CHANGES: update for 2017.08-rc1

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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Thomas Petazzoni 2017-08-01 23:24:26 +02:00
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2017.08-rc1, To be released
Major revamp of the gettext handling, with user-visible
Infrastructure:
- Major revamp of the gettext handling, with user-visible
effect:
- prior to this revamp, when BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE=y, each
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Therefore, if you need NLS support in packages, you must now
explicitly enable the BR2_SYSTEM_ENABLE_NLS option.
Infrastructure:
- The host directory no longer has a usr/ component. This
makes it much more natural to use that directory as an
externally used toolchain. For compatibility with existing
scripts, a link usr -> . is still added.
- Hashes are now checked on tarballs by Buildroot when a
package is sourced from a Git repository.
- Patches are no longer being downloaded from Github, since
auto-generated patches could change over time, and break
hashes. All patches that were downloaded from Github are now
stored in their respective package directories.
- Hash files in packages can now contain hashes for the
license files contained in the package source code. This
allows to detect changes in such license files.
- Binaries in $(TARGET_DIR) are now cleaned up from invalid
RPATHs at the end of the build.
- A new "make sdk" target prepares $(HOST_DIR) to be
relocatable: turns RPATHs in host binaries into relocatable
ones, removes bogus RPATHs from staging binaries/libraries,
and provides a relocate-sdk script that can be executed to
relocate the SDK after installation.
- Addition of utils/genrandconfig which generates a random
configuration based on a set of pre-defined toolchain
configurations (support/config-fragments/autobuild/) and a
random selection of packages. It is now used by the
autobuilders to generate the random configurations.
Filesystems:
- ext2/3/4 filesystems are now generated using mkfs.ext from
e2fsprogs instead of using genext2fs.
Architecture:
- Addition of support for ARM big.LITTLE variants
- Improved MIPS support, with options to select NaN encoding
and FP32 mode.
Toolchain:
- Switch to gcc 6.x as the default gcc version, add support
for gcc 7.x, remove support for gcc 4.8
- Support added for gdb 8.0
- uClibc-ng bumped to 1.0.26
- CodeSourcery toolchains for x86 and SuperH have been
removed, they were using a too old glibc version
(2.17). External toolchains with glibc 2.17 or earlier are
no longer supported.
- The version selection in the glibc package has been
removed. Like musl and uClibc-ng, we now use the latest
glibc version.
- Improved support for Xtensa toolchain overlays, which can
now be downloaded.
Tools:
- Numerous improvements to the runtime test infrastructure
- Tests are now executed by Gitlab CI on a regular basis
- Tools that are directly useful to the user have been moved
from support/scripts/ to utils/: brmake, check-package,
get-developers, scancpan, scanpipy, size-stats-compare,
test-pkg.
New defconfigs: A13 Olinuxino, Engicam platforms (i.CoreM6
Solo/Dual/DualLite/Quad, RQS SOM, GEAM6UL SOM, Is.IoT MX6UL
SOM), Nano Pi M1 (Plus), OrangePi Zero and Plus.
New packages: azure-iot-sdk-c, cracklib, dt-utils, easy-rsa,
erlang-jiffy, erlang-p1-oauth2, erlang-p1-xmpp,
ifupdown-scripts, irrlicht, kodi-inputstream-adaptive,
kodi-inputstream-rtmp, kvazaar, let-me-create, libloki,
libpwquality, libressl, libspatialindex, libva-utils,
linuxconsoletools, linuxptp, luaossl, lua-sdl2, lua-stdlib,
lsscsi, paxtest, pcre2, pixz, python-asn1crypto,
python-backports-shutil-get-terminal-size, python-bcrypt,
python-cheroot, python-h2, python-hpack, python-hyperframe,
python-hyperlink, python-ipython-genutils, python-pathlib2,
python-pickleshare, python-priority, python-portend,
python-scandir, python-systemd, python-tempora,
python-traitlets, python-typepy, qt5virtualkeyboard,
ratpoison, rauc, refpolicy, rhash, sdl2_mixer, sdl2_net,
xr819-xradio, zstd
Removed packages: input-tools, mke2img
Issues resolved (http://bugs.buildroot.org):
#9341: avahi-utils does not compile with uClibc + libglib2
#9441: Link BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GDB_SERVER_COPY to
BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG
#9746: ext4 image generated by Buildroot is not working
properly with U-Boot
#9886: Build fails with "unexpected EOF while looking for
matching `"'" if PATH contains a newline
#9891: parted 3.1 => 3.2?
#9911: qt5 does not build on sparc
#9916: qt5 does not build on
arm-buildroot-linux-uclibcgnueabihf for ARMv8 cores
#9936: Host QEMU does not build with SDL support because of
pkg-config
#9941: nodejs option disappears for arm
#9951: SCANCPAN failure
#9966: util-linux-2.30/.stamp_built' failed
#9976: License file for package 'rtl8821au' incorrect
#9991: SGX Error implicit declaration of function
dmac_map_area
#10011: wget does not work from Buildroot
#10036: Buildroot builds Raspbian Jessie headless image
presenting incorrect prompt
#10051: make: *** No rule to make target
'raspberrpi3_defconfig'. Stop reported with Buildroot
v2017.05.1
#10056: No .config file was produced in /buildroot folder
#10061: gcc5.4 buildroot toolchain for powerpc libsanitizer
failure
#10076: Makefile:4113: recipe for target 'all-gcc' failed
2017.05.2, Released July 27th, 2017
Important / security related fixes.