Release notes/12.1.0
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VERY EARLY DRAFT!
Purpose
OLPC OS 12.1.0 is a new software release focusing on improving the XO-1.75 user experience, and undertaking a much-needed technological shift for Sugar's internals from GTK+ 2.x to GTK+ 3.x. Additionally, XO-1.5 and XO-1 continue to be supported in this release, and we include a variety of new features and fixes.
Features
Sugar-0.96
- GTK3
- write to journal anytime
- text to speech
- More activities moved to new toolbars: jukebox, memorize
- New browser engine, Browse is faster and smaller
GNOME 3.4
Base system
- Update to Fedora 17, systemd etc.
- new kernel
- ARM moved to hardfp for increased performance
More disk space
- SD card root filesystem automatically grown to fill card
Network improvements
- networks shared between GNOME and Sugar
- networks come up earlier during boot
Miscellaneous improvements
- screen now dimmed when system is inactive, even when automatic PM is disabled
- new boot screen, new customisation methods
- refined olpc-os-builder config format for module selection
Notable fixed bugs
- JFFS2 "the slows" avoided by reserving disk space for root (Trac #5317)
- Fix sisusbvga on XO-1 (Trac #10746) , (Trac #10568)
- Incomplete fs-update may leave laptop bootable (Trac #11776)
- network scan after resume is no longer unreliable/incomplete
Known problems
- no cheese (#11803)
- anything that might use clutter segfaults (#11810) e.g. gnome-control-center