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
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.
27 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.8:
28 - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier
29 as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes
30 (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf)
31 - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624)
32 - Import persistent data store from trunk
33 - Sync fetcher code with that in trunk, adding SRCREV support for svn
34 - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete
35 - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable
36 - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code)
37 - Make sure intertask depends get processed correcting in recursive depends
38 - Add pn-PN to overrides when evaluating PREFERRED_VERSION
39 - Improve the progress indicator by skipping tasks that have
40 already run before starting the build rather than during it
41 - Add profiling option (-P)
42 - Add BB_SRCREV_POLICY variable (clear or cache) to control SRCREV cache
43 - Add SRCREV_FORMAT support
44 - Fix local fetcher's localpath return values
45 - Apply OVERRIDES before performing immediate expansions
46 - Allow the -b -e option combination to take regular expressions
47 - Add plain message function to bb.msg
48 - Sort the list of providers before processing so dependency problems are
49 reproducible rather than effectively random
50 - Add locking for fetchers so only one tries to fetch a given file at a given time
51 - Fix int(0)/None confusion in runqueue.py which causes random gaps in dependency chains
52 - Fix handling of variables with expansion in the name using _append/_prepend
53 e.g. RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_append_xyz = "abc"
54 - Expand data in addtasks
55 - Print the list of missing DEPENDS,RDEPENDS for the "No buildable providers available for required...."
57 - Rework add_task to be more efficient (6% speedup, 7% number of function calls reduction)
58 - Sort digraph output to make builds more reproducible
59 - Split expandKeys into two for loops to benefit from the expand_cache (12% speedup)
60 - runqueue.py: Fix idepends handling to avoid dependency errors
61 - Clear the terminal TOSTOP flag if set (and warn the user)
62 - Fix regression from r653 and make SRCDATE/CVSDATE work for packages again
64 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.6:
65 - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
66 - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
67 - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings
69 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.4:
70 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
71 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
72 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
73 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
74 - Don't run build sanity checks on incomplete builds
75 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
78 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
79 - Catch truncated cache file errors
80 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
81 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
82 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
83 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
85 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
86 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
88 Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
89 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
90 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
92 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
93 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
94 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
95 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
96 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
97 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
98 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
99 - Logging message improvements
100 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
101 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
102 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
103 including mirroring code
104 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
105 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
106 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
107 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
108 - Add abort flag support to the shell
109 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
110 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
112 - Add perforce fetcher
113 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
114 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
115 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
116 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
117 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
118 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
120 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
121 and also adding a task dependency graph
122 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
123 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
125 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
126 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
127 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
129 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
130 - Better msg handling
131 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
132 to better performance
135 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
136 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
137 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
139 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
140 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
142 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
143 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
144 virtual/libc dependency
145 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
146 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
148 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
149 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
151 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
152 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
153 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
154 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
155 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
156 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
157 - Change the format of the cache
158 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
159 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
160 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
161 with few data changes
163 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
164 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
165 development of new Fetchers.
166 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
167 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
169 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
170 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
171 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
172 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
174 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
175 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
176 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
177 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
178 file can not be found.
179 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
180 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
181 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
182 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
183 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
184 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
186 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
187 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
188 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
189 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
190 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
191 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
192 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
193 - Update the bitbake usermanual
195 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
196 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
197 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
198 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
199 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
200 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
201 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
202 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
203 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
204 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
205 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
206 additional parameters
207 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
208 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
211 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
212 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
213 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
215 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
216 get a instance of a data class
217 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
218 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
219 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch
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