[Buildroot] Buildroot 2026.08 released

[Peter Korsgaard]

Hi,

Buildroot 2026.08 is released - Go download it at:

https://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2026.08.tar.gz

or

https://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2026.08.tar.xz

Or get it from Git:

https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot.git (2026.08 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 close to 1000 changes from
100 unique contributors. I'm once again very happy to see so many "new"
people next to the "oldtimers".

Of noteworthy new features/changes we have:

- Architecture: Support for M68K nommu abd IBM Power 10/11 variants

- Toolchain: Support for Linux 7.1.x headers, Binutils 2.46.1, GCC
  16.2.0, now defaults to GCC 15. Glibc 2.44 and uClibc-ng 1.0.59.

- Misc: Infrastructure for packages written in the hare programming
  language. Virtual package for libudev.

- New defconfigs: QEMU PPC64LE Powernv10 / Powernv11

- Removed defconfigs: Acmesystems aria/arietta g25, Avnet S6LX9
  Microboard, Technologic TS-4900 / TS-5500

- New packages: agec, cpp-argparse, drogon, dtui, hare, harec,
  hare-dbus, hare-ev, hare-xml, libcppconnman, liblc3, libudev,
  libudev-zero, perl-cgi, perl-cgi-session, perl-log-message,
  perl-log-message-simple, perl-switch, python-libyang, python-sysv-ipc,
  qbe, qemu-xen, qt6grpc, qt6positioning, scdoc, sdl3, sdl3_gfx,
  sdl3_image, sdl3_ttf, sigsum-c, virglrenderer, wget2

- Removed packages: argparse, ts4900-fpga

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

https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/2026.08/CHANGES

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -n 2026.05..

   315	Bernd Kuhls
    48	Peter Korsgaard
    43	Thomas Petazzoni
    37	Fiona Klute
    32	Julien Olivain
    31	Dario Binacchi
    31	Romain Naour
    26	Thomas Perale
    23	Giulio Benetti
    23	Yann E. MORIN
    21	Waldemar Brodkorb
    19	Neal Frager
    18	Fiona Klute (Othermo GmbH)
    18	Francois Perrad
    14	Andreas Mohr
    13	Arnout Vandecappelle
    11	Joseph Kogut
    10	Akhilesh Nema
    10	Sébastien Szymanski
     9	Michael Nosthoff
     9	Shubham Chakraborty
     8	Joachim Wiberg
     8	Stefan Müller
     8	Titouan Christophe
     7	James Hilliard
     6	John Ernberg
     6	Thomas Devoogdt
     5	Alexis Lothoré
     5	Alsey Coleman Miller
     5	Deividas Puplauskas
     5	Manuel Diener
     5	Maxim Kochetkov
     5	Maxime Leroy
     5	Vincent Stehlé
     4	Adam Duskett
     4	Alexander Shirokov
     4	Florian Larysch
     4	Mattia Narducci
     4	Michael Fischer
     4	Nicolas Cavallari
     4	Quentin Schulz
     4	Yegor Yefremov
     3	Andreas Ziegler
     3	Jan Havran
     3	Robert P. J. Day
     3	Xukai Wang
     2	Alexis Lothoré via buildroot
     2	Baruch Siach
     2	Christopher Obbard
     2	Edgar Bonet
     2	Franciszek Stachura
     2	Joel Stanley
     2	Jon Henrik Bjørnstad
     2	José Luis Salvador Rufo
     2	Marcin Niestroj
     2	Mattias Walström
     2	Petr Vorel
     2	Philippe MONTCHO
     2	Scott Fan
     2	Vincent Jardin
     1	Adam Ford
     1	Adrian Perez de Castro
     1	Alessandro Rubini
     1	Alexander Egorenkov
     1	Andrea Ricchi
     1	Angelo Compagnucci
     1	Benjamin DeCamp
     1	Bernard Gautier
     1	Chen Pei
     1	Christian Stewart
     1	Daniel Crowe
     1	Daniel Houck
     1	Daniel Palmer
     1	Dowan Gullient
     1	Dowan Gullient via buildroot
     1	Fengwei Tan
     1	Fiona Klute (othermo GmbH)
     1	Flaviu Nistor
     1	Frank Vanbever
     1	Fred Lefranc
     1	Jack Rubacha
     1	Jack Wearden
     1	Jan Čermák
     1	Jarkko Sakkinen
     1	Jean-Michel Hautbois
     1	Jimmy Durand Wesolowski
     1	Konstantin Menyaev
     1	Laurent Pinchart
     1	Luca Ceresoli
     1	Matthew Weber
     1	Michele Comignano
     1	Neal Frager via buildroot
     1	Pedro Aguilar
     1	Raphaël Gallais-Pou
     1	Roy Kollen Svendsen
     1	Sebastian Michel
     1	Sergey Bobrenok
     1	Thomas Perale via buildroot
     1	Titouan Christophe via buildroot
     1	Viacheslav Bocharov

And a special thanks to our patch reviewers (we need more!):

git log --no-merges --grep '(Reviewed|Acked)-by:' -E -i \
  --format="%(trailers:valueonly=true,key=Reviewed-by,key=Acked-by)%-C()" \
  2026.05.. | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

      5 Romain Naour <romain.naour at smile.fr>
      4 Vincent Jardin <vjardin at free.fr>
      3 Fiona Klute <fiona.klute at gmx.de>
      2 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
      2 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel at gmail.com>
      2 Laurentiu Mihalcea <laurentiu.mihalcea at nxp.com>
      1 TIAN Yuanhao <tianyuanhao3 at 163.com>
      1 Thomas Perale <thomas.perale at mind.be>
      1 Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz at cherry.de>
      1 Neal Frager <neal.frager at amd.com>
      1 Maxim Kochetkov <fido_max at inbox.ru>
      1 Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com>
      1 Joachim Wiberg <troglobit at gmail.com>
      1 Arnout Vanecappelle <arnout at rnout.be>
      1 Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at rnout.be>
      1 Alistair Francis <alistair.francis at wdc.com>
      1 Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez at igalia.com>

The next release will be 2026.11. Expect the first release candidate at
the beginning of November and the final release at the end of the month.

This release will be supported with security and other important fixes
until 2026.11.1 is out. For longer support consider the 2025.02.x LTS
series instead (supported until March 2028) - And consider becoming a
sponsor:

https://buildroot.org/sponsors.html

There is a Buildroot Developers Meeting organized in Prague after the
Embedded Linux Conference Europe. In case you are interested in
attending, have a look at the wiki page at:

https://elinux.org/Buildroot:DeveloperDaysELCE2026

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard