Hi folks, I've put together a list of medium to high-level changes based on browsing through the commits for the release:
- Improved terminal UI which makes it easy to see the tasks that are currently executing, and avoids burying any warnings that are printed - Eliminated intermediate step when building cross compiler toolchain - SDK is now relocatable - Large number of usability improvements in the Hob image building UI - Upgraded eglibc to version 2.16 - Upgraded gcc to version 4.7 - Added yocto-bsp script for automating the initial parts of creating a new BSP - Python functions now consistently use four spaces for indentation - no more having to try to match the mix of tabs and spaces in your recipes - Disabled sharing shared state between machines using different distros by default to avoid glibc version problems - Fixes to allow qemu-native to be built on host systems without X11 (i.e. for console use only) - Enabled python and perl scripting for perf as well as text-mode UI - Added ability to produce a companion SDK together with an image - Allow forcing the rebuilding of a recipe (new -C and improved -f options) - Enabled EFI in grub installer - Mesa can now provide GLES accelerated graphics without X11 - Added script for producing "bootcharts" from buildstats so you can see the timeline of the build - Checksums for local files referred to in SRC_URI are now included in task signatures so that changing their contents causes the relevant tasks to be re-executed - Extended bitbake-diffsigs to look up signature files from task and recipe name, and trace back recursively through dependent task changes - Moved from module-init-tools to kmod - Added create-recipe script to automate some of the parts of creating a brand new recipe - Buildhistory improvements: better performance, track postinst/postrm scripts - Added bin_package bbclass for recipes that package pre-built binaries - Added doc-pkgs IMAGE_FEATURES feature to install all documentation - Added class-* overrides - particularly useful for target/cross/crosssdk but works with all classes - Reference hardware BSPs are now separate from Poky reference distro configuration - nativesdk is now a prefix rather than a suffix, simplifying packaging in nativesdk recipes greatly - Detect and warn if files in the sysroot are potentially written to by multiple recipes - Automatic launching of "screen" within terminal for devshell/patch resolution - task-* recipes renamed to packagegroup-* and tidied up significantly - Improved mirror handling - allow mirrors of mirrors; handle errors more gracefully - Reduced dependencies between debugging symbol packages - Significant cleanup of X server recipes - Start to add regression tests for BitBake Is there anything that belongs here that I have missed? I know we've done a lot of other bugfixes and package upgrades, we're really after the highlights. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
