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