The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.3.16. A little under a year has passed since the previous release and a significant amount of progress has been made. Some of the most significant include completion of the CSRSS rewrite and the first stages of a shell32 rewrite. 0.3.16 is in many ways a prelude to several new features that will provide a noticeable enhancement to user visible functionality. A preview can be seen in the form of theme support, which while disabled by default can be turned on to demonstrate the Lautus theme developed by community member Maciej Janiszewki. Another user visible change is a new network card driver for the RTL8139, allowing ReactOS to support newer versions of QEMU out of the box.
It’s certainly been a while. Very good news.
It seems however their ambitious Kickstarter effort is not going to make it. A shame but I don’t think it was too well timed or planned (no $25 option) or what people really need.
Edited 2014-02-06 19:05 UTC
Looks to me there is a $10 or more pledge:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thorium/thorium-core-cloud-desk…
http://www.osnews.com/story/27532/Thorium_Core_ReactOS_cloud_deskto…
Right but (IIRC) it’s proven that one of the most effective pledges is $25 but they only have $10 or $50. So you miss out on a fair amount that way.
See the comments on the kickstarter page.
Reactos is actually just an elaborate joke by Microsoft.
*That comment was a joke
It looks like the Changelog is now just a list of Jira tickets, which I guess it a lot less effort for the ReactOS guys to manage but makes it far less obvious what changed. Shame that, I always used to enjoy reading the ReactOS Changelogs…