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Patrick Williamsc124f4f2015-09-15 14:41:29 -05001Changes in Bitbake 1.9.x:
2 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
3 - Treat python functions the same as shell functions for logging
4 - Use TMPDIR/anonfunc as a __anonfunc temp directory (T)
5 - Catch truncated cache file errors
6 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
7 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
8 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
9 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
10 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
11 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
12 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
13 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
14 - Update manual
15 - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
16 - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
17 - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings
18 - svn fetcher: Add _buildsvncommand function
19 - Improve certain error messages
20 - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier
21 as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes
22 (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf)
23 - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624)
24 - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete
25 - Add SRCREV support for svn fetcher
26 - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable
27 - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code)
28 - Make sure intertask depends get processed correcting in recursive depends
29 - Add pn-PN to overrides when evaluating PREFERRED_VERSION
30 - Improve the progress indicator by skipping tasks that have
31 already run before starting the build rather than during it
32 - Add profiling option (-P)
33 - Add BB_SRCREV_POLICY variable (clear or cache) to control SRCREV cache
34 - Add SRCREV_FORMAT support
35 - Fix local fetcher's localpath return values
36 - Apply OVERRIDES before performing immediate expansions
37 - Allow the -b -e option combination to take regular expressions
38 - Fix handling of variables with expansion in the name using _append/_prepend
39 e.g. RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_append_xyz = "abc"
40 - Add plain message function to bb.msg
41 - Sort the list of providers before processing so dependency problems are
42 reproducible rather than effectively random
43 - Fix/improve bitbake -s output
44 - Add locking for fetchers so only one tries to fetch a given file at a given time
45 - Fix int(0)/None confusion in runqueue.py which causes random gaps in dependency chains
46 - Expand data in addtasks
47 - Print the list of missing DEPENDS,RDEPENDS for the "No buildable providers available for required...."
48 error message.
49 - Rework add_task to be more efficient (6% speedup, 7% number of function calls reduction)
50 - Sort digraph output to make builds more reproducible
51 - Split expandKeys into two for loops to benefit from the expand_cache (12% speedup)
52 - runqueue.py: Fix idepends handling to avoid dependency errors
53 - Clear the terminal TOSTOP flag if set (and warn the user)
54 - Fix regression from r653 and make SRCDATE/CVSDATE work for packages again
55 - Fix a bug in bb.decodeurl where http://some.where.com/somefile.tgz decoded to host="" (#1530)
56 - Warn about malformed PREFERRED_PROVIDERS (#1072)
57 - Add support for BB_NICE_LEVEL option (#1627)
58 - Psyco is used only on x86 as there is no support for other architectures.
59 - Sort initial providers list by default preference (#1145, #2024)
60 - Improve provider sorting so prefered versions have preference over latest versions (#768)
61 - Detect builds of tasks with overlapping providers and warn (will become a fatal error) (#1359)
62 - Add MULTI_PROVIDER_WHITELIST variable to allow known safe multiple providers to be listed
63 - Handle paths in svn fetcher module parameter
64 - Support the syntax "export VARIABLE"
65 - Add bzr fetcher
66 - Add support for cleaning directories before a task in the form:
67 do_taskname[cleandirs] = "dir"
68 - bzr fetcher tweaks from Robert Schuster (#2913)
69 - Add mercurial (hg) fetcher from Robert Schuster (#2913)
70 - Don't add duplicates to BBPATH
71 - Fix preferred_version return values (providers.py)
72 - Fix 'depends' flag splitting
73 - Fix unexport handling (#3135)
74 - Add bb.copyfile function similar to bb.movefile (and improve movefile error reporting)
75 - Allow multiple options for deptask flag
76 - Use git-fetch instead of git-pull removing any need for merges when
77 fetching (we don't care about the index). Fixes fetch errors.
78 - Add BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS option, set to 0 to make git fetches
79 faster at the expense of not creating mirror tarballs.
