11.2.0 release candidate 1 (build 870) released

[Daniel Drake]

Hi,

We're pleased to announce our first release candidate of our new
11.2.0 software release.

Information and installation instructions can be found here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.2.0

Quick links for those who know which files need to be grabbed and save
to USB disks:
http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/870/
http://download.laptop.org/xo-1.5/os/candidate/870/

This is a signed release candidate that can be installed on all XOs,
even those with security enabled.

We're looking for testing and feedback on all aspects of the system.
Thanks for any help you can offer, and for all the feedback that was
received throughout development.

Our scheduled release date is July 18th.

For those who have been following the development releases, here are
the changes since the last development build (23):

XO-1 has switched back from ubifs to jffs2 for this release. This is
due to the disk utilisation increase caused by ubifs and the switch to
partitions, which was also going to increase further due to the
signing process. Additionally, we have recent and unsolved reports
that ubifs cannot boot on some XOs. We will make ubifs migration a
priority for the next development cycle.

Initramfs tweaks were made to fix activation.

XO-1.5 firmware was upgraded to support the latest XO-1.5 motherboard revisions.

We still have an occasional wifi card hang which can bring down the
whole system (hard to reproduce). A fix was made in the kernel that
might have solved this.

Do not run this image on an XO-1.5 laptop that is using an old XO-1
"ALPS" keyboard (this generally happens when you have upgraded the
motherboard on an old XO-1 laptop). The keyboard won't work correctly.
Will be fixed for next release candidate.

Fixed issues:
#10779 Back/forward buttons do not reliably appear in Browse
#10956 Cursor moves to beginning while trying to edit activity instance name
#10631 Remove keyboard settings dialog
#11002 New gtk deps triggers float errors during eclipse for Moon :(
#10673 Disable Sugar debug logs
#10941 Clock, Abacus, HelloWorld, Fototoon not favorite

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Daniel Drake  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're pleased to announce our first release candidate of our new
> 11.2.0 software release.
>
> Information and installation instructions can be found here:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.2.0
>
> Quick links for those who know which files need to be grabbed and save
> to USB disks:
> http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/870/
> http://download.laptop.org/xo-1.5/os/candidate/870/
>
> This is a signed release candidate that can be installed on all XOs,
> even those with security enabled.
>
> We're looking for testing and feedback on all aspects of the system.
> Thanks for any help you can offer, and for all the feedback that was
> received throughout development.
>
> Our scheduled release date is July 18th.
>
> For those who have been following the development releases, here are
> the changes since the last development build (23):
>
> XO-1 has switched back from ubifs to jffs2 for this release. This is
> due to the disk utilisation increase caused by ubifs and the switch to
> partitions, which was also going to increase further due to the
> signing process. Additionally, we have recent and unsolved reports
> that ubifs cannot boot on some XOs. We will make ubifs migration a
> priority for the next development cycle.
>
> Initramfs tweaks were made to fix activation.
>
> XO-1.5 firmware was upgraded to support the latest XO-1.5 motherboard revisions.
>
> We still have an occasional wifi card hang which can bring down the
> whole system (hard to reproduce). A fix was made in the kernel that
> might have solved this.
>
> Do not run this image on an XO-1.5 laptop that is using an old XO-1
> "ALPS" keyboard (this generally happens when you have upgraded the
> motherboard on an old XO-1 laptop). The keyboard won't work correctly.
> Will be fixed for next release candidate.
>
> Fixed issues:
> #10779 Back/forward buttons do not reliably appear in Browse
> #10956 Cursor moves to beginning while trying to edit activity instance name
> #10631 Remove keyboard settings dialog
> #11002 New gtk deps triggers float errors during eclipse for Moon :(
> #10673 Disable Sugar debug logs
> #10941 Clock, Abacus, HelloWorld, Fototoon not favorite
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I released v20 of Abacus to address #2933 reported by the testing team.

http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Abacus/Abacus-20.tar.bz2

Also, you may want to consider updating to v110 of Turtle Art, as it
has quite a few bug fixes since v107, which is current packaged with
the release.

http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/TurtleArt/TurtleArt-1...

regards.

-walter

[S Page]

> We're looking for testing and feedback on all aspects of the system.

Yet http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing doesn't mention
11.2.0.  If that's obsolete, put a {{dated}}, {{deprecated}}, or
{{obsolete|link=[[A more relevant page]]}} template at the top.

I'm attempting olpc-update, it's hard to free up enough space on an XO-1.

The release notes Installation section should suggest backing up
first.  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_backup_your_XO says to back
up an XO-1.5 you should boot up Tiny Core Linux, is that the only way
to do it?

--
=S Page

[James Cameron]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 04:55:07PM -0700, S Page wrote:
> Yet http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing doesn't mention
> 11.2.0.  If that's obsolete, put a {{dated}}, {{deprecated}}, or
> {{obsolete|link=[[A more relevant page]]}} template at the top.

I agree.  Added {{dated}}.  I think we need a testing volunteer to
maintain this page, as it seems quite old and not up to date with the
current development effort.  I'm not sure why it should exist separate
to the effort.
> The release notes Installation section should suggest backing up
> first.

It does.  It says "Make a copy of any data you wish to keep".  I'm not
sure it would be in the scope of the release notes to go any further
than that, and choosing the exact method of copying would be quite
complex.  There's the Sugar Backup and Restore activities, there's the
GNOME filesystem, and there's the whole operating system to consider.
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_backup_your_XO says to back up an
> XO-1.5 you should boot up Tiny Core Linux, is that the only way to do
> it?

Yes, it is the only documented way to do a complete backup.  There is no
save-nand on XO-1.5, as there was on XO-1.  If there's anything about
those instructions that you don't understand, please let me know.

There's also a way to do a backup for distribution to other XO-1.5
laptops, but it is much more difficult and contains risks.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Imaging_for_XO-1.5