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