On the Amiga38, as on the Amiga37, there will again be a special issue of the Amiga Future, which every visitor to the event will receive free of charge at the entrance. In addition to a floor plan, information about the exhibitors, vouchers, etc., we want to publish a special area in this issue where programmers can present their programs/games.

NetFS 3.2 was released! This new version improves handling of network drives' disk icon (as well as left out icons on Workbench) which can now be personalized for each mounted drive on each computer. It also includes updated translations (in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian) and a few bug fixes.

NetFS is a network filesystem which supports protection bits, file notes, large files (>4GB), filesystem notifications, data encryption and removable remote medias. It also includes remote AREXX port capabilities, and comes with a comprehensive installer and MUI graphical management tools.

Download NetFS 3.2 from Aminet

A new vulnerability, CVE-2023-2650, has been identified and fixed for the version of OpenSSL that is included in MorphOS 3.18.

A fixed OpenSSL library will be bundled with a future MorphOS release. Meanwhile, you can install the following replacement openssl3.library that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.18: Download

To install it, copy the file to MOSSYS:Libs and reboot.

Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present updates for the following Hollywood image and animation plugins:

- APNG 1.2 (load and save APNG animations)
- FLIC 1.2 (load FLI/FLC animations)
- JPEG2000 1.2 (load and save JPEG2000 images)
- PCX 1.2 (load PCX images)
- TIFF 1.2 (load and save TIFF images)
- YAFA 1.2 (load YAFA animations created by Wildfire)

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.18! This new release includes several new applications such as Hex - a scriptable file/RAM/disk hex editor, ArchiveIt - a ZIP archiver/unarchiver application and Thermals - an app displaying thermal and fan information and graphs.

In addition, MorphOS 3.18 supports Samba 2 and 3 network share browsing and mounting in the Ambient desktop.

Radeon drivers have been updated to better support dual monitors, more graphics card models and 3D, including updated TinyGL library and drivers. We have also improved Realtek 8168 ethernet drivers with support for more card variants and enhanced networking stability on PCI express systems like PowerMac G5 11,2. USB input device connectivity issues on supported CyrusPlus 5040 systems have been corrected.

Many other system components and libraries have also been bugfixed and improved, including MUI, Netstack, Filesysbox.

For a more extensive overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.18, please read our release notes.

We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.18 is available for download in our files section.

The MorphOS Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the MorphOS 3.18 SDK, May 2023 release. This release updates system headers as well as various GG components.

Our new SDK requires MorphOS 3.18 and about 2 GB of free disk space and can be found in our files section. As usual, a separate source package is available for download as well.

Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with a major update of hURL - the ultimate multi-protocol data transfer plugin for Hollywood which allows Hollywood scripts to transfer data using all kinds of different network protocols including full SSL support. Version 2.0 is a major update that has many new features. Here is a list of new features in hURL 2.0:

RNOTunes is a GUI based audio player application with support for a wide variety of audio formats. The new version brings new features, performance improvements, bug-fixes, and new graphics sets. See a detailed version history below.

bigfoot released version 1.1 of his MorphOS port of Vanilla RA from the Vanilla Conquer project, which can be downloaded here.

He has now also released version 1.1 of his MorphOS port of Vanilla TD from the same project, which can be downloaded here

A new major update of Wayfarer has just landed! Version 5.0 brings the WebKit engine to WebKitGTK 2.38.5, released just mid last month.

Wayfarer 5 also introduces the User Scripts Manager known from Odyssey. It's also possible to relocate the cookies database to RAM while running, to reduce the amount of writes to SSD drives and improve performance.

Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood X. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal:

After 2 years of development, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 10: Xcelicious. Hollywood is a programming language that can be used to create a wide variety of programs, ranging from games and GUI-based applications for desktop systems to mobile apps for Android and iOS. Hollywood's special feature is its support for retro platforms (e.g. AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS) and modern operating systems (e.g. Windows, macOS, Linux) alike. It comes with a library of over 1000 commands and its functionality can be extended further through over 30 plugins which are available for free download.

Another round of vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed for the version of OpenSSL that is included in MorphOS 3.17. Eight discovered issues, namely CVE-2023-0286, CVE-2022-4304, CVE-2022-4203, CVE-2023-0215, CVE-2022-4450, CVE-2023-0216, CVE-2023-0217 and CVE-2023-0401, were found to potentially affect MorphOS users.

A fixed OpenSSL library will be bundled with a future MorphOS release. Meanwhile, you can install the following replacement openssl3.library that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.17: Download

To install it, copy the file to MOSSYS:Libs and reboot.

Iris 1.6 is now available from iris-morphos.com.

Changes in this version include various UI improvements, the ability to open images in an external viewer and updated WebKit and associated libraries.

This version also fixes several crashes reported by the users.

Version 1.2 of the ZIP plugin for Hollywood is now available for download. This is a minor update which mostly contains bugfixes and optimizations. The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (arm, ppc, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android and iOS are provided.

Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of version 2.0 of the XML plugin for Hollywood. This plugin, previously known as XML Parser, was one of the first Hollywood plugins and has now received a major update with many new features.

The biggest new feature in version 2.0 of the Hollywood XML plugin is that you can now serialize Hollywood tables to XML documents with just a single function call. In the same way you can also deserialize XML documents to Hollywood tables with just a single function call. This is made possible by Hollywood 9's new serialization plugin interface which is why the XML plugin now requires at least Hollywood 9.0. Further new features include lots of new callbacks to handle advanced XML features like namespaces, entities, attlists, and more. Finally, the XML plugin now includes a comprehensive documentation that describes all features and contains many examples.

The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin systemversions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (arm, ppc, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android and iOS are provided. Note that Hollywood 9 is strictly required by the XML plugin 2.0.

[b]This release was brought to you by Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business.

Amiga-News.de asked developers and programmers for a little anecdote for an advent calendar. So from December 1st until Christmas in sometimes shorter, sometimes longer texts you will read about their Amiga beginnings, first successes and experiences from their creative wealth and little incidents to smile or even to think about. And of course also one, maybe two ;) MorphOS developers are involved. A big thank you to all who participated!

Iris 1.5 is now available for download from iris-morphos.com.

The new version introduces support for auto-archiving attachments into a zip archive, including encrypting them with password. It's also possible to unpack zip attachments directly from Iris.

The new version introduces massive performance gains in decoding of large file images.

Also changed:
- Loading progress bar colour can now be configured in Interface settings
- Cherrypicked OffscreenCanvas fixes from latest WebKit sources
- Added handling of very long filenames when finalizing a download
- Fixed a bad free call in the media decoder
- Disabled some stray debug

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