0x7-LEB-Gingerbread

• Release date: June 8, 2011
• Summary: customized Linaro Evaluation Build for ARM Cortex-A8/A9
• Target hardware: Pandaboard and Beagleboard-xM
• Changes:
• Rebase Linaro Kernel tree for consolidation development ( Issue #166 )
• Adapt optimization efforts from Linaro
• linaro toolchain ( Issue #164 ), cortex-strings ( Issue #165 ), etc.
• Generic graphics performance improvements
• zlib NEON improvement ( Issue #161 ). Useful to APK manipulation and PNG
• libpng: Add ARM NEON optimization
• Use tweaked ADWLauncher ( Issue #163 )
• Enable software cursor for Gingerbread ( Issue #167 )
• frameworks/base: Compute cursor dirty region aggressively
• libagl: Optimize matrix multiply using ARM VFP
• packages/apps: Replace Launcher2 with faster and powerful ADW.Launcher
• frameworks/base: Improve efficiency of SoftKeyboard
• webkit: Add optimizations done by QuIC: Adaptive request reordering, Memory Cache optimization, Efficient image caching
• skia: Switch from VFP back to fixed scalar based calculation for performance considerations
• skia: optimize blit routines
• skia: Merge NEON optimizations from QuIC and ST-Ericsson
• libpixelflinger: Re-enable ARM NEON optimizations
• bionic: Use ARMv6 instruction for handling byte order
• libcore: Optimize byte-swapped accesses. Known to bring better floating-point performance

Beagle-eclair-0x5

• Release date: July 30, 2010
• Changes:
• Feature: Major Linux kernel upgrade: from 2.6.29 to 2.6.32 (issue tracked on 0xlab-kernel)
• Feature: Support TI's Android PowerVR SGX (hardware 2D/3D engine)
• Feature: Support Android USB gadget: adb and mass-storage ( Issue #95 )
• Note: 0xdroid no longer support usbnet gadget driver. Use adb or USB Ethernet instead.
• Feature: new Bluetooth Extensions -- HID ( Issue #102 )
• Feature: Make Launcher2 really usable ( Issue #76 )
• Feature: Make Gallery3D workable by fixing PixelFlinger regressions ( Issue #107 )
• Feature: Touchscreen Calibration shouldn't require reboot ( Issue #94 ,  Issue #99 )
• Feature: Robocat i2c port support ( Issue #134 )
• Feature: Support NTFS mounting (Issue #117)
• Feature: Improved libgralloc for non HW accelerated targets ( Issue #108 ,  Issue #133 )
• Bugfix: USB Camera support is broken due to API changes ( Issue #126 )
• Bugfix: 0xdroid Installer reads configurations incorrectly. ( Issue #98 )
• Bugfix: UI doesn't respond to KEY_MENU reported from kernel ( Issue #91 )
• Bugfix: HOME key does not work ( Issue #105 )
• Bugfix: KeyGuard blocks the whole screen in landscape mode ( Issue #106 )
• Bugfix: Gallery3D backgrounnd shadowed the thumbnail ( Issue #111 )
• Bugfix: MediaPlayer video/audio out of sync ( Issue #123 ,  Issue #124 )
• Bugfix: Audio recording can't be successful as stopping the recording ( Issue #127 )
• Bugfix: Touchscreen calibration UI doesn't start at all ( Issue #129 )
• Bugfix: Apply Thumb2 optimizations to bionic ( Issue #103 )
• Bugfix: Install to SD card failed ( Issue #97 )

Beagle-eclair-0x4

• Release date: Apr 25, 2010
• Changes:
• Eclair codebase ( Issue #62 ,  Issue #66 )
• Improve software graphics performance in Eclair ( Issue #73 )
• New hardware: DevKit 8000 ( Issue #72 ,  Issue #74 ,  Issue #77 )
• Touchscreen support along with calibration UI ( Issue #7 ,  Issue #59 )
• 3G modem / Data card support ( Issue #80 )
• Refined system image installer ( Issue #60 ,  Issue #52 )
• Small screen support ( Issue #70 )
• ARM optimized string operations ( Issue #78 )
• ARMv6 atomic operation improvement ( Issue #88 )
• Merge skia ARMv6/ARMv7 optimization from QuIC ( Issue #83 )
• Enable Launcher2 and LiveWallpaper on smaller size screen ( Issue #76 )

Beagle-donut-0x3

• Release date: Dec 18, 2009
• Changes:
• External GSM modem for functional Android Telephony/RIL ( Issue #3 ,  Issue #43 )
• Bluetooth OBEX/OPP/FTP support ( Issue #49 )
• Motion sensor support ( Issue #50 )
• New Android theme ( Issue #30 ) along with theme selector ( Issue #48 )
• Flexible resolution support for Launcher ( Issue #29 )
• Ethernet support + USB OTG network ( Issue #38 ,  Issue #39 ,  Issue #44 ,  Issue #53 ,  Issue #58 )
• Dalvik VM + JIT compiler for ARMv7. CaffeineMark Embedded results up to 2.7x speedup. ( Issue #56 )
• ARM NEON/SIMD optimizations for PixelFlinger up to 5x speedup ( Issue #57 )
• Camera / OpenCORE HAL migration to Donut ( Issue #32 ,  Issue #34 )
• Camera capture / recording fixes ( Issue #35 ,  Issue #40 ,  Issue #41 ,  Issue #45 )
• Audio initialization cleanup ( Issue #36 )
• Fix signal strength issues with Linux Wireless Extension ( Issue #28 )
• Mouse stability fix ( Issue #26 )
• Dalvik stability fix ( Issue #25 )
• elfcopy .debug section reordering ( Issue #20 )
• Tweak web browser preference to use desktop services instead of mobile ones

Beagle-cupcake-0x2

• Release Date: Oct 9. 2009
• Changes:
• Brand-new Home/Launcher with visual enhancement
• New Camera HAL with performance tweaks
• OMAP3 hardware video overlays support for OpenCORE rendering
• Automatic video output scaling
• Revised Audio In/Out support
• New software cursor from android-x86
• Volume manager supports SD/MMC and USB Mass Storage
• Dalvik VM performance improvement
• Memory leaks and race condition fixes
• ARM NEON and Thumb2 optimized bionic/libcutils
• ARM NEON optimizations for skia
• Enable oprofile for ARMv7 architecture
• early-stage porting for Busybox (linked to bionic) experiments
• Adjust memory constraints to fit high resolution display
• Introduce virtual touchscreen device on Beagleboard to satisfy more touch-driven applications
• experimental package management system

Beagle-cupcake-0x1

• Release Date: Aug 7, 2009
• Changes:
• Product for beagleboard
• Revised initialization sequence for Beagleboard related settings
• Replace yaffs2 with new and fast flash file system -- ubifs
• Add software cursor and new keyboard layouts
• ARMv7 tuned GNU toolchain based on gcc 4.4.1 (ARM NEON and Thumb2)
• Tweaked memory operation routines for Cortex A8 to gain better performance
• Enable ALSA for sound.
• Provide GPIO keyboard
• Fix the framebuffer flipping issue
• Disable battery check for beagleboard
• Disable unusable camera/video force rotation
• Dalvik backports from donut
• Several bug fixes.