ReactOS 0.4.3 Officially Released with New Winsock Library, over 340 Bug Fixes

Today, November 16, 2016, the development team behind the ReactOS free and open-source computer operating system designed to be compatible with Windows applications and drivers, announced the release of ReactOS 0.4.3. Arriving exactly three months after the release of ReactOS 0.4.2, this third maintenance update to the major 0.4 series promises to address a total of 342 bugs and annoyances that have been reported by users or discovered by the development team in previous versions of the operating system. But there are also new features, such as the implementation of a new Winsock library. "Even after it was brought in however significant work remained to be done before it could replace the old Winsock library, work which Peter Hater and Andreas Maier undertook," reads today's announcement. "Their effort has now reached a point wherein the team feels it is ready to supplant the original library and ...