1 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.x:
2 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
3 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
4 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
5 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
6 - Don't run build sanity checks on incomplete builds
7 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
10 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
11 - Catch truncated cache file errors
12 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
13 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
14 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
15 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
17 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
18 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
20 Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
21 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
22 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
24 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
25 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
26 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
27 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
28 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
29 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
30 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
31 - Logging message improvements
32 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
33 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
34 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
35 including mirroring code
36 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
37 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
38 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
39 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
40 - Add abort flag support to the shell
41 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
42 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
44 - Add perforce fetcher
45 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
46 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
47 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
48 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
49 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
50 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
52 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
53 and also adding a task dependency graph
54 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
55 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
57 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
58 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
59 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
61 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
63 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
67 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
68 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
69 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
71 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
72 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
74 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
75 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
76 virtual/libc dependency
77 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
78 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
80 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
81 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
83 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
84 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
85 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
86 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
87 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
88 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
89 - Change the format of the cache
90 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
91 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
92 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
95 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
96 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
97 development of new Fetchers.
98 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
99 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
101 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
102 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
103 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
104 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
106 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
107 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
108 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
109 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
110 file can not be found.
111 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
112 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
113 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
114 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
115 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
116 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
118 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
119 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
120 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
121 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
122 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
123 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
124 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
125 - Update the bitbake usermanual
127 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
128 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
129 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
130 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
131 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
132 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
133 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
134 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
135 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
136 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
137 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
138 additional parameters
139 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
140 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
143 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
144 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
145 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
147 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
148 get a instance of a data class
149 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
150 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
151 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch