# ReactOS 0.4.2 Released

DevFeed: [ReactOS 0.4.2 Released](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/reactos-0-4-2-released-33196.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-042-released/>)

Published: 2016-08-16T00:00:00Z

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>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>), [Filesystems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/filesystems.md>), [version](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/version.md>), [interoperability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/interoperability.md>), [Unix](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/unix.md>), [WINE](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/wine.md>)

Tags: [filesystems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/filesystems.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [interoperability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interoperability.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>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/releases.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>), [version](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/version.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>), [wine](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wine.md>)

## AI overview

ReactOS 0.4.2 is an incremental release focused on refining the graphical shell and file explorer, updating external dependencies including Wine and UniATA, and adding native support for mounting and reading several Unix filesystems.

## Source excerpt

The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.4.2, again within three months of the previous release. The team sincerely hopes that this new rapid release cycle will hold for future releases as well. If there is one word to describe progress on the project, it would be steady. The project is reaching a point where rapid releases are viable, where disruption from introduction of major components or restructuring has been greatly reduced from the tumultuous early years and even as recently as the late 0.