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Signed-off-by: Lee Chee Yang <chee.yang.lee@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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2023-04-29 14:18:30 +08:00
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@@ -8,37 +8,34 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.2
- Linux kernel 6.1, glibc 2.37 and ~350 other recipe upgrades
- Python 3.8 is the minimum Python version required on the build host.
- Python 3.8+ and GCC 8.0+ are now the minimum required versions on the build host.
For host distributions that do not provide it, this is included as part of the
:term:`buildtools` tarball.
- BitBake in this release now supports a new ``addpylib`` directive to enable
Python libraries within layers.
Python libraries within layers. For more information,
see :ref:`bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata:extending python library code`.
This directive should be added to your layer configuration
as in the below example from ``meta/conf/layer.conf``::
addpylib ${LAYERDIR}/lib oe
- BitBake has seen multiple internal changes that may impact
- BitBake has seen multiple internal changes that may improve
memory and disk usage as well as parsing time, in particular:
- BitBake's Cooker server is now multithreaded.
- Ctrl+C can now be used to interrupt some long-running operations
that previously ignored it.
- BitBake's cache has been extended to include more hash
debugging data, but has also been optimized to :yocto_git:`compress
cache data <https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?h=mickledore&id=7d010055e2af3294e17db862f42664ca689a9356>`.
- BitBake's Cooker server :yocto_git:`can now be pinged
</poky/commit/?h=mickledore&id=26f255da09>`
from the UI.
- Architecture-specific enhancements:
- This release adds initial support for the
:wikipedia:`LoongArch <Loongson#LoongArch>`
(``loongarch64``) architecture, though there is no testing for it yet.
- BitBake's UI will now ping the server regularly to ensure
it is still alive.
- New variables:
- :term:`VOLATILE_TMP_DIR` allows to specify
@@ -71,27 +68,6 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.2
- Use built-in Rust targets for ``-native`` builds to save several
minutes building the Rust toolchain
- Python 3.8+ and GCC 8.0+ are now the minimum required versions on the build host
- BitBake in this release now supports a new ``addpylib`` directive to enable
Python libraries within layers. For more information,
see :ref:`bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata:extending python library code`.
- BitBake has seen multiple internal changes that may improve
memory and disk usage as well as parsing time, in particular:
- BitBake's Cooker server is now multithreaded.
- Ctrl+C can now be used to interrupt some long-running operations
that previously ignored it.
- BitBake's cache has been extended to include more hash
debugging data, but has also been optimized to :yocto_git:`compress
cache data <https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?h=mickledore&id=7d010055e2af3294e17db862f42664ca689a9356>`.
- BitBake's UI will now ping the server regularly to ensure
it is still alive.
- Architecture-specific enhancements:
- This release adds initial support for the
@@ -227,7 +203,6 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.2
- ``base-passwd``
- ``cronie``
- ``cups``
- ``cups``
- ``curl``
- ``file``
- ``gstreamer1.0-plugins-good``
@@ -310,9 +285,6 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.2
- Many packages were updated to add large file support.
- New :term:`VOLATILE_TMP_DIR` variable allows to specify whether ``/tmp``
should be on persistent storage or in RAM.
- ``vulkan-loader``: allow headless targets to build the loader
- ``dhcpcd``: fix to work with systemd
- ``u-boot``: add /boot to :term:`SYSROOT_DIRS` to allow boot files to be used by other recipes