For those of you who haven't been tracking the Haiku SVN mailing list constantly, you'll have missed the flurry of commits on Haiku's new networking stack. While Haiku has had a network stack, of sorts, for an incredibly long time (which was able to support NetPositive, somewhat; a new stack was required to cope with architechtural and other serious issues with the existing one.

The new stack, has in its short time of development, reached the stage where the machine can get on a network, ping and be pinged, resolve domains, assign and manipulate network routes, execute arp commands, and send data over UDP, albeit currently not for particularly long due to the IPv4 implementation not yet supporting reassembly of fragments. With Axel Dörfler and Oliver Tappe working on the stack, as well as Haiku's summer intern, and working TCP and IPv4 as a target for the end of September, progress is likely to continue being rapid over the next few weeks, and hopefully, the stack will reach and exceed the capabilities and stability of the old one shortly.