Yocto Project 3.4 (Honister) released
Version 3.4 of The Yocto Project has been released. Yocto provides a system for building embedded Linux distributions. This release comes with "
Linux kernel 5.14, glibc 2.34 and ~280 other recipe upgrades", support for building and cross-compiling Rust code, tons of new recipes, a way to create a SPDX bill of materials (BoM), overlayfs and seccomp support, optimizations, bug fixes, and more. The full release notes have further information.
| From: | Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker-AT-bootlin.com> | |
| To: | lwn-AT-lwn.net | |
| Subject: | Yocto Project 3.4 (Honister) released | |
| Date: | Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:07:44 +0200 | |
| Message-ID: | <92e1fbd5-4c5a-5bb6-1067-ff52fe0f2682@bootlin.com> | |
| Cc: | michael.opdenacker-AT-bootlin.com |
The new 3.4 ("Honister") version of The Yocto Project
(https://yoctoproject.org), a system to build embedded Linux
distributions, has been released on October 26, 2021.
Here is the list of new features in this release:
* Linux kernel 5.14, glibc 2.34 and ~280 other recipe upgrades
* Switched override character to ':' (replacing '_') for more robust
parsing and improved performance - see migration guide for help on migrating
* Rust integrated into core, providing rust support for
cross-compilation and SDK
* New create-spdx class for creating SPDX SBoM documents
* New recipes: cargo, core-image-ptest-all, core-image-ptest-fast,
core-image-weston-sdk, erofs-utils, gcompat, gi-docgen, libmicrohttpd,
libseccomp, libstd-rs, perlcross, python3-markdown, python3-pyyaml,
python3-smartypants, python3-typogrify, rust, rust-cross,
rust-cross-canadian, rust-hello-world, rust-llvm,
rust-tools-cross-canadian, rustfmt, xwayland
* Several optimisations to reduce unnecessary task dependencies for
faster builds
* seccomp integrated into core, with additional enabling for gnutls,
systemd, qemu
* New overlayfs class to help generate overlayfs mount units
* debuginfod support now enabled by default
* Switched several recipes over to using OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS
(wpa-supplicant, curl, glib-networking) or disable GnuTLS (cups) by default
* Improvements to LTO plugin installation and reproducibility
* Architecture-specific enhancements:
- glibc: Enable memory tagging for aarch64
- testimage: remove aarch64 xorg exclusion
- arch-arm*: add better support for gcc march extensions
- tune-cortexm*: add support for all Arm Cortex-M processors
- tune-cortexr*: add support for all Arm Cortex-R processors
- arch-armv4: Allow -march=armv4
- qemuarm*: use virtio graphics
- baremetal-helloworld: Enable RISC-V 64/32 port
- ldconfig-native: Add RISC-V support
- qemuriscv: Enable 4 core emulation
- Add ARC support in gdb, dpkg, dhcpcd
- conf/machine-sdk: Add ppc64 SDK machine
- libjpeg-turbo: Handle powerpc64le without Altivec
- pixman: Handle PowerPC without Altivec
- mesa: enable gallium Intel drivers when building for x86
- mesa: enable crocus driver for older Intel graphics
* Kernel-related enhancements:
- Support zstd-compressed modules and initramfs images
- Allow opt-out of split kernel modules
- linux-yocto-dev: base AUTOREV on specified version
- kernel-yocto: provide debug / summary information for metadata
- kernel-uboot: Handle gzip and lzo compression options
- linux-yocto/5.14: added devupstream support
- linux-yocto: add vfat KERNEL_FEATURE when MACHINE_FEATURES include vfat
- linux-yocto: enable TYPEC_TCPCI in usbc fragment
* Image-related enhancements:
- New erofs, erofs-lz4 and erofs-lz4hc image types
- New squashfs-zst and cpio.zst image types
- New lic-pkgs IMAGE_FEATURES item to install all license packages
- Added zsync metadata conversion support
- Use xargs to set file timestamps for significant (>90%) do_image speedup
- Find .ko.gz and .ko.xz kernel modules as well when determining need
to run depmod on an image
- Show formatted error messages instead of tracebacks for systemctl errors
- No longer ignore installation failures in complementary package
installation
- Remove ldconfig auxiliary cache when not needed
* wic enhancements:
- Added erofs filesystem support
- Added --extra-space argument to leave extra space after last partition
- Added --no-fstab-update part option to allow using the stock fstab
- bootimg-efi: added Unified Kernel Image option
- bootimg-pcbios: use label provided when formatting a DOS partition
* SDK-related enhancements:
- Enable do_populate_sdk with multilibs
- New SDKPATHINSTALL variable decouples default install path from
built in path to avoid rebuilding nativesdk components on e.g.
