FreeDOS 1.4 Is Here

Summary

A lot has happened in DOS since FreeDOS 1.3. Developers have been adding features to FreeDOS, fixing bugs, making translations, updating programs, and writing documentation. Many thanks to all the cool developers, testers, contributors, testers, documentation writers, translators .. and everyone else who made FreeDOS 1.4 happen! The new version has several cool changes, including: Package updates As you might expect, many programs in the FreeDOS distribution saw updates. Some of the more recent changes include: FreeCOM is the FreeDOS command.com shell. Version 0.86 has a bunch of new fixes, compatibility improvements, and translations, thanks to Jeremy, TK Chia, Emir, Andrew, Yu-Shih, Bernd, Jiří, and others. Xcopy is a standard DOS command that copies a directory tree. Version 1.8b has a reworked recursive copy to not use as much stack space, and uses increased stack size when built on Open Watcom. [Jeremy] Move moves a file or directory from one place to another. Version 3.4 has an update to limit stack usage reducing the chance of stack overflow on recursive moves. [Jeremy] Fdisk is the program to manage fixed disks (hard disks). Version 1.4.3 collects several important changes since FreeDOS 1.3, including fixing critical errors that could cause data issues when working with many partitions. [Bernd] mTCP is a set of TCP/IP applications for personal computers running DOS. The version in FreeDOS 1.4 has many changes that improve reliability. [Michael] FDHelp is the content of the main Help system. Version 1.1.0 has been rewritten from scratch by Willi, and includes translations to other languages thanks to several translators. A few updates didn't make it into the FreeDOS 1.4 distribution. For example, a few programs released updates in the days before the final FreeDOS 1.4 release, like the Blocek text editor (version 1.76) and that was too late to include them. These programs will get included in upcoming monthly test releases. Also, the FreeDOS kernel is still t...