MKEYB by Tom Ehlert is a very small keyboard driver. However, MKEYB used to require an 80286 or better machine. Davide Bresolin has updated MKEYB to run on PC's and XT's. The updated MKEYB is now a 700 byte keyboard driver, saving 2.3 KB compared to XKEYB and 5 KB compared to MS-DOS KEYB. Read Davide's announcement for details, or download the new version from MKEYB's GitHub. We've also mirred this new version at the FreeDOS Files Archive at Ibiblio, under /files/dos/keyb/mkeyb

Devin Racher shared this update on a new project to : "I have been working on a FreeDOS port of Grafx2. This is an alpha-release. Grafx2 has a lot of features. I have not tested them all. There are bound to be bugs." Features include: * Image editing in indexed colors (with palette), up to 256 colors * Classical tools: lines, circles, text, multiple undo/redo, built-in brushes * Less classical tools: airbrush, splines, gradient-filled shapes, custom brushes * Layers, for easier changes of the composition as you work * Dual-view mode, you can see and draw both zoomed and actual size views at the same time * Grid mode: draw tile and easily assemble and copy them to create a screen mockup. Grafx2 has internal support for GIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, and other image formats. Visit the Grafx2 website or check out the Grafx2 GitHub for source code.

DOjS is a JavaScript programming environment for systems running MS-DOS, FreeDOS or any DOS based Windows (like 95, 98, ME). It features an integrated editor, graphics & sound output, mouse/keyboard/joystick input and more. SuperIlu just released version 1.8.0 of DOjS. A few new features in this release: + Added LFN_SUPPORTED global to indicate if long filenames are supported by the current DOS installation + Fixed some docs + Added QOI Image decoder in jsboot/qoi.js + Improved project structure, DOjS main source is now located in src/, all native libraries in plugins/ and all third party code in 3rdparty/. The new version also includes updates to some of the underlying components including openssl, cURL, and Zip. You can find it at DOjS GitHub.

The Doszip Commander file manager is an LFN-aware TUI file manager with built-in Zip and UnZip for DOS, available under the GNU General Public License v2. Hjort Nidudsson recently released a new version of Doszip Commander. Changes include: - extended country-specific date format - changed "Jump" to "Skip" in Delete dialog - fixed color issue in Move dialog - fixed issue with pipe command. You can find the source code and the latest release at the Doszip Commander GitHub.

SvarCOM is the SvarDOS command line interpreter, known usually under the name COMMAND.COM. (SvarDOS is a minimal DOS distribution based on FreeDOS.) SvarCOM is designed and maintained by Mateusz Viste, and distributed under the terms of the MIT license. It aims to be minimalist, but functionally equivalent to COMMAND.COM from MS-DOS 5.x/6.x. No LFN support. As of version 2022.0, SvarCOM's resident footprint is under 2 KiB. You can download the latest version from the SvarCOM website.

SuperIlu writes: "In order to test some of the upcoming changes for DOjS I did a new release of jSH. jSH is the text mode little sister of DOjS." jSH is a script interpreter for DOS based operating systems like MS-DOS, FreeDOS or any DOS based Windows (like 95, 98, ME). The focus is on file io and text mode user interfaces. You can download the new version at the jSH GitHub project. There is an extra GitHub-Repo for Javascript packages for jSH and DOjS, also available on GitHub.