[Buildroot] Buildroot 2021.08-rc1 released

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

Buildroot 2021.08-rc1 is released - Go download it at:

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2021.08-rc1.tar.gz

or

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2021.08-rc1.tar.bz2

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.

We've had 1031 commits from 103 contributors, which is pretty much
standard for Buildroot release cycles.

Of noteworthy new features/changes we have:

	Toolchain:

        - add support for gcc 11.x, gcc 10.x is now the default, gcc
	  9.x updated to 9.4.0, removed gcc 8.x support except for
	  PowerPC SPE

	- add support for binutils 2.37, binutils 2.36.x is now the
          default, binutils 2.34 removed.

	- glibc updated to 2.33

        - gdb enabled on NIOS II, gdbserver enabled on RISC-V.

	Bootloaders/firmware: support for building the EDK II UEFI
	firmware, support for building AT91Bootstrap 4.x.

	New BR2_ENABLE_RUNTIME_DEBUG option, that controls whether
	packages should be compiled with runtime debugging
	information (which is different than debugging symbols).

	Many features of the bluez5_utils package have been made
	optional, and default to disabled. Users of bluez5_utils are
	encouraged to review their configuration.

	Many packages (over 70) updated to enable the appropriate
	SELinux refpolicy module when SELinux support is enabled.

	Many packages updated to select the appropriate OpenSSL
	features after many OpenSSL ciphers/features have been made
	optional.

	New defconfigs: kontron_pitx_imx8m, microchip_sama5d2_icp,
	qemu_aarch64_sbsa, raspberrypicm4io, raspberrypicm4io_64,
	terasic_de10nano_cyclone5, uevm5432.

	New packages: alsa-plugins, apg, bmap-tools, daq3, edk2,
	edk2-platforms, gumbo-parser, libbpf, libosmium, libpsl,
	libqb, libtalloc, libvirt, lua-linux, lua-zlib, mupdf,
	opencv4, osm2pgsql, poke, python-augeas, python-dbus-next,
	python-pymupdf, rtl_433, rtl8812au-aircrack-ng, seatd, snort3,
	system-config-printer, usbguard, xml-security-c, xmrig.

	Removed packages: clapack, libsoil.

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

http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2021.05-rc1

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -n 2021.05..

   334  Fabrice Fontaine
   102  Bernd Kuhls
    46  Francois Perrad
    40  Adam Duskett
    39  Thomas Petazzoni
    37  James Hilliard
    34  Peter Seiderer
    30  Adrian Perez de Castro
    23  Thomas De Schampheleire
    21  Michael Nosthoff
    21  Romain Naour
    19  Sergey Matyukevich
    19  Yann E. MORIN
    14  Baruch Siach
    12  Peter Korsgaard
    12  Petr Vorel
    11  Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
    11  Giulio Benetti
    10  Pierre-Jean Texier
     9  Gwenhael Goavec-Merou
     9  Maxim Kochetkov
     7  Christian Stewart
     7  Drew Fustini
     7  Fabio Estevam
     7  Herve Codina
     6  Dick Olsson
     6  Raphaël Mélotte
     5  Bartosz Bilas
     5  Etienne Carriere
     5  Jörg Krause
     5  Marcin Niestroj
     4  Andy Shevchenko
     4  Heiko Thiery
     4  Michael Fischer
     3  Alexander Egorenkov
     3  André Zwing
     3  Eugen Hristev
     3  Gleb Mazovetskiy
     3  Jared Bents
     3  Jianhui Zhao
     3  John Keeping
     3  Michael Walle
     3  Norbert Lange
     3  Ryan Barnett
     3  Titouan Christophe
     3  Vincent Stehlé
     2  Asaf Kahlon
     2  Chris Packham
     2  Daniil Stas
     2  Gao Xiang
     2  Geoff Levand
     2  Grzegorz Blach
     2  Kamel Bouhara
     2  Kory Maincent
     2  Mircea GLIGA
     2  Nicolas Carrier
     2  Scott Fan
     2  Sébastien Szymanski
     2  Yegor Yefremov
     1  Aleksander Morgado
     1  Alexander Mukhin
     1  Alexey Neyman
     1  Andreas Hilse
     1  Andreas Naumann
     1  Andreas Ziegler
     1  Bernhard Petschina
     1  Bilal Wasim
     1  Bruno Marie
     1  Charles Hardin
     1  Chris Simons
     1  Christophe Priouzeau
     1  Corentin Labbe
     1  Dario Binacchi
     1  David GOUARIN
     1  Edgar Bonet
     1  Erico Nunes
     1  Frank Hunleth
     1  GAUTRON, Erwan
     1  Hubert Lacote
     1  Ignacy Gawędzki
     1  Joachim Wiberg
     1  Joel Stanley
     1  Joseph Burt
     1  José Luis Salvador Rufo
     1  José Pekkarinen
     1  Jugurtha BELKALEM
     1  Julien Olivain
     1  Leonid Yuriev
     1  Marcus Folkesson
     1  Markus Mayer
     1  Martin Elshuber
     1  Miquel Raynal
     1  Mirza Kapetanovic
     1  Nathaniel Husted
     1  Nicola Di Lieto
     1  Nicolas Cavallari
     1  Olivier Dautricourt
     1  Ryota Kinukawa
     1  Urja Rannikko
     1  Vincent Fazio
     1  Xiaobing Luo
     1  Yair Ben-Avraham
     1  Zach Vargas

git log 2021.05.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | \
    sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r

      9 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
      8 Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
      8 Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
      7 Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
      6 Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
      5 Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
      5 Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
      5 Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez@igalia.com>
      4 Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>
      3 Pierre-Jean Texier <texier.pj2@gmail.com>
      3 Matthew Weber <matthew.weber@collins.com>
      2 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
      2 Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
      2 Michael Nosthoff <buildroot@heine.tech>
      2 Alexander Dahl <post@lespocky.de>
      1 Timo Ketola <timo.ketola@exertus.fi>
      1 Sergey Matyukevich <geomatsi@gmail.com>
      1 Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
      1 Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
      1 Maxim Kochetkov <fido_max@inbox.ru>
      1 "Matthew Weber" <Matthew.Weber@collins.com>
      1 Laurent Cans <laurent.cans@gmail.com>
      1 Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
      1 Christophe Priouzeau <christophe.priouzeau@foss.st.com>
      1 Christian Stewart <christian@paral.in>
      1 Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
      1 Aleksander Morgado <aleksander@aleksander.es>

We have now created a "next" branch in which new features will be
merged for the 2021.11 release. In parallel to that, 2021.08 will
continue to stabilize throughout the month of August in the "master"
branch, until a final release at the end of this month.

Best regards,

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