ReactOS 0.3.16 release

The ReactOS project development team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.3.16. 8 months have passed since the release of the previous version (0.3.15), and during this time the system has undergone significant changes and improvements. According to the bug tracker, more than 400 bugs were fixed .



One of the most significant of these is the completion of the upgrade of the CSRSS subsystem and the first stages of the shell32 refactoring work, one of the interesting results of which is the work of the new Explorer in Windows 8.







In many respects, release 0.3.16 is a preparatory stage for the introduction of several new functions into the system, which in the future will provide an improvement in the system’s performance from the point of view of its users. In part, this new functionality is already noticeable now in the form of support for the themes of the system design, which, although disabled by default, can be enabled and viewed on the theme of Lautus design created by our community member Matthew Janiszewki.



Another notable change is the addition of a new network card based on the RTL8139 chip to the system, which allows ReactOS to work in new versions of QEMU without the need to install a third-party driver. Compared to 0.3.15, UniATA driver again improved support for SATA (1,2,3) and PATA devices.



Disk images, as always, can be found on Sourceforge.net

Demonstration of some popular programs.

NEW! Codeblocks





Office 2003





Photoshop CS2





Openmpt





TeamSpeak 2





Reproduction of high-definition video on the standard HTML5

Post scriptum

The German non-profit foundation ReactOS Deutschland eV has accumulated a sufficient amount of donation money so that the project can cooperate with professional programmers on a reimbursable basis. The remuneration is paid upon completion of the target tasks in the form of a scholarship in the amount corresponding to the average market remuneration of a programmer of a certain level. Please respond to interested in such cooperation professionals in the field of C \ C ++.