Upcoming OpenBMC release 2.11

[Brad Bishop]

> On Feb 11, 2022, at 3:56 PM, Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 03:33:12PM +0530, Thaj wrote:
>> Hi Patrick,
> 
> Hello Thaj,
> 
>> 
>> 2.9 is quiet old. There are a lot of changes after that. A newer u-boot
>> with secure boot support, better AST2600 support etc. A new release is
>> necessary. 
> 
> It seems that not many people who are active contributors in the community
> actually care about releases, so there hasn't been much effort put into it.
> You used the word "necessary".  Would you care to expand, for the community,
> what your use case is where you rely on releases?
> 
>> There is no 2.11.0-rc1 yet. Is it possible to initiate a release
>> process?
> 
> The honister branch is effectively the '2.11.0-rc'.  I don't have permissions
> to create tags myself.  I'll see if Brad has bandwidth to create a tag in the
> near future.

We have a 2.11.0 tag now.