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Key changes include: Mail app gains 'labels' feature replacing custom... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/haiku-activity-contract-report-february-2026-nxwqtnwy4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nxwqTnwY4.png og:image:alt: Haiku Activity & Contract Report, February 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Haiku Activity & Contract Report, February 2026 **[Haiku Project](https://daily.dev/sources/haikuos)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Monthly development report for the Haiku OS project covering hrev59356 through hrev59430. Key changes include: Mail app gains 'labels' feature replacing custom statuses; Deskbar gets a location selector UI; BGeolocation switches from discontinued Mozilla Location Service to Beacon DB; virtio_block driver disabled due to multithreading bugs; EHCI USB2 zero-copy optimization disabled after causing crashes; BTRFS gains Zstd-compressed file reading; XFS driver gets multiple fixes; Hyper-V VMbus driver added by a new contributor; pthread_barrier reworked to fix OpenGL hangs; TLB invalidation optimized on x86; and several filesystem crash fixes across NTFS, BFS, FAT, and RAMFS. Beta 6 release is getting closer but blocked by a kernel memory accounting regression under review and 5-6 remaining bugs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Haiku Activity & Contract Report, March 2026 \(ft. 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