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Update the release wording to align with the documentation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Perale <thomas.perale@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
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Buildroot LTS
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3-year long-term support with security fixes
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<div class="br-lts-title-box">LTS Objectives</div>
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3-year LTS support
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Starting with version <code>2025.02</code>, the LTS support has been extended to
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<strong>3 years</strong>, replacing the previous 1-year cycle.
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Vulnerability tracking & reporting
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Tracking of the vulnerabilities affecting Buildroot
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<a href="https://security.buildroot.org/">security.buildroot.org</a>.
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LTS stewards ensure this data remains up-to-date by actively
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maintaining Buildroot packages metadata.
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Sponsored LTS stewards
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To ensure a consistent release cadence and maintenance
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workflow, paid LTS stewards are assigned to the weekly LTS
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maintenance tasks.
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Dedicated backports
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Vulnerability fixes applied to the <code>master</code> branch will be
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prioritized for backporting to stable branches.
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<div class="br-lts-title-box">Releases</div>
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The Buildroot LTS sponsorship initiative has evolved from a more
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comprehensive understanding of the needs of our user base.
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To address these requirements, the release model evolves into the following.
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Starting with 2025.02, the first release of every odd-numbered year is a long-term
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support (LTS) release supported for three years.
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In between, non-LTS releases are made every 3 months.
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<div class="br-lts-chart-head-label br-lts-span-year">2025</div>
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<div class="br-lts-chart-label">2025.02</div>
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<div class="br-lts-bar br-lts-bar--long br-lts-col-start-2">3 Years Support (LTS)</div>
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<div class="br-lts-chart-label">2025.05</div>
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<div class="br-lts-bar br-lts-col-start-3">3 mo</div>
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<div class="br-lts-chart-label">2025.08</div>
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<div class="br-lts-bar br-lts-col-start-4">3 mo</div>
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<div class="br-lts-chart-label">2025.11</div>
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<div class="br-lts-bar br-lts-col-start-5">3 mo</div>
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<div class="br-lts-bar br-lts-col-start-6">3 mo</div>
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<div class="br-lts-bar br-lts-col-start-7">3 mo</div>
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<div class="br-lts-chart-label">2026.08</div>
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<div class="br-lts-bar br-lts-col-start-8">3 mo</div>
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<div class="br-lts-chart-label">2027.02</div>
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<div class="br-lts-bar br-lts-bar--long br-lts-col-start-10">3 Years Support (LTS)</div>
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<div class="br-lts-title-box">How we work</div>
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Each week, the LTS stewards define the set of commits to
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analyze based on the previous week's commits to the master branch. The
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commits are then annotated to define a list of candidates for the LTS
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branches.
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Mid-week, the candidates are cherry-picked to a staging branch hosted on
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<a href="https://gitlab.com/essensium-mind/buildroot/">gitlab.com/essensium-mind/buildroot</a>.
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Every maintained branch has a staging branch, with the <code>.x</code>
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suffix replaced by <code>.pre</code>. The staging branch allows other
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maintainers to review the changes before they are pushed upstream.
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By the end of the week, the staging branches are pushed upstream and
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contributors are notified. Feedback from users, sponsors and
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<a href="https://autobuild.buildroot.org/">autobuilders</a>
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are then collected and
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<a href="https://security.buildroot.org/">vulnerability analyses</a>
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updated.
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For more information about the development workflow, see the
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<a href="https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot-lts-tools/-/blob/main/tools/README.md">documentation</a>.
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<div class="br-lts-chart-label">Freeze weekly commit set from master</div>
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<div class="br-lts-chart-label">Cherry picking to staging branch</div>
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<div class="br-lts-chart-label">Push to upstream branch</div>
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<div class="br-lts-chart-label">Update vulns</div>
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<div class="br-lts-title-box">Sponsorship benefits</div>
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Long-term sustainability
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Sponsors ensure the long-term sustainability of the Buildroot
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LTS effort with dedicated stewards assigned to tasks such as
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backporting, security monitoring and LTS releases.
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Recognition of your sponsorship
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Sponsors can be publicly acknowledged on the Buildroot website.
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Sponsors may provide a logo linking to a webpage of their
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choice.
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Direct interaction with LTS stewards
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Sponsors may submit queries and requests regarding
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Assignment of priorities for package tracking
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Buildroot integrates more than 2000 open source packages,
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many of which do not offer long-term stable releases or
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security updates.
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Sponsors may submit a priority list indicating: <br/>
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- Packages of interest<br/>
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- Architectures of interest<br/>
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Testing of your packages
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To make sure the packages of interest to the sponsors don't
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include regressions between releases.
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Sponsors may submit a list of packages to be tested
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before a bugfix release.
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Personalized security reports
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Sponsors receive personalized security reports for their
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Buildroot packages in the form of
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<a href="https://security.buildroot.org/">security.buildroot.org</a>
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with comparison with the upstream branches.
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<a href="mailto:buildroot-lts@buildroot.org?subject=[buildroot-lts] Sponsorship information&body=Thanks for showing interest in the Buildroot LTS Sponsorship. We would appreciate if you could introduce yourself and your company by answering the following questions: in which products do you use Buildroot ? How are you using Buildroot ? How many different configurations do you have ? How long do you support your products ?" id="sponsor" class="br-lts-section-header">
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Interested ? Contact us at
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<a href="mailto:buildroot-lts@buildroot.org?subject=[buildroot-lts] Sponsorship information&body=Thanks for showing interest in the Buildroot LTS Sponsorship. We would appreciate if you could introduce yourself and your company by answering the following questions: in which products do you use Buildroot ? How are you using Buildroot ? How many different configurations do you have ? How long do you support your products ?">buildroot-lts@buildroot.org</a>
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to learn more about the different sponsorship tiers and get all the
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details about the sponsorship.
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