# Haiku Activity & Contract Report, May 2026

DevFeed: [Haiku Activity & Contract Report, May 2026](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/haiku-activity-contract-report-may-2026-34785.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2026-06-12-haiku_activity_contract_report_may_2026/>)

Author: waddlesplash

Published: 2026-06-12T18:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [USB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/usb.md>), [Networks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networks.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>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [bugs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bugs.md>), [command-line](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/command-line.md>), [contractor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contractor.md>), [report](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/report.md>), [usb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usb.md>)

## AI overview

Haiku's May 2026 activity and contract report covers revisions hrev59672 through hrev59753. It summarizes fixes and improvements across applications such as Tracker, HaikuDepot, WebPositive, StyledEdit, and ActivityMonitor, along with command-line tools and system components.

## Source excerpt

This report covers hrev59672 through hrev59753. Applications jscipione fixed some regressions in Tracker causing the scroll position to not be set properly when navigating between directories, and dropping files onto other files not working. He also fixed drag and drop of icons onto views with a different icon size, restored the Trash pose on the Desktop in file panels, refactored the drag bitmap's appearance, and more. jscipione tweaked the layout of the "recents" count settings in Deskbar. apl fixed a regression in HaikuDepot causing crashes when opening package files. He also refactored how the "Not available" views (e.g. for reviews) are shown, started reworking package selection handling, improved keyboard navigation support, and more. humdinger tweaked the "delete old states" option in SoftwareUpdater settings to have a less technical label. He also fixed Tracker to show the name of the "Trash" directory translated, if translated folder names are enabled. nipos fixed WebPositive to not open a homepage tab when opened by clicking a URL in some other application. Zardshard fixed an assertion failure crash in Icon-O-Matic. nipos fixed ShowImage's toolbar being cut off in fullscreen mode. He also fixed some window size limits in ActivityMonitor. humdinger improved the color choices, and the appearance of the color selector, in StyledEdit. He also split the "Font" menu into "Font" and "Style" menus, which improves things on systems with lots of fonts installed. nephele changed WebPositive's default search URLs for Google and DuckDuckGo to use the "no-AI" variants. He also improved the appearance of some buttons under HiDPI. humdinger truncated long history items in TextSearch to a fixed width, to prevent the menu from getting larger than the screen width. Command line tools PulkoMandy updated the USB IDs database, and then added decoding for more "CDC" descriptor types in listusb. Kits X512 fixed various "mouse tracking"-related bugs in BListView, including incorre