OE-lite meta/base 7.0.0 release

It is time to tag a 7.0.0 for meta/base

The 7.0.0 release is a new major release since old recipe versions have been removed. However, all recipe updates have been made in a way that allows easy cherry-picking of recipe updates into stable branches if anyone wants to maintain such branches.

The 7.0.0 release has been build tested against meta/core 6.3 and is expected to work fine with all meta/core 6.x releases.

Major updates

• musl (alternative libc) support in many recipes
• more mature s6 init support

New recipes

• connman
• coreutils
• giflib
• jansson
• libmnl
• libnftnl
• libwebp
• logrotate
• minicom
• mobile-broadband-provider-info
• nftables
• ofono
• php
• xz

deleted recipes:

• lzma

Recipe updates (new version)

• berkeley-db (6.2.23)
• bind (9.11.0-P1)
• bluez (5.42)
• busybox (1.25.1)
• dbus (1.10.12)
• dbus-glib (0.108)
• dhcp (4.3.5)
• dosfstools (4.0)
• e2fsprogs (1.43.3)
• expat (2.2.0)
• gdb (7.11)
• gettext (0.19.8)
• glib (2.50.1)
• gnupg (1.4.21, 2.1.15)
• gnutls (3.4.16)
• gsoap (2.8.37)
• iperf (3.1.3)
• iproute2 (4.8.0)
• iptables (1.6.0)
• json-c (0.12.1)
• libassuan (2.4.3)
• libgcrypt (1.7.3)
• libgpg-error (1.22)
• libksba (1.3.5)
• libnl (3.2.28)
• libpng (1.2.56, 1.6.26)
• libressl (2.4.3)
• libtasn1 (4.9)
• libtiff (4.0.6)
• libwebsockets (2.1.0)
• libusb1 (1.0.20)
• monit (5.20.0)
• nano (2.4.1)
• ntp (4.2.8p8)
• opencv (2.4.13.1)
• openssh (7.3p1)
• openssl (1.0.2j)
• openvpn (2.3.12)
• oprofile (1.1.0)
• pciutils (3.5.2)
• pcre (8.39)
• powertop (2.8)
• socat (1.7.3.1)
• sqlite (3.15.1.0)
• strace (4.14)
• util-linux (2.29)
• valgrind (3.12)
• vsftpd (3.0.3)
• wget (1.18)
• wpa_supplicant (2.6)

Thank you to all the contributors! (commits)

Sean Nyekjaer (116)
Rasmus Villemoes (62)
Kim Højgaard-Hansen (30)
Morten Thunberg (23)
Esben Haabendal (19)
Christian Sørensen (6)
Jonas Suhr Christensen (5)
Martin Hundebøll (2)

OE-lite/base 6.0.0

The OE-lite/base 6.0.0 release is primarily a release done to track core 6.0.0

A lot of existing recipes have been upgraded, and many bugfixes have been merged as well.

Major features:

• Aarch64 support for most recipes, verified with a new aarch64 builder in buildbot
• Several recipes now have specific configuration packages to allow simple customization by downstream without needing to modify the recipe
• S6 Init support, not supported in a lot of recipes yet but ready to be used as busybox alternative
• Several recipes fixed to provide better user/group handling

Incompatible changes:

• Busybox defconfig completely redone on top of upstream config to allow easier recipe maintenance. There has been a few noticed regressions that has been fixed, but it is likely there might be others
• barebox recipe removed. It was old, unmaintained and not even working

New recipes

• lz4
• tz
• mpdecimal
• socat
• libxslt
• parted
• dmalloc
• libunwind
• watchdog
• libsodium
• zeromq
• cppzmq
• screen
• canfestival
• libqmi
• libwebsockets
• mosquitto
• paho-mqtt
• skalibs
• execline
• s6
• s6-portable-utils
• s6-linux-utils
• s6-linux-init
• s6-rc

Base 5.0.0

Following the release of OE-lite/core 5.0.0, OE-lite/base is also released with a core-5.0 compatible release.

The changes in this release is mostly upgrades of most of the recipes to their newest stable versions (git shortlog v4.0.0..v5.0.0) and additions of new recipes:

• liblogging
• ltrace
• procstat
• resolvconf
• mysql
• dnsmasq
• kexec-tools
• tmux
• vim
• libevent
• hostapd
• kmod
• unzip
• opencv
• bluez
• avahi
• mDNS
• libdbi
• libdbi-driver
• intltool

The release is not backwards compatible, since old recipe versions have been dropped since release 4.0.0

The master branch of OE-lite/base is now opened for contributions towards 6.0.0, while the 5.0 branch only will be used for backwards compatible changes.

Thank you to all those that have contributed to this release:

Christian Sørensen (108)
Esben Haabendal (56)
Jacob Kjaergaard (27)
Kasper Revsbech (8)
Kim Bøndergaard (6)
Kim Højgaard-Hansen (163)
Klaus Henning Sorensen (7)
Martin Hundebøll (14)
Morten Thunberg Svendsen (20)
Preben Trærup (1)
Sean Nyekjaer (42)
Yann Diorcet (3)

Base 4.0.0

Following the release of OE-lite/core 4.0.0, OE-lite/base is also released with a core-4.0 compatible release.

There are many changes in this release, due to the very long period without releases. Lots of recipes has been upgrade, many bugfixes added.

The release is not backwards compatible, since old recipe versions have been dropped since release 3.3.0, and because of the incompatible changes made in OE-lite/core 4.0.0.

The master branch of OE-lite/base is now opened for contributions towards 5.0.0, while the 4.0 branch only will be used for backwards compatible changes.