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
20 - Add BB_SCHEDULER variable/option ("completion" or "speed") controlling
21 the way bitbake schedules tasks
22 - Add BB_STAMP_POLICY variable/option ("perfile" or "full") controlling
23 how extensively stamps are looked at for validity
25 Changes in BitBake 1.8.10:
26 - Psyco is available only for x86 - do not use it on other architectures.
27 - Fix a bug in bb.decodeurl where http://some.where.com/somefile.tgz decoded to host="" (#1530)
28 - Warn about malformed PREFERRED_PROVIDERS (#1072)
29 - Add support for BB_NICE_LEVEL option (#1627)
30 - Sort initial providers list by default preference (#1145, #2024)
31 - Improve provider sorting so prefered versions have preference over latest versions (#768)
32 - Detect builds of tasks with overlapping providers and warn (will become a fatal error) (#1359)
33 - Add MULTI_PROVIDER_WHITELIST variable to allow known safe multiple providers to be listed
34 - Handle paths in svn fetcher module parameter
35 - Support the syntax "export VARIABLE"
37 - Add support for cleaning directories before a task in the form:
38 do_taskname[cleandirs] = "dir"
39 - bzr fetcher tweaks from Robert Schuster (#2913)
40 - Add mercurial (hg) fetcher from Robert Schuster (#2913)
41 - Fix bogus preferred_version return values
42 - Fix 'depends' flag splitting
43 - Fix unexport handling (#3135)
44 - Add bb.copyfile function similar to bb.movefile (and improve movefile error reporting)
45 - Allow multiple options for deptask flag
46 - Use git-fetch instead of git-pull removing any need for merges when
47 fetching (we don't care about the index). Fixes fetch errors.
48 - Add BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS option, set to 0 to make git fetches
49 faster at the expense of not creating mirror tarballs.
50 - SRCREV handling updates, improvements and fixes from Poky
51 - Add bb.utils.lockfile() and bb.utils.unlockfile() from Poky
52 - Add support for task selfstamp and lockfiles flags
53 - Disable task number acceleration since it can allow the tasks to run
55 - Improve runqueue code comments
56 - Add task scheduler abstraction and some example schedulers
57 - Improve circular dependency chain debugging code and user feedback
58 - Don't give a stacktrace for invalid tasks, have a user friendly message (#3431)
59 - Add support for "-e target" (#3432)
60 - Fix shell showdata command (#3259)
61 - Fix shell data updating problems (#1880)
62 - Properly raise errors for invalid source URI protocols
63 - Change the wget fetcher failure handling to avoid lockfile problems
64 - Add git branch support
65 - Add support for branches in git fetcher (Otavio Salvador, Michael Lauer)
66 - Make taskdata and runqueue errors more user friendly
67 - Add norecurse and fullpath options to cvs fetcher
69 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.8:
70 - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier
71 as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes
72 (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf)
73 - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624)
74 - Import persistent data store from trunk
75 - Sync fetcher code with that in trunk, adding SRCREV support for svn
76 - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete
77 - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable
78 - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code)
79 - Make sure intertask depends get processed correcting in recursive depends
80 - Add pn-PN to overrides when evaluating PREFERRED_VERSION
81 - Improve the progress indicator by skipping tasks that have
82 already run before starting the build rather than during it
83 - Add profiling option (-P)
84 - Add BB_SRCREV_POLICY variable (clear or cache) to control SRCREV cache
85 - Add SRCREV_FORMAT support
86 - Fix local fetcher's localpath return values
87 - Apply OVERRIDES before performing immediate expansions
88 - Allow the -b -e option combination to take regular expressions
89 - Add plain message function to bb.msg
90 - Sort the list of providers before processing so dependency problems are
91 reproducible rather than effectively random
92 - Add locking for fetchers so only one tries to fetch a given file at a given time
93 - Fix int(0)/None confusion in runqueue.py which causes random gaps in dependency chains
94 - Fix handling of variables with expansion in the name using _append/_prepend
95 e.g. RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_append_xyz = "abc"
96 - Expand data in addtasks
97 - Print the list of missing DEPENDS,RDEPENDS for the "No buildable providers available for required...."
99 - Rework add_task to be more efficient (6% speedup, 7% number of function calls reduction)
100 - Sort digraph output to make builds more reproducible
101 - Split expandKeys into two for loops to benefit from the expand_cache (12% speedup)
102 - runqueue.py: Fix idepends handling to avoid dependency errors
103 - Clear the terminal TOSTOP flag if set (and warn the user)
104 - Fix regression from r653 and make SRCDATE/CVSDATE work for packages again
106 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.6:
107 - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
108 - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
109 - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings
111 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.4:
112 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
113 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
114 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
115 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
116 - Don't run build sanity checks on incomplete builds
117 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
120 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
121 - Catch truncated cache file errors
122 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
123 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
124 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
125 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
127 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
128 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
130 Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
131 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
132 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
134 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
135 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
136 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
137 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
138 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
139 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
140 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
141 - Logging message improvements
142 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
143 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
144 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
145 including mirroring code
146 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
147 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
148 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
149 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
150 - Add abort flag support to the shell
151 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
152 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
154 - Add perforce fetcher
155 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
156 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
157 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
158 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
159 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
160 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
162 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
163 and also adding a task dependency graph
164 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
165 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
167 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
168 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
169 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
171 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
172 - Better msg handling
173 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
174 to better performance
177 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
178 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
179 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
181 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
182 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
184 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
185 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
186 virtual/libc dependency
187 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
188 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
190 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
191 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
193 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
194 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
195 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
196 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
197 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
198 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
199 - Change the format of the cache
200 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
201 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
202 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
203 with few data changes
205 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
206 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
207 development of new Fetchers.
208 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
209 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
211 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
212 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
213 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
214 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
216 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
217 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
218 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
219 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
220 file can not be found.
221 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
222 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
223 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
224 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
225 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
226 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
228 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
229 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
230 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
231 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
232 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
233 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
234 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
235 - Update the bitbake usermanual
237 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
238 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
239 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
240 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
241 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
242 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
243 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
244 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
245 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
246 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
247 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
248 additional parameters
249 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
250 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
253 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
254 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
255 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
257 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
258 get a instance of a data class
259 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
260 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
261 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch
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