An update to the Tizen Developer Tools has been released bringing it to version 13.04. Main updates are to gbs, mic and bmap-tools. Distribution Support has been added for OpenSUSE 12.3 and Ubuntu 13.04 and dropped for Ubuntu 11.10

gbs 0.16 release:

• introduce new subcommand 'createimage/cr', to create image using ks file
• performance optimization:
• put all build roots in a individual directory, which can be mounted as tmpfs
  to speed up building, based on our experimental build time can save 50%. We
  use 800 Tizen packages as test data, without tmpfs, gbs spent about 5 hours
  to build all packages, but with tmpfs enabled, only 2h, 25mins spent
• avoid export multiple times for packages contain multiple spec files
• refine createrepo by using --update to speed up
• bug fixes
• see details release notes at:
  http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/RELEASE_NOTES_GBS.txt

mic 0.19 release:

• introduce '--part-type' to handle GPT partition
• copy bmap creation from bmap-tools
• update some depends and fix depends issue
• bug fixes
• see details release notes at:
  http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/RELEASE_NOTES_MIC.txt

bmap-tools 2.3 release:

• Add bmap file SHA1 checksum into the bmap file itself in order to
  improve robustness of bmaptool
• Re-structure the bmap file layout
• Make the test-suite work on btrfs
• see details release notes at:
  http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/RELEASE_NOTES_BMAP-TOOLS.txt

Documentation:

Tools installation:
• https://source.tizen.org/documentation/developer-guide/environment-setup
• gbs: https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/git-build-system
• mic: https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/mic-image-creator
• bmap-tools: https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/bmaptool

Download available from http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/