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