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<h1>skiboot-5.2.4<a class="headerlink" href="#skiboot-5-2-4" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>skiboot-5.2.4 was released on Tuesday July 12th, 2016.</p>
<p>This is the 5th stable release of skiboot 5.2, the new stable release of
skiboot (first release with 5.2.0 on March 16th 2016).</p>
<p>Skiboot 5.2.4 replaces skiboot-5.2.3 as the current stable version, which was
released on June 30th 2016. Over skiboot-5.2.3, skiboot 5.2.4 contains bug
fixes to make skiboot more resilient to errors in the XSCOM engine and some
build improvements for the pflash utility.</p>
<p>skiboot-5.2.4 contains all bug fixes as of skiboot-5.1.16.</p>
<p>This is the second release that will follow the (now documented) Skiboot
stable rules - see <a class="reference internal" href="../process/stable-skiboot-rules.html#stable-rules"><span class="std std-ref">Skiboot stable tree rules and releases</span></a>.</p>
<p>Over skiboot-5.2.3, the following fixes are included:</p>
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<li>Make the XSCOM engine code more resilient to errors:<ul>
<li>hw/xscom: Reset XSCOM engine after querying sleeping core FIR</li>
<li>hw/xscom: Reset XSCOM engine after finite number of retries when busy</li>
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