1 Changes in BitBake 1.8.10:
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)
37 - Fix shell data updating problems (#1880)
38 - Properly raise errors for invalid source URI protocols
39 - Change the wget fetcher failure handling to avoid lockfile problems
40 - Add git branch support
41 - Add support for branches in git fetcher (Otavio Salvador, Michael Lauer)
42 - Make taskdata and runqueue errors more user friendly
43 - Add norecurse and fullpath options to cvs fetcher
45 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.8:
46 - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier
47 as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes
48 (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf)
49 - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624)
50 - Import persistent data store from trunk
51 - Sync fetcher code with that in trunk, adding SRCREV support for svn
52 - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete
53 - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable
54 - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code)
55 - Make sure intertask depends get processed correcting in recursive depends
56 - Add pn-PN to overrides when evaluating PREFERRED_VERSION
57 - Improve the progress indicator by skipping tasks that have
58 already run before starting the build rather than during it
59 - Add profiling option (-P)
60 - Add BB_SRCREV_POLICY variable (clear or cache) to control SRCREV cache
61 - Add SRCREV_FORMAT support
62 - Fix local fetcher's localpath return values
63 - Apply OVERRIDES before performing immediate expansions
64 - Allow the -b -e option combination to take regular expressions
65 - Add plain message function to bb.msg
66 - Sort the list of providers before processing so dependency problems are
67 reproducible rather than effectively random
68 - Add locking for fetchers so only one tries to fetch a given file at a given time
69 - Fix int(0)/None confusion in runqueue.py which causes random gaps in dependency chains
70 - Fix handling of variables with expansion in the name using _append/_prepend
71 e.g. RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_append_xyz = "abc"
72 - Expand data in addtasks
73 - Print the list of missing DEPENDS,RDEPENDS for the "No buildable providers available for required...."
75 - Rework add_task to be more efficient (6% speedup, 7% number of function calls reduction)
76 - Sort digraph output to make builds more reproducible
77 - Split expandKeys into two for loops to benefit from the expand_cache (12% speedup)
78 - runqueue.py: Fix idepends handling to avoid dependency errors
79 - Clear the terminal TOSTOP flag if set (and warn the user)
80 - Fix regression from r653 and make SRCDATE/CVSDATE work for packages again
82 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.6:
83 - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
84 - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
85 - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings
87 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.4:
88 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
89 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
90 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
91 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
92 - Don't run build sanity checks on incomplete builds
93 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
96 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
97 - Catch truncated cache file errors
98 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
99 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
100 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
101 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
103 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
104 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
106 Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
107 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
108 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
110 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
111 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
112 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
113 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
114 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
115 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
116 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
117 - Logging message improvements
118 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
119 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
120 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
121 including mirroring code
122 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
123 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
124 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
125 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
126 - Add abort flag support to the shell
127 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
128 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
130 - Add perforce fetcher
131 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
132 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
133 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
134 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
135 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
136 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
138 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
139 and also adding a task dependency graph
140 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
141 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
143 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
144 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
145 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
147 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
148 - Better msg handling
149 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
150 to better performance
153 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
154 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
155 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
157 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
158 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
160 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
161 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
162 virtual/libc dependency
163 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
164 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
166 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
167 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
169 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
170 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
171 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
172 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
173 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
174 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
175 - Change the format of the cache
176 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
177 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
178 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
179 with few data changes
181 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
182 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
183 development of new Fetchers.
184 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
185 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
187 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
188 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
189 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
190 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
192 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
193 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
194 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
195 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
196 file can not be found.
197 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
198 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
199 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
200 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
201 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
202 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
204 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
205 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
206 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
207 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
208 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
209 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
210 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
211 - Update the bitbake usermanual
213 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
214 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
215 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
216 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
217 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
218 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
219 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
220 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
221 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
222 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
223 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
224 additional parameters
225 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
226 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
229 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
230 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
231 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
233 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
234 get a instance of a data class
235 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
236 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
237 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch
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