ANN: 8.1.1 Candidate Build - candidate-708

[Michael Stone]

Dear world,

I'm pleased to announce that our first signed release candidate for the
8.1.1 bugfix release is now available for downloading and updating.

Please help test it by

  1. Procuring activities if you need them. See the release notes for
  details.

and ONE OF

  2a. olpc-update -f candidate-708 && reboot

  2b. secure-reflash or copy-nand on material from

    http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/708/jffs2/ 

Next, PLEASE SHOUT if you experience a regression in connectivity from
65x to 70x. (We've got another G1G1 visible on the horizon and we'd
really like to know about connectivity problems as soon as you can tell
us.) If you wish to help perform this testing (or to verify the fixes
for specific issues), please record your results at

  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SW-ECO_5

You can see that Simon and I have been checking off individual tickets;
more free-form remarks can go in the 'Test Results' space below.

Finally, if you want to help make this release suitable for Joe User,
please help update the 

  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_8.1.1_Software_Release_Notes

Thanks very much!

Michael

P.S. - Special thanks are due, in this release, to Sayamindu, Tomeu,
Ricardo, Dennis, Blake, Mitch, and Kim for extraordinary patience in the
face of my novice release efforts. 

My official award for "Best Volunteer Contributions to the Release
Candidate" goes to Blake Setlow for his efforts to restore support for
both the PenTablet and USB ethernet adapters. Thanks for your
hard work, Blake!