[Buildroot] Buildroot 2023.11 released

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

Hi,

Buildroot 2023.11 is released - Go download it at:

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2023.11.tar.gz

or

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2023.11.tar.xz

Or get it from Git:

git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot (2023.11 tag)

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

Again a quite active development cycle with close to 1300 changes all
over the tree and 122 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:

Toolchain:

- Support for GDB 13.2, make GDB 12.x the default

- Glibc bumped to 2.38

- Bootlin external toolchains updated to 2023.08, bringing
  support for Aarch64 BE with musl.

- Motorola 68K w/MMU support added for glibc and musl.

- License info added for GCC

Infrastructure:

- The CMake infrastructure now supports building packages with
  ninja instead of make (based on <pkg>_CMAKE_BACKEND).

- The RPATH fixup done at the end of the build is now done in
  parallel (according to BR2_JLEVEL).

- Packages downloaded from Subversion repos no longer
  retrieves svn:externals unless <pkg>_SVN_EXTERNALS is set to
  YES.

- Packages where a free-form version/site can be specified
  (E.G. Linux, U-Boot, ..) can now have the corresponding
  tarballs of these custom downloads checked by the download
  infrastructure based on .hash files in the global patch
  directory. These hashes are optional unless
  BR2_DOWNLOAD_FORCE_CHECK_HASHES is enabled.

  A utils/add-custom-hashes helper script has been added to
  assist in managing such hash files.

- Various improvements to utils/docker-run to handle external
  (BR2_DL_DIR defined in environment) download directory,
  proxy configuration, SELinux and out of tree (O=) builds.

- New defconfigs: AMD Zynq ZC702, ASUS Tinker-s rk3288, ICnova
  A20-adb4006, Khadas vim3, Libre Computer ROC-RK3399-PC, Microchip
  PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit, NXP imxrt1050-evk, Pine64 pinecube, Sipeed
  LicheePi Nano, Synopsys ARC700 nSIM, TI SK-AM62 and TI SK-AM64

- New packages: ti-k3-boot-firmware, ti-k3-image-gen, amlogic-boot-fip,
  criu, cutekeyboard, depot-tools, fft-eval, firewalld, flutter-engine,
  flutter-gallery, flutter-pi, flutter-sdk-bin, ledmon, libcanberra,
  libnvme, libsoup3, libspdm, libucontext, libzenoh-pico,
  microchip-hss-payload-generator, nodejs-bin, nushell,
  nvidia-persistenced, oatpp, onevpl-intel-gpu, onevpl, python-calver,
  python-distlib, python-jeepney, python-jsonschema-specifications,
  python-kmod, python-pysensors, python-referencing, python-segno,
  python-tftpy, python-trove-classifiers, python-types-python-dateutil,
  python-versioneer, qoriq-fm-ucode, qt6core5compat,
  rauc-hawkbit-updater, rust-bindgen, spirv-headers, spirv-tools,
  vulkan-loader, vulkan-tools

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

http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2023.11

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -n 2023.08..

