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Release Notes for CRUX-ARM 3.8

Introduction

This page discusses relevant features related to CRUX-ARM 3.8. Everybody upgrading from the previous release is advised to carefully read the following notes.

Toolchain updates

CRUX-ARM 3.8 includes glibc 2.40, gcc 14.2.0 and binutils 2.43.1

Supported devices

The generic aarch64 release should work on all capable ARM 64b devices. The generic armhf release should work on all ARM devices > armv7

Kernel

The oldest kernel supported by glibc is 3.7.0

Releases

We provide a set of core packages as a root file system in crux-arm-release-3.8, ready to be deployed on the devices depending in how they manage the media.

Generic 32b release CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
- https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/crux-arm/releases/3.7/crux-arm-3.7-rc4.rootfs.tar.xz
Generic 64b release CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
- https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/crux-arm/releases/3.7/crux-arm-3.7-aarch64-rc5.rootfs.tar.xz

32b Optimized releases

64b Optimized releases

Pine64 release CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=armv8-a -mtune=cortex-a53"
- https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/crux-arm/releases/3.8/
Raspberrypi3 release CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=armv8-a+crc -mabi=lp64 -mlittle-endian"
- https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/crux-arm/releases/3.8/
Raspberrypi4 release CFLAGS="-O2 -march=armv8-a+crc -mtune=cortex-a72 -pipe"
- https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/crux-arm/releases/3.8/
Raspberrypi5 release -O2 -mlittle-endian -mabi=lp64 -march=armv8.2-a+crypto+fp16+rcpc+dotprod -fasynchronous-unwind-tables"
- https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/crux-arm/releases/3.8/

Incompatible changes and important notes

It's recommended to read carefully these CRUX release notes before upgrading: https://crux.nu/Main/ReleaseNotes3-8

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