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