DISTRO_VERSION changes
- eSDK: Error if trying to generate an eSDK from a multiconfig
- eSDK: introduce TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK_ESDK to be used in place of
TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK to add components to the host part of the eSDK
* bitbake enhancements:
- New bitbake-getvar helper command to query a variable value (with
history)
- bitbake-layers: layerindex-fetch: add --fetchdir parameter to
- bitbake-layers: show-recipes: add skip reason to output
- bitbake-diffsigs: sort diff output for consistency
- Allow setting upstream for local hash equivalence server
- fetch2/s3: allow to use credentials and switch profile from
environment variables
- fetch2/s3: Add progress handler for S3 cp command
- fetch2/npm: Support npm archives with missing search directory mode
- fetch2/npmsw: Add support for local tarball and link sources
- fetch2/svn: Allow peg-revision functionality to be disabled
- fetch2/wget: verify certificates for HTTPS/FTPS by default
- fetch2/wget: Enable FTPS
- prserv: added read-only mode
- prserv: replaced XML RPC with modern asyncrpc implementation
- Numerous warning/error message improvements
* New PACKAGECONFIG options in btrfs-tools, ccache, coreutils, cups,
dbus, elfutils, ffmpeg, findutils, glib-2.0, gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad,
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base, libarchive, libnotify, libpsl, man-db, mesa,
ovmf, parted, prelink, qemu, rpm, shadow, systemd, tar, vim, weston
* u-boot enhancements:
- Make SPL suffix configurable
- Make UBOOT_BINARYNAME configurable
- Package extlinux.conf separately
- Allow deploying the u-boot DTB
* opensbi: Add support for specifying a device tree
* busybox enhancements:
- Added tmpdir option into mktemp applet
- Support mounting swap via labels
- Enable long options for enabled applets
* Ptest enhancements:
- ptest-runner: install script to collect system data on failure
- Added ptest support to python3-hypothesis, python3-jinja2,
python3-markupsafe
- Enhanced ptest support in lttng, util-linux, and others
- New leaner ptest image recipes based upon core-image-minimal
* buildhistory enhancements:
- Add option to strip path prefix
- Add output file listing package information
- Label packages providing per-file dependencies in depends.dot
* Other enhancements:
- Move tune files to architecture subdirectories
- buildstats: log host data on failure separately to task specific file
- buildstats: collect "at interval" and "on failure" logs in the same file
- scripts/contrib/image-manifest: add new script
- Add beginnings of Android target support
- devtool upgrade: rebase override-only patches as well
- devtool: print a warning on upgrades if PREFERRED_VERSION is set
- systemd: set zstd as default compression option
- init-manager-systemd: add a weak VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dev_manager assignment
- Add proper unpack dependency for .zst compressed archives
- util-linux: build chfn and chsh by default
- qemu: use 4 cores in qemu guests
- runqemu: decouple bios and kernel options
- qemu: add a hint on how to enable CPU render nodes when a suitable
GPU is absent
- devupstream: Allow support of native class extensions
- Prelinking now disabled in default configuration
- python3: statistics module moved to its own python3-statistics package
- pypi: allow override of PyPI archive name
- Allow global override of golang GO_DYNLINK
- New gi-docgen class for GNOME library documentation
- meson.bbclass: Make the default buildtype "debug" if DEBUG_BUILD is 1
- distro_features_check: expand with IMAGE_FEATURES
- Add extended packagedata in JSON format
- local.conf.sample: Update sstate mirror entry with new hash
equivalence setting
- poky: Use https in default PREMIRRORS
- reproducible_build.bbclass: Enable -Wdate-time
- yocto-check-layer: ensure that all layer dependencies are tested too
- core-image-multilib-example: base on weston, and not sato
- npm.bbclass: Allow nodedir to be overridden by NPM_NODEDIR
- cve-extra-exclusions.inc: add exclusion list for intractable CVE's
- license_image.bbclass: Detect broken symlinks
- sysstat: make the service start automatically
- sanity: Add error check for '%' in build path
- sanity: Further improve directory sanity tests
- sanity.bbclass: mention CONNECTIVITY_CHECK_URIS in network failure
message
- tzdata: Allow controlling zoneinfo binary format
- oe-time-dd-test.sh: add options and refactor
- vim: add option to disable NLS support
- zstd: Include pzstd in the build
- mirrors.bbclass: provide additional rule for git repo fallbacks
- own-mirrors: Add support for s3:// scheme in SOURCE_MIRROR_URL
- common-licenses: add missing SPDX licences
- Add MAINTAINERS.md file to record subsystem maintainers
The complete release notes are available on
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto-announce/message/229
--
Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com