Mercurial > hg > aboriginal
changeset 1808:239628b40176 draft
Announce 1.4.3 release.
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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date | Thu, 05 Nov 2015 04:13:25 -0600 |
parents | 312b0b928854 |
children | 9cdd90bdce76 |
files | www/header.html www/news.html |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/www/header.html Thu Nov 05 03:36:46 2015 -0600 +++ b/www/header.html Thu Nov 05 04:13:25 2015 -0600 @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ <table border=1><tr><td bgcolor="#C0C0FF"> <ul style="margin-bottom:0px;"> <li>New to the project? Read <b><a href=about.html>About Aboriginal Linux</a>.</b></li> -<li>Current release: (version 1.4.2, September 13, 2015): -<a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.4.2.tar.gz>build scripts</a>, +<li>Current release: (version 1.4.3, November 5, 2015): +<a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.4.3.tar.gz>build scripts</a>, <a href=bin>prebuilt binaries</a>.</li> <li>Development version: <a href=/hg/aboriginal>mercurial repository</a>,
--- a/www/news.html Thu Nov 05 03:36:46 2015 -0600 +++ b/www/news.html Thu Nov 05 04:13:25 2015 -0600 @@ -5,6 +5,32 @@ <b><h1>News</h1></b> +<hr /><h2><a name="05-11-2015" />November 5, 2015</h2> +<p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.4.3.tar.gz>1.4.3</a> +is out, based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1807>hg 1807</a>, using +Linux 4.1, toybox-0.6.1, musl-1.1.12, and busybox-1.24.1.</p> + +<p>Our first nommu target, sh2eb, builds a system-image that boots on the +Numato Mimas v2 board described on the <a href=http://nommu.org/jcore>jcore +processor site</a> (rather than under qemu). +Toybox defconfig now builds nommu, we upgraded busybox versions to +get some nommu fixes in hush, and there were several toolchain fixes +since last time.</p> + +<p>Multiple users requested bzip2 compression-side back (even though you +can build it natively), and we added strndup() from posix-2008 to the last-ever +release of uClibc (which we're migrating off of in favor of musl-libc, +but our old Linux From Scratch 6.8 <a href=control-images>build control +image</a> refuses to build on a libc it doesn't specifically recognize +so we need to upgrade the version of that to have a better test environment.</p> + +<p>We added an /etc/os-release file which is what Debian now recommends +for OS version identification now that they've +<a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/658809>given up</a> on the Linux Foundation's +"Linux Standard Base" bureaucracy. Also the initramfs should have a /bin/sh +symlink pointing to hush (which is replaced with a link to bash by the +dev-environment.sh init script, but if you run-emulator.sh without the +native-compiler overlay it's nice to have).</p> <hr /><h2><a name="13-09-2015" />September 13, 2015</h2> <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.4.2.tar.gz>1.4.2</a>