Haiku Beta 5 is now out (well, as of September 2024 anyway) and includes the latest round of bug fixes and feature improvements to the former BeOS operating system. Compared with the last release there are not too many earth shattering changes but there is still a major step towards a full final 1.0 release. The release notes if you want to read them are here.

The Haiku loading splash has remained unchanged still.

Even with all the UI stupidity running rampant across the popular operating systems these days, the default Haiku desktop is still just as clean and elegant as it's always been.

The subset of included applications hasn't changed a whole lot in the 20+ years of BeOS development either.

The Haiku about screen.

Haiku's file manager, Tracker, has seen some improvements. In particular, read-only folders are now displayed with a greyed-out background, and writing options in the menus are disabled instead of giving error messages.