1 Changes in BitBake 1.8.x:
2 - Fix exit code for build failures in --continue mode
3 - Fix git branch tags fetching
4 - Change parseConfigurationFile so it works on real data, not a copy
5 - Handle 'base' inherit and all other INHERITs from parseConfigurationFile
7 - Fix getVarFlags bug in data_smart
8 - Optmise cache handling by more quickly detecting an invalid cache, only
9 saving the cache when its changed, moving the cache validity check into
10 the parsing loop and factoring some getVar calls outside a for loop
11 - Cooker: Remove a debug message from the parsing loop to lower overhead
12 - Convert build.py exec_task to use getVarFlags
13 - Update shell to use cooker.buildFile
15 Changes in BitBake 1.8.10:
16 - Psyco is available only for x86 - do not use it on other architectures.
17 - Fix a bug in bb.decodeurl where http://some.where.com/somefile.tgz decoded to host="" (#1530)
18 - Warn about malformed PREFERRED_PROVIDERS (#1072)
19 - Add support for BB_NICE_LEVEL option (#1627)
20 - Sort initial providers list by default preference (#1145, #2024)
21 - Improve provider sorting so prefered versions have preference over latest versions (#768)
22 - Detect builds of tasks with overlapping providers and warn (will become a fatal error) (#1359)
23 - Add MULTI_PROVIDER_WHITELIST variable to allow known safe multiple providers to be listed
24 - Handle paths in svn fetcher module parameter
25 - Support the syntax "export VARIABLE"
27 - Add support for cleaning directories before a task in the form:
28 do_taskname[cleandirs] = "dir"
29 - bzr fetcher tweaks from Robert Schuster (#2913)
30 - Add mercurial (hg) fetcher from Robert Schuster (#2913)
31 - Fix bogus preferred_version return values
32 - Fix 'depends' flag splitting
33 - Fix unexport handling (#3135)
34 - Add bb.copyfile function similar to bb.movefile (and improve movefile error reporting)
35 - Allow multiple options for deptask flag
36 - Use git-fetch instead of git-pull removing any need for merges when
37 fetching (we don't care about the index). Fixes fetch errors.
38 - Add BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS option, set to 0 to make git fetches
39 faster at the expense of not creating mirror tarballs.
40 - SRCREV handling updates, improvements and fixes from Poky
41 - Add bb.utils.lockfile() and bb.utils.unlockfile() from Poky
42 - Add support for task selfstamp and lockfiles flags
43 - Disable task number acceleration since it can allow the tasks to run
45 - Improve runqueue code comments
46 - Add task scheduler abstraction and some example schedulers
47 - Improve circular dependency chain debugging code and user feedback
48 - Don't give a stacktrace for invalid tasks, have a user friendly message (#3431)
49 - Add support for "-e target" (#3432)
50 - Fix shell showdata command (#3259)
51 - Fix shell data updating problems (#1880)
52 - Properly raise errors for invalid source URI protocols
53 - Change the wget fetcher failure handling to avoid lockfile problems
54 - Add git branch support
55 - Add support for branches in git fetcher (Otavio Salvador, Michael Lauer)
56 - Make taskdata and runqueue errors more user friendly
57 - Add norecurse and fullpath options to cvs fetcher
59 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.8:
60 - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier
61 as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes
62 (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf)
63 - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624)
64 - Import persistent data store from trunk
65 - Sync fetcher code with that in trunk, adding SRCREV support for svn
66 - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete
67 - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable
68 - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code)
69 - Make sure intertask depends get processed correcting in recursive depends
70 - Add pn-PN to overrides when evaluating PREFERRED_VERSION
71 - Improve the progress indicator by skipping tasks that have
72 already run before starting the build rather than during it
73 - Add profiling option (-P)
74 - Add BB_SRCREV_POLICY variable (clear or cache) to control SRCREV cache
75 - Add SRCREV_FORMAT support
76 - Fix local fetcher's localpath return values
77 - Apply OVERRIDES before performing immediate expansions
78 - Allow the -b -e option combination to take regular expressions
79 - Add plain message function to bb.msg
80 - Sort the list of providers before processing so dependency problems are
81 reproducible rather than effectively random
82 - Add locking for fetchers so only one tries to fetch a given file at a given time
83 - Fix int(0)/None confusion in runqueue.py which causes random gaps in dependency chains
84 - Fix handling of variables with expansion in the name using _append/_prepend
85 e.g. RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_append_xyz = "abc"
86 - Expand data in addtasks
87 - Print the list of missing DEPENDS,RDEPENDS for the "No buildable providers available for required...."
89 - Rework add_task to be more efficient (6% speedup, 7% number of function calls reduction)
90 - Sort digraph output to make builds more reproducible
91 - Split expandKeys into two for loops to benefit from the expand_cache (12% speedup)
92 - runqueue.py: Fix idepends handling to avoid dependency errors
93 - Clear the terminal TOSTOP flag if set (and warn the user)
94 - Fix regression from r653 and make SRCDATE/CVSDATE work for packages again
96 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.6:
97 - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
98 - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
99 - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings
101 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.4:
102 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
103 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
104 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
105 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
106 - Don't run build sanity checks on incomplete builds
107 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
110 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
111 - Catch truncated cache file errors
112 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
113 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
114 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
115 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
117 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
118 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
120 Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
121 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
122 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
124 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
125 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
126 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
127 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
128 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
129 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
130 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
131 - Logging message improvements
132 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
133 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
134 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
135 including mirroring code
136 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
137 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
138 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
139 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
140 - Add abort flag support to the shell
141 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
142 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
144 - Add perforce fetcher
145 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
146 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
147 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
148 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
149 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
150 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
152 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
153 and also adding a task dependency graph
154 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
155 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
157 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
158 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
159 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
161 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
162 - Better msg handling
163 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
164 to better performance
167 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
168 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
169 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
171 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
172 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
174 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
175 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
176 virtual/libc dependency
177 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
178 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
180 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
181 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
183 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
184 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
185 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
186 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
187 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
188 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
189 - Change the format of the cache
190 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
191 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
192 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
193 with few data changes
195 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
196 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
197 development of new Fetchers.
198 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
199 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
201 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
202 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
203 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
204 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
206 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
207 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
208 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
209 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
210 file can not be found.
211 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
212 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
213 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
214 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
215 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
216 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
218 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
219 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
220 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
221 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
222 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
223 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
224 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
225 - Update the bitbake usermanual
227 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
228 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
229 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
230 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
231 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
232 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
233 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
234 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
235 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
236 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
237 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
238 additional parameters
239 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
240 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
243 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
244 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
245 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
247 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
248 get a instance of a data class
249 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
250 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
251 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch
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