Call for contributions to the 5.0 release notes

Call for contributions to the 5.0 release notes

[Michael Opdenacker]

Greetings,

If you contributed new features to the upcoming release, or if you are 
interested in figuring out what's new in 5.0, that would be great if you 
could help us by submitting bits of release notes about them too.

If you are familiar with the Sphinx / ReStructured Text format, you can 
directly send patches against the yocto-docs "master-next" branch 
(https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-docs/log/?h=master-next). However, 
I'm also happy to accept raw text as well and format it or even 
elaborate on it by myself.

We may also need proper documentation for the new features, not only 
release notes. I am thinking about documenting the new variables in 
ref-manual/variables.rst, for example.
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Michael.

-- 
Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

Re: [OE-core] Call for contributions to the 5.0 release notes

[Ross Burton]

On 15 Mar 2024, at 08:12, Michael Opdenacker via lists.openembedded.org <michael.opdenacker=bootlin.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> If you contributed new features to the upcoming release, or if you are interested in figuring out what's new in 5.0, that would be great if you could help us by submitting bits of release notes about them too.

I’ve been making notes of every commit that I’ve seen go into master that looks like it should be in the release notes.  I didn’t include upgrades unless they were incredibly notable because that can be generated by a script.

I know this isn’t very useful as it is, and I do hope to start writing some entries where I was responsible for the changes, but here’s the raw list:

b49d42ce: oeqa/runtime/login: Proof of concept for screenshot testcases
e9870028: image_types.bbclass: fix vfat image names
22d6c096: rxvt: add rxvt to desktop entry name
2f4f72ff: Add genericarm64 MACHINE
f1567659: bmaptool: now part of Yocto Project
fd2e5e0b: goarch: disable dynamic linking globally
2387bd63: core-image-full-cmdline: add package-management
694b85a2: rust: Revert PGO to it's default
90893b5e: python3: dont disable readline module for editline
ee014ca5: wic: allow imager-specific filename extensions
08aa69a1: bitbake: runqueue: Add support for BB_LOADFACTOR_MAX
a226865c: base-files: add usage warning to motd
9f7475b4: recipetool; add support for python_mesonpy class
a7484a66: python_mesonpy.bbclass: move from meta-python
c0a2e3a9: python3-meson-python: move from meta-python
03f3aa64: python3-pyproject-metadata: move from meta-python
4cfd0f7e: lib/oe/patch: Use git notes to store the filenames for the patches
6f32769a: overlayfs-etc: add option to skip creation of mount dirs
1effd101: bitbake: hashserv: Add Unihash Garbage Collection
fd600728: meta-poky/conf/templates/default/conf-summary.txt: add a template summary
c390b2e6: oe-setup-build: add a tool for discovering config templates and setting up builds
dfe98713: oe-init-build-env: generate .vscode from template
f62e4d81: bitbake: taskexp_ncurses: ncurses version of taskexp.py
3ccb4d8a: devtool: new ide-sdk plugin
8da6bd69: cups: use LOCALE_PATHS to split localized HTML templates
c2a7c008: lib/oe/package: add LOCALE_PATHS to add define all locations for locales
a7bbb105: bitbake: runqueue: Improve performance for executing tasks
80396cc7: sanity.bbclass: raise_sanity_error if /tmp is noexec
07006c48: Revert "lzop: remove recipe from oe-core"
92d790f5: conf/machine: Add Power8 tune to PowerPC architecture
81d90fc8: package_rpm: add RPMBUILD_EXTRA_PARAMS variable
77f5f99f: package_manager: ipk: add OPKG_MAKE_INDEX_EXTRA_PARAMS variable
e6857735: wic: implement reproducible Disk GUID
cc740bf6: arm/armv*: add all the Arm tunes in GCC 13.2.0
e71f54c6: tunes/sve: Add support for sve2 instructions
6d503a7f: glibc: Upgrade to 2.39
b0e5542e: binutils: Upgrade to binutils 2.42
78c99af2: eudev: allow for predictable network interface names
6540f65a: linux-yocto-dev: update to v6.8
ed081806: sysroot user management postinsts: run with /bin/sh -e to report errors when they happen
bb630c3e: rust: Enable rust oe-selftest.
999bcf99: linux-yocto/6.1: drop recipes
603669d3: xserver-xorg: disable xvfb by default
97fd704a: tune-core2: Update qemu cpu to supported model
09b69a69: rng-tools: Revert "rng-tools: move to meta-oe"
3e579c30: classes: go-vendor: Handle modules from the same repo
0161d08a: recipetool: Don't fail on local go modules
6e00774a: classes-global/insane: Add check for "virtual/" in RPROVIDES and RDEPENDS
c917323a: classes/recipes: Switch to use inherit_defer
c56fce9e: bitbake: ast/BBHandler: Add inherit_defer support
5031cf42: package.py: fix Darwin support
d2b44538: rng-tools: move to meta-oe
61182659: bitbake: runqueue: Fix runall all bug
3dc89580: autotools: don't exclude gtkdocize
67e3f243: bitbake: bitbake/runqueue: rework 'bitbake -S printdiff' logic
c665a2c9: bitbake: ast: Fix EXPORT_FUNCTIONS bug
3f415929: bitbake: bitbake: event: Inject empty lines to make code match lineno in filename
8c732425: openssh: Add PACKAGECONFIG option to customize sshd mode
10075b25: linux-yocto/6.1: update to v6.1.70
486588e2: linux-yocto/6.6: update to v6.6.9
df9eb69f: linux-yocto: introduce 6.6 reference kernel
4f2c4993: systemd-boot: Add recipe to compile native
b40a8e02: zvariant: Drop recipe
fdef56a5: archiver.bbclass: Drop tarfile module to improve performance
3000abe2: conf/machine-sdk: declare qemu-usermode SDK_MACHINE_FEATURE
64162b18: nativesdk: don't unset MACHINE_FEATURES, let machine-sdk/ set it
60ce6818: nativesdk: ensure features don't get backfilled
df548e98: ipk: Switch to using zstd compression
bc8ca0ba: wic: use E2FSPROGS_FAKE_TIME and hash_seed to generate reproducible ext4 images
143686fe: gpgme: disable python support (until upstream fixes 3.12 compatibility)
e73b3744: python3: re-enable profile guided optimisation
2f56aec0: machine/arch-armv9: remove crc and sve tunes, they are mandatory
26560efa: images: add core-image-initramfs-boot
08369812: testimage: Drop target_dumper and most of monitor_dumper
8dff7186: bitbake.conf: Add runtimedir
7d881f02: oeqa: add "maturin develop" SDK test case
b2b2e027: oeqa: add simple 'maturin' SDK (testsdk) test case
844e9104: oe-selfest: add maturn runtime (testimage) test
9707dc55: recipetool: add python_maturin support
ca542728: classes-recipe: add python_maturin.bbclass
d97636a0: python3-maturin: add v1.4.0
6e6bb93f: oeqa/selftest/sstatetests: re-work CDN tests, add local cache tests
6ce61b43: strace: Disable bluetooth support by default
47cc6288: sstate: Fix dir ownership issues in SSTATE_DIR
7a203814: rust: Disable rust oe-selftest
ef371d1c: cve-update-nvd2-native: faster requests with API keys
d5a6e3b5: bitbake: toaster/tests: Refactorize tests/functional
9a5c1456: devtool: modify: Make --no-extract work again
decf6e66: recipetool: create: Improve identification of licenses
36b66553: image-uefi.conf: Add EFI_UKI_PATH variable
2c59f5ad: lib/oe/patch: handle creating patches for CRLF sources
463d56b9: systemtap-uprobes: removed as obsolete
41ffa169: oeqa/runtime/parselogs: load ignores from disk
85a2a6f6: recipetool: create_buildsys_python: add pypi support
0f4fe4f7: bitbake: runqueue: Improve inter setscene task dependency handling
f89d9240: vte: Separate out gtk4 pieces of vte into individual packages
0a39f1aa: wic: bootimg-efi: Make kernel image installation configurable
89f16624: devtool: add support for git submodules
07462992: cmake-qemu.bbclass: support qemu for cmake
5d12c0a3: wic: rawcopy: add support for zstd decompression
69ed4127: bitbake.conf: Log events by default using BB_DEFAULT_EVENTLOG
ff3a4892: bitbake: toaster/tests: Add UI TestCase for visualize all projects show rows
6ca54117: bitbake: cooker: Add support for BB_DEFAULT_EVENTLOG
5ff688fe: vscode: add minimal configuration
0904c4c3: bitbake.conf: drop ${PE} and ${PR} from -f{file,macro,debug}-prefix-map
0769e8ef: bitbake.conf: Drop oldincludedir
d217ca41: gnomebase.bbclass: Use meson as default buildsystem
33cde47e: bitbake: hashserv: Allow self-service deletion
c1574ae4: bitbake: hashserv: Add database column query API
3a2c5a6f: bitbake: hashserv: Add db-usage API
8cfb94c0: bitbake: hashserv: Add become-user API
1af725b2: bitbake: hashserv: Add user permissions
cfbb1d2c: bitbake: hashserv: Add SQLalchemy backend
2484bd89: bitbake: hashserv: Add websocket connection implementation
7de36b25: recipetool: Add handler to create go recipes
22f8fdbe: classes: go-vendor: Add go-vendor class
769abe57: rust-cross-canadian: Add riscv64 to cross-canadian hosts
f7830ed8: machine-sdk: Add SDK_ARCH for riscv64
b1116c81: image_types.bbclass: Use xz default compression preset level
3681db6b: libcroco: drop recipe
d6134c9f: volatile-binds: Allow creation of subdirectories
50c57ee3: Revert "bin_package.bbclass: Inhibit the default dependencies"
9ffac3fc: recipetool: add python_hatchling support
2cf13f25: lib/oe/sstatesig.py: dump locked.sigs.inc only when explicitly asked via -S lockedsigs
d4debbf5: recipetool/create_buildsys_python: add PEP517 support
be129bd0: recipetool/create_buildsys_python: prefix created recipes with python3-
849d29c8: package_rpm: Allow compression mode override
7cba02e8: lighttpd: modernize lighttpd.conf
e33267f8: systemd: add option to use stub-resolv.conf
6f30e358: base-files, systemd: add nss-resolve plugin
a0423422: openssh: Add sshd.service
15b08b82: scripts/bitbake-whatchanged: remove
62739c2e: bitbake.conf: Drop DEPLOY_DIR_TAR

Cheers,
Ross

Re: [OE-core] Call for contributions to the 5.0 release notes

[Michael Opdenacker]

Hi Ross

On 3/15/24 at 21:58, Ross Burton wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2024, at 08:12, Michael Opdenacker via lists.openembedded.org <michael.opdenacker=bootlin.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> If you contributed new features to the upcoming release, or if you are interested in figuring out what's new in 5.0, that would be great if you could help us by submitting bits of release notes about them too.
> I’ve been making notes of every commit that I’ve seen go into master that looks like it should be in the release notes.  I didn’t include upgrades unless they were incredibly notable because that can be generated by a script.
>
> I know this isn’t very useful as it is, and I do hope to start writing some entries where I was responsible for the changes, but here’s the raw list:
>
> b49d42ce: oeqa/runtime/login: Proof of concept for screenshot testcases
> e9870028: image_types.bbclass: fix vfat image names
> 22d6c096: rxvt: add rxvt to desktop entry name
> 2f4f72ff: Add genericarm64 MACHINE
> f1567659: bmaptool: now part of Yocto Project
> fd2e5e0b: goarch: disable dynamic linking globally
> 2387bd63: core-image-full-cmdline: add package-management
> 694b85a2: rust: Revert PGO to it's default
> 90893b5e: python3: dont disable readline module for editline
> ee014ca5: wic: allow imager-specific filename extensions
> 08aa69a1: bitbake: runqueue: Add support for BB_LOADFACTOR_MAX
> a226865c: base-files: add usage warning to motd
> 9f7475b4: recipetool; add support for python_mesonpy class
> a7484a66: python_mesonpy.bbclass: move from meta-python
> c0a2e3a9: python3-meson-python: move from meta-python
> 03f3aa64: python3-pyproject-metadata: move from meta-python
> 4cfd0f7e: lib/oe/patch: Use git notes to store the filenames for the patches
> 6f32769a: overlayfs-etc: add option to skip creation of mount dirs
> 1effd101: bitbake: hashserv: Add Unihash Garbage Collection
> fd600728: meta-poky/conf/templates/default/conf-summary.txt: add a template summary
> c390b2e6: oe-setup-build: add a tool for discovering config templates and setting up builds
> dfe98713: oe-init-build-env: generate .vscode from template
> f62e4d81: bitbake: taskexp_ncurses: ncurses version of taskexp.py
> 3ccb4d8a: devtool: new ide-sdk plugin
> 8da6bd69: cups: use LOCALE_PATHS to split localized HTML templates
> c2a7c008: lib/oe/package: add LOCALE_PATHS to add define all locations for locales
> a7bbb105: bitbake: runqueue: Improve performance for executing tasks
> 80396cc7: sanity.bbclass: raise_sanity_error if /tmp is noexec
> 07006c48: Revert "lzop: remove recipe from oe-core"
> 92d790f5: conf/machine: Add Power8 tune to PowerPC architecture
> 81d90fc8: package_rpm: add RPMBUILD_EXTRA_PARAMS variable
> 77f5f99f: package_manager: ipk: add OPKG_MAKE_INDEX_EXTRA_PARAMS variable
> e6857735: wic: implement reproducible Disk GUID
> cc740bf6: arm/armv*: add all the Arm tunes in GCC 13.2.0
> e71f54c6: tunes/sve: Add support for sve2 instructions
> 6d503a7f: glibc: Upgrade to 2.39
> b0e5542e: binutils: Upgrade to binutils 2.42
> 78c99af2: eudev: allow for predictable network interface names
> 6540f65a: linux-yocto-dev: update to v6.8
> ed081806: sysroot user management postinsts: run with /bin/sh -e to report errors when they happen
> bb630c3e: rust: Enable rust oe-selftest.
> 999bcf99: linux-yocto/6.1: drop recipes
> 603669d3: xserver-xorg: disable xvfb by default
> 97fd704a: tune-core2: Update qemu cpu to supported model
> 09b69a69: rng-tools: Revert "rng-tools: move to meta-oe"
> 3e579c30: classes: go-vendor: Handle modules from the same repo
> 0161d08a: recipetool: Don't fail on local go modules
> 6e00774a: classes-global/insane: Add check for "virtual/" in RPROVIDES and RDEPENDS
> c917323a: classes/recipes: Switch to use inherit_defer
> c56fce9e: bitbake: ast/BBHandler: Add inherit_defer support
> 5031cf42: package.py: fix Darwin support
> d2b44538: rng-tools: move to meta-oe
> 61182659: bitbake: runqueue: Fix runall all bug
> 3dc89580: autotools: don't exclude gtkdocize
> 67e3f243: bitbake: bitbake/runqueue: rework 'bitbake -S printdiff' logic
> c665a2c9: bitbake: ast: Fix EXPORT_FUNCTIONS bug
> 3f415929: bitbake: bitbake: event: Inject empty lines to make code match lineno in filename
> 8c732425: openssh: Add PACKAGECONFIG option to customize sshd mode
> 10075b25: linux-yocto/6.1: update to v6.1.70
> 486588e2: linux-yocto/6.6: update to v6.6.9
> df9eb69f: linux-yocto: introduce 6.6 reference kernel
> 4f2c4993: systemd-boot: Add recipe to compile native
> b40a8e02: zvariant: Drop recipe
> fdef56a5: archiver.bbclass: Drop tarfile module to improve performance
> 3000abe2: conf/machine-sdk: declare qemu-usermode SDK_MACHINE_FEATURE
> 64162b18: nativesdk: don't unset MACHINE_FEATURES, let machine-sdk/ set it
> 60ce6818: nativesdk: ensure features don't get backfilled
> df548e98: ipk: Switch to using zstd compression
> bc8ca0ba: wic: use E2FSPROGS_FAKE_TIME and hash_seed to generate reproducible ext4 images
> 143686fe: gpgme: disable python support (until upstream fixes 3.12 compatibility)
> e73b3744: python3: re-enable profile guided optimisation
> 2f56aec0: machine/arch-armv9: remove crc and sve tunes, they are mandatory
> 26560efa: images: add core-image-initramfs-boot
> 08369812: testimage: Drop target_dumper and most of monitor_dumper
> 8dff7186: bitbake.conf: Add runtimedir
> 7d881f02: oeqa: add "maturin develop" SDK test case
> b2b2e027: oeqa: add simple 'maturin' SDK (testsdk) test case
> 844e9104: oe-selfest: add maturn runtime (testimage) test
> 9707dc55: recipetool: add python_maturin support
> ca542728: classes-recipe: add python_maturin.bbclass
> d97636a0: python3-maturin: add v1.4.0
> 6e6bb93f: oeqa/selftest/sstatetests: re-work CDN tests, add local cache tests
> 6ce61b43: strace: Disable bluetooth support by default
> 47cc6288: sstate: Fix dir ownership issues in SSTATE_DIR
> 7a203814: rust: Disable rust oe-selftest
> ef371d1c: cve-update-nvd2-native: faster requests with API keys
> d5a6e3b5: bitbake: toaster/tests: Refactorize tests/functional
> 9a5c1456: devtool: modify: Make --no-extract work again
> decf6e66: recipetool: create: Improve identification of licenses
> 36b66553: image-uefi.conf: Add EFI_UKI_PATH variable
> 2c59f5ad: lib/oe/patch: handle creating patches for CRLF sources
> 463d56b9: systemtap-uprobes: removed as obsolete
> 41ffa169: oeqa/runtime/parselogs: load ignores from disk
> 85a2a6f6: recipetool: create_buildsys_python: add pypi support
> 0f4fe4f7: bitbake: runqueue: Improve inter setscene task dependency handling
> f89d9240: vte: Separate out gtk4 pieces of vte into individual packages
> 0a39f1aa: wic: bootimg-efi: Make kernel image installation configurable
> 89f16624: devtool: add support for git submodules
> 07462992: cmake-qemu.bbclass: support qemu for cmake
> 5d12c0a3: wic: rawcopy: add support for zstd decompression
> 69ed4127: bitbake.conf: Log events by default using BB_DEFAULT_EVENTLOG
> ff3a4892: bitbake: toaster/tests: Add UI TestCase for visualize all projects show rows
> 6ca54117: bitbake: cooker: Add support for BB_DEFAULT_EVENTLOG
> 5ff688fe: vscode: add minimal configuration
> 0904c4c3: bitbake.conf: drop ${PE} and ${PR} from -f{file,macro,debug}-prefix-map
> 0769e8ef: bitbake.conf: Drop oldincludedir
> d217ca41: gnomebase.bbclass: Use meson as default buildsystem
> 33cde47e: bitbake: hashserv: Allow self-service deletion
> c1574ae4: bitbake: hashserv: Add database column query API
> 3a2c5a6f: bitbake: hashserv: Add db-usage API
> 8cfb94c0: bitbake: hashserv: Add become-user API
> 1af725b2: bitbake: hashserv: Add user permissions
> cfbb1d2c: bitbake: hashserv: Add SQLalchemy backend
> 2484bd89: bitbake: hashserv: Add websocket connection implementation
> 7de36b25: recipetool: Add handler to create go recipes
> 22f8fdbe: classes: go-vendor: Add go-vendor class
> 769abe57: rust-cross-canadian: Add riscv64 to cross-canadian hosts
> f7830ed8: machine-sdk: Add SDK_ARCH for riscv64
> b1116c81: image_types.bbclass: Use xz default compression preset level
> 3681db6b: libcroco: drop recipe
> d6134c9f: volatile-binds: Allow creation of subdirectories
> 50c57ee3: Revert "bin_package.bbclass: Inhibit the default dependencies"
> 9ffac3fc: recipetool: add python_hatchling support
> 2cf13f25: lib/oe/sstatesig.py: dump locked.sigs.inc only when explicitly asked via -S lockedsigs
> d4debbf5: recipetool/create_buildsys_python: add PEP517 support
> be129bd0: recipetool/create_buildsys_python: prefix created recipes with python3-
> 849d29c8: package_rpm: Allow compression mode override
> 7cba02e8: lighttpd: modernize lighttpd.conf
> e33267f8: systemd: add option to use stub-resolv.conf
> 6f30e358: base-files, systemd: add nss-resolve plugin
> a0423422: openssh: Add sshd.service
> 15b08b82: scripts/bitbake-whatchanged: remove
> 62739c2e: bitbake.conf: Drop DEPLOY_DIR_TAR


