[Buildroot] Buildroot 2025.08-rc1 released

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

Hi,

Buildroot 2025.08-rc1 is released - Go download it at:

https://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2025.08-rc1.tar.gz

or

https://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2025.08-rc1.tar.xz

Or get it from Git:

https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot.git (2025.08-rc1 tag)

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

Again a somewhat smaller cycle with with a bit more than 700 changes
from 82 unique contributors!

Of noteworthy new features/changes we have:

New defconfigs: BeagleY-AI, CoolPI 4B, Freescale i.MX91 freedom,
LoongArch64 EFI, QEMU LoongArch64 Virt, Raspberrypi Compute Module 5 I/O

New packages: containers-image-config, distribution-registry,
llvm-runtimes, lua-lrexlib-pcre2, msgpack-c, opencl-headers,
opencl-icd-loader, pocketpy, python-apscheduler, python-crc,
python-log-rate-limit, python-sdbus-modemmanager, soapy-sdr, vulkan-sdk

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

https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/2025.08-rc1/CHANGES

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -n 2025.05..

   144	Bernd Kuhls
    48	Thomas Perale
    44	Neal Frager
    35	Giulio Benetti
    32	Marcus Hoffmann
    29	Yann E. MORIN
    28	Titouan Christophe
    27	Julien Olivain
    25	Kadambini Nema
    24	James Hilliard
    24	Peter Korsgaard
    16	Thomas Petazzoni
    15	Dario Binacchi
    14	Jiaxun Yang
    13	El Mehdi YOUNES
    13	Fiona Klute (WIWA)
    11	Florian Larysch
    10	Raphaël Mélotte
    10	Yegor Yefremov
     8	Francois Perrad
     8	Peter Seiderer
     7	Marcin Niestroj
     7	Tim Soubry
     6	Adrian Perez de Castro
     6	Gwenhael Goavec-Merou
     6	Scott Fan
     4	Alex Bennée
     4	Fabien Lehoussel
     4	Fiona Klute
     4	Heiko Thiery
     4	Maxime Chevallier
     4	Petr Vorel
     4	Romain Naour
     4	Vincent Stehlé
     3	Adam Duskett
     3	Angelo Compagnucci
     3	Edgar Bonet
     3	Flávio Tapajós
     3	James Knight
     3	Jesse Taube
     3	Maxime Leroy
     3	Michael Nosthoff
     3	Thomas Claveirole
     3	Thomas Devoogdt
     2	Andreas Ziegler
     2	Arnout Vandecappelle
     2	Benoît Monin
     2	Federico Pellegrin
     2	Michael Fischer
     2	Nathaniel Roach
     2	Quentin Schulz
     2	Thomas Bonnefille
     1	Aaron Sierra
     1	Alexis Lothoré
     1	Amer Alshanawany
     1	Andy Yan
     1	Bagas Sanjaya
     1	Baruch Siach
     1	Bram Oosterhuis
     1	Brandon Maier
     1	Colin Foster
     1	Daniel Lang
     1	Florian Fainelli
     1	Fred Lefranc
     1	Gaël PORTAY
     1	Gero Schwäricke
     1	Joseph Kogut
     1	José Luis Salvador Rufo
     1	Juan Pablo Montero Castro
     1	Kanak Shilledar
     1	Lance Fredrickson
     1	Markus Mayer
     1	Martin Elshuber
     1	Matt Silva
     1	Michael Trimarchi
     1	Serosh Deljam
     1	Stefan Nickl
     1	Stephan Henningsen
     1	Thomas Huth
     1	Torben Voltmer
     1	Vladimir Kondratiev
     1	Waldemar Brodkorb

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()" \
  2025.05.. | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

     14 Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
     11 Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
      7 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
      3 Maxim Kochetkov <fido_max@inbox.ru>
      3 Bryan Brattlof <bb@ti.com>
      2 Marcus Hoffmann <buildroot@bubu1.eu>
      2 Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
      2 Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
      2 Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
      1 Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin@orange.com>
      1 Thomas Huth <huth@tuxfamily.org>
      1 Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
      1 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
      1 Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
      1 Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
      1 J. Neuschäfer <j.ne@posteo.net>
      1 Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
      1 Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@micronovasrl.com>
      1 El Mehdi YOUNES <elmehdi.younes@smile.fr>
      1 Boerge Struempfel <boerge.struempfel@gmail.com>
      1 Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>

We will now create a next branch and start merging new features for
2025.11 already in parallel with the 2025.08 stabilization.

Expect the final 2025.08 release around the end of the month / beginning
of September.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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