Haiku Activity & Contract Report, September 2026 | Haiku Project

This report covers hrev60060 through hrev60192.

jscipione restored and enhanced the “most used queries” feature in the Find panel.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2026-10-13-haiku_activity_contract_report_september_2026/
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Lots of good work! Thanks to all who contributed.

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Ahoy devs !

Thank you for your work !

Personally for me …

—> anything that fixes / enhances USB bus/hubs/devices is very important for me,
as I have installed Haiku systems via USB bus, as actually I have Haiku installment
on USB thunbdrives only. My main system drive is big as thumbdrive - earlier it was
delivered only as external USB case as those are 512 GB size, so enough for any
purpose, even managing/storing large files with ease, but safety and accessing
with speed and handling them as their version should be processed and even reach
new features that basically potentially is/are in the hardware is valuable.
A very big thank you fixing enhancing anything
related to USB support and devices on it !

—>

axeld merged some more of the commits working towards BFS resizing support.

It is long awaited development from my side. I accept that the downloadable installer image you keep on bare minimum, but I would like a bit fatter installer partiton to pimp my installer with customizations I needed for comfort when I would recover a Haiku system from
or install a new Haiku.

Thanks to developing this, and eagerly waiting the documentaion about it and its possible first limitations.

:cowboy_hat_face:

BTW, thanks to all who contributed bug reports, fix suggestions, patches, which were pivotal to the actual changes committed but whose names are not necessarily visible in the above list.

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Actually (and IIRC [1]), mcedit shift+arrows keys selection worked since 2022 (with the switch to s-lang). What is awesome is that now we can have both mcedit and nano use those key-combos for text selection! (I had made a few “fix attempts” in the past, but none that worked for both).

I’m personally very happy with that, as it has been a mayor pain point for me for years. I’m really happy that someone like AutumnMeowMeow, with actual knowledge/understanding of/on all this virtual terminal arcana, had took interest in Haiku, and has chosen to help it where they can. Very much appreciated, Autumn!!!

Wishing for that change to get cherry-picked into beta6 soon.

Edit: now… if readline could be patched to allow for shift+arrow-keys selection… one can dream! :smiley:

Edit2: [1]

Seems I half-remember it, might have worked only after https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/7241

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great work for September.
The beta6 was not so good to release it that early, I had a lot of problems with it, but now everything works great.

Maybe a beta7 will be around.
More stable and without all the problems.
That why I do not want to buy a beta6 CD a stable CD would be great to have soon! Maybe at christmas?
Anyway the september was a lot a new things and improvements

Thank you all devs and wow, great work