# Haiku Activity & Contract Report, August 2026

DevFeed: [Haiku Activity & Contract Report, August 2026](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/haiku-activity-contract-report-august-2026-34788.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2026-09-10-haiku_activity_contract_report_august_2026/>)

Author: waddlesplash

Published: 2026-09-10T20:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Haiku Project](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/haiku-project.md>)

Topics: [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Bluetooth](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bluetooth.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cpu.md>), [keyboard](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/keyboard.md>), [MIDI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/midi.md>), [USB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/usb.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [activity-report](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/activity-report.md>), [application](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/application.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [bluetooth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bluetooth.md>), [command-line](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/command-line.md>), [contractor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contractor.md>), [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cpu.md>), [keyboard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/keyboard.md>), [report](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/report.md>), [sorting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sorting.md>), [usb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usb.md>)

## AI overview

Haiku's August 2026 activity and contract report covers revisions hrev59922 through hrev60059 and notes the R1/beta6 release. It summarizes fixes and improvements across applications, command-line tools, system kits, and servers, including Tracker, authentication in su, Intel CPU branding, Bluetooth support, MIDI endpoints, and media output switching.

## Source excerpt

This report covers hrev59922 through hrev60059. The main news, of course, is that R1/beta6 was released last month. You can read the announcement for more details. Many of the changes in this report made it into R1/beta6 (but not all of them.) Applications waddlesplash fixed a file-descriptors leak in Tracker's query code, fixing a number of open tickets. jscipione changed Tracker to not start editing file names while dragging, re-enabled sorting of poses when adding is completed, implemented undo of creating new files from templates, made the drag-and-drop context menu live-updating, and more. aquamatic continued work on the Devices application. (You can read more about that in his final report.) humdinger also made a small patch to use a translatable application name. humdinger fixed the background of the optional package list in Installer. jscipione fixed the Deskbar preferences window incorrectly moving the Deskbar itself when it was opened in certain modes. madmax fixed a Deskbar crash when applications quit very soon after launching. nephele and jscipione fixed ProcessController to load the "Power saving" setting when started, instead of when the menu is first opened. jscipione updated the Apple keyboard layouts used in Keymap preferences to the "Apple Magic" layouts. Command line tools waddlesplash fixed a number of authentication problems in su. Kits KevinAdams improved Intel CPU "brand strings" detection some more, trimming more extraneous details off the strings displayed in AboutSystem. przemub fixed a crash in the Locale Kit when a time unit formatter failed to initialize. jscipione fixed some minor issues in spinner button drawing. waddlesplash refactored BBitmap to use 64-bit-safe types. This allows for bitmaps over 2GB in size on 64-bit systems, but it also allows for an application's total size of all bitmaps to go over 2GB, which wasn't properly supported before either. Servers mohammedrattia continued work on Bluetooth HID support. (You can read mo