From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:48:19 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot 2010.11 released Message-ID: <8762vey7f0.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 2010.11 is released - Go download it at: http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2010.11.tar.gz or http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2010.11.tar.bz2 After 3 months of development a new stable Buildroot release is out. Significant changes are: - Experimental crosstool-NG backend for the toolchain handling. Long term, this is expected to replace our internal toolchain handling. - Updated Kconfig infrastructure (from 2.6.36) with savedefconfig and nconfig support. We now also create a convenience Makefile wrapper in the output directory for out-of-tree builds (make O=). - Old-style package hooks (*_HOOK_POST_*) removed. Use the more generic new-style ones instead. - Download handling reworked and support for git/svn downloads added. - Support for ARM Cortex A9 and Sparc LEON variants added. Support for Alpha, Cris, IA64 and Sparc64 (deprecated in 2010.08) removed. - New packages: argp-standalone, gdk-pixbuf, gpsd, gst-ffmpeg, libmpeg2, kbd, librsvg, nuttcp, rng-tools, rrdtool and xz - Removed packages: dillo, libglib12, libgtk12, microwin and pcmcia And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. See the CHANGES file for details: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2010.11 Hotplug, lzma, ng-spice-rework and sfdisk packages got deprecated. Speak up if you need them, otherwise they will be removed during the 2011.02 development cycle. Many thanks to the people contributing to this release: git shortlog -s -n 2010.08.. 168 Peter Korsgaard 115 Thomas Petazzoni 55 Gustavo Zacarias 37 Martin Banky 26 Yann E. MORIN 15 Lionel Landwerlin 13 Mike Frysinger 10 Paulius Zaleckas 8 Maxime Petazzoni 4 Konrad Eisele 3 Chih-Min Chao 2 Yegor Yefremov 1 Andy Gibbs 1 Felipe Contreras 1 Frederik Pasch 1 Heiko Zuerker 1 Javier Viguera 1 Luca Ceresoli 1 Marcelo Roberto Jimenez 1 Marcus Osdoba 1 Matt Johnson 1 Paul Burton 1 Paul Jones 1 Stanislav Bogatyrev 1 Thomas Rudin 1 Will Newton Next to the usual suspects, a special thanks to Martin Banky for all his work on converting packages to the gentargets/autotargets infrastructure. Martin still has some conversion patches pending, so hopefully we'll be able to finish the conversion work by the next release. The next release is going to be 2011.02. Expect the first release candidate in late January and the final release at the end of February. There will also be another developer day the Monday after FOSDEM 2011. Stuff in the pipeline for 2011.02 includes: - Gentarget/autotools conversion of the remaining packages. - Cleanup of target/device and defconfigs. Move to minimal defconfigs like in the kernel (savedefconfig). - More crosstool-ng and toolchain cleanup work. See the report from the developers day in Cambridge for more information: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-November/038913.html - Package management support using .ipk packages - Public access to regression tests results Thanks to everyone contributing and testing the release candidates! -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard