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

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