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[94.140.185.241]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-47f85c7880dsm49112101f8f.37.2026.07.27.05.55.10 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:55:10 -0700 (PDT) To: buildroot@buildroot.org Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:55:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20260727125510.381611-1-thomas.perale@mind.be> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.55.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailman-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mind.be; s=google; t=1785156911; x=1785761711; darn=buildroot.org; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:message-id:date:subject:cc :to:from:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to:content-type; bh=Nwjs7FbfrLorukxAZiEjquZvm9O5Sfpi994W1DgJs7U=; b=F+5IQ2S06vkEghh+nQKk7/NTo7t7WxMrxtxKaCgy9XHOGt0mYobkiBzcDV4+2AFIUH +PbzHQfm3rwxvbtv3yVHJfxcG0Hoo7zENGIorh286UReuRqfw/+D2yNF2MaizhoKhT09 fJ/1hUsmHtkXCztPG1LCBEP42zEh1I6na9gAZx6oxIlYteeW4shH54M0y/31zFRa+OhS 8mgN8NnmD/sebHegVz3/EdnJ/2i14/LNPeSLUzBHoFpmECQceg5nKStq5YOwli5D0Lsi X7bmyIBfG7vkXCFA3xE+BHFFSNd8zETddokfG1oC2W/aOnIjEny2zChWovhKkrSYnfYC UCZg== X-Mailman-Original-Authentication-Results: smtp4.osuosl.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=mind.be X-Mailman-Original-Authentication-Results: smtp4.osuosl.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=mind.be header.i=@mind.be header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=google header.b=F+5IQ2S0 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] docs/manual: update 'releases' to reflect LTS changes X-BeenThere: buildroot@buildroot.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion and development of buildroot List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Thomas Perale via buildroot Reply-To: Thomas Perale Cc: Titouan Christophe , Fiona Klute , Edgar Bonet Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: buildroot-bounces@buildroot.org Sender: "buildroot" With the release of 2025.02, LTS releases are now made every two years with a 3-year support. This reflect the table showed at https://lts.buildroot.org/#releases. Signed-off-by: Thomas Perale --- docs/manual/release-engineering.adoc | 22 ++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/manual/release-engineering.adoc b/docs/manual/release-engineering.adoc index 0cf38183f9..ca64bd18b3 100644 --- a/docs/manual/release-engineering.adoc +++ b/docs/manual/release-engineering.adoc @@ -5,19 +5,21 @@ == Release Engineering === Releases -The Buildroot project makes quarterly releases with monthly bugfix -releases. The first release of each year is a long term support -release, LTS. +The Buildroot project makes quarterly releases with monthly bugfix releases. +Starting with 2025.02, the first release of every odd-numbered year is a long-term +support (LTS) release supported for three years. - - Quarterly releases: 2020.02, 2020.05, 2020.08, and 2020.11 - - Bugfix releases: 2020.02.1, 2020.02.2, ... - - LTS releases: 2020.02, 2021.02, ... + - LTS releases: 2025.02, 2027.02, 2029.02 ... + - Stable releases: 2025.05, 2025.08, 2025.11, 2026.02, ... + - Bugfix releases: 2025.02.1, 2025.02.2, ... -Releases are supported until the first bugfix release of the next -release, e.g., 2020.05.x is EOL when 2020.08.1 is released. +LTS releases are supported for three years, with a one-year overlap with the +next LTS release, e.g., 2025.02.x is EOL when 2028.02 is released. -LTS releases are supported until the first bugfix release of the next -LTS, e.g., 2020.02.x is supported until 2021.02.1 is released. +Stable releases are supported until the next release, e.g., 2025.05.x is EOL +when 2025.08 is released. + +See the table at https://lts.buildroot.org/#releases[lts.buildroot.org]. === Development -- 2.55.0 _______________________________________________ buildroot mailing list buildroot@buildroot.org https://lists.buildroot.org/mailman/listinfo/buildroot