1 Changes in BitBake 1.7.?:
2 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
4 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
5 courtsey to Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
7 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
9 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
13 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
14 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
15 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
17 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
18 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
20 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
21 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
22 virtual/libc dependency
23 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
24 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
26 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
27 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
29 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
30 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
31 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
32 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
33 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
34 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
35 - Change the format of the cache
36 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
37 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
38 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
41 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
42 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
43 development of new Fetchers.
44 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
45 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
47 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
48 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
49 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
50 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
52 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
53 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
54 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
55 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
56 file can not be found.
57 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
58 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
59 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
60 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
61 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
62 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
64 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
65 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
66 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
67 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
68 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
69 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
70 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
71 - Update the bitbake usermanual
73 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
74 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
75 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
76 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
77 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
78 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
79 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
80 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
81 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
82 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
83 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
85 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
86 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
89 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
90 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
91 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
93 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
94 get a instance of a data class
95 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
96 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
97 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch