[ANN] U-Boot v2026.04 released

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

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Hey all,

It's time for the full release, and so here we are. I've tagged and
pushed everything out. This is another release that feels like it's just
good stable iterative progress on that last. The big change here is that
we resynced out libfdt code and finally device trees must really be
properly aligned. I am optimistic we have caught all the cases where
this was not true. But if you upgrade from v2026.01 and suddenly fail to
boot with little output, this is a very likely culprit.

We're continuing with a community meeting following the release and the
calendar link is
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MHYzYzQ1dWh2bnRjcm80czVmcDczYmhsNThfMjAyNjAxMjdUMTUwMDAwWiA4OWJlN2I4MTMxMzZiZWMwNmE4M2RlNGRhNTk3NDVmMGFiZDExYzFiODM2MDYxYWUwNmMxYzdkYmNkMThkZjQxQGc&tmsrc=89be7b813136bec06a83de4da59745f0abd11c1b836061ae06c1c7dbcd18df41%40group.calendar.google.com&scp=ALL
and once again this is the same time as the previous meeting. The
meeting details itself are:
https://meet.google.com/icv-nvmv-dbf
April 7th, 2025. 9am (GMT -06:00)

To join by phone:
https://tel.meet/icv-nvmv-dbf?pin=5493171900556

Condensing the changelog from the -rcs themselves:
- Our dts/upstream trees are synced to the v6.18-dts tag.
- As mentioned above, we've re-synced the libfdt code and now enforce
  and require proper 8-byte alignment for the start of the device tree.
- Lots and lots of platform updates. Rather than call out what seems
  like most modern SoCs, I'll let custodians reply if there's anything
  specific they want to emphasize.
- A number of bugfixes for problems found by Smatch and Coverity Scan.
- We now support clang-format and prefer that over the old
  scripts/Lindent option for formatting code.
- Numerous documentation updates.
- Many subsystems have also had a number of updates, and I'll again
  leave it to the custodians to point out anything they'd like to here.
- We now have "allyesconfig" supported in CI. This isn't quite how the
  Linux Kernel works (we do not assume 0 is a valid value for hex/int
  questions, by default) but it's catching more issues now that weren't
  before.

The merge window is now open, I'll be merging next to master shortly,
and we'll have our usual bi-weekly releases after -rc1 comes out in 3
weeks with the final release being on 06 July 2026.

Thanks all!

-- 
Tom

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