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Highlights for 16.06 release:


Consumer and Enterprise Edition:

Kernel

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  • 2
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Consumer Edition:

CE Debian RPB (common):

  • Upgrade to Debian x.x "Jessie"
  • Upgrade to the unified x.x.x Linux Kernel
  • Upgrade graphics components: Mesa x.x.x and Xserver x.x.x
  • Rootfs automatically resized during the first boot

CE Debian RPB for DragonBoard™ 410:

  • Freedreno X11 video driver included by default (x.x.x)
  • Analog audio playback and record support
  • Upgrade Qualcomm Firmware Package to x.x

CE Debian RPB for HiKey (CircuitCo & LeMaker):

  • Default Grub 2 boot configuration updated, now supporting kernel package upgrades
  • xserver-xorg-video-armsoc now included by default (still using software rendering, Mali integration expected as part of the next release)

CE AOSP RPB (common):

  • AOSP Android Marshmallow x.x (android-x.x.x_rXX)

CE AOSP RPB for DragonBoard™ 410:

  • Initial build, available as Developer Preview (not suitable for end users).
  • Mesa and Freedreno support
  • Kernel x.x.x

CE AOSP RPB for HiKey (CircuitCo & LeMaker):

  • AOSP Android Marshmallow 6.0 (android-x.x.x_rXX)
  • x.x based kernel

CE OE/Yocto RPB:

  • Included the unified x.x.x kernel
  • meta-backports created, to contain backported recipes used by the reference platform

Enterprise Edition

Supported platforms:

  • AMD Overdrive A0 (new) and B0
  • D02
  • APM X-Gene Mustang (new)
  • HP ProLiant m400 (new)

Overall platform features, validated as part of the release:

  • UEFI with ACPI
  • KVM
  • PCIe

Firmware:

  • Updated UEFI/EDK2 for D02, including support for PCIe and SAS

Network Installers:

  • Debian:
    • Upgrade to Debian x.x "Jessie"
    • Using the unified x.x.x kernel
  • CentOS (Now officially supported):
    • Based on CentOS x.x xx.xx
    • Using the consolidated x.x kernel

Enterprise Components:

  • Docker x.x.x
  • OpenStack Liberty for Debian Jessie
    • CentOS to be supported as part of the next cycle
  • ODPi based Hadoop
  • Spark x.x
  • OpenJDK x (Linaro xx.xx)