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