1 Changes in BitBake 1.3.x:
2 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
3 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
4 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
6 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
7 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
8 development of new Fetchers.
9 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
10 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
12 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
13 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
14 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
15 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
17 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
18 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
19 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
20 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
21 file can not be found.
22 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
23 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
24 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
25 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
26 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
27 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
29 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
30 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
31 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
32 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
33 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
34 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
35 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
36 - Update the bitbake usermanual
38 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
39 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
40 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
41 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
42 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
43 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
44 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
45 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
46 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
47 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
48 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
50 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
51 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
54 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
55 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
56 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
58 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
59 get a instance of a data class
60 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
61 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
62 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch