Excellent work everyone. This is a superb release! On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Fathi Boudra <fathi.bou...@linaro.org> wrote: > Hi, > > The Linaro Team is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 11.06. > > 11.06 is the Linaro’s first release delivered on the new monthly cadence. > Since we started focusing on monthly component releases, activity in the > engineering teams has been channeled into producing a coherent set of > packages; > This allows anyone to witness development of new features and fixes as the > team > progresses towards its goals. This month’s release highlights the results: > a host of new components are now available, including LAVA packages from the > Platform Validation Team, a collection of SoC-specific kernels provided by the > Landing Teams, and preview releases of Graphics and Multimedia Working Groups > work ranging from Unity 3D to a NEON-optimized libjpeg-turbo. In addition, > another solid set of toolchain components, topped by a Linaro GCC 4.6 release > that should start making a very good impressions on benchmarks near you. > > We encourage everybody to use the 11.06 release. The download links for all > images and components are available on our release page: > > http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1106/Release > > Highlights of this release: > > * Linaro Evaluation Builds (LEBs) for Ubuntu comes with the full 3D Unity > desktop experience enabled on PandaBoard. It's powered by Compiz and relies > on the Nux toolkit for its rendering. > * Linaro Evaluation Build (LEBs) for Android on Pandaboard comes with latest > stable 2.6.38 kernel from Linaro's TI Landing Team and is built using > Linaro's GCC 4.5 2011.06 release; Also, latest Linaro toolchain have been > packaged for Android and benchmark results showing noticeable performance > gains compared to the Google AOSP gingerbread toolchain have been included > as part of the release documentation: http://bit.ly/jTAhWa > * Initial preview releases of Ubuntu Hardware Packs for Snowball, Origen and > Quickstart boards featuring the latest Linaro Landing Team components are > available as part of this release. > * Linaro GCC 4.6 2011.06 and GCC 4.5 2011.06 come with bugfixes and various > performance optimizations with focus on vectoriser improvements. With this > release Linaro GCC 4.5 series enters maintenance mode and will ensure that > development can be focused on making the "future" better. > * Linaro QEMU 2011.06, based on upstream (trunk) QEMU. This version includes > a > number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements like the support of a model > of the Gumstix Overo board and the USB keyboard/mouse support on > BeagleBoard. > * Linaro Kernel 2.6.39 2011.06, based on the 2.6.39.1 stable kernel with a > number of changes developed by Linaro and integrated from the 3.0-rc. It > includes the ability to append Device Tree to zImage at build time, support > for parallel async MMC requests and more... > * Linaro U-Boot 2011.06.1, based on upstream version 2011.06-rc3 features > USB, > Network and TFTP boot for PandaBoard as well as initial PXE support. > * First full release of LAVA components, Linaro's automated validation > solution, has been made available as part of our monthly releases. > * QEMU with OpenGL ES acceleration - technology preview. For more details, > please visit https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/QemuOpenGLES > * The Unity, NUX and Compiz port for EGL/OpenGL ES v2 that are part of > our Ubuntu LEB for this month are also made available as components > maintained by Linaro's Graphics Working Group. > * Linaro Image Tools 2011.06-1 features the support for the --image_file > option in linaro-android-media-create and support the new upstream name of > the smdkv310 SPL. > * Powerdebug 0.5-2011.06 is a major rewrite of the code to put in place a > generic framework to integrate more easily new components like the thermal > sensors. It's more modular and decrease the dependency between the display > and the power management blocks. > * And much more... The release details are linked from the "Details" column > for each release artifact on the 11.06 release page. > > Using the Android-based images > ============================== > > The Android-based images come in three parts: system, userdata and boot. > These need to be combined to form a complete Android install. For an > explanation of how to do this please see: > > http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/ImageInstallation > > If you are interested in getting the source and building these images > yourself please see the following pages: > > http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/GetSource > http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/BuildSource > > Using the Ubuntu-based images > ============================= > > The Ubuntu-based images consist of two parts. The first part is a hardware > pack, which can be found under the hwpacks directory and contains hardware > specific packages (such as the kernel and bootloader). The second part is > the rootfs, which is combined with the hardware pack to create a complete > image. For more information on how to create an image please see: > > http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Ubuntu/ImageInstallation > > Getting involved > ================ > > More information on Linaro can be found on our websites: > > * Homepage: http://www.linaro.org > * Wiki: http://wiki.linaro.org > > Also subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC > channels to stay on top of Linaro developments: > > * Announcements: > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-announce > * Development: > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev > * IRC: > #linaro on irc.linaro.org or irc.freenode.net > #linaro-android irc.linaro.org or irc.freenode.net > > Known issues with this release > ============================== > > For any errata issues, please see: > > http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1106/Release#Known_Issues > > Bug reports for this release should be filed in Launchpad against the > individual packages that are affected. If a suitable package cannot be > identified, feel free to assign them to: > > http://www.launchpad.net/linaro > > Cheers, > > -- > Fathi Boudra > Linaro Release Manager | Platform Project Manager > Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-announce mailing list > linaro-annou...@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-announce >
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