2025.02 - "Xinjiang Merino"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2025.02] - 2025-02-28

Changed

• Fix several recipes in meta-python to use ptest-python-pytest class
• Correct Licenses for libdvbcsa, fatresize, znc, ndpi
• Upgrade linux-yocto/6.12 to v6.12.11, linux-yocto/6.6 to v6.6.74
• Enable high precision arithmetic support in gawk
• Do not use git submodule fetcher in protobuf
• Upgrade sip to 6.10.0
• Separate out mdns-libnss-mdns package from mdns and rename nss-mdns recipe to avahi-libnss-mdns
• Upgrade opencv to 4.11.0
• Enable '-o pipefail' for the SDK installer
• Upgrade libseccomp to 2.6
• Upgrade Glibc to 2.41
• Upgrade GDB to 16.2
• Upgrade binutils to 2.44
• Enable Sv39 memory address scheme by default for qemuriscv machines
• Upgrade LLVM to 19.1.7
• Upgrade Gstreamer to 1.24.12
• Fix RPI-5/CM5 boot issue
• Enable create-spdx to build SPDX manifests
• Update linux-yocto/6.12 to v6.12.13
• Upgrade python to 2.13.2
• Upgrade Go compiler to 1.22.12
• Switch p7zip to 7zip in classes
• Upgrade musl to latest and fix failing recipes
• Update coreutils to 9.6
• Update OpenSSL to 3.4.1
• Include xz support by default in GDB
• Fix PACKAGECONFIG handling for cross recipes
• Upgrade rust to 1.82.0
• Drop net-tools from busybox defconfig
• Drop ifconfig in favor of ip
• Update uninative to 4.7 which uses glibc 2.41

Added

• Added recipes - libspdm, spdm-utils, python3-cairocffi
• Add linux-raspberrypi 6.12 recipe

Removed

• Deleted recipes - pipewire-0.2, linux-yocto/6.6
• Drop ld-is-gold support

2025.01 - "Wiltshire"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2025.01] - 2025-01-31

Changed

• Upgrade nss to 3.107 and nspr to 4.36
• Upgrade bingen-cli to 0.71.1
• Use ptest-python-pytest class in meta-python recipes for ptests
• Upgrade mpd to 0.23.16
• Use go module fetcher for crucible recipe
• Fix recipes in meta-openembedded to build with fmt 11.1.x
• Upgrade QT 6.8 to latest
• Update linux-yocto/6.12 to v6.12.9 and linux-yocto/6.6 to v6.6.69
• Update reference u-boot to 2025.01
• Disable recipes not compatible with boost 1.87 in meta-oe
• Upgrade systemd to 257.1 and enable create-log-dirs
• Upgrade python to 3.13.1
• Upgrade cmake to 3.31.3
• Support usrmerge in toolchain SDK builds
• Lower the length of TMPDIR limit to 400 in sanity class
• Fix absolute paths in go-vendor class
• Upgrade LLVM and Clang to 19.1.7
• Use ptest-python-pytest class in several python package recipes
• Update polkit to 126
• Upgrade mariadb to 11.4.x LTS release
• Switch visionfive2 to efi boot
• Upgrade python3-numpy to 2.2.2
• Switch several recipes using virtual/XXX-gcc to virtual/cross-cc
• Upgrade rust to 1.81.0
• Update rust data layouts for ppc , riscv64 , aarch64 and loongaarch64 targets
• Fix ??= bitbake operator for variable flags
• Fix include poisoning GCC patch to be fatal again in gcc/g++
• Bump swupdate to release 2024.12.1
• Update tzdata to 2025a
• Upgrade GDB to 16.1
• Upgrade Go compiler to 1.22.11

