I wasn't planning on doing a build for a while, but apparently I should know better than to walk away for too long. The addition of ad-hoc Wi-Fi support, making it possible to "tether" with older Android and other mobile devices without virtual access point ability, seemed important enough to trigger a new build. (And there's a couple other interesting commits to note in the list below.)
As of today, I have cleaned out the old 0.10.x numbered builds.
Changes specific to my open-source builds:
- Added the Python "gdata" (Google data bindings) API by request.
- A bug in HTTP authentication is fixed.
- When removing a user from the device, the encrypted home directory is now fully removed.
- P2P Sockets API has been added.
- The Clear Browsing Data key shortcut has been changed to Ctrl-Shift-Backspace (was Ctrl-Shift-Delete, which on the Cr-48 is Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Backspace).
- Hints at future hardware-key authentication support showed up.
- A UI for EAP authentication has been added, but is not (from my testing with known-802.1x networks) available yet. Expect it to be enabled in a near-term future build.
- Speech input is enabled by default again.
- The "CrOS will never be on tablets" quasi-debate is over; a touchscreen UI for Chrome OS is in the process of being implemented right now (this part is for the on-screen touch keyboard).
- CSS styles in the Chrome settings pages were cleaned up a bit.
Notable changes for the rest of the OS from 0.11.218.2011_03_02 to 0.11.227.2011_03_04:
- Support for ad-hoc (IBSS) Wi-Fi networks has been added.
If you have any issues with this build, please let me know directly, or in the blog comments.
After additional testing of the previous build, and one from yesterday that was not published, this build has been blessed as "most stable" on the download page. Winning!
After additional testing of the previous build, and one from yesterday that was not published, this build has been blessed as "most stable" on the download page. Winning!
