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