[Buildroot] Buildroot 2023.08-rc1 released

[Buildroot] Buildroot 2023.08-rc1 released

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot]

Hello,

Buildroot 2023.08-rc1 is released - Go download it at:

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2023.08-rc1.tar.gz

or

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2023.08-rc1.tar.xz

Or get it from Git:

https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot.git

Please give it a spin and report any problems to the mailing list or
bug tracker.

This cycle was slightly more busy than the previous one, with 765
changes from 87 contributors, but still less busy/active than most of
previous Buildroot releases.

Of noteworthy new features/changes we have:

- Toolchain:
 - Toolchains from ARM (for ARM, AArch64 and AArch64 BE)
   updated to 12.2.
 - Support for binutils 2.40 and 2.41 added, binutils 2.37 and
   2.38 removed, binutils 2.40 is now the default
 - Support for gcc 13 added, gcc 10 removed, gcc 12 is now the
   default

- Architectures:
 - Additional x86-64 variants added
 - RISC-V vector extension support added

- Infrastructure:
 - Go now built in 3 stages to be able to update to Go 1.20.x.

- New defconfigs: rock5b

- Removed defconfigs: qemu_sparc_ss10

- New packages: composer, conmon, dfu-programmer, esp-hosted,
  kodi-imagedecoder-heif, kodi-imagedecoder-raw, libde2654,
  libdisplay-info, libheif, llvm-cmake, llvm-libunwind,
  lua-dkjson, mbpoll, mdnsd, mhz, opencsd, python-libconf,
  python-blinker, python-midiutil, python-rdps-py, python-wheel,
  qt6svg, redis-plus-plus, rockchip-rkbin, rtl8822cs, swaybg,
  swugenerator

- Removed packages: libasplib, ocf-linux, tovid

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

https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/2023.08-rc1/CHANGES

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -n 2023.05..

   320	Bernd Kuhls
    60	James Hilliard
    50	Romain Naour
    41	Julien Olivain
    26	Francois Perrad
    22	Peter Korsgaard
    21	Thomas Petazzoni
    16	Christian Stewart
    15	Giulio Benetti
    15	Peter Seiderer
    11	Lang Daniel
     9	Marcin Niestroj
     8	Dario Binacchi
     7	Bin Meng
     7	Joachim Wiberg
     7	Neal Frager
     6	Grzegorz Blach
     6	Vincent Fazio
     5	Charles Hardin
     5	Guillaume W. Bres
     5	Thomas Devoogdt
     4	Gary Bisson
     3	André Zwing
     3	Danny Wood
     3	Fabio Estevam
     3	Kilian Zinnecker
     3	Luca Ceresoli
     3	Maxim Kochetkov
     3	Nicolas Carrier
     3	Yann E. MORIN
     2	Arnout Vandecappelle
     2	Brandon Maier
     2	Daniel Lang
     2	Gwenhael Goavec-Merou
     2	Heiko Thiery
     2	Ignacy Gawędzki
     2	José Luis Salvador Rufo
     2	Lothar Felten
     2	Luca Pesce
     2	Maksim Kiselev
     2	Marcus Folkesson
     2	Michael Fischer
     2	Oleg Lyovin
     2	Paul Cercueil
     2	Robert Marko
     2	Sergey Bobrenok
     2	Sébastien Szymanski
     2	Yegor Yefremov
     1	Adam Duskett
     1	Akshay Bhat
     1	Alexander Egorenkov
     1	Alexander Shiyan
     1	Alexander Sverdlin
     1	Bagas Sanjaya
     1	Carlos Santos
     1	Cherniaev Andrei
     1	Fabrice Fontaine
     1	Florian Fainelli
     1	Florian Larysch
     1	James Knight
     1	Joel Carlson
     1	Jon Ringle
     1	Jonathan Currier
     1	Kai Stuhlemmer (ebee Engineering)
     1	Koen Martens
     1	Konstantin Menyaev
     1	Kris Bahnsen
     1	Laurent Vivier
     1	Markus Mayer
     1	Martin Hundebøll
     1	Pierre Ficheux
     1	Pieterjan Camerlynck
     1	Prabhu Sannachi
     1	Ramon Fried
     1	Raphael Pavlidis
     1	Sebastian Weyer
     1	Stefan Agner
     1	Stefan Mayrhofer
     1	TIAN Yuanhao
     1	Thomas Claveirole
     1	Tianrui Wei
     1	Viacheslav Bocharov
     1	Vincent Stehlé
     1	Vyacheslav
     1	Yair Ben-Avraham
     1	friedtj@free.fr
     1	Леонид Юрьев (Leonid Yuriev)

And a special thanks to our patch reviewers:

git log 2023.05.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | \
    sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r

      4 Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
      4 Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
      2 Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
      1 Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
      1 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
      1 Neal Frager <neal.frager@amd.com>
      1 Michael Trimarchi <michael@amarulasolutions.com>
      1 Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
      1 Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
      1 Graeme Smecher <gsmecher@threespeedlogic.com>
      1 Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiegineering.com>
      1 Gary Bisson <bisson.gary@gmail.com>
      1 Christian Stewart <christian@aperture.us>
      1 Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>

We will now create a next branch and start merging new features for
2023.11 already in parallel with the 2023.08 stabilization.

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