2023.03 - "Acıpayam"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2023.03] - 2023-02-30

Changed

• Upgrade raspberrypi kernel to 5.15.103
• Upgrade linux-yocto to v6.1.20
• Upgrade openSBI to 1.2 and fix cyclic dependency for fitImage based boards
• Create machine-id with "uninitialized" text
• Upgrade simpleIOT to 0.9.0 release
• Refresh fixes for android-tools
• Upgrade linux-hardkernel to 4.9.337
• Upgrade nodejs to 18.14.2
• Enable mesa-demos build with userland graphics drivers on rpi
• Enable kms plugin for visionfive2
• Fix gdb intermittent build issue
• Allow overwrite of QB_CPU for qemux86
• Add PROVIDES and RPROVIDES for virtual/opencl-icd
• Enable --enable-new-dtags in binutils for DT_RUNPATH
• Add missing binutils dependency in glibc
• Yoe updater now supports tmpfs as well as persistent overlays
• Add yoe-installer-image to create SD card installer for eMMC
• Switch to using ext4.xz for rootfs in updater
• Update arm optee-os to 3.20.0
• Upgrade bpftrace to 0.17.0
• Fix serveral recipes in meta-freesclale to build world
• Enable parallel execution of ptest images and fix ptest dependencies
• Handle spaces within user $PATH in SDK installers
• Upgrade systemd to 253.1
• Upgrade visionfive2-firmware to VF2_v2.10.4
• Fix nodejs build on older build hosts eg. centos8
• Move android-tools from meta-clang to meta-oe
• Update openssh to 3.1.0
• Update matchbox recipes to latest
• Upgrade networkmanager to 1.42.4
• Upgrade clang to 16.0.0
• Fix building various packagegroups in meta-openembedded
• Use python3-unittest-automake-output in python recipes for ptest integration
• Fix qtpdf with clang-native from 16.0.0 release
• Update android-tools to 29.0.6.r14
• Disable warnings as errors when building glibc
• Update mesa to 23.0.0
• respect IMAGE_LINK_NAME in seftests
• Upgrade RPI kernel to 6.1
• Fix some linkshared regression introduced in go 1.20
• Upgrade openssh to 9.3p1
• Fix rpi specific vlc and ffmpeg with clang16
• Update clang to 16.0.1
• Fix libunwind compile failures on 32-bit arm with Clang 16

Added

• Add kernel specific KERNEL_OBJDUMP variable
• Add VOLATILE_TMP_DIR variable
• Add support for visionfive2 board
• Add recipes - python3-rich, xdg-dbus-proxy, libavif, dav1d
  pgpool2, python3-unittest-automake-output, debugedit, reboot-mode
  python3-executing, python3-pure-eval, python3-stack-data
  exfatprogs
• Add yoe updater support for MX8-VAR-SOM symphony board
• Add ptest support for mbedTLS
• Add buildstats-summary script
• Add support for loongarch64
• Add find-debuginfo support back

Removed

• Removed recipes - quagga, jhi, exfat-utils

2023.02 - "Zaghawa"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2023.02] - 2023-02-28

Changed

• Update busybox to 1.36, disable SHA accelarators for 32bit x86
• Bundle libc++abi archive into static libc++.a, improves static linking
• Bump kernel to linux-yocto 6.1 for odroid devices
• Add ptest support for python3-pillow
• Fix several recipes to build with upcoming GCC13 release
• Upgrade mongodb to 4.4.18 and fix build with ccache enabled
• Fix recipes to use target python config for target during cross compile
• Pass MAXLINELENGTH to scons invocation, helps with large cmdline lengths
• Upgrade rust to 1.67.1
• Upgrade linux-raspberrypi to 5.15.90
• Add ptest support to gnuTLS
• Upgrade linux-yocto/5.15 to v5.15.91, linux-yocto/6.1 to v6.1.9
• Fix Yoe Updater to use correct boot device after upgrade
• Upgrade glibc to 2.37
• Fix several recipes to work with upcoming gcc 13 release
• Improve on target locale generation
• Fix clang recipe for multilib build
• Enable PIC for static archives with clang runtime libs
• Fix several recipes to build with clang-16/c++17
• Add ptest for minicoredumper
• Add PACKAGECONFIG for video-codecs in mesa
• Provide missing tools during cross compiling openmp
• Sync dtc tree with kernel for nezha/riscv
• Add a PACKAGECONFIG for arm_neon in graphene
• Upgrade gstreamer1.0 to 1.22.0
• Update go compiler to 1.20.1
• Fix wireless on model 3B and Zero W
• Use LLVM_ENABLE_RUNTIMES to build llvm runtime libs
• Speedup nodejs native compilation by not during cross builds
• Improve idle thread exception handling in bitbake
• Do not use xz parallelism options with zstd
• Enable systemd-time-wait-sync.service when timesycd is enabled
• Improve build-appliance-image target
• Upgrade Upgrade to 13.1
• Fix QEMU build with 6.2 kernel headers
• Fix ffmpeg build with vulkan
• Improve resulttool reporting
• Upgrade musl to latest tip of trunk
• Fix Upstream-Status for several patches

