[PATCH v2 12/18] migration-guides/release-notes-6.0.rst: cover recent changes

Antonin Godard
2026-04-24T08:29:10Z

Cover changes between 00de455f8d3a ("classes/cve-check: remove class")
and 9a83f0878b6b ("busybox: fix for CVE-2026-26157, CVE-2026-26158") in
OE-Core. There were no changes to BitBake and meta-yocto since the last
update of these release notes.

Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
---
.../migration-guides/release-notes-6.0.rst | 31 ++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-6.0.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-6.0.rst
index 9d611d70a..524a1a199 100644
--- a/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-6.0.rst
+++ b/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-6.0.rst
@@ -237,8 +237,6 @@ New Features / Enhancements in |yocto-ver|
in the default distro setup (appearing as ``nodistro`` :term:`DISTRO`)
(:oecore_rev:`175fcf9fad699dd122680d3f6961af9bf8487046`)

-- Architecture-specific changes:
-
- QEMU / ``runqemu`` changes:

- ``qemuboot```: Make the tap interface nameserver configurable through
@@ -289,6 +287,9 @@ New Features / Enhancements in |yocto-ver|
- Enable dynamic LLVM linking by default
(:oecore_rev:`d0671c3dad87a063b3a41dd07cde89b5684e692c`)

+ - Enable fully static linking when :term:`TCLIBC` is set to ``musl``
+ (:oecore_rev:`75409c60e9e63fdcbb9d4f54130052991362ec08`)
+
- Wic Image Creator changes:

- ``wic/engine``: Fix copying directories into wic image with ``ext*``
@@ -297,7 +298,13 @@ New Features / Enhancements in |yocto-ver|
- Re-implement sector-size support
(:oecore_rev:`b50d6debf7baa555fbfb3521c4f952675bba2d37`)

-- SDK-related changes:
+ - The Wic tool is now maintained in a separate project, no longer part of
+ :term:`OpenEmbedded-Core (OE-Core)`: :yocto_git:`/wic/`
+
+ - A new ``wicenv`` type can be added to :term:`IMAGE_FSTYPES` to place the
+ ``.env`` file generate by Wic in the deployment directory
+ (:term:`DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE`)
+ (:oecore_rev:`e4d49702f21fb75444d58f419432649a04e351c9`)

- Testing-related changes:

@@ -374,6 +381,9 @@ New Features / Enhancements in |yocto-ver|
- Update data if CVE exists (:oecore_rev:`9ea6d9209b95f8d31975d71315fb52343e6aa729`)
- Validate that cve details field exists (:oecore_rev:`80ff4903ea1b839f9cd9393b314c3adfbb80b765`)

+ - ``oe-pkgdata-util``: improve the ``lookup-pkg`` error message for
+ :term:`RPROVIDES` packages
+ (:oecore_rev:`46ff3a8d2c18fcba87c711bb23dbdabae20eef84`)

- BitBake changes:

@@ -463,7 +473,9 @@ New Features / Enhancements in |yocto-ver|
configuration options when fetching Git repositories
(:bitbake_rev:`4c378445969853d6aff4694d937b9af47c7f7300`)

-- Packaging changes:
+ - When using the ``subpath`` parameter with the Git fetcher in an
+ :term:`SRC_URI`, properly make the ``HEAD`` point to the value specified
+ in :term:`SRCREV`.

- Clang/LLVM related changes:

@@ -517,7 +529,6 @@ New Features / Enhancements in |yocto-ver|
:term:`SPDX_INCLUDE_VEX` variable
(:oecore_rev:`d999ac407c86b462134008818d5863ecb577f3c6`)

-
- ``devtool`` changes:

- ``ide-sdk``:
@@ -580,6 +591,7 @@ New Features / Enhancements in |yocto-ver|
- New :term:`PACKAGECONFIG` options for individual recipes:

- ``curl``: ``schannel``
+ - ``gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad``: ``fdkaac``
- ``gstreamer1.0-plugins-good``: ``qt6``
- ``libinput``: ``lua``, ``libwacom``, ``mtdev``
- ``librepo``: ``sequoia``
@@ -590,6 +602,8 @@ New Features / Enhancements in |yocto-ver|
- ``python3``: ``freethreading`` (experimental, see
:oecore_rev:`c56990178b31b893fbf695eaf6b67de501e9d2e9`)
- ``python3-cryptography``: ``legacy-openssl``
+ - ``systemd``: ``osc-context``
+ - ``systemtap``: ``readline``

- systemd related changes:

@@ -733,6 +747,13 @@ New Features / Enhancements in |yocto-ver|
- :ref:`ref-classes-archiver`: Don't try to preserve all attributes when
copying files (:oecore_rev:`6e8313688fa994c82e4c846993ed8da0d1f4db0e`)

+ - :ref:`ref-classes-useradd`: allow inheriting the class with only
+ :term:`USERADD_DEPENDS` set, when a recipe only depends on users/groups
+ created by another (:oecore_rev:`09a901b9874f76e665fb4ba9e537703a792011e3`)
+
+ - ``vim``: disable `GTK+3` UI by default
+ (:oecore_rev:`a07763f03d4faacca4470e4f1f80f766ed068296`)
+
Known Issues in |yocto-ver|
---------------------------

--
2.53.0