From trini at konsulko.com  Mon Apr  6 20:00:20 2026
From: trini at konsulko.com (Tom Rini)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 12:00:20 -0600
Subject: [ANN] U-Boot v2026.04 released
Message-ID: <20260406180020.GX41863@bill-the-cat>

Hey all,

It's time for the full release, and so here we are. I've tagged and
pushed everything out. This is another release that feels like it's just
good stable iterative progress on that last. The big change here is that
we resynced out libfdt code and finally device trees must really be
properly aligned. I am optimistic we have caught all the cases where
this was not true. But if you upgrade from v2026.01 and suddenly fail to
boot with little output, this is a very likely culprit.

We're continuing with a community meeting following the release and the
calendar link is
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MHYzYzQ1dWh2bnRjcm80czVmcDczYmhsNThfMjAyNjAxMjdUMTUwMDAwWiA4OWJlN2I4MTMxMzZiZWMwNmE4M2RlNGRhNTk3NDVmMGFiZDExYzFiODM2MDYxYWUwNmMxYzdkYmNkMThkZjQxQGc&tmsrc=89be7b813136bec06a83de4da59745f0abd11c1b836061ae06c1c7dbcd18df41%40group.calendar.google.com&scp=ALL
and once again this is the same time as the previous meeting. The
meeting details itself are:
https://meet.google.com/icv-nvmv-dbf
April 7th, 2025. 9am (GMT -06:00)

To join by phone:
https://tel.meet/icv-nvmv-dbf?pin=5493171900556

Condensing the changelog from the -rcs themselves:
- Our dts/upstream trees are synced to the v6.18-dts tag.
- As mentioned above, we've re-synced the libfdt code and now enforce
  and require proper 8-byte alignment for the start of the device tree.
- Lots and lots of platform updates. Rather than call out what seems
  like most modern SoCs, I'll let custodians reply if there's anything
  specific they want to emphasize.
- A number of bugfixes for problems found by Smatch and Coverity Scan.
- We now support clang-format and prefer that over the old
  scripts/Lindent option for formatting code.
- Numerous documentation updates.
- Many subsystems have also had a number of updates, and I'll again
  leave it to the custodians to point out anything they'd like to here.
- We now have "allyesconfig" supported in CI. This isn't quite how the
  Linux Kernel works (we do not assume 0 is a valid value for hex/int
  questions, by default) but it's catching more issues now that weren't
  before.

The merge window is now open, I'll be merging next to master shortly,
and we'll have our usual bi-weekly releases after -rc1 comes out in 3
weeks with the final release being on 06 July 2026.

Thanks all!

-- 
Tom
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From trini at konsulko.com  Tue Apr 28 01:05:22 2026
From: trini at konsulko.com (Tom Rini)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:05:22 -0600
Subject: [ANN] U-Boot v2026.07-rc1 released
Message-ID: <20260427230522.GP41863@bill-the-cat>

Hey all,

So it's release day and I have tagged and pushed things out.

As I believe most people are aware, we had an issue wtih our mailman
server last week. We have a migration plan and have been working on it
as quickly as circumstances allow.

With that, content wise this was a regular merge window I believe.
There's a few more things I'm expecting, and others I'm hoping for
before -rc2 happens, but I think things in general are in fine shape.

One thing I do want to bring up is that it might really be time to
retire support for running our tools on Windows under MSYS, rather than
something like WSL. The move to support more modern OpenSSL versions has
hit a lack of support problem in MSYS[1].

We're continuing with a community meeting following the release and the
calendar link is
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MHYzYzQ1dWh2bnRjcm80czVmcDczYmhsNThfMjAyNjAxMjdUMTUwMDAwWiA4OWJlN2I4MTMxMzZiZWMwNmE4M2RlNGRhNTk3NDVmMGFiZDExYzFiODM2MDYxYWUwNmMxYzdkYmNkMThkZjQxQGc&tmsrc=89be7b813136bec06a83de4da59745f0abd11c1b836061ae06c1c7dbcd18df41%40group.calendar.google.com&scp=ALL
and once again this is the same time as the previous meeting. The
meeting details itself are:
https://meet.google.com/yyx-dsaj-iwr
April 28th, 2025. 9am (GMT -06:00)

To join by phone:
https://meet.google.com/tel/yyx-dsaj-iwr?pin=7760044274127&hs=1

In terms of a rough changelog:
- We have synced with the v7.0-dts tag for upstream device trees /
  bindings.
- Lots of platform updates. This is always the case with -rc1 and I
  never know which ones to emphasize.
- Fixes in our UEFI, SMBIOS, MMC, DFU, USB, networking, UFS, pytest,
  virtio, hush shell commands, squashfs, environment and FWU update
  subsystems.
- Global cleanup of "gd" inclusion in code.
- The legacy LED API has been removed (thanks again all!)

I continue to plan to do an rc release every two weeks and the final
release will be 06 July 2026.

Thanks all!

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/ae_KfGqNrsWZ1rfQ at daedalus/
-- 
Tom
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