[Buildroot] Buildroot 2026.08-rc1 released

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

Hi,

Buildroot 2026.08-rc1 is released - Go download it at:

https://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2026.08-rc1.tar.gz

or

https://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2026.08-rc1.tar.xz

Or get it from Git:

https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot.git (2026.08-rc1 tag)

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

A little less activity this cycle, but still more than 800 changes from 88
unique contributors!

Of noteworthy new features/changes we have:

- Architecture: Support for M68K nommu abd IBM Power 10/11 variants

- Toolchain: Support for Linux 7.1.x headers, Binutils 2.46.1, GCC
  16.2.0, now defaults to GCC 15. Glibc 2.44 and uClibc-ng 1.0.59.

- Misc: Infrastructure for packages written in the hare programming
  language. Virtual package for libudev.

- New defconfigs: QEMU PPC64LE Powernv10 / Powernv11

- Removed defconfigs: Acmesystems aria/arietta g25, Avnet S6LX9
  Microboard, Technologic TS-4900 / TS-5500

- New packages: agec, cpp-argparse, drogon, dtui, hare, harec,
  hare-dbus, hare-ev, hare-xml, libcppconnman, liblc3, libudev,
  libudev-zero, perl-cgi, perl-cgi-session, perl-log-message,
  perl-log-message-simple, perl-switch, python-libyang, python-sysv-ipc,
  qbe, qemu-xen, qt6grpc, qt6positioning, scdoc, sdl3, sdl3_gfx,
  sdl3_image, sdl3_ttf, sigsum-c, virglrenderer, wget2

- Removed packages: argparse, ts4900-fpga

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

https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/2026.08-rc1/CHANGES

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -n 2026.05..

   287	Bernd Kuhls
    41	Peter Korsgaard
    35	Fiona Klute
    29	Dario Binacchi
    22	Julien Olivain
    21	Yann E. MORIN
    20	Giulio Benetti
    19	Romain Naour
    19	Thomas Perale
    19	Thomas Petazzoni
    18	Francois Perrad
    18	Waldemar Brodkorb
    17	Neal Frager
    17	Fiona Klute (Othermo GmbH)
    14	Andreas Mohr
    11	Joseph Kogut
    10	Akhilesh Nema
     9	Arnout Vandecappelle
     9	Michael Nosthoff
     9	Shubham Chakraborty
     9	Sébastien Szymanski
     8	Joachim Wiberg
     7	James Hilliard
     6	John Ernberg
     6	Titouan Christophe
     5	Alsey Coleman Miller
     5	Deividas Puplauskas
     5	Manuel Diener
     5	Maxim Kochetkov
     5	Maxime Leroy
     5	Vincent Stehlé
     4	Adam Duskett
     4	Alexander Shirokov
     4	Florian Larysch
     4	Mattia Narducci
     4	Michael Fischer
     4	Nicolas Cavallari
     4	Quentin Schulz
     4	Thomas Devoogdt
     4	Yegor Yefremov
     3	Alexis Lothoré
     3	Jan Havran
     3	Xukai Wang
     2	Andreas Ziegler
     2	Baruch Siach
     2	Dowan Gullient
     2	Franciszek Stachura
     2	Joel Stanley
     2	Jon Henrik Bjørnstad
     2	José Luis Salvador Rufo
     2	Marcin Niestroj
     2	Mattias Walström
     2	Petr Vorel
     2	Scott Fan
     2	Vincent Jardin
     1	Adrian Perez de Castro
     1	Alexander Egorenkov
     1	Andrea Ricchi
     1	Angelo Compagnucci
     1	Bernard Gautier
     1	Chen Pei
     1	Christian Stewart
     1	Christopher Obbard
     1	Daniel Crowe
     1	Daniel Houck
     1	Daniel Palmer
     1	Edgar Bonet
     1	Flaviu Nistor
     1	Frank Vanbever
     1	Fred Lefranc
     1	Jack Rubacha
     1	Jack Wearden
     1	Jan Čermák
     1	Jarkko Sakkinen
     1	Jean-Michel Hautbois
     1	Konstantin Menyaev
     1	Laurent Pinchart
     1	Matthew Weber
     1	Michele Comignano
     1	Pedro Aguilar
     1	Philippe MONTCHO
     1	Raphaël Gallais-Pou
     1	Roy Kollen Svendsen
     1	Sebastian Michel
     1	Sergey Bobrenok
     1	Viacheslav Bocharov

git log --no-merges --grep '(Reviewed|Acked)-by:' -E -i \
  --format="%(trailers:valueonly=true,key=Reviewed-by,key=Acked-by)%-C()" \
  2026.05.. | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

     5 Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
      4 Vincent Jardin <vjardin@free.fr>
      3 Fiona Klute <fiona.klute@gmx.de>
      2 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
      2 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
      2 Laurentiu Mihalcea <laurentiu.mihalcea@nxp.com>
      2 Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@rnout.be>
      1 TIAN Yuanhao <tianyuanhao3@163.com>
      1 Thomas Perale <thomas.perale@mind.be>
      1 Neal Frager <neal.frager@amd.com>
      1 Maxim Kochetkov <fido_max@inbox.ru>
      1 Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
      1 Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
      1 Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>

We will now create a next branch and start merging new features for
2026.11 already in parallel with the 2026.08 stabilization.

Expect the final 2026.08 release around the end of the month / beginning
of September.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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