1 Changes in BitBake 1.6.3:
2 - Various updates to the svn fetcher
3 - Various updates to the cvs fetcher (port number)
6 - Various packaging changes
8 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.1:
9 - Add support for the interactive flag (backported from trunk)
10 - Ignore versions in DEPENDS (backported from trunk)
11 - Fix bug referencing bb.providers in shell.py
12 - Remove some debug that crept in
14 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
16 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
20 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
21 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
22 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
24 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
25 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
27 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
28 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
29 virtual/libc dependency
30 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
31 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
33 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
34 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
36 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
37 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
38 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
39 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
40 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
41 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
42 - Change the format of the cache
43 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
44 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
45 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
48 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
49 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
50 development of new Fetchers.
51 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
52 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
54 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
55 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
56 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
57 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
59 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
60 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
61 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
62 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
63 file can not be found.
64 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
65 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
66 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
67 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
68 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
69 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
71 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
72 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
73 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
74 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
75 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
76 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
77 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
78 - Update the bitbake usermanual
80 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
81 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
82 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
83 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
84 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
85 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
86 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
87 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
88 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
89 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
90 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
92 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
93 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
96 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
97 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
98 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
100 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
101 get a instance of a data class
102 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
103 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
104 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch