2022.06 - "Rygja"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2022.06] - 2022-07-04

Changed

• Bump bitbake to 2.0.1
• Build clang_rt.profile compiler-rt library when possible
• Use nftables instead of iptables by default in networkmanager
• Bump riscv linux-mainline to 5.18
• Update perl to 5.36.0
• Update systemd to 251.2
• Add zstd dependencies in gcc recipes
• Set RebootWatchdogSec to 60s as watchdog in systemd
• Major version upgrades for multiple recipes
• Compile ptests with parallelism, disable packages where it fails
• Fix networkmanager build when ppp is enabled
• Upgrade PHP to 8.1.7
• Switch polkit back to mozjs from duktape
• Upgrade strace to 5.18
• Upgrade alsa recipes to 1.2.7.1
• Upgrade major versions of assorted recipes
• Upgrade go to 1.18.3
• Upgrade mesa to 22.1.2
• Fix udev-extraconf lvm automount
• Upgrade python to 3.10.5
• Add support for Ignored CVEs in cve-check
• Enable xwayland in weston init
• Enable gnu-efi for riscv64
• Add SDK support to image-buildinfo
• Fix systemd to build without utmp support
• Upgrade linux-yocto to v5.10.119, v5.15.44
• Enable MDIO bus config in linux-yocto

Added

• Added recipes
  libavtp, libtomcrypt, flite
• Add QB_KERNEL_CMDLINE to runqemu

Removed

2022.05 - "Qashqai"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2022.05] - 2022-05-31

Changed

• Update meta-ti recipes to SDK 08.02.00.005
• Let the user drive the update interval for CVE database
• Correctly handle file names containing colons in bitbake
• Fix firmware autoloading for rpi by creating
  brcmfmac43455-sdio.raspberrypi,4-model-b.bin symlink
• Update qemu to 7.0.0
  = Upgrade musl to tip of trunk
• Upgrade 250.5
• Use arm-versatile-926ejs KMACHINE for qemuarmv5
• Make git intercept global
• Upgrade GCC to 12.1
• Add openssh-sftp-server to openssh RDEPENDS
• Upgrade linux-firmware to 20220509
• Upgrade linux-raspberrypi to 5.15.38
• Various native recipes fixed to bulld with GCC 12
• Upgrade GDB to 12.1
• Build bash to use proper getcwd() on musl
• Fixes for meta-qt5/meta-intel build failures seen with GCC-12
• Enable using private fonts in wxwidgets
• Fix rare sysroot corruption issue during staging
• Add fspassno parameter to partition in wic
• Fix osc fetcher to support quering latest revision
• Update clang to 14.0.4
• Update mariadb to 10.7.4
• Move lzop from core to meta-oe
• Upgrade QT5 to latest 5.15.4 and fix with musl
• Disable lzo support by default in various recipes
• Fix native builds to use right linker paths in go bbclass
• Update linux-yocto to v5.10.114, v5.15.38
• Upgrade gstreamer to 1.20.2
• Upgrade go to 1.18.2
• Upgrade setuptools to 62.3.1
• Upgrade curl to 7.83.1
• Various recipe version bumps

Added

• Enable updater support for raspberrypi2 machine
• meta-raspberrypi now supports enabling 1-wire bus on GPIO4 with
  ENABLE_W1 = "1" in local.conf
• Add meta-python to meta=gnome layer dependencies
• Add support for building python recipes which use hatchling
• Add recipe for cpulimit, openzfs, ulog2, libcoap, btrfsmaintenance
  python3-web3, python3-lru-dict, python3-eth-account, python3-eth-abi
  python3-parsimonious, python3-eth-rlp, python3-rlp, python3-hexbytes
  python3-eth-keyfile, python3-eth-keys, python3-eth-utils
  python3-eth-typing, python3-eth-hash, python3-decouple
  python3-cytoolz, python3-toolz, python3-inotify, nodejs-oe-cache-native
  overlayfs-progs, overlayfs-tools, python3-uinput, xfstests
  python3-editables, python3-hatchling, python3-pathspec
  python3-setuptools-scm-git-archive

Removed

• Remove meta-networking dependency on meta-python by re-arranging
  recipe locations
• Drop GPL-3.0 license from libgcrypt
• Remove uclibc remnants from DISTRO_FEATURES
• Removed recipes: speedtest-cli
• Remove libsrvg rv32 patch

2022.04 - "Perendale"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2022.04] - 2022-05-01

Changed

• Use clang for python3 compilation and many other recipes
• Use internal version fo ffmpeg for omxplayer
• Update linux-rapberrypi to 5.15.34
• Add ability to specify CPUs to add to the isolcpus list for rpi-cmdline
• Upgrade uninative to 3.6 with gcc 12 support
• Upgrade linux-yocto/5.15 to v5.15.36, linux-yocto/5.10 to v5.10.112
• Fix gcc thread sanitizer against glibc 2.34
• Update python3 to 3.10.4
• Update tzdata to 2022a
• Fix specific version handling for ipk and deb package types
• Upgrade gtk4 to 4.6.2
• Various python module recipe upgrades
• Gnome and XFCE recipe upgrades
• Enable usrmerge feature distro wide
• Switch default docker build to use bullseye/debian-11
• Enable overlayfs to mount r/w parition on rootfs
• Bump simpleiot to 0.0.45
• Enable persistent logs across reboots
• Build own bmaptool-native and remove depending on build host for it
• Assorted recipe major version upgrade
• Allow auto detection of the correct graphics options in runqemu
• Use https with github for SRC_URIs in meta-riscv
• Fix several recipes to compile with GCC-12
• Upgrade Go compiler to 1.18
• Upgrade OpenSSH to 9.0p1
• Fix nativsdk builds for LLVM runtime
• Fix several recipes to buils on ppc/ppc64 with clang
• Fix several recipes to build properly with usrmerge distro feature
• Upgrade GCC to 11.3 release
• Fix several recipes to build with out X11
• Upgrade glibc to latest bugfixes on 2.35 release
• Upgrade rust compiler to 1.60
• Upgrade Clang to 14.0.3
• Enable xz compression in kmod
• Switch linux-raspberrypi to have compressed kernel modules

Added

• Add recipes for OpenThread
• Add recipes for idevicerestore, libadwaita, frr
• Add support for nezha-allwinner-d1 machine
• Add os-release-initrd package
• add UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT to match LOADADDR in linux-raspberrypi
• Add MCP3008 ADC overlay for RPI machines
• Add tune include for armv8.4a
• Add tunes for rv64 without compressed instructions
• Introduce git intercept script due to fakeroot issues in devshell
• Add recipe for musl-locales

Removed

• Drop meta-96boards layer, its unused
• Remove recipes for rpi-hwup-image and rpi-basic-image
• Drop GOBUILDMODE
• Remove invalid GLIBC_EXTRA_OECONF for ppc32

2022.03 - "Orkney"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2022.03] - 2022-03-30

Changed

• Update clang to 14.0.0
• Fix multilib support in clang based toolchain
• Improve llvm-config detection logic in cross builds
• Enable llvm runtime for ppc32
• Disable altivec intructions when using clang on qemuppc
• Fix python module recipes to support PEP-517 packaging
• Update nodejs to 16.14.0 LTS
• Fix gyp to work with python 3.10+
• Upgrade linux-raspberrypi 5.15 to 5.15.30
• Bump riscv linux-mainline to 5.17
• Update linux-yocto to v5.10.107, v5.15.30
• Update SRC_URIs for brcm firmware in meta-riscv
• Show warning for obsolete license usage
• Improve deterministic builds for perl, quilt, and cups
• Upgrade SQlite3 to 3.38.0
• Replace non-SPDX license identifiers in OE-core
• Use SPDX license identifiers in recipetool
• Enable networking in all icecc tasks
• Rework INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE wildcard and variable handling
• Improve ssh fetcher to support path handling
• Use SPDX license identifiers in all meta-openembedded layers and meta-intel
• Fix recipes in meta-openembedded needing legacy setuptools support
• Reduce default dependencies for native sysroot, drop libarchive and util-linux
• Drop opt-1 and opt-2 pyc files in native python to reduce number of files
• Fix build race in binutils/assembler docs
• Improve eSDK layer path assumptions to support more layouts
• Enable systemtap for RISCV64
• Use SPDX license naming convention in meta-clang, meta-odroid, meta-riscv
• Enable riscv64 builds for bcc,libbpf
• Remove depenendency for virtual/libgl where possible, use virtual/egl
• Fix recipes to build without X11 in distro features
• Improve PYPA_WHEEL detection for wheel packaging and cleanup pip_install_wheel
• Upgrade go to 1.17.8
• Upgrade rust to 1.59.0
• Update cmake to 3.22.3
• Add AGPL-3.0 wildcard to expand_wildcard_licenses
• Upgrade QT5 to v5.15.3-lts-lgpl
• Improve pip_install_wheel to not need PIP_INSTALL_DIST_PATH and PYPA_WHEEL
• Bitbake fixes for toaster support
• Fix several recipes for ppc64 builds
• Upgrade gstreamer to 1.20.1
• Fix global ppc/ppc64 sitefiles for musl and glibc differences
• Bump bitbake to 2.0.0
• Fix more recipes to use branch and protocol parameters in github SRC_URI
• Move petry python packaging infrastructure from meta-python to core layer
• Fix qemuppc64 recipes and booting with 5.15 kernel
• Adjust recipes for renaming flit_core -> python_flit_core
• Fix rust packages to build for riscv32 and musl
• Update systemd to 250.4
• Fix several recipes to build when LIBDIR != lib by default, fixes ppc64
• Convert virtual/libgl to virtual/egl dependencies where possible
• Upgrade libtool to 2.4.7, needed few recipes to re-generate macros
• Update musl to latest master
• Fix rust toolchain for SDK environment
• Fix weston 10.x build for TI socs using sgx driver
• Add GLES3/GL headers to SGX DDK

