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OLPC weekly update 10/05

May 10th, 2013

Fixed mwifiex frequent multicast wakeup preventing XO-4 from sleeping.
Fixed an XO-4 audio recording regression.
13.2.0 build 5 release and testing.
13.1.0 final release.

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OLPC weekly update 03/05

May 3rd, 2013

Fixed eToys audio recording on XO-4.
Fixed TamTam crackly sound on XO-4.
Fixed GNOME hang regression on XO-4.
Organised, documented and built vmeta support for XO-4.
Fixed two instabilities with vmeta video playback in gstreamer.

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OLPC weekly update 26/04

April 26th, 2013

Fixed graphics corruption after screen rotation on XO-1.75/XO-4.
13.1.0 build 36 release and testing.
Work in progress: vmeta and Marvell 8787 wireless fixes.

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OLPC weekly update 19/04

April 19th, 2013

Removed some bottlenecks in pygobject/gobject-introspection.
Defined parameters to make full use of XO-4 audio buffers.
13.2.0 build 4 release and testing.

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OLPC weekly update 12/04

April 15th, 2013

Fixed white screen on XO-4 shutdown.
Fixed a contents manifest incompatibility breaking olpc-update to the latest 13.2.0 build.
13.2.0 build 3 release and testing.

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OLPC weekly update 05/04

April 5th, 2013

Fixed another XO-4 bad mouse/touch interaction.
Fixed XO-4 cursor corruption on suspend.

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OLPC weekly update 29/03

March 29th, 2013

13.2.0 build 2 release and testing.
Made XO-4 8787 wireless scans faster.
Fixed bad 8787 wireless command queue handling that was causing some problems on suspend.

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OLPC weekly update 22/03

March 22nd, 2013

Released first 13.2.0 build now that 13.1.0 is in closing stages. Plans for 13.2.0 will be further solidified soon.
Added new siv120d camera sensor compatibility to XO-1 and XO-1.5 software images.
Investigated a hwclock failure which turned out just to be a confusing warning.
Investigated X touch grab regression.
Optimized some slow pygobject codepaths that were slowing down Sugar.
Some small improvements to the first boot configuration process.

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OLPC weekly update 08/03

March 8th, 2013

Fixed badly rendered GNOME battery icon on XO-4.
Fixed runin memory leak in cairo.
Fixed XO-4 simultaneous audio playback/capture.
13.1.0 build 35 release and testing.

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OLPC weekly update 22/02

February 22nd, 2013

Fixed mwifiex failure to respond to wakeup packet.
Eliminated XO-4 SD slot polling to workaround idle time reporting bug.
Worked around XO-4 audio recording silence bug.
Work in progress: runin memory leak diagnosis.

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