From a40358a1127168541a3cfb228931b3bcdbcf65f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 23:22:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] CHANGES: Update for 2020.11-rc1 Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- CHANGES | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+) diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index 31542fd972..4f7864c0e0 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -1,3 +1,85 @@ +2020.11-rc1, released November 4th, 2020 + + Fixes all over the tree and new features. + + Architectures: Support for IBM s390x + + Toolchain: use Secure-PLT rather than BSS-PLT for PowerPC + 32. Binutils 2.35.1 added, now defaulting to 2.34. ARC + 2020.09-release toolchain. GCC 7.x dropped. RISC-V support for + uclibc-ng. Support for Bootlin external toolchains. + + SELinux support improvements: File security contexts are now + set when the file systems are created, so there is no need to + run restorecon on first boot / read only rootfs is supported. + An optimized / stripped refpolicy SELinux policy is now + used. Packages can enable additional refpolicy modules using + _SELINUX_MODULES. + + support/scripts/cve-checker: Utility script to check for known + CVEs in just the packages enabled in a Buildroot configuration + rather than all packages, by passing the output of 'make + show-info' to it. + + Go: Modules handling. The module name must be specified using + _GOMOD. + + BR2_EXTERNAL: Support for defining skeleton and init system + packages in external trees. + + meson: Correct SDK cross-compilation.conf file when + per-package builds were used to build SDK. + + systemd: Use /run rather than /var/run for PID files in units. + + Fakeroot scripts (BR2_ROOTFS_POST_FAKEROOT_SCRIPT) are now run + after all finalization hooks (including pre-rootfs) to ensure + they can override any late configuration done by packages. + + support/script/pycompile: Rework logic to ensure .pyc files + contain absolute target paths, fixing code inspection at + runtime when executed with cwd != '/'. + + support/scripts/setlocalversion: Correct Mercurial output to + match behaviour with Git. + + support/scripts/apply-patches.sh: Use patch + --no-backup-if-mismatch, so we no longer blindly have to + remove *.orig files after patching, fixing issues with + packages containing such files. + + New defconfigs: Acer chromebook elm, Friendlyarm nanopc-t4 and + nanopi-m4, Hardkernel odroid-c2, Kontron SMARC-sAL28, NXP + imx8mqevk, Orangepi RK3399 and zero+, PCengines APU2, Pine64 + rockpro64, QEMU s390x, Raxda rockpi-n8, + + New packages: altera-stapl, asn1c, babeltrace2, cukinia, + easyframes, environment-setup, frr, graphicsmagick, htpdate, + ipcalc, libbacktrace, libblockdev, libbytesize, librelp, + libuev, makedumpfile, meson-tools, mg, mrp, multipath-tools, + netcalc, odroidc2-firmware, php-xdebug, python-aiofiles, + python-ansicolors, python-boto3, python-botocore, + python-bsdiff4, python-crayons, python-iniconfig, + python-intelhex, python-ipdb, python-jmespath, + python-m2crypto, python-opcua-asyncio, python-packaging, + python-piexif, python-pluggy, python-pytest, + python-s3transfer, python-xmodem, qprint, qt5lottie, + qt5remoteobjects, re2, redir, s390-tools, sentry-cli, + sentry-native, timescaledb, tinyhttpd, uhd, uredir, watchdog, + wayland-utils, weston-imx + + Removed packages: amd-catalyst, bellagio, gqview, libcroco, + nvidia-tegra23, opencv + + Issues resolved (http://bugs.uclibc.org): + + #11811: lsblk (util-linux) should depend on libudev if available + #11931: Bugs in support/scripts/apply-patches.sh + #12301: systemd-journal-gatewayd: config options broken + #12911: usb_modeswitch installation race condition + #13236: Can't compile linux 5.4.8 (with gcc 10 on host) + #13286: The system hangs in vmware workstation on the line.. + 2020.08.1, released October 12th, 2020 Important / security related fixes. -- 2.30.2