[Buildroot] Buildroot 2014.02 released

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Thu Feb 27 21:17:33 UTC 2014


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Buildroot 2014.02 is released - Go download it at:
>
> http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2014.02.tar.gz
>
> or
>
> http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2014.02.tar.bz2
>
> Or get it from Git:
>
> git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot
>
> After 3 months of development a new stable Buildroot release is
> out. Significant changes are:
>
>  - Support for external packages/defconfigs (BR2_EXTERNAL). See user
>    manual for details.
>
>  - Cleanup of environment variable names for consistency. The download
>    directory location override (BUILDROOT_DL_DIR) is now called
>    BR2_DL_DIR. Likewise the name of the current .config is renamed from
>    BUILDROOT_CONFIG to BR2_CONFIG. Please update your post build scripts
>    if you use this!
>
>  - Toolchains: uClibc pread/pwrite fixes, GCC stack corruption on ARM
>    fix, updated Linaro and Sourcery Codebench external toolchains.
>    Internal toolchain support for Microblaze.
>
>  - Python and Luarocks package infrastructure support. See user manual
>    for details.
>
>  - Large number of new packages (67): Mostly networking related: c-ares,
>    ca-certificates, fping, libmbim, libnfs, libshairplay, libsocketcan,
>    modemmanager, mtr, net-tools, rtmpdump, rtptools, smcroute and
>    tcpreplay. Multimedia: gst1-libav, fswebcam, jasper, lbreakout2,
>    libass, libbluray, libcdio, libmodplug, ltris, minidlna and vlc.
>    Hardware: avrdude, cwiid, gpm, intel-microcode, iucode-tools,
>    libevdev, mmc-utils, smstools3 and ti-uim.
>    Python: configobj, dialog, json-schema-validator, keyring, msgpack,
>    posix-ipc, pyasn, pycrypto, pysnmp, pysnmp-apps, pysnmp-mibs, pyusb,
>    simplejson, tornado and versiontools. Lua: lsyscall and luarocks.
>    Development: apitrace, evemu and ktap.
>
>  - New defconfigs: Armadeus APF51 and Zedboard added, updates to a bunch
>    of our existing configs.
>
> And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. See the CHANGES
> file for details:
>
> http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2014.02
>
> This time we had more than 80 unique contributors! I'm very happy to see
> so many "new" people next to the "oldtimers". It was once again a very
> busy cycle with more than 1100 commits (biggest so far!) and changes all
> over the tree.
>
> This release also marks the 5 year anniversary of us doing regular
> releases every 3 months!
>
> Many thanks to all the people contributing to this release:
>
> git shortlog -s -n 2013.11..
>
>    188  Gustavo Zacarias
>    133  Thomas Petazzoni
>     94  Peter Korsgaard
>     80  Yann E. MORIN
>     73  Thomas De Schampheleire
>     58  Bernd Kuhls
>     40  Simon Dawson
>     33  Axel Lin
>     30  Francois Perrad
>     30  Samuel Martin
>     29  Baruch Siach
>     25  Jerzy Grzegorek
>     22  Maxime Hadjinlian
>     22  Ryan Barnett
>     20  Vicente Olivert Riera
>     19  Yegor Yefremov
>     17  Arnout Vandecappelle
>     15  Romain Naour
>     12  Fatih Aşıcı
>     11  Spenser Gilliland
>     10  Fabio Porcedda
>     10  Julien Boibessot
>      8  Mischa Jonker
>      8  Sven Neumann
>      7  Anders Darander
>      6  Danomi Manchego
>      6  Paul Cercueil
>      5  eric.le.bihan.dev at free.fr
>      4  Ezequiel García
>      4  Frank Hunleth
>      4  Jeremy Kerr
>      4  Jeremy Rosen
>      4  Jérôme Pouiller
>      4  Ludovic Desroches
>      4  Marcelo Gutiérrez(UTN/FRH)
>      4  Martin Bark
>      3  Bjørn Forsman
>      3  Chris Packham
>      3  Matt Weber
>      3  Peter Seiderer
>      3  Shawn Landden
>      3  Sonic Zhang
>      3  Wojciech M. Zabolotny
>      3  trem
>      2  Adrien Béraud
>      2  Alexander Lukichev
>      2  Alexandre Belloni
>      2  Anton Blanchard
>      2  Anton Kolesov
>      2  Arnaud Rébillout
>      2  Christophe Vu-Brugier
>      2  Frank Bergmann
>      2  Lucas De Marchi
>      2  Nathan Lynch
>      2  Naumann Andreas
>      2  Sagaert Johan
>      2  Stefan Sørensen
>      1  Alan Ott
>      1  Andi Shyti
>      1  Andrew Ruder
>      1  Antoine Pierlot-Garcin
>      1  Arnaud Aujon
>      1  Clayton Shotwell
>      1  Daniel Nyström
>      1  Gary Bisson
>      1  Markos Chandras
>      1  Mathias De Maré
>      1  Matthew Weber
>      1  Max Filippov
