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| author | Martin Roth <gaumless@gmail.com> | 2022-10-16 18:53:10 -0600 |
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| committer | Felix Singer <felixsinger@posteo.net> | 2022-10-20 20:33:20 +0000 |
| commit | d282ae3889175222427555f6c60f15dc874845de (patch) | |
| tree | 30986ec20d2057202cea357ade23743070ae128a /Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md | |
| parent | 72c2e11beb7c3f0992dcb633cfb955983f53bdf5 (diff) | |
Docs/releases: Finalize relnotes for the 4.18 release
The coreboot 4.18 release has been tagged, so the release notes can
now be finalized.
Updated with known issues.
Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <gaumless@gmail.com>
Change-Id: I77676ddc42488e9635f1e6f995386490dca441c0
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/68467
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Felix Singer <felixsinger@posteo.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md | 52 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md index fbc4bd560e..d4bfa0ee81 100644 --- a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md +++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -Upcoming release - coreboot 4.18 release +coreboot 4.18 release ======================================================================== -The 4.18 release is quite late, but is now planned for October 16, 2022. +The 4.18 release was quite late, but was completed on October 16, 2022. -In the past 4 months since the 4.17 release, the coreboot project has -merged more than 1800 commits from over 200 different authors. Over 50 -of those authors submitted their first patches. +In the 4 months since the 4.17 release, the coreboot project has merged +more than 1800 commits from over 200 different authors. Over 50 of those +authors submitted their first patches. Welcome and thank you to all of our new contributors, and of course the work of all of the seasoned contributors is greatly appreciated. @@ -222,15 +222,37 @@ be maintained on the release 4.20 branch. * Intel Galileo mainboard -Statistics ----------- +Statistics from commit d2d9021543 to f4c97ea131 +----------------------------------------------- -- Total Commits: 1819 -- Average Commits per day: 13.44 -- Total lines added: 150195 -- Average lines added per commit: 82.57 -- Number of patches adding more than 100 lines: 127 -- Average lines added per small commit: 38.38 -- Total lines removed: 33788 +- Total Commits: 1822 +- Average Commits per day: 13.38 +- Total lines added: 150578 +- Average lines added per commit: 82.64 +- Number of patches adding more than 100 lines: 128 +- Average lines added per small commit: 38.44 +- Total lines removed: 33849 - Average lines removed per commit: 18.58 -- Total difference between added and removed: 116407 +- Total difference between added and removed: 116729 +- Total authors: 202 +- New authors: 52 + + +Known Issues +------------ + +A couple of issues were discovered immediately following the release +that will be fixed in a follow-on point release in the upcoming weeks. + +A pair of changes ([CB:67754](https://review.coreboot.org/67754) and +[CB:67662](https://review.coreboot.org/67662)) which merged shortly +before the 4.18 release have created an issue on Intel Apollo Lake +platform boards which prevents SMM/SMI from functioning; this affects +only Apollo Lake (but not Gemini Lake) devices. +See [CB:68599](https://review.coreboot.org/68599) for the fix. + +Another issue applies to all Intel-based boards with onboard I2C TPMs +when verified boot is not enabled. The I2C buses don’t get initialized +until after the TPM, causing timeouts, TPM initialization failures, and +long boot times. See [CB:68550](https://review.coreboot.org/68550) for +the fix. |