According the official Apollo CPU Knowledge Forum, the new Gold 2.8 core has been released for the Vampire! Big news this time is that they’ve enabled the expansion ports on the card (ethernet and USB).

Gunnar von Boehn writes as follows:

The team is releasing now GOLD 2.8

GOLD 2.8 brings you:

– Improved HDMI DMA support for misaligned Screen Pointers
– Minor FPU fix
– A500 RTC fix
– Improved SDcard / SDNet
– V500+ Expansion port enabled (ETHERNET/USB/.you_name_it.)

JIC and EXE files will be put online now.

http://www.apollo-core.com/releases/

Source: Apollo CPU Knowledge Forum