>      1  Nicolas Dechesne
>      1  Nix
>      1  Noam Camus
>      1  Philippe Reynes
>      1  Rafal Fabich
>      1  Sébastien Szymanski
>      1  Thierry Bultel
>      1  Thomas Pedersen
>      1  Tristan Lelong
>      1  Valentine Barshak
>      1  Zoltan Gyarmati
>      1  universe II
>
> And a special thanks to our patch reviewers:
>
> git log 2013.11.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | \
>     sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
>
>      42 "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
>      24 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
>      20 Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
>      18 Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
>      10 Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com>
>       5 Ryan Barnett <rjbarnet at rockwellcollins.com>
>       4 "Samuel Martin" <s.martin49 at gmail.com>
>       4 Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
>       4 Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar>
>       1 Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com>
>       1 Spenser Gilliland <spenser at gillilanding.com>
>       1 Simon Dawson <spdawson at gmail.com>
>       1 Samuel Martin <smartin at aldebaran-robotics.com>
>       1 Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>
>       1 Markos Chandras <markos.chandras at imgtec.com>
>       1 Julien Boibessot <julien.boibessot at armadeus.com>
>       1 Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com>
>       1 Eric Jarrige <eric.jarrige at armadeus.org>
>       1 Arvid Picciani <aep at exys.org>
>
> Once again our autobuilders have helped us fix a huge amount of build
> issues. Thanks to all the people reviewing failures and fixing issues:
>
> for i in $(git log --format=%H 2013.11..); do \
>     git show --quiet $i | grep -q http://autobuild && \
>     git show --quiet --format="%an" $i ; done | sort | uniq -c | \
>         sort -rn -k1
>
>      40 Thomas Petazzoni
>      28 Gustavo Zacarias
>      23 Baruch Siach
>      19 Peter Korsgaard
>      13 Samuel Martin
>      10 Ryan Barnett
>       9 Romain Naour
>       8 Vicente Olivert Riera
>       7 Thomas De Schampheleire
>       6 Simon Dawson
>       4 Bernd Kuhls
>       3 Arnout Vandecappelle
>       3 Francois Perrad
>       3 Fatih Aşıcı
>       3 Fabio Porcedda
>       2 Yann E. MORIN
>       2 Spenser Gilliland
>       2 Maxime Hadjinlian
>       2 Anton Kolesov
>       1 Sonic Zhang
>       1 Julien Boibessot
>       1 Jeremy Rosen
>       1 Frank Bergmann
>       1 Ezequiel García
>       1 Clayton Shotwell
>       1 Christophe Vu-Brugier
>       1 Axel Lin
>       1 Alexander Lukichev
>
> A special thanks to Thomas Petazzoni for handling the maintainer duties
> while I was away!
>
> Next release will be 2014.05. Expect the first release candidate early
> May, and the final release at the end of the month.
>
> We had a very nice developer days meeting after FOSDEM in Brussels,
> Belgium. Thanks to all the attendees and especially Arnout Vandecappelle
> for writing a detailed report about the session and to Google and Mind
> for sponsoring:
>
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2014-February/088373.html
>
> The next developers meeting will take place just before the Embedded
> Linux Conference Europe in Düsseldorf, Germany:
>
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2014-February/088978.html
>
> We are looking for companies willing to sponsor this Developers
> Meeting. The budget is in the 250-500 EUR range, so it's fairly cheap
> for most companies, but allows us to cover the cost of the meeting room,
> and optionally the Saturday dinner for the participants.
>
> And finally we already have a number of interesting changes lined up for
> the next cycle (either already on next or under review):
>
>  - Uptodate systemd package and support for eudev
>
>  - Update of the Freescale iMX hardware acceleration and TI graphics
>    drivers
>
>  - Python version update and support for building external python
>    packages against python 3.
>
>  - Support for Glibc 2.19 in the internal toolchain
>
>  - Infrastructure for parallel toplevel builds
>
>  - Perl packaging infrastructure
>
>  - XBMC
>
> .. And a new website!
>
> Enjoy!
>
> --



Great to read all this!

Peter, thanks a lot for all your efforts maintaining buildroot!

Best regards,
Thomas



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