Ignatiev (andrew_programmer) | or revisions of old * ealex | applications for Kolibri * Olaf | * Evgeny Grechnikov (Diamond) | * Navanax | * Johnny_B | * Pavel Rymovski (Heavyiron) | * Vitaly Bendik (mistifi(ator) | * Iliya Mihailov (Ghost) | * Maxim Evtihov (Maxxxx32) | * Vladimir Zaitsev (Rabid Rabbit) | * vectoroc | * Alexey Teplov () | * Sergey Semyonov (Serge) | * YELLOW | * iadn | * Maciej Guba (macgub) | * Mario Birkner (cYfleXX) | * hidden player (hidnplayr) | * trolly | * nilgui | * kaitz | * DedOk | * SPraid | * Rus | * Alver | * Dron2004 | * Gluk | * Aleksandr Bogomaz (Albom) | * Kirill Lipatov (Leency) | * Vasiliy Kosenko (vkos) | * IgorA | * staper | * chaykin | * Alexander Meshcheryakov | (Self-Perfection) | * CleverMouse | * tsdima | * art_zh | * Asper | * Pterox | * Artemonische | * dunkaist / * Hex \ * Diamond / documentation * CodeWorld \ forum http://meos.sysbin.com * mike.dld / site http://kolibrios.org; svn-server * Alexey Teplov () \ (KolibriOS logo) * goglus | design (KolibriOS background) * Kirill Lipatov (Leency) / (KolibriOS icons) * Pavel Rymovski (Heavyiron) \ * Vitaly Bendik (mistifi(ator) | * vectoroc | * Veliant | testing, * AqwAS | countenance * Mike | * camper | * Dmitry the Sorcerer | * Ataualpa | * Maxis | * Galkov | * ChE / and others... KolibriOS team