[ANN] U-Boot v2020.01 released

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:58:43PM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> It's once again release day.  While we've had a few things pop up near
> the end of the cycle I think we've got things handled well enough.  In
> fact, I'm going to be open to doing, if needed, a v2020.01.y, with a
> fairly strict set of rules, if we have problems arise that can be safely
> addressed.  I'd like to thank all of our contributors for their efforts.
> 
> The next thing I'd like to point out is that as part of this release
> we've re-synced with upstream for libfdt and it's now more strict in
> somme cases.  What this means for the end user is that, especially on
> platforms where the DT that we use is passed in from upstream, you may
> need a more up-to-date ATF binary.  I believe this is documented in the
> i.MX8-based board READMEs and for Renesas platforms the patch is
> currently at:
> https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/3025
> and I would like to thank Marek Vasut for digging into the details on
> this at almost the literal last minute.
> 
> Another important part of this release is that we've migrated fully from
> Python 2.7 to Python 3 (with 3.5 being the minimum version required).
> Thanks again to everyone that put in some time and energy to digging
> into our problems here and helping to fix it.
> 
> In terms of a changelog, 
> git log --merges v2020.01-rc5..v2020.01
> or
> git log --merges v2019.10..v2020.01
> 
> The merge window is once again open and I plan to tag -rc1 on January
> 27th, bi-weekly -rcs thereafter and final release on April 6th, 2020.

I've now merged -next in to master and re-set next to current master.
I'm closing the next branch for now and will re-open it likely in March
or very late February (depending on how things are going).  Thanks all!

-- 
Tom
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