1 Changes in BitBake 1.8.x:
2 - Fix exit code for build failures in --continue mode
3 - Fix git branch tags fetching
5 Changes in BitBake 1.8.10:
6 - Psyco is available only for x86 - do not use it on other architectures.
7 - Fix a bug in bb.decodeurl where http://some.where.com/somefile.tgz decoded to host="" (#1530)
8 - Warn about malformed PREFERRED_PROVIDERS (#1072)
9 - Add support for BB_NICE_LEVEL option (#1627)
10 - Sort initial providers list by default preference (#1145, #2024)
11 - Improve provider sorting so prefered versions have preference over latest versions (#768)
12 - Detect builds of tasks with overlapping providers and warn (will become a fatal error) (#1359)
13 - Add MULTI_PROVIDER_WHITELIST variable to allow known safe multiple providers to be listed
14 - Handle paths in svn fetcher module parameter
15 - Support the syntax "export VARIABLE"
17 - Add support for cleaning directories before a task in the form:
18 do_taskname[cleandirs] = "dir"
19 - bzr fetcher tweaks from Robert Schuster (#2913)
20 - Add mercurial (hg) fetcher from Robert Schuster (#2913)
21 - Fix bogus preferred_version return values
22 - Fix 'depends' flag splitting
23 - Fix unexport handling (#3135)
24 - Add bb.copyfile function similar to bb.movefile (and improve movefile error reporting)
25 - Allow multiple options for deptask flag
26 - Use git-fetch instead of git-pull removing any need for merges when
27 fetching (we don't care about the index). Fixes fetch errors.
28 - Add BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS option, set to 0 to make git fetches
29 faster at the expense of not creating mirror tarballs.
30 - SRCREV handling updates, improvements and fixes from Poky
31 - Add bb.utils.lockfile() and bb.utils.unlockfile() from Poky
32 - Add support for task selfstamp and lockfiles flags
33 - Disable task number acceleration since it can allow the tasks to run
35 - Improve runqueue code comments
36 - Add task scheduler abstraction and some example schedulers
37 - Improve circular dependency chain debugging code and user feedback
38 - Don't give a stacktrace for invalid tasks, have a user friendly message (#3431)
39 - Add support for "-e target" (#3432)
40 - Fix shell showdata command (#3259)
41 - Fix shell data updating problems (#1880)
42 - Properly raise errors for invalid source URI protocols
43 - Change the wget fetcher failure handling to avoid lockfile problems
44 - Add git branch support
45 - Add support for branches in git fetcher (Otavio Salvador, Michael Lauer)
46 - Make taskdata and runqueue errors more user friendly
47 - Add norecurse and fullpath options to cvs fetcher
49 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.8:
50 - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier
51 as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes
52 (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf)
53 - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624)
54 - Import persistent data store from trunk
55 - Sync fetcher code with that in trunk, adding SRCREV support for svn
56 - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete
57 - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable
58 - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code)
59 - Make sure intertask depends get processed correcting in recursive depends
60 - Add pn-PN to overrides when evaluating PREFERRED_VERSION
61 - Improve the progress indicator by skipping tasks that have
62 already run before starting the build rather than during it
63 - Add profiling option (-P)
64 - Add BB_SRCREV_POLICY variable (clear or cache) to control SRCREV cache
65 - Add SRCREV_FORMAT support
66 - Fix local fetcher's localpath return values
67 - Apply OVERRIDES before performing immediate expansions
68 - Allow the -b -e option combination to take regular expressions
69 - Add plain message function to bb.msg
70 - Sort the list of providers before processing so dependency problems are
71 reproducible rather than effectively random
72 - Add locking for fetchers so only one tries to fetch a given file at a given time
73 - Fix int(0)/None confusion in runqueue.py which causes random gaps in dependency chains
74 - Fix handling of variables with expansion in the name using _append/_prepend
75 e.g. RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_append_xyz = "abc"
76 - Expand data in addtasks
77 - Print the list of missing DEPENDS,RDEPENDS for the "No buildable providers available for required...."
79 - Rework add_task to be more efficient (6% speedup, 7% number of function calls reduction)
80 - Sort digraph output to make builds more reproducible
81 - Split expandKeys into two for loops to benefit from the expand_cache (12% speedup)
82 - runqueue.py: Fix idepends handling to avoid dependency errors
83 - Clear the terminal TOSTOP flag if set (and warn the user)
84 - Fix regression from r653 and make SRCDATE/CVSDATE work for packages again
86 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.6:
87 - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
88 - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
89 - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings
91 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.4:
92 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
93 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
94 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
95 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
96 - Don't run build sanity checks on incomplete builds
97 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
100 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
101 - Catch truncated cache file errors
102 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
103 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
104 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
105 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
107 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
108 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
110 Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
111 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
112 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
114 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
115 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
116 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
117 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
118 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
119 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
120 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
121 - Logging message improvements
122 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
123 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
124 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
125 including mirroring code
126 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
127 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
128 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
129 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
130 - Add abort flag support to the shell
131 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
132 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
134 - Add perforce fetcher
135 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
136 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
137 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
138 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
139 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
140 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
142 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
143 and also adding a task dependency graph
144 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
145 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
147 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
148 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
149 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
151 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
152 - Better msg handling
153 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
154 to better performance
157 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
158 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
159 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
161 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
162 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
164 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
165 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
166 virtual/libc dependency
167 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
168 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
170 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
171 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
173 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
174 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
175 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
176 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
177 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
178 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
179 - Change the format of the cache
180 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
181 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
182 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
183 with few data changes
185 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
186 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
187 development of new Fetchers.
188 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
189 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
191 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
192 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
193 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
194 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
196 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
197 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
198 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
199 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
200 file can not be found.
201 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
202 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
203 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
204 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
205 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
206 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
208 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
209 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
210 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
211 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
212 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
213 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
214 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
215 - Update the bitbake usermanual
217 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
218 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
219 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
220 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
221 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
222 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
223 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
224 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
225 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
226 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
227 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
228 additional parameters
229 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
230 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
233 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
234 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
235 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
237 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
238 get a instance of a data class
239 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
240 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
241 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch
projects / vuplus_bitbake / blob