After a 2 month hiatus, the Vanilla builders are finally back online. I’ve done some work to bring an incremental build down to just 20 minutes. As a result of this, I may increase the frequency of builds from daily to twice daily. These are still the same Vanilla builds as before, which means we’re still shipping support for the Chrome Web Store, the fancy new login UI and so on. However, as a result of our server move, Vanilla AU is down for the time being. Rather than try to set up the hacky system I had before again, I’m going to re-implement the AU server from scratch. This will be open source, and we’ll have more details on this in the coming weeks. Which brings me to today’s second big announcement; Lime.

ChromiumOS Lime is the successor to ChromiumOS Flow, and brings together the bleeding edge freshness of a Vanilla build and the expanded hardware support you’re used to in a Flow build. I know lots of you have been asking for an update to Flow, and I’m sorry you’ve been waiting so long. So here’s the good news. I’m aiming to release Lime within the next two weeks. It will ship with Lime AU as part of the image, but the servers will not be live at launch. The goal is to release within two weeks, but I’m not making any guarantee that it will be available within two weeks. However, we’ll be starting limited betas so that I can test on hardware I don’t own in the next week or so. If you’d like to be a part of this, then make sure you’re in the IRC channel (##hexxeh on irc.freenode.org). You can also watch the status of the builders in there, and get notified when a new Vanilla build is completed.

Lastly, I’d like to send a huge thank you to Google: I spent the last week over in California at their Mountain View campus, and got the chance to watch the Chrome event on Tuesday with the Chrome/ChromeOS team! I had an awesome time, and it was fantastic meeting the teams! Thanks for being so supportive of my project in general.