FreeDOS 1.4 released

Date:
Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:54:06 +0000

Description:
Version
1.4 of FreeDOS has been
released. This is the first stable release since 2022, and
includes improvements to the Fdisk hard-disk-management program, and reliability updates for the mTCP set of TCP/IP applications for
DOS. This version was much smoother because Jerome Shidel, our
distribution manager, had an idea after FreeDOS 1.3 that we could have
a rolling test release that collected all of the changes that people
make over time. Previous to this, each new FreeDOS distribution (like
1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3) required bundling up packages into a "release candidate," and we would go through several iterations of updating the
release candidates. Jerome's method of building the FreeDOS distribution made it easier
to automate a test release, which we decided to update every month. As
the test releases accumulated enough changes to warrant a release, we
could then make the next test release a "release candidate" which
would iterate to the next version of the FreeDOS distribution. Since
2022, we've released monthly test releases. Thanks Jerome! LWN covered FreeDOS last year for its 30th anniversary.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1016849/


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