80 - SRCREV handling updates, improvements and fixes from Poky
81 - Add bb.utils.lockfile() and bb.utils.unlockfile() from Poky
82 - Add support for task selfstamp and lockfiles flags
83 - Disable task number acceleration since it can allow the tasks to run
84 out of sequence
85 - Improve runqueue code comments
86 - Add task scheduler abstraction and some example schedulers
87 - Improve circular dependency chain debugging code and user feedback
88 - Don't give a stacktrace for invalid tasks, have a user friendly message (#3431)
89 - Add support for "-e target" (#3432)
90 - Fix shell showdata command (#3259)
91 - Fix shell data updating problems (#1880)
92 - Properly raise errors for invalid source URI protocols
93 - Change the wget fetcher failure handling to avoid lockfile problems
94 - Add support for branches in git fetcher (Otavio Salvador, Michael Lauer)
95 - Make taskdata and runqueue errors more user friendly
96 - Add norecurse and fullpath options to cvs fetcher
97 - Fix exit code for build failures in --continue mode
98 - Fix git branch tags fetching
99 - Change parseConfigurationFile so it works on real data, not a copy
100 - Handle 'base' inherit and all other INHERITs from parseConfigurationFile
101 instead of BBHandler
102 - Fix getVarFlags bug in data_smart
103 - Optmise cache handling by more quickly detecting an invalid cache, only
104 saving the cache when its changed, moving the cache validity check into
105 the parsing loop and factoring some getVar calls outside a for loop
106 - Cooker: Remove a debug message from the parsing loop to lower overhead
107 - Convert build.py exec_task to use getVarFlags
108 - Update shell to use cooker.buildFile
109 - Add StampUpdate event
110 - Convert -b option to use taskdata/runqueue
111 - Remove digraph and switch to new stamp checking code. exec_task no longer
112 honours dependencies
113 - Make fetcher timestamp updating non-fatal when permissions don't allow
114 updates
115 - Add BB_SCHEDULER variable/option ("completion" or "speed") controlling
116 the way bitbake schedules tasks
117 - Add BB_STAMP_POLICY variable/option ("perfile" or "full") controlling
118 how extensively stamps are looked at for validity
119 - When handling build target failures make sure idepends are checked and
120 failed where needed. Fixes --continue mode crashes.
121 - Fix -f (force) in conjunction with -b
122 - Fix problems with recrdeptask handling where some idepends weren't handled
123 correctly.
124 - Handle exit codes correctly (from pH5)
125 - Work around refs/HEAD issues with git over http (#3410)
126 - Add proxy support to the CVS fetcher (from Cyril Chemparathy)
127 - Improve runfetchcmd so errors are seen and various GIT variables are exported
128 - Add ability to fetchers to check URL validity without downloading
129 - Improve runtime PREFERRED_PROVIDERS warning message
130 - Add BB_STAMP_WHITELIST option which contains a list of stamps to ignore when
131 checking stamp dependencies and using a BB_STAMP_POLICY of "whitelist"
132 - No longer weight providers on the basis of a package being "already staged". This
133 leads to builds being non-deterministic.
134 - Flush stdout/stderr before forking to fix duplicate console output
135 - Make sure recrdeps tasks include all inter-task dependencies of a given fn
136 - Add bb.runqueue.check_stamp_fn() for use by packaged-staging
137 - Add PERSISTENT_DIR to store the PersistData in a persistent
138 directory != the cache dir.
139 - Add md5 and sha256 checksum generation functions to utils.py
140 - Correctly handle '-' characters in class names (#2958)
141 - Make sure expandKeys has been called on the data dictionary before running tasks
142 - Correctly add a task override in the form task-TASKNAME.
143 - Revert the '-' character fix in class names since it breaks things
144 - When a regexp fails to compile for PACKAGES_DYNAMIC, print a more useful error (#4444)
145 - Allow to checkout CVS by Date and Time. Just add HHmm to the SRCDATE.
