Buildroot

Buildroot 2024.08-rc1 released! First release candidate to prepare the final 2024.08 release end of this month. Help us by testing it on your projects. See the release announcement: @windsurf/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/2024…

We have a new maintainer in the @buildrootorg team: @kubu44, from @GroupeSmile. He will help review, discuss and merge the contributions we receive. Welcome!

A bit later than expected, but Buildroot 2023.02 is here! See the release e-mail at @dell.be.48ers.dk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/87pm…. 2023.02 becomes our new LTS release, which will receive security/bug fixes during one year.

Buildroot 2023.02-rc1 released: @dell.be.48ers.dk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/871q…. First release candidate on our way towards the next LTS release, 2023.02.

We are organizing our next Buildroot Developer Days right after @fosdem in Brussels, on Feb 6-7-8, 2023. See elinux.org/Buildroot:Deve… for more details!

Buildroot 2022.11-rc1 has been released: @dell.be.48ers.dk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/875y…. It's a release candidate, not a final release. We'll now focus on improving stability before the final 2022.11 planned at the end of November.

The final Buildroot 2022.08 has been released a week ago, check out the release announcement at @dell.be.48ers.dk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/87il… !

Buildroot 2022.08-rc1 released: @windsurf/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/2022…. This is the first release candidate for the upcoming 2022.08 release. The good time to give it a test and report back if you encounter any issue!

Buildroot 2022.05 was released a few days ago: @dell.be.48ers.dk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/87r1….

Happy to announce the next Buildroot Developers Meeting: Sep 17-18 in Dublin, Ireland, right after the @linuxfoundation Embedded Linux Conference Europe. Event is free, registration at elinux.org/Buildroot:Deve…. Mostly targeted at Buildroot contributors.

Buildroot 2022.02.1 has been released, it's the first point release of the 2022.02.x branch, with security and bug fixes: @dell.be.48ers.dk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/87pm…

Security releases 2021.11.2 and 2021.02.10 have been tagged. 2021.02.10 is particularly important as it is a point release of our LTS branch 2021.02.x. @dell.be.48ers.dk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/877d… @dell.be.48ers.dk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/8735…

Buildroot 2022.02-rc1 has been released! Not yet a final release, but a release candidate. This is going to become the next LTS of Buildroot, so please test it and report back, so we can address as many issues as possible. Huge release with 1800+ commits! @dell.be.48ers.dk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/87a6…

The upcoming Buildroot 2022.02 release will no longer have support for Python 2.x. A massive series of commits was merged over the past week dropping Python 2.x support in Buildroot, greatly simplifying the Python support logic.

Buildroot security releases 2021.02.9 and 2021.11.1 have been published. Many security updates, including the fix for the polkit vulnerability. @dell.be.48ers.dk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/87ee… @dell.be.48ers.dk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/87a6…

Arnout Vandecappelle reports back on the Buildroot hackathon that took place, with some recommandations to the Buildroot community to help with the project maintenance: @mind.be/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/c87e…

This is history: about 3 weeks ago the backlog of patches was ~500. Now down to less than 130 patches!

Charles Steinkuehler has published a BR2_EXTERNAL containing a demo of Buildroot + RAUC for software update on RaspberryPi CM4. See github.com/cdsteinkuehler…

Buildroot is one of the oldest embedded Linux build systems still being developed and maintained! We will celebrate 20 years of BR on December 22! Join us to celebrate this with an online discussion, on Dec 22 at 8 PM UTC. @scaer/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/2021…

Buildroot 2021.11 has been released! See the release announcement at @dell.be.48ers.dk/T/#u" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/buildroot/877d….