From: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com
To: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org
Cc: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>,
Paul Eggleton <bluelightning@bluelightning.org>
Subject: [PATCH] migration-guides: updates for 4.3
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:07:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231027120727.1616739-1-michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> (raw)
From: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
CC: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning@bluelightning.org>
---
.../migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst | 6 ++++
.../migration-guides/release-notes-4.3.rst | 30 +++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst
index 79cf907708..c47d09a1ae 100644
--- a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst
+++ b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst
@@ -108,6 +108,12 @@ The following classes have been removed in this release:
.. _migration-4.3-misc-changes:
+QA check changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- The fetcher in ``lib/bb/tests/fetch.py`` now uses the ``https`` protocol
+ instead of ``git``, whenever possible.
+
Miscellaneous changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-4.3.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-4.3.rst
index 87cd622743..4916ee5706 100644
--- a/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-4.3.rst
+++ b/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-4.3.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Release notes for 4.3 (nandbield)
New Features / Enhancements in 4.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- Linux kernel 6.x, glibc 2.xx and ~xxx other recipe upgrades
+- Linux kernel 6.5 and 6.1, gcc 13, glibc 2.38 and other recipe upgrades
- New variables:
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.3
- :term:`LICENSE_FLAGS_DETAILS`: add extra details about a recipe license
in case it is not allowed by :term:`LICENSE_FLAGS_ACCEPTED`.
+ - :term:`FILE_LAYERNAME`: bitbake now sets this to the name of the layer containing the recipe.
+
+ - :term:`KERNEL_LOCALVERSION`: to add a string to the kernel version information.
+
- Layername functionality available through overrides
Code can now know which layer a recipe is coming from through the newly added :term:`FILE_LAYERNAME`
@@ -34,6 +38,11 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.3
- Architecture-specific enhancements:
+ - RISCV support is now enabled in LLVM 17.
+
+ - Loongarch support in the :ref:`ref-classes-linuxloader` class and
+ ``core-image-minimal-initramfs`` image.
+
- Kernel-related enhancements:
- New core recipes:
@@ -48,10 +57,17 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.3
- Rust improvements:
- - Rust has been upgraded to version 1.69
+ - Rust has been upgraded to version 1.70
- Image-related enhancements:
+- Distribution-related enhancements:
+
+ - The ``poky-altcfg`` distribution enables the ``usrmerge``
+ :ref:`distro feature <ref-manual/features:Distro Features>`.
+
+
+
- wic Image Creator enhancements:
- FIT image related improvements:
@@ -72,8 +88,14 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.3
- Packaging changes:
+- :term:`SPDX` improvements:
+
+ - :term:`SPDX` manifests are now generated by default.
+
- Prominent documentation updates:
+ - New :doc:`../contributor-guide/index` document.
+
- Long due documentation for the :ref:`ref-classes-devicetree` class.
- New :ref:`summary about available init systems
@@ -85,6 +107,7 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.3
- Miscellaneous changes:
+
- Git based recipes in OE-Core which used the git protocol have been
changed to use https where possibile. https is now believed to be
faster and more reliable.
@@ -92,6 +115,9 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.3
- The ``os-release`` recipe added a ``CPE_NAME`` to the fields provided, with the
default being populated from :term:`DISTRO`.
+ - The ``psplash`` recipe now accepts a PNG format image through :term:`SPLASH_IMAGES`,
+ instead of a harder to generate and modify ``.h`` file.
+
Known Issues in 4.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--
2.34.1
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