Hi everybody,

U-Boot v2009.08 has been released and is available from the git repository and the FTP server.

The "next" branch has been pulled into mainline ("master" branch) and will be removed soon.

The Merge Window for the next release is open until Monday, September 21, 2009, i. e. 21 days remaining.

The next release is scheduled for November 18, 2009.

See http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/ReleaseCycle for details, including guestimates for thenext releases after that.

A little statistics [1] - changes since release v2009.06:

Processed 724 csets from 96 developers 34 employers found A total of 83512 lines added, 52725 removed (delta 30787)

Compare v2009.06: Processed 470 csets from 74 developers 27 employers found A total of 51824 lines added, 17041 removed (delta 34783)

Developers with the most changesets Wolfgang Denk 75 (10.4%) Peter Tyser 69 (9.5%) Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD 57 (7.9%) Mike Frysinger 56 (7.7%) Stefan Roese 40 (5.5%) Prafulla Wadaskar 23 (3.2%) Tom Rix 22 (3.0%) David Brownell 17 (2.3%) Kumar Gala 16 (2.2%) Matthias Fuchs 16 (2.2%) ...

Developers with the most changed lines Wolfgang Denk 14835 (12.9%) Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD 10512 (9.2%) Matthias Fuchs 8471 (7.4%) Mike Frysinger 6553 (5.7%) Scott Wood 5620 (4.9%) Prafulla Wadaskar 5290 (4.6%) Giuseppe Condorelli 4937 (4.3%) Stefan Roese 3988 (3.5%) Roy Zang 3515 (3.1%) Peter Tyser 2954 (2.6%) ...

Developers with the most lines removed Matthias Fuchs 6924 (13.1%) Scott Wood 5607 (10.6%) Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD 3606 (6.8%) Michal Simek 1024 (1.9%) Kim Phillips 927 (1.8%) Sandeep Paulraj 70 (0.1%) galak 62 (0.1%) Timur Tabi 51 (0.1%) Matthias Ludwig 29 (0.1%) Grazvydas Ignotas 16 (0.0%) ...

Developers with the most signoffs (total 1047) Stefan Roese 139 (13.3%) Kumar Gala 103 (9.8%) Ben Warren 81 (7.7%) Mike Frysinger 77 (7.4%) Peter Tyser 72 (6.9%) Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD 71 (6.8%) Scott Wood 45 (4.3%) Kim Phillips 39 (3.7%) Remy Bohmer 29 (2.8%) Prafulla Wadaskar 23 (2.2%) ...

Developers with the most reviews (total 14) Ronen Shitrit 6 (42.9%) Angelo Castello 4 (28.6%) Alessandro Rubini 2 (14.3%) Ira W. Snyder 2 (14.3%)

Developers with the most test credits (total 24) Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD 4 (16.7%) Wolfgang Denk 4 (16.7%) Ira W. Snyder 2 (8.3%) Mike Frysinger 2 (8.3%) Tom Rix 2 (8.3%) Dirk Behme 2 (8.3%) Heiko Schocher 2 (8.3%) Magnus Lilja 2 (8.3%) Andrzej Wolski 2 (8.3%) Gaye Abdoulaye Walsimou 2 (8.3%)

Developers who gave the most tested-by credits (total 24) Wolfgang Denk 18 (75.0%) Ben Warren 1 (4.2%) Peter Tyser 1 (4.2%) Kim Phillips 1 (4.2%) David Brownell 1 (4.2%) Bernhard Weirich 1 (4.2%) Dieter Kiermaier 1 (4.2%)

Developers with the most report credits (total 2) Andrzej Wolski 2 (100.0%)

Developers who gave the most report credits (total 2) Wolfgang Denk 1 (50.0%) Mike Frysinger 1 (50.0%)

Top changeset contributors by employer DENX Software Engineering 140 (19.3%) (Unknown) 102 (14.1%) Extreme Engineering Solutions 70 (9.7%) Freescale 63 (8.7%) Analog Devices 62 (8.6%) jcrosoft 57 (7.9%) Wind River 25 (3.5%) Marvell 23 (3.2%) ESD Electronics 20 (2.8%) EmCraft Systems 8 (1.1%) ...

Top lines changed by employer DENX Software Engineering 21436 (18.7%) jcrosoft 14682 (12.8%) Freescale 13641 (11.9%) ESD Electronics 12184 (10.6%) (Unknown) 10998 (9.6%) Analog Devices 9980 (8.7%) Marvell 5290 (4.6%) ST Microelectronics 4937 (4.3%) Extreme Engineering Solutions 4350 (3.8%) EmCraft Systems 2851 (2.5%) ...

Employers with the most signoffs (total 1047) Freescale 222 (21.2%) DENX Software Engineering 185 (17.7%) (Unknown) 180 (17.2%) Analog Devices 82 (7.8%) Extreme Engineering Solutions 75 (7.2%) jcrosoft 71 (6.8%) Oce Technologies 29 (2.8%) Marvell 25 (2.4%) Wind River 25 (2.4%) ESD Electronics 20 (1.9%) ...

[1] See http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/UbootStat_2009_08 for full statistics, and http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/ReleaseCycle for links to statistics for earlier releases.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk