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#define _PAGE_ History
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<p><i>2025-04-01</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes400">Rockbox 4.0 is released</a>

<p><i>2024-07-18</i>: Switched nightly voice generation over to the Piper TTS engine.

<p><i>2024-07-17</i>: AGPTek Rocker, xDuoo X3ii and xDuoo X20 promoted to Stable.

<p><i>2023-10-14</i>: Due to the ...erratic new management of twitter, use of the @rockboxcommits handle has been discontinued.

<p><i>2021-08-30</i>: Mailing lists have moved to a new host.

<p><i>2021-05-23</i>: We have moved our IRC channels over to the <a href="https://libera.chat">libera</a> network.

<p><i>2021-03-27</i>: Native bare-metal port to the <a href="/wiki/FiioM3K">FiiO M3K</a>!

<p><i>2021-03-16</i>: mitxela created an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw-VvGsYpSU">Ode to Rockbox</a> on YouTube.

<p><i>2020-10-11</i>: EROS Q / K (and their clones) are now supported!

<p><i>2020-07-24</i>: All Achos targets have been <a href="//www.rockbox.org/mail/archive//rockbox-dev-archive-2020-07/0019.shtml">retired</a>.

<p><i>2020-05-27</i>: gerrit and git moved to new hosts.  Github integration fixed, and https enabled for gerrit.

<p><i>2020-05-23</i>: https enabled on all www sites!

<p><i>2020-05-16</i>: Most infrastructure migrated to new hosts!

<p><i>2019-11-15</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes315">Rockbox 3.15 is released</a>

<p><i>2017-05-01</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes314">Rockbox 3.14 is released</a>

<p><i>2013-03-05</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes313">Rockbox 3.13 is released</a>

<p><i>2012-11-27</i>: Forums software updated

<p><i>2012-10-06</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes312">Rockbox 3.12 is released</a>

<p><i>2012-04-12</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes3112">Rockbox 3.11.2 is released</a>

<p><i>2012-04-08</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes3111">Rockbox 3.11.1 is released</a>

<p><i>2012-03-31</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes311">Rockbox 3.11 is released</a>

<p><i>2012-01-10</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/UsingGit">We have finally migrated to git</a>

<p><i>2011-09-03</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes391">Rockbox 3.9.1 is released</a>

<p><i>2011-06-27</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes39">Rockbox 3.9 is released</a>

<p><i>2011-04-06</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes381">Rockbox 3.8.1 is released</a>

<p><i>2011-04-03</i>: Rockbox participates in the <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/SummerOfCode2011">Google Summer of Code 2011</a> and we welcome students to apply for doing projects for and with us!

<p><i>2011-04-01</i>: We apologize for the subtle April fool's joke this year.
<p><i>2011-02-27</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes38">Rockbox 3.8 is released</a>

<p><i>2010-11-26</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes371">Rockbox 3.7.1 is released</a>
<p><i>2010-10-30</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes37">Rockbox 3.7 is released</a>
<p><i>2010-06-03</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes36">Rockbox 3.6 is released</a>

<p><i>2010-02-15</i>: Rockbox will be applying for Google Summer of Code 2010.  Please <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/SummerOfCode2010">suggest</a> possible projects or <a href="//www.rockbox.org/irc/">ask</a> to be a mentor or student on our IRC channel.

<p><i>2010-02-03</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes35">Rockbox 3.5 is released</a>

<p><i>2009-09-24</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes34">Rockbox 3.4 is released</a>

<p><i>2009-09-16</i>: We moved the web site to a new server and migrated from twiki to foswiki.

<p><i>2009-08-27</i>: The site was offline for 50 hours when our ISP went down.

<p><i>2009-06-21</i>: <a href="/wiki/DevConEuro2009">DevConEuro2009</a> has ended

<p><i>2009-06-19</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes33">Rockbox 3.3 is released</a>

<p><i>2009-03-24</i>: <a href="//themes.rockbox.org/">themes.rockbox.org</a> is available

<p><i>2009-03-23</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes32">Rockbox 3.2 is released</a>

<p><i>2009-03-18</i>: Rockbox has been accepted as a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code 2009. <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/SummerOfCode2009">Look here for project ideas.</a>

<p><i>2009-02-25</i>:The Rockbox USB stack is now enabled by default on <a href="//forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=20752.0">all PP502x targets</a>.

<p><i>2008-12-23</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes31">Rockbox 3.1 is released</a>

<p><i>2008-09-23</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes30">Rockbox 3.0 is released</a>

<p><i>2008-08-16</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/mail/archive/rockbox-dev-archive-2008-08/0032.shtml">Release 3.0 Feature Freeze</a>

<p><i>2008-06-29</i>: <a href="/devcon2008/">DevCon 2008</a> is over.

<p><i>2008-03-17</i>: We have been accepted as a mentor organization in <a href="/wiki/SummerOfCode2008">Google's summer of code 2008</a>.

<p><i>2008-03-06</i>: We're applying to participate in <a href="/wiki/SummerOfCode2008">Google's summer of code 2008</a>.

<p><i>2007-11-23</i>: New USB stack with limited capability. Currently it only requests full charging power. Ignore driver popups from Windows.

<p><i>2007-11-18</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2007-11/0176.shtml">New voice codec used:</a> Speex!

<p><i>2007-09-19</i>: 1st and 2nd gen iPods are supported

<p><i>2007-08-07</i>: We now offer daily built voice files on the <a
href="/daily.shtml">daily build page</a>

<p><i>2007-07-30</i>: The <a href="//www.rockbox.org/mail/archive/rockbox-dev-archive-2007-07/0049.shtml">Tracker Cleanup Week</a> has begun!

<p><i>2007-06-20</i>: Added download mirrors, thanks to some new sponsors

<p><i>2007-06-15 - 17</i>: <a href="/devconwest2007/">Devcon West 2007</a>

<p><i>2007-06-15</i>: The main web site changed IP and got faster network
connection

<p><i>2007-05-23</i>: Rockbox works on the ipod video 5.5gen 80GB

<p><i>2007-05-18</i>: <a href="devcon2007/">Devcon 2007 took place</a>

<p><i>2007-05-06</i>: Scheduled server maintenance. build.rockbox.org and download.rockbox.org will be down approximately 00:00 to 10:00 CET.

<p><i>2007-03-29</i>: Announcing the <a href=//www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevCon2007>Rockbox International Developers Conference 2007</a> to be
held in Stockholm May 19-20 2007.

<p><i>2007-03-15</i>: Rockbox has been accepted as a mentor organization of <a
href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/SummerOfCode">Google's summer
of code 2007</a>

<p><i>2007-03-10</i>: We welcome <a
href="//www.rockbox.org/mail/archive/rockbox-dev-archive-2007-03/0005.shtml">SanDisk
Sansa E200</a> to the happy family of Rockbox targets.

<p><i>2007-03-04</i>: We welcome <a
href="//www.rockbox.org/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2007-03/0175.shtml">iAudio
M5</a> to the happy family of Rockbox targets.

<p><i>2007-01-24</i>: There's talk with <a href="//wiki/AustriaMicrosystems">AMS</a>.

<p><i>2007-01-11</i>: We are changing version control system from CVS to Subversion.

<p><i>2006-12-29</i>: Toshiba Gigabeat builds added to the CVS build table and
the daily builds.

<p><i>2006-12-25</i>: The recent instabilities might be cured now as we run
only single-CPU on the server now. Removed CVS builds from this server to
reduce some load.

<p><i>2006-12-14</i>: Michiel van der Kolk, sometimes known as HCl, is
dead. He passed away yesterday. He will be missed and remembered as maestro of
Rockboy and his eager work on the initial tag database amongst other
things. <a href="//forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=7694.0">more...</a>

<p><i>2006-12-07</i>: Sansa e200 builds added to the CVS build table

<p><i>2006-10-02</i>: Enhanced left-side menu of the web site

<p><i>2006-08-23</i>: <a href="http://rasher.dk/rockbox/people/">Where are the Rockboxers?</a> 

<p><i>2006-07-18</i>: The <a href="/mail/archive/rockbox-dev-archive-2006-07/0054.shtml">feature freeze is lifted</a>

<p><i>2006-07-14</i>: The Wiki is back up again.

<p><i>2006-07-07</i>: Site is back up again after a few days downtime due to
yet another break-in/attack. The twiki parts are still disabled and will be
brought back once we believe we have them "secured" properly.

<p><i>2006-03-28</i>: <a
href="mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2006-03/0502.shtml">Sound</a> on <a
href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/IaudioPort">iAudio X5!</a>.

<p><i>2006-03-17</i>: <a href="devcon2006/">The Rockbox International
Developers Conference 2006</a>.

<p><i>2006-02-27</i>: Rockbox now has its own distributed build system.

<p><i>2006-02-23</i>: We have migrated to a new bugtracker: Flyspray. It's faster and better in practically every aspect. <a href="/tracker/">See it here</a>.

<p><i>2006-01-28</i>: <a href="//www.rockbox.org/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2006-01/0543.shtml">Sound</a> on <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/IpodPort">iPod!</a>

<p><i>2005-12-06</i>: Unicode support!

<p><i>2005-09-22</i>: Rockbox v2.5 is <a href="download/">released</a>.

<p><i>2005-09-21</i>: The Wiki pages are now restored as much as possible with the exception of the <a href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/WpsGallery">WPS Gallery</a>. The Wiki has been upgraded and the hole is plugged. Backups are done manually currently - work is underway to fix the automatic system that failed us.

<p><i>2005-09-19</i>: An oldish backup restored, work in progress on getting pages more up-to-date. Mailing lists are up again, but check that you are still subscribed!

<p><i>2005-09-17</i>: Some nice gentleman deleted our entire Wiki (and more) using a security hole in TWiki. The mailing list is also dead until we sort this out.

<p><i>2005-08-24</i>: Linus ran his first <a href=/wiki/IriverBDM>BDM session</a> on his H320.

<p><i>2005-08-18</i>: At 13:59 CET. First multimeter "beep" for the h300.

<p><i>2005-08-08</i>: We will have a <a
href="//www.rockbox.org/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2005-08/0130.shtml">Feature
Freeze</a> starting on August 22nd, aiming at releasing Rockbox 2.5 on
September 5.

<p><i>2005-06-06</i>: Rockbox plays MP3 and Ogg Vorbis music on the iRiver
 H1xx.

<p><i>2005-02-08</i>: <a
href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/RockboxShots">Evidence</a> of
Rockbox <a
href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/IriverBoot">booting</a> on <a
href="//www.rockbox.org/wiki/IriverPort">iRiver</a>.

<p><i>2004-12-23</i>: Rockbox v2.4 is <a href="download/">released</a>.

<p><i>2004-12-17</i>: Rockbox started from <a href="/wiki/FlashingRockbox">flash ROM</a> finally available for players.

<p><i>2004-12-16</i>: The <a href="/wiki/RockboxManual">Rockbox 2.3 manual</a> is out. Thanks go to Christi Alice Scarborough for her outstanding work!

<p><i>2004-11-09</i>: Some downtime due to planned server maintenance (replaced a harddisk).

<p><i>2004-11-01</i>: The site was down nearly four days due to hardware failure while the admins were away.

<p><i>2004-10-26</i>: Rockbox v2.3 is <a href="download/">released</a>.

<p><i>2004-10-26</i>: iRiver progress: the LCD driver <a href="/wiki/IriverPort#Writing_an_LCD_driver_">is working</a>!

<p><i>2004-10-05</i>: Call for help: We need information from Ondio owners for our <a href="/wiki/ArchosOndio">Archos Ondio port</a>.

<p><i>2004-10-01</i>: Touchdown! The Coldfire BDM wiggler is working on the iHP-120 target! Time for some sweet GDB debugging...

<p><i>2004-09-24</i>: We finally have rockbox.org, thanks to Jeff at Misticriver.

<p><i>2004-09-13</i>: Call for help! Please donate your broken iRiver iHP-1xx to the project!

<p><i>2004-07-08</i>: Good news for Windows users! You can now install the <a href=/daily.shtml>daily builds</a> with an installer executable. Thanks to Christi Scarborough for that.

<p><i>2004-06-17</i>: We now have a <a href="/twiki">Wiki</a> for the documentation. Feel free to join the documentation frenzy!

<p><i>2004-05-07</i>: The CVS repository has <a href="/cvs.html">moved</a>

<p><i>2004-03-14</i>: Rockbox can <a href="/lang/">talk</a> to you

<p><i>2004-03-11</i>: Version 2.2 is <a href="/download/">released</a>

<p><i>2004-02-05</i>: Rockbox can play <a href="/docs/rvf.html">video</a>, with sound 

<p><i>2003-12-04</i>: Version 2.1 is <a href="/download/">released</a>

<p><i>2003-07-09</i>: Rockbox started from <a href="/docs/flash.html">flash ROM</a> works

<p><i>2003-06-30</i>: The plugin loader is now <a href="//rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-06/0707.shtml">alive</a>

<p><i>2003-05-09</i>: The 400-file dir browser limit is <a href="//rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0334.shtml">gone</a>.

<p><i>2003-05-03</i>: Finally, FM Radio support for FM Recorder models!

<p><i>2003-04-23</i>: <a href="/digest/">The Rockbox Digest</a> - track
Rockbox development.

<p><i>2003-04-15</i>: Version 2.0 is <a href="/download/">released</a>

<p><i>2003-02-14</i>: Matthew P. O'Reilly gave Linus an FM Recorder  for his birthday!
Linus had it for 2 hours before he took it apart and started drawing schematics...

<p><i>2003-01-10</i>: Full ISO-8859-1 font support added for Players, using the <a href="/docs/rocklatin.html">Rocklatin1</a> dynamic charset system.

<p><i>2002-12-21</i>: You can now donate to the Rockbox project via PayPal. See the new button in the left menu.

<p><i>2002-11-10</i>: Added recording functionality.

<p><i>2002-10-15</i>: Now the Player/Studio models run the same firmware. No more Old and New player firmware.

<p><i>2002-10-11</i>: Version 1.4 is released. <a href="download/">Grab it</a>.

<p><i>2002-09-19</i>: We now support multiple languages. You can help by translating Rockbox to your language. No programming skills required.
<a href="//rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2002-09/0856.shtml">See instructions here</a>

<p><i>2002-09-13</i>: We took a big step and converted to an entirely new font system for the Recorder. Please bear with us as we smoothen out the initial quirks.

<p><i>2002-09-03</i>: ROLO, the Rockbox Loader has been integrated into the CVS, allowing Archos or other Rockbox firmware being loaded by simply selecting the file!

<p><i>2002-09-02</i>: <a href="//rockbox.haxx.se/tshirt-contest/vote.html">Vote for your favourite tshirt designs!</a>

<p><i>2002-08-28</i>: Version 1.3 is released. <a href="download/">Go fetch</a>.

<p><i>2002-08-09</i>: Version 1.2 is released. <a href="download/">Download it here</a>.

<p><i>2002-08-06</i>: Web site moved to new domain: <strong>rockbox.haxx.se</strong>.

<p><i>2002-08-06</i>: Battery charging added for the Recorders (players have hardware charging).

<p><i>2002-08-02</i>: <a href="tshirt-contest">Rockbox T-Shirt Design Contest</a>

<p><i>2002-07-28</i>: Configuration saving implemented for all models. Experimental saving to disk
is not yet enabled on the players by default.

<p><i>2002-06-30</i>: USB cable detection added.

<p><i>2002-06-27</i>: MP3 playback now works for Recorder 6000 and Recorder 10 too.

<p><i>2002-06-19</i>: Version 1.1 is released. <a href="download/">Download it here</a>.

<p><i>2002-06-19</i>: Recorder sound support checked into CVS. Good news: No background noise!

<p><i>2002-06-10</i>: Playlist and scroll support added. Testing for release v1.1.

<p><i>2002-06-07</i>: The ATA driver now works for the Recorder models too.

<p><i>2002-06-01</i>: Version 1.0 is released! <a href="download/">Download it here</a>.

<p><i>2002-06-01</i>: Web site has been down three days due to a major power loss.

<p><i>2002-05-27</i>: All v1.0 code is written, we are now entering debug phase.
If you like living on the edge, <a href="daily.shtml">here are daily builds</a>.

<p><i>2002-05-26</i>: New web design. First player release drawing closer.

<p><i>2002-05-03</i>: <b>SOUND!</b> Linus' experimental MAS code has 
<a href="//bjorn.haxx.se/rockbox/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2002-05/0016.shtml">played our first 4 seconds of music</a>.

