Buildroot 2017.02 released
Buildroot 2017.02 has been released, with numerous improvements to support
reproducible builds and other infrastructure improvements. Support for the
OpenRISC CPU architecture has been added. See the announcement for more
new features and changes in this release.
| From: | Peter Korsgaard <peter-AT-korsgaard.com> | |
| To: | buildroot-AT-buildroot.org | |
| Subject: | Buildroot 2017.02 released | |
| Date: | Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:19:38 +0100 | |
| Message-ID: | <871suihv2t.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> | |
| Cc: | lwn-AT-lwn.net |
Hi, Buildroot 2017.02 is released - Go download it at: http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2017.02.tar.gz or http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2017.02.tar.bz2 Or get it from Git: git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot Please give it a spin and report any problems to the mailing list or bug tracker. This was another fairly big development cycle with close to 1400 changes all over the tree and more than 100 unique contributors! I'm very happy to see so many "new" people next to the "oldtimers". Of noteworthy new features/changes we have: 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 option <pkg>_PREFER_INSTALLER to the perl package infrastructure. - Support for lzip compressed tarballs has been added. Architecture: - 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 and NIOS2 toolchains bumped - Remove Analog Devices toolchain for the Blackfin architecture, remove pre-built musl toolchains from musl.codu.org New defconfigs: Freescale i.MX23EVK, Qemu OpenRISC emulation, Qemu NIOS2 emulation, Grinn chiliBoard, Freescale i.MX6Q SabreSD, BeagleBoard X15, OrangePi One, ARC HS38 HAPS - A fair amount (60) of new packages, mainly related to firmware/hardware, networking and python. And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. See the CHANGES file for details: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2017.02 Many thanks to the people contributing to this release: git shortlog -s -n 2016.11.. 177 Gustavo Zacarias 111 Thomas Petazzoni 106 Peter Korsgaard 102 Bernd Kuhls 91 Vicente Olivert Riera 57 Yann E. MORIN 56 Fabio Estevam 50 Romain Naour 48 Baruch Siach 44 Jörg Krause 44 Yegor Yefremov 41 Adam Duskett 38 Peter Seiderer 36 Waldemar Brodkorb 34 Francois Perrad 15 Fabrice Fontaine 15 Rahul Bedarkar 14 Jérôme Pouiller 13 Arnout Vandecappelle 12 Danomi Manchego 9 Lionel Flandrin 9 Sam bobroff 9 Thomas De Schampheleire 8 Angelo Compagnucci 8 Dagg Stompler 8 David Bachelart 8 Zakharov Vlad 7 James Knight 7 Luca Ceresoli 6 Erico Nunes 6 Frank Hunleth 6 Marcin Niestroj 6 Naumann Andreas 6 Zoltan Gyarmati 5 Bartosz Golaszewski 5 Carlos Santos 5 Chris Packham 5 Martin Kepplinger 5 Rahul Jain 5 Sergey Matyukevich 4 Alvaro G. M 4 Eric Le Bihan 4 Gary Bisson 4 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri 4 Ryan Coe 3 Alexey Brodkin 3 Andy Shevchenko 3 Ash Charles 3 Brian Redbeard 3 Bryce Ferguson 3 Christian Stewart 3 Ezequiel Garcia 3 Gilles Chanteperdrix 3 Jerzy Grzegorek 3 Johan Oudinet 3 Julien Corjon 3 Marcus Hoffmann 3 Martin Bark 3 Matt Weber 3 Maxime Hadjinlian 3 Petr Vorel 3 Tobias Klauser 3 Wolfgang Grandegger 2 Alistair Francis 2 André Hentschel 2 Brandon Maier 2 Clayton Shotwell 2 Gilles Talis 2 Jesper Baekdahl 2 Marcin Nowakowski 2 Matt Kraai 2 Max Filippov 2 Misha Komarovskiy 2 Phil Eichinger 1 Alexey Neyman 1 Alvaro Gamez Machado 1 Bimal Jacob 1 Chris Frederick 1 Chris Smart 1 Christian Kellermann 1 Daniel Mack 1 Fabien Parent 1 Fabio Porcedda 1 Francesco Negri 1 Gaël PORTAY 1 Guillaume GARDET 1 Ignacy Gawędzki 1 Jack Kao 1 Jean-Baptiste Trédez 1 Jens Kleintje 1 Jordan Yelloz 1 Judd Meinders 1 Julien Floret 1 Lothar Felten 1 Matt Flax 1 Michael Walle 1 Mylene JOSSERAND 1 Nicolas Cavallari 1 Patrick Devlin 1 Paul Cercueil 1 Philippe Reynes 1 Ray Kinsella 1 Sam Mendoza-Jonas 1 Sergio Prado 1 Stewart Smith 1 Sébastien Szymanski 1 Tal Shorer 1 Tatsuyuki Ishi 1 Theo Debrouwere 1 Trent Piepho And a special thanks to our patch reviewers: git log 2016.11.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | \ sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r 43 Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com> 22 "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> 10 Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> 9 Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com> 8 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> 5 Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> 4 Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com> 4 Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> 3 Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de> 2 Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> 2 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri@profusion.mobi> 1 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> 1 Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com> 1 Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com> 1 Mark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com> 1 Julien Corjon <corjon.j@ecagroup.com> 1 Jörg Krause <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks> 1 Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> 1 Gary Bisson <gary.bisson@boundarydevices.com> 1 Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org> 1 Carlos Santos <casantos@datacom.ind.br> 1 Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com> Once again our autobuilders have helped us fix a huge amount of build issues. Thanks to all the people reviewing failures and fixing issues: for i in $(git log --format=%H 2016.11..); do \ git show --quiet $i | grep -q http://autobuild && \ git show --quiet --format="%an" $i ; done | sort | uniq -c | \ sort -rn -k1 41 Thomas Petazzoni 20 Peter Korsgaard 18 Waldemar Brodkorb 17 Bernd Kuhls 12 Yann E. MORIN 12 Baruch Siach 10 Peter Seiderer 9 Rahul Bedarkar 8 Jörg Krause 6 Gustavo Zacarias 4 Sam bobroff 4 Romain Naour 3 Zakharov Vlad 3 Carlos Santos 2 Yegor Yefremov 2 Vicente Olivert Riera 2 Johan Oudinet 2 Francois Perrad 1 Zoltan Gyarmati 1 Sergio Prado 1 Rahul Jain 1 Maxime Hadjinlian 1 Matt Weber 1 Jack Kao 1 Guillaume GARDET 1 Gary Bisson 1 Fabrice Fontaine 1 Eric Le Bihan 1 Arnout Vandecappelle 1 Alvaro Gamez Machado 1 Alistair Francis 1 Adam Duskett This release will become our first long term support release, which means that we aim to maintain it with security and other important fixes until 2018.02. We will do regular point releases (2017.02.x) within the support period. The next release will be 2017.05. Expect the first release candidate at the beginning of May and the final release at the end of the month. The next developers meeting will take place just after FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium: http://elinux.org/Buildroot:DeveloperDaysFOSDEM2017 Many thanks to Google for sponsoring the meeting location! We are still looking for a sponsor for the dinner Monday evening. Contact us if you are interested. During the 2016.11 cycle we had a very nice developers meeting in Brussels, Belgium. Many thanks to Google and Mind/Essenssium for sponsoring the event and for all the participants for joining! A report of the event is available here: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2017-Februar... -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard