On behalf of Tizen tools development team

We are very pleased to announce that new version of Tizen developer tools
[12.12] is released on tizen.org, at:

  http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/

Highlight of this release:
==========================

* it contains several major enhancements for the existing tools:
- gbs 0.12
- mic 0.15

* several tools added to this repo:
- bmap-tools 1.0
- lthor
- sdb
- fastboot

* for tools tools release naming convention and download folder structure,
  please see details at: http://download.tizen.org/tools/README.txt

Details of the enhancements:
============================

* gbs 0.12 release:
- support building RPM package for incremental build
- offline build mode support with ‘—noinit’ option
- performance optimization for incremental build
- output enhancement for incremental build (use the common build root folder,
  no ‘.incremental’ folder anymore)
- pristine-tar support of upstream branches
- more build arch support
- bug fixings

- see details release notes at:
  http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/RELEASE_NOTES_GBS.txt

* mic 0.15 release:
- new mechanism of bootstrap mode
- filesystem parameter support for ext[234] fs
- multiple bootstrap path to support multi-instance mic
- use 'pkgmgr=auto' to select available backend in conf file
- improve loop device creation algorithm and create loop device by 'mknod'
- bug fixings

- see details release notes at:
  http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/RELEASE_NOTES_MIC.txt

* bmap-tools 1.0 release
- this is the first bmap-tools release.
- bmap-tools is a generic tool for creating the block map (bmap) for a file and
  copying files using the block map
- the idea is that large files, like raw system images file, can be copied or
  flashed a lot faster with bmap-tools than with traditional tools, like "dd"
  or "cp"
- bmap-tools is used in Tizen IVI for flashing system images to USB sticks and
  other block devices
- more details for this tools, please refer to:
  https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/bmaptool

- see details release notes at:
  http://download.tizen.org/tools/pre-release/RELEASE_NOTES_BMAP-TOOLS.txt

Documentation
=============
* Tools installation:
  https://source.tizen.org/documentation/developer-guide/environment-setup
* gbs: https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/git-build-system
* mic: https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/mic-image-creator
* bmap-tools: https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/bmaptool

Thanks
Tizen Developer Tools Team


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