[Buildroot] Buildroot 2016.11-rc1 released
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Nov 3 22:45:57 UTC 2016
Hi,
Buildroot 2016.11-rc1 is released - Go download it at:
http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2016.11-rc1.tar.gz
or
http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2016.11-rc1.tar.bz2
Or get it from Git:
git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot
Please give it a spin and report any problems to the mailing list or
bug tracker.
With about 1200 changes, it is a slightly more quiet cycle than
2016.08-rc1, which received more than 1600 changes. Almost one hundred
different developers contributed to this release.
Of noteworthy new features/changes we have:
- It is now possible to specify multiple BR2_EXTERNAL
directories. The required files in a BR2_EXTERNAL directory
have changed to accomodate this feature. Refer to the
documentation for details of how to update them. External
trees now have a name and a description. Also, it is possible
to override a defconfig in the external tree.
- The default skeleton now uses UID 65534 for the "nobody"
user instead of UID 99, like most distros do. See
https://lwn.net/Articles/695478/ for a complete discussion.
Programs and configuration files that explicitly refer to UID
99 will have to be updated.
- When the build environment already has a suitable cmake version
(3.1 or later), that one will be used instead of building
host-cmake. This can speed up the build significantly.
- The ExtUtils::MakeMaker perl module is now required in the
build environment.
- An additional check is done during the build that files are
not installed in the output directory within the output
directory. This happens e.g. when the target directory is
contained both in --prefix and in DESTDIR. The build will
terminate with an error message that specifies which package
and which file caused the failure.
- The concept of "deprecated packages" and the BR2_DEPRECATED
option have been removed. Instead, packages are removed
immediately. Packages are only removed when they don't work
for some reason. If you still need a removed package and
you have a solution for the problem(s) that caused the
removal, please contribute it.
- Architecture: support for sh64 removed, improved support for
MIPS core selection.
- Toolchain: support for musl powerpc64le, mips64 and mipsr6
toolchains, ARC toolchain components updates, gcc 6.x series
bumped to 6.2.0, default binutils version switched to 2.26,
default gcc version switched to gcc 5.x, Linaro toolchains
updated, uclibc-ng bumped to 1.0.19. GCC is now always built
with TLS support. Checking of unsafe compiler options (that
point to host directories) has been extended with -isystem,
-idirafter and -iquote.
- Package infrastructure: new variable $(PKG)_DL_OPTS, addition
of <pkg>-show-rdepends to list reverse dependencies, and
<pkg>-graph-rdepends to graph reverse dependencies. Linux tools
are now in a separate linux-tools package instead of in the
kernel build. Fakeroot has been replaced by pseudo.
- CMake support: the toolchainfile.cmake file now provides a
definition of the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE variable. The
toolchainfile.cmake also no longer forces the compiler/linker
flags defined by Buildroot.
- New defconfigs: WaRP7, Solidrun's MX6 Cubox/Hummingboard,
TS-4900, Grinn's liteBoard, Udoo MX6Q/DL, Qemu ARM noMMU,
BeagleBone Qt5 demo, Digilent Zybo, FriendlyARM Nanopi NEO.
- New packages: arm-trusted-firmware, amd-catalyst, atop, aufs,
aufs-util, fwts, gst1-rtsp-server, libglob, libite, mfgtools,
mksh, motion, paho-mqtt-c, php-amqp, pseudo, python-couchdb,
python-crcmod, python-cssutils, python-docutils,
python-futures, python-mwclient, python-mwscrape,
python-mwscrape2slob, python-pyelftools, python-pyicu,
python-pylru, python-pyqt5, python-requests-toolbelt,
python-simpleaudio, python-slob, rabbitmq-server, shapelib,
vdr, vdr-plugin-vnsiserver, vexpress-firmware, xvisor, iio and
gpio linux tools.
- Removed packages: binutils 2.24, gcc 4.7, ipkg,
kodi-addon-xvdr, libgail, sstrip, torsmo, webkit, webkitgtk24,
wvdial, wvstreams.