Added

• Add poetry_core helper class for supporting poetry for python packages
• Add snapshot checksums for powerpc64le hosts
• Add support to build on FIPS enabled build hosts
• Added setuptools3_legacy bbclass to keep pre PEP-517 behavior
• Add nativesdk support to cargo and rust compiler tools
• Add Dockerfile in bitbake repo for building PR service
• Add MOUNT_COPYBIND_AVOID_OVERLAYFS env var to skip OverlayFS
• New recipes
  • hstr, python3-qface, python3-path, python3-antlr4-runtime
  • python3-crc32c, gosu,

Removed

• Drop AVAILABLE_LICENSES variable
• Remove the available_licenses() function from license.bbclass

2022.02 - "Navajo-Churro"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2022.02] - 2022-02-28

Changed

• Upgrade simpleiot to 0.0.42
• Enable network during compile/configure step of simpleiot
• Build kernel with initramfs for sifive/unmatched
• Use renamed terms for variables for inclusive language changes
  • BB_ENV_PASSTHROUGH_ADDITIONS
  • LICENSE_FLAGS_ACCEPTED
  • SKIP_RECIPE
  • CVE_CHECK_IGNORE
  • LICENSE_EXCLUSION
• Use yocto URL for testing CONNECTIVITY_CHECK_URIS
• Switch to kirkstone ( yocto 3.5 ) codename across layers
• Only allow network access in do_fetch tasks
• Cleanup use of distutils in oe-core, replace with setuptools
• linux-yocto updated to v5.10.99, v5.15.22
• Update busybox to 1.35 release
• Enable threading in perl
• Update various gnome recipes to 41.1 release
• Upgrade strace to 5.16
• Switch raspberrypi4-64 to cortexa72 tune
• Upgrade ffmpeg to 5.0
• Upgrade meson to 0.61.1 and fix packages to build with this version
• Update PHP to 8.1.3
• Upgrade gstreamer to 1.20.0
• Use arm BSPs to use linux-yocto 5.15
• Update clang to 14.0.0-rc1
• Use LLVM binutils by default e.g. nm, strip, objcopy, objdump etc.
• Set precise BSD license in various recipes
• Upgrade glibc to 2.35
• Upgrade binutils to 2.38 release
• Upgrade gdb to 11.2
• Upgrade go to 1.17.7
• Upgrade musl to tip of master/f8bdc3048216f41eaaf655524fa286cfb1184a70
• Upgrade weston to 10.0.0
• Disable sse4.1 and sse4.2 in openCV on x86
• Upgrade linux-firmware to 20220209
• Bump bitbake version to 1.53.1
• Use 5.15 as default kernel for RPI machines
• Add support for gtkmm4
• Disable optimizations for libvorbis,x264,dcadec,graphviz on mips to avoid clang bug
• Migrate many python recipes to use wheels packaging format
• Upgrade ruby to 3.1.1
• Move distutils bbclasses to meta-python

Added

• Add example to generate username/password in image and local.conf
• Add recipe for python3-gammu, duktape, python3-picamera, seatd
  googlebenchmark, python3-pytest-xdist, python3-pytest-xdist
  python3-pytest-qt
• Introduce cortexa73-crypto tune
• Add the support for the Neoverse N2 core
• Add tune include for armv8.5a
• Add setuptoools Rust plugin
• Add class for PyO3 cross-compilation
• Add crate fetcher in bitbake
• Add recipe for 5.15 LTS linux-raspberrypi kernel

Removed

• Prelinker support
• Drop the redundant cortexa72-crc tune
• Remove recipes for mailx, libjs-jquery, python3-anyjson, python3-nose
• Remove libsegfault and catchsegv
• Remove bogus CMAKE_LDFLAGS_FLAGS definition from cmake toolchain file

2021.12 - "masai"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

2021.12 - 2021-12-17

Changed

• Fix qtwayland vulkan build on GLES2
• Upgrade libcamera to latest
• Add new recipe for 2.6 version trusted-firmware-a
• Use GCC runtime on ppc32 and armv5 when using clang compiler
• Support building clang based compilers on OE build hosts
• Upgrade RPI kernel (linux-raspberrypi) to 5.10.83
• Upgrade WebKit to 2.34.2
• Upgrade linux-yocto - linux-yocto/5.15 - v5.15.10
  linux-yocto/5.10 - v5.10.87
  linux-yocto/5.14 - v5.14.21
• Upgrade mesa to 21.3.1 and fix build for RPI0W and vulkan
• Upgrade Go to 1.17.5
• Upgrade rust to 1.57.0
• Upgrade opkg to 0.5.0
• Remove crypto for the default cortex-a72 tune
• Add redirectauth parameter to wget fetcher
• Ensure dumpsig output is deterministic in siggen
• Improve lockfile handling race in bitbake runqueue
• Update clang to 13.0.1 RC1
• Use 5.15 kernel for linux-ti-mainline
• Improve lttng-tools ptests determinism
• Let mesa provide virtual/libgles3
• Fix kmscube build on OpenGL ES 3
• Update and enhance netdata 1.32.1
• Update php to 8.1
• Update openSSL to 3.0.1
• Fix oe-stylize script to address new override syntax
• Update QEMU to 6.2 and add selinux PACKAGECONFIG
• drop OLDEST_KERNEL reference in qemu-usermode
• Cleanup tzdata recipe
• Add Inactive-Upstream to Upstream-Status
• Update clang to latest 13.x branch
• Assorted recipe upgrades

Added

• Added recipes
  • gutenprint, usbip-tools, pycups

Removed

• Removed recipes
  • rustfmt

2021.11 (langhe)

• Use https protocol in github SRC_URI
• Use branch setting in git uris explicitly
• Update clang to latest on 13.x release branch
• Fix recipes to not install /var/log /var/run during build time
  but create them at runtime
• Fix mdns on musl
• Fix Gnome recipes in meta-gnome
• Update musl to tip of trunk which has qsort_r now
• Add a new build QA check to check for empty folders
• Fix recipes e.g. mctp, sdbus to compile against 5.15 kernel headers
• Update gdb to 11.1
• Show warnings for append/prepend/remove operators combined with +=/.=
• Specify protoc explicitly when building protobuf-c, helps cross compile
• Use https protocols for github SRC_URIs in meta-raspberrypi
• Introduce Linux 5.15 based linux-libc-headers
• Fix recipes to work with 5.15 headers e.g. ppp
• Update linux-yocto v5.10.79, v5.15.2, v5.14.18
• Drop using lnr in favor of ln -rs in recipes
• Fix wic image generation by reverting to using os.rename
• Add uninative mirror on kernel.org
• Build target qemu on musl targets as well
• improve SDK's wrapper to make Wraps work in meson
• Use wayland distro feature for native builds
• Fix task-depends.dot for multiconfig targets
• Adjust recipes using meson to work with meson 0.60+
• Upgrade linux-raspberrypi to 5.10.81
• Fix parselogs regular expressions for 5.10 kernel
• Add Pi Zero 2 Wifi 64bit yocto machine in meta-raspberrypi
• Upgrade php to 8.x
• Upgrade linux-staging-ti to 5.10.65
• Drop compatibility mappings and dbus dependency in core packagegroups
• Support read-only rootfs in QEMU machines
• Refresh PREMIRRORS/MIRRORS settings in metadata, some of them were stale
• Update rust to 1.56.1
• Update patch status, many of them are submitted upstream
• Use https:// instead of git:// for github.com SRC_URIs in meta-qt5
• Fix github SRC_URIs to have explicit branch names
• Use usermode qemu to run minilua during php8 build
• Change the default cipher to AES-256-GCM for openvpn server configurations
• Fix rust runtime library and librsvg on riscv32/musl
• Add sanity check for allarch packagegroups
• Use bullseye branch for linux-firmware-rpidistro package
• Set precise BSD license for meta-openembedded recipes
• Remove introspection as this is not valid meson 0.60+ option
• Fix missing installation of cups sysv init scripts
• Upgrade and fix freerdp 2.3.0 -> 2.4.1
• Fix mozjs on centos7 build hosts
• Add Wi-Fi/BT drivers for CM4 and Pi 400 to Raspberrypi4 machine configs
• Upgrade mesa to 21.3.0
• Fix OEQA warnings for append operators combined with +=
• Improve rust support in meson based builds
• Upgrade go to 1.16.10
• Support rootdev identified by partition label in wic
• Do not use CET on i586 and c3 tunes
• Switch TI SOCs to use PVR graphics
• Fix PVR drivers to work with 5.10+ kernel
• Add ar wrapper for determinism for native/cross recipes
• Add needed sysroot dependencies for repo fetcher
• Fix launching weston without keyboard and mouse on BBB and RPI
• Update Go to 1.17 release
• Assorted recipe upgrades
• New recipes
  • ntpsec, mozjs-78, gtk4, python3-imgtool, fwupd, fwupd-efi
  • python3-pytz-deprecation-shim, python3-aiosignal, python3-frozenlist
  • python3-charset-normalizer, python3-cchardet, python3-email-validator
  • python3-gcovr

2021.10 (karakul)

• Update vc-intrinsics to latest
• Fix gattlib with latest pkgconfig changes and upgrade recipe
• Fix multiple build determinism reproducibility issues in oe-core
• Add Unified Kernel Image option for bootimg-efi wic image
• Drop broken pyc files in python3 package
• rockchip use uuid for /boot during fstab-update in wks file
• Define new libnfs PACKAGECONFIG for QEMU
• Fix cross compilation of grpc
• Enable system instance of pipewire-media-session in pipewire
• Avoid sysroot race issues when multilib is enabled
• Fix no longer valid URLs in oeqa manual
• Replace http with https for URLs in bitbake
• Improve npm fetcher to support archives missing directory mode
• Drop libcidn package from glibc
• Add fcntl64 wrapper to pseudo
• Default to xz compresison for archiver
• Add explicit branch= in recipes in oe-core
• Fix simpleIOT build race and update to 0.0.37
• Add support for big endian 64-bit PowerPC to rust
• Fix librsvg on rv32
• Disable seccomp on systemd/mips32
• disable LLD usage in clang
• Drop libcidn package from glibc
• Update python recipes
• Recipe Updates
  • gpsd - 3.23.1, cmark - 0.30.2, cifs-utils - 6.14
  • phpmyadmin - 5.1.1, intel-graphics-compiler - 1.0.8744
  • strace - 5.14, intel-compute-runtime - 21.37.20939
  • linux-yocto - v5.10.75,v5.14.14
  • linux-raspberrypi - 5.10.76, raspberrypi-firmware - 20211007
  • hiredis - 1.0.2, redis-plus-plus - 1.3.2, atftp - 0.7.5
  • links - 2.25, autofs - 5.1.8, mozjs - 91.2.0, cryptsetup - 2.4.1
  • waffle - 1.7.0, asciidoc - 10.0.0, tzdata - 2021e
  • ncurses - 6.3, vte - 0.66.0, libcap - 2.60, diffoscope - 188
  • wpebackend-fdo - 1.12.0, webkitgtk - 2.34.1, mpg123 - 1.29.2
  • libinput - 1.19.2, gi-docgen - 2021.8, msmtp - 1.8.18
  • python3-setuptools - 58.3.0, createrepo-c - 0.17.7
  • bdwgc - 8.0.6, samba - 4.14.8, intel-mediasdk - 21.3.5
  • intel-media-driver - 21.3.5, libva - 2.13.0, gmmlib - 21.3.1
  • leptonica - 1.82.0, u-boot - 2021.10, lttng-tools - 2.13.1
  • libdnf - 0.65.0, file - 5.41, dnf - 4.10.0, dhcpcd - 9.4.1
  • vboxguestdrivers - 6.1.28, rust - 1.56.0, librsvg - 2.52.2
  • mesa - 21.2.4, gnupg - 2.3.3, libsoup-2.4 - 2.74.0, libmd - 1.0.4
  • libcap - 2.59, libatomic-ops - 7.6.12, iso-codes - 4.7.0
  • fribidi - 1.0.11, libwpe - 1.12.0, mpg123 - 1.29.0
  • wireless-regdb - 2021.08.28, linux-firmware - 20210919
  • libinput - 1.19.1, pango - 1.48.10, harfbuzz - 3.0.0
  • libdazzle - 3.42.0, json-glib - 1.6.6, sudo - 1.9.8p2
  • gsettings-desktop-schemas - 41.0, gobject-introspection - 1.70.0
  • msmtp - 1.8.17, libarchive - 3.5.2, asciidoc - 9.1.1
  • acpica - 20210930, vala - 0.54.2, librepo - 1.14.2
  • libedit - 20210910-3.1, libcomps - 0.1.18, ccache - 4.4.2
  • btrfs-tools - 5.14.2, sysvinit - 3.00, openssh - 8.8p1
  • ofono - 1.33, git - 2.33.1, cmake - 3.21.3, bison - 3.8.2
  • libxcrypt - 4.4.26, libgit2 - 1.3.0, curl - 7.79.1
  • ca-certificates - 20211016, liberation-fonts - 2.1.5
  • libva - 2.13.0, libgit2 - 1.3.0, curl - 7.79.1
  • liberation-fonts - 2.1.5, valgrind - 3.18.1, meson - 0.59.2
  • systemd - 249.5, ovmf - 202108, bluez5 - 5.62
  • lighttpd - 1.4.60, ghostscript - 9.55.0, kea - 2.0.0
  • libjitterentropy - 3.3.0, lua - 5.4.3, rpm - 4.17.0
  • qemu - 6.1.0, gnupg - 2.3.2, pinentry - 1.2.0
  • spirv-tools - 2021.3, glslang - 11.6.0, shaderc - 2021.2
  • inetutils - 2.2, lsof - 4.94.0, libpam - 1.5.2, rt-tests - 2.2
  • libgit2 - 1.2.0, libssh2 - 1.10.0, libhandy - 1.4.0
  • iproute2 - 5.14.0, gzip - 1.11, harfbuzz - 2.9.1
  • vulkan - 1.2.191, help2man - 1.48.5, wayland-protocols - 1.23
  • python3 - 3.10, ethtool - 5.14, xf86-input-libinput - 1.2.0
  • libinput - 1.19.0, acpid - 2.0.33, ell - 0.44, go - 1.16.8
  • libseccomp - 2.5.2, gstreamer1.0 - 1.18.5, busybox - 1.34.1
  • 41.0, openssl - 3.0.0, glib-2.0 - 2.70.0, libexif - 0.6.23
  • wget - 1.21.2, coreutils - 9.0, itstool - 2.0.7
  • epiphany - 41.0, libsolv - 0.7.20, libxi - 1.8
  • libxkbcommon - 1.3.1, xkeyboard-config - 2.34, xorgproto - 2021.5
  • man-pages - 5.13, at-spi2-core - 2.42.0
• New recipes
  • gn, lv-drivers, lvgl, python3-posix-ipc, libxcvt
  • libjs-jquery-globalize, libjs-jquery-cookie
• Removed recipes
  • chipsec

2021.09 (jacob)

• Implement data partition resize feature in yoe updater
• Add initial support to generate SBOMs
• Set precise BSD linceses in recipes in OE-Core and meta-openembedded
• Let updater machine files be defined in layers outside meta-yoe
• Fix bpftrace build with clang 13
• Avod task graph corruption when trying to avoid deadlocks in runqueue
• Drop obsolete oe_machinstall function utility
• Update simpleIOT to v0.0.34
• Fix fcntl in pseudo with glibc 2.34
• Add selinux packageconfig for tar,findutils,coreutils
• Allow upstream for local hash equivalence server in bitbake
• Make externalsrc work with reproducible_build
• Ensure XZ_THREADS doesn't change sstate checksums
• Add packageconfig for wheel-group in systemd
• Avoid problems with recipes using SRCPV when fetching sstate
• Enable ftps in wget fetcher
• Add tpm2 packageconfig to systemd
• Prepare bitbake for python 3.10 compatibility
• Enable lima with rock64
• Change one of licenses from expat to MIT in ffmpeg
• Fix qtwayland build with clang
• Fix missing pkgconfig inherit in QT5 recipes
• Use uuid instead of hard-coding root device for rockchip devices
• Remove obsolete intltool-native dependency from recipes
• Add missing pkgconfig inherit in oe-core and meta-openembedded
• Remove useless class from meta class, reduces amount of sstate needed
• Ensure task checksums reflect site files
• Delete dead entries from site files for Orbit2 and libidl
• Delete site file extentions from meta-openembedded layers
• Fix vboxguestdrivers build on kernel 5.14+
• Let user specify target for vk-gl-cts
• Switch linux-yocto defaults to 5.14 kernel
• Use 5.14 as default kernel for odroid
• Allow shutdown/database flush of pseudo server at task exit helps builds
  using containers for build machines
• Fix clang SDK builds when using llvm runtime
• Fix openCV dnn with protobuf-3.18
• Assorted python module updates
• Recipe Updates
  • simpleiot - 0.0.33, go - 1.16.7, unclutter-xfixes - 1.6
  • uhubctl - 2.4.0, nlohmann-json - 3.10.2, monit - 5.29.0
  • libwebsockets - 4.2.2, cjson - 1.7.15, wireshark - 3.4.8
  • gsl - 2.7, xf86-video-nouveau - 1.0.17, ctags - 5.9.20210905
  • avro-c - 1.10.2, ntopng - 5.0, ndpi - 4.0, redis - 6.2.5
  • libjcat - 0.1.8, libeigen - 3.4.0, libbytesize - 2.6, dash - 0.5.11.5
  • crash - 7.3.0, spdlog - 1.9.2, fmt - 8.0.1, msgpack-c - 4.0.0
  • poppler - 21.09.0, poppler-data - 0.4.11, lockfile-progs - 0.1.19
  • libqmi - 1.30.2, dfu-util - 0.11, cppzmq - 4.8.0, mosquitto - 2.0.12
  • fuse3 - 3.10.5, lttng - 2.13.0, linux-yocto/5.10 - 5.10.63
  • linux-yocto/5.13 - 5.13.15, libxmlb - 0.3.2, dnf-plugin-tui - 1.3
  • zchunk - 1.1.16, xterm - 368, unbound - 1.13.2, dnsmasq - 2.86
  • postgresql - 13.4, libbpf - 0.5.0, ndisc6 - 1.0.5
  • clang - 13.0.0-rc3, linux-raspberrypi - 5.10.63, libgcrypt - 1.9.4
  • span-lite - 0.10.1, protobuf - 3.18.0, fio - 3.28, apache2 - 2.4.49
  • nghttp2 - 1.45.1, samba - 4.14.7, gd - 2.3.3, poco - 1.11.0
  • cppzmq - 4.8.1, byacc - 20210808, systemtap - 4.5-latest
  • libc-headers - 5.14, valijson - 0.6, sassc - 3.6.2, sanlock - 3.8.4
  • libsass - 3.6.5, snort - 2.9.18.1, smcroute - 2.5.3
  • unionfs-fuse - 2.2, libqb - 2.0.3
• New recipes
  • python3-pytest-subtests, python3-kivy, pahole, smarty
  • libjs-jquery-icheck, chipsec
• Removed recipes
  • assimp

2021.08 (íslenska)

