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Android-x86 Changelog

What's new in Android-x86 9.0 RC2

Jan 22, 2020
  • Update to Android 9.0.0 Pie release (android-9.0.0_r52).
  • Update to LTS kernel 4.19.95.
  • Update to Mesa 19.3.2.
  • Update to Taskbar 5.0.1.

New in Android-x86 9.0 RC1 (Nov 16, 2019)

  • Support both 64-bit and 32-bit kernel and userspace with latest LTS kernel 4.19.80.
  • Support OpenGL ES 3.x hardware acceleration for Intel, AMD, Nvidia and QEMU(virgl) by Mesa 19.0.8.
  • Support OpenGL ES 3.0 via SwiftShader for software rendering on unsupported GPU devices.
  • Support hardware accelerated codecs on devices with Intel HD & G45 graphics family.
  • Support secure booting from UEFI and installing to UEFI disk.
  • A text based GUI installer.
  • Add theme support to GRUB-EFI.
  • Support Multi-touch, Audio, Wifi, Bluetooth, Sensors, Camera and Ethernet (DHCP only).
  • Auto-mount external usb drive and sdcard.
  • Add Taskbar as an alternative launcher which puts a start menu and recent apps tray on top of your screen and support freeform window mode.
  • Enable ForceDefaultOrientation on devices without known sensors. Portrait apps can run in a landscape device without rotating the screen.
  • Support arm arch apps via the native bridge mechanism. (Settings -> Android-x86 options)
  • Support to upgrade from non-official releases.
  • Add experimental Vulkan support for newer Intel and AMD GPUs. (Boot via Advanced options -> Vulkan support)
  • Simulate WiFi adapter by Ethernet to increase app compatibility.
  • Mouse integration support for VMs including VirtualBox, QEMU, VMware and Hyper-V.

New in Android-x86 8.1-r3 (Oct 30, 2019)

  • The 8.1-r3 is mainly a security updates of Android 8.1.0 Oreo MR1 release (8.1.0_r69) with some bugfixes of 8.1-r2. We encourage users of 8.1-r2 or older releases upgrade to this one.

New in Android-x86 8.1-r2 (Jun 30, 2019)

  • Update to latest Android 8.1.0 Oreo MR1 release (8.1.0_r65).
  • Update to latest LTS kernel 4.19.50.
  • Update to Mesa 18.3.6.
  • Simulate WiFi adapter by Ethernet to increase app compatibility.
  • Fix Bluetooth scanning issue.

New in Android-x86 8.1-r1 (Jan 17, 2019)

  • The 8.1-r1 release is based on the latest Android 8.1.0 Oreo MR1 release (8.1.0_r60).
  • Support both 64-bit and 32-bit kernel and userspace with latest LTS kernel 4.19.15.
  • Support OpenGL ES 3.x hardware acceleration for Intel, AMD, Nvidia and QEMU(virgl) by Mesa 18.3.1.
  • Support OpenGL ES 2.0 via SwiftShader for software rendering on unsupported GPU devices.
  • Support hardware accelerated codecs on devices with Intel HD & G45 graphics family.
  • Support secure booting from UEFI and installing to UEFI disk.
  • A text based GUI installer.
  • Add theme support to GRUB-EFI.
  • Support Multi-touch, Audio, Wifi, Bluetooth, Sensors, Camera and Ethernet (DHCP only).
  • Auto-mount external usb drive and sdcard.
  • Add Taskbar as an alternative launcher which puts a start menu and recent apps tray on top of your screen and support freeform window mode.
  • Enable ForceDefaultOrientation on devices without known sensors. Portrait apps can run in a landscape device without rotating the screen.
  • Support arm arch apps via the native bridge mechanism. (Settings -> Android-x86 options)
  • Support to upgrade from non-official releases.
  • Add experimental Vulkan support for newer Intel and AMD GPUs. (Boot via Advanced options -> Vulkan support)
  • Mouse integration support for VMs including VirtualBox, QEMU, VMware and Hyper-V.

New in Android-x86 8.1 RC2 (Oct 24, 2018)

  • Update to the latest stable kernel 4.18.14.
  • Update Mesa to 18.2.2 with LLVM 7.0.
  • Allow to set resolution via standard video=x kernel cmdline for all GPUs.
  • Fix apk can't be installed on 9p filesystem.

New in Android-x86 7.1-r2 (Aug 24, 2018)

  • Update grub-efi 64-bit to 2.02 to fix "Malformed file" error.
  • Fix system_server high load issue caused by kbdsensor on some devices.
  • Fix 64-bit Google Play Services crashing caused by i965 driver.
  • Improve some arm apps compatibility.
  • Fix stagefright-plugins memory leaks.
  • Fix display issue of Hyper-V with legacy booting.
  • Add qxl support to qemu-android script.
  • Fix getSupportedPreviewFpsRange exception.
  • Update kernel to 4.9.95.

