The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.20! This release brings major advancements across the operating system, including new hardware support, extensive graphics and 3D improvements, new utilities, filesystem enhancements, and broad modernization work throughout the platform.
MorphOS 3.20 introduces support for the new Mirari architecture together with several dedicated system components, drivers, thermal management support, and updated networking functionality. Radeon graphics support has been significantly expanded with support for additional GPU families, improved HDMI, DVI and DisplayPort handling, enhanced multi-monitor support, improved 3D compatibility, and major updates to TinyGL and Radeon drivers for better rendering performance and stability.
This release also introduces SFS2 support across the operating system, enabling support for files larger than 4GB and partitions up to 2TB. Many filesystem components and utilities have been updated for nanosecond timestamp precision and dates beyond year 2038. Ambient received numerous usability, performance and stability improvements, including enhanced icon handling, improved search functionality, better drag-and-drop support, external panel support, and updated multimedia format handling.
Several new applications and utilities are included in MorphOS 3.20, such as DriveImager, MirrorBackup, SMARTDoctor, OFHTTP, OFHash, OFDNS, Replace, and Automator for scripting and controlling MUI applications. Iris has been updated to version 1.53 and now includes the new Contacts companion application for CalDAV-based address books. FlowStudio received extensive improvements for project management, printing, Markdown support, and development workflows.
Networking and connectivity have also been improved with updates to OpenSSH 10.3p1, TLS 1.3 support in RDesktop, expanded SMB2 filesystem improvements, and improved USB, audio and multimedia subsystem stability. Numerous system libraries and frameworks including MUI, ixemul, Cairo, Harfbuzz, Freetype, OpenSSL4, and ObjFWRT have been updated or significantly modernized.
MorphOS 3.20 additionally contains a very large number of bug fixes, performance improvements, memory handling corrections, rendering fixes, and usability refinements across the operating system. For a complete overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.20, please read the 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 3.20 is available for download in our files section.
The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.19. This release includes numerous important stability and security improvements.
For a more extensive overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.19, 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 3.19 is available for download in our files section.
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.
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.
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.
New vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed for the version of OpenSSL that is included in MorphOS 3.17. Two discovered issues, namely CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602, 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.
Bigfoot has opened a bounty to improve the OpenGL support and add new drivers for Radeon graphics cards. The bounty consists of a total of five projects:The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.17. This release includes numerous important performance, stability and security improvements. X5000 hardware support was improved to handle two Radeon cards and the HDD activity LED. Several text layout and rendering issues have been fixed in MUI.
For a more extensive overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.17, 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 3.17 is available for download in our files section.
