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