[ANN] U-Boot v2026.07-rc2 released

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Mon, 11 May 2026 at 16:06, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> So it's release day and I have tagged and pushed things out.
>
> As I mentioned earlier today[1], I would like to again thank DENX (and
> the Denk family) for supporting the project for so long, and we're
> starting the process of moving our infrastructure to the OSU OSL lab and
> the u-boot-project.org domain.
>
> The delta between -rc1 and -rc2 looks OK to me, and I do still think
> there's a few outstanding PRs to come in and a few things I should pick
> up as well. But, the next branch is now open and so bigger changes
> should target that and I will be applying a few things there shortly.
>
> To repeat what I said in rc2 (and will keep repeatint) 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[2].

I'm not really the right person to answer this, since I'm not a
Windows user. But as I understand it, this would mean not building
Windows executables anymore. Is that right?

Should we perhaps just build without the pkcs11-provider feature?

>
> 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
> May 12th, 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:
> - Platform fixes for Atmel, MediaTek, STM32, m68k, Renesas,
>   QorIQ/Layerscape, MIPS and TI K3
> - Fixes in our USB, UEFI, Documentation, and networking subsystems.
> - Updates to our binman tooling
>
> 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/20260511174116.GJ1858239@bill-the-cat/
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/ae_KfGqNrsWZ1rfQ@daedalus/
>

Regards,
Simon