New in Android-x86 8.1 RC1 (Jun 19, 2018)

  • Support both 64-bit and 32-bit kernel and userspace.
  • Support OpenGL ES 3.x hardware acceleration for Intel/AMD/Nvidia, VMware and QEMU(virgl) by Mesa 18.1.2.
  • Support OpenGL ES 2.0 via SwiftShader for software rendering on unsupported GPU devices.
  • Support hardware accelerated codecs on devices with Intel HD & G45 graphics family.
  • Support secure booting from UEFI and installing to UEFI disk.
  • A text based GUI installer.
  • Add theme support to GRUB-EFI.
  • Support Multi-touch, Audio, Wifi, Bluetooth, Sensors, Camera and Ethernet (DHCP only).
  • Auto-mount external usb drive and sdcard.
  • Add Taskbar as an alternative launcher which puts a start menu and recent apps tray on top of your screen and support freeform window mode.
  • Enable ForceDefaultOrientation on devices without known sensors. Portrait apps can run in a landscape device without rotating the screen.
  • Support arm arch apps via the native bridge mechanism. (Settings -> Android-x86 options)

New in Android-x86 7.1-r1 (Feb 12, 2018)

  • Android-x86 installer was improved a lot including:
  • Create EFI boot entry to efibootmgr.
  • Add auto-installation function which is useful to install Android-x86 as the only one OS.
  • Provide more information on disk and partition selection menu.
  • Add advanced options to provide more boot options.
  • Save the last choice in grub2 menu.
  • Update kernel to the LTS kernel 4.9.80 with more patches from AOSP.
  • Add a new HAL for iio type sensors.
  • Show poweroff menu by ctrl-alt-del.
  • Fix a lot of bugs.

New in Android-x86 7.1 RC2 (Oct 29, 2017)

  • Add Taskbar as an alternative launcher which puts a start menu and recent apps tray on top of your screen.
  • Enable freeform window mode support.
  • Enable SDCardFS support (not available in live mode).
  • Enable ForceDefaultOrientation on devices without known sensors. Now portrait apps can run in a landscape device without rotating the screen.
  • A new software renderer SwiftShader which provides better performance on devices without a supported GPU.
  • Improve QEMU virgl stability.
  • Support NVMe SSD.
  • Update to the latest LTS kernel 4.9.54 with more patches from AOSP.
  • Update Mesa to 17.1.10 with RGBA_8888 support on i965.
  • Improve the native bridge support (64-bit only). Enable it via Settings -> Apps Compatibility.

New in Android-x86 6.0-r3 (Apr 25, 2017)

  • CD/DVD auto-mount.
  • Fix VMware broken since 6.0-r2.
  • A qemu-android script to launch Android-x86 in QEMU. (only available in RPM installation)
  • Update to latest Android Marshmallow-MR2 release (6.0.1_r79).
  • Update kernel to 4.4.62 with more patches from AOSP.
  • Update Mesa to 17.0.4.
  • More updates from upstream projects (libdrm, ntfs-3g, exfat, bluez).

New in Android-x86 6.0-r1 (Sep 13, 2016)

  • Update kernel to 4.4.20 with more patches from AOSP.
  • Update Mesa to 12.0.2.
  • Preliminary HDMI audio support.
  • Add F2FS support.
  • Change trackpad cursor from circle to normal mouse pointer (back-ported from Android N).
  • Improve suspend/resume issues caused by wifi drivers.

New in Android-x86 6.0 RC1 (Jun 10, 2016)

  • Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit kernel and userspace.
  • Update kernel to 4.4.12.
  • Support OpenGL ES 3.x hardware acceleration for Intel/AMD(radeon/radeonsi)/Nvidia(nouveau) chipsets, as well as VMware and QEMU(virgl).
  • Support OpenGL ES 3.0 via software rendering for other GPUs or no GPU devices.
  • Support secure booting from UEFI and installing to UEFI disk.
  • Be able to install to ext4/ntfs/fat32 filesystems via a text based GUI installer.
  • Upgrading from older android-x86 release is improved. Older release using ext2/ext3 filesystem will be converted to ext4 for better reliability.
  • Support Multi-touch, Audio, Wifi, Bluetooth, Sensors, Camera and Ethernet (DHCP only).
  • Auto-mount external usb drive and sdcard.
  • Support foreign archs (arm / arm64) via the native bridge mechanism. (Settings -> Apps Compatibility)

New in Android-x86 4.4-r5 (Feb 7, 2016)

  • It addresses more hazi fonts issue of Mesa 10.5.9 found on Intel Gen5 GPUs.

New in Android-x86 5.1 RC1 (Oct 6, 2015)

  • Supports 64-bit kernel and userspace, as well as 32-bit system.
  • Update kernel to 4.0.9.
  • Enable OpenGL ES hardware acceleration for Intel/AMD(radeon/radeonsi)/Nvidia(nouveau) chipsets.
  • Support booting from UEFI and installing to UEFI disk.
  • Be able to install to ext4/ext3/ext2/ntfs/fat32 filesystems via a text based GUI installer.
  • Support Multi-touch, Audio, Wifi, Bluetooth, Sensors, Camera and Ethernet (DHCP only).
  • Auto-mount external usb drive and sdcard with filesystem vfat/ntfs/exfat/ext4.
  • Support VM including Qemu, VirtualBox and VMware.
  • Support foreign archs (arm / arm64) via the native bridge mechanism. (Settings -> Apps Compatibility)

New in Android-x86 4.4-r3 (Jul 19, 2015)

  • Upgrade the kernel to 4.0.8 with more drivers enabled to support modern hardware. Baytrail platform is well supported.
  • Replace Bluedroid by the Bluez stack. Bluetooth is more stable and usable.
  • Be able to install image and grub2-efi to GPT partitioned disks.
  • Add a new sensor HAL to support iio style sensors.
  • Update Mesa to 10.5.9. Enable hardware acceleration for Nvidia chips (nouveau) and VMware (vmwgfx).
  • Improve the GPS HAL.
  • Merge updates from upstream.
  • More bugfixes.

New in Android-x86 4.4-r2 (Jan 1, 2015)

  • Upgrade the kernel to the latest stable version 3.18 with more drivers enabled. Allow us to support more modern hardware like Intel Baytrail platform.
  • Primary support booting from UEFI. Note the installer still doesn't work for GPT partition table. But you may manually install it.
  • Improve suspend/resume.
  • Merge updates from upstream (ffmpeg, filemanager, ...)
  • A lot of bugfixes.

New in Android-x86 4.4-r1 (Sep 26, 2014)

  • Integrate the ffmpeg as the stagefright-plugins to support much more multimedia files. Now we can play HD and full HD videos in apps.
  • Use the latest longterm stable kernel 3.10.52 with more drivers enabled. Most netbooks can run Android-x86 in the native resolution.
  • OpenGL ES hardware acceleration for AMD Radeon and Intel chipsets (PowerVR chips are NOT supported).
  • Enhance the installer to support upgrade from previous versions (since ics-x86). The text based GUI installer supports ext3/ext2/ntfs/fat32 filesystems.
  • KitKat style lanucher (Trebuchet).
  • Support Multi-touch, Wifi, Audio, Bluetooth, G-sensor and Camera.
  • Support Huawei 3G modem.
  • Simulate sdcard by internal storage.
  • External usb drive and sdcard are auto mounted to /storage/usbX on plugging. Support filesystem vfat/ntfs/exfat/ext4.
  • Support hybrid mode of iso images.
  • Multi-user support (max 8).
  • Support Ethernet (DHCP only).
  • Support 5-point touch calibration on some devices.
  • Support VM like Qemu and VMware.

New in Android-x86 4.4 RC2 (May 20, 2014)

  • Update to stable kernel 3.10.40 with more bugfixes.
  • Automatically mount ntfs/exfat/ext4 in the external storages (usbdisk/sdcard).
  • Enhance the sensors support including Intel sensor-hub and Pegatron Lucid Tablet Accelerometer.
  • Add launcher and file manager from CyanogenMod.
  • Add 5-point touch calibration app from 0xdroid.
  • Improve suspend and resume functions.
  • Add rtl8723au wifi driver.

New in Android-x86 4.4 RC1 (Feb 17, 2014)

  • Integrate the ffmpeg as the stagefright-plugins to support much more multimedia files. Now we can play HD and full HD videos in apps.
  • Use the latest longterm stable kernel 3.10.30 with more drivers enabled. Most netbooks can run Android-x86 in the native resolution.
  • OpenGL ES hardware acceleration for AMD Radeon and Intel chipsets (not include the PowerVR chips).
  • Enhance the installer to support upgrade from previous versions (since ics-x86). The text based GUI installer supports ext3/ext2/ntfs/fat32 filesystems.
  • KitKat style lanucher (Launcher3).
  • Support Multi-touch, Wifi, Audio, Bluetooth, G-sensor and Camera.
  • Simulate sdcard by internal storage.
  • External usb drive and sdcard are auto mounted to /storage/usbX on plugging.
  • Support hybrid mode of iso images.
  • Multi-user support (max 8).
  • Support Ethernet (DHCP only).
  • Support VM like Qemu and VMware.

New in Android-x86 4.0 RC2 (Jul 18, 2012)

  • Kernel 3.0.36 with more drivers and bug fixes.
  • Enable Dalvik JIT compiler support.
  • Support some 3G modem.
  • Ready to run arm translator. (You still need to install Intel's libraries from BuilDroid.)
  • Physical keyboard layout selection.
  • Support two cameras.
  • Fake SD card is replaced by internal storage support.