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+- Added support for automatically calculating the maximum number
+  of sectors that are needed for a build by checking the erase
+  sizes of the partitions using CMake for Zephyr. This behaviour
+  can be reverted to the old manual behaviour by disabling
+  ``CONFIG_BOOT_MAX_IMG_SECTORS_AUTO``