- Documentation: the list of packages that was present in the
Buildroot manual has been removed.
- Legal info: the "licenses.txt" file that concatenates all
license texts is no longer generated - it was not considered
useful. The manifest.csv contains an empty cell instead of
"not saved" when no license file is available.
- Other: addition of a DEVELOPERS file listing developers taking
care of packages or architectures.
And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. See the CHANGES
file for details:
http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2016.11-rc1
Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:
git shortlog -s -n 2016.08..
327 Gustavo Zacarias
134 Bernd Kuhls
78 Yann E. MORIN
77 Thomas Petazzoni
68 Vicente Olivert Riera
41 Fabio Estevam
33 Romain Naour
28 Rahul Bedarkar
25 Baruch Siach
24 Jörg Krause
24 Peter Korsgaard
23 Arnout Vandecappelle
21 Samuel Martin
21 Waldemar Brodkorb
20 Peter Seiderer
19 Fabrice Fontaine
19 Gary Bisson
13 Yegor Yefremov
12 Erico Nunes
12 Jerzy Grzegorek
9 Christian Stewart
9 Philippe Proulx
8 Chris Packham
7 Frank Hunleth
7 Romain Perier
6 André Hentschel
6 Carlos Santos
6 Francois Perrad
6 Matt Kraai
6 Petr Vorel
6 Thomas De Schampheleire
5 David Lechner
5 Georges Savoundararadj
5 Luca Ceresoli
5 Ryan Coe
4 Angelo Compagnucci
4 Biagio Montaruli
4 Cyril Bur
4 Danomi Manchego
4 Floris Bos
4 Manuel Vögele
3 Alexey Brodkin
3 Christophe Vu-Brugier
3 Eric Le Bihan
3 Joao Pinto
3 Jordan Yelloz
3 Julien BOIBESSOT
3 Jérôme Pouiller
3 Lothar Felten
3 Marcin Niestroj
3 Theo Debrouwere
3 Zakharov Vlad
2 Alistair Francis
2 Chris Frederick
2 Dagg Stompler
2 Ezequiel Garcia
2 Jeroen Roovers
2 Joel Stanley
2 Judd Meinders
2 Julien Floret
2 Ludovic Desroches
2 Marcin Nowakowski
2 Martin Bark
2 Mathieu Audat
2 Maxime Hadjinlian
2 Padraig James Connolly
2 Pranit Sirsat
2 Rahul Jain
2 Ricardo Martincoski
2 Rodrigo Rebello
2 Stefan Nickl
1 Charles Hardin
1 Eloi BAIL
1 Hollis Blanchard
1 James Knight
1 Jan Heylen
1 Johan Derycke
1 Masahiro Yamada
1 Max Filippov
1 Olivier Matz
1 Petr Kulhavy
1 Petri Gynther
1 Piotr Nakraszewicz
1 Raphaël Poggi
1 Sam bobroff
1 Sebastien Van Cauwenberghe
1 Tatsuyuki Ishi
1 Thomas Claveirole
1 Vincent Stehlé
1 Vivien Didelot
1 Volkov Viacheslav
1 Zoltan Gyarmati
1 daggs
And a special thanks to our patch reviewers:
git log 2016.08.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | \
sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
168 Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
24 "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
10 Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
6 Rahul Bedarkar <rahul.bedarkar at imgtec.com>
4 Abhimanyu Vishwakarma <Abhimanyu.Vishwakarma at imgtec.com>
3 Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists at googlemail.com>
3 Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
3 Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>
2 Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com>
2 Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci at gmail.com>
2 Alistair Francis <alistair.francis at xilinx.com>
1 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
1 Peter Seiderer <ps.report at gmx.net>
1 Francois Perrad <francois.perrad at gadz.org>
Like usual, I will now create a next branch and start merging in new
features, rather than wait until 2016.11 is released.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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