[Buildroot] Buildroot 2012.02-rc1 released
Thomas De Schampheleire
patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 08:48:59 UTC 2012
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Buildroot 2012.02-rc1 is released - Go download it at:
>
> http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2012.02-rc1.tar.gz
>
> or
>
> http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2012.02-rc1.tar.bz2
>
> Or get it from Git:
>
> git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot
>
> Like usual for the February releases, we're a bit late because of
> FOSDEM, where we had a developer day. Expect a report from the day
> soon.
>
> Please give it a spin and report any problems to the mailing list or
> bug tracker. Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:
>
> git shortlog -s -n 2011.11..
>
> 170 Peter Korsgaard
> 86 Gustavo Zacarias
> 39 Yegor Yefremov
> 38 Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
> 33 Thomas Petazzoni
> 18 Will Newton
> 12 Daniel Mack
> 10 Thomas De Schampheleire
> 9 Sven Neumann
> 7 Maxime Ripard
> 5 Alexandre Belloni
> 4 Luca Ceresoli
> 4 Sagaert Johan
> 2 Felipe Contreras
> 2 Frank Hunleth
> 2 Frederik Pasch
> 2 H Hartley Sweeten
> 2 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
> 2 Julien Boibessot
> 1 ANDY KENNEDY
> 1 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
> 1 Daniele Salvatore Albano
> 1 Henri Bragge
> 1 Lukasz Pulka
> 1 Samuel MARTIN
> 1 Sergio Prado
> 1 Shawn J. Goff
> 1 Trevor Woerner
> 1 Tristan Lelong
> 1 Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
> 1 Yann E. MORIN
>
> It's nice to see contributions from lots of new people in addition to
> the "oldtimers". This time I'm again ahead of Gustavo with almost 2x
> commits ;)
>
> It has been a quite busy development cycle, with more than 450
> commits, and a number of large scale changes.
>
> Of noteworthy new features we have:
>
> - Large number of new packages (50): Connman & NetworkManager, EFL,
> Jquery related javascript libraries, kmod, lttng and a number of
> python packages.
>
> - Default to GCC 4.5.x / Binutils 2.22 / uClibc 0.9.33 for the
> internal toolchain.
>
> - Support for SCP and mercurial package sources. Host dependencies
> are now derived from target ones by default.
>
> - Packages can now define device table snippets for special
> permissions / device nodes when static /dev is used.
>
> - Updated documentation. The generated Asciidoc documenation is now
> included in tarballs in text/html/pdf format.
>
> - Additional QEMU defconfigs, at91 defconfigs updated and lpc3250
> configs added.
>
> - Host utilities menu with commonly used host tools.
>
> And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. See the CHANGES
> file for details:
>
> http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2012.02_rc1
>
> Just like last cycle, I will now create a next branch and start
> merging in new feature, rather than wait until 2012.02 is released.
>
> Enjoy!
One thing I haven't seen was the deprecation of the customize package.
Maybe we can still do this in 2012.02? I'd submit a patch but since
you also need to change the CHANGES file I think it makes more sense
if you do it yourself, no?
Best regards,
Thomas
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