[ANN] U-Boot v2026.01 released

[Tom Rini]

Hey all,

So it's release day and so here is v2026.01. I will be merging the next
branch back to master shortly and pushing that out as well.

As this is a full release, and not just a release candidate I'm once
again hoping for a few more people to read this than do my -rc emails or
just regular mailing list posts. Continuing on with what I've mentioned
in previous releases, we're now officially part of the Software Freedom
Conservancy:
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/29/u-boot-has-joined-sfc/

With that said, we'll have our regularly
scheduled community meeting tomorrow.  The meeting details itself are:
https://meet.google.com/btj-wgcg-euw
January 6th, 2025. 9am (UTC/GMT -06:00)

To join by phone:
https://meet.google.com/tel/btj-wgcg-euw?pin=1307528552322&hs=1

A high level changelog from v2025.10 until now is:
- We're on v6.17-dts for upstream device trees/bindings. The v6.18-dts
  tag was too late for our release cycle.
- Lots of platform updates. I don't like to single any particular vendor
  or architecture out. Lots of updates in lots of places.
- Lots of fixing of issues reported by Smatch, and in some cases
  Coverity too. Not quite relatedly, some dead code removal as well.
- Continued work on improving our old pre-rST docs and converting them
  to rST.
- Fixes in our DFU, MMC, PMIC, USB, UBI, UFS, SCMI, MTD, UEFI and
  networking subsystems.
- Some cleanups and improvements to Falcon mode, so that we can now
  support this in some secure boot cases.
- We can again use clang to build on 64bit ARM platforms.

And I'm sure there's things I've missed.

With all of that said, we're on our usual cycle of 3 weeks for -rc1,
which will be January 26th and then every other week for -rc tags until the
release of v2026.04 on April 6th, 2026.

Thanks all!

-- 
Tom
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