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