From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:31:40 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot 2012.02 released Message-ID: <87boohclv7.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 2012.02 is released - Go download it at: http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2012.02.tar.gz or http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2012.02.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: - Package sources can now also be retrieved from scp locations and mercurial repositories. - Packages can now define device table snippets for device nodes or special permissions. - Host package dependencies are now derived from target version by default. - Host utilities menu with commonly used host tools. - Asciidoc-based documentation extended. Release tarballs now contain the generated manual in HTML/text/PDF format. - Numerous toolchain updates. Internal toolchain now defaults to GCC 4.5.3. PowerPC SPE ABI support. uClibc 0.9.33 and binutils 2.22 support. - LPC32xx defconfigs and bootloader support. Additional QEMU defconfigs. - Deprecated Java support removed. Customize package deprecated (use post-build scripts instead). - New packages: boost, connman, dstat, expedite, explorercanvas, feh, flot, giblib, igh-ethercat, imlib2, jquery, jquery-sparklines, jquery-validation, jsmin, kmod, libecore, libedbus, libedje, libeet, libeina, libelementary, libesmtp, libethumb, libevas, libical, libmbus, liboauth, liburcu, libvncserver, linux-firmware, lttng-{babeltrace,libust,modules,tools}, NetworkManager, open2300, python-distutilscross, python-dpkt, python-netifaces, python-pygame, python-setuptools, rt-tests, sam-ba, sane-backends, sqlcipher, transmission, unionfs, xf86-input-tslib, xinput-calibrator And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. See the CHANGES file for details: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2012.02 We had another Developer Day just before FOSDEM, with lots of interesting discussion. Arnout Vandecappelle from Mind wrote a nice detailed report of it all: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-February/050371.html Arnout also did a nice presentation about Buildroot at FOSDEM: http://www.mind.be/content/Presentation_Buildroot-Open-Mobile.pdf At the Embedded Linux Conference in SF, Thomas Petazzoni from Free Electrons gave a nice talk about Buildroot: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/images/stories/pdf/lf_elc12_petazzoni.pdf Thanks to both, and many thanks to all the people contributing to this release: git shortlog -s -n 2011.11.. 188 Peter Korsgaard 96 Gustavo Zacarias 39 Yegor Yefremov 38 Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) 34 Thomas Petazzoni 19 Will Newton 12 Daniel Mack 10 Thomas De Schampheleire 9 Sven Neumann 8 Maxime Ripard 5 Alexandre Belloni 5 Luca Ceresoli 4 Sagaert Johan 2 Felipe Contreras 2 Frank Hunleth 2 Frederik Pasch 2 H Hartley Sweeten 2 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD 2 Julien Boibessot 1 ANDY KENNEDY 1 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer 1 Daniele Salvatore Albano 1 Henri Bragge 1 Lukasz Pulka 1 Samuel MARTIN 1 Sergio Prado 1 Shawn J. Goff 1 Trevor Woerner 1 Tristan Lelong 1 V?ctor Manuel J?quez Leal 1 Yann E. MORIN It has been a quite busy development cycle, with almost 500 commits, lots of new packages and a number of large scale changes. For the next release, 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: - Systemd support - Microblaze architecture support - Additional defconfigs and support for popular boards: MX53QSB, Beaglebone, Pandaboard and possibly Raspberry Pi. Next release will be 2012.05. Expect the first release candidate early May, and the final release towards the end of the month. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard