1 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.x:
2 - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier
3 as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes
4 (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf)
5 - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624)
6 - Import persistent data store from trunk
7 - Sync fetcher code with that in trunk, adding SRCREV support for svn
8 - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete
9 - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable
10 - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code)
11 - Make sure intertask depends get processed correcting in recursive depends
12 - Add pn-PN to overrides when evaluating PREFERRED_VERSION
13 - Improve the progress indicator by skipping tasks that have
14 already run before starting the build rather than during it
15 - Add profiling option (-P)
16 - Add BB_SRCREV_POLICY variable (clear or cache) to control SRCREV cache
17 - Add SRCREV_FORMAT support
18 - Fix local fetcher's localpath return values
19 - Apply OVERRIDES before performing immediate expansions
21 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.6:
22 - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
23 - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
24 - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings
26 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.4:
27 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
28 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
29 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
30 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
31 - Don't run build sanity checks on incomplete builds
32 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
35 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
36 - Catch truncated cache file errors
37 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
38 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
39 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
40 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
42 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
43 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
45 Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
46 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
47 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
49 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
50 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
51 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
52 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
53 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
54 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
55 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
56 - Logging message improvements
57 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
58 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
59 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
60 including mirroring code
61 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
62 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
63 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
64 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
65 - Add abort flag support to the shell
66 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
67 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
69 - Add perforce fetcher
70 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
71 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
72 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
73 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
74 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
75 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
77 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
78 and also adding a task dependency graph
79 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
80 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
82 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
83 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
84 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
86 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
88 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
92 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
93 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
94 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
96 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
97 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
99 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
100 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
101 virtual/libc dependency
102 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
103 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
105 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
106 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
108 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
109 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
110 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
111 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
112 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
113 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
114 - Change the format of the cache
115 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
116 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
117 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
118 with few data changes
120 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
121 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
122 development of new Fetchers.
123 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
124 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
126 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
127 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
128 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
129 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
131 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
132 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
133 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
134 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
135 file can not be found.
136 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
137 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
138 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
139 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
140 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
141 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
143 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
144 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
145 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
146 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
147 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
148 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
149 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
150 - Update the bitbake usermanual
152 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
153 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
154 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
155 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
156 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
157 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
158 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
159 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
160 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
161 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
162 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
163 additional parameters
164 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
165 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
168 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
169 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
170 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
172 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
173 get a instance of a data class
174 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
175 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
176 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch