[Buildroot] Buildroot 2021.11 released

[Peter Korsgaard]

Hi,

Buildroot 2021.11 is released - Go download it at:

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2021.11.tar.gz

or

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2021.11.tar.xz

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 big development cycle with more than 1500 changes all
over the tree and 103 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:

- Numerous package updates. Notable updates including numerous Python
  modules, Kodi add-ons, nodejs, OpenJDK.

- Toolchain:
  - glibc update to 2.34
  - support for gdb 11.x added, gdb 10.x now the default
  - external toolchains provided by ARM updated
  - remove support for internal toolchain on the CSKY
    architecture, as it was broken and unmaintained

- Filesystems:
  - new OCI filesystem type, to build container images
    compatible with the Open Container Initiative standard
  - support for hybrid ISO9660 images added, which work on
    legacy and EFI BIOS machines

- New defconfigs: Allwinner nezha, stm32mp157c_odyssey

- New packages: dtbocfg, firmware-utils, gstd, libdbi, libdbi-drivers,
  libteam, lua-augeas, mstpd, php-pecl-dbus, pipewire-media-session,
  python-aioprocessing, python-bidict, python-charset-normalizer,
  python-flask-expects-json, python-git, python-pyndiff, python-rsa,
  python-unitest-xml-reporting, python-xmljson, python3-cryptography,
  python3-pip, qt5opcua, rwmem, sloci-image, softhsm2, sun20i-d1-spl,
  uqmi, vuejs-router, watchdogd, wireplumber

And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. See the CHANGES
file for details:

http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2021.11

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -n 2021.08..

   422	Fabrice Fontaine
   157	Giulio Benetti
   123	Bernd Kuhls
    85	Asaf Kahlon
    85	James Hilliard
    67	Peter Korsgaard
    66	Peter Seiderer
    47	Francois Perrad
    44	Adam Duskett
    44	Romain Naour
    34	Yann E. MORIN
    31	Thomas Petazzoni
    19	Joachim Wiberg
    17	Kory Maincent
    16	Petr Vorel
    12	Herve Codina
    12	Michael Nosthoff
    11	Christian Stewart
    10	Adrian Perez de Castro
    10	Bartosz Bilas
    10	Raphaël Mélotte
     8	Chris Dimich
     8	Sébastien Szymanski
     7	Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
     7	Etienne Carriere
     7	José Pekkarinen
     6	Angelo Compagnucci
     6	Baruch Siach
     6	Gilles Talis
     6	James Knight
     6	Maxim Kochetkov
     6	Thomas Claveirole
     5	Alexander Dahl
     5	Chris Packham
     5	Heiko Thiery
     5	Julien Olivain
     5	Jörg Krause
     5	Marcin Niestroj
     5	Pierre-Jean Texier
     4	Fabio Estevam
     4	Grzegorz Blach
     4	Martin Elshuber
     4	Matthew Weber
     4	Michael Fischer
     4	Michael Walle
     4	Titouan Christophe
     3	Damien Le Moal
     3	Illia Bitkov
     3	Lang Daniel
     3	Nicolas Cavallari
     3	Sam Voss
     3	Tomi Valkeinen
     3	Yair Ben-Avraham
     2	Alexander Egorenkov
     2	Andreas Naumann
     2	Ash Charles
     2	Carlos Santos
     2	Edgar Bonet
     2	Joel Stanley
     2	Leonid Yuriev
     2	Marcus Folkesson
     2	Norbert Lange
     2	Paul Cercueil
     2	Sergio Prado
     2	Thomas De Schampheleire
     1	Adrian Amaglio
     1	Alexey Brodkin
     1	Andreas Ziegler
     1	Antoine Tenart
     1	Artem Panfilov
     1	Christoph Hellwig
     1	Dario Binacchi
     1	David Corbeil
     1	David GOUARIN
     1	David Lechner
     1	Florian La Roche
     1	Gary Bisson
     1	Gwenhael Goavec-Merou
     1	Hanspeter Portner
     1	Ismael Luceno
     1	Jan Havran
     1	John Keeping
     1	Jonah Petri
     1	Julien Grossholtz
     1	Kamel Bouhara
     1	Krzysztof Kanas
     1	Luca Ceresoli
     1	Markus Mayer
     1	Philippe Reynes
     1	Quentin Schulz
     1	Rafał Miłecki
     1	Richard Palethorpe
     1	Simon Doppler
     1	Stefan Agner
     1	Urja Rannikko
     1	Vyacheslav Bocharov
     1	Waldemar Brodkorb
     1	Yauheni Saldatsenka
     1	Yegor Yefremov
     1	Zeno Endemann

And a special thanks to our patch reviewers (we need more!):

git log 2021.08.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | \
    sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r

     13 Peter Seiderer <ps.report at gmx.net>
      7 Marcin Niestroj <m.niestroj at grinn-global.com>
      5 Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com>
      5 Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com>
      4 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel at gmail.com>
      4 Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
      4 Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>
      4 Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez at igalia.com>
      3 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
      3 Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
      3 Herve Codina <herve.codina at bootlin.com>
      3 Christian Stewart <christian at paral.in>
      3 Alistair Francis <alistair.francis at wdc.com>
      2 Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
      2 Michael Nosthoff <buildroot at heine.tech>
      2 Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com>
      2 Dick Olsson <hi at senzilla.io>
      1 Paul Cercueil <paul at crapouillou.net>
      1 Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari at green-communications.fr>
      1 Maxim Kochetkov <fido_max at inbox.ru>
      1 James Hilliard <james.hilliard1 at gmail.com>
      1 Christophe Priouzeau <christophe.priouzeau at foss.st.com>
      1 Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com>
      1 Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
      1 Alexander Dahl <post at lespocky.de>

The next release will be 2022.02. 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 2022.02 is out. 2022.02 will become the next long term support
release (supported until April 2023).

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard