Haiku composition. Shiki's revisionism dealt a severe blow to renku and surviving haikai schools. The term "hokku" is now used chiefly in its original sense of the opening verse of a renku, and rarely to distinguish haiku written before Shiki's time. Haibun is a combination of prose and haiku, often autobiographical or written in the form of a travel journal. Haiga is a style of Japanese painting based on the aesthetics of haikai, and usually including a haiku. Today, haiga artists combine haiku with paintings, photographs and other art. The carving of famous haiku on natural stone to make poem monuments
History of Haiku (operating system) became self-hosting, which means Haiku can be built from within itself. On January 31, 2009, Haiku obtained a native GCC4 port; this allows modern applications, like Firefox 3, to be built on Haiku. On July 12, 2009, a first prototype version of the FreeBSD WLAN-Stack was ported to Haiku, enabling unencrypted WLAN connections as a first step. The first alpha release "Haiku R1/Alpha 1" has been released on September 14, 2009. On October 27, 2009, Haiku obtained Qt4 support via an external 3rd party port. The second alpha release ("Haiku R1/Alpha 2") was released on May 10, 2010. After having