Hi OS/2World,
The Phoenix project proudly presents the new release of the OS/4 kernel that just has been made available at site.
Whatsnew list includes the new
SCREEN03.SYS and
SDDHELP.SYS drivers, bugfixes, enhancements and new features.
Due to the technical problems that will be fixed ASAP the new kernel releases are
not available on
Russian Underground/2 server.
They are posted at
gus.biysk.ru server in the /os4 directory. For example, the current latest release,
SVN4227, is available
here as a zip file.
I will also update this topic for every new release to keep the OS/2World community up to date with the Phoenix project.
To help new OS/4 users, I've created
a page on OS/2World Wiki, which consists of
Even if you are an experienced user (OS/2, or both OS/2 and OS/4), you are recommended to read it anyway, because there are lots of changes in the recent releases.
Also help on the page, especially if you are a native English speaker, is
needed and appreciated.
20 Feb 2014.
SVN416
8 released.
Don't know about changes in this release.
QSINIT loader
full source code has just been made available -->
-->
http://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,324.msg2882.html#msg2882
06 Mar 2014.
SVN416
9 released.
Whatsnew list from 416
6 to 416
9 is as follows:
- Interrupt router enhancements.
- Some bugs fixed, thanks to [joseph] for testing.
10 Mar 2014.
SVN41
71 released.
- A bug in recent OS/4 versions was fixed, that caused VirtualPC/2 to crash on start with OS4APIC.PSD driver loaded.
- A bug related to DLL loading was fixed.
12 Mar 2014.
SVN417
2 released.
- Another bug in the system init was fixed.
25 Mar 2014.
SVN417
3 released.
- More diagnostics of PSD driver loading added.
19 Apr 2014.
SVN417
7 released.
- The boot process now stops if the kernel is unable to load CLOCK03B.SYS or SCREEN03.SYS.
26 Apr 2014.
SVN41
80 released.
03 May 2014.
SVN418
2 released.
- Just a build with more information outputted for testing purposes.
04 May 2014.
SVN418
3 released.
- Small optimization and reorganization changes.
23 May 2014.
SVN418
8 released.
- More parts (device and file system drivers loading) are rewritten in C.
24 May 2014.
SVN418
9 released.
03 June 2014 -- 04 June 2014
SVN41
91, SVN419
2, SVN419
3, SVN419
4 released.
These are test builds.
04 June 2014.
SVN419
5 released.
- Reverted changes made in 4189 that caused bugs with HPFS boot, NETBIND and Presentation Manager
- Reverted changes made in 3167 that caused bugs with process signals (SIGINT, SIGBREAK, etc).
06 June 2014.
SVN419
8 released.
- VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT statement now works again in retail (non-debug) kernel only (the old init code was returned back probably).
08 June 2014.
SVN4
200 released.
- Virtual adresses limit now may be set with VALIMIT keyword in the [CONFIG] section of OS2LDR.INI.
15 June 2014 — 14 July 2014.
SVN revisions from 420
2 to 42
19 released.
- No information about changes in these revisions had been provided.
04 Aug 2014.
SVN42
21 released.
lanserver/requester (NETWKSTA.200) test is needed
06 Aug 2014 — 22 Aug 2014.
SVN revisions from 422
2 to 422
4 released.
- No information about changes in these revisions had been provided.
22 Aug 2014.
SVN422
5 released.
Once upon a time, I changed a string in "os2ldr.ini" and set:
timeout=0
And loader refused to boot anything, so I changed it to:
timeout=1
BTW, with 4225 previous bug has disappeared. Thanks.
24 Aug 2014.
SVN revisions from 422
6 to 422
7 released.
- No information about changes in these revisions had been provided.
Regards,
dbanet.