Changelog

From AlwaysInnovating

Contents 1 2011-03.a (March 16, 2011) 1.1 AIOS 1.2 Android Gingerbread 1.3 Ubuntu Maverick 1.4 ChromiumOS 2 2010-12.a (December 2, 2010) 2.1 AIOS 2.2 Android Froyo 2.3 Ubuntu Maverick 3 2010-11.a (November 8, 2010) 3.1 AIOS 3.2 Android 3.3 Ubuntu 4 2010-09.a (September 20, 2010) 4.1 AIOS 4.2 Android 4.3 Ubuntu 4.4 Known issues in 2010-09.a 5 2010-03.a (March 23, 2010) 6 2010-01.b (January 18, 2010) 7 2010-01.a (January 04, 2010) 8 2009-12.a (December 22, 2009) 9 2009-11.a (November 10, 2009) 10 2009-09.c (September 28, 2009) 11 2009-09.b (September 25, 2009) 12 2009-09.a (September 7, 2009) 13 2009-08.b (August 25, 2009) 14 2009-08.a (August 1, 2009)

2011-03.a (March 16, 2011)

ChromiumOS is now part of the default image. Kernel now supports ecryptfs. Various fixes and clean-ups have been added. 2.6.32 is still the version. All four OS run on all Touch Book, with the same kernel. All screen resolutions are supported. ai-multipleos is part of the final AIOS image and can run all OS at the same time without any performance loss.

AIOS

• 3D drivers have been upgraded.
• Blank screen after networking connection bug has been fixed.
• ai-splashscreen supports more configurations of screen.
• ai-multipleos has been enhanced and now supports ChromiumOS.
• Clutter has been upgraded to 1.6.2.
• ai-daemon has been improved.
• Cairo, pango, pixman, glib, pulseaudio, gvfs, libxml2, libsoup, libgee and cmake have been upgraded.
• ssh-add has been added to the image.

Android Gingerbread

• OS has been upgraded to Gingerbread v2.3.
• Froyo patches have been ported, including cursor, video, and audio patches.
• Soft buttons are now available in the status bar.
• 3D launcher is now enabled by default.
• Memory management has been improved.

Ubuntu Maverick

• Various fixes have been integrated to make it work with the updated kernel.

ChromiumOS

• First build of the 0.10 developer version (February 2010).

2010-12.a (December 2, 2010)

• U-boot and x-load have been updated from upstream OpenEmbedded.
• Support for DisplayLink devices has been added in the kernel.
• Clean up of the kernel has been done.
• Kernel is now compatible with the Beagleboard family.
• Size of first partition has been extended for Android.

AIOS

• DSP bridge and gst-dsp have been upgraded.
• Sound adjustment is re-enabled.
• X-load and ffmpeg has been upgraded from upstream OpenEmbedded.
• Splash screen has been revamped and doesn't crash the initramfs any more.
• Multi-os boot interface has been improved.
• Wpa_supplicant starting configuration has been improved.
• AI-MultipleOS has been fixed and is re-enabled.

Android Froyo

• Froyo is now based on AOSP (Android Open Source Project) and not Rowboat any more.
• Video in gallery is working.
• Hardware acceleration through DSP Bridge has been added (disabled by default).
• Gstreamer has been added (disabled by default).
• Initial plashscreen has been improved.
• SGX supports now all OMAP hardware revisions.
• A few applications including Fennec have been added to the image.
• Wifi doesn't disconnect any more.

Ubuntu Maverick

• The image build has been improved.
• More customization of the environment have been added.
• The quote key has been fixed.
• The default background even during login is the Ubuntu background.

2010-11.a (November 8, 2010)

• Kernel is running at 720MHz.
• Kernel supports Beagleboard.
• Android is now the default operating system launched if the power button is not pressed during boot.

AIOS

• AI Youtube interface is fixed.
• Clutter has been upgraded from upstream.
• ai-ebook has been removed.
• ai-multipleos has been temporarily removed.

Android

• Android has been upgraded to Froyo 2.2.
• All hardware (except battery), aka. screen, buttons, keyboard, touchpad, accelerometer, wifi, backlight, webcam are supported.
• The set of default apps has been greatly increased.
• Boot process is cleaner.
• Live wallpaper is set by default.
• Wpa_supplicant has been updgraded to 0.6.10 for more stable connectivity.

Ubuntu

• Ubuntu has been upgraded to Maverick Meerkat 10.10
• User experience has been improved for wifi and touchscreen.
• Ambiance theme is now default.

2010-09.a (September 20, 2010)

• X-load and u-boot have been upgraded from Koen's and Sakoman's work.
• NAND memory is no longer used by default.
• Multi-OS boot UI is available at startup by pressing the power button during boot.

AIOS

• AIOS has been synchronized with Angstrom as of June 2010.
• Firefox, pixman, gpsd, libusb, gecko-mediaplayer, gnome-mplayer, midori, webkit, ffmpeg, mplayer, omapfbplay, have been upgraded to the latest.
• Mokomaze and WakeBreaker 3D game have been added to the image.
• Firefox has been upgraded to 3.5.8.
• Touchscreen sensitivity is improved.
• Onscreen keyboard has been improved.
• Youtube and Hulu apps have been updated.
• Kernel has been updated to 2.6.32 version, with full support of accelerometer, 3D acceleration, multi-touch capacitive and resistive touchscreen, sound, video, hot multi-OS switching.
• Dsplink, dspbridge have been upgraded.
• Google Chrome is now the default browser.
• Hot multi-os switching is now supported (AIOS - full, Android - full, Ubuntu - console only).
• User desktop is now based on Gnome.
• Pidgin now supports video and audio.
• Zoho web suite has been added.
• Mouse responsiveness has been improved.
• Bluetooth support has been improved.
• Xournal performance has been improved, and now supports multi-touch.
• Battery drivers have been improved.
• 3D demo sequences have been added to the image.
• AI-launcher has been added to the image.
• Boot time has been accelerated.
• Qt4 is now supported, and a Qt4-based keyboard has been added to the image.
• Transmission has been added to the image.
• New various packages have been added.
• Squashfs-tools have been added to the image.

Android

• Android has been upgraded to Eclair 2.1.
• Hot multi-OS switching is supported from AIOS (full support).
• Kernel 2.6.32 is supported.
• Scripts have been developed to build Android for the Touch Book and Smart Book.
• Default console is in on tty6.
• Wifi and webcam are now supported when Android is launched from AIOS.
• Skeleton of accelerometer driver has been added.

Ubuntu

• Ubuntu has been upgraded to 10.04 Lucid Lynx.
• Hot multi-OS switching is supported from AIOS (console only).
• Kernel 2.6.32 is supported.
• Various drivers have been updated.
• Image build script has been improved, and can run on the Touch Book itself.
• Debootstrap and squashfs-tools packages have been added to the image.

Known issues in 2010-09.a

Read http://bugzilla.alwaysinnovating.com for more information.

2010-03.a (March 23, 2010)

• Bug #94: the submenus in the start menu now appear directly at the very first time.
• install-sd.sh script supports reinstall from a USB keychain, and parallel SD cards updates.
• USB-to-VGA dongles are supported.
• USB webcams and speakers are supported.
• Telepathy and cheese have been added.
• Claws-mail desktop client has been added.
• Touch scrolling in Midori is improved.
• Touchscreen sensitivity is improved.
• Better finger interface in tablet mode (scrollbar and window buttons).
• TangoGPS and rtmpdump has been upgraded to the latest.
• Hulu is now available again with an upgrade of rtmpdump.
• Pixman has been enhanced with more neon support.
• Windows updater has been transfered to ai.tools repository.
• Screen keyboard has been enhanced is now docked to bottom of the screen.
• A Youtube interface (similar to Hulu) has been added.
• A small bug has been fixed in ai-gl.
• dsplink has been upgraded.
• Chrome is the default browser now.
• time-admin is accessible from the time panel.
• wakebreaker game has been added.
• Firefox has been ugpraded to 3.5.8.
• gecko-mediplayer, gnome-mplayer, and Midori have been upgraded to latest.
• Default print pages are AIOS specific now.

• Android 1.6 (Donut) has not been changed.
• Ubuntu image is at the level of Always Innovating in terms of features, though it's behind for performance.