Added

• Add new recipes - libheif, yyjson, ctre, jsoncons, cxxopts,
  pistache, spectre-meltdown-checker, python3-nanobind
  python3-lief, cheese, opencl-cts
• add Go mod h1 checksum support to bitbake fetcher
• Add UBI support to initrdscripts
• Add support for qemuriscv64 and qemuriscv32 to formfactor
• Add a new class to consolidate pytest ptest functionality
• Add squish support to QT6

Removed

• Remove ACLOCALDIR and ACLOCALEXTRAPATH from autotools class
• Remove recipe - blktool, mozjs-115

2024.12 - "Valais"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2024.12] - 2024-12-31

Changed

• Upgrade openssl to 3.4.0
• Upgrade gnu-efi to 4.0.0
• Improve bitbake's setscene performance
• Enable GCC sanitizers for riscv64
• Fix Qt5/6 wireshark configuration
• Add 6.12 linux-yocto reference kernel
• Upgrade 6.6 kernel to v6.6.64
• Upgrade curl to 8.11.1
• Upgrade linux-raspberrypi-6.6 to 6.6.63
• Fix external kernel modules for 6.12 kernel e.g. emlog, vboxdrivers
• Upgrade LLVM and Clang to 19.1.6
• Introduce recipe for libpeas 2.x and make it cohabit with libpeas-1
• Update XFCE base components to 4.20 release
• Revert python3-numpy from 2.2 back to 2.1
• Upgrade Qemu to 9.2.0
• Upgrade systemd to 256.9
• Add linux-yocto 6.10 to meta-tegra
• Upgrade musl to latest master at 61399d4bd02ae1ec03068445aa7ffe9174466bfd
• Run aclocal cleanup on expect,tcl,bash recipes
• Use 7zip 24.09 to replace p7zip 16.02
• Add fido and apparmor packageconfigs to systemd
• Upgrade meson to 1.6.1
• Drop debug tweaks setting from meta-odroid
• Update VisionFive2 SDK to JH7110_VF2_6.6_v5.13.1
• Update VisionFive2 kernel to 6.6.20
• Bump OpenSBI to 1.6

Added

• Added recipes - pam-radius, lua-lgi, cbindgen
• Add include_all conf file bitbake directive

Removed

• Removed recipes - xserver-common, autoconf-2.13-native
• Remove gpe bbclass
• Drop linux-yocto 6.10

2024.11 - "Uda"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2024.11] - 2024-11-30

Changed

• Refresh FILESEXTRAPATHS for meta-oe recipes
• Upgrade bluez to 5.79
• use lz4 instead of lz4c in bitbake compress
• Upgrade busybox to 1.37 and refresh defconfigs
• Selectively enable GObject introspection in libgpiod
• Don't use debug-tweaks in image features
• Add ptests for openvpn
• Fix gdm to launch with plymouth
• Set CVE_PRODUCT for libestr, librelp, rsyslog, libfastjson
  u-boot, tcpdump, net-snmp
• Inherit cython class in several recipes
• Package libswupdate into separate package
• Add TEGRA_UEFI_MINIMAL support
• Update linux-yocto/6.6 to v6.6.62
• Require lz4 instead of lz4c in bitbake.conf
• Update kernel-devsrc to 6.12+
• Upgrade rust to 1.80.1
• Add itstool-native dependency to several recipes in meta-gnome
• Start using 6.12 for linux libc headers
• Fix taisei, keepalived build on musl
• Fix several recipes to work with ICU-76
• Disable ARM64_SME in linux-yocto
• Fix GCC build with tzdata 2024b
• Fix weston-init to work with seatd
• Fix qemu build for riscv64/musl and upgrade to 9.1.1
• Upgrade systemd to 256.8
• Upgrade LLVM to 19.1.4
• Use the new xserver-abi.inc to generate Xserver ABI dependencies
• Update clang to 19.1.4 release