146 - Move prunedir function to utils.py and add explode_dep_versions function
147 - Raise an exception if SRCREV == 'INVALID'
148 - Fix hg fetcher username/password handling and fix crash
149 - Fix PACKAGES_DYNAMIC handling of packages with '++' in the name
150 - Rename __depends to __base_depends after configuration parsing so we don't
151 recheck the validity of the config files time after time
152 - Add better environmental variable handling. By default it will now only pass certain
153 whitelisted variables into the data store. If BB_PRESERVE_ENV is set bitbake will use
154 all variable from the environment. If BB_ENV_WHITELIST is set, that whitelist will be
155 used instead of the internal bitbake one. Alternatively, BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE can be used
156 to extend the internal whitelist.
157 - Perforce fetcher fix to use commandline options instead of being overriden by the environment
158 - bb.utils.prunedir can cope with symlinks to directoriees without exceptions
159 - use @rev when doing a svn checkout
160 - Add osc fetcher (from Joshua Lock in Poky)
161 - When SRCREV autorevisioning for a recipe is in use, don't cache the recipe
162 - Add tryaltconfigs option to control whether bitbake trys using alternative providers
163 to fulfil failed dependencies. It defaults to off, changing the default since this
164 behaviour confuses many users and isn't often useful.
165 - Improve lock file function error handling
166 - Add username handling to the git fetcher (Robert Bragg)
167 - Add support for HTTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY_IGNORE variables to the wget fetcher
168 - Export more variables to the fetcher commands to allow ssh checkouts and checkouts through
169 proxies to work better. (from Poky)
170 - Also allow user and pswd options in SRC_URIs globally (from Poky)
171 - Improve proxy handling when using mirrors (from Poky)
172 - Add bb.utils.prune_suffix function
173 - Fix hg checkouts of specific revisions (from Poky)
174 - Fix wget fetching of urls with parameters specified (from Poky)
175 - Add username handling to git fetcher (from Poky)
176 - Set HOME environmental variable when running fetcher commands (from Poky)
177 - Make sure allowed variables inherited from the environment are exported again (from Poky)
178 - When running a stage task in bbshell, run populate_staging, not the stage task (from Poky)
179 - Fix + character escaping from PACKAGES_DYNAMIC (thanks Otavio Salvador)
180 - Addition of BBCLASSEXTEND support for allowing one recipe to provide multiple targets (from Poky)
181
182Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
183 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
184
185Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
186 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
187 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
188 and taskdata.py
189 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
190 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
191 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
192 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
193 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
194 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
195 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
196 - Logging message improvements
197 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
198 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
199 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
200 including mirroring code
201 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
202 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
203 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
204 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
205 - Add abort flag support to the shell
206 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
207 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
208 - Add ssh fetcher
209 - Add perforce fetcher
210 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
211 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
212 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
213 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
214 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
215 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
216 - Add manpage
217 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
218 and also adding a task dependency graph
219 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
220 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
221 separate funcitons
222 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
223 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
224 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
225
226Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
227 - Better msg handling
228 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
229 to better performance
230 - Speed up of -s
231
232Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
233 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
234 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
235
236Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
237 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
238 fixes #856
239 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
240 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
241 virtual/libc dependency
242 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
243 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
244 into it
245 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
246 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
247
248Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
249 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
250 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
251 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
252 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
253 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
254 - Change the format of the cache
255 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
256 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
257 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
258 with few data changes
259
260Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
261 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
262 development of new Fetchers.
263 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
264 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
265 (CVSDATE).
266 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
267 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
268 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
269 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
270 BitBake Shell
271 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
272 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
273 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
274 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
275 file can not be found.
276 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
277 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
278 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
279 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
280 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
281 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
282
283Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
284 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
285 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
286 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
287 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
288 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
289 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
290 - Update the bitbake usermanual
291
292Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
293 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
294 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
295 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
296 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
297 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
298 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
299 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
300 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
301 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
302 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
303 additional parameters
304 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
305 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
306 storage
307
308Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
309 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
310 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
311
312 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
313 get a instance of a data class
314 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
315 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
316 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch
317