[Buildroot] Buildroot 2012.02-rc1 released

[Buildroot] Buildroot 2012.02-rc1 released

[Peter Korsgaard]

Hi,

Buildroot 2012.02-rc1 is released - Go download it at:

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2012.02-rc1.tar.gz

or

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2012.02-rc1.tar.bz2

Or get it from Git:

git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot

Like usual for the February releases, we're a bit late because of
FOSDEM, where we had a developer day. Expect a report from the day
soon.

Please give it a spin and report any problems to the mailing list or
bug tracker. Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -n 2011.11..

   170  Peter Korsgaard
    86  Gustavo Zacarias
    39  Yegor Yefremov
    38  Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
    33  Thomas Petazzoni
    18  Will Newton
    12  Daniel Mack
    10  Thomas De Schampheleire
     9  Sven Neumann
     7  Maxime Ripard
     5  Alexandre Belloni
     4  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's nice to see contributions from lots of new people in addition to
the "oldtimers". This time I'm again ahead of Gustavo with almost 2x
commits ;)

It has been a quite busy development cycle, with more than 450
commits, and a number of large scale changes.

Of noteworthy new features we have:

 - Large number of new packages (50): Connman & NetworkManager, EFL,
   Jquery related javascript libraries, kmod, lttng and a number of
   python packages.

 - Default to GCC 4.5.x / Binutils 2.22 / uClibc 0.9.33 for the
   internal toolchain.

 - Support for SCP and mercurial package sources. Host dependencies
   are now derived from target ones by default.

 - Packages can now define device table snippets for special
   permissions / device nodes when static /dev is used.

 - Updated documentation. The generated Asciidoc documenation is now
   included in tarballs in text/html/pdf format.

 - Additional QEMU defconfigs, at91 defconfigs updated and lpc3250
   configs added.

 - Host utilities menu with commonly used host tools.

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_rc1

Just like last cycle, I will now create a next branch and start
merging in new feature, rather than wait until 2012.02 is released.

Enjoy!

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

[Buildroot] Buildroot 2012.02-rc1 released

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Buildroot 2012.02-rc1 is released - Go download it at:
>
> http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2012.02-rc1.tar.gz
>
> or
>
> http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2012.02-rc1.tar.bz2
>
> Or get it from Git:
>
> git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot
>
> Like usual for the February releases, we're a bit late because of
> FOSDEM, where we had a developer day. Expect a report from the day
> soon.
>
> Please give it a spin and report any problems to the mailing list or
> bug tracker. Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:
>
> git shortlog -s -n 2011.11..
>
> ? 170 ?Peter Korsgaard
> ? ?86 ?Gustavo Zacarias
> ? ?39 ?Yegor Yefremov
> ? ?38 ?Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
> ? ?33 ?Thomas Petazzoni
> ? ?18 ?Will Newton
> ? ?12 ?Daniel Mack
> ? ?10 ?Thomas De Schampheleire
> ? ? 9 ?Sven Neumann
> ? ? 7 ?Maxime Ripard
> ? ? 5 ?Alexandre Belloni
> ? ? 4 ?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's nice to see contributions from lots of new people in addition to
> the "oldtimers". This time I'm again ahead of Gustavo with almost 2x
> commits ;)
>
> It has been a quite busy development cycle, with more than 450
> commits, and a number of large scale changes.
>
> Of noteworthy new features we have:
>
> ?- Large number of new packages (50): Connman & NetworkManager, EFL,
> ? Jquery related javascript libraries, kmod, lttng and a number of
> ? python packages.
>
> ?- Default to GCC 4.5.x / Binutils 2.22 / uClibc 0.9.33 for the
> ? internal toolchain.
>
> ?- Support for SCP and mercurial package sources. Host dependencies
> ? are now derived from target ones by default.
>
> ?- Packages can now define device table snippets for special
> ? permissions / device nodes when static /dev is used.
>
> ?- Updated documentation. The generated Asciidoc documenation is now
> ? included in tarballs in text/html/pdf format.
>
> ?- Additional QEMU defconfigs, at91 defconfigs updated and lpc3250
> ? configs added.
>
> ?- Host utilities menu with commonly used host tools.
>
> 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_rc1
>
> Just like last cycle, I will now create a next branch and start
> merging in new feature, rather than wait until 2012.02 is released.
>
> Enjoy!

One thing I haven't seen was the deprecation of the customize package.
Maybe we can still do this in 2012.02? I'd submit a patch but since
you also need to change the CHANGES file I think it makes more sense
if you do it yourself, no?

Best regards,
Thomas

[Buildroot] Buildroot 2012.02-rc1 released

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

 Thomas> One thing I haven't seen was the deprecation of the customize package.
 Thomas> Maybe we can still do this in 2012.02? I'd submit a patch but since
 Thomas> you also need to change the CHANGES file I think it makes more sense
 Thomas> if you do it yourself, no?

Yes, I'll do so. Thanks for reminding.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard