Haiku’s October 2026 status report is out, and Phoronix flags a few improvements on the BeOS-inspired OS that are actually useful day to day.
The project added a driver for Universal Flash Storage, so more modern flash devices have a path in. Touchpad handling now supports two- and three-finger tap gestures. NTFS support picked up changes from upstream NTFS-3G. On the app side there were fixes for media-player crashes and for rounded-corner drawing in Playground, plus work to get the build system talking to GCC 15.
My take
Haiku keeps quietly filling in the practical gaps: storage, input, file systems, a newer toolchain. None of this makes it a default daily driver overnight, but a UFS driver and proper multi-finger taps are the kind of work that makes an alternative OS feel less like a museum piece.
God Bless, and Use the Source!
