Hi,

Another month, another release. Today sees the launch of the Linaro Beta image which will in-turn become the final release in November. The team have been working super-hard to ensure bugs are at a minimum whist bring in new exciting functionality.

Highlights of this release include:

* Support for the ARM Versatile Express platform which supplements the existing OMAP image. * Support is now available for OMAP Beagle Board C3/C4, OMAP Beagle Board XM, ARM Versatile Express, and with some modifications OMAP Panda Board, IGEPv2, Freescale iMX51. * Three new experimental seeds are available which enable the headless image to be supplemented by a particular install flavor: o linaro-netbook-efl - Netbook user interface using the EFL based netbook-launcher o linaro-alip - A reduced size installation, see http://linux.onarm.com/index.php/Main_Page for more details on ALIP o linaro-handset-plasma - A KDE/Plasma based user interface. * 35 upgraded packages since alpha-3. * Includes the 2.6.35 final kernel. * Tested using the new QA Tracking infrastructure located at http://qatracker.linaro.org/

More information on this development release as well as download and installation instructions can be found at:

http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011/Beta

More information on Linaro in general and the 10.11 plans can be found at:

* Homepage: http://www.linaro.org * Wiki: http://wiki.linaro.org * 10.11: http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011

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.freenode.net

For any errata issues please see:

http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011/Beta#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

Regards, Jamie. -- Linaro Release Manager