Added

• New recipes
  • python3-pycups, extract-cert, rtkit, system-config-printer
    rpi-eeprom, libdeflate, python-daemon, smemstat, linux-serial-test
    libgpiod v2.0-rc2, python3-gpiod, plocate
• Add initial support for loongarch64 architecture
• Add artifact signing infrastructure class ( signing.bbclass )
• Add weston kiosk shell

Removed

• Remove rock-pi-4 MACHINE
• Remove image SPDX and index from deploydir
• Remove clang-offload-wrapper from clang, gone in clang 16 as well
• Remove glib site cached values
• Removed recipes
  • crda, linux-yocto-5.19

2023.01 - "Yankasa"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2023.01] - 2023-01-30

Changed

• Switch to using 'mickledore' for LAYERSERIES_COMPAT
• Fix clang recipes to work without LFS64 functions
• Use gcc to compile pixman on aarch64
• Fix several recipes for 64bit time_t on 32bit arches
• Update musl to latest tip ( drops LFS64 interfaces )
• Use binutils objcopy in BSP linux kernel builds
• Use gcc for all u-boot forks
• Upgrade usbguard to 1.1.2
• Switch qemux86-64 to x86-64-v3 tune
• Include "c" in IMAGE_LINGUAS for glibc
• Upgrade ruby for 3.2.0
• Upgrade curl to 7.87.0
• Switch ostree to use fuse3
• Fix QT5 builds with 64bit time_t
• Update concurrencykit to latest to support RISCV
• Update nezha (rv64 board) support
• Fix EGT recipe to work with clang in meta-atmel
• Improve sstate reuse of llvm-project-sources
• Fix meta-freescale BSP recipes to work with clang compiler
• Fix various python modules to migrate from picobuild to python3-build
• Fix freedom-u540 opensbi dependency loop in meta-riscv
• Improve shutdown handling and lockfile handling in bitbake at exit
• Set ac_cv_sys_file_offset_bits=64 for musl builds globally, enables
  64-bit off_t on autotool based packages
• Unify rust patches into rust-source.inc
• Update linux-yocto kernels to v5.15.87 and v6.1.5
• Add libgcc to uninative-tarball
• Fix several recipes to work with powerpc32 architecture
• Bump linux-libc-headers to 6.1
• Add webp packageconfig knob for libtiff
• Upgrade rust to 1.66.1
• Improve reproducibility in clang build
• Apply C++17 portability fixes in several recipes
• Fix C++11(Alignof) issues in several packages
• Update clang to 15.0.7
• Update bcc to 0.26.0
• Fix create-spdx handling for clang
• Fix several recipes to work with upcoming GCC 13 compiler
• Fix Upstream-Status format of several patches
• Use 6.1 kernel for Qemu machines
• Upgrade binutils to 2.40
• Upgrade u-boot to 2023.01

Added

• Added recipes - xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, eog
  libdecor, biodbc, python3-build, python3-pyproject-hooks
  python3-reedsolo, lvgl-demo-fb, nv-codec-headers, webp-pixbuf-loader
  gnome-chess
• Add GLIBC_64BIT_TIME_FLAGS on ppc/x86
• Introduce v6.1 reference linux-yocto kernel recipes

Removed

• Removed recipes - boost-url, python3-strict-rfc3339, python3-picobuild
• Remove package_tar.bbclass from classes-global

2022.12 - "Xalda"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2022.12] - 2022-12-31

Changed

• Update clang to 15.0.6 and fix build for 32bit LFS64 systems
• Fix compiler and binutils tools options for kernel and u-boot
• Add protocol= explicitly to github SRC_URI for linux-odroid
• Add opengl to REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES in recipes from meta-oe
• Add ipv6 in PACKAGECONFIG to libwebsockets
• Rename gcr to gcr-3 to accomodate gtk4 and dependencies
• Move GTK4 support to core from meta-oe/meta-gnome layers
• Improve reproduciblity patch in go compiler
• Avoid host contamination in go cross SDK compiler
• Update minimum python version needed to 3.8 on build hosts
• Fix several recipes for lfs64 support
• Ports gtk3+ to use meson
• Update rust compiler to 1.66.0
• Conevert bitbake to use argparse
• add -DUSE_X11 Flag to qtbase to work with latest mesa
• Use python3targetconfig in recipes to use right python for target
• Fix waf-samba to use target python3-config
• Fix openCV build with ffmpeg 5.1+
• Update qemu to 7.2.0
• Update cmake to 3.25.1
• Use rm from HOSTTOOLS in rm_work explicitly
• Update wireplumber to 0.4.13 and use dbus defaults
• Update XFCE recipes to 4.18.0 release
• Update python to 3.11.1
• Add rust to SDK toolchain language selection
• Update systemd to 252.4
• Fix several recipes to work with LFS64 functions removal from musl
• Update several gnome recipes to latest
• Update go compiler to 1.19.4
• Fix rust recipes to work with musl without LFS64 functions

Added

• New recipes - xdg-desktop-portal-wlr, basu, gnome-software,
  xdg-desktop-portal, editorconfig, python3-rapidjson, tuna,
  sip, python3-uefi-firmware, python3-linux-procfs, python3-schedutils,
  gcr-4, python3-watchdogdev, appstream, libtraceevent, libtracefs,
  flatpak, flatpak-xdg-utils, libslirp
• Add time64.conf to enable 64bit time_t on 32bit glibc systems
• Add x86-64-v3 tunes (AVX, AVX2, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, LZCNT, MOVBE, XSAVE)

Removed

• Drop OEBasic siggen from sstate signature
• Remove RRECOMMENDS to rng-tools for sshd package
• Remove SERIAL_CONSOLE variable

2022.11 - "Waziri"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2022.11] - 2022-11-30

Changed

• Upgrade clang to 15.0.4
• Upgrade Nodejs to 16.18.1
• Fix libpcre dependent packages build e.g. ettercap
• Upgrade various python package versions
• Add opengl to REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES for various packages
• Fix several packages build with python 11
• Enable ipv6 support in nginx
• Add build support to build golang compiler on ppc64le
• Add savedefconfig task in u-boot
• Upgrade openssl to 3.0.7
• Upgrade rust to 1.65.0
• Upgrade weston to 11.0.0
• Add libsoup-3.0 dependency to webkitgtk
• Upgrade systemd to 251.8
• Fix uboot on ae350-ax45mp
• Enable glvnd support in mesa
• Add selinux PACKAGECONFIG to several recipes in core

Added

• Added recipes - gtk-vnc, libglvnd, python3-brotli, minio
  jwt-cpp, spice-gtk, python3-kmod, python3-aioserial
• Add libc testsuite for musl
• Add 7-Zip support in conversion types for image_types
• Add crate in own-mirrors

Removed

• Removed recipes - sip3

2022.10 - "Valachian"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2022.10] - 2022-10-30

Changed

• Bump LAYERSERIES_COMPAT to langdate ( yocto 4.1 )
• Enforce using libgcc for fmt package for float128 support
• Allow creating src-pkgs when using clang compiler globally
• Update clang to 15.0.2 release tag
• linux-starfive-dev bumped to 6.0.0
• Tweak libcamera to build for Raspberry Pi
• Build u-boot-starfive outside source tree
• Improve manuals with reference to familiar tasks
• Assorted package version upgrades
• Update clang to 15.0.3
• Fix bpftrace on RISCV64
• Fix linux-hardkernel 4.9 with GCC 12
• Update documentation for oe-core

Added

• Add ptest support for bpftrace
• Add new recipe - rpi-libcamera-apps, python3-pytest-json-report
  Perfetto, md4c

Removed

• Removed recipes: onboard
• Remove -ffile-compilation-dir from global clang options

2022.09 - "Uda"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2022.09] - 2022-09-30

