Buildroot 2024.08-rc1 released

Hi,

Buildroot 2024.08-rc1 is released - Go download it at:

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2024.08-rc1.tar.gz

or

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2024.08-rc1.tar.xz

Or get it from Git:

https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot.git

Please give it a spin and report any problems to the mailing list or bug tracker.

Later than usual, but here is the first release candidate for 2024.05. Once more a fairly busy cycle with almost 1000 changes from 107 unique contributors.

Of noteworthy new features/changes we have:

Toolchains:
- uClibc updated to 1.0.49
- GDB 15.x added, GDB 14.x now the default
- GCC 14.x updated to GCC 14.2.0
- Support for Linux 6.9/6.10 headers added

Infrastructure:
- Patches on packages are now applied with -F0, which means no fuzz is accepted anymore.
- Improvements to the canonical example of SysV init script

New defconfigs: arm_fvp_ebbr, beaglev_fire, cubieboard1, imx6ulz_bsh_smm_m2_defconfig, spike_riscv32,

Removed defconfigs: beagleboardx15, beaglev, imx8mpico

New packages: blake3, chicken, cloudfared, docker-cli-buildx, espflash, fd, freescale-imx/firmware-upower, fwupd, fwupd-efi, gtkiostream, graphene, kmon, libavif, libdex, libgtk4, libjcat, libopenmpt, libtpms, mxt-app, nethogs, openconnect, parsec-tool, pico-sdk, picotool, python-aerich, python-autocommand, python-betterproto, python-configobj, python-grpclib, python-inflect, python-jaraco-collections, python-jaraco-context, python-jaraco-text, python-pyasynchat, python-pyasyncore, python-dictdiffer, python-pkgconfig, python-pypika-tortoise, python-ruamel-yaml-clib, python-tomlkit, python-tomli-w, python-tpm2-pytss, python-tortoise-orm, python-uswid, qt6declarative, qt6languageserver, qt6mqtt, qt6opcua, qt6shadertools, qt6tools, qt6virtualkeyboard, qt6wayland, qt6websockets, skopeo, sqlitecpp, swipl, swtpm, tig, tipidee, tpm2-openssl, xilinx-prebuilt, zoxide

Removed packages: beaglev-ddrinit, beaglev-secondboot, beecrypt, cgic, dvb-apps, gamin

New runtime tests: 4th, attr, atftp, bcc, btrfs, btrfsprogs, dmidecode, go, gpsd, iproute2, kmod, lame, make, mariadb, mawk, mosquitto, nmap, ntp, python-asn1crypto, python-pymupdf, python-ruamel-yaml, rt-tests, swipl, vorbis-tools, xfsprogs

Issues resolved:
- Are there plans to add raspberrypizero2w_64_defconfig config?
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/1
- Some folders can't visit and some file is missing while running
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/2
- wpewebkit build fails on ARM Neon
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/3
- TAR-1.35 will not build for target (host-variant will build)
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/4
- package/xz without shared libraries breaks Python build
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/5
- unable to build - 404 at sources.buildroot.net
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/10
- OpenSSH 9.8 broken
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/11
- Update Openssh to Version 9.8p1 (CVE-2024-6387) in Long Term Support Release 2024.02.x
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/14
- Toolchain (host-gcc-final-14.1.0) build failure with y2038/BR2_TIME_BITS_64 enabled
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/16
- building go/golang gives error
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/18
- GCC 13.3 is missing
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/20
- package containerd update to avoid hanging docker exec commands
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/21
- "BR2_EXTERNAL broken missing srctree error Config.in"
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/24
- Can't subscribe buildroot mailing list
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/25

And the usual package version updates and bug fixes.

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -n 2024.05..

114 Bernd Kuhls
103 Fabrice Fontaine
103 Julien Olivain
98 Dario Binacchi
78 James Hilliard
62 Thomas Petazzoni
54 Yann E. MORIN
30 Waldemar Brodkorb
29 Francois Perrad
28 Neal Frager
23 Brandon Maier
21 Marcus Hoffmann
20 Giulio Benetti
17 Roy Kollen Svendsen
16 Fiona Klute (WIWA)
16 J. Neuschäfer
13 Arnout Vandecappelle
13 Gaël PORTAY
13 Romain Naour
12 Chris Dimich
12 Peter Korsgaard
11 Christian Stewart
10 Bryan Brattlof
10 Thomas Devoogdt
8 Adrian Perez de Castro
8 Michael Nosthoff
7 Heiko Thiery
7 Saeed Kazemi
7 Yegor Yefremov
6 Fiona Klute
6 Joachim Wiberg
5 Adam Duskett
5 Baruch Siach
5 Jarkko Sakkinen
5 Lance Fredrickson
5 Peter Seiderer
5 Thomas Perale
5 Vincent Stehlé
4 Ben Hutchings
4 Gero Schwäricke
4 Jamie Gibbons
4 Kory Maincent
4 Mika Westerberg
4 Raphaël Mélotte
4 Vincent Fazio
3 Andreas Ziegler
3 Geoff Levand
3 Jan Čermák
3 José Luis Salvador Rufo
3 Kilian Zinnecker
3 Michael Fischer
3 Reza Arbab
3 Ricardo Martincoski
3 Thomas Claveirole
3 Woodrow Douglass
3 Zoltan Gyarmati
2 Aleksandr Makarov
2 Alex Michel
2 Alexander Egorenkov
2 Alexis Lothoré
2 Andreas Naumann
2 Angelo Compagnucci
2 Dmitry Chestnykh
2 Flávio Tapajós
2 Francis Laniel
2 James Knight
2 Jan Kraval
2 Maxim Kochetkov
2 Michel Alex
2 Petr Vorel
2 Philip-Dylan Gleonec
2 Steffen Persvold
2 Sébastien Szymanski
2 TIAN Yuanhao
2 Titouan Christophe
2 Torben Voltmer
2 ʎɐH ǝʌǝʇS
1 Alexander Wellbrock
1 Andy Yan
1 Anisse Astier
1 Bagas Sanjaya
1 Bartosz Bilas
1 Boerge Struempfel
1 Charles Hardin
1 Danomi Manchego
1 Dongdong Zhang
1 Etienne Carriere
1 Florian Fainelli
1 Fred Lefranc
1 Jan Havran
1 Jean-Michel Friedt
1 Jon Henrik Bjørnstad
1 Joseph Burt
1 Josua Mayer
1 Julien BOIBESSOT
1 Kadambini Nema
1 Kadir Yilmaz
1 Kieran Bingham
1 Kris Bahnsen
1 Kurt Van Dijck
1 Luca Ceresoli
1 Luca Pesce
1 Markus Mayer
1 Martin Wetterwald
1 Matt Flax
1 Matt Staveley-Taylor
1 Michael Trimarchi
1 Nicolas Carrier
1 Nicolas Cavallari
1 Niklas Yann Wettengel
1 Raphael Gallais-Pou
1 Raphael Pavlidis
1 Robert Marko
1 Romain Gantois
1 Sagi Mor
1 Sebastien Laveze
1 Sergey Matyukevich
1 Thomas Bonnefille
1 Thomas Huth
1 Viacheslav Bocharov
1 Wilfred Mallawa via buildroot
1 Xiang Lin
1 Yang Li
1 Yu-Chien Peter Lin

And a special thanks to our patch reviewers:

git log 2024.05.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | \
sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r

13 Luca Ceresoli <[email protected]>
9 Brandon Maier <[email protected]>
4 Yann E. MORIN <[email protected]>
4 Giulio Benetti <[email protected]> 3 Neal Frager <[email protected]>
3 Etienne Carriere <[email protected]>
2 Jan Havran <[email protected]>
1 Valentina Fernandez <[email protected]> 1 Nevo Hed <[email protected]>
1 Marcus Hoffmann <[email protected]>
1 Herve Codina <[email protected]>
1 Christian Stewart <[email protected]>
1 Bryan Brattlof <[email protected]>
1 Alistair Francis <[email protected]>
1 Adrian Perez de Castro <[email protected]>
1 Adam Duskett <[email protected]>

Thomas

Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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