diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 432bdc0629..78ca4446e0 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2021.08, released September 4th, 2021
+
+ Various fixes.
+
+ Updated/fixed packages: gstreamer1-mm, netsniff-ng, nginx,
+ openmpi, python-pyudev, python3, qt5base, wlroots, xvisor
+
2021.08-rc3, released August 31st, 2021
Fixes all over the tree.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2d7e8ff78a..2aef644498 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -92,9 +92,9 @@ all:
.PHONY: all
# Set and export the version string
-export BR2_VERSION := 2021.08-rc3
+export BR2_VERSION := 2021.08
# Actual time the release is cut (for reproducible builds)
-BR2_VERSION_EPOCH = 1630446300
+BR2_VERSION_EPOCH = 1630749000
# Save running make version since it's clobbered by the make package
RUNNING_MAKE_VERSION := $(MAKE_VERSION)
diff --git a/docs/website/download.html b/docs/website/download.html
index 2b1df6eda6..5fea085ef9 100644
--- a/docs/website/download.html
+++ b/docs/website/download.html
@@ -42,40 +42,40 @@
</div>
</div>
- <h3 style="text-align: center;">Latest stable release: <b>2021.05.1</b></h3>
+ <h3 style="text-align: center;">Latest stable release: <b>2021.08</b></h3>
<div class="row mt centered">
<div class="col-sm-6">
<div class="flip-container center-block" ontouchstart="this.classList.toggle('hover');">
<div class="flipper">
<div class="front">
- <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.05.1.tar.gz"><img src="images/zip.png" width="180" alt=""></a>
+ <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.08.tar.gz"><img src="images/zip.png" width="180" alt=""></a>
</div>
<div class="back">
- <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.05.1.tar.gz"><img src="images/zip.png" width="180" alt=""></a>
+ <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.08.tar.gz"><img src="images/zip.png" width="180" alt=""></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
- <h3><a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.05.1.tar.gz">buildroot-2021.05.1.tar.gz</a></h3>
- <p><a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.05.1.tar.gz.sign">PGP signature</a></p>
+ <h3><a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.08.tar.gz">buildroot-2021.08.tar.gz</a></h3>
+ <p><a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.08.tar.gz.sign">PGP signature</a></p>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-6">
<div class="flip-container center-block" ontouchstart="this.classList.toggle('hover');">
<div class="flipper">
<div class="front">
- <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.05.1.tar.bz2"><img src="images/package.png" width="180" alt=""></a>
+ <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.08.tar.bz2"><img src="images/package.png" width="180" alt=""></a>
</div>
<div class="back">
- <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.05.1.tar.bz2"><img src="images/package.png" width="180" alt=""></a>
+ <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.08.tar.bz2"><img src="images/package.png" width="180" alt=""></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
- <h3><a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.05.1.tar.bz2">buildroot-2021.05.1.tar.bz2</a></h3>
- <p><a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.05.1.tar.bz2.sign">PGP signature</a></p>
+ <h3><a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.08.tar.bz2">buildroot-2021.08.tar.bz2</a></h3>
+ <p><a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.08.tar.bz2.sign">PGP signature</a></p>
</div>
</div>
-
+<!--
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Latest release candidate: <b>2021.08-rc3</b></h3>
<div class="row mt centered">
<div class="col-sm-6">
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
<p><a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.08-rc3.tar.bz2.sign">PGP signature</a></p>
</div>
</div>
-
+-->
This and earlier releases (and their PGP signatures) can always be downloaded from
<a href="/downloads/">http://buildroot.net/downloads/</a>.
</div>
diff --git a/docs/website/news.html b/docs/website/news.html
index 8553a6e643..d3db1b28ed 100644
--- a/docs/website/news.html
+++ b/docs/website/news.html
@@ -9,6 +9,24 @@
<h2>News</h2>
<ul class="timeline">
+ <li class="timeline-inverted">
+ <div class="timeline-badge"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-thumbs-up"></i></div>
+ <div class="timeline-panel">
+ <div class="timeline-heading">
+ <h4 class="timeline-title">2021.08 released</h4>
+ <p><small class="text-muted"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-time"></i>4 September 2021</small></p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="timeline-body">
+ <p>The stable 2021.08 release is out - Thanks to everyone
+ contributing and testing the release candidates. See the
+ <a href="http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2021.08">CHANGES</a>
+ file for more details
+ and go to the <a href="/downloads/">downloads page</a> to pick up the
+ <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2021.08.tar.bz2">2021.08 release</a>.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </li>
+
<li>
<div class="timeline-badge"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-thumbs-up"></i></div>
<div class="timeline-panel">
diff --git a/support/misc/Vagrantfile b/support/misc/Vagrantfile
index 89726c5f8b..aa6418d429 100644
--- a/support/misc/Vagrantfile
+++ b/support/misc/Vagrantfile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
################################################################################
# Buildroot version to use
-RELEASE='2021.05.1'
+RELEASE='2021.08'
### Change here for more memory/cores ###
VM_MEMORY=2048