Linaro 12.03

Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible.

~Ronnie Oldham

We are pleased to announce the release of Linaro 12.03.

Linaro 12.03 contains components delivered by all Linaro Teams –Working Groups, Landing Teams and Platform Teams– and brings an abundance of exciting updates and new features which are integrated on top of Android and Ubuntu. We, together with our members, partners and community continue to build future of Linux on ARM and the 12.03 release is one more step toward that future.

During the 12.03 release cycle, the Linaro Toolchain Working Group announced the 12.03 release of both Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5. Linaro GCC 4.6 12.03 is the thirteenth release in the 4.6 series and is based off the latest GCC 4.6.3 release; it contains a new scheduler pressure pass, implements new instructions, and contains a number of bug fixes. Linaro GCC 4.5 12.03 is the nineteenth release in the 4.5 series and is based off the latest GCC 4.5.3+svn184976 release; this is a maintenance only update. Additionally, the Linaro Toolchain Working Group annouced the release of Linaro QEMU 12.03 which is based off upstream (trunk) QEMU, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements. More information on the LinaroToolchain Working Group's contributions to the 12.03 release can be found wiki.

We encourage everybody to use the 12.03 release. The download links for all images and components are available on our downloads page:http://www.linaro.org/downloads/

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.

The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each released artifact on the release information:http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1203/Release#Release_Information