Future releases

+	Software
XO
	13.2.11	2020-01-29
XS
	xs-0.7	2012-02-20

All dates and features sets on Future releases are subject to change

For past releases, see the release notes page. What release am I running?

Next-generation releases will not come from OLPC

From http://blog.laptop.org/2009/02/05/q-a-from-xo-camp/ , Nicholas Negroponte stated in a Q&A session:

In what way will OLPC support the community in this transition? Will OLPC keep improving and debugging the software of the already delivered XOs?

OLPC will move to a Linux desktop that will run Sugar as an application. Fedora 10, which shipped in November, is a major step in this direction. It’s a standard Fedora distribution that will boot on the XO-1 and includes Sugar as one of the desktop options. OLPC is working with the Fedora Project and Sugar Labs to provide a more tightly-integrated and better-performing version of this solution in the Fedora 11 release.

Many Linux distributions already run on the XO-1 hardware, and offer Sugar as a desktop option. Coordinating the latest pieces of the software stack is complicated work:

• XO changes to system software
• Enabling XO features on other distributions
• latest firmware
• latest Sugar from http://SugarLabs.org

So as of February 2009 there is no one release equivalent to joyride that has the latest of all these. The future is in development.

Future release work elsewhere

• http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/ : Fedora rawhide software images for the XO-1
• http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/xoimages/ : "Sugar on a Stick" images that run on the XO-1.

These are not ready for widespread adoption yet.

XO releases

Software which one runs on the XO laptop.

Naming scheme

The first number in the release is its year. The second number represents the first or second major release in that year. The third number is incremented for each minor release.
For example, "8.2.0" is the second major release in 2008, and "8.1.1" is an update to the first major release in 2008.

Releases in 2007 and earlier used other naming schemes.

Past releases

See Release notes for past releases.

Future releases

9.1.0 - future

Status

On indefinite hold. Requirements, schedule and full release were being tracked at 9.1.0

Maintainer

Ed

Primary objective

Deployability

Schedule

Must be posted by March, 2009

8.2.1 - future

Status

Target bug list chosen, Candidate release available (see Friends in testing). Work begun, test plan written. See: ECO/8.2.1 and Test cases 8.2.1 Draft release notes available here: Release_Notes/8.2.1

Maintainer

Ed M.

Primary objective

Uruguay critical deployment bugs and fixes.

Schedule

Target to post in January, 2009

8.1.3 (incomplete)

This release was created for Ethiopia, but it didn't meet their deadline, so it will not be formally released. The fixes have been added to Release 8.2.

XS releases

XO School server software.

Past XS releases

XS Release Notes

Future XS releases

See the School server roadmap.