APT updates; Ubuntu 10.10; MSP430 GCC4

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 title: News
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 ctime: 2009-12-16
 
-### 2009-12-20
-Today, oss.titaniummirror.com is released into the wild.
+### 2011-06-07
+
+* The [[aptrepo]] contains an updated MSP430 GCC toolchain, which TMI has been
+  using successfully for some time now.
+* Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) is supported as a development host.
+
+### 2010-11-04
+
+[[TinyOS]] release 2.1.1-4.4 is available.
+
+* Revert to how 2.1.0 creates TOSMAKE_PATH.  It adds TINYOS_MAKE_PATH to the
+  end, allowing local code to override system code.  2.1.1 adds TINYOS_MAKE_PATH
+  to the beginning, preventing local overrides.
+* Various USCI fixes.
+* Provide new system components SharedArbiterC and SharedSplitControlC.  We use
+  these to activate subsystems only when needed, where the subsystems are usable
+  by multiple higher-level components concurrently.
+* TinyOS by default presumes that on boot UartStream interface providers have
+  the receive interrupt active.  We had presumed that it was better to allow
+  the code to specifically activate the interrupt when it was ready to handle
+  input data.  TMI patch 4.4 now works like official TinyOS.
+* Remove bitfield warning in msp430 adc12 when using GCC 4.x.
+* Provide new interfaces ReadRefNow, Write and WriteNow.
+
+TMI has also updated to nesc-1.3.2.  A big thank you to idgay, who fixed bug
+[3013497](http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3013497&group_id=56288&atid=480036)
+that was preventing us from using nescc with GCC on Ubuntu Linux.  Using the
+nx_ types of nescc to define cross platform data structures in header files
+shared between TinyOS targets and other systems is much more elegant than
+managing a parallel set of definitions defined programmatically by function
+calls to the TinyOS C-SDK.
+
+---
+
+### 2010-05-26
+TMI is migrating to a newer [[msp430]] toolchain and [[TinyOS 2.1.1]].
+
+* [[msp430]] toolchain now based on gcc-4.4.3.
+
+* Merged upstream [[TinyOS]] 2.1.1 into release 2.1.1-4.3.
+
+* [[cp210x]] driver updates.
+
+---
+
+### 2010-05-06
+The TMI OSS website is now published to the internet.  New [[TinyOS]] release
+2.1.0-4.2 is also available.
+
+---
+
+### 2009-12-17
+The OSS web pages are now horizontally fluid, and gitweb uses the same visual
+theme.
 
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 ### 2009-12-16
-Still working on the website.  It is close but not yet done.
+The oss.titaniummirror.com website is staged on an internal VE.  Content is
+mostly static, generated from the oss-web git repo.  A new theme is in place,
+also used for gitweb.  The TMI API repository is cloned here.  Automation
+scripts in place to keep things updated.
 
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