"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." ~ Bertrand Russell

The Linaro 14.04 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:

* Linaro Stable Kernel (LSK) 3.10.37-2014.04 is released, based off the latest LTS 3.10.37 release * Refer to LTS 3.10.37 release for a list of changes in the latest LTS release. * updates to Android support (from Google and Linaro) * added * Big endian for ARMv7 and ARMv8 * Thermal framework DT support * Huge pages and transparent huge pages for ARMv8 * Tagged pointers for ARMv8 * Non-coherent DMA for ARMv8 * Features * big.LITTLE support: * ARM MP patch set * IKS (ARMv7 only) * ARMv8 features: * Big endian * CPU frequency scaling * CPU topology * CPU suspend * Tagged pointers * Non-coherent DMA * Power efficient workqueue support * Android v3.10 patch set from AOSP * Interactive scheduler enhancements for big.LITTLE * Big endian support * Thermal framework DT support * Pinctrl groups support * GATOR * ARMv8 4xA57 4xA53 FVP support * Versatile Express TC2 support * Linux Linaro 3.14-2014.04 is released * based on v3.14 release * GATOR version 5.18 (new version) * Android topic (linaro-android-3.14-merge) updated to get the recent code from AOSP * added a new LLVM topic * updated builddeb topic to include a fix to add missing headers in linux-headers package on arm architecture * uprobes v7 topic * updated big-LITTLE-pmu topic from ARM LT * updated basic Capri board support from Broadcom LT (bcm281xx support updated, Broadcom BCM470X and BCM5301X SoCs support added) * updated Arndale Octa / Arndale / Origen patches from Samsung LT: CPU hotplug and BE fixes * updated Versatile Express patches from ARM LT * Versatile Express arm64 support (FVP Base and Foundation models) from ARM LT * more HiP0x Cortex A15 family updates from HiSilicon LT * cortex-strings-arm64 topic (same as in 2014.02) * config fragments changes: updated config fragments for ARMv8 boards * Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2014.04 is released * updated to latest Linaro TCWG releases * Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04, featuring performance improvements and bug fixes * Linaro Android 14.04 is released * built with Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04 * LSK with Android for ARMv8 build has been setup * Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 Engineering builds have been setup * Linaro OpenEmbedded 2014.04 is released * integrated Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04 * integrated Linaro EGLIBC 2014.04 * added trace-cmd / kernelshark 2.3.2 recipe * updated ODP to 0.2 release * changed OpenJDK to track linaro git trees directly * updated GATOR to 5.18 release * upstreaming * added arm64 support to U-Boot architecture map * submitted trace-cmd / kernelshark recipe update * re-submitted GRUB build fixes * Linaro Ubuntu 14.04 is released * added packages: trace-cmd 2.3.2 and trusted firmware binaries for a new ‘hidden’ ARMv8 board * updated packages: edk2-uefi, GATOR 5.18 and linux-linaro 3.14 kernels * initial developer rootfs based on Trusty * OpenEmbedded: included MongoDB on ARMv8 * Arndale Octa: added thermal (TMU) driver support * CI bring up: BeagleBone Black member build * LSK with Mali support for Arndale build has been setup, contributed by Graphics WG.

The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each released artifact on the release information: http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1403/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/1404/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