kallisti5 Haiku, Inc.

Amazing work everyone!! Special thanks to @waddlesplash for his awesome work as release coordinator for R1/beta5!!!

DigitalBox

Thank you for the work on Haiku!

I will try it quite soon.

The R1 Beta R4 has been installed as my main OS on my NUC Intel, so I hope to continue to use this new version on this machine as well

squizzler

…And on Friday 13th too!

Well done to all concerned. Can’t wait to give it a go.

KitsunePrefecture

It was very interesting story to follow the transition

from R1B4 stage* – which brought many new features/browsers/other apps into Haiku

*(better POSIX compatibility, Xlib (X11) compatibility layer,
Wayland compatibility layer and GTK 3: those altogether make available more ported browser possibilities, new Wifi drivers from *BSDs )

to R1B5 stage** – that took more and more developer-candy stuff , polished OS services, network improvement and wider stability and reliability into Haiku

**( native Genio IDE, .NET port, GDB GNU debugger port, USB Audio (!) fix, other USB refactorings, TUN/TAP driver and protocol,really very old tickets and bugs fixed during the way thanks to refactoring and new contributors, SSL/TLS uprade to more up-to-date version, network refactorings, Tracker improvements, FAT driver is being rewritten, UFS2 (RO) and XFS improved a lot however not merged yet, and not merged yet many things as those ones developments are in progress : WebKit2, HW virtualization support)

I must admit - there were many fix in R1B4 too and … refactoring and OS stability , relaibility work started in that period, but the overall “feeling” was that this one and half year better happened “working under the hood” as if you take consideration … all the huge ports also went in that manner - I enlisted them above. :j

Thank you for better performance and reliability both in terms of OS and network !

BlueSky

Congratulations on the beta5 release. Already updated the first one of my Haiku VMs, worked flawlessly. A big Thank You to everyone that contributed to this release. I’m proud to be a part of such an amazing community!