“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” ~ Bertrand Russell

Linaro 14.04 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. The release details are linked from the Details column for each released artifact on the release information:

• https://wiki-archive.linaro.org/Cycles/1404/Release#Release_Information

We encourage everybody to use the 14.02 release.

This post includes links to more information and instructions for using the images. The download links for all images and components are available on our downloads page:

• /downloads/

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-archive.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-archive.linaro.org/Platform/Android/GetSource
• http://wiki-archive.linaro.org/Platform/Android/BuildSource

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-archive.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Ubuntu/ImageInstallation

USING THE OPEN EMBEDDED-BASED IMAGES

With the Linaro provided downloads and with Arm’s Fast Models virtual platform, you may boot a virtual Armv8 system and run 64-bit binaries.

GETTING INVOLVED

More information on Linaro can be found on our websites:

• Homepage: 
• Wiki: http://wiki-archive.linaro.org

Also subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists to stay on top of Linaro developments:

• Announcements: https://lists.linaro.org/mailman3/lists/linaro-announce.lists.linaro.org/
• Development: https://lists.linaro.org/mailman3/lists/linaro-dev.lists.linaro.org/

KNOWN ISSUES WITH THIS RELEASE

For any errata issues, please see:

• http://wiki-archive.linaro.org/Cycles/1404/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

UPCOMING LINARO CONNECT EVENTS: LINARO CONNECT USA 2014

Registration for Linaro Connect USA 2014 (LCU14), which will be in Burlingame, California from September 15 - 19, 2014 is now open.