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bmarkus:
Team Tiny Core is pleased to announce the immediate availability of piCore-8.0 All major components updated to latest upstream version:

* Kernel 4.4.20
* glibc 2.24
* gcc 6.2.0
* e2fsprogs 1.43.3
* util-linux 2.28.2
* BusyBox  1.24.2 with latest patches
* MicroPython 1.8.2-19

Extensions updated and rebuilt with piCore-8.0, no tcz's used from previous releases.

Download location:

http://tinycorelinux.net/8.x/armv6/releases/RPi/

There is only one SD card image, it supports all RPi boards, including CM3.

Please read README and don't forget to expand mmcblk0p2 partition according to your needs to make room for persistent data and installed applications.

Please note, new graphics stack rebuild is in progress, GUI will be added in next few weeks.

For support visit http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/board,57.0.html

sbp:
Hi Bela.

Good to see the continued development and improvements and we are looking forward to use it for piCorePlayer.

I would like to ask it would be possible to keep the kernel-specific modules a little longer for each update you do. The problem is that piCorePlayer is dependent upon downloading some of the module-specific.tcz. So when you update the kernel and remove the modules piCorePlayer will not be working until we find the time to update.

In the past you kept the kernel-specific.tcz in your repo for weeks to months - so would you please consider to keep these tcz a little longer, as we otherwise will have massive problems.

Regards
Steen

bmarkus:
Hi Steen,

kernel specific modules for stable releases are kept in the repo but for test releases, beta and rc are dropped as well as test images when they are needed for testing. Please use test versions for testing only, not for production use.

Regards... Béla

Paul_123:

--- Quote from: bmarkus on September 10, 2016, 03:57:35 AM ---Hi Steen,

kernel specific modules for stable releases are kept in the repo but for test releases, beta and rc are dropped as well as test images when they are needed for testing. Please use test versions for testing only, not for production use.

Regards... Béla

--- End quote ---

Normally we wouldn't, but If we never used a beta for a pcp release, we would net even have rpi3 support in pcp until today.  Maybe a shorter beta to release cycle.   New hardware and hardware changes is really starting to ramp up the kernel updates.   Not sure how we can help with this.

Anyway, thanks for 8.x release.  It's been a major change and improvement for the community.

bmarkus:
Hi Paul,

a long beta period was due mainly to frequent kernel changes which brought support for new hw, specially sound devices :) Now in the last few kernel updates there were no new hw, but in the mean time all major parts got update, like GCC, GLIBC, etc. We can say now that piCore 8.0 is the most up to date RPi distro :)

I got private comments appreciating it, specially GCC 6.2.0 availability

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