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