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