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Notable updates:

• Ambient was extended massively and is well on its journey to become the ultimate desktop
• NetStack, the new integrated TCP/IP stack
• Poseidon USB stack, now at version 4.1 (includes support for USB 2.0)
• MUI 4.0 with new UI classes
• Many brand new tools and utilities

General improvements:

• AltiVec support
• Many components are now localized
• Various UI style fixes in applications and components
• Static m68k emulation and Trance JIT bugfixes

Improvements in graphics operations:

• AltiVec and hardware accelerated graphics operations for alpha blending, stretching and a lot more
• Support for Display Data Channel (DDC)

Boot:

• BootCD Welcome Application 'Bienvenue' ^New
• MorphOS startup menu ^New (To access startup menu press and hold F1 or left mouse button or use BOOTMENU boot argument)
  

Ambient

• Filetype system
  
  Actions (internal/dos/rexx commands) can be associated to a given file type, for different kinds of events (double click, context menu, drag'n'drop).
  
  Filetypes are sorted according to MIME standard and action inheritance is supported.
  
  
• Deficon system
  
  Each filetype can have an associated default icon.
  
  
• Advanced listers
  
  List view with many features: icons display, inline renaming, sort by any attribute, directory size calculation, version/md5 display, possibility
  to save columns state and order, thumbnail support, configurable colours, ...
  
  
• Improved iconview
  
  Faster, realtime zoom support, improved navigation.
  
  
• Toolbar and browser mode
  
  Each view can have a navigation area where path can be entered or changed (either with a string or clickpath buttons).
  
  Toolbar buttons offering most common ambient internal commands.
  
  
• Mode/Submodes buttons to quickly cycle between different modes.
  
  
• Device list view
  
  Available in both icon and list mode, allowing to quickly reach any volume. Also reachable via the My MorphOS icon.
  
  
• Image view
  
  Simple and efficient internal picture viewer, with scaling and rotation support. Navigation keys allow to browse all pictures in a directory.
  
  
• Text view
  
  Text viewer with search feature.
  
  
• Audio player supporting mp3, ogg and formats handled by Reggae, with sbar support.
  
  
• Shortcut system
  
  Ambient actions can be bound to user-configurable shortcuts.
  
  
• Thumbnail support
  
  Both list and icon views can be switched to thumbnail submode and show pictures thumbnails (cached in memory).
  
  
• Archive browsing
  
  Xad-supported archives can be browsed as if they were normal directories and content can be viewed/executed/extracted/... transparently.
  
  
• Find tool
  
  Integrated Find tool able to search by name, content, filetype, ...
  
  
• Bookmarks allowing to store and reach preferred locations.
  
  
• New panel elements (separators, spacers, bookmarks, view selector)
  
  
• More robust and complete file management
  
  
• More comprehensive feedback when errors occur.
  
  
• Copy requester displaying more information about copied / moved / deleted files.
  
  
• Replacement requesters showing version, date, MD5.
  
  
• Possibility to cancel, skip, retry when needed.
  
  
• Copy / cut / paste system...
  
  
• Directory Opus-like features like pattern renaming, selection filters, quick search...
  
  
• Large file support (64 bits Dos).
  
  
• AltiVec optimisations (scaling, ...)
  
  
• Many new internal/rexx commands (to change background, open view, add entry to pulldown menu, copy selected files paths to clipboard, ...)

General notes

• Many corrections
  
• Speedups and optimisations, especially in iconview.
  
• Drag'n'Drop support in many places (clickpath, mimetype editor, panels,...).
  
• More coherency between views and menus.

And much more...

3D graphics:

• New functionality, including 1D textures, texture combiners, dot3 mapping, support for more texture units.
  
  
• AltiVec optimizations to various parts of code.
  
  
• Compatibility enhancements (vertex arrays, texture matrices)
  
  
• More speed thanks to improved lowlevel drivers.
  
  
• Lots of bugfixes.

Applications:

• Apdf (Bug fixes)
  
  
• Elements ^New (Periodic System of Elements)
  
• LCDTest ^New (Monitor Test Suite)
  
  
• RemoteShell ^New (SSH client)
  
  
• ShowGirls [ADDED] (An image browser and simple photo manipulation utility)
  
  
• Sputnik ^New (Web browser with Cascading Style Sheet and extensive Javascript support)
  
  
• Sketch ^New (Paint application)

Blankers:

• GLMatrix ^New
  Displays an effect inspired by The Matrix movie
  
  
• Feathers ^New
  Flock of feathers on night sky background
  
  
• Atlantis ^New
  3D scene with swimming sharks and dolphins
  
  
• BlockTube ^New
  Flight in tunnel created from blocks
  
  
• Boing ^New
  Reimplementation of the historical demo
  
  
• Color blanker ^New
  Puts the monitor to sleep, literally.
  
  
• Cosmic Voyage blanker ^New
  Traditional starfield blanker.
  
  
• Flurry ^New
  Blurry 3D stars
  
  
• Gears ^New
  Classic OpenGL demo
  
  
• Moire blanker ^New
  Mimics the MagicCX blanker.
  
  
• Nowhere blanker ^New
  New and shiny
  
  
• Pig Invasion blanker ^New
  - 4 basic pig races
  - Hidden special pigs
  
  
• Spikeball ^New
  Rotated spikeball with flying bands
  
  
  
  

Countries:

- Added new countries

Datatypes:

amigaguide.datatype ^New
j2k.datatype ^New
openexr.datatype ^New
tiff.datatype ^New

Devices:

timer.device

- New functionality

Filesystems:

CDFS

• Audio tracks are now accessible as WAV files
• Possibility to access ISO files contents
• Supports the CD-Text extension
  

FATFileSystem ^New

• 100% native driver with complete read and write support
• Supports FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 variants
• Supports long file names (LFN) extention
• Supports different codepage file name conversion

Handlers:

apipe-handler ^New
gs-handler ^New
inet-handler ^New
ixpipe-handler ^New
random-handler ^New
zero-handler ^New
xadfs ^New

debug-handler ^New
Output to debug log via shell

muicon-handler ^New
The MUI MorphOS console

Games:

Diamonds ^New
Addictive diamond puzzle

Shuffle ^New
Full special version of the commercial hit puzzle game by binaryriot

Morphtris
hidden 3dlayer translucency mode

Keymaps:
New keymaps with Unicode support

Languages:
New language drivers with Unicode support

Libraries:

amigaguide.library ^New
Partial implementation of the original C= library

asyncio.library
Added 64bit DOS support

bz2.library ^New
Compression library

dos.library

• Compatibility fixes in pattern matching and other operations
• New API for 64bit file operations
  
• New DOS object access functions
  

dynload.library ^New
Easy dynamic linking for applications

exec.library

• New TLSF memory system
• Shutdown API and other improvements
  

freetype.library ^New

iconv.library [ADDED]

intuition.library

• Added a new input mode where mouse button events always go to the window
  below the mouse pointer, activating it
• Added support for windows which cannot be activated (toolbar windows)
• Implemented blankers support
• Rewritten InputHandler, the core of the intuition. Faster and more compatible
• Support for multiple types of ARGB mouse pointers (Radeon only)
• Support for window shadows (layers3d)
• Crashed applications disposer lets one re-run MUI applications
  
• Skinable prop scrollers
  
• Mouse pointer feedback for window drag/resize zones
  
• Screen gamma configurable in prefs and by application
  
• Nicer mouse movement speed control, no more jumpy cursor
  
• MUI screen management moved to intuition
  
• Screen titlebar plugins as MUI classes
  
• Locale support for intuition's messages
  
• Rewritten context menus for screen depth, window depth and window zoom gadgets, including thumbnails of screens and windows (layers3d)
  
• Fixed missing labels in applications like Imagine, Pagestream or HiP
  
• Implemented ScreenPosition()
  
• Windows, Screens and IDCMP messages are BOOPSI objects now
  
• Fixed some memleaks and possible deadlocks
  
• Monitor management API, better monitors awareness and mouse support
  
• Faster window border rendering
  
• Window title outline/shadow support
  
• Possibility to toggle offscreen with a qualifier key
  
• Better mouse keyboard emulation, with acceleration
  
• IDCMPs now carry more information, including keyboard input in UCS4 format
  
• And a lot more...
  

jfif.library ^New
Image compression library with AltiVec acceleration

keymap.library
Added Unicode support

layers.library

• An entirely rewritten library with real, hardware accelerated opacity and shadows support
  
• Screenshot API that can screenshot selected layers

locale.library

• Added Unicode API
  
• Supports UTF-8 and UTF-32/UCS-4 in catalogs
  

neuralnet.library

• MorphOS native reimplementation
  
• Double internal precision
  
• New API function NN_SetAttrs()
  
• Network learning rate and momentum are adjustable on-the-fly
  
• previously stored networks can also be loaded from a memory location
  

png.library ^New
Image compression library

tinygl.library
Bug fixes, faster and better, new features

tiff.library ^New
Image compression library

ttengine.library [ADDED]
Improved Unicode support

xadmaster.library [ADDED]
Compression library

xpkmaster.library [ADDED]
Compression library

z.library ^New
Compression library

Miscellaneous:

bugreport.library ^New
mount.library ^New
random.library ^New
thumbnail.library ^New

MUI classes:

Aboutbox.mcc ^New
Uniform About requester for all MorphOS applications

Cpumonitor.mcc ^New
Externalized class from freeware utility 'CPU Monitor'

Crawling.mcc
MorphOS native reimplementation

Graph.mcc/mcp ^New

• Base class for all kind of graphs, extracted from freeware utility 'CPU Monitor'
• Fully user configurable look
  

Lamp.mcc/mcp ^New

• New reimplementation of well known freeware MUI Custom Class
• Fixed possible relayout deadlock situation when MUIA_Lamp_Type was set
  inside MUIM_Setup phase

Pantheon.mcc ^New
Updated MorphOS credits.

