Notices by Haiku (haiku@mastodon.xyz)

This month in Haiku: a lot of bugfixes and little improvements… oh, yeah, and the ARM64 port boots to the desktop (in QEMU, at least)! https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2026-04-13-haiku_activity_contract_report_march_2026/

💡 Have a custom keyboard layout? Configure it in Haiku using the Keymap preferences: drag & drop to swap keys, drop in special characters from CharacterMap, etc. More details: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/preferences/keymap.html

💡 Did you know? You can open paths & links from command output in Haiku’s Terminal by holding the Command key (usually ‘Alt’) and then clicking on them. (It even handles line:column suffixes!)

ICYMI: Haiku R1/beta5 was released yesterday, with even more polish than past releases, and of course, more available software. Check it out!

🎉 Haiku R1/beta5 has been released! https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta5/release-notes/

If you’re curious about what goes in to developing Haiku’s user interface, you might be interested in checking out “Insight Factory”, a screenshot-filled blog run by Haiku developer Skipp_OSX. https://insightfactory.tumblr.com/

Have you checked the Haiku Blog-O-Sphere recently? There’s activity reports (beta5 is on the horizon!), GSoC 2024 project updates (a new GDB port, virtio-sound, hardware virtualization, updates to Tracker’s Find panel, WebKit port improvements), and more. https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/

As seen on the forums: Minecraft Java Edition, running on Haiku, thanks to threedeyes (and the prior work on porting the JVM)!

kahoruhe set up a stand to exhibit Haiku at the osc23tk conference in Tokyo, Japan:

Today on the blog, @waddlesplash has a (long!) article writing up Haiku's kernel condition variables' API design and its implementation. https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2023-04-24_condition_variables/

Haiku is set to mentor 3 students this year for GSoC 2023, to work on Icon-O-Matic, porting the .NET compilers and runtime, and TUN for VPN support. https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2023-05-04_haiku_mentors_3_students_in_gsoc/