1 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
2 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
3 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
4 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
5 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
6 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
7 - Change the format of the cache
8 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
9 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
10 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
13 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
14 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
15 development of new Fetchers.
16 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
17 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
19 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
20 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
21 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
22 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
24 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
25 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
26 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
27 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
28 file can not be found.
29 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
30 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
31 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
32 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
33 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
34 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
36 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
37 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
38 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
39 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
40 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
41 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
42 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
43 - Update the bitbake usermanual
45 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
46 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
47 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
48 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
49 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
50 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
51 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
52 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
53 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
54 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
55 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
57 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
58 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
61 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
62 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
63 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
65 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
66 get a instance of a data class
67 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
68 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
69 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch