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# What is Mendel Linux?
Mendel Linux is a lightweight derivative of Debian Linux that runs on a number
-of Coral development boards, including the Coral EdgeTPU.
+of Coral development boards, such as the
+[Dev Board](https://coral.ai/products/dev-board/) and
+[SoM](https://coral.ai/products/som/).
If you're looking to get started with any of the Coral boards, please take a
-look at the [Coral Website](https://coral.withgoogle.com) for more information.
+look at the [Coral doccumentation](https://coral.ai/docs) for more information.
+
+If you want to know what's changed in Mendel, see our
+[release notes](https://coral.googlesource.com/docs/+/refs/heads/master/Releases.md).
If you're looking to get started developing, patching, or building Mendel for
your own uses, please read our [Getting Started
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To build an image from our tooling for one of our boards, check out [Getting
Started
documentation](https://coral.googlesource.com/docs/+/refs/heads/master/GettingStarted.md)
+
Note: we generally discourage this, as we put a great deal of effort into making
sure our releases run well on the boards we target. Mendel is a proper Linux
distribution: we work with packages, not images, and any image should be
possible to upgrade to the latest release with a simple `apt-get dist-upgrade`
-without requiring a reboot (modulo kernel and bootloader updates, obviously).
+without requiring a reboot (modulo kernel and bootloader updates, obviously,
+which require [reflashing the board](https://coral.ai/docs/dev-board/reflash/)).
## What do we support?
-Mendel currently only supports the Coral EdgeTPU Dev Board (also known as
-enterprise, or phanbell).
+Mendel currently only supports the Coral Dev Board (also known as
+enterprise, or phanbell) and SoM.
For development, our build system only currently supports Linux systems.
Unfortunately, this is due to various factors out of our control, so it is
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+# Mendel release notes
+
+This is a non-exhaustive summary of changes included in each version of Mendel.
+
+For system image downloads, see [coral.ai/software](https://coral.ai/software/).
+
+
+## 4.0 (day)
+
++ First release based on [Debian 10 (buster)](
+ https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/arm64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html)
+ (Note that our distribution does not include everything from Debian;
+ for example, Mendel does not include desktop environments and applications,
+ because our system is designed for embedded systems. Also, the
+ new SecureBoot and AppArmor changes do not apply to Mendel)
++ Support for Python 3.7
++ Support for OpenCV and OpenCL
++ Upgraded GStreamer pipelines
++ Improved stability for memory timing
++ Upgraded Linux Kernel (4.14)
++ Upgraded U-Boot bootloader (2017.03.3)
+
+
+## 3.0 (chef)
+
++ First open source release
++ First release with the Mendel Development Tool (MDT)
++ Improved security for SSH authentication
+
+
+## 2.0 (beaker)
+
++ Resolved Hynix/Micron memory timing stability
++ Support for USB-C connections in U-Boot
++ Support for Mac in flash.sh script
++ Released edgetpu_demo for out-of-box Edge TPU demo
+
+
+## 1.0 (alpha)
+
+Our first Mendel release!
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