1 Changes in BitBake 1.8.x:
2 - Psyco is available only for x86 - do not use it on other architectures.
3 - Fix a bug in bb.decodeurl where http://some.where.com/somefile.tgz decoded to host="" (#1530)
4 - Warn about malformed PREFERRED_PROVIDERS (#1072)
5 - Add support for BB_NICE_LEVEL option (#1627)
6 - Sort initial providers list by default preference (#1145, #2024)
7 - Improve provider sorting so prefered versions have preference over latest versions (#768)
8 - Detect builds of tasks with overlapping providers and warn (will become a fatal error) (#1359)
9 - Add MULTI_PROVIDER_WHITELIST variable to allow known safe multiple providers to be listed
10 - Handle paths in svn fetcher module parameter
11 - Support the syntax "export VARIABLE"
13 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.8:
14 - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier
15 as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes
16 (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf)
17 - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624)
18 - Import persistent data store from trunk
19 - Sync fetcher code with that in trunk, adding SRCREV support for svn
20 - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete
21 - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable
22 - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code)
23 - Make sure intertask depends get processed correcting in recursive depends
24 - Add pn-PN to overrides when evaluating PREFERRED_VERSION
25 - Improve the progress indicator by skipping tasks that have
26 already run before starting the build rather than during it
27 - Add profiling option (-P)
28 - Add BB_SRCREV_POLICY variable (clear or cache) to control SRCREV cache
29 - Add SRCREV_FORMAT support
30 - Fix local fetcher's localpath return values
31 - Apply OVERRIDES before performing immediate expansions
32 - Allow the -b -e option combination to take regular expressions
33 - Add plain message function to bb.msg
34 - Sort the list of providers before processing so dependency problems are
35 reproducible rather than effectively random
36 - Add locking for fetchers so only one tries to fetch a given file at a given time
37 - Fix int(0)/None confusion in runqueue.py which causes random gaps in dependency chains
38 - Fix handling of variables with expansion in the name using _append/_prepend
39 e.g. RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_append_xyz = "abc"
40 - Expand data in addtasks
41 - Print the list of missing DEPENDS,RDEPENDS for the "No buildable providers available for required...."
43 - Rework add_task to be more efficient (6% speedup, 7% number of function calls reduction)
44 - Sort digraph output to make builds more reproducible
45 - Split expandKeys into two for loops to benefit from the expand_cache (12% speedup)
46 - runqueue.py: Fix idepends handling to avoid dependency errors
47 - Clear the terminal TOSTOP flag if set (and warn the user)
48 - Fix regression from r653 and make SRCDATE/CVSDATE work for packages again
50 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.6:
51 - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
52 - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
53 - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings
55 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.4:
56 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
57 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
58 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
59 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
60 - Don't run build sanity checks on incomplete builds
61 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
64 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
65 - Catch truncated cache file errors
66 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
67 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
68 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
69 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
71 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
72 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
74 Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
75 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
76 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
78 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
79 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
80 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
81 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
82 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
83 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
84 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
85 - Logging message improvements
86 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
87 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
88 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
89 including mirroring code
90 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
91 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
92 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
93 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
94 - Add abort flag support to the shell
95 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
96 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
98 - Add perforce fetcher
99 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
100 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
101 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
102 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
103 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
104 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
106 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
107 and also adding a task dependency graph
108 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
109 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
111 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
112 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
113 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
115 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
116 - Better msg handling
117 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
118 to better performance
121 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
122 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
123 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
125 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
126 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
128 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
129 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
130 virtual/libc dependency
131 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
132 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
134 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
135 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
137 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
138 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
139 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
140 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
141 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
142 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
143 - Change the format of the cache
144 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
145 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
146 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
147 with few data changes
149 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
150 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
151 development of new Fetchers.
152 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
153 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
155 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
156 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
157 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
158 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
160 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
161 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
162 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
163 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
164 file can not be found.
165 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
166 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
167 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
168 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
169 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
170 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
172 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
173 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
174 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
175 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
176 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
177 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
178 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
179 - Update the bitbake usermanual
181 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
182 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
183 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
184 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
185 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
186 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
187 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
188 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
189 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
190 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
191 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
192 additional parameters
193 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
194 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
197 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
198 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
199 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
201 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
202 get a instance of a data class
203 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
204 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
205 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch
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