From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB6D8E00292 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 04:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 11 Oct 2012 04:21:46 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.80,571,1344236400"; d="scan'208";a="204294443" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.122.70]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 11 Oct 2012 04:22:06 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: yocto@yoctoproject.org Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:22:05 +0100 Message-ID: <2995833.IARlncBIop@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.9.2 (Linux/3.2.0-31-generic-pae; KDE/4.9.2; i686; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Changelog for 1.3 X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:22:07 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi folks, I've put together a list of medium to high-level changes based on browsing through the commits for the release: - Improved terminal UI which makes it easy to see the tasks that are currently executing, and avoids burying any warnings that are printed - Eliminated intermediate step when building cross compiler toolchain - SDK is now relocatable - Large number of usability improvements in the Hob image building UI - Upgraded eglibc to version 2.16 - Upgraded gcc to version 4.7 - Added yocto-bsp script for automating the initial parts of creating a new BSP - Python functions now consistently use four spaces for indentation - no more having to try to match the mix of tabs and spaces in your recipes - Disabled sharing shared state between machines using different distros by default to avoid glibc version problems - Fixes to allow qemu-native to be built on host systems without X11 (i.e. for console use only) - Enabled python and perl scripting for perf as well as text-mode UI - Added ability to produce a companion SDK together with an image - Allow forcing the rebuilding of a recipe (new -C and improved -f options) - Enabled EFI in grub installer - Mesa can now provide GLES accelerated graphics without X11 - Added script for producing "bootcharts" from buildstats so you can see the timeline of the build - Checksums for local files referred to in SRC_URI are now included in task signatures so that changing their contents causes the relevant tasks to be re-executed - Extended bitbake-diffsigs to look up signature files from task and recipe name, and trace back recursively through dependent task changes - Moved from module-init-tools to kmod - Added create-recipe script to automate some of the parts of creating a brand new recipe - Buildhistory improvements: better performance, track postinst/postrm scripts - Added bin_package bbclass for recipes that package pre-built binaries - Added doc-pkgs IMAGE_FEATURES feature to install all documentation - Added class-* overrides - particularly useful for target/cross/crosssdk but works with all classes - Reference hardware BSPs are now separate from Poky reference distro configuration - nativesdk is now a prefix rather than a suffix, simplifying packaging in nativesdk recipes greatly - Detect and warn if files in the sysroot are potentially written to by multiple recipes - Automatic launching of "screen" within terminal for devshell/patch resolution - task-* recipes renamed to packagegroup-* and tidied up significantly - Improved mirror handling - allow mirrors of mirrors; handle errors more gracefully - Reduced dependencies between debugging symbol packages - Significant cleanup of X server recipes - Start to add regression tests for BitBake Is there anything that belongs here that I have missed? I know we've done a lot of other bugfixes and package upgrades, we're really after the highlights. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre