[Buildroot] Buildroot 2021.05-rc1 released

[Buildroot] Buildroot 2021.05-rc1 released

[Peter Korsgaard]

Hi,

Buildroot 2021.05-rc1 is released - Go download it at:

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2021.05-rc1.tar.gz

or

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2021.05-rc1.tar.bz2

Or get it from Git:

git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot

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

A bit less busy than some other development cycles, but still more than
1000 changes from 91 unique contributors!

Of noteworthy new features/changes we have:

- FORTIFY_SOURCE, PIC/PIE, RELRO and SSP security hardening options are
  now enabled by default.

- CMake infrastructure: Use CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS rather than
  CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS to link with libatomic to fix an compatibility issue
  with poppler. Bump minimal host cmake version to 3.16 (from 3.15) to
  fix a compatibility issue with domoticz.

- Meson: Use correct C++ host compiler (rather than C compiler)

- support/download: Fix tarball generation (from git/svn repos)
  including symlinks pointing to ./<something>. Fix svn download for
  <1.9 clients or repos using CVS-style keywords.

- Infrastructure: Expose CONFIG_DIR to post-build/post-image scripts, so
  they can call the Buildroot Makefile in the correct directory
  for both in-tree / out-of-tree builds.

- support/scripts/cve.py: Use the (significantly) faster yajl2 ijson
  backend for older (< 2.5) ijson versions rather than the slow python
  default, speeding up pkg-stats by ~2x.

- Python{,3}: Fix byte compiling python files with short (single
  character before .py) file names.

- CPE meta data has been added for a large number of packages

- New defconfigs: Acme Systems Acqua A5 (256/512MB), Beagleboard
  BeagleV, Boundary devices Nitrogen8M Plus SOM, NXP i.MX 8M Plus EVK,
  QEMU PPC e500mc

- New packages: beaglev-ddrinit, beaglev-secondboot, janet,
  kodi-inputstream-ffmpegdirect, kodi-vfs-libarchive,
  kodi-visualisation-matrix, libxcrypt, libqrtr-glib, log4qt, mawk,
  perl-parse-yapp, postgis, protozero, python-flask-wtf, python-iwlib,
  python-semantic-version, python-setuptools-rust, python-toml,
  riscv64-elf-toolchain, siproxyd, uftrace, zfs

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

http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2021.02-rc1


Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -n 2021.02..

   268	Fabrice Fontaine
   157	Bernd Kuhls
    88	Peter Seiderer
    48	Peter Korsgaard
    39	Francois Perrad
    35	Matt Weber
    35	Thomas Petazzoni
    28	Dick Olsson
    17	Giulio Benetti
    17	J?rg Krause
    15	Adam Duskett
    11	Romain Naour
    10	Christian Stewart
    10	Michael Nosthoff
     9	James Hilliard
     9	Maxime Chevallier
     9	Stephane Viau
     9	S?bastien Szymanski
     9	Yann E. MORIN
     8	Etienne Carriere
     8	Grzegorz Blach
     8	Thomas De Schampheleire
     7	Bartosz Bilas
     7	Heiko Thiery
     7	Petr Vorel
     6	Adrian Perez de Castro
     6	Alexander Dahl
     6	Gary Bisson
     6	Guillaume W. Bres
     6	Michael Walle
     6	Norbert Lange
     6	Ryan Barnett
     5	Baruch Siach
     5	Gleb Mazovetskiy
     5	Maxim Kochetkov
     5	Nicolas Cavallari
     5	Titouan Christophe
     5	Vincent Stehl?
     4	Pierre-Jean Texier
     4	Sergio Prado
     3	Alexander Egorenkov
     3	Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
     3	Asaf Kahlon
     3	Edgar Bonet
     3	Joachim Wiberg
     3	John Keeping
     3	Marcin Niestroj
     2	Charles Hardin
     2	Chris Packham
     2	Einar Jon Gunnarsson
     2	Fabio Estevam
     2	Henri Roosen
     2	Ismael Luceno
     2	Jared Bents
     2	Jianhui Zhao
     2	Mario Fink
     2	Michael Vetter
     2	Tian Yuanhao
     2	Waldemar Brodkorb
     2	Yegor Yefremov
     1	Adrian Sweet
     1	Aleksander Morgado
     1	Alexander Sverdlin
     1	Andreas Ziegler
     1	Andr? Hentschel
     1	Antoine Tenart
     1	Bert Outtier
     1	Bin Meng
     1	Brandon Maier
     1	David GOUARIN
     1	Dimitrij Kotrev
     1	Federico Pellegrin
     1	Filip Skoneczny
     1	Gilles Talis
     1	Gustavo Heinz
     1	Jack Cripps
     1	Jean-pierre Cartal
     1	Jos? Luis Salvador Rufo
     1	Julien Olivain
     1	Leon Anavi
     1	Marcus Folkesson
     1	Markus Mayer
     1	Matthew Weber
     1	Nicolas Serafini
     1	Nicolas Toromanoff
     1	Ramon Fried
     1	Sam Voss
     1	Stefan Agner
     1	Stefan S?rensen
     1	Thomas Huth
     1	Vadym Kochan

And a special thanks to our patch reviewers:

git log 2021.02.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | \
    sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r

      6 Stephane Viau <stephane.viau@oss.nxp.com>
      6 Gary Bisson <gary.bisson@boundarydevices.com>
      6 Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
      5 Maxim Kochetkov <fido_max@inbox.ru>
      5 Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
      4 Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
      4 Marcin Niestroj <m.niestroj@grinn-global.com>
      2 Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
      2 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
      2 Christian Stewart <christian@paral.in>
      2 Alexander Dahl <post@lespocky.de>
      1 Ryan Barnett <ryan.barnett@rockwellcollins.com>
      1 Matthew Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
      1 Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
      1 Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
      1 Etienne Carriere <etienne.carriere@linaro.org>
      1 Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@gmail.com>
      1 Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
      1 Bartosz Bilas<b.bilas@grinn-global.com>
      1 Asaf Kahlon <asafka7@gmail.com>
      1 Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com>
      1 Aleksander Morgado <aleksander@aleksander.es>

I will now create a next branch and start merging new features for
2021.08 already in parallel with the 2021.05 stabilization.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard