"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." ~Walter Elliott

We are pleased to announce the release of Linaro 12.05.

Updates, new feature implementations, new ways to use the member boards are all the short races in which we persevere in our efforts to support, design, and build the future of Linux on ARM.

Linaro release 12.05 comes on the cusp of Linaro Connect in Hong Kong where over 200 ARM developers, engineers, and more have descended on the Gold Coast hotel to present, discuss and develop features, infrastructure and optimizations for the Linux kernel, Android, Ubuntu.

During this Q2.12 Linaro Connect the spotlight is on the following technologies: * ARM big.LITTLE implementation * Multicore power management and scheduling * SoC BSP maintainance, cost reduction and upstreaming * A15 Virtualization * SoC Unified Memory Management * ARM for the Enterprise: Servers and Beyond

Linaro engineers will "show off" demos which touch on the sessions and support developed not only during this and past cycles, but refined as part of the Q2.12 Linaro Connect and will highlight this work as part of the Demo Friday event: http://connect.linaro.org/events/linaro-connect-q2-12-demo-friday/

As part of the Linaro Connect Q2.12 event Linaro also took risks with new free technologies now being offered as part of the Google+--Hangouts on Air. All public sessions were live streamed to remote participants. Our Android team even has this technology running on Samsung's Origen board. The amazing story is that less than 6 months ago using Google+ Hangouts wasn't possible on an ARM platform with an open source distribution.

We encourage everybody to use the 12.05 release. The download links for all images and components are available on our downloads page:

http://www.linaro.org/downloads/

See the detailed highlights of this release to get an overview of what has been accomplished by the Working Groups, Landing Teams and Platform Teams. The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each released artifact on the release information:

http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1205/Release#Release_Information

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/1205/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

-- Fathi Boudra, on behalf of the Release Team Linaro Release Manager | Validation Project Manager Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs