I'm pleased to announce the 16.06 release for the Reference Software Platform project!

This is the fourth release, and like its predecessors, it has seen quite a few changes and improvements for both Consumer and Enterprise platforms.

The Reference Software Platform has seen many substantial changes, among other more subtle ones.

Below is a list of some of this release’s highlights:

Common to both Consumer and Enterprise Editions ==============================================

* Kernel - Unified tree shared between the CE and EE builds - 4.4.11-based, including some under-review topic branches to extend the features and platform hardware support - Device-Tree support for CE; ARM ACPI and PCIe support for Enterprise - Added OP-TEE support (enabled on HiKey and Juno) - Supports Reference HW platforms HiKey and Cello (Other Test Platforms include: Dragonboard 410c, Hisilicon D02 and D03, APM X-Gene, HP Proliant m400, AMD Overdrive, Qualcomm Q2432:ZB, and Cavium ThunderX) - Single kernel config for all platforms in arch/arm64/configs/distro.config - Single kernel binary (package) for all platforms

* Bootloader - UEFI OpenPlatformPkg (upstream) now contains reference implementations for Huawei D02/D03, AMD Overdrive and LeMaker Cello - U-boot support in Dragonboard 410c images to allow easier handling of images

Consumer Edition ================

* Reference hardware platform - LeMaker Hikey

* Other supported test platforms - Dragonboard 410c

* Overall CE Debian platform features, validated as part of the release - UEFI with DT - Upgrade to Debian 8.5 “Jessie” - Upgrade to the unified 4.4.11 Linux Kernel - Upgrade graphics components: Mesa 11.1.2 and XServer 1.17.3a - Rootfs automatically resized during the first boot

* CE Debian RPB for HiKey: - OP-TEE integrated by default - UEFI updated to use the latest development trees based on Tianocore and OpenPlatformPkg

* CE Debian build for DragonBoard 410c: - U-boot chain-loaded from LK

* CE OE/Yocto RPB: - First OpenEmbedded-based RPB, including several changes and components merged from the LHG OE layers - Dragonboard 410c and HiKey support - HiKey features: OP-TEE and Mali support - Dragonboard 410c features: GPU, WLAN, BT, audio, LS I/O, camera and GPS support

Enterprise Edition ==================

* Reference hardware platform - LeMaker Cello

* Other supported test platforms - AMD Overdrive A0 and B0 - Hisilicon D02 - Hisilicon D03 (new) - APM X-Gene Mustang - HP ProLiant m400 - Qualcomm Q2432LZB (new) - Cavium ThunderX (new)

* Overall platform features, validated as part of the release - UEFI with ACPI - KVM - PCIe

* Firmware - UEFI OpenPlatformPkg (upstream) now contains reference implementation for Huawei D02/D03, AMD Overdrive and LeMaker Cello

* Network Installers - Use the unified 4.4.11 kernel - Debian upgrade to Debian 8.5 “Jessie” - CentOS upgrade to CentOS 7.2 16.03

* Enterprise Components - Docker 1.9.1 - OpenStack Liberty for Debian Jessie and CentOS - ODPi 1.0.0 based Hadoop - Spark 1.3.1 - OpenJDK 8 - QEMU 2.6

Known issues with this release ==============================

Install instructions, known issues, test reports and instructions to build from source are all published on: https://github.com/96boards/documentation/wiki/Reference-Platform-Home

For bugs related to the 96Boards platforms, please use the 96Boards bug tracking system: https://bugs.96boards.org/

For bugs related to the Reference Software Platform release, but on development boards that are not officially part of 96Boards (e.g. AMD Overdrive and HiSilicon D02/D03), please use: https://bugs.linaro.org

On behalf of the Reference Platform teams,