Added

• Added recipes for - drm-info, asyncmqtt, swagger-ui
  python3-rouge-score, python3-nltk, python3-fuse
  raspi-utils4, canopenterm, pocketpy, libpanel, libdex
  python3-mlcommons-loadgen, python3-inline-snapshot
  python3-black, python3-scikit-build-core, pytesseract
• Add recipes for tcl/tk 9.0 and tcl/tk 8.x to live side-by-side
• Add cython bbclass to abstract cython usage during build
• Add SECURITY.md file to various layers

Removed

• Removed debug_tweaks image feature
• Drop unnecessary SRC_URI md5sum from the recipes in meta-oe
• Drop support for BB_DANGLINGAPPENDS_WARNONLY
• Remove python3-isodate

2024.10 - "Teeswater"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2024.10] - 2024-10-31

Changed

• Fix all enabled ptests for meta-multimedia layer
• Enable go plugins to build in netdata
• Upgrade systemd to 256.6
• Enable systemd-boot on RISCV64
• Update linux-yocto/6.10 to v6.10.14 and linux-yocto/6.6 to v6.6.54
• Update llvm from 18.x to 19.x
• Upgrade OpenSSH to 9.9p1
• Use clang to build u-boot
• Fix useless rpaths in several recipes
• Updat egdb to 15.2
• Several fixes for python 3.13 migration
• Update Gnome components to version 47
• Fix ptests in meta-filesystems and meta-multimedia
• Upgrade clang to 19.1.2 release
• Fix several recipes to work with python 3.13
• Drop unnecessary SRC_URI md5sum in meta-python
• Fix do_fetch error for vlock and wireguard-tools recipes
• Upgrade musl to latest SHA 047a16398b29d2702a41a0d6d15370d54b9d723c
• Upgrade Qt6.8 recipes to latest on 6.8 release
• Fix LLDB python path in SDK
• Fix several ineffective overrides in meta-clang
• Change references to search.cpan.org to use metacpan.org in meta-perl
• Use CPAN_MIRRORS for several recipes in meta-perl
• Fix upstream status tags for beagleV kernel and uboot patches
• Update busyvbox to 1.37
• Update python to 3.13
• Update meson to 1.6.0
• Update gnome componets to 47.1
• Disable perl support in graphviz
• Fix ptests in meta-python to work with python 3.13
• Add ztd compression type option to SDK_ARCHIVE_TYPE
• Upgrade go compiler to 1.22.8
• Uphgrade systemd to 256.7
• Drop openssl/riscv workarounds to add libatomic

Added

• Added recipes for - fastfloat, glad, python3-pytest-codspeed
  tomlplusplus, snapper, tegra-cuda-utils
• L4T R36.4.0/JetPack 6.1 support
• Add class for building Unified Kernel Images (UKI)
• Add WIC_SECTOR_SIZE variable to wic
• Add tegra support for linux-yocto 6.10 kernel

Removed

• Removed VOLATILE_TMP_DIR and VOLATILE_LOG_DIR
• Drop unnecessary SRC_URI md5sum entries in meta-perl
• Skip rust setftests on all MIPS platforms
• Removed recipes - python3-whoosh

2024.09 - "Sahel"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2024.09] - 2024-09-30

Changed

• Fix systemd to not set polkit permissions manually
• Support testing over serial connection in textexport
• Always use BFD linker to build u-boot
• Fix several recipes to build with Clang-19
• Fix more buildpaths QA error in meta-openembedded
• Update QT6 to latest on 6.7 series
• Update bpftrace to 0.21.2
• Switch to support 'styhead' ( yocto 5.1 ) release codename
• Fix license field to reflect current state in several recipes
• Update linux-yocto v6.6.50, v6.10.8
• Fix python3-cude build breaks
• Fix python3 ptest runs on some recipes
• Use KMS instead of FKMS on pi4/pi5 non-eglfs distros
• Upgrade Clang to 19.1.0 major release
• Fix several recipes to build for RISCV32 architecture
• Switch QT6 to 6.8 release
• Upgrade glib-2.0 to 2.82.1
• Upgrade gtk4 to 4.16
• Upgrade OpenCV to 4.10
• Use GNU C++ runtime for building vte
• Fix all ptest failures in meta-python layer

Added

• Added recipes - libspelling, imx-cst, freeipmi, valkey
  python3-trio, python3-python-multipart, python3-outcome
  python3-pdm-build-locked, python3-starlette python3-setproctitle
• Add gomodule fetcher
• Add genimage support

Removed

• Drop TCLIBCAPPEND
• Removed cmem and ti-osal recipes

2024.08 - "Rabo

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2024.08] - 2024-08-31

Changed

• Fix native builds for sanitizer version of compiler-rt
• Upgrade linux-yocto 6.6 to 6.6.45
• Update linux-kernel-headers to 6.10
• Update linux-yocto/6.10 6.10.3
• Fix clang compiled apps reproducibility issue w.r.t. clang version
• Switch several python recipes to use PEP-517 build backend
• Fix buildpaths build QA error in several recipes
• Add UPSTREAM_CHECK_COMMITS to meta-openembedded recipes
• Upgrade go to 1.22.6
• Upgrade rust to 1.79.0
• Upgrade GCC to 14.2
• Upgrade binutils to 2.43
• Set CVE_PRODUCT in several recipes
• Use imx-boot from NXP 6.6.23-2.0.0 BSP
• Pin weston to 12.0.4.imx for IMX
• Upgrade systemd to 256.5
• Upgrade rust to 1.78
• Fix reproducibility issues in several meta-openembedded recipes
• Set umask to 0022 on build directories on bitbake invocation
• Upgrade binutils to 2.43.1
• Fix QT 6.7 builds with Clang-19
• Upgrade libxml2 to 2.13.3 and address ABI breakges due to it in meta-oe
• Fix several multimedia recipes to work with ffmpeg 7
• Fix recipes to work with fmt 11.x
• Correct LICENSE field of several recipes in meta-python
• Upgrade musl to latest on trunk 1.2.5+
• Upgrade automate to 1.17
• Add swupdate OTA support on tegra platforms

Added

• Introduce 6.10 reference kernel
• Added vex class for CVE management
• Added recipes:
  • drgn, vdpauinfo, python3-psycopg, libplacebo, cpuset

Removed

• Removed VOLATILE_TMP_DIR and VOLATILE_LOG_DIR bitbake variables

2024.07 - "Qinghai"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2024.07] - 2024-07-30

Changed

• Fix several packages to build with clang fortify and glibc 2.40
• Add ptest support for unbound
• Stop overriding unprefixed *FLAGS variables for native and nativesdk
• Update linux-yocto/6.6 to v6.6.35
• Use objdump instead of readelf to compute SONAME during image generation
• Adjust metadata to remove True option in getVar calls
• Fix exceptions with -mbranch-protection on ARM64/Libc++
• Enable build-id for systems built with clang compiler
• Upgrade QEMU to 9.0.1
• Update MACHINE in jetson-agx-orin-devkit
• Always use lld linker with clang for qt6 recipes
• Ignore various issues fatal with gcc-14
• Upgrade linux-raspberrypi to 6.6.36
• Pin runtime type to GCC runtime in cuda-gcc and define TOOLCHAIN variable
• Upgrade Go compiler to 1.22.5
• Upgrade systemd to v256
• Upgrade util-linux to 2.40.1
• Enforce default remote name to "origin" in git fetcher
• Enable GTK in OpenCV with wayland as well
• Switch Jetson platforms to use Yoe distro with wayland instead of EGLFS
• Update blueZ to 5.77
• Upgrade GDB to 15.1
• Enable kprobes in tegra kernel
• Add python3-cuda to tegra based images
• Do not manage wifi with systemd-networkmanager
• Disable audit subsystem in kernel for tegra platforms
• Add networkmanager and wireguard to all yoe images
• Fix busybox/tc compilation with 6.9 linux kernel headers
• Fix buildpaths QA error checks in several meta-oe recipes
• Fix several recipes in meta-oe for correct UPSTREAM_CHECK vars
• Update OpenSSH to 9.8p1
• Upgrade to glibc 2.40

Added

• Added new recipes - libabigail, include-what-you-use, dediprog-flasher
• Added DEBUG_LEVELFLAG variable to contain default debug level e.g. -g1, -g, etc.
• Add packageconfig knob to control tegra gallium driver in mesa
• Add nospdx class
• Add and switch default SPDX version to 3.0
• Add meta-tegra-community layer

Removed

• Drop generating a static libpython
• Remove /etc/ethertypes in iptables
• Drop obsolete debug compiler option -feliminate-unused-debug-types
• Drop deprecated configs from android-driver.cfg for rpi kernel

2024.06 - "Pagliarola"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2024.06] - 2024-06-30

Changed

• Fix libclc build
• Bump fsl kernel to 6.6.32
• Disable -Wincompatible-pointer-types as error in few recipes
  to build with GCC-14
• Upgrade libcamera to 0.3.0
• Adjust several recipes to build with libtool 2.5
• Update linux-yocto/6.6 v6.6.32
• Upgrade QEMU to 9.0.0
• Upgrade OpenSSL to 3.3.1
• Update wayland to 1.23.0
• Bump QT to 6.7.3
• Fix kernel build for Jetson orin-nano
• Update clang to 18.1.8 release
• Upgrade libgpiod-1.x to 1.6.5 and fix build with musl
• Upgrade fwupd-efi to 1.6 and move py-pefile to meta-oe
• Allow using LLVM libc++ with GCC compiler
• Move fmt package from meta-oe -> core layer
• Fix libstdc++ unicode header typo regression found with clang
• Update rpidistro-ffmpeg to 5.1.4
• Fix contains reference to TMPDIR [buildpaths] warning in several recipes
• Upgrade PHP to 8.2.20
• Upgrade go compiler to 1.22.4
• Add PACKAGECONFIG for bpf-framework to systemd

Added

• Added new recipes for - sexpect, trompeloeil, cabextract
  udpcast, python3-typer, magic-enum
• Add ptests support for python3-dasbus, python3-flask
• Add support for BeagleV-Ahead SBC
• Add support for jetson-agx-orin-devkit

Removed

• remove g77/f77
• drop the old 1.4 bootstrap C version for go compiler

2024.05 - "Ossimi"

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[2024.05] - 2024-05-31

Changed

• Upgrade GCC to 14.1 major release
• Enable LLD linker as default for RISCV
• Upgrade strace to 6.8
• Upgrade clang compiler to 18.1.6
• Upgrade nginx to 1.26.0
• Fix several recipes to build with GCC-14
• Refactor composefs recipe
• Fix visionfive2-pvr-graphics sysvinit support
• Fix milkv-duo support in meta-riscv
• Update recipes in multiple layers for UNPACKDIR migration
• Update recipes to move away from S = WORKDIR assignments
• Introduce GO_SRCURI_DESTSUFFIX for go based recipes
• update Simple IoT to v0.16.0
• default IMG_VERSION to Yoe release: 2024.04 -> 24.04.x
• add ca-certificates to yoe-simple-image
• Upgrade valgrind to 3.23.0
• Upgrade QT6 to 6.7.2
• Upgrade vulkan SDK to 1.3.283.0
• Upgrade spirv-llvm-translator 18.1.0
• Fix renaming of network interfaces on rpi projects using systemd
• Upgrade go to 1.22.3

Added

• Introduce UNPACKDIR bitbake variable
• New recipes
  • glib-testing, opentelemetry-cpp, malcontent
    python3-dasbus

Removed

• Removed recipes
  • orrery, libtirpc126, usbinit, libomxil
• Drop using LLVMVERSION
• Drop unused 5.15 linux-raspberrypi version