Haiku OS Made Many Kernel & App Improvements In October
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS has published their October 2025 status report.
Haiku OS continues persevering on this unique open-source operating system platform. Over the past month many kernel and app improvements were made including:
- A rewrite of the guarded heap implementation within Haiku's kernel. This new implementation written from scratch clears up a lot of issues with the prior code to make it more effective akin to the user-space implementation that is more widely-used.
- Haiku's Activity Monitor application now display system temperature information based on data supplied from the ACPI thermal driver.
- The sysinfo command line utility will now display Leaf 7 CPU features like AVX2 and AVX-512.
- Improvements to the app_server protocol for multi-screen support and other future-proofing.
- The NVMe driver now supports up to 64 logical block address formats.
Plus many other changes for the month of October as outlined on the Haiku-OS.org blog.
Haiku OS continues persevering on this unique open-source operating system platform. Over the past month many kernel and app improvements were made including:
- A rewrite of the guarded heap implementation within Haiku's kernel. This new implementation written from scratch clears up a lot of issues with the prior code to make it more effective akin to the user-space implementation that is more widely-used.
- Haiku's Activity Monitor application now display system temperature information based on data supplied from the ACPI thermal driver.
- The sysinfo command line utility will now display Leaf 7 CPU features like AVX2 and AVX-512.
- Improvements to the app_server protocol for multi-screen support and other future-proofing.
- The NVMe driver now supports up to 64 logical block address formats.
Plus many other changes for the month of October as outlined on the Haiku-OS.org blog.