[Buildroot] Buildroot 2025.02-rc1 released

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

Hi,

Somewhat later than hoped, but:

Buildroot 2025.02-rc1 is released - Go download it at:

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2025.02-rc1.tar.gz

or

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2025.02-rc1.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.

Again a fairly busy development cycle, with almost 1200 changes from 102
unique contributors!

Of noteworthy new features/changes we have:

 - utils/generate-cyclonedx script added to generate SBOMs in
   CycloneDX format. To use it, run

       make show-info | utils/generate-cyclonedx > sbom.json

- Nios2 architecture support removed.

- Toolchain:

  - binutils 2.44 added, binutils 2.43.1 becomes the default.

  - gdb 16.1 added, gdb 15.1 becomes the default.

  - glibc 2.41, uclibc-ng 1.0.51

  - Synopsys external ARC toolchains marked as broken as they
    are not "bare" toolchains, causing various build issues

  - ARM external toolchains bumped to 12.4.rel1 and are now also

- New defconfigs: FriendlyARM NanoPi R3S, NXP imx8mm-evk / imx8mm-ddr4 /
  imx8mp-evk / imx93-evk / ls1043a-rdb / ls1046a-rdb, Orangepi 5 plus,
  Polyhex Debix model A, Raspberrypi zero 2w 64bit, Raxda rock 4SE, STM
  STM32MP135F-DK

- New packages: bmap-writer, cpuinfo, cross-ldd, farmhash, fft2d, fp16,
  gemmlowp, libecoli, libglib2-bootstrap, lynis, nxp-bt-wifi-firmware,
  nxp-mwifiex, panel-mipi-dbi-firmware, parsec, psimd, pthreadpool,
  python-aiohttp-sse-client, python-asyncclick, python-changelog-chug,
  python-telnetlib3, python-waitress, qt6graphs, qt6multimedia,
  qt6quick3d, rnnoise, ruy, snooze, tensorflow-lite, usbip, utfcpp,
  wlr-randr, xilinx-embeddedsw, xnnpack

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

http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2025.02-rc1

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -n 2024.11..

   219	James Hilliard
   111	Peter Korsgaard
   110	Bernd Kuhls
   100	Thomas Petazzoni
    73	Neal Frager
    55	Julien Olivain
    47	Akhilesh Nema
    37	Romain Naour
    34	Yann E. MORIN
    24	Fiona Klute (WIWA)
    20	Dario Binacchi
    18	Francois Perrad
    18	Scott Fan
    17	Giulio Benetti
    16	Adam Duskett
    15	Vincent Stehlé
    13	Sergey Matyukevich
    13	Thomas Devoogdt
    10	Sébastien Szymanski
    10	Thomas Bonnefille
    10	Waldemar Brodkorb
     9	Christian Stewart
     8	Gilles Talis
     8	Marcin Niestroj
     8	Roy Kollen Svendsen
     7	Vincent Jardin
     6	Fabio Estevam
     6	Michel Alex
     6	Raphael Pavlidis
     6	Stefan Hager
     6	Yegor Yefremov
     5	Adrian Perez de Castro
     5	Gaël PORTAY
     5	Maxim Kochetkov
     5	Saeed Kazemi
     5	Thomas Perale
     5	Vincent Fazio
     4	Heiko Thiery
     4	Jan Čermák
     4	José Luis Salvador Rufo
     4	Kory Maincent
     4	Michael Fischer
     4	Michael Nosthoff
     3	Brandon Maier
     3	Bryce Johnson
     3	Jamie Gibbons
     3	Kilian Zinnecker
     3	Petr Vorel
     2	Andreas Ziegler
     2	Arnout Vandecappelle
     2	Ayoub Zaki
     2	Flávio Tapajós
     2	Jannik Becher
     2	Marcus Hoffmann
     2	Niklas Cassel
     2	Peter Macleod Thompson
     2	Zoltan Gyarmati
     1	Aleksandr Makarov
     1	Alex Bennée
     1	Andrea Ricchi
     1	Andreas Naumann
     1	Arno Messiaen
     1	Bagas Sanjaya
     1	Bartosz Bilas
     1	Baruch Siach
     1	Bryan Brattlof
     1	Cherniaev Andrei
     1	Clement Ramirez
     1	Colin Foster
     1	Derzsi Dániel
     1	Francois Dugast
     1	Frank Vanbever
     1	Gabriele Besta
     1	Ian Merin
     1	J. Neuschäfer
     1	Jean-Christophe Bauduin
     1	Joachim Wiberg
     1	John Ernberg
     1	Liam Hupfer
     1	Martin Böh
     1	Mattia Narducci
     1	Mattias Walström
     1	Mika Westerberg
     1	Miquel Raynal
     1	Nicola Di Lieto
     1	Nicolas Cavallari
     1	Nuno Gonçalves
     1	Olivier Benjamin
     1	Patrick Oppenlander
     1	Patrik Olsson
     1	Peter Seiderer
     1	Raphael Gallais-Pou
     1	Raphaël Mélotte
     1	Reza Arbab
     1	Roberto Medina
     1	Sabeeh Khan
     1	Sergey Kuzminov
     1	Tobias Waldekranz
     1	Torben Voltmer
     1	baxiche su
     1	iliana etaoin
     1	Леонид Юрьев (Leonid Yuriev)

And a special thanks to our patch reviewers:

git log --no-merges --grep '(Reviewed|Acked)-by:' -E -i \
  --format="%(trailers:valueonly=true,key=Reviewed-by,key=Acked-by)%-C()" \
  2024.11.. | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

     14 Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
      6 Vincent Jardin <vjardin@free.fr>
      4 Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin@orange.com>
      4 Maxim Kochetkov <fido_max@inbox.ru>
      3 Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
      2 Zoltan Gyarmati <zgyarmati@zgyarmati.de>
      2 Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
      2 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
      2 Fiona Klute <fiona.klute@gmx.de>
      2 Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@amarulasolutions.com>
      1 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
      1 Sébastien Szymanski <sebastien.szymanski@armadeus.com>
      1 Marcus Hoffmann <buildroot@bubu1.eu>
      1 Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
      1 Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
      1 Fiona Klute (WIWA) <fiona.klute@gmx.de>
      1 Christian Stewart <christian@aperture.us>
      1 Bryan Brattlof <bb@ti.com>
      1 Brandon Maier <brandon.maier@gmail.com>
      1 André Zwing <nerv@dawncrow.de>

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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