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