PowerTerm.mcc/mcp ^New

Rawimage.mcc ^New
Allows to use packed imagedata (bz2, z, raw), useful for in code embedded true colour logos, etc.

Reggae:

A new, modular, streaming multimedia framework. It is going to replace existing datatypes system. Many Reggae classes are accelerated with AltiVec.

Currently supported sound formats

• AIFF
  
• WAVE PCM
  
• WAVE floating point PCM
  
• WAVE A-law/u-law
  
• WAVE IMA ADPCM
  
• WAVE MS ADPCM

Currently supported image formats

• BMP
  
• ICO
  
• GIF87a
  
• PBM/PGM/PPM
  
• ZX Spectrum screen dump (SCR)

Currently supported data sources

• memory
  
• file
  
• HTTP/1.1 protocol

Currently supported data outputs

• audio (via AHI)
  
• window (for images)

Available filters

• audio looper
  
• audio FIR filter

Utilities:

Fragment [ADDED]

• Visualizes memory fragmentation
  
• Supports new TLSF memory system
  

Grabber ^New

• Makes photos of screens and windows
• Can save in PNG, JPEG and ILBM formats
• Preview option
  

Keystroke ^New

• Shows how to enter special characters
  

NoCapsLock ^New

• Caps Lock key can act as Shift key
  

MiniCalc ^New

• Calculator with basic functions
  
• 18 digits, high precision mathematics
  
• Tape
  
• Supports numeric keypad
  

Mixer ^New

• Replaces PegasosMixer application
  
• Manages all sound cards installed in the system (plugin support)
  

MUIProCalc [ADDED]

• Advanced calculator for programmers
  

Multiview

• Rewritten from scratch to use MUI GUI toolkit with advanced GUI features
  
• Supports datatypes and Reggae
  
• Supports Unicode text files (UTF-8, UCS-2 and UCS-4)
  
• Integrated AmigaGuide support with UTF-8

TaskManager

• uses List.mui
  
• CPU graph display
  
• various other improvements
  

Tips ^New

• Funny 'Tip of the Day' utility, supports external tip or fortune cookie databases and custom images
  

Zoom

• Sticky window mode (enabled via tooltypes)
  
• Coordinate and crosshair display
  
• Lock mode (press SPACE key)
  
• RGB-value display mode (press F1 key)
  

Tools:

HDConfig ^New

• Replaces old SCSIConfig application
  
• Clear and intuitive MUI GUI
  
• Supports RDB, MBR and MAC partition layout
  

Mounter ^New

• Nice GUI for managing partitions
  
• Supports RDB and MBR partition layout
  
• Support for all known filesystems, that work on MorphOS
  

SFSDoctor [ADDED]

• Localised
  
• Fixes in UI
  
• Embedded documentation (Help)
  
• Fixed minor bugs
  

Snoopium [ADDED]

• Knows 64bit DOS packets by the name
• Fixes in UI
  

Shell commands:

Miscellaneous:

Clip ^New
DOSList ^New
Ed ^New
Filewrite ^New
FSDie ^New
FSPrefs ^New
GetRAMDebugLog ^New
IDEStandby ^New
iKill ^New
IPrefs [added sound prefs support, lots of fixes and improvements]
ModList ^New
Open ^New
PortList ^New
ShowConfig ^New
Shutdown ^New
Unmount ^New
Unrar ^New

Networking:

ifconfig ^New
login ^New
netconfig ^New
mcsr ^New
offline ^New
online ^New
passwd ^New
ping ^New

Rexx:

RXCmd ^New

Executes single ARexx commands on a given ARexx port directly

Screen bar plugins:

Clock.sbar ^New

• Built-in internal plugin, replaces old title bar clock
  

Cpumonitor.sbar ^New

• 'CPU Monitor' for your Screen titlebar
  
• Double click opens classic 'CPU Monitor' window with full CPU usage history
  

Netlamps.sbar ^New

• Show SANA-II device network activity in Screen titlebar
  
• Double-click opens full Network traffic statistics windows
  
• Works directly on-top of the device, so is TCP/IP stack independent