"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The Linaro 14.05 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-rc5-2014.05 is released: * based on v3.15-rc5 * new Android topic (linaro-android-3.15-experimental) uses the resent AOSP code base * GATOR version 5.18 (same version as in 2014.04) * uprobes topic removed - all the patches accepted into the mainline * updated big-LITTLE-pmu topic from ARM LT * updated basic Capri board support from Broadcom LT (SMP support enabled for bcm21664 and bcm28155, mmc updates, more bcm590xx regulators enabled) * cortex-strings-arm64 topic (same as in 2014.02) * updated Versatile Express arm64 support (FVP Base and Foundation models, Juno (ethernet, USB)) from ARM LT * updated Versatile Express patches from ARM LT * updated Arndale_Octa/Arndale/Origen patches from Samsung LT * more HiP0x Cortex A15 family updates from HiSilicon LT. All the CPU cores enabled * new ftrace_audit topic from the Kernel WG (ftrace, audit and seccomp patches) * Big endian topic updated for 3.15 * updated llvm topic. The "spinlock" commit is reverted to let armv8 kernel to compile * config fragments changes: * uprobes: CONFIG_NAMESPACES and CONFIG_USER_NS enabled (for systemtap) * arndale_octa: Enable Generic Phy support * arndale: Enable IOMMU/USB3/Generic Phy * vexpress: updated for 3.15 kernel (CONFIG_ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUFREQ enabled) * THUMB2 disabled for arndale, arndale_octa, and origen to work around arch/arm/mach-exynos/sleep.S compilation error * Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2014.05 is released: * updated to latest Linaro TCWG releases, this is the first binary release based on GCC 4.9: * Linaro GCC 4.9 2014.05, featuring performance improvements and bug fixes * Linaro Binutils 2.24.0 2014.05, featuring aarch64 improvements * Linaro GDB 7.7 2014.05 * Linaro Android 14.05 is released: * built with Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.05 * TI J6-Vayu member build has been setup * Android build system is using VPS build slaves, reducing the build time by 40% compared to the current EC2 slaves * Multinode job submission support is added to linaro-android-build-tools * Linaro OpenEmbedded 2014.05 is released: * integrated Linaro GCC 4.8 and 4.9 2014.05 * integrated Linaro EGLIBC 2.19-2014.05 * integrated Linaro binutils 2.24-2014.05 * improved Linaro's meta layer layout for 3rd parties usage * added toolchain benchmark image * update GATOR recipe to latest release and fixed build issues * improved python module support in images * upstreaming: * fixed separate build directory issues for mariadb, openldap, libmcrypt, netperf, fwts, php, tmux, gpm and rrdtool * updated recipes: acpitests, acpica, fwts, libhugetlbfs, pm-qa, systemtap and GRUB * enabled PM and RT tests in LTP * fixed GRUB build issue * Linaro Ubuntu 14.05 is released: * baseline migrated from Saucy to Trusty * added packages: * alsa-lib, added HDMI UCM profile for IFC6410 * mesa, enabled freedreno gallium driver * updated packages: linaro-edk2, ARM trusted firmware, linaro-meta (added git to developer rootfs), xf86-video-freedreno (Add xorg configuration file), and linux-linaro 3.15-rc5 kernels. * ARMv8 Debian bootstrap effort is completed, see the highlight for more details * Linaro U-Boot is updated to 2014.04 release * Linaro EDK2 CI is setup * Linaro kernels build support is added to Linaro OpenEmbedded * IFC6410 member build is delivered and released this cycle

The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each released artifact on the release information: http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1405/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/1405/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 Beers and Brews | Release Manager Linaro.org | Optical experiments for ARM SoCs