Tbe BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has continued in advancing this open-source platform with more fixes and other enhancements. The project published its July recap to outline the interesting changes made.
July was a lighter month for development with Haiku but still there were some hardware support improvements and a variety of fixes made throughout the codebase for Haiku. Some of the July 2025 highlights for the project include:
– Improvements to behavior in malloc for better coping on 32-bit systems. This can fix GCC compilation of some very large files and also reduce address space fragmentation.
– The su command will no longer ask for a password even when run as root directly.
– FAT16 is added to the known file-systems in the Storage Kit.
– The NFSv4 driver on Haiku has seen several fixes, including to fix crashes, stale data, and other problems.
– The EXT4 driver meanwhile has seen fixes to its tree splitting code for being able to deal with directories growing beyond a certain number of entries.
– Haiku now supports the pad wheel on Wacom tablets.
More details on these recent Haiku operating system improvements via Haiku-OS.org.
