# ReactOS Newsletter 56: USB Mouse and Keyboard Driver Progress

DevFeed: [ReactOS Newsletter 56: USB Mouse and Keyboard Driver Progress](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/newsletter-56-32922.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-56/>)

Published: 2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

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>), [USB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/usb.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>)

Tags: [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.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>), [usb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usb.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

ReactOS Newsletter 56 discusses the history and development of USB support, including fixes to the USB stack and drivers for USB mice and keyboards. It also reports work on improving ReactOS networking and investigating a memory corruption issue affecting sites requiring SSL.

## Source excerpt

USB USB support has an odd history in ReactOS. The original effort involved porting the Cromwell USB stack from Linux, which Aleksey Bragin spent awhile trying to get working. This was eventually abandoned for another third party project, an USB stack developed for NT4 by a programmer in China. This stack however was incomplete and rather buggy and the original author no longer maintained it so Aleksey spent some time fixing it up, to an extent.