[U-Boot] [ANN] U-Boot v2016.11 is released

[Tom Rini]

Hey all,

I've released v2016.11 and it's now live on git and FTP and ACD (along
with PGP sig file).

In many ways it feels good to say that the highlights of the last
release once again apply.  We've had more DM conversion work, Kconfig
conversion work and arch / SoC / platform updates.  We've also had some
important filesystem fixes come in and equally as important, test cases
added.  We also now support the new and default enabled ext4 64bit flag
(thanks again Stefan!).

And what I want to highlight here is going forward both relative ease
of, and expectations on testing.  Last time I talked about test.py and
how I'm using it more myself now.  This time, I want to talk about
travis-ci support.  If you use github you can get a more-or-less world
build and test.py for all of the QEMU targets we support today done in
about 2 and a half hours, wall clock.  I don't expect people to do this
for iterative development or "trivial" changes, but if you have a series
that touches a lot of areas I think it's reasonable to expect that
you'll test things out this way.  And I'll say now it's not 100%.  About
once every 10 builds I'll have to go and re-start a sub-job because it
will fail to fetch one of the PPAs we use for no apparent reason.  But
to be clear, it's a few minutes worth of setup and then you push a
change and you get build coverage and test coverage.  This is really
awesome and I wish I had been paying more attention to this sooner.

As always, I know I'm missing pointing out a few things that I should
point out and would encourage folks to chime in if there's anything they
would like to highlight.

Thanks again everyone!

-- 
Tom
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