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release-notes-4.3: feature additions
Some additional feature items from combing through commits (not 100% complete yet.) (From yocto-docs rev: 05c13cf0964a892a38531e3cfac68687278ee601) Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning@bluelightning.org> Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.3
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:yocto_git:`1 </poky/commit/?id=e4be03be5be62e367a40437a389121ef97d6cff3>`,
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:yocto_git:`2 </poky/commit/?id=8cd5d264af4c346730531cb98ae945ab862dbd69>`.
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- Many changes to support 64-bit ``time_t`` on 32-bit architectures
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- Kernel-related enhancements:
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- The default kernel is the current stable (6.5), and there is also support
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- New core recipes:
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- `appstream <https://github.com/ximion/appstream>`__: a collaborative effort
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for making machine-readable software metadata easily available
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(from meta-oe)
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- `cargo-c-native <https://crates.io/crates/cargo-c>`__: cargo applet to build
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and install C-ABI compatible dynamic and static libraries
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- `libadwaita <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita>`__: Building blocks
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for modern GNOME applications (from meta-gnome)
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- `libtraceevent <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtracefs.git/>`__:
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API to access the kernel tracefs directory (from meta-openembedded)
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- `libxmlb <https://github.com/hughsie/libxmlb>`__: A library to help create
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and query binary XML blobs (from meta-oe)
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- ``musl-legacy-error``: glibc ``error()`` API implementation still needed
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by a few packages.
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- `python3-beartype <https://beartype.readthedocs.io>`, unbearably fast
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- `python3-beartype <https://beartype.readthedocs.io>`__, unbearably fast
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runtime type checking in pure Python.
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- `python3-booleanpy <https://github.com/bastikr/boolean.py>`__: Define boolean
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algebras, create and parse boolean expressions and create custom boolean DSL
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(from meta-python)
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- `python3-calver <https://github.com/di/calver>`__: Setuptools extension for
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CalVer package versions
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- `python3-click <http://click.pocoo.org/>`__: A simple wrapper around optparse
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for powerful command line utilities (from meta-python)
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- ``python3-dtc``: Python Library for the Device Tree Compiler (from
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meta-virtualization)
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- `python3-isodate <https://github.com/gweis/isodate/>`__: ISO 8601 date/time
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parser (from meta-python)
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- `python3-license-expression <https://github.com/nexB/license-expression>`__:
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Utility library to parse, compare, simplify and normalize license expressions
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(from meta-python)
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- `python3-rdflib <https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib>`__: a pure Python package
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for working with RDF (from meta-python)
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- `python3-spdx-tools <https://github.com/spdx/tools-python>`__,
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tools for SPDX validation and conversion.
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- `python3-trove-classifiers <https://github.com/pypa/trove-classifiers>`__:
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Canonical source for classifiers on PyPI (pypi.org)
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- `python3-uritools <https://github.com/tkem/uritools/>`__, replacement for
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the ``urllib.parse`` module.
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- `python3-xmltodict <https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict>`__: Makes
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working with XML feel like you are working with JSON (from meta-python)
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- `ttyrun <https://github.com/ibm-s390-linux/s390-tools>`__, starts
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``getty`` programs only when a terminal exists, preventing respawns
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through the ``init`` program. This enabled removing the
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``SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK`` variable.
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- ``vulkan-validation-layers``: Khronos official validation layers to assist in
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verifying that applications correctly use the
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`Vulkan API <https://www.khronos.org/vulkan>`__.
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- `xcb-util-cursor <http://xcb.freedesktop.org/XcbUtil/>`__: XCB port of
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libXcursor (from meta-oe)
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- QEMU / ``runqemu`` enhancements:
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- QEMU has been upgraded to version 8.1
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@@ -118,13 +172,35 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.3
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- wic Image Creator enhancements:
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- ``bootimg-efi``: if ``fixed-size`` is set then use that for mkdosfs
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- ``bootimg-efi``: stop hardcoding VMA offsets, as required by systemd-boot v254
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(and dracut/ukify)
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- ``bootimg-pcbios``: use kernel name from :term:`KERNEL_IMAGETYPE` instead of
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hardcoding ``vmlinuz``
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- Added new ``gpt-hybrid`` option to ``ptable_format`` (formatting a disk with a hybrid
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MBR and GPT partition scheme)
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- Use ``part_name`` in default imager when defined
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- Added ``--hidden`` argument to default imager to avoid MS Windows prompting to
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format partition after flashing to a USB stick/SD card
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- FIT image related improvements:
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- New :term:`FIT_ADDRESS_CELLS` and :term:`UBOOT_FIT_ADDRESS_CELLS` variables allowing
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to specify 64 bit addresses, typically for loading U-Boot.
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- Added ``compatible`` line to config section (with value from dtb) to allow bootloaders
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to select the best matching configuration.
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- SDK-related improvements:
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- Extended the following recipes to ``nativesdk``: ``libwebp``, ``python3-ply``
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- Testing:
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- The :ref:`ref-classes-insane` class now adds an :ref:`unimplemented-ptest
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@@ -184,7 +260,9 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.3
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- Recipes that fetch specific revisions no longer need to explicitly add
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:term:`SRCPV` to :term:`PV` as BitBake will now automatically add the
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revision information to :term:`PKGV` if needed.
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revision information to :term:`PKGV` if needed (as long as "+" is still
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present in the :term:`PKGV` value, which is set from :term:`PV` by
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default).
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- The default :term:`PR` values in many recipes have been removed.
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@@ -212,6 +290,10 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.3
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- Miscellaneous changes:
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- Selecting systemd via :term:`INIT_MANAGER` now adds ``usrmerge`` to
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:term:`DISTRO_FEATURES` as current versions of systemd now require
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merged ``/usr``.
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- Generation of :term:`SPDX` manifests is now enabled by default.
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- Git based recipes in OE-Core which used the ``git`` protocol have been
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@@ -225,6 +307,18 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.3
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:term:`SPLASH_IMAGES`, instead of a harder to generate and modify
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``.h`` file.
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- The ; character is no longer needed to separate functions specified in
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:term:`IMAGE_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND`, :term:`IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND`,
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:term:`POPULATE_SDK_POST_HOST_COMMAND`, :term:`ROOTFS_POSTINSTALL_COMMAND`
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etc. (If any are present they will be replaced with spaces, so existing
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metadata does not yet need to be changed.)
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- In the ``Upstream-Status`` field in a patch header, "Accepted" is no longer
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a valid value since it is logically the same as "Backport". Change any
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values you have (particularly in patches applied through bbappends for core
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recipes, since they will be validated as indicated above).
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Known Issues in 4.3
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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