Hello,
A quick answer first: We are closer to the release, and the state of the master is better than a half year ago.
More details. In general, the progress is visible here https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/353
There is one issue that came up around May https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/390 . This one is new. It does not prevent from using any functionality, and also if the user does not specify `--progress` they won’t even notice.
On the other hand, several issues have been fixed. Dummyflasher is fixed, i2c programmers got allow_brick param and were improved.
Manpages are added to all programmers that were missing them (I think, to all programmers, hopefully I am not forgetting anything).
Lots of code improvements: for example we have way less global state than it used to be 1/2yr ago, and we have more unit tests of all types.
Meson build file got a great upgrade. For this change I can mention: it was merged into chromium flashrom ~2weeks ago and no issues observed so far. Also there is now Documentation/ for how to build with meson.
Surely there were more improvements. I am just listing what is on the top of my mind.
If you ask me to pick what’s very important to fix I would say https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/370 I remember several patches on that, from different people. Potentially, the bug is [technically] fixed, but we need to coordinate who is rebasing on the top of whom, and complete the review.