A new post titled "Announcing coreboot 4.4" has been published on the coreboot blog. Find the full post at http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2016/05/02/announcing-coreboot-4-4/

<p>We are happy to announce the release of coreboot 4.4.  This is our fourth quarterly release.  Since the last release, we&#8217;ve had 850 commits by 90 authors added 59000 lines to the codebase.</p>
<p>The release tarballs are available at https://www.coreboot.org/releases/<br />
There is a 4.4 tag and branch in the git repository.</p>
<p>Log of commit 3141eac900 to commit 588ccaa9a7</p>
<h2>Major areas that received significant changes in for this release:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Build system (30 commits) &#8211; Add postcar stage, &#8216;timeless&#8217; builds, extend site-local, test toolchain by version string, update dependencies, catch ACPI errors, l add additional macros.</li>
<li>Toolchain updates (40+ patches) &#8211; Update IASL to v20160318 , LLVM to v3.7.1, add GNU make, add nds32le GCC compiler</li>
<li>Lint tools (30 patches) &#8211; Update existing lint utilities, add lint tests for executable bit, make sure site-local isn&#8217;t committed, add test to break all lint tests.</li>
<li>Payloads (60 commits) &#8211; Fixes for libpayload, coreinfo and nvramcui, add new payloads, see below.</li>
<li>Maintainers file &#8211; (8 patches) &#8211; continue adding maintainers for various areas.</li>
<li>Documentation for adding Intel FSP-based platforms (20 commits)</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h2>Mainboards</h2>
<h4>Added 9 mainboards</h4>
<ul>
<li>asus/kcma-d8</li>
<li>emulation/qemu-power8</li>
<li>google/auron_paine</li>
<li>google/gru</li>
<li>intel/amenia</li>
<li>intel/apollolake_rvp</li>
<li>intel/camelbackmountain_fsp</li>
<li>intel/galileo</li>
<li>lenovo/t420</li>
</ul>
<h4>Removed 1 mainboard</h4>
<ul>
<li>google/veyron_speedy</li>
</ul>
<h4> Existing boards with significant updates</h4>
<ul>
<li>asus/kgpe-d16</li>
<li>google/oak</li>
<li>google/chell</li>
<li>intel/kunimitsu</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h2>Changes in chips</h2>
<h4>Added 1 new architecture</h4>
<ul>
<li>power8</li>
</ul>
<h4>Added 1 processor</h4>
<ul>
<li>qemu-power8</li>
</ul>
<h4>Added 5 socs</h4>
<ul>
<li>intel/apollolake</li>
<li>intel/fsp_broadwell_de</li>
<li>intel/quark</li>
<li>marvell/armada38x</li>
<li>rockchip/rk3399</li>
</ul>
<h4>Existing chip areas with many changes</h4>
<ul>
<li>cpuamd/mct_ddr3</li>
<li>drivers/intel/fsp2_0</li>
<li>northbridge/intel/sandybridge/raminit</li>
<li>soc/intel/apollolake</li>
<li>soc/intel/fsp_baytrail</li>
<li>soc/intel/skylake</li>
<li>soc/mediatek/mt8173</li>
</ul>
<h4>Added 1 new vendorcode directory</h4>
<ul>
<li>siemens</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h2>Submodules</h2>
<h4>Added 1 submodule</h4>
<ul>
<li>chromeec</li>
</ul>
<h4>Updated 3 submodules</h4>
<ul>
<li>3rdparty/arm-trusted-firmware (329 commits)</li>
<li>3rdparty/vboot (28 commits)</li>
<li>util/nvidia/cbootimage (13 commits)</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h2>Other</h2>
<h4>Added 4 payloads</h4>
<ul>
<li>depthcharge: For ChromeOS verified boot</li>
<li>iPXE: For network booting</li>
<li>Memtest86+: Updated with fixes for correctly testing coreboot with payloads</li>
<li>U-Boot (Experimental): Alternate payload for booting an OS</li>
</ul>
<h4>Added 6 utilities</h4>
<ul>
<li>archive &#8211; Concatenates files into a single blob with an indexed header</li>
<li>chromeos &#8211; Download and extract blobs from a ChromeOS image</li>
<li>futility &#8211; vboot Firmware utility</li>
<li>intelmetool &#8211; Shows information about the Intel ME on a platform.</li>
<li>marvell/doimage_mv &#8211; No usage notes</li>
<li>post &#8211; Simple utility to test post cards</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h1>coreboot statistics</h1>
<ul>
<li>Total Commits:    850</li>
<li>Total authors:        90</li>
<li>New authors:         28</li>
<li>Total Reviewers:   40</li>
<li>Total Submitters:  17</li>
<li>Total lines added:       74054</li>
<li>Total lines removed: -15056</li>
<li>Total difference:          58998</li>
</ul>