From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:31:47 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot 2011.11 released Message-ID: <874nxli3vg.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi, Buildroot is a simple tool for creating complete Embedded Linux systems (http://buildroot.net). Buildroot 2011.11 is released - Go download it at: http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2011.11.tar.gz or http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2011.11.tar.bz2 Or get it from Git: git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot After 3 months of development a new stable Buildroot release is out. Significant changes are: - Support for local packages and package overrides - Documentation moved to asciidoc and extended - Run make manual to generate it. The online documentation on the website it not moved yet, but that will happen soon. - Custom GIT repo support for Barebox, similar to U-Boot - Internal and external toolchain fixes and updates. Sysroot copying step optimized. - Linux kernel extensions infrastructure added. Xenomai + RTAI support. - Package dir / name arguments dropped from {GEN,AUTO,CMAKE}TARGETS - Support scripts moves to scripts, patch-kernel.sh renamed to support/scripts/apply-patches.sh. - New packages: bluez-utils, cifs-utils, fftw, fluxbox, json-c, libev, libftdi, libgeotiff, libmodbus, libplayer, live555, ngrep, noip, opencv, openocd, picocom, poco, portaudio, pulseaudio, pv, rtai, vala, xenomai. And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. See the CHANGES file for details: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2011.11 Thomas Petazzoni from Free Electrons gave a nice talk at ELCE in Prague about Buildroot, including some of the new features of 2011.11. The slides are available here: http://elinux.org/images/2/2a/Using-buildroot-real-project.pdf Many thanks to the people contributing to this release: git shortlog -s -n 2011.08.. 126 Peter Korsgaard 104 Gustavo Zacarias 62 Thomas Petazzoni 27 Yann E. MORIN 21 Sven Neumann 13 Yegor Yefremov 10 Thomas De Schampheleire 7 H Hartley Sweeten 5 Frederic Bassaler 4 Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) 4 Maxime Ripard 3 Baruch Siach 3 Danomi Mocelopolis 3 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD 3 Kelvin Cheung 2 Luca Ceresoli 2 Murat Demirten 2 Samuel Martin 2 Stany MARCEL 2 Trevor Woerner 1 Benoit Mauduit 1 Damian Kaczmarek 1 Dan Pattison 1 Daniel Mack 1 Darius Augulis 1 David Wagner 1 Julien Boibessot 1 Mike Frysinger 1 Phil Edworthy 1 Philippe Pepiot 1 Roeland Van Praet 1 Subramaniam C.A 1 Wade Berrier 1 Will Moore It has been a quite busy development cycle, with more than 400 commits, and a number of large scale changes. Thanks to everyone contributing and testing the release candidates, and especially thanks to Gustavoz for his many fixes - Enjoy! We had a very nice Buildroot developer day after ELCE, with lots of discussions with Buildroot developers, users and people from other Embedded projects. Thomas did a detailed writeup: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2011-November/047229.html We'll be working on the development items outlined in the report. Next to that, a number of new features are pending for the upcoming cycle: - Support for package retrival from scp locations and Mercurial repositories. - SPARC and x86-64 QEMU defconfigs - Systemd support - Microblaze architecture support Next release will be 2012.02. Expect the first release candidate in time for FOSDEM, and the final release towards the end of the month. For FOSDEM we will again arrange a Buildroot developer day, this time on the Friday before the conference. Stay tuned for more info as we get closer to February. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard