release-notes updates for 5.0

List systemd changes
Add PACKAGECONFIG-related changes, as well as systemd-boot-native, to
'Miscellaneous changes section'.
Mention the licensing changes in systemd and libsystemd.

Add changes to wic
Summarize changes in 'wic Image Creator enhancements' item.

Add Go language upgrade
There were multiple bumps between Scarthgap and Nanbield, but overall
the version was upgraded from 1.20.10 (in Nanbield) to 1.22.1 (in Scarthgap).
Mention the new class 'go-vendor' in 'Miscellaneous changes'.

Add create_go.py to script changes
Mention this new script, at recipetool, in 'Utility script changes'.

(From yocto-docs rev: 3e24a1cf2f2089beedad11b91fc11b8b402caf87)

Signed-off-by: Joao Marcos Costa <joaomarcos.costa@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Joao Marcos Costa
2024-04-03 16:37:24 +02:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent 6e147fabdd
commit 6981712250

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@@ -26,12 +26,28 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 5.0
- wic Image Creator enhancements:
- Allow the imager's output file extension to match the imager's name,
instead of hardcoding it to ``direct`` (i.e., the default imager)
- For GPT-based disks, add reproducible Disk GUID generation
- Allow generating reproducible ext4 images
- Add feature to fill a specific range of a partition with zeros
- ``bootimg-efi``: add ``install-kernel-into-boot-dir`` parameter to
configure kernel installation point(s) (i.e., rootfs and/or boot partition)
- ``rawcopy``: add support for zstd decompression
- SDK-related improvements:
- Testing:
- Utility script changes:
- New ``recipetool/create_go.py`` script added to support Go recipe creation
- BitBake improvements:
- Packaging changes:
@@ -42,6 +58,16 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 5.0
- Miscellaneous changes:
- Systemd's following :term:`PACKAGECONFIG` options were added:
``cryptsetup-plugins``, ``no-ntp-fallback``, and ``p11kit``.
- ``systemd-boot`` can, from now on, be compiled as ``native``, thus
providing ``ukify`` tool to build UKI images.
- The :ref:`ref-classes-go-vendor` class was added to support offline builds
(i.e., vendoring). It can also handle modules from the same repository,
taking into account their versions.
Known Issues in 5.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -50,12 +76,19 @@ Known Issues in 5.0
Recipe License changes in 5.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The following corrections have been made to the :term:`LICENSE` values set by recipes:
- ``systemd``: make the scope of ``LGPL`` more accurate (``LGPL-2.1`` -> ``LGPL-2.1-or-later``)
- ``libsystemd``: set its own :term:`LICENSE` value (``LGPL-2.1-or-later``) to add more granularity
Security Fixes in 5.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Recipe Upgrades in 5.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- go: update 1.20.10 -> 1.22.1
Contributors to 5.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~