1 Changes in BitBake 1.8.x:
2 - Psyco is available only for x86 - do not use it on other architectures.
3 - Sort initial providers list by default preference (#1145, #2024)
4 - Improve provider sorting so prefered versions have preference over latest versions (#768)
5 - Fix a bug in bb.decodeurl where http://some.where.com/somefile.tgz decoded to host="" (#1530)
6 - Warn about malformed PREFERRED_PROVIDERS (#1072)
7 - Add support for BB_NICE_LEVEL option (#1627)
8 - Sort initial providers list by default preference (#1145, #2024)
9 - Improve provider sorting so prefered versions have preference over latest versions (#768)
12 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.8:
13 - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier
14 as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes
15 (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf)
16 - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624)
17 - Import persistent data store from trunk
18 - Sync fetcher code with that in trunk, adding SRCREV support for svn
19 - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete
20 - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable
21 - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code)
22 - Make sure intertask depends get processed correcting in recursive depends
23 - Add pn-PN to overrides when evaluating PREFERRED_VERSION
24 - Improve the progress indicator by skipping tasks that have
25 already run before starting the build rather than during it
26 - Add profiling option (-P)
27 - Add BB_SRCREV_POLICY variable (clear or cache) to control SRCREV cache
28 - Add SRCREV_FORMAT support
29 - Fix local fetcher's localpath return values
30 - Apply OVERRIDES before performing immediate expansions
31 - Allow the -b -e option combination to take regular expressions
32 - Add plain message function to bb.msg
33 - Sort the list of providers before processing so dependency problems are
34 reproducible rather than effectively random
35 - Add locking for fetchers so only one tries to fetch a given file at a given time
36 - Fix int(0)/None confusion in runqueue.py which causes random gaps in dependency chains
37 - Fix handling of variables with expansion in the name using _append/_prepend
38 e.g. RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_append_xyz = "abc"
39 - Expand data in addtasks
40 - Print the list of missing DEPENDS,RDEPENDS for the "No buildable providers available for required...."
42 - Rework add_task to be more efficient (6% speedup, 7% number of function calls reduction)
43 - Sort digraph output to make builds more reproducible
44 - Split expandKeys into two for loops to benefit from the expand_cache (12% speedup)
45 - runqueue.py: Fix idepends handling to avoid dependency errors
46 - Clear the terminal TOSTOP flag if set (and warn the user)
47 - Fix regression from r653 and make SRCDATE/CVSDATE work for packages again
49 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.6:
50 - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
51 - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
52 - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings
54 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.4:
55 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
56 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
57 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
58 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
59 - Don't run build sanity checks on incomplete builds
60 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
63 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
64 - Catch truncated cache file errors
65 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
66 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
67 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
68 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
70 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
71 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
73 Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
74 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
75 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
77 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
78 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
79 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
80 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
81 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
82 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
83 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
84 - Logging message improvements
85 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
86 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
87 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
88 including mirroring code
89 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
90 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
91 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
92 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
93 - Add abort flag support to the shell
94 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
95 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
97 - Add perforce fetcher
98 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
99 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
100 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
101 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
102 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
103 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
105 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
106 and also adding a task dependency graph
107 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
108 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
110 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
111 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
112 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
114 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
115 - Better msg handling
116 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
117 to better performance
120 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
121 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
122 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
124 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
125 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
127 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
128 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
129 virtual/libc dependency
130 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
131 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
133 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
134 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
136 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
137 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
138 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
139 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
140 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
141 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
142 - Change the format of the cache
143 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
144 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
145 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
146 with few data changes
148 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
149 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
150 development of new Fetchers.
151 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
152 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
154 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
155 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
156 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
157 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
159 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
160 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
161 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
162 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
163 file can not be found.
164 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
165 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
166 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
167 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
168 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
169 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
171 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
172 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
173 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
174 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
175 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
176 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
177 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
178 - Update the bitbake usermanual
180 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
181 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
182 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
183 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
184 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
185 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
186 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
187 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
188 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
189 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
190 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
191 additional parameters
192 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
193 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
196 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
197 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
198 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
200 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
201 get a instance of a data class
202 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
203 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
204 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch
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