1 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
2 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
3 development of new Fetchers.
4 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
5 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
7 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
8 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
9 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
10 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
12 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
13 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
14 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
15 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
16 file can not be found.
17 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
18 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
19 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
20 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
21 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
22 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
24 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
25 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
26 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
27 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
28 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
29 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
30 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
31 - Update the bitbake usermanual
33 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
34 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
35 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
36 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
37 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
38 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
39 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
40 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
41 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
42 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
43 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
45 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
46 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
49 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
50 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
51 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
53 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
54 get a instance of a data class
55 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
56 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
57 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch