VOOZH about

URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-May-2025

⇱ Haiku OS Restores EXT4 Compatibility, RISC-V Once Again Booting - Phoronix


👁 Phoronix

Haiku OS Restores EXT4 Compatibility, RISC-V Once Again Booting

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 14 June 2025 at 08:55 AM EDT. 2 Comments
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS published their latest monthly report to outline progress made over the past month.

Haiku OS is now better handling unreliable network connections by fixing their TCP implementation to re-transmit packets during connection startup when needed. This will avoid connections failing on unstable network connections.

Haiku has also enabled the checksum-seed feature with its EXT4 driver to match it being enabled by default on recent Linux kernel versions. In turn this allows the EXT4 driver to be able to read and write to partitions created with the default EXT4 settings on Linux.

Also on the data side, there have been some Haiku crash fixes when creating large files as well as the overwriting of hard-linked files while using RAMFS.

Haiku also landed a fix to its linker script and updated packaging to once again allow their RISC-V port to boot.

👁 Haiku screenshot


More details on these latest Haiku OS changes via the Haiku-OS.org blog.

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.