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