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Name: Laverne Version: 4.0.1 Built from Revision: fd7a07b3a2 Build Date: Jan 26 2011 Builder: autobuilder.pokylinux.org

The Laverne 4.0.1 Release ensures you can use Poky Laverne on systems running Fedora 14 and Opensuse 11.3, fixes issues with the poky-qemu script, and fixes several other bugs. For the full changelog for Laverne 4.0.1 please read CHANGELOG.

Following are descriptions of fixes and known issues.

Fixes

* Make 3.82, as shipped with Fedora 14, included parser bug fixes that 
resulted in a much stricter parser. As a result, the Makefiles could not be 
parsed for many of the software versions shipped with Laverne. The Makefiles
in the following recipes were fixed:

      o eglibc
      o busybox
      o procps
      o linux-libc-headers
      o gstreamer
      o gst-plugins
      o libowl-av
      o owl-video-widget
      o dates
      o contacts
      o web-webkit 

* The ability to build openssl-native on a system that has SELINUX enabled 
was restored. (We disabled the execstack flag at compile time.) 

* A host-intrusion issue caused by a failure in QEMU to find zlib headers 
during configure was fixed. The issue was causing qemu-native to use the 
system zlib if it was present. If the system zlib was not present the build 
would fail. 

* Stability and usability enhancements, which included handling relative 
filesystem paths, were made to poky-qemu scripts. 

* The run-time remapping of package names when adding extra packages to an 
image via the IMAGE_INSTALL mechanism were fixed. 

* The configure test in quilt for GNU patch was fixed to that it correctly 
detects the version. 

Known Issues

* The mpc3815e-rbd and routerstationpro machines were untested and not a 
part of the official Laverne 4.0 release. These machines are still unusable 
for this Laverne 4.0.1 release.
      o mpx3815e-rdb will not boot due to a kernel/uboot issue Bug #685
      o routerstation will not boot (by default) due to incorrect boot 
      parameters Bug #681
      o routerstationpro debug messages related to the ethernet driver print 
      during boot Bug #679 
* Shutdown/poweroff on qemuarm does not cleanly halt the virtual machine. 
To workaround this issue use the reboot command. Using this command avoids 
a "power-cycle" and instead cleanly shuts down the VM Bug #684
* Two "Connection Manager" icons appear in the Sato UI. This duplication has
been fixed in master. Note that you can use either icon to launch the 
connectivity UI. Bug #683
* The on-screen keyboard incorrectly launches in the qemumips machine. This 
issue is due to a mis-configured formfactor file Bug #682