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This page contains the release notes for BeagleBone A6 Image 06.18.2012


==Release Notes==
The 2012.06.18 image includes over 4 months of changes compared to the previous image (2012.02.14) and expands the number of supported capes. To make development easier for people a number of features have been added: PWM support, SPIdev support and 1-wire emulation.

All warnings and errors seen during bootup have been fixed so only actual errors get printed when they occur. A normal boot should have no errors or warnings at all.
The USB driver has had a lot of changes, but it's hard to say if they have been an improvement or not, please try your favourite USB devices and report any issues you see at http://e2e.ti.com.
If you have a display capable cape attached you will get a GUI with a few things preinstalled to play with, XBMC being one of them. Report any issues or requests to the beagleboard mailinglist.


Supported capes:		
* DVI
* VGA
* 3.5" LCD (backlight with userspace hack)
* 4.3" LCD (backlight with userspace hack)
* 7" LCD
* TT3201 CAN
* SERL-01 (CAN)
* SERL-03 (RS232)
* Battery LBO 
* BeBoPR cape
* Weatherstation


Boot changes:
* Kernel is now loaded from /boot instead of VFAT, 'opkg upgrade' now works for kernel updates as well


Kernel changes:
* Updated to 3.2.18
* Initialize all PWMs by default
* Enable PRUSS UIO module
* Enable SPIdev by default
* Enable w1-gpio by default
* Fix libertas based wifi firmware loading
* Disable heartbeat LED on crash and shutdown
* Use 16x averaging for AIN instead of 2x to reduce touchscreen jitter


Userspace changes:
* Update to node 0.6.x
* Massive improvements to bonescript
* Launch GUI if there's a display capable cape attached