   246	Fabrice Fontaine
   160	Bernd Kuhls
   125	James Hilliard
    94	Adam Duskett
    71	Peter Korsgaard
    54	Yann E. MORIN
    48	Francois Perrad
    46	Thomas Petazzoni
    45	Julien Olivain
    38	Giulio Benetti
    21	Daniel Lang
    18	Thomas Devoogdt
    18	Waldemar Brodkorb
    14	Christian Stewart
    12	Romain Naour
    11	Marcin Niestroj
    10	Brandon Maier
     8	Jamie Gibbons
     8	Jens Maus
     7	Adrian Perez de Castro
     7	Angelo Compagnucci
     7	Marcus Folkesson
     7	Maxim Kochetkov
     7	Neal Frager
     6	Arnout Vandecappelle
     6	Joachim Wiberg
     6	Reza Arbab
     6	Stefan Agner
     5	Chris Dimich
     5	Etienne Carriere
     5	Javad Rahimi
     5	Michael Nosthoff
     5	Sebastian Weyer
     5	Stefan Nickl
     4	Dario Binacchi
     4	Gaël PORTAY
     4	Titouan Christophe
     4	Zoltan Gyarmati
     3	Alexander Egorenkov
     3	Alistair Francis
     3	Baruch Siach
     3	Bin Meng
     3	José Luis Salvador Rufo
     3	Michael Fischer
     3	Nicolas Cavallari
     3	Norbert Lange
     3	Peter Seiderer
     3	Roberto Medina
     3	Sergey Bobrenok
     3	Sébastien Szymanski
     3	Takumi Takahashi
     3	Thomas Claveirole
     3	Xuanhao Shi
     3	Yu Chien Peter Lin
     2	Alexander Dahl
     2	Andreas Dannenberg
     2	Bagas Sanjaya
     2	Chris Packham
     2	Colin Foster
     2	David Johnson
     2	Francis Laniel
     2	Francois Dugast
     2	James Knight
     2	Jan Havran
     2	Jesse Taube
     2	Kalpesh Panchal
     2	Kory Maincent
     2	Michel Alex
     2	Neal J. Buchmeyer
     2	Oleg Lyovin
     2	Paul Cercueil
     2	Saeed Kazemi
     2	Sergey Matyukevich
     2	TIAN Yuanhao
     2	Woodrow Douglass
     2	Yanghao Cheng
     1	Alessandro Partesotti
     1	Alexey Romanov
     1	Alisa Volk
     1	Andreas Ziegler
     1	Andrew Donnellan
     1	Antoine Coutant
     1	Ben Dooks
     1	Ben Wolsieffer
     1	Carlos Santos
     1	Charles Hardin
     1	Charlie LEGER
     1	Christian Hitz
     1	Clement Ramirez
     1	Damien Le Moal
     1	Fabien Thomas
     1	Fabio Estevam
     1	Florian Fainelli
     1	Flávio Tapajós
     1	Frager, Neal
     1	Frank Hunleth
     1	Gleb Mazovetskiy
     1	Grzegorz Szymaszek
     1	Herve Codina
     1	Hmaied Ben Abdellatif
     1	Ismael Luceno
     1	Jan Čermák
     1	Julien BOIBESSOT
     1	Laurent Vivier
     1	Ludwig Kormann
     1	Maksim Kiselev
     1	Markus Mayer
     1	Martin Böh
     1	Michael Vetter
     1	Nicola Di Lieto
     1	Nicolas Boichat
     1	Niklas Cassel
     1	Pedro Aguilar
     1	Petr Vorel
     1	Raphael Pavlidis
     1	Ricardo Martincoski
     1	Tomi Valkeinen
     1	Viacheslav Bocharov
     1	Victor Dumas
     1	Vincent Stehlé
     1	Witold Lipieta
     1	Леонид Юрьев (Leonid Yuriev)

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

git log 2023.08.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | \
    sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r

      5 Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
      4 Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
      4 Christian Stewart <christian@aperture.us>
      3 Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
      3 Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
      2 Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
      2 Thomas Devoogdt <thomas@devoogdt.com>
      2 Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
      2 Norbert Lange <nolange79@gmail.com>
      2 Maxim Kochetkov <fido_max@inbox.ru>
      2 Marcus Hoffmann <marcus.hoffmann@othermo.de>
      2 Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
      2 Andrew Davis <afd@ti.com>
      2 Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
      1 Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
      1 Valentina Fernandez <valentina.fernandezalanis@microchip.com>
      1 Sébastien Szymanski <sebastien.szymanski@armadeus.com>
      1 Marcin Niestroj <m.niestroj@grinn-global.com>
      1 Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
      1 Kilian Zinnecker <kilian.zinnecker@mail.de>
      1 John Keeping <john@metanate.com>
      1 Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@micronovasrl.com>
      1 Daniel Lang <dalang@gmx.at>
      1 Charles Hardin <ckhardin@gmail.com>
      1 Andrea Ricchi <andrea.ricchi@amarulasolutions.com>

The next release will be 2024.02, which will become the next long term
support release. 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 2024.02 is out.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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