Release notes/12.1.0

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VERY EARLY DRAFT!

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
  • Update to Fedora 17, systemd etc.
  • new kernel
  • ARM moved to hardfp for increased performance
  • SD card root filesystem automatically grown to fill card
  • networks shared between GNOME and Sugar
  • networks come up earlier during boot
  • 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

Known problems

  • no cheese (#11803)
  • anything that might use clutter segfaults (#11810) e.g. gnome-control-center