1 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.x:
2 - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
3 - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
5 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.4:
6 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
7 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
8 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
9 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
10 - Don't run build sanity checks on incomplete builds
11 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
14 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
15 - Catch truncated cache file errors
16 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
17 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
18 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
19 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
21 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
22 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
24 Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
25 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
26 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
28 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
29 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
30 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
31 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
32 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
33 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
34 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
35 - Logging message improvements
36 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
37 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
38 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
39 including mirroring code
40 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
41 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
42 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
43 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
44 - Add abort flag support to the shell
45 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
46 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
48 - Add perforce fetcher
49 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
50 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
51 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
52 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
53 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
54 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
56 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
57 and also adding a task dependency graph
58 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
59 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
61 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
62 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
63 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
65 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
67 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
71 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
72 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
73 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
75 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
76 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
78 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
79 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
80 virtual/libc dependency
81 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
82 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
84 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
85 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
87 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
88 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
89 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
90 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
91 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
92 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
93 - Change the format of the cache
94 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
95 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
96 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
99 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
100 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
101 development of new Fetchers.
102 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
103 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
105 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
106 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
107 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
108 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
110 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
111 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
112 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
113 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
114 file can not be found.
115 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
116 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
117 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
118 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
119 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
120 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
122 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
123 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
124 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
125 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
126 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
127 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
128 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
129 - Update the bitbake usermanual
131 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
132 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
133 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
134 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
135 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
136 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
137 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
138 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
139 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
140 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
141 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
142 additional parameters
143 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
144 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
147 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
148 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
149 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
151 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
152 get a instance of a data class
153 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
154 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
155 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch