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