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-Changes in BitBake 1.7.3:
+Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
+ - Catch truncated cache file errors
+ - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
+ - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
+ - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
-Changes in BitBake 1.7.1:
- - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
- of tasks
- - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
- courtsey to Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
+Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
+ - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
+
+Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
+ - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
+ of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
+ and taskdata.py
+ - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
+ threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
+ - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
+ courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
+ - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
+ - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
+ - Allow 'interactive' tasks
+ - Logging message improvements
+ - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
+ - Add support for wildcards to -b option
+ - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
+ including mirroring code
+ - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
+ - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
+ - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
+ - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
+ - Add abort flag support to the shell
+ - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
+ - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
+ - Add ssh fetcher
+ - Add perforce fetcher
+ - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
+ - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
+ - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
+ *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
+ - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
+ This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
+ - Add manpage
+ - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
+ and also adding a task dependency graph
+ - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
+ - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
+ separate funcitons
+ - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
+ - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
+ - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
- Better msg handling