Hey all,
Due to some odds and ends, I ended up taking in some code a bit close to the original release date, so I ended up just pushing things out a week. I think moving forward, I really should say that in public, sorry. But things are live on git and FTP and Amazon Cloud Drive now.
So, v2016.05 has been released, and there's a few things worth pointing out here. First of all, U-Boot can now run EFI applications on ARM and ARMv8. The main use case here has been GRUB and that works. This is enabled by default on ARM and ARMv8 and a few platforms have turned it off due to not being useful for their needs or space savings.
Next, we continue to make good progress on device model work and to me one of the exciting parts is that we brought in the ground work this release for FIT images from SPL and we've got a bunch of patches queued up for the next release to make use of it. The end result here is that we're now able to keep having one binary that runs on many platforms, when we can tell what the platforms are at run time, but that need different DTs to run correctly.
I don't like to single out specific boards that we've added support for in these emails but looking over the log a lot of things have come in or gotten big updates including a number of popular / prominent boards. I'll let the respective custodians and authors showcase that themselves.
Finally, we're making more progress on the testing front. The test/py/test.py infrastructure is getting more use and robustness and there's also tbot, see tools/tbot/README for more details there.
Thanks again everyone!