"Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; abeginning, a struggle and a victory." ~ Ghandi

The Linaro 14.06 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:

* Linux Linaro 3.15-2014.06 is released: * based on v3.15 release * updated Android topic (linaro-android-3.15-experimental) * GATOR version 5.18 (same version as in 2014.04) * updated basic Capri board support from Broadcom LT * cortex-strings-arm64 topic (same as in 2014.02) * updated Versatile Express ARM64 support (FVP Base and Foundation models, Juno) from ARM LT. * updated Versatile Express patches from ARM LT * more HiP0x Cortex A15 family updates from HiSilicon LT (hip04_eth, hip04_defconfig) * updated LLVM topic * Big endian support (same as in 2014.05) * ftrace_audit topic from the Kernel WG (same as in 2014.05) * config fragments changes: * configs: android: Enable SELinux related configurations

* Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2014.06 is released: * based on GCC 4.9 and updated to latest Linaro TCWG releases: * Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.06 * Linaro Binutils 2.24.0-2014.06 * Linaro GDB 7.7.1-2014.06

* Linaro Android 14.06 is released: * built with Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.05 * upgraded to Android 4.4.3:

* Linaro OpenEmbedded 2014.06 is released: * integrated Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.06 * integrated Linaro EGLIBC 2.19-2014.06 * integrated Linaro binutils 2.24-2014.06 * integrated Linaro GDB 7.7.1-2014.06 * integrated powerdebug 0.7.3 * several ODP updates * upstreaming: * fixed hwlatdetect metadata * fixed recipes related to oe-core binconfig changes: apache2, php and swig * updated PM QA to 0.4.11

* Linaro Ubuntu 14.06 is released: * added openssh-server to the images, SSH keys are generated on first boot. * updated packages: ARM trusted firmware (0.7), openssl (1.0.1h), PM QA (0.4.11), powerdebug (0.7.3), powertop (2.6.1), LSK 3.10.44 and linux-linaro 3.15 kernels.

* ARMv8 Ubuntu engineering build for Enterprise * Android for ARMv8 is booting with ARM Trusted firmware and U-Boot on Models * CI loop has been setup for Juno Android member build * CI bring up: ST B2120 engineering build * Build rootfs image for toolchain benchmarking * CI bring up: HiSilicon Hi3716cv200 * CI bring up: ARM64 kexec build and regression test setup * CI bring up: Juno OpenEmbedded member build * LSK: add RT patchset CI loop * LSK: add Juno CI loop * Build Ubuntu rootfs image for toolchain automation framework * SELinux is enabled on LSK with Android 4.4.3 for ARMv7

The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each released artifact on the release information: http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1406/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/1406/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