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diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-3.4.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-3.4.rst index 323e4df7ae..d76bb004b1 100644 --- a/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-3.4.rst +++ b/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-3.4.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK + Release notes for 3.4 (honister) -------------------------------- @@ -7,7 +9,7 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 3.4 - 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 the above migration guide for help - Rust integrated into core, providing rust support for cross-compilation and SDK -- New create-spdx class for creating SPDX SBoM documents +- New :ref:`ref-classes-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 @@ -36,9 +38,9 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 3.4 - Kernel-related enhancements: - - Support zstd-compressed modules and initramfs images + - Support zstd-compressed modules and :term:`Initramfs` images - Allow opt-out of split kernel modules - - linux-yocto-dev: base AUTOREV on specified version + - linux-yocto-dev: base :term:`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 @@ -67,8 +69,10 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 3.4 - 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. :term:`DISTRO_VERSION` changes + - Enable :ref:`ref-tasks-populate_sdk` with multilibs + - New ``SDKPATHINSTALL`` variable decouples default install path from + built in path to avoid rebuilding :ref:`ref-classes-nativesdk` + components on e.g. :term:`DISTRO_VERSION` changes - eSDK: Error if trying to generate an eSDK from a multiconfig - eSDK: introduce :term:`TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK_ESDK` to be used in place of :term:`TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK` to add components to the host part of the eSDK @@ -170,48 +174,48 @@ Known Issues in 3.4 Recipe Licenses changes in 3.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The following corrections have been made to the LICENSE values set by recipes: - -- acpica: correct LICENSE to "Intel | BSD-3-Clause | GPLv2" -- dtc: correct LICENSE to "GPLv2 | BSD-2-Clause" -- e2fsprogs: correct LICENSE to "GPLv2 & LGPLv2 & BSD-3-Clause & MIT" -- ffmpeg: correct LICENSE to "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+ & ISC & MIT & BSD-2-Clause & BSD-3-Clause & IJG" -- flac: correct LICENSE to "GFDL-1.2 & GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+ & BSD-3-Clause" -- flex: correct LICENSE to "BSD-3-Clause & LGPL-2.0+" -- font-util: correct LICENSE to "MIT & MIT-style & BSD-4-Clause & BSD-2-Clause" -- glib-2.0: correct LICENSE to "LGPLv2.1+ & BSD-3-Clause & PD" -- gobject-introspection: correct LICENSE to "LGPLv2+ & GPLv2+ & MIT" (add MIT license) -- hdparm: correct LICENSE to "BSD-2-Clause & GPLv2 & hdparm" -- iputils: correct LICENSE to "BSD-3-Clause & GPLv2+" -- libcap: correct LICENSE to "BSD-3-Clause | GPLv2" -- libevent: correct LICENSE to "BSD-3-Clause & MIT" -- libjitterentropy: correct LICENSE to "GPLv2+ | BSD-3-Clause" -- libpam: correct LICENSE to "GPLv2+ | BSD-3-Clause" -- libwpe: correct LICENSE to "BSD-2-Clause" -- libx11-compose-data: correct LICENSE to "MIT & MIT-style & BSD-4-Clause & BSD-2-Clause" -- libx11: correct LICENSE to "MIT & MIT-style & BSD-4-Clause & BSD-2-Clause" -- libxfont2: correct LICENSE to "MIT & MIT-style & BSD-4-Clause & BSD-2-Clause" -- libxfont: correct LICENSE to "MIT & MIT-style & BSD-3-Clause" -- lsof: correct LICENSE to reflect that it uses a BSD-like (but not exactly BSD) license ("Spencer-94") -- nfs-utils: correct LICENSE to "MIT & GPLv2+ & BSD-3-Clause" +The following corrections have been made to the :term:`LICENSE` values set by recipes: + +- acpica: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "Intel | BSD-3-Clause | GPLv2" +- dtc: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "GPLv2 | BSD-2-Clause" +- e2fsprogs: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "GPLv2 & LGPLv2 & BSD-3-Clause & MIT" +- ffmpeg: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+ & ISC & MIT & BSD-2-Clause & BSD-3-Clause & IJG" +- flac: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "GFDL-1.2 & GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+ & BSD-3-Clause" +- flex: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "BSD-3-Clause & LGPL-2.0+" +- font-util: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "MIT & MIT-style & BSD-4-Clause & BSD-2-Clause" +- glib-2.0: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "LGPLv2.1+ & BSD-3-Clause & PD" +- gobject-introspection: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "LGPLv2+ & GPLv2+ & MIT" (add MIT license) +- hdparm: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "BSD-2-Clause & GPLv2 & hdparm" +- iputils: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "BSD-3-Clause & GPLv2+" +- libcap: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "BSD-3-Clause | GPLv2" +- libevent: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "BSD-3-Clause & MIT" +- libjitterentropy: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "GPLv2+ | BSD-3-Clause" +- libpam: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "GPLv2+ | BSD-3-Clause" +- libwpe: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "BSD-2-Clause" +- libx11-compose-data: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "MIT & MIT-style & BSD-4-Clause & BSD-2-Clause" +- libx11: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "MIT & MIT-style & BSD-4-Clause & BSD-2-Clause" +- libxfont2: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "MIT & MIT-style & BSD-4-Clause & BSD-2-Clause" +- libxfont: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "MIT & MIT-style & BSD-3-Clause" +- lsof: correct :term:`LICENSE` to reflect that it uses a BSD-like (but not exactly BSD) license ("Spencer-94") +- nfs-utils: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "MIT & GPLv2+ & BSD-3-Clause" - ovmf: correct license to "BSD-2-Clause-Patent" -- ppp: correct LICENSE to "BSD-3-Clause & BSD-3-Clause-Attribution & GPLv2+ & LGPLv2+ & PD" -- python3-packaging: correct LICENSE to "Apache-2.0 | BSD-2-Clause" -- python-async-test: correct LICENSE to "BSD-3-Clause" +- ppp: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "BSD-3-Clause & BSD-3-Clause-Attribution & GPLv2+ & LGPLv2+ & PD" +- python3-packaging: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "Apache-2.0 | BSD-2-Clause" +- python-async-test: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "BSD-3-Clause" - quota: remove BSD license (only BSD licensed part of the code was removed in 4.05) -- shadow: correct LICENSE to "BSD-3-Clause | Artistic-1.0" -- shadow-sysroot: set LICENSE the same as shadow -- sudo: correct LICENSE to "ISC & BSD-3-Clause & BSD-2-Clause & Zlib" -- swig: correct LICENSE to "BSD-3-Clause & GPLv3" +- shadow: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "BSD-3-Clause | Artistic-1.0" +- shadow-sysroot: set :term:`LICENSE` the same as shadow +- sudo: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "ISC & BSD-3-Clause & BSD-2-Clause & Zlib" +- swig: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "BSD-3-Clause & GPLv3" - valgrind: correct license to "GPLv2 & GPLv2+ & BSD-3-Clause" -- webkitgtk: correct LICENSE to "BSD-2-Clause & LGPLv2+" -- wpebackend-fdo: correct LICENSE to "BSD-2-Clause" -- xinetd: correct LICENSE to reflect that it uses a unique BSD-like (but not exactly BSD) license +- webkitgtk: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "BSD-2-Clause & LGPLv2+" +- wpebackend-fdo: correct :term:`LICENSE` to "BSD-2-Clause" +- xinetd: correct :term:`LICENSE` to reflect that it uses a unique BSD-like (but not exactly BSD) license Other license-related notes: -- When creating recipes for Python software, recipetool will now treat "BSD" as "BSD-3-Clause" for the purposes of setting LICENSE, as that is the most common understanding. -- Please be aware that an initramfs bundled with the kernel using :term:`INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE` should only contain GPLv2-compatible software; this is now mentioned in the documentation. +- When creating recipes for Python software, recipetool will now treat "BSD" as "BSD-3-Clause" for the purposes of setting :term:`LICENSE`, as that is the most common understanding. +- Please be aware that an :term:`Initramfs` bundled with the kernel using :term:`INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE` should only contain GPLv2-compatible software; this is now mentioned in the documentation. Security Fixes in 3.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -721,7 +725,7 @@ Repositories / Downloads for 3.4 poky -- Repository Location: https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/ +- Repository Location: :yocto_git:`/poky` - Branch: :yocto_git:`honister </poky/log/?h=honister>` - Tag: :yocto_git:`yocto-3.4 </poky/tag/?h=yocto-3.4>` - Git Revision: :yocto_git:`f6d1126fff213460dc6954a5d5fc168606d76b66 </poky/commit/?id=f6d1126fff213460dc6954a5d5fc168606d76b66>` @@ -745,7 +749,7 @@ openembedded-core meta-mingw -- Repository Location: https://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-mingw +- Repository Location: :yocto_git:`/meta-mingw` - Branch: :yocto_git:`honister </meta-mingw/log/?h=honister>` - Tag: :yocto_git:`yocto-3.4 </meta-mingw/tag/?h=yocto-3.4>` - Git Revision: :yocto_git:`f5d761cbd5c957e4405c5d40b0c236d263c916a8 </meta-mingw/commit/?id=f5d761cbd5c957e4405c5d40b0c236d263c916a8>` @@ -757,7 +761,7 @@ meta-mingw meta-intel -- Repository Location: https://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-intel +- Repository Location: :yocto_git:`/meta-intel` - Branch: :yocto_git:`honister </meta-intel/log/?h=honister>` - Tag: :yocto_git:`yocto-3.4 </meta-intel/tag/?h=yocto-3.4>` - Git Revision: :yocto_git:`90170cf85fe35b4e8dc00eee50053c0205276b63 </meta-intel/commit/?id=90170cf85fe35b4e8dc00eee50053c0205276b63>` @@ -769,7 +773,7 @@ meta-intel meta-gplv2 -- Repository Location: https://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-gplv2 +- Repository Location: :yocto_git:`/meta-gplv2` - Branch: :yocto_git:`honister </meta-gplv2/log/?h=honister>` - Tag: :yocto_git:`yocto-3.4 </meta-gplv2/tag/?h=yocto-3.4>` - Git Revision: :yocto_git:`f04e4369bf9dd3385165281b9fa2ed1043b0e400 </meta-gplv2/commit/?id=f04e4369bf9dd3385165281b9fa2ed1043b0e400>` @@ -793,7 +797,7 @@ bitbake yocto-docs -- Repository Location: https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-docs +- Repository Location: :yocto_git:`/yocto-docs` - Branch: :yocto_git:`honister </yocto-docs/log/?h=honister>` - Tag: :yocto_git:`yocto-3.4 </yocto-docs/tag/?h=yocto-3.4>` - Git Revision: :yocto_git:`d75c5450ecf56c8ac799a633ee9ac459e88f91fc </yocto-docs/commit/?id=d75c5450ecf56c8ac799a633ee9ac459e88f91fc>` |