Milestone Update.1

This build as been called 8.1.1 (build 703). It has been released to Peru in the field; and we are still working on releasing it to Manufacturing. Technical people can update to this release as a two step process (OS + Activities).

The focus of this build is to fix bugs; get the suspend/resume working for better battery life; get the first level activity isolation for security; and backup of laptops to the school server (not being driven by this release).

Schedule:

• String Freeze (for translations): 12/8/07
• Code Freeze: 12/22/07
• Refresh packages to pick up translations 12/23/07
• Refresh packages to pick up additional translations 1/2/08
• First Candidate Release (RC1): 1/26/08
• Second Candidate Release (RC2): 3/17/08 (includes items that were Update1.1 for deployments)
• Release of Update.1, target: 3/22/08
• Quanta manufacturing start, target: 3/29/08

Wireless/USB/Network Manager:

• Intermittent connection to jabber service, #4193
• WPA working from sugar, #5258
• WEP working from sugar, #5485

Power Management:

• Suspend/resume #5400, #4843
• ohm logfile #5457, optional
• Wakeup event is repeated, #2401
• Network mgr SEGV, #4960
• Ebook reader should suspend on idleness, #1396

Tubes/Presence:

• Remove N squared scaling issue in groups (#4965)
• eJabberd server issues/bugs (#5934, #5313, #5315, #5311 - cut traffic, #5310 - olpc rpm)
• Looking into Openfire as backup (#5223, #5224)
• Turning off Salut in presence of school server (#6299)
• Point Update1 to different jabber server, #5933

Security/Upgrades:

• Activation w/USB, w/school server
• Basic activity isolation, #5033, #5346
• Automatic Time sync (#3359)
• olpc-update via USB (#3881)
• orphaned files, #5637

Library/Activities:

• Ability to upgrade an activity (#4906)
• Video fails on resume (#4997)

X Window System:

• Tablet mode is broken. (#5268)
• Problems with flash plugin with the web activity (#864)

Kernel:

• Libertas BUG() - Command Queue locking (#5024)
• sd goes unusable after a suspend cycle (#4013)
• RTC & power button can still cause #1835? (#5240)
• Machine cannot boot once filling NAND (#5317)

Open Firmware:

• OFW can't see vmlinuz symlink; won't boot (#5322)

Testing:

• Key 3rd party software: e.g. Java, legacy fonts definitions for Adobe Flash (#5735) and other applications
• Network driver testing.
• Suspend resume testing

Documentation:

• Update the start and release notes on the laptop for the release. (#5970)

Blockers for this milestone.