• Update to bitbake 1.51.1
• Remove meta-rust layer as rust is in Core now
• Switch to using new override syntax
• Add read-only mode to prserver
• Require python 3.6.0 mininum for bitbake
• Add yocto 3.4 ( honister ) to compatible releases
• Move architecture tune files to arch specific directories
• Upgrade clang to 13.x release
• Make shared library builds of grpc optional
• Drop all custom patches from c-ares and update to 1.17.2
• Delete bootchart recipe
• Link mpich with static libgcc
• Use GNUInstallDirs in cereal and boost-url
• Rename takao-fonts to match other ttf font recipe naming conventions
• Remove unneeded dependency on takao-fonts in uim
• Add flags to enable adbd services in android-tools
• Add selinux as packageconfig knob in networkmanager and augeas
• Add ptest support for jemalloc
• Move opus-tools to meta-multimedia and upgrade to 0.2
• Update SRC_URI for bigbuckbunny-1080p
• Add missing runtime dependencies for mycroft
• Fix image_types_sparse corruption
• Fix fvwm interpreter runtime paths in python/perl script during build
• Drop uclibc remnants from recipes e.g. lua
• Disable building apitrace/libhugetlbfs with glibc 2.34, need porting
• Fix evtest output timestamps
• Fix multiple recipes to build with glibc 2.34 e.g. ntp, autofs, fuse etc.
• Fix qtwebengine build with glibc 2.34
• Add compatibility for non-systemd builds of pi-bluetooth
• Remove connection caching in PR Service
• add tune support for all Arm Cortex-M processors
• Fix SDK relocation symlink
• Use different keys to sign kernel-fitimage and configuration
• Package extlinux.conf separately in u-boot
• Enable RISCV32 for baremetal-helloworld
• Fix reproducibility issues with LTO
• cve-check update link to NVD website for CVE details
• Use BFD linker in systemd-boot ( gold segfaults )
• Upgrade glibc to 2.34 and fix metadata and recipes to build with it
• More granular packaging for gpsd docs
• Extend libkcapi to build natively as well
• Use vc4-kms-v3d device-tree on rpi4 machines to boot into graphics
• Drop target flex/bison from build dependencies in binutils
• Fix pseudo to work with glibc 2.34 systems
• Move odroid kernel to use linux-yocto 5.13
• Fix metacity for out of tree builds
• Migrate odroid-c4 to mainline kernel
• Re-enable apitrace recipe for glibc >= 2.34
• Update BSD licenses to be specific in recipes e.g. BSD -> BSD-3-Clause
• Add RDP packageconfig to weston
