1 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.x:
2 - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier
3 as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes
4 (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf)
5 - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624)
6 - Import persistent data store from trunk
7 - Sync fetcher code with that in trunk, adding SRCREV support for svn
8 - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete
9 - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable
10 - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code)
11 - Make sure intertask depends get processed correcting in recursive depends
12 - Add pn-PN to overrides when evaluating PREFERRED_VERSION
13 - Improve the progress indicator by skipping tasks that have
14 already run before starting the build rather than during it
15 - Add profiling option (-P)
16 - Add BB_SRCREV_POLICY variable (clear or cache) to control SRCREV cache
17 - Add SRCREV_FORMAT support
18 - Fix local fetcher's localpath return values
19 - Apply OVERRIDES before performing immediate expansions
20 - Allow the -b -e option combination to take regular expressions
21 - Add plain message function to bb.msg
22 - Sort the list of providers before processing so dependency problems are
23 reproducible rather than effectively random
25 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.6:
26 - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
27 - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
28 - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings
30 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.4:
31 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
32 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
33 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
34 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
35 - Don't run build sanity checks on incomplete builds
36 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
39 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
40 - Catch truncated cache file errors
41 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
42 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
43 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
44 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
46 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
47 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
49 Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
50 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
51 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
53 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
54 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
55 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
56 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
57 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
58 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
59 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
60 - Logging message improvements
61 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
62 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
63 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
64 including mirroring code
65 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
66 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
67 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
68 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
69 - Add abort flag support to the shell
70 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
71 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
73 - Add perforce fetcher
74 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
75 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
76 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
77 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
78 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
79 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
81 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
82 and also adding a task dependency graph
83 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
84 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
86 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
87 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
88 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
90 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
92 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
96 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
97 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
98 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
100 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
101 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
103 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
104 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
105 virtual/libc dependency
106 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
107 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
109 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
110 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
112 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
113 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
114 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
115 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
116 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
117 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
118 - Change the format of the cache
119 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
120 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
121 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
122 with few data changes
124 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
125 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
126 development of new Fetchers.
127 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
128 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
130 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
131 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
132 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
133 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
135 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
136 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
137 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
138 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
139 file can not be found.
140 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
141 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
142 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
143 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
144 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
145 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
147 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
148 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
149 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
150 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
151 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
152 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
153 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
154 - Update the bitbake usermanual
156 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
157 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
158 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
159 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
160 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
161 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
162 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
163 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
164 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
165 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
166 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
167 additional parameters
168 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
169 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
172 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
173 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
174 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
176 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
177 get a instance of a data class
178 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
179 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
180 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch
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