From c4d933a3478de8636d9f3bc790dcbd54b8239ba1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lee Chee Yang Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 14:18:30 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] release-notes-4.2: remove/merge duplicates entries (From yocto-docs rev: 6e4b1af0fed2b59909ac9db1be2aaf3e3b542b0c) Signed-off-by: Lee Chee Yang Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- .../migration-guides/release-notes-4.2.rst | 48 ++++--------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-4.2.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-4.2.rst index 30a4afeebb..473ea984c3 100644 --- a/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-4.2.rst +++ b/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-4.2.rst @@ -8,37 +8,34 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.2 - Linux kernel 6.1, glibc 2.37 and ~350 other recipe upgrades -- Python 3.8 is the minimum Python version required on the build host. +- Python 3.8+ and GCC 8.0+ are now the minimum required versions on the build host. For host distributions that do not provide it, this is included as part of the :term:`buildtools` tarball. - BitBake in this release now supports a new ``addpylib`` directive to enable - Python libraries within layers. + Python libraries within layers. For more information, + see :ref:`bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata:extending python library code`. This directive should be added to your layer configuration as in the below example from ``meta/conf/layer.conf``:: addpylib ${LAYERDIR}/lib oe -- BitBake has seen multiple internal changes that may impact +- BitBake has seen multiple internal changes that may improve memory and disk usage as well as parsing time, in particular: - BitBake's Cooker server is now multithreaded. + - Ctrl+C can now be used to interrupt some long-running operations + that previously ignored it. + - BitBake's cache has been extended to include more hash debugging data, but has also been optimized to :yocto_git:`compress cache data `. - - BitBake's Cooker server :yocto_git:`can now be pinged - ` - from the UI. - -- Architecture-specific enhancements: - - - This release adds initial support for the - :wikipedia:`LoongArch ` - (``loongarch64``) architecture, though there is no testing for it yet. - + - BitBake's UI will now ping the server regularly to ensure + it is still alive. + - New variables: - :term:`VOLATILE_TMP_DIR` allows to specify @@ -71,27 +68,6 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.2 - Use built-in Rust targets for ``-native`` builds to save several minutes building the Rust toolchain -- Python 3.8+ and GCC 8.0+ are now the minimum required versions on the build host - -- BitBake in this release now supports a new ``addpylib`` directive to enable - Python libraries within layers. For more information, - see :ref:`bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata:extending python library code`. - -- BitBake has seen multiple internal changes that may improve - memory and disk usage as well as parsing time, in particular: - - - BitBake's Cooker server is now multithreaded. - - - Ctrl+C can now be used to interrupt some long-running operations - that previously ignored it. - - - BitBake's cache has been extended to include more hash - debugging data, but has also been optimized to :yocto_git:`compress - cache data `. - - - BitBake's UI will now ping the server regularly to ensure - it is still alive. - - Architecture-specific enhancements: - This release adds initial support for the @@ -227,7 +203,6 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.2 - ``base-passwd`` - ``cronie`` - ``cups`` - - ``cups`` - ``curl`` - ``file`` - ``gstreamer1.0-plugins-good`` @@ -310,9 +285,6 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.2 - Many packages were updated to add large file support. - - New :term:`VOLATILE_TMP_DIR` variable allows to specify whether ``/tmp`` - should be on persistent storage or in RAM. - - ``vulkan-loader``: allow headless targets to build the loader - ``dhcpcd``: fix to work with systemd - ``u-boot``: add /boot to :term:`SYSROOT_DIRS` to allow boot files to be used by other recipes