1 Changes in BitBake 1.8.x:
2 - Fix exit code for build failures in --continue mode
3 - Fix git branch tags fetching
4 - Change parseConfigurationFile so it works on real data, not a copy
5 - Handle 'base' inherit and all other INHERITs from parseConfigurationFile
7 - Fix getVarFlags bug in data_smart
9 Changes in BitBake 1.8.10:
10 - Psyco is available only for x86 - do not use it on other architectures.
11 - Fix a bug in bb.decodeurl where http://some.where.com/somefile.tgz decoded to host="" (#1530)
12 - Warn about malformed PREFERRED_PROVIDERS (#1072)
13 - Add support for BB_NICE_LEVEL option (#1627)
14 - Sort initial providers list by default preference (#1145, #2024)
15 - Improve provider sorting so prefered versions have preference over latest versions (#768)
16 - Detect builds of tasks with overlapping providers and warn (will become a fatal error) (#1359)
17 - Add MULTI_PROVIDER_WHITELIST variable to allow known safe multiple providers to be listed
18 - Handle paths in svn fetcher module parameter
19 - Support the syntax "export VARIABLE"
21 - Add support for cleaning directories before a task in the form:
22 do_taskname[cleandirs] = "dir"
23 - bzr fetcher tweaks from Robert Schuster (#2913)
24 - Add mercurial (hg) fetcher from Robert Schuster (#2913)
25 - Fix bogus preferred_version return values
26 - Fix 'depends' flag splitting
27 - Fix unexport handling (#3135)
28 - Add bb.copyfile function similar to bb.movefile (and improve movefile error reporting)
29 - Allow multiple options for deptask flag
30 - Use git-fetch instead of git-pull removing any need for merges when
31 fetching (we don't care about the index). Fixes fetch errors.
32 - Add BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS option, set to 0 to make git fetches
33 faster at the expense of not creating mirror tarballs.
34 - SRCREV handling updates, improvements and fixes from Poky
35 - Add bb.utils.lockfile() and bb.utils.unlockfile() from Poky
36 - Add support for task selfstamp and lockfiles flags
37 - Disable task number acceleration since it can allow the tasks to run
39 - Improve runqueue code comments
40 - Add task scheduler abstraction and some example schedulers
41 - Improve circular dependency chain debugging code and user feedback
42 - Don't give a stacktrace for invalid tasks, have a user friendly message (#3431)
43 - Add support for "-e target" (#3432)
44 - Fix shell showdata command (#3259)
45 - Fix shell data updating problems (#1880)
46 - Properly raise errors for invalid source URI protocols
47 - Change the wget fetcher failure handling to avoid lockfile problems
48 - Add git branch support
49 - Add support for branches in git fetcher (Otavio Salvador, Michael Lauer)
50 - Make taskdata and runqueue errors more user friendly
51 - Add norecurse and fullpath options to cvs fetcher
53 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.8:
54 - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier
55 as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes
56 (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf)
57 - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624)
58 - Import persistent data store from trunk
59 - Sync fetcher code with that in trunk, adding SRCREV support for svn
60 - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete
61 - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable
62 - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code)
63 - Make sure intertask depends get processed correcting in recursive depends
64 - Add pn-PN to overrides when evaluating PREFERRED_VERSION
65 - Improve the progress indicator by skipping tasks that have
66 already run before starting the build rather than during it
67 - Add profiling option (-P)
68 - Add BB_SRCREV_POLICY variable (clear or cache) to control SRCREV cache
69 - Add SRCREV_FORMAT support
70 - Fix local fetcher's localpath return values
71 - Apply OVERRIDES before performing immediate expansions
72 - Allow the -b -e option combination to take regular expressions
73 - Add plain message function to bb.msg
74 - Sort the list of providers before processing so dependency problems are
75 reproducible rather than effectively random
76 - Add locking for fetchers so only one tries to fetch a given file at a given time
77 - Fix int(0)/None confusion in runqueue.py which causes random gaps in dependency chains
78 - Fix handling of variables with expansion in the name using _append/_prepend
79 e.g. RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_append_xyz = "abc"
80 - Expand data in addtasks
81 - Print the list of missing DEPENDS,RDEPENDS for the "No buildable providers available for required...."
83 - Rework add_task to be more efficient (6% speedup, 7% number of function calls reduction)
84 - Sort digraph output to make builds more reproducible
85 - Split expandKeys into two for loops to benefit from the expand_cache (12% speedup)
86 - runqueue.py: Fix idepends handling to avoid dependency errors
87 - Clear the terminal TOSTOP flag if set (and warn the user)
88 - Fix regression from r653 and make SRCDATE/CVSDATE work for packages again
90 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.6:
91 - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
92 - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
93 - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings
95 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.4:
96 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
97 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
98 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
99 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
100 - Don't run build sanity checks on incomplete builds
101 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
104 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
105 - Catch truncated cache file errors
106 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
107 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
108 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
109 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
111 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
112 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
114 Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
115 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
116 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
118 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
119 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
120 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
121 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
122 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
123 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
124 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
125 - Logging message improvements
126 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
127 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
128 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
129 including mirroring code
130 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
131 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
132 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
133 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
134 - Add abort flag support to the shell
135 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
136 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
138 - Add perforce fetcher
139 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
140 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
141 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
142 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
143 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
144 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
146 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
147 and also adding a task dependency graph
148 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
149 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
151 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
152 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
153 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
155 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
156 - Better msg handling
157 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
158 to better performance
161 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
162 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
163 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
165 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
166 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
168 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
169 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
170 virtual/libc dependency
171 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
172 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
174 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
175 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
177 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
178 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
179 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
180 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
181 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
182 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
183 - Change the format of the cache
184 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
185 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
186 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
187 with few data changes
189 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
190 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
191 development of new Fetchers.
192 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
193 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
195 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
196 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
197 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
198 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
200 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
201 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
202 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
203 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
204 file can not be found.
205 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
206 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
207 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
208 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
209 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
210 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
212 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
213 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
214 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
215 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
216 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
217 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
218 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
219 - Update the bitbake usermanual
221 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
222 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
223 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
224 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
225 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
226 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
227 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
228 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
229 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
230 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
231 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
232 additional parameters
233 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
234 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
237 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
238 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
239 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
241 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
242 get a instance of a data class
243 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
244 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
245 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch
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