I was originally planning for a 1.9.0 release on Nov 6th. However, a couple of issues were raised this past week (python2.7 dependency in buildversion.py, USB3 failures, reboot race condition). As a result, I think we should push back the release a week (target Nov 16th).
Here are my draft release notes for 1.9.0:
* The default boot menu key is now the ESC key (instead of F12) * Initial support for Trusted Platform Module (TPM) hardware and BIOS calls * Initial support for chain loading SeaBIOS from Grub (via multiboot support) * virtio 1.0 device support * The build will no longer include the build hostname or build time on "clean" builds. This makes the build binaries more "reproducible". * SeaVGABIOS improvements: * Improved support for old versions of x86emu (the "leal" instruction is now emulated) * Several bug fixes and code cleanups
Comments? -Kevin
On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:44:12AM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
I was originally planning for a 1.9.0 release on Nov 6th. However, a couple of issues were raised this past week (python2.7 dependency in buildversion.py, USB3 failures, reboot race condition). As a result, I think we should push back the release a week (target Nov 16th).
Here are my draft release notes for 1.9.0:
- The default boot menu key is now the ESC key (instead of F12)
- Initial support for Trusted Platform Module (TPM) hardware and BIOS calls
- Initial support for chain loading SeaBIOS from Grub (via multiboot support)
- virtio 1.0 device support
- The build will no longer include the build hostname or build time on "clean" builds. This makes the build binaries more "reproducible".
- SeaVGABIOS improvements:
- Improved support for old versions of x86emu (the "leal" instruction is now emulated)
- Several bug fixes and code cleanups
Somehow these two items were missing from my change summary:
* Initial support for booting from SD cards on real hardware * Basic support for running SeaBIOS on Baytrail Chromebooks
-Kevin
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Kevin O'Connor