The BeOS-inspired Haiku OS is out today with its fifth beta release as it works toward the long-awaited Haiku R1 stable release.

Haiku R1/Beta5 comes one and a half years since the prior beta release, as such there are a lot of changes to find with this new version. Haiku R1 Beta 5 comes with a new dark mode option and simplified color theme selection, UI enhancements to the Icon-O-Matic editor, support for USB audio devices, a TUN/TAP network driver, network TCP throughput improvements, terminal enhancements, general performance optimizations, a rewritten FAT driver, a UFS2 driver, experimental .NET support, new software ports, improved POSIX compatibility, and a range of stabilization work.

Some of the performance optimizations in Haiku R1/Beta5 are mor I/O enhancements, avoiding unnecessary locks, and other work. Haiku also now has a full-featured GDB debugger port.

Haiku R1/Beta5 is a big step forward to this open-source operating system. Downloads and more details on this new Haiku development release via [1]Haiku-OS.org .



[1] https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2024-09-13_haiku_r1_beta5/