[Buildroot] Buildroot 2020.11 released
Eugen.Hristev at microchip.com
Eugen.Hristev at microchip.com
Thu Dec 3 10:21:42 UTC 2020
Hi and apologies for the stupid question, but how can I find the
buildroot version from inside the target ? I have been digging through
the internet and mailing list but could not find the answer.
Thanks in advance !
On 03.12.2020 00:44, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Buildroot 2020.11 is released - Go download it at:
>
> http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2020.11.tar.gz
>
> or
>
> http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2020.11.tar.bz2
>
> Or get it from Git:
>
> git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot
>
> Please give it a spin and report any problems to the mailing list or
> bug tracker.
>
> This was another fairly big development cycle with more than 1300
> changes all over the tree and 117 unique contributors! I'm once again
> very happy to see so many "new" people next to the "oldtimers".
>
> Of noteworthy new features/changes we have:
>
> - Architectures: Support for IBM s390x
>
> - Toolchain: use Secure-PLT rather than BSS-PLT for PowerPC 32. Binutils
> 2.35.1 added, now defaulting to 2.34. ARC 2020.09-release
> toolchain. GCC 7.x dropped. RISC-V support for uclibc-ng. Support for
> Bootlin external toolchains.
>
> - SELinux support improvements: File security contexts are now set when
> the file systems are created, so there is no need to run restorecon on
> first boot / read only rootfs is supported. An optimized / stripped
> refpolicy SELinux policy is now used. Packages can enable additional
> refpolicy modules using <pkg>_SELINUX_MODULES.
>
> - 'make pkg-stats' can now be used to output information about the
> packages enabled in a Buildroot configuration, including checking for
> known CVEs. Output is provided in both HTML and JSON format for
> viewing and easy post processing.
>
> - Go: Modules handling. The module name must be specified using
> <pkg>_GOMOD.
>
> - BR2_EXTERNAL: Support for defining filesystem skeletons and init
> system packages in external trees.
>
> - New defconfigs: Acer chromebook elm, Friendlyarm nanopc-t4 and
> nanopi-m4, Hardkernel odroid-c2, Kontron SMARC-sAL28, NXP imx8mqevk,
> Orangepi RK3399 and zero+, PCengines APU2, Pine64 rockpro64, QEMU
> s390x, Raxda rockpi-n8,
>
> - New packages: altera-stapl, asn1c, babeltrace2, cukinia, easyframes,
> environment-setup, frr, graphicsmagick, htpdate, ipcalc, libbacktrace,
> libblockdev, libbytesize, librelp, libuev, makedumpfile, meson-tools,
> mg, mrp, multipath-tools, netcalc, odroidc2-firmware, php-xdebug,
> python-aiofiles, python-ansicolors, python-boto3, python-botocore,
> python-bsdiff4, python-crayons, python-iniconfig, python-intelhex,
> python-ipdb, python-jmespath, python-m2crypto, python-opcua-asyncio,
> python-packaging, python-piexif, python-pluggy, python-pytest,
> python-s3transfer, python-xmodem, qprint, qt5lottie, qt5remoteobjects,
> re2, redir, s390-tools, sentry-cli, sentry-native, timescaledb,
> tinyhttpd, uhd, uredir, watchdog, wayland-utils, weston-imx
>
> And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. See the CHANGES
> file for details:
>
> http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2020.11
>
> Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:
>
> git shortlog -s -n 2020.08..
