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The linaro B&B team is on tour this month, visiting Brussels, Belgium for release week and to attend the FOSDEM conference. Next stop will be Hong Kong where will be a possibility for a meet & greet with fans. Apply for backstage passes now!

The Linaro 15.01 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 3.19-rc5-2015.01 is released : * based on v3.19-rc5 * updated linaro-android topic * GATOR topic updated to version 5.20.1 * builddeb topic: fixes for the dtb files location changes in 3.19 (vendor subdir introduced) * updated integration-linaro-vexpress64 topic by ARM LT (FVP Base and Foundation models, and Juno support) * updated topic from Qualcomm LT (IFC6410 board support) * updated topic from HiSilicon LT (Hi36xx, HiP04, and X5HD2 families support) * updated LLVM topic (uses the community llvmlinux-latest branch) * included ILP32 patch set v3 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/3/704) rebased on 3.19-rc5. Initial tests using syscalls LTP tests are done: msgctl07 stalls when using ILP32 userland (no stall with LP64 userland). * config fragments updated: * audit.conf added to enable the audit feature testing on ARMv8 * vexpress64: enabled devices used on Juno * Linaro builds of AOSP 15.01 is released: * Android builds have been updated to 5.0.2 * Juno firmware has been updated to 0.10.1 * Linaro OpenEmbedded 2015.01 is released : * integrated Linaro binutils 2.25-2015.01 * fixed linux-dummy after shared workdir changes in oe-core * updated linux-linaro(-stable) recipes * cleaned up overlayed recipes * added image recipe for ILP32 with LTP included * fixed GCC-4.8 builds * fixed LNG x86 machines * added workaround LAVA-isms with shell prompt * updated GATOR recipe to 5.20.1 * upstreaming: * fixed libgpg recipe in oe-core

* Linaro Ubuntu 15.01 is released : * updated packages: Juno firmware 0.10.1, linux-firmware (include firmware needed for LCB), LSK 3.10.65/3.14.29 and linux-linaro 3.19-rc5 kernels * CI bring up: UpdateCapsule functionality testing * Debian x86_64 kernel/rootfs build with NFS support * CI bring up: audit enabled build * Add Debian arm64 rootfs

The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each released artifact on the release information: http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1501/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/1501/Release#Known_Issues

Bug reports for this release should be filed in Bugzilla ( http://bugs.linaro.org) against the individual packages or projects that are affected.

On behalf of the release team,

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