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
28 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.8:
29 - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier
30 as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes
31 (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf)
32 - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624)
33 - Import persistent data store from trunk
34 - Sync fetcher code with that in trunk, adding SRCREV support for svn
35 - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete
36 - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable
37 - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code)
38 - Make sure intertask depends get processed correcting in recursive depends
39 - Add pn-PN to overrides when evaluating PREFERRED_VERSION
40 - Improve the progress indicator by skipping tasks that have
41 already run before starting the build rather than during it
42 - Add profiling option (-P)
43 - Add BB_SRCREV_POLICY variable (clear or cache) to control SRCREV cache
44 - Add SRCREV_FORMAT support
45 - Fix local fetcher's localpath return values
46 - Apply OVERRIDES before performing immediate expansions
47 - Allow the -b -e option combination to take regular expressions
48 - Add plain message function to bb.msg
49 - Sort the list of providers before processing so dependency problems are
50 reproducible rather than effectively random
51 - Add locking for fetchers so only one tries to fetch a given file at a given time
52 - Fix int(0)/None confusion in runqueue.py which causes random gaps in dependency chains
53 - Fix handling of variables with expansion in the name using _append/_prepend
54 e.g. RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_append_xyz = "abc"
55 - Expand data in addtasks
56 - Print the list of missing DEPENDS,RDEPENDS for the "No buildable providers available for required...."
58 - Rework add_task to be more efficient (6% speedup, 7% number of function calls reduction)
59 - Sort digraph output to make builds more reproducible
60 - Split expandKeys into two for loops to benefit from the expand_cache (12% speedup)
61 - runqueue.py: Fix idepends handling to avoid dependency errors
62 - Clear the terminal TOSTOP flag if set (and warn the user)
63 - Fix regression from r653 and make SRCDATE/CVSDATE work for packages again
65 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.6:
66 - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
67 - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
68 - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings
70 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.4:
71 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
72 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
73 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
74 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
75 - Don't run build sanity checks on incomplete builds
76 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
79 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
80 - Catch truncated cache file errors
81 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
82 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
83 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
84 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
86 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
87 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
89 Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
90 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
91 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
93 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
94 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
95 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
96 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
97 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
98 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
99 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
100 - Logging message improvements
101 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
102 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
103 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
104 including mirroring code
105 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
106 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
107 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
108 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
109 - Add abort flag support to the shell
110 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
111 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
113 - Add perforce fetcher
114 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
115 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
116 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
117 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
118 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
119 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
121 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
122 and also adding a task dependency graph
123 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
124 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
126 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
127 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
128 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
130 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
131 - Better msg handling
132 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
133 to better performance
136 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
137 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
138 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
140 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
141 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
143 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
144 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
145 virtual/libc dependency
146 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
147 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
149 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
150 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
152 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
153 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
154 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
155 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
156 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
157 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
158 - Change the format of the cache
159 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
160 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
161 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
162 with few data changes
164 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
165 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
166 development of new Fetchers.
167 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
168 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
170 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
171 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
172 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
173 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
175 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
176 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
177 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
178 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
179 file can not be found.
180 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
181 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
182 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
183 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
184 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
185 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
187 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
188 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
189 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
190 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
191 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
192 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
193 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
194 - Update the bitbake usermanual
196 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
197 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
198 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
199 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
200 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
201 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
202 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
203 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
204 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
205 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
206 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
207 additional parameters
208 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
209 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
212 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
213 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
214 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
216 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
217 get a instance of a data class
218 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
219 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
220 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch