Haiku OS Now Has A UFS Driver, Two & Three Finger Tap Gestures

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has seen new work on drivers and other improvements during the course of October. The October 2026 status report is now available for Haiku that highlights a variety of improvements made to this unique OS. Last month, Haiku introduced a new driver for the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) interface for flash storage devices Haiku now has support for two and three finger tap gestures with its touchpad handling code. The NTFS file-system support has been improved for Haiku with importing some changes from upstream NTFS-3G. On the application side were a variety of bug fixes from possible media player crashes to fixing issues with drawing rounded corners in Playground. Haiku has also seen work on adapting its build system to work with the GCC 15 compiler. More details on these October improvements to Haiku can be found via Haiku-OS.org.