[616c]

So they are still working on 4.4.3. I assume this is a daunting task, but are they always playing catch up?

I do not say that dismissively. It is mind-blowing to me that they can port this to x86 (whether or not the toolchain supports it at this stage) and iron everything out with every major and minor release.

I see no mention of Lollipop or Marshmallow, but I am really curious.

[yohui]

No, it's 4.4.4:

http://www.android-x86.org/releases/releasenote-4-4-r3

> The 4.4-r3 release is based on the Android 4.4.4_r2.0.1 (KTU84Q) release.

Their "What is new?" section on the front page says development on the Lollipop branch had started by 2014-11-06 (just two days after Google released the source) and that lollipop-x86 was updated to 5.1 on 2015-03-18.

I'm guessing part of the reason there isn't a stable Lollipop build yet is the switch from Dalvik to ART.

[venomsnake]

Yes the do play catch up. We don't want those pesky free (in what you can do with them) mobile devices on well understood platfoms to treaten the sweet vendor lock in gig we have at the moment with arm. Or the carrier subsidy model.