Changed

• Move clang-native.bbclass to classes/ folder to unbreak other layers
• Fix function used in AC_CHECK_LIB multiple recipes, do not use 'main'
• Fix type mismatches in multiple packages found with clang-15
• Add missing headers for function prototypes in many packages
• Fix buildpaths issues in several more recipes
• Pass -D_GNU_SOURCE to packages needing gnu extentions on musl
• Always set CC and LD for the kernel build
• Fix i686 toolchain relocation issues in gcc-multilib-config
• Fix npm to use https rather than http fetcher
• Fix rust crossbeam-utils for arches without atomics
• Update rust to 1.63.0 and fix build on musl
• Rework llvm handling in mesa
• Add llvm-config wrapper to improve flags handling
• Fix many recipes to build with clang-15
• Define wayland packageconfig for opengl-es-cts,vulkan-cts
• Major version upgrade for assorted recipes
• Upgrade bpftrace to 0.16.0
• Add rpidistro VLC and ffmpeg build
• Update K & R stype functions in autoconf
• Avoid bad checksum race issues in wget fetcher
• Add no-dns-fallback packageconfig to systemd
• Upgrade major version of clang compiler from 14.0.6 to 15.0.0
• Use gcc to build openssh and webkitgtk for now
• Move python3-lxml from meta-python -> core
• Update raspberrypi-firmware to 20220830 snapshot
• Fix target rust with LLVM runtime
• Do not package gprofng.rc in binutils-cross-canadian
• Address sox intermittent build issue
• Fix wireless on Raspberry Pi 4
• Prefer += instead of :append operator in several recipes in core
• Fix weston and gstreamer-plugins-base imx recipes to build with clang
• Fix llvm-objdump crash seen on aarch64/musl golang compiler
• Fix xserver builds on IMX8
• Limit rpidistro-vlc,rpidistro-ffmpeg to rpi machines only
• Fix bunch of CVEs, refer to commits for details
• Update mozjs-91 91.13.0 and fix build with python 3.11
• Update clang to latest on 15.x release
• Fix buildpaths warning on more recipes e.g. exiv2, fltk
• Ubreak opensbi dependencies being added to u-boot for non-riscv
  machines
• Enable ZSTD as default compression backend for opkg for yoe
• Enable clang for more applications which were marked non clangable
  Notable recipes e.g. u-boot, python3
• Update simpleIOT to 0.5.0 release
• Fix compiler-rt-sanitizers builds on non-x86 builds
• Fix Yoe graphical images with musl to work on IMX8 devices
• Fixes for logger debug() calls
• Fix gcompat on aarch64
• Upgrade mesa to 22.2.0
• Mark simpleIOT builds on riscv32 incompatible since golang support does
  not exist yet
• Fix recipes in meta-arm to build with clang-15
• Update clang to 15.0.2
• Logic in gtk-icon-cache class fixed for GTK4
• Update tzdata to 2022d
• Update rpm to 4.18.0-release
• Fix weston imx version packageconfig appending syntax error

Added

• New recipes
  • libconfig-tiny-perl
• Add layer setup tool in OE-Core
• Add documentation for numa machine feature
• Add support for a ARMv8 machine supporting multiple Raspberry Pi boards
• Add yoe-ptest-image target for ptests
• Add enable_loopback_networking() function in bitbake utilities

Removed

• Remove ypbind-mt on musl
• Remove unifex recipe
• Drop capstone support in ruby
• Remove mozjs-78 recipe
• Drop sqlite2 recipe

2022.08 - "Targhee"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2022.08] - 2022-08-31

Changed

• Switch to poky for providing core layer and bitbake
• Fix fluentbit builds on 32bit machines without 64bit atomics
• Upgrade binutils to 2.39 release
• Clean sourced from workspace after devtool finish
• Update python3-setuptools to 65.x
• Add support for config snippet includes to ssh and sshd
• Address recipes with -Wimplicit-function-declaration as error in
  pedantic-errors with clang 15
• Update optee to 3.18
• Update musl to tip of trunk
• Fix klibc with 5.19 kernel headers
• Fix RWX permission error in optee
• Update pipewire to v0.3.56
• Update u-boot and kernel recipe for starfive
• Upgrade gcc to 12.2.0
• Updated linux-yocto to v5.15.62, v5.19.3
• Fix rng-tools to drop wrong dependencies which delayed boot
• Fix several recipes for musl builds missing -D_GNU_SOURCE
• Several fixes for clang-15 found errors
• Enable SDL backend for host QEMU to allow UI option along with vnc
• Disable O2 in systemd when using clang for now
• Do not use llvm-strip system-wide for now due to bugs
• Enable installing libc++.so as linker script
• Fix libgcrypt ptests and install
• Update glibc to have mount.h conflicts solved on 2.36 release branch
• Fix several recipes to compile with clang-15 on musl

