Tbe BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has continued in advancing this open-source platform with more fixes and other enhancements. The project published its July recap to outline the interesting changes made.

July was a lighter month for development with Haiku but still there were some hardware support improvements and a variety of fixes made throughout the codebase for Haiku. Some of the July 2025 highlights for the project include:

- Improvements to behavior in malloc for better coping on 32-bit systems. This can fix GCC compilation of some very large files and also reducing address space fragmentation.

- The su command will no longer ask for a password even when run as root directly.

- FAT16 is added to the known file-systems in the Storage Kit.

- The NFSv4 driver on Haiku has seen several fixes, including to fix crashes, stale data, and other problems.

- The EXT4 driver meanwhile has seen fixes to its tree splitting code for being able to deal with directories growing beyond a certain number of entries.

- Haiku now supports the pad wheel on Wacom tablets.

More details on these recent Haiku operating system improvements via [1]Haiku-OS.org .



[1] https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2025-08-13-haiku_activity_contract_report_july_2025/