Buildroot releases are made every 3 months, in February, May, August and November. Release numbers are in the format YYYY.MM, so for example 2013.02, 2014.08.

Release tarballs are available at http://buildroot.org/downloads/.

For your convenience, a Vagrantfile is available in support/misc/Vagrantfile in the Buildroot source tree to quickly set up a virtual machine with the needed dependencies to get started.

If you want to setup an isolated buildroot environment on Linux or Mac Os X, paste this line onto your terminal:

If you are on Windows, paste this into your powershell:

If you want to follow development, you can use the daily snapshots or make a clone of the Git repository. Refer to the Download page of the Buildroot website for more details.