Thanks for all this sorting work. This should prove very useful.
As I'm also busy with the binary distro project, any patches to cover 
these changes in the documentation will be welcome indeed. And once 
again, even a raw text description will be useful too.
Thanks again
Cheers
Michael.

-- 
Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

Re: [OE-core] Call for contributions to the 5.0 release notes

[Alexander Kanavin]

So I have looked through my commits over the past year that
*definitely* need documenting, and identified these standouts:

- https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?id=63e53fb8b60d38315015844bd3357fa1649cd639
"build-sysroots: target or native sysroot population need to be
selected explicitly"
Easy fix to existing docs, will send asap.

- https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?id=2187e823ad66eaaee6a4ed7d748f2c68028a45e7
"selftest/sstatetests: add tests for 'bitbake -S printdiff'"
This functionality needs to be documented; a review of whether there's
something for bitbake-diffsigs (which is related) is also needed. I'll
do this after the first item.

 - https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?id=6f29e2319cf8f6124de4998e887efab90bc63ba4
"meta/conf/templates/default/conf-summary.txt: add a template summary"
Needs to be documented everywhere where config templates or config
template descriptions are mentioned. Also on todo list.

- https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?id=c390b2e615930b60db0d7f3e72d056e0c67ef5bc
"oe-setup-build: add a tool for discovering config templates and
setting up builds"

This was added to master very recently and documenting it is pending
an important fixup:
https://patchwork.yoctoproject.org/project/oe-core/patch/20240305073749.4133403-1-alex@linutronix.de/
which I hope lands in master soon, but for some reason isn't in master-next.

Alex



On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 09:12, Michael Opdenacker via
lists.openembedded.org
<michael.opdenacker=bootlin.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> If you contributed new features to the upcoming release, or if you are
> interested in figuring out what's new in 5.0, that would be great if you
> could help us by submitting bits of release notes about them too.
>
> If you are familiar with the Sphinx / ReStructured Text format, you can
> directly send patches against the yocto-docs "master-next" branch
> (https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-docs/log/?h=master-next). However,
> I'm also happy to accept raw text as well and format it or even
> elaborate on it by myself.
>
> We may also need proper documentation for the new features, not only
> release notes. I am thinking about documenting the new variables in
> ref-manual/variables.rst, for example.
> Thanks in advance
> Cheers
> Michael.
>
> --
> Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> https://bootlin.com
>
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