[Buildroot] Buildroot 2026.05-rc1 released

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

Hi,

Buildroot 2026.05-rc1 is released - Go download it at:

https://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2026.05-rc1.tar.gz

or

https://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2026.05-rc1.tar.xz

Or get it from Git:

https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot.git (2026.05-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 almosgt 900 changes from 72
unique contributors!

Of noteworthy new features/changes we have:

- Architecture: ARM Neoverse-V1/V2/V3/V3AE cores added, default x86 CPU
  variant is now i686 (from i586)

- Toolchain: Support for Linux 7.0.x headers, ARM external toolchains
  bumped to 15.2.rel1

- Filesystem: Support for XFS rootfs generation.

- Misc: generate-cyclonedx now adds source attribute to known CVEs for
  better compatibility with Dependency-Track.

- New defconfigs: AMD Versal VPK120, TI j721e starter kit (TDA4VM-SK)

- New packages: cxxopts, drm-info, ftxui, go-bootstrap-stage5,
  iniparser, libnss-ato, libzippp, ndctl, opendoas, python-cloudpickle,
  python-deprecation, python-farama-notifications, python-gymnasium,
  python-humanfriendly, python-isodate, python-transitions, sbctl,
  ugetty, zix

- Removed packages: cegui, openswan, pcre, rubix, snort, spinxbase

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

https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/2026.05-rc1/CHANGES

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -n 2026.02..

   490	Bernd Kuhls
    42	Julien Olivain
    37	Giulio Benetti
    24	Fiona Klute
    20	dowan gullient
    18	Shubham Chakraborty
    16	Dario Binacchi
    16	Marcus Hoffmann
    16	Peter Korsgaard
    16	Yann E. MORIN
    15	Francois Perrad
    15	Thomas Perale
    11	Titouan Christophe
    10	Manuel Diener
    10	Neal Frager
     8	Adrian Perez de Castro
     8	James Hilliard
     8	Michael Nosthoff
     8	Romain Naour
     6	Dowan Gullient
     6	Xukai Wang
     5	Alexander Shirokov
     5	Arnout Vandecappelle
     5	Waldemar Brodkorb
     4	Chen Pei
     4	Mattias Walström
     4	Vincent Cruz
     4	Vincent Stehlé
     3	Andreas Ziegler
     3	Joseph Kogut
     3	Michael Walle
     2	Alexandre Ondet
     2	Alexis Lothoré
     2	Christian Stewart
     2	Dong Wang
     2	Fabien Lehoussel
     2	Flaviu Nistor
     2	Florian Larysch
     2	Franciszek Stachura
     2	Gary Bisson
     2	Petr Vorel
     2	Raphael Pavlidis
     2	Sofiane HAMAM
     2	Thomas Devoogdt
     2	Yegor Yefremov
     1	Andrea Ricchi
     1	Daniel Brát
     1	Daniel Crowe
     1	Daniel Houck
     1	Edgar Bonet
     1	Eugen Hristev
     1	François Perrad
     1	Gilles Talis
     1	Gwenhael Goavec-Merou
     1	Hendrik De Vloed
     1	Jan Čermák
     1	Javad Rahimipetroudi
     1	Jon Henrik Bjørnstad
     1	José Luis Salvador Rufo
     1	Kory Maincent
     1	Luca Ceresoli
     1	Mariusz Bialonczyk
     1	Martin Kepplinger-Novaković
     1	Matéo Pourrier
     1	Maxin John
     1	Mika Westerberg
     1	Nicola Di Lieto
     1	Nicolas Serafini
     1	Pedro Aguilar
     1	Roberto Medina
     1	Scott Fan
     1	Thomas Richard

git log --no-merges --grep '(Reviewed|Acked)-by:' -E -i \
  --format="%(trailers:valueonly=true,key=Reviewed-by,key=Acked-by)%-C()" \
  2026.02.. | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

      4 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
      4 Maxim Kochetkov <fido_max@inbox.ru>
      3 Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
      3 Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez@igalia.com>
      2 Thomas Perale <thomas.perale@mind.be>
      2 Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
      1 Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
      1 Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
      1 Fiona Klute <fiona.klute@gmx.de>
      1 Christian Stewart <christian@aperture.us>
      1 Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com>

We will now create a next branch and start merging new features for
2026.08 already in parallel with the 2026.05 stabilization.

Expect the final 2026.05 release around the end of the month / beginning
of June.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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