Added

• Add recipe for mdio-tools, usbmuxd, libusbmuxd, libimobiledevice,
  libplist, gst-editing-services, uutils-coreutils, python3-asgiref
• Added clang-native class to build native compoennts with clang
• Add test for debuginfod

Removed

• Drop has-elf-tls option from rust-target-config

2022.07 - "Sakiz"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2022.07] - 2022-08-19

Changed

• Update clang to 14.0.6
• Fix compiler-rt build for ARMv5
• Fix native and nativesdk builds for armhf targets
• Fix absolute interpreter paths in php, libdbi-perl, libparse-yapp-perl
  libdev-checklib-perl
• Update mariadb to 10.8.3
• Update qtwebengine to v5.15.10-lts and use chromium-87
• Update reference kernels linux-yocto/v5.10.134 v5.15.59
• Add recipe for linux-yocto 5.19
• Update gstreamer to 1.20.3
• Add selftest for shebang overflow
• Upgrade openssl to 3.0.4
• Fix multiple recipes for too long shebang
• Filter build paths on statically linked go arches
• Fix reproducibility issues in perf, gperf
• Fix recipes to build with kernel 5.19+
• Update wayland to 1.21.0
• Upgrade rust to 1.62.0
• Add ptests for curl
• Switch glmark2 build system to use meson
• Distribute sample-config-files with openvpn
• Remove logs from ltp installs, disable -mfpmath=sse on x86
• Fix kernel source handling when not using externalsrc
• Use the python3 ThreadPoolExecutor instead of the OE ThreadedPool
• Fix missing MLPREFIX in debug mappings in gcc runtime
• Use picobuild in python_pep517 class
• Backport a fix for gcc bug 105039
• Upgrade glibc to latest 2.35 branch and binutils to 2.38 branch tip
• Add PACKAGECONFIG for capstone in ruby recipe
• Fix gcc-runtime build when using gold linker
• Fix bunch of recipes to remove buildpath QA warnings
• Upgrade python3-picobuild to 0.2 fixes build of some of the
  python_setuptools_build_meta inheriting recipes
• Add many unrelated/patched CVEs to ignore list in meta-oe
• Disable cache for g-ir-scanner in gobject-introspection-data class
• Fix newlib and baremetal toolchain builds when using gcc-12
• Update go to 1.19
• Update u-boot to 2022.07
• Update meson to 0.63.0
• Fix rust SDK generation
• Fix sanitizers build with glibc 2.36
• Fix several recipes for mount.h conflict in glibc 2.36
• Fix supplier field in create-spdx
• Use tools from cross-binutils in wic operations
• Fix LTP build with ld-is-gold in DISTRO_FEATURES
• Rework rust recipes to facilitate nativesdk builds
• Fix glibc builds with DEBUG_BUILD turned on
• Override LIC_FILES_CHKSUM for starfive_v2021.04 u-boot
• Update linux-raspberrypi to 5.15.56
• Backport patch to fix CYW43455 and various CVEs for bluez-firmware-rpidistro
• Fix the buildpaths issue in several recipes
• Fix insufficent entropy in sigtask file names
• Fix many packages for configure tests failing with clang-15
• Add fixes for packages to build with glibc 2.36
• Address linux 5.19 fails in multiple recipes
• Add memory pressure regulation in runqemu
• Update OPTEE to 3.18
• Specify -ffile-compilation-dir to omit absolute file paths in debug info
• Remove-libtool inherits from recipe namespace
• Update rust to 3.62.1
• Upgrade glibc to 2.36
• Resolve relative prefix-map filenames and symlinks in GCC
• Prepare several recipes to build with upcoming clang-15
• Switch debug source handling to use prefix map

Added

• Added recipes: libspiro, python3-picobuild, python3-oslash
  python3-jsonrpcclient, python3-aiodns, python3-pycares
  waylandpp, python-requests-unixsocket, sshpass
• Add support for visionfive board in meta-riscv
• Add QA check for shebangs
• Add buildpaths to WARN_QA by default
• Introduce UBOOT_MKIMAGE_KERNEL_TYPE
• Add cpu/io pressure regulation to bitbake runqueue
• Implement recipe and global classes in bitbake
• add Andeas RISCV ae350-ax45mp machine support

Removed

• Remove obsolete PEP517_BUILD_API
• Remove the ThreadedPool implementation in oe/utils
• Remove recipe for xf86-input-keyboard
• Remove historical movement of libz.so to /lib
• Remove CMAKE_ASM_FLAGS variable in toolchain file
• Drop v5.10 reference linux-yocto kernel recipes
• Remove largefile distro feature

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