2010-01.b (January 18, 2010)

• Bug #75: Xwfm4 doesn't crash any more when double clicking title bar.
• Bug #3: Strange colors doesn't appear any more when booting.
• Bug #28: Power button works the first time.
• Bug #88: With new theming for tablet mode, closing a window is not any more a problem.
• Bug #91: Verizon 3G dongles are supported.
• 3G (AT&T and Verizon) and GPS dongles support have been improved.
• Tablet mode has been cleaned up with large buttons, fonts and menus.
• The xfwm4 desktop manager can offer a terminate option if a process is not responding.
• DSPlink service has been fixed.
• Initramfs can execute ai-initramfs.cmd if presents on the first partition.
• ai-daemon has its own git repository. Recipe has been modified.
• DSPbridge supports time seeking.
• The install-sd.sh script supports mirroring for big downloads.
• wget has been added to both images and initramfs.
• Numtyphysics and Frozen-bubble have been added to the image.
• rtmpdump has been upgraded.
• Non working applications have been removed from the start menu.

2010-01.a (January 04, 2010)

• A new framework for ai-daemon has been implemented.
• The i2c-tools packages have been added.
• Neighborhood works again after having been broken in 2009-12.a.
• Gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer have been upgraded to the latest.
• Gecko-mediaplayer has a small default value.
• Gnome-mplayer supports iPod again (regression bug).
• Java applets are supported in Firefox.
• A few enhancements have been integrated into the install script.
• Re-installation on the device is fully working.
• bash is the default shell.
• Rdesktop has been fixed.
• DSP bridge has been upgraded and is working correctly.
• Tangogps is part of the image and the default GPS application.
• Support of 3G USB dongles has been added.
• Support of GPS USB dongles has been added.
• lo is starting during boot.
• Fennec has been removed from the start menu.
• Neighborhood is re-started after an Internet connection is made.
• GPIO concerning batteries are now exposed in kernel.
• PageUp and pageDown enables to browse history in default bash shell.
• Nano is available in the initramfs.
• The option noatime has been added in the mount commands executed by the initramfs.
• Bottom battery script has been fixed.

• Android 1.6 (Donut) has been slightly improved. Read the wiki Android page for exact status.
• Ubuntu image has been greatly improved. Read the wiki Ubuntu page for exact status.

2009-12.a (December 22, 2009)

• An initramfs structure has been added to support reset, reinstall, and ui-based multi-boot.
• Google Chromium has been added to the image.
• OpenOffice 3.1.1 has been added to the image.
• Many packages have been upgraded with a sync to latest of OE. Especially, the library glibc has been updated to 2.9.
• 3D game Crazy Tankshas been improved especially in terms of speed. Buttons are working too.
• The script install-sd.sh has been improved and many bugs have been fixed. The script still supports all release.
• Prelink exclude list has been updated to fix some DNS bug especially for mplayer streaming.
• Bluetooth is now supported and has an entry menu to connect a device.
• About box has slightly been redesigned.
• The applications emacs, vim, empathy (browser) have been added.
• onBoard
• mplayer has been upgraded to fix a bug in the timestamp.
• gnome-mplayer has been upgraded to the latest to fix some resize event problem.
• gecko-mediaplayer has been upgraded to the latest to fix some problems on the apple.com/trailers website.
• The watch_hulu script exits correctly when there is no internet connection.
• A script to test the java feature has been added.
• Busybox has been upgraded for better initramfs management.
• Midori has been upgraded to the latest (0.2.2).
• Python has been fixed due to some bugs after the major sync to OE.
• The DSP services have been fixed to work properly after the major sync to OE.
• The kernel has been modified to support Android.
• Xorg has been upgraded to 7.5.
• Firefox has been upgraded to 3.5.4.
• Some packages have been added so that Wireshark is now fully functional.
• Ralink driver has been updated to 2.1.2.
• the package rdesktop has been added to the image.
• All the kernel modules are part of the image.
• USB Ethernet dongle is natively supported.
• The bottom battery script has been improved.
• The application skytraq-datalogger has been added to the image.
• Black screen during X boot is now shorten (still could be improved).
• The applications frozen-bubble and numptyphysics have been added to the image though they don't work well.
• The library webkit-gtk has been upgraded.
• Touchscreen issue (button release event not triggered) has been fixed.

• An experimental Android 1.6 (Donut) has been added.
• An experimental "tbuntu" has been added.

2009-11.a (November 10, 2009)

• Bug #26: os.popen which creates some networking UI problem has been fixed.
• Bug #37: Touchscreen has a better calibration.
• Bug #38: Scrolling all applications (though it may be slow on Firefox) is working fine.
• Bug #39: Blanking screen is fixed.
• Bug #40: USB drive can be properly removed from the desktop.
• Bug #42: OSKB can be launched in all configuration.
• Bug #43: Watch_hulu script is downloaded from server and up-to-date is always guaranteed without image update.
• Bug #49: Getting Started has a Welcome letter.
• Bug #54: Cups server is working fine and is launched on-demand to save memory.
• Bug #55: Grab and scroll feature doesn't cause any more conflict in Firefox.
• Bug #58: os.popen which creates some keyboard selection UI problem has been fixed.
• Bug #61: unzip has been added as a dependency of file-roller.
• Comments of the install-sd.sh has been cleaned up.
• install-sd.sh can now support and format any card without any additional human command line
• Clean up of the browser entries in the start menu. Preference is given to Midori.
• The kernel is now using its own omap3-touchbook config.
• about box buttons has been changed to add the Changelog entry, shows the unique id of the machine and doesn't stay on top any more.
• The AI OS source code has been transfered from SVN to git and is now publicly available.
• A bottom battery gauge plugin has been added to the panel.
• memtester, gedit, svn, git, epiphany have been added to the image.
• Rework of the whole ai-menu architecture has been done. Ai-menu can be launched in all configurations.
• Rework of the whole ai-keyboard architecture has been done. ai-keyboard can be launched in all configurations. ai-keyboard pops up when a field is activated in tablet mode.
• Upgrade of Midori, gtk+, webkit, and pixman.
• Midori supports natively touchscreen scrolling with kinetic effect.
• When scrolling in Midori, text is not selected.
• Grabndrag extension for Firefox has been upgraded.
• Fennec has been upgraded to beta 4.
• onboard doesn't popup configuration window for the .com shortcut.
• onboard shows a longer key flash when pressed.
• smbnetfs has been upgraded and works in all configurations, with or without permission needed.
• samba configuration has been fixed and Touch Book (read and/or write) can be exposed on the network.
• cups-pdf has been fixed and can be used safely.
• usb printers are now detected and the UI interface is automatically launched.
• xfwm4 compositing is enabled by default.
• xorg.conf has been cleaned up and all drivers not necessary are not loaded.
• A hardware revision in the kernel has been added. This revision is handled correctly in the reset-nand.sh script.
• A brightness interface has been added and it's accessible trough the start menu.
• An option to swap end and right shift keys in the keyboard has been added to the kernel.
• gtk-touchscreen-mode has been reverted to zero to show the tooltip in various applications (though Midori still has touchscreen scrolling).

2009-09.c (September 28, 2009)

• The error that prevents from removing properly a USB keychain has been fixed.
• USB key chains are not mounted with the sync option any more, giving a much faster write speed.
• DSP bridge works again with a workaround to move some gstreamer libraries (read bug #29).
• Ivman has been replaced by halevt which is compatible with latest of hal (bug #31).
• Firefox and ESD hang has been fixed (bug #30).
• Gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer have been upgraded to 0.9.8.
• Gnome-mplayer crash when reading a playlist has been fixed.
• Extension Grab-n-Drag has been added to Midori and Firefox.

2009-09.b (September 25, 2009)

• /usr/bin/ai/various/watch_hulu.pl doesn't crash any more.
• Watch Hulu is accessible through a UI now.
• No more error messages appear when starting DSP bridge and DSP link services.
• DSP Link and DSP bridge have been added to sudoers.
• Terminal font uses again anti-aliasing.
• wpa-supplicant is more stable by replacing gnutls by openssl.
• More clean up of prelink have been done.
• Video clipping has been implemented (bug #14).
• Flash replacement Firefox extenion has been cleaned up and supports many video websites.
• Firefox is upgraded to latest, 3.5.3.
• Pango is downgraded to 1.24.4 to avoid a lock-up in Firefox.
• Default onscreen keyboard can be easily modified.
• A swap partition has been added to the system.
• Cellwriter has been added to the image.
• Gnome package kit has been added to the image.
• Qwo is back in the image.
• Proftpd is back in the image.
• Ai-gl library has been cleaned up regarding the /etc/ai.input status.
• AiAccelerometer package (another example how to use accelerometer) has been added to the image.
• AiEbook, a prototype of a 3D ebook reader, has been added to the image.
• All Ai examples have been cleaned up and gathered into /usr/bin/ai/examples/.
• FBReader has been added to the menu.
• A new aiAccelerometer example has been added to the image.
• WPA support has been improved and should support all cases now.
• Navit has been upgraded.
• kernel-modules-ntfs has been added so that NTFS drive can be supported.
• Crazy Tanks, an iPhone game, has been added to the image.
• x-load supports more hardware configuration.
• jpeg pictures can be opened (bug #22).
• Fast browser, Midori, has been upgraded to the latest 0.1.10.
• tcpdump and wireshark have been added to the image.
• kernel-module-garmin-gps has been added to the image.
• Screen keyboard has been cleaned up with improved performance and better layout.
• A getting started folder on the desktop has been added.
• User manual and welcome letter are in the /usr/bin/ai/about folder.
• Mousepad is the default text editor of Midori for viewing source.

2009-09.a (September 7, 2009)

• Image has been updated to latest of Openembedded.
• Midori (Fast Browser) has been updated and the extensions have been cleaned up.
• Midori (Fast Browser) has been added to main start menu.
• swfdec (open source web Flash solution) has been integrated into Midori and Firefox.
• Firefox has been upgraded to 3.5.2.
• Pidgin doesn't have any more trouble to reconciliate DNS.
• DSP bridge has been cleaned up.
• DSP link has been added.
• Youtube in Firefox has been repaired.
• First support for Hulu has been added.
• Netload and wavelan panel plugins have been added.
• Default action in Thunar is now single click.
• Default action on the desktop is single click in tablet mode only.
• x-load has been upgraded.
• u-boot has been upgraded.
• Initial white screen at the very beginning of the boot has been minimized (bug #1).
• Dictionary panel plugin has been cleaned up.
• Weather panel plugin has been added.
• xset is available again.
• libgtkstylus has been added and fake a right click on a long tap.
• Default u-boot environment has been modified (mem=227) to make work DSP Link. This needs a reboot.
• Global variable in the desktop environment work again with the automatic login.
• Change some security thread settings for DSP Link.
• Default u-boot environment has been modified (mmc init) to make work the new u-boot. Optional but this needs a reboot.
• mkfs.ext* have been added.
• mkfs.vfat and various dos tools (including dos2unix) have been added.
• fstab has been cleaned up and /tmp is on the SD card now.
• In tablet mode, a window can't be minimized by dragging the title bar.
• PageUp and PageDown have been added (PageUp=Fn+Up and PageDown=Fn+Down).
• lsusb has been updated.
• ai-menu is launched when the keyboard is detached only if a video is not played.
• smbnetfs is working with Samba 3.3. /Neighborhood has then been fixed.
• FBReader has been cleaned up.
• And many other things that we forget to list due to the very large upgrade.

2009-08.b (August 25, 2009)

• Performance of scrolling or window move (especially on rotated display) is greatly improved.
• WPA is now fully supported in driver and in UI.
• Fennec has been updated to beta 2.
• A conflict between X and ai-daemon for the management of the power button has been fixed.
• Fennec application is excluded from prelink.
• Reset-nand script has been tweaked with more accurate default values.
• Default settings of xfwm has been improved.
• Trackerd leads to high CPU of mmcqd. Daemon is now disabled.
• Display rotates even in keyboard mode. Option in the start->Control Panel->Display enables to control rotation in all modes.
• Two-second push on power button brings the shutdown dialog box.
• Rotation while a video is playing breaks the video. Will be fixed in 2009-08.b.
• Updated gnome-mplayer video playback works on all rotation.
• CPU utilization is now visible in the taskbar.
• A dictionary panel plugin is available.
• Many various problems in ai-menu have been fixed.
• Install-sd.sh has been fixed.
• Defaults of datetime plugin have been improved.
• Pam scripts have been added for future user password modification UI.
• Touchscreen follows properly rotation of display.

2009-08.a (August 1, 2009)

• First release