• Stop using ext2simg in image_types_sparse
• Stop using "virtual/" in RPROVIDES and RDEPENDS
• Assorted list of python module version updates
• Recipe Upgrades
  • mariadb - 10.6.4, libencode-perl - 3.12, sedutil - 1.15.1.01
  • opensc - 0.22.0, live555 - 20210809, libqmi - 1.30.0, vsftpd - 3.0.5
  • ctags - 5.9.20210815.0, netplan - 0.103, icewm - 2.7.0, udisks2 - 2.9.3
  • networkmanager - 1.32.10, network-manager-applet - 1.24.0
  • fltk - 1.3.7, gpsd - 3.23, fetchmail - 6.4.21, catch2 - 2.13.7
  • audit - 3.0.5, iwd - 1.16, vorbis-tools - 1.4.2, thrift - 0.14.2
  • xwd - 1.0.8, valijson - 0.5, poppler - 21.08.0, monit - 5.28.1
  • libqmi - 1.28.8, libblockdev - 2.26, apache - 2.4.48, mongodb - 4.4.7
  • raspberrypi-tools, raspberrypi-firmware, userland
  • linux-raspberrypi - 5.10.59, rust - 1.54.0, rng-tools - 6.14
  • re2c - 2.2, enchant - 2.3.1, diffoscope - 181, boost - 1.77.0
  • webkitgtk - 2.32.3, libwebp - 1.2.1, wireless-regdb - 2021.07.14
  • linux-firmware - 20210818, xserver-xorg - 1.20.13, libxft - 2.3.4
  • libxfont2 - 2.0.5, libinput - 1.18.1, mesa - 21.2.1, pango - 1.48.9
  • libepoxy - 1.5.9, libjpeg-turbo - 2.1.1, libgudev - 237, epiphany - 40,3
  • sudo - 1.9.7p2, stress-ng - 0.13.00, libidn2 - 2.3.2, acpica - 20210730
  • squashfs-tools - 4.5, pkgconf - 1.8.0, patchelf - 0.13, mtools - 4.0.35
  • log4cplus - 2.0.7, libedit - 20210714-3.1, help2man - 1.48.4
  • e2fsprogs - 1.46.4, linux-yocto - v5.13.12, linux-yocto/5.10 - v5.10.60
  • libconvert-asn1-perl - 0.31, ell - 0.43, strace - 5.13, cmake - 3.21.1
  • util-linux - 2.37.1, iputils - 20210722, shadow - 4.9, bind - 9.16.19
  • i2c-tools - 4.3, gcc - 11.2, curl - 7.78.0, libio-socket-ssl-perl - 2.072
  • linuxptp - 3.1.1, harfbuzz - 2.9.0, bind - 9.16.20, json-glib - 1.6.4
  • gi-docgen - 2021.7, libnsl2 - 2.0.0, vala - 0.52.5, openssh - 8.7p1
  • git - 2.33.0, ccache - 4.4, util-linux - 2.37.2, glib-2.0 - 2.68.4
  • gnu-efi - 3.0.14, openssl - 1.1.1l, bluez - 5.61, libbpf - 0.4.0
  • xmlsec1 - 1.2.32, sedutil - 1.20.0, live555 - 20210824, iwd - 1.17
  • gensio - 2.2.9, doxygen - 1.9.2, can-utils - 2021.08.0
  • xfsprogs - 5.13.0, busybox - 1.34.0, rdma-core - 36.0
  • xf86-input-tslib - 1.1.1, pipewire - 0.3.34, nftables - 1.0.0
  • uninative - 3.4
• New recipes
  • bmon, libconfuse, ttf-ipa, jemalloc, python3-pkcs11
  • python3-cached-property, bluealsa
• Removed recipes
  • libnss-nisplus