Welcome to the May-June 2020 activity report!
Yes! You probably already know, the Beta 2 version has shipped and is available for download. There was a lot of work done towards the release, and then some of us decided to take a break from Haiku for a few weeks to compensate for it.
Although I don’t understand most of the technicalities in these activity reports, I do understand how much work is being done by quite a small number of people, and how much there is still to do… Well done! Your work is appreciated.
And good to see that progress continues to be made with Web+.
I am really impressed with the work done. I appreciate the effort balance between fixing issues and adding new features. I am also grateful for wise and productive resource management in GSoC. Keep it running!
Amazing work, wished the install process would be better in future.
But anyway great to see the Beta2, waiting for Beta3
Hi. Thanks for all the good work on Beta2 and the nightly updates. If I notice an issue I normally wait a week or 2 and it gets fixed. There is however one thing that always crashes the whole system. If you use WebPositive to view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89w-L3aICj4 It used to crash a few seconds into the add. Now it crashes the whole system if you try to go backwards or forwards a few times in the video. It happens on real hardware and also in VMware. I captured a screenshot and hope it will help. The bug has been around in both Beta2 and the nightly versions for at least a month.
Cheers.
This is an app_server crash, but you should use the Haiku bugtracker ( http://dev.haiku-os.org ) to report problems.
Yes, which was closed as a duplicate, but that bug should also be resolved in both the nightlies and in the Beta2 update channel. Nobody has reported it as definitively fixed however, and I could only reproduce it intermittently…
Reproduced on hrev54390 x86_64 w/ FFmpeg 4.2.2-6. On my end, no issues with running the Youtube AVC-1/MP4a videos end-to-end or during frame sliding (but after a few minutes of web browser tinkering, it happens). If I stop the video, restart Web+, and go to another site from the preloaded Youtube URL, nothing happens. But, I know the issue is ‘randomly’ reproducible with normal web browsing with Web+ and video accelerant interaction (leading back to the app_server) when watching Youtube prerecorded videos.
NOTE: Oddly, Youtube video playback seems more stable with Otter. Web+ may use a method which triggers the event more easily.
I remember this happened around the memory management mapping changes (i.e. SMAP) with the video drivers last year or so…