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