# Newsletter 104 - April/May news

DevFeed: [Newsletter 104 - April/May news](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/newsletter-104-april-may-news-32877.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-104/>)

Published: 2024-05-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintainers.md>), [Kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kernel.md>), [gcc](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gcc.md>)

Tags: [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [gcc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gcc.md>), [kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kernel.md>), [maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintainers.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

The ReactOS team reports the addition of four developers and ongoing improvements to AMD64 symmetric multiprocessing support, including processor freezing and switching, basic inter-processor interrupts, and kernel initialization. The article also mentions preparations for compiling and booting ReactOS with GCC 13.

## Source excerpt

Greetings from the ReactOS Team! This year, we will start with a short summary highlighting ongoing work on the project as well as announcing the selection of our brand new developers. We will also talk about the current situation with symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support in ReactOS. Development team enlargement Over the last decade, the number of people in the project team base has not changed much. While development continued and still continues as usual, the development team hadn't seen any increase in new developers.