If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine." ~ Morris West

The Linaro 14.07 release is now available for download!

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:

=== What was done? ===

* Linux Linaro 3.16-rc6-2014.07 is released (CARD-788): * based on v3.16-rc6 * updated Android topic (linaro-android-3.16-experimental-merge) * GATOR version 5.18 (same version as in 2014.04) * updated basic Capri board support from Broadcom LT. Good progress in upstreaming the code: now the topic has 21 patch on top of v3.16-rc4 vs 53 patches on top of v3.15 in 2014.06 cycle * removed cortex-strings-arm64 topic as the code is accepted into the mainline * new topic from Qualcomm LT to add IFC6410 board support * updated Versatile Express ARM64 support (FVP Base and Foundation models, Juno) from ARM LT. cpufreq support for Juno has been added. * updated Versatile Express patches from ARM LT * more HiP0x Cortex A15 family updates from HiSilicon LT * switched to mainline support for Arndale and Arndale-octa boards * updated llvm topic (follows the community llvmlinux-latest branch) * Big endian support (the 2014.05 topic version rebased to 3.16 kernel) * removed ftrace_audit topic as the code is accepted into the mainline * config fragments changes: * added ifc6410.conf * Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2014.07 is released (CARD-790): * based on GCC 4.9 and updated to latest Linaro TCWG releases: * Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.07 * Linaro binutils 2.24.0-2014.07 * Linaro Android 14.07 is released (CARD-789): * built with Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.07 * upgraded to Android 4.4.4 * Android LSK v3.14 CI loop added * Linaro OpenEmbedded 2014.07 is released (CARD-787): * integrated Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.07 * integrated Linaro EGLIBC 2.19-2014.07 * integrated Linaro binutils 2.24.0-2014.07 * upstreaming: * fixes recipes related to oe-core autotools update * cleaned up overlayed recipes * updated PM QA to 0.4.12 * Linaro Ubuntu 14.07 is released (CARD-786): * added gstreamer 1.0 * updated packages: ARM trusted firmware (support latest FVP models), PM QA (0.4.12), LSK 3.10.49/3.14.13 and linux-linaro 3.16-rc6 kernels. * Integrate ARMv8 Big endian systems into LAVA and CI (CARD-772) * Migrate Linaro Android builds to 4.9 Linaro toolchain (CARD-1489) * LSK: add ARMv8 kernel + arm32 rootfs CI loop (CARD-1490) * Package rt-app (CARD-1491) * LSK: enable member kernel configs for build testing (CARD-1492)

The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each released artifact on the release information: http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1407/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 OpenEmbedded-based images =======================

With the Linaro provided downloads and with ARM’s Fast Models virtual platform, you can boot a virtual ARMv8 system and run 64-bit binaries.

For more information please see: http://www.linaro.org/engineering/armv8

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/1407/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

On behalf of the release team,

Koen Kooi Builds and Baselines | Release Manager Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs