Ya es casi oficial que este año saldrá la versión 4.1.1 del AmigaOS y que el año que viene, muy posiblemente, se ponga a la venta el AmigaOS4.2. Desde AmiWest y Pianta Amiga han podido reconstruir la "hoja de rutas" del AmigaOs.
La versión 4.1.1 contaría, entre otras, con las siguientes novedades.
OS4.1.1 (final) will be free & available for Amiga Ones, Pegasos 2 & Sam440. Although not yet finished, it is very likely to have:
- A more modern metallic-looking theme, although this may not be the default.
- Much bigger new icons as standard. Looks a bit OS X-ish IMHO.
- Dynamic icon scaling on Workbench! So users with huge monitors won't be forced to live with small icons, but user with smaller monitors can still have small icons if they wish.
- A pop-up notification system: All applications registered to the application.library can send notifications to the notification server (called Ringhio) that can be configured to display them on the WB screen. Should be used by at least the USB stack & some 3rd-party programs like XNet-RSS.
- Replacement of the WbStartup folder by a StartUp preferences app, so you don't have to worry about programs in the WbStartup folder becoming out of date. And the loading of programs is accompanied by display of their icons on a bar in the middle of the screen (like in many other OSes).
- Automatic monitor configuration, using DDC (monitor plug'n'play).
- A new shell with support for multiple tabs, scrollbars (with buffer), command history & auto-completion. EDIT: Rigo says this will probably miss OS4.1.1, but will appear in a later minor update.
- A new intuition, with shadows around windows, and extended ReAction.
- More beginner-friendly installer.
- More beginner friendly set-up of OS4, e.g. ContextMenus & ClickToFront running by default.
- Special versions of Tunenet, SimpleMail, and possibly other programs.
- EDIT: 10% faster video playback on Sam440 (at least with DvPlayer), thanks to improved graphics handling.
- A ton of bug fixes, which makes OS4 much more stable, especially on the Sam.
- Better USB support, and especially a lot more stable.
- Support for USB2.0 *might* make it, but this is still in development.
- Workbench automatically updates itself when files change now (this was a past complaint about OS4.1 in an OS News review).
De ellas hay una captura del tamaño de iconos dinámico.

Y posiblemente este sea el nuevo tema de escritorio que acompañará al Workbech 4.1.1

También Hyperion presentará un "ambicioso proyecto" relacionado con AmigaOs. Cunado lo harán no se sabe a ciencia cierta (lo que se ha dicho también de forma semioficial es que se presentará cuando esté lo suficientemente avanzado cosa que esperan para antes de fin de año).
En cuestión de hardware AMCC ha comenzado al distribución de las placas de pruebas Titan, un procesador PowerPC de doble núcleo.
Un saludo.