Released at the end of August was Haiku R1 Beta 6 and over the course of September, further improvements continued to land for this BeOS-inspired project now in its 25th year of development.

The Haiku project overnight published their monthly status report to summarize all of the interesting changes that materialized over September 2026.

On the hardware side, Intel Sunrise Point was added to the HDA audio driver for that chipset used during the Intel Skylake and Kabylake days.

The VirtIO GPU driver has also seen improvements to get mode-setting working on more setups.

The NVMe driver on Haiku now has support for reading device names and serial numbers.

There were also a variety of other hardware fixes and improvements over the past month.

On the file-system side were fixes for Btrfs. There is also work towards BFS resizing support.

Additionally there were a number of application fixes and other improvements throughout this BeOS-inspired open-source platform. All the details can be found on Haiku-OS.org.