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