[Buildroot] Buildroot 2012.02-rc1 released

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 08:48:59 UTC 2012


On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Buildroot 2012.02-rc1 is released - Go download it at:
>
> http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2012.02-rc1.tar.gz
>
> or
>
> http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2012.02-rc1.tar.bz2
>
> Or get it from Git:
>
> git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot
>
> Like usual for the February releases, we're a bit late because of
> FOSDEM, where we had a developer day. Expect a report from the day
> soon.
>
> Please give it a spin and report any problems to the mailing list or
> bug tracker. Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:
>
> git shortlog -s -n 2011.11..
>
>   170  Peter Korsgaard
>    86  Gustavo Zacarias
>    39  Yegor Yefremov
>    38  Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
>    33  Thomas Petazzoni
>    18  Will Newton
>    12  Daniel Mack
>    10  Thomas De Schampheleire
>     9  Sven Neumann
>     7  Maxime Ripard
>     5  Alexandre Belloni
>     4  Luca Ceresoli
>     4  Sagaert Johan
>     2  Felipe Contreras
>     2  Frank Hunleth
>     2  Frederik Pasch
>     2  H Hartley Sweeten
>     2  Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
>     2  Julien Boibessot
>     1  ANDY KENNEDY
>     1  Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
>     1  Daniele Salvatore Albano
>     1  Henri Bragge
>     1  Lukasz Pulka
>     1  Samuel MARTIN
>     1  Sergio Prado
>     1  Shawn J. Goff
>     1  Trevor Woerner
>     1  Tristan Lelong
>     1  Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
>     1  Yann E. MORIN
>
> It's nice to see contributions from lots of new people in addition to
> the "oldtimers". This time I'm again ahead of Gustavo with almost 2x
> commits ;)
>
> It has been a quite busy development cycle, with more than 450
> commits, and a number of large scale changes.
>
> Of noteworthy new features we have:
>
>  - Large number of new packages (50): Connman & NetworkManager, EFL,
>   Jquery related javascript libraries, kmod, lttng and a number of
>   python packages.
>
>  - Default to GCC 4.5.x / Binutils 2.22 / uClibc 0.9.33 for the
>   internal toolchain.
>
>  - Support for SCP and mercurial package sources. Host dependencies
>   are now derived from target ones by default.
>
>  - Packages can now define device table snippets for special
>   permissions / device nodes when static /dev is used.
>
>  - Updated documentation. The generated Asciidoc documenation is now
>   included in tarballs in text/html/pdf format.
>
>  - Additional QEMU defconfigs, at91 defconfigs updated and lpc3250
>   configs added.
>
>  - Host utilities menu with commonly used host tools.
>
> And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. See the CHANGES
> file for details:
>
> http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2012.02_rc1
>
> Just like last cycle, I will now create a next branch and start
> merging in new feature, rather than wait until 2012.02 is released.
>
> Enjoy!

One thing I haven't seen was the deprecation of the customize package.
Maybe we can still do this in 2012.02? I'd submit a patch but since
you also need to change the CHANGES file I think it makes more sense
if you do it yourself, no?

Best regards,
Thomas


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