AmigaOS 4.1 announced

A new version of Amiga OS have been announced.

Here’s a quote from the press release at hyperion-entertainment.biz:

Antwerp, Belgium – 11 July, 2008.

Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that Amiga OS 4.1 has gone into final testing and is scheduled for release mid-Q3/2008. Building on the solid foundations of Amiga OS 4.0, Amiga OS 4.1 introduces a wealth of substantial new functionality which is a prerequisite for the deployment of industry standard applications on the Amiga platform.

State-of-the-art applications such as modern web-browsers, productivity software or digital imaging software typically operate on large datasets with a corresponding memory footprint which rapidly outstrips the physical memory of any computer system. Amiga OS 4.1 offers intelligent memory paging and uses transparent disk based memory – but only when you need it.

A non-exhaustive list of key new functionality of Amiga OS 4.1:

• Intelligent memory paging
• Hardware compositing engine (Radeon R1xx and R2xx family)
• Implementation of the “Cairo” device-independent 2D rendering library
• Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) support for greater digital camera compatibility
• JXFS filesystem with the support for drivers and partitions of multiple terabyte size
• Improved Workbench functionality
• New and improved DOS functionality (full 64 bit support, universal notification support, automatic expunge and reload of updated disk resources)
• Improved 3D hardware accelerated screen-dragging
• Reworked AmiDock with true transparency
• Reworked Warp3D Radeon drivers with new functionality
• And much, much more.