Haiku R1 beta 2 released

The second beta for Haiku R1 marks twenty months of hard work to improve Haiku's hardware support and its overall stability. Since Beta 1, there have been 101 contributors with over 2800 code commits in total. More than 900 bugs and enhancement tickets have been resolved for this release.

There's so many improvements in this new release that it's hard to pick favourites. Since many Haiku users basically use the operating system on a rolling release basis through online updates, it's easy to lose track of what's new between beta and 2.

I have a VM for Haiku that I regularly update and use, and it's remarkable just how stable and fast Haiku has become over the years.