U-Boot v2025.07 released [LWN.net]

The U-Boot universal bootloader project has announced the release of version 2025.07. It has multiple new features including "uthreads" (inspired by the "bthreads" coroutines in the barebox bootloader), exFAT support, new architecture and SoC support and improvements to existing platforms, cleanups, better testing, and more. Project leader Tom Rini took the opportunity to mention his efforts toward getting some help with the project and more formal governance:

As this is a full release, and not just a release candidate I'm hoping for a few more people to read this and then read what I'm linking to as well. For the overall health of the project, and the community, I'm hoping to find a few people within the community that can help with overall organization and management. I would like to long term be able to move us to being under the Software Freedom Conservancy umbrella and that in turn means having a organizational structure that's not just a single person.

He also noted that there is a community meeting on July 8th, 2025 at 9am (GMT -06:00) on Google Meet.

From:		Tom Rini <trini-AT-konsulko.com>
To:		u-boot-AT-lists.denx.de
Subject:		[ANN] U-Boot v2025.07 released
Date:		Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:59:13 -0600
Message-ID:		<20250707195913.GR6424@bill-the-cat>
Cc:		u-boot-custodians-AT-lists.denx.de, u-boot-board-maintainers-AT-lists.denx.de
Archive-link:		Article

Hey all, So it's release day and so here is v2025.07. I will be merging the next branch back to master shortly and pushing that out as well. As this is a full release, and not just a release candidate I'm hoping for a few more people to read this and then read what I'm linking to as well. For the overall health of the project, and the community, I'm hoping to find a few people within the community that can help with overall organization and management. I would like to long term be able to move us to being under the Software Freedom Conservancy umbrella and that in turn means having a organizational structure that's not just a single person. I've put more details in the email here: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20250602222738.GC100073@bi... Next up, I want to remind everyone that we'll have our regularly scheduled community meeting tomorrow. The meeting details itself are: https://meet.google.com/btj-wgcg-euw July 8th, 2025. 9am (GMT -06:00) To join by phone: https://meet.google.com/tel/btj-wgcg-euw?pin=130752855232... A high level changelog from v2025.04 until now is: - Inspired by barebox "bthreads" we now have "uthreads". - We have exFAT support now. - General improvements, updates and new support in the following architectures / SoCs: Apple M1/2, i.MX8/9, sunxi, STM32, StarFive, TI K3, Rockchip RK3528 and RK3576 (and general improvements to older chips), MIPS Boston platforms, SoCFPGA, Atmel sama9x60 and sama5d2, Raspberry Pi, AMD/Xilinx (Versal, Versal Gen 2, ZynqMP), Marvell platforms, assorted Tegra platforms, Qualcomm platforms, Rensas R-Car and likely more I've missed. - Once again a number of improvements within the EFI loader subsytem - A number of cleanups and improvements in the networking, DFU, MMC, i2c, SCSI and other subsystems. Also a few series addressing more general code quality and cleanups. - Additional testing within CI on more (QEMU) platforms. And I'm sure there's things I've missed. With all of that said, we're on our usual cycle of 3 weeks for -rc1, which will be July 28th and then every other week for -rc tags until the release of v2025.10 on October 6th. Thanks all! -- Tom

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