# ReactOS 0.4.15 released

DevFeed: [ReactOS 0.4.15 released](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/reactos-0-4-15-released-33194.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-0415-released/>)

Published: 2025-03-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

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>), [Operating system](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/operating-system.md>), [USB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/usb.md>), [Kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kernel.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Oracle-VM-VirtualBox](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vm-box.md>)

Tags: [audio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audio.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/features.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kernel.md>), [memory-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory-management.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>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [usb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usb.md>), [virtualbox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/virtualbox.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

ReactOS 0.4.15 is released with Plug and Play, audio, memory management, registry, accessory, system tool, and shell improvements. The release adds support for booting from USB devices and more third-party drivers, improves audio playback and VirtualBox sound, and fixes compatibility issues affecting executables in remote locations.

## Source excerpt

We are pleased to announce the release of ReactOS 0.4.15! This release offers Plug and Play fixes, audio fixes, memory management fixes, registry healing, improvements to accessories and system tools including Notepad, Paint, RAPPS, the Input Method Editor, and shell improvements. We chose to release this version of ReactOS in honor of Eric Kohl's first commit to the ReactOS code base, which dates back to 1999. Eric Kohl is the oldest active contributor of the project, and this is his 26th ReactOS anniversary!