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