Haiku Activity & Contract Report, March 2026 (ft. ARM64)

Monthly development report for the Haiku OS project covering March 2026 (hrev59431–hrev59569). The headline item is significant progress on the ARM64 port, which can now reach the desktop in QEMU thanks to contributors smrobtzz and SED4906. Other highlights include: major kernel SMP message logic overhauls and VM/swap improvements by waddlesplash; Hyper-V driver work by Goldfish64; Bluetooth server fixes and pairing support; BFS locking bug fixes; package state auto-cleanup in pkgman; SSL certificate validation fixes; and numerous application-level improvements across Tracker, WebPositive, Mail, and more. The beta6 release is not yet ready due to remaining WebPositive bugs.