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v2026.04.0 is out and will be relevant for quite a while: In alignment with the Yocto Wrynose LTS release, we will support it for at least a year.
Besides mostly bug fixes, one big feature made it in:
Earlier this year at @fosdem's #kernel devroom, @a3f presented a new workflow for easily replacing any boot image with a network-hosted substitute to simplify kerneldev: https://fosdem.org/2026/sched
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2026's first barebox release is out! 🎉
With 280 commits since v2025.12.0, it's one of our bigger releases and much more than what we can cover in 500 characters, but here's two highlights:
- barebox can now act as EFI firmware and load EFI applications. Most testing has been done against GRUB and Debian, but expect the feature to stabilize more over the coming months!
- Support added for four Amaz
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barebox v2026.02.0 has been out for a few weeks!
Highlights are:
🪨 RK3588 secure boot is now ready. QNAP TS-433 4-bay NAS joins the collection of supported RK3568 boards with EFI USB installer support.
🧩 External module support was de-bitrotted and hopefully stays that way, now that it is tested in CI.
🔍 Especially EFI has seen a major hardening pass with 50+ fixes for memory leaks, NULL derefs an
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It's our pleasure to announce barebox v2026.06.1!
Last month early barebox init on Rockchip was sped up and this month's release continues with the Rockchip eMMC driver:
eMMC read speed leveled up from 20 MiB/s to 120 MiB/s with HS200 and 170 MiB/s with HS400ES!
Also noteworthy:
- A resize(1) command, so you are not stuck with the Debian installer's terminal size
- i.MX8MP-FRDM board support
- 10%
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The yearly tradition of having one small or skipped release during the (northern hemisphere) summer continues this year as well:
🌞 barebox v2026.07.0 clocked in last month at just 60 commits.
Besides a number of fixes, chiefly for UEFI, tw…
On the opposite side of the low/high-level scale are the recent improvements to the framebuffer console.
If you wish for more graphics than a barebox bootsplash (or #baredoom!) you'll likely depend on barebox' builtin terminal emulator.
v…
The last two are worth some elaboration:
barebox is always relocatable and thus may not hardcode absolute addresses to its own symbols and instead extensively patches itself on startup.
There's a whole lot of these relocations and they oft…
It's our pleasure to announce barebox v2026.06.1!
Last month early barebox init on Rockchip was sped up and this month's release continues with the Rockchip eMMC driver:
eMMC read speed leveled up from 20 MiB/s to 120 MiB/s with HS200 and …
Live right now: Michael Tretter is talking about Rockchip Secure Boot Support in barebox at @embeddedrecipes
Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtNisipSY0
Slides: https://cfp.embedded-recipes.org/media/er2026/submissions/ULWYUJ…
v2026.04.0 is out and will be relevant for quite a while: In alignment with the Yocto Wrynose LTS release, we will support it for at least a year.
Besides mostly bug fixes, one big feature made it in:
Earlier this year at @fosdem's #kernel…
barebox v2026.03.0 and .1 were released last month fixing a critical FIT signature verification vulnerability: https://github.com/barebox/barebox/security/advisories/GHSA-3fvj-q26p-j6h4
All users employing signed FIT should upgrade to eith…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@brauner/116329656643328740
It's critical for the kernel to lay the groundwork, so the ecosystem can standardize on a common interface.
At the bootloader side, we are also doing our part by mapping government-ma…
Especially exciting for barebox developers is a change under the hood that users shouldn't notice at all:
barebox proper is now an actual ELF binary 🧝.
The prebootloader prepended to barebox ARM/RISC-V images to decompress them, now also d…
barebox v2026.02.0 has been out for a few weeks!
Highlights are:
🪨 RK3588 secure boot is now ready. QNAP TS-433 4-bay NAS joins the collection of supported RK3568 boards with EFI USB installer support.
🧩 External module support was de-bitr…
2026's first barebox release is out! 🎉
With 280 commits since v2025.12.0, it's one of our bigger releases and much more than what we can cover in 500 characters, but here's two highlights:
- barebox can now act as EFI firmware and load EFI…
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