[U-Boot-Custodians] [U-Boot-Board-Maintainers] [ANN] U-Boot v2019.07-rc4 released

[Lukasz Majewski]

Hi Tom,

> Hey all,
> 
> It's release day and here is v2019.07-rc4.   At this point, I know we
> have some regression fixes for i.MX that are coming, and I'm
> expecting a fix to the build time failure for tinker-rk3288.
> 
> To repeat myself about DM migration deadlines, first, let me say
> again, that DM is not required for SPL.  This comes up enough that I
> want to say it again here.  Next, if there is active progress on
> converting things, we'll keep from pulling the code out.  This is why
> for example, we haven't yet pulled out a lot of deprecated SPI code.
> Some of it is still in progress on being converted, so I need to
> update the series I posted after the last -rc to remove still less
> drivers.
> 
> In terms of a changelog, 
> git log --merges v2019.07-rc3..v2019.07-rc4
> continues to improve in quality.  If you're sending me a PR, please
> include a few lines or words in summary and I'll be sure to put it
> into the merge commit.
> 
> As I mentioned with -rc3, with this cycle is coming closer to an end,
> it's time to decide if we're going to keep this 3 month cycle or go
> back to 2 months.

I do prefer 3 months cycle. IMHO with 3 months cycle, we do have a time
to fix things and adding new code is done in merge window.

>  After the last release while I did get some
> feedback, the overall balance is still in the 3 month bucket.
> 
> I'm planning on doing -rc5 on June 24th with the release scheduled on
> July 8th.  Thanks all!
> 




Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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