From 4f17e8cfcce1f8625f11a38a1739bf0fe35eeeae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 15:41:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] CHANGES: prepare for 2017.02-rc1 Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni --- CHANGES | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+) diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index ec749a148c..db7a541b95 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -1,3 +1,85 @@ +2017.02-rc1, Released February 11th, 2017 + + Fixes all over the tree and new features. + + Infrastructure: + + - numerous improvements to support reproducible builds + + - new waf-package package infrastructure to support packages + that use the Waf build system. 6 packages converted to + this infrastructure. + + - add support for the OpenRISC CPU architecture + + - merge description of the ARM and ARM64 options, and add + support for selecting a specific ARM64 core + + Toolchain: + + - major rework of the external toolchain support. It is now + split into several packages, one per external toolchain, + and a common infrastructure. + + - important fix for musl to prevent a conflict between musl + and kernel headers (fixes the build of numerous packages + with musl) + + - uClibc-ng bumped to 1.0.22, and therefore enable uClibc + for ARM64, mips32r6 and mips64r6 + + - add gdb 7.12.1, and switch to gdb 7.11 as the default + + - Linaro toolchains updated to 2016.11, ARC toolchain + components updated to arc-2016.09, MIPS Codescape + toolchains bumped to 2016.05-06, CodeSourcery AMD64 bumped + to 2016.11-19 + + - remove Analog Devices toolchain for the Blackfin + architecture + + New defconfigs: Freescale i.MX23EVK, Qemu OpenRISC emulation, + Grinn chiliBoard, Freescale i.MX6Q SabreSD, BeagleBoard X15, + OrangePi One, ARC HS38 HAPS + + New packages: angular-websocket, aubio, bctoolbox, darkhttpd, + ddrescue, easydbus, fakedate, git-crypt, hiredis, ifenslave, + jsmn, libgpiod, libgsm, linux-syscall-support, mariadb, mimic, + nginx-dav-ext, nmon, opkg-utils, policycoreutils, + pru-software-support, python-arrow, python-attrs, + python-babel, python-bitstring, python-chardet, + python-constantly, python-flask-babel, python-gunicorn, + python-incremental, python-jsonschema, python-logbook, + python-markdown2, python-mbstrdecoder, python-mutagen, + python-pathpy, python-pudb, python-pyqrcode, + python-pytablereader, python-setuptools-scm, python-sh, + python-toml, python-vcversioner, python-whoosh, + raspberrypi-usbboot, riemann-c-client, rtl8723bs, skalibs, + sslh, sngrep, ti-cgt-pru, uclibc-ng-test, udpxy, uhttpd, + upower, ustream-ssl, waf, xlib_libXfont2 + + Removed packages: perl-db-file, snowball-hdmiservice, + snowball-init + + Tooling: addition of a test-pkg script to help contributors + build test their package. + + Issues resolved (http://bugs.buildroot.org): + + #8946: Valgrind fails to build with stack protection turned on + #9461: odroidc2 - toolchain Linaro AArch64 2016.11 compile error + #9466: VIM_REMOVE_DOCS removes rgb.txt + #9486: xorg-server 1.19 fails to compile for glibc with systemd init (x86_64) + #9501: eudev fails to build with older kernel headers + #9526: Embedded NPM fails to start with "no such file or directory" error + #9541: Platform drivers autoloading from info in device tree does not work + #9546: seems BR2_PACKAGE_RPI_FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DTB_OVERLAYS do nothing + #9551: Coreutils fails to build target src/src_libsinglebin_pinky_a-pinky.o + #9566: [kmod] Compilation fails with uclibc + #9571: buildroot fails while building opencv for arm64 platform + #9576: External tree with BR 2016.11 does not work anymore + #9606: xorg-server cannot build for ARM target + 2016.11.2, Released January 25th, 2017 Important / security related fixes. -- 2.30.2