MorphOS – Amiga Distro Watch

MorphOS 3.11 boot.img Changes

The following is a (probably incomplete) list of changes made between the 3.10 and 3.11 release of MorphOS to the ROM (boot.img) based components.

Emulation

Hyperbootloader

Convert ‘ISO9660’ into ‘CD0’ when creating the command line for booting MorphOS. Fixes a delay when booting from CD

P50x0_eth ^New

Quark

Powerbook

Fixed PowerBook5,6 and 5,7 fan control
Fixed a memory leak on older PowerBooks and iBooks that would leak a little memory every second, also caused a performance hit over time
Fixed a rare memory leak in battery handler

MorphOS 3.11 Disk Changes

Following is a (probably incomplete) list of changes made to the disk based components of MorphOS.

Ambient

Fixes in keyboard handling in listers
Fixed double-clicking on Lha archives
The LOADURI ARexx command now uses default view and default view mode if one or both of them are omitted
Added a « Open Parent » to the context menu of a panel button to open a lister
Inline edit, pressing space delete a sign/entry or jumps to the next entry
‘Create Archive’ fixed to add multiple files to a single Lha archive

Applications/Flow Studio

Postscript files are now displayed with their style settings
Statusbar now displays multibyte char codes correctly
Non-breaking space, i.e. 0xA0 or C2A0 (in UTF8) is now displayed in the style of a control character
‘Replace all’ operation now respects the regexp setting for the search part
Improvements to printing using screen colours
Made it possible to add / remove breakpoints when the debugged task is already running and is not suspended
Makefile generator can now handle files in subdirectories
Suppressed some output from the generated makefiles
-noixemul switch was used even for ixemul projects
Performance improvements
Replaced various icons with additional custom-made versions

Applications/Odyssey

Introduces support for dozens of additional and nowadays commonly used CSS property names
Adds support for additional CSS property values used by modern flexbox and grid page layouts
Adds support for native CSS Filters for use with and without vendor prefix, which did require the temporary disablement of rarely used SVG filters
Adds native support for CSS Regions
Disables native JavaScript Promises support as newer websites fail to consider partial implementations, which increasingly caused incompatibilites
Optimized the internal handling of Webkit events, which fixes a performance hit with many tabs open
Odyssey now tries to prevent embedded media files from autoplaying without any prior user action in order to minimize severe performance degradation and other disruptions (unexpected noise disturbences, etc)
Added new « Autoplayer » user-script to control the forementioned behavior via a user-maintained whitelist of websites
Updated the included ad-blocker list to a more recent state and added workarounds to prevent issues with otherwise benign content delivery networks
Cleaned up the information on the ‘about’ page to be more succinct and relevant

Applications/Jukebox

Applications/RemoteShell

Applications/Showcase

Applications/Vpdf

Use mediasize provided in the pdf for passthrough print mode
Allows to specify a direct file if postscript output is enabled and no printer profile is selected or available
Refreshes printer profile list and related cycle gadget after new printers preferences has been called
Show the profile selected output path if a printer profile is selected in postscript mode