>
> 349 Fabrice Fontaine
> 85 Francois Perrad
> 79 Peter Korsgaard
> 74 Bernd Kuhls
> 67 Thomas Petazzoni
> 63 Peter Seiderer
> 34 Michael Nosthoff
> 32 Romain Naour
> 28 Yann E. MORIN
> 27 Antoine Tenart
> 25 Alexander Egorenkov
> 23 Adam Duskett
> 23 Christian Stewart
> 23 Heiko Thiery
> 21 James Hilliard
> 21 Marcin Niestroj
> 19 Adrian Perez de Castro
> 15 Angelo Compagnucci
> 13 Baruch Siach
> 11 Asaf Kahlon
> 11 Jugurtha BELKALEM
> 11 Petr Vorel
> 9 Grzegorz Blach
> 9 Norbert Lange
> 8 Bartosz Bilas
> 8 Fabio Estevam
> 8 Waldemar Brodkorb
> 7 Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
> 7 Dagg Stompler
> 7 Gwenhael Goavec-Merou
> 7 Matt Weber
> 7 Pierre-Jean Texier
> 7 Sergio Prado
> 6 Brandon Maier
> 6 Etienne Carriere
> 6 Giulio Benetti
> 6 Joseph Kogut
> 6 Maxim Kochetkov
> 6 Paul Cercueil
> 5 Alejandro González
> 5 Gary Bisson
> 5 Gregory CLEMENT
> 5 Jianhui Zhao
> 5 Suniel Mahesh
> 5 Titouan Christophe
> 4 Carlos Santos
> 4 David GOUARIN
> 4 Horatiu Vultur
> 4 Julien Olivain
> 4 Jörg Krause
> 4 Michael Vetter
> 4 Michael Walle
> 4 Raphaël Mélotte
> 4 Robin Jarry
> 4 Ryan Barnett
> 4 Sergey Matyukevich
> 3 Alistair Francis
> 3 Bilal Wasim
> 3 Chris Packham
> 3 Florian La Roche
> 3 Ignacy Gawędzki
> 3 Michael Fischer
> 3 Shlomi Vaknin
> 3 Tian Yuanhao
> 2 Aleksander Morgado
> 2 Doug Kehn
> 2 Joachim Wiberg
> 2 Kieran Bingham
> 2 Lubomir Rintel
> 2 Nicolas Cavallari
> 2 Sven Oliver Moll
> 2 Thomas Claveirole
> 2 Thomas De Schampheleire
> 2 Vadim Kochan
> 2 Zoltan Gyarmati
> 1 Alexey Brodkin
> 1 André Hentschel
> 1 Andy Shevchenko
> 1 Augustin Thiercelin
> 1 Avi Shukron
> 1 Charles Hardin
> 1 Conrad Ratschan
> 1 Damien Le Moal
> 1 Danilo Bargen
> 1 Derrick Lyndon Pallas
> 1 Evgeniy Didin
> 1 Frank Hunleth
> 1 Garret Kelly
> 1 Gustavo Heinz
> 1 Heiko Stuebner
> 1 Jochen Baltes
> 1 Joel Stanley
> 1 John Keeping
> 1 Julien Floret
> 1 Julien Viard de Galbert
> 1 Klaus Heinrich Kiwi
> 1 Koen Martens
> 1 Luca Ceresoli
> 1 Marcus Folkesson
> 1 Mauro Meneghin
> 1 Michael Durrant
> 1 Miken Valabdas
> 1 Nicolas Carrier
> 1 Philippe Proulx
> 1 Rafał Miłecki
> 1 Robert Hancock
> 1 Ryan Coe
> 1 Shyam Saini
> 1 Simon Rowe
> 1 Stefan Agner
> 1 Stefan Ott
> 1 Sven Fischer
> 1 Sven Klomp
> 1 Tibault Damman
> 1 Vadym Kochan
> 1 Vineet Gupta
> 1 Yair Ben-Avraham
>
> And a special thanks to our patch reviewers (we would need more!):
>
> git log 2020.08.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | \
> sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
>
> 13 Peter Seiderer <ps.report at gmx.net>
> 12 Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
> 8 Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com>
> 6 Titouan Christophe <titouan.christophe at railnova.eu>
> 5 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel at gmail.com>
> 4 Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists at googlemail.com>
> 3 Michael Nosthoff <buildroot at heine.tech>
> 3 Marcin Niestroj <m.niestroj at grinn-global.com>
> 3 Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery at gmail.com>
> 3 Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com>
> 3 Asaf Kahlon <asafka7 at gmail.com>
> 3 Alistair Francis <alistair.francis at wdc.com>
> 3 Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar at linux.ibm.com>
> 3 Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez at igalia.com>
> 2 Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> 2 Matthew Weber <matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com>
> 2 Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls at t-online.de>
> 2 Adam Duskett <aduskett at gmail.com>
> 1 Romain Naour <romain.naour at smile.fr>
> 1 Michael Nosthoff<buildroot at heine.tech>
> 1 Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com>
> 1 Joel Carlson <JoelsonCarl at gmail.com>
> 1 Joachim Wiberg <troglobit at gmail.com>
> 1 Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur at microchip.com>
> 1 Herve Codina <Herve.CODINA at celad.com>
> 1 Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com>
> 1 Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>
> 1 Erico Nunes <nunes.erico at gmail.com>
> 1 Alexander Dahl <post at lespocky.de>
>
> The next release will be 2021.02. Expect the first release candidate at
> the beginning of February and the final release at the end of the month.
>
> This release will be supported with security and other important fixes
> until 2021.02 is out. 2021.02 will become the next long term support
> release (supported until April 2022).
>
> --
> Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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