[Buildroot] Buildroot 2020.02 released

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Hello,

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020, 08:27 Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Buildroot 2020.02 is released - Go download it at:
>
> http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2020.02.tar.gz
>
> or
>
> http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2020.02.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.
>
> Again a very active development cycle with more than 1600 changes and
> contributions from more than 120 unique contributors!
>
> Of noteworthy new features/changes we have:
>
> - Add experimental support for building with a per-package target and
>   host directory. This still has some rough edges, but brings a number
>   of advantages:
>
>   - Packages will only be able to access the explicitly listed
>     dependencies and not any other packages that happen to be built
>     before, ensuring correct dependency information in Buildroot.
>
>   - Possibility for top-level parallel builds, speeding up builds on
>     multicore machines.
>
> - Architecture: Add support for ARC-HS38 with 64bit multiplier variant,
>   allow building glibc for big endian ARC, handle 16KB MMU page size for
>   ARC in toolchain wrapper.
>
> - Toolchain: Add binutils 2.33.1, GCC 7.5.0, Arm 9.2-2019.12 toolchains,
>   ARC 2019.09 toolchain. Allow using custom kernel headers newer than
>   what is known by Buildroot.
>
> - pkg-stats: Support for CVE vulnerability reporting by comparing to NVD
>   database.
>
> - Util-linux: Ensure that hwclock is built without GPLv3 code. Notice
>   that builds with hwclock has contained GPLv3-licensed code since
>   util-linux 2.30 (Buildroot 2017.08+)
>
> - New defconfigs: Beelink GS1, Raspberrypi4 64bit
>
> - New packages: alura, avro-c, bubblewrap, cctz, cereal, qcpuburn-arm,
>   elixir, erlang-base64url, erlang-idna, erlang-jose, erlang-p1-acme,
>   erlang-p1-mqtree, erlang-p1-yconf, fluid-soundfont, fluidsynth,
>   gcnano-binaries, gensio, glslsandbox-player, libargon2,
>   libmodsecurity, libpam-nfc, libtelnet, lua-codegen, lua-livr,
>   lua-livr-extra, lua-rotas, lua-silva, mfoc, network-manager-openvpn,
>   nginx-modsecurity, perl-crypt-openssl-aes, perl-math-prime-util,
>   pipewire, ptm2human, python-aenum, python-aiohttp-debugtoolbar,
>   python-aiohttp-mako, python-aiologstash, python-aiosignal,
>   python-aiozipkin, python-async-lru, python-avro, python-bunch,
>   python-crontab, python-dnspython, python-entrypoints, python-esptool,
>   python-frozenlist, python-future, python-gitdb, python-janus,
>   python-lockfile, python-logstash, python-nested-dict, python-pbr,
>   python-pyaes, python-pydantic, python-smmap2, python-sockjs,
>   python-zc-lockfile, raspi-gpio, rocksdb, sdbusplus, spidermonkey,
>   thermald, ti-sgx-libgbm, tinyssh, tio, umtprd, weston-imx,
>   wireguard-linux-compat, wireguard-tools, xdg-dbus-proxy
>
> And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. See the CHANGES
> file for details:
>
> http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2020.02
>
> Upgrading from 2019.02.x:
>
> In addition to these changes, for people upgrading from 2019.02.x the
> most noteworthy changes since that release are:
>
> - Dependencies: Gcc/g++ 4.8 or newer is now required on the build host.
>
> - Br2-external: Add support for injecting additional options to the list
>   of preconfigured external toolchains and libjpeg and openssl providers
>   using files under provides/. See the manual for details.
>
> - Br2-external: Linux kernel extensions can now also be provided in an
>   external tree by adding packages under linux/linux-ext-*.mk. See the
>   manual for details.
>
> - Infrastructure: show-info and <pkg>-show-info make targets
>   added to output package metadata in JSON format for external
>   use.
>
> - Fakeroot now works correctly under Microsoft Windows 10 Services for
>   Linux, which does not provide SYSV IPC support
>
> - Removed packages: alljoyn, alljoyn-base, alljoyn-tcl-base,
>   bluez_utils, celt051, devmem2, erlang-p1-iconv, eventlog, fis,
>   gadgetfs-test, gstreamer, gst-ffmpeg, gst-fsl-plugins, gst-omapfb,
>   gst-plugins-bad, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-ugly,
>   kodi-audiodecoder-opus, kodi-screensaver-planestate,
>   kodi-visualisation-waveforhue, libamcodec, libplayer, libump, lunit,
>   odroid-mali, odroid-scripts, perl-digest-md5, perl-mime-base64,
>   perl-net-ping, python-pysnmp-apps, python-scapy3k, riscv-pk, sunxi-mali,
>   ustr, wireguard, xapp_mkfontdir
>
> Future:
>
> This release will be become our new long term support releases, which
> means it will be supported with security and other important fixes until
> 2021.02 is out. The previous 2019.02.x LTS release will see atleast one
> more update before it becomes EOL in April, so start migration to
> 2020.02 soon.
>
> The next release will be 2020.05. Expect the first release candidate
> in early May and the final release at the end of the month.
>

Is it intentional that the usual contributor and reviewer list is not
present?

Best regards,
Thomas
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