Its been a fairly quiet news year so far for Haiku and BeOS, so in lieu of something thats actually "news", I've done a trawl through the two best known opensource software centralised development sites, SourceForge and BerliOS; the latter of which notably hosts Haiku's Subversion repository.

BerliOS is relatively new, and hence hasn't got the mindshare of SourceForge, and as a result, only eight projects are registed with BeOS as a specified target-OS, one of which is Haiku itself. However, nestled amongst these, theres a blast from the past - Pe. Pe, the Programmers Editor, is a former commercial application for BeOS which was opensourced by its developer when he left BeOS. A previous update was released in May 2004 by BeUnited, but work has continued on the editor, with the last checkins eleven days ago.

SourceForge, on the other hand, has 433 projects claiming BeOS support, although many refer to an outdated release rather than being BeOS software. Once again, projects which are already available and known are on SourceForge, at least somewhat updated . BeGadu, a client for the Polish Gadu-Gadu instant messanger network, last updated on BeBits in 2004, has had CVS checkins as recently as 7 weeks ago, although the log messages are, obviously, in Polish - so I've no idea what they mean ;)

Beam, the venerable e-mail client, last updated on BeBits in 2003, has also seen activity of late - 12 days ago, in fact. Changes in the past two and a half years, indeed, two and a half weeks in this case, include support for SSL encrypted connections to mail servers.

None of these seem to have hit the news in any way yet, so... now they have.