<p><i>2002-04-27</i>: Julien Labruyére has generously donated an Archos Jukebox 6000 to the project. Thank you!

<p><i>2002-04-25</i>: Grant Wier has tested the Player LCD's double-height capability:
<a href="archos-text-DH1.jpg"><img align=center src="archos-text-DH2_sm.jpg"></a>

<p><i>2002-04-23</i>: Report from the <a href="devcon/">Rockbox Spring Developer Conference 2002</a> ;-)

<p><i>2002-04-22</i>: Gentlemen, we have <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/rockbox/firmware/thread.c">threading</a>.

<p><i>2002-04-11</i>: The <a href="codes_rec.png">Recorder charset</a> has been mapped.

<p><i>2002-03-28</i>: Lots of new stuff on the web page:
<a href="docs/faq.html">faq</a>,
<a href="irc/">irc logs</a>,
<a href="tools.html">tools</a> and
<a href="internals/">photos</a>.

<p><i>2002-03-25</i>: New section for
<a href="mods/">hardware modifications</a>.
First out is the long awaited
<a href="mods/serialport.html">serial port mod</a>.

<p><i>2002-03-25</i>: New instructions for
<a href="cross-gcc.html">how to build an SH-1 cross-compiler</a>.

<p><i>2002-03-14</i>: New linux patch and instructions for 
<a href="lock.html">unlocking the archos harddisk</a> if you have the "Part. Error" problem.

<p><i>2002-03-08</i>: Uploaded a simple example, showing
<a href="example/">how to build a program for the Archos</a>.

<p><i>2002-03-05</i>: The 
<a href="lock.html">harddisk password lock problem is solved</a>!
Development can now resume at full speed!

<p><i>2002-01-29</i>: If you have feature requests or suggestions,
please submit them to our
<a href="//sourceforge.net/projects/rockbox/">Sourceforge page</a>.

<p><i>2002-01-19</i>: Cool logo submitted by Thomas Saeys.

<p><i>2002-01-16</i>: The project now has a proper name: Rockbox. 
Logos are welcome! :-)
<br>Also, Felix Arends wrote a quick <a href="sh-win/">tutorial</a>
for how to get sh-gcc running under windows.

<p><i>2002-01-09</i>: Nicolas Sauzede 
<a href="mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2002-01/0096.shtml">found out</a>
how to 
<a href="mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2002-01/0099.shtml">display icons and custom characters</a> on the Jukebox LCD.

<p><i>2002-01-08</i>: The two LCD charsets have been 
<a href="notes.html#charsets">mapped and drawn</a>.

<p><i>2002-01-07</i>:
<a href="mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2002-01/0026.shtml">Jukebox LCD code</a>.
I have written a small test program that scrolls some text on the display.
You need
<a href="mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2002-01/att-0026/01-archos.mod.gz">this file</a>
for units with ROM earlier than 4.50 and
<a href="mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2002-01/att-0050/02-archos.mod.gz">this file</a>
for all others. (The files are gzipped, you need to unzip them before they will work.)

<p><i>2001-12-29</i>: Recorder LCD code. Gary Czvitkovicz knew the Recorder LCD controller since before and wrote some
<a href="mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2001-12/att-0145/01-ajbr_lcd.zip">code</a>
that writes text on the Recorder screen.

<p><i>2001-12-13</i>: First program 
<a href="mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2001-12/0070.shtml">released</a>!
A 550 bytes long 
<a href="mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2001-12/att-0070/01-archos.mod">archos.mod</a>
that performs the amazing magic of flashing the red LED. :-)

<p><i>2001-12-11</i>: Checksum algorithm solved, thanks to Andy Choi. A new "scramble" utility is available.

<p><i>2001-12-09</i>: Working my way through the setup code. The <a href="notes.html">notes</a> are being updated continously.

<p><i>2001-12-08</i>: Analyzed the exception vector table. See <a href="notes.html">the notes</a>. Also, a <a href="mail/">mailing list archive</a> is up.

<p><i>2001-12-07</i>:
 I just wrote this web page to announce descramble.c. 
I've disassembled one firmware version and looked a bit on the code, but no real analysis yet.
Summary: Lots of dreams, very little reality. :-)

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