In anticipation of Tizen 3.0 release for IVI early next year, Tizen IVI team is pleased to announce that Tizen 3.0-M2-Aug for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) was released on August 29th.

This new preview features an upgraded Wayland (1.2), weston compositor (1.2.1) and is based on a 3.11 Linux kernel. It comes with an enhanced Tizen Web RunTime (WRT), featuring new Web APIs (Automotive, Speech, DLNA). The Resource Policy Manager (Murphy), Automotive Message Broker, Hands-Free Dialer, MediaPlayer, and many more packages have been upgraded and new middleware components have been added, such as a new PIM manager (SyncEvolution), a speech-recognition framework, SmartDeviceLink, and basic support for Ethernet AVB.

A new automotive HomeScreen is under development and can be installed separately. Refer to the release notes for more details.
 
For more information about this release, refer to these release notes. 
- Tizen IVI 3.0-M2-Aug release notes: https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/IVI/IVI_August_29,_3.0-M2-Aug [3]

For more information about Tizen for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), visit our wiki at: https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/IVI [4]. Tizen for IVI shares core frameworks with other Tizen profiles, with additional key components to support automotive use cases. Preview releases are made available on an approximately monthly basis, leading up to the final Tizen 3.0 release for IVI expected in Q1 2014.

Bootable images for this release are available:
- Tizen IVI 3.0-M2-Aug image:http://download.tizen.org/releases/milestone/tizen/ivi/tizen_20130829.9/images/ [5]

If you are new to Tizen IVI Project and are looking for ways to start contributing, refer to our "How to Contribute" wiki page at https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/How_to_contribute_to_Tizen_IVI [6]