The release after that will go back to our April/October schedule, so the 4.10 window will be rather short. Due to that, there will be no deprecations announced in 4.9.

Arthur's proposals sparked some discussion that started activity to keep some affected chipsets alive, and depending on how that unfolds, we can reconsider those deprecations for the 4.10 release notes, to happen after 4.11 in late 2019.

Regarding release notes: I set up an etherpad copy of the release notes we have so far at https://piratenpad.de/p/S8slYOeag. I'll collect the changes of the last 8 months there, and I appreciate any help: if you made coreboot do something new since 4.8, feel free to tell the world about it in the upcoming release notes.

I chose this method over the usual gerrit workflow we use for documentation because the latter doesn't scale so well when lots of changes happen close to each other: git produces too many merge conflicts in such a case.

As part of the release process I'll push the release notes into the tree.

While we have no quality criterion for releases, we all like to be able to point to releases as functional on our preferred hardware. Therefore, please test the hardware you have with recent master, and maybe schedule some time on the 19th or 20th to re-test master then, and report (or better yet, fix) any issues you encounter.

While testing, consider adding to the board-status repository, too :-)

I guess every release needs a bit of hyperbole, so let me end this announcement with a call to make this the best coreboot release ever!

Regards,

Patrick