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title = "Project History"
date = "2009-09-09T21:36:28.000Z"
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<p>Here is a list of important milestones along the history of the Haiku project.</p>

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 <li><strong>August 18, 2001:</strong> Project starts as OpenBeOS. This is the first <a href="https://www.freelists.org/post/haiku/Ok-lets-start" title="First message on the Haiku mailing list">OK, let's start</a> message on the Haiku mailing list.</li>

 <li><strong>April 2002:</strong> app_server prototype 5 was released. It was the first release that was able to render windows.</li>

 <li><strong>June 2004:</strong> First WalterCon conference held in Columbus, Ohio. New project name Haiku is announced, and the new logo disclosed.</li>

 <li><strong>March 2005:</strong> The Haiku app_server <a href="http://haiku.mlotz.ch/#log_20050321">draws the beginnings of a GUI</a> natively under Haiku the first time.</li>

 <li><strong>April 2005:</strong> The <a href="http://haiku.mlotz.ch/#log_20050410">first internet browsing session</a> under Haiku takes place using the text browser Links rendering into a graphical MiniTerminal window.</li>

 <li><strong>July 2005:</strong> Tracker is reported to run in Haiku for the first time.</li>

 <li><strong>August-September 2006:</strong> Haiku gets working USB drivers for UHCI and EHCI supporting many USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 devices.</li>

 <li><strong>February 12, 2007:</strong> Haiku exhibits for the first time at an open source conference in SCaLE 5x. <strong>Reports:</strong> <a href="/news/2007-02-10/scale_5x_first_day_report_part_i" title="SCaLE 5x Report, Part 1">Part 1</a> & <a href="/news/2007-02-11/scale_5x_first_day_report_part_2" title="SCaLE 5x Report, Part 2">Part 2</a> | <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/haiku.inc/SCaLE5x#" title="SCaLE 5x photo gallery">Photo Gallery</a></li>

 <li><strong>February 14, 2007:</strong> Haiku Tech Talk at Google Plex in Mountain View, CA. Former Be Inc. CEO Jean Louis Gasseé gives short speech of support for the project. | <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=236331448076587879#" title="Haiku Tech Talk at Google">Video</a></li>

 <li><strong>April 2007:</strong> Haiku enters for the first time in the Google Summer of Code&trade;; allocated eight students.</li>

 <li><strong>September 30, 2007:</strong> AHCI SATA driver reaches working state and is <a href="https://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/AHCI-driver-ready-for-testing" title="[haiku-development] AHCI driver ready for testing">ready for testing</a>.</li>

 <li><strong>February 12, 2008:</strong> Haiku is <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/19325/Haiku_Self_Hosts_for_the_First_Time" title="Haiku Self Hosts for the First Time">reported to be self-hosting for the first time</a>.</li>

 <li><strong>April 2008:</strong> Accepted into Google Summer of Code&trade; and mentors five students.</li>

 <li><strong>May 2008: </strong>First run (r25116 haiku-image gcc2) submitted to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverity">Coverity</a>.</li> 

 <li><strong>September 2008: </strong>Third run (r27211 haiku-image gcc2) submitted to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverity">Coverity</a>.</li> 

 <li><strong>November 2008: </strong>Fourth run (r28644 haiku-image gcc2) submitted to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverity">Coverity</a>.</li> 

 <li><strong>January 31, 2009: </strong>Haiku gets a native GCC4 port.</li>

 <li><strong>April 2009:</strong> Google Summer of Code&trade; allocates six students to Haiku.</li>

 <li><strong>September 14, 2009:</strong> Haiku R1 Alpha 1 is released.</li>

 <li><strong>April 2010:</strong> Seven students to work on Haiku through Google Summer of Code&trade;.</li>

 <li><strong>May 10, 2010:</strong> Haiku R1 Alpha 2 is released.</li>

 <li><strong>July 2010: </strong>Sixth run (r37534 nightly-raw gcc2hybrid) submitted to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverity">Coverity</a>.</li> 

 <li><strong>December 2010: </strong>Seventh run (r39894 nightly-raw gcc4) submitted to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverity">Coverity</a>.</li> 

 <li><strong>March 2011: </strong>Eighth run (r40855 nightly-raw with GPL gcc4) submitted to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverity">Coverity</a>.</li> 
 <li><strong>June 2011:</strong> Haiku <a href="/news/2011-06-20_haiku_release_1_alpha_3/">R1 Alpha 3</a> is released.</li>
 <li><strong>November 2012:</strong> Haiku <a href="/news/2012-11-12_haiku_release_1_alpha_4/">R1 Alpha 4</a> is released.</li>
 <li><strong>July 2013:</strong> Haiku gets 64bit support.</li>
 <li><strong>August 2013:</strong> Creation of the <a href="http://haikuarchives.github.io/">HaikuArchives</a> project to recover, opensource and update sourcecode of BeOS applications.</li>
 <li><strong>October 2013:</strong> Haiku package management system is merged.</li>
 <li><strong>February 2014:</strong> Integration of the <a href="/blog/pawe%C5%82_dziepak/2014-02-18_new_scheduler_merged/">new O(1) scheduler with CPU affinity</a>.</li>
 <li><strong>April 2015:</strong> First scan of Haiku by PVS-Studio with <a href="http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0317/">two</a> <a href="http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0318/">articles</a> analyzing the most interesting bugs uncovered.</li>
 <li><strong>July 2015:</strong> Introduction of the Launch Daemon to manage boot process and services.</li>
 <li><strong>June 2018:</strong> LibreOffice is available for Haiku.</li>
 <li><strong>September 2018:</strong> Haiku <a href="/news/2018_09_28_haiku_r1_beta1/">R1 Beta 1</a> is released.</li>
 <li><strong>October 2018:</strong> UEFI booting support.</li>
 <li><strong>March 2019:</strong> Stable XHCI (USB3) support.</li>
 <li><strong>April 2019:</strong> NVMe storage support.</li>
 <li><strong>May 2019:</strong> First participation in Outreachy.</li>
 
 <li><strong>June 2020:</strong> Haiku <a href="/news/2020-06-09_haiku_r1_beta2/">R1 Beta 2</a> is released.</li>

</ul>