[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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