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

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 06:49:25AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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?

In the age of WSL, I'm not sure the value of supporting MSYS. If someone
is using this, and steps up to resolve the problem, great. Otherwise we
should end up dropping it. Unlike the macOS side, we haven't had a
report of a user in well over a decade I think at this point.

-- 
Tom
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