CHANGES

2015.11-rc2, Released November 19th, 2015

	Fixes all over the tree.

	LD_LIBRARY_PATH is no longer used to ensure host binaries find
	their libraries, fixing issues on recent Fedora.

	Toolchain fixes for powerpc e5500 / e6500. Fix for an issue
	with ${TARGET}-cc after the move to use a toolchain wrapper
	for the internal toolchain.

	Appy-patches.sh now correctly applies all files listed in
	series files.

	Fixes for merged /usr handling when a custom skeleton is used.

	Updated/fixed packages: axfsutils, boost, busybox, dhcp,
	directfb, dropbear, ebtables, fastd, ffmpeg, gauche, gcc,
	gettext, gst1-plugins-bad, hostapd, ibrdtnd, libcurl,
	libecore, libgudev, libnss, libpng, libserial, libssh2,
	libuecc, libxml2, linux-headers, liquid-dsp, ltris,
	lua-periphery, minidlna, mongrel2, mpd, mpg123, mplayer,
	mysql, opencv, opencv3, package, perl-file-util, php-ssh2,
	polarssl, pulseaudio, python-protobuf, qemu, qt5base, ranger,
	ruby, skeleton, slang, squeezelite, strongswan, tovid, uclibc,
	ushare, wine, wpa_supplicant, x265,
	xdriver_xf86-video-siliconmotion, zxing-cpp

	Issues resolved (http://bugs.uclibc.org):

	#4790: Running udhcpc on a system with NFS root kills NFS
	#8456: Building host-pkgconf on Fedora 23 fails due to..

2015.11-rc1, Released November, 7th 2015

	Fixes all over the tree and new features.

	Architectures:

	- Support for sparc64 added (internal toolchain with glibc
	  only).

	- Support for mips32r6 and mips64r6 added.

	- Support for Intel Quark X1000 CPU.

	- Switch to EABIhf by default on ARM when a VFP is available.

	Toolchains:

	- glibc 2.22, gdb 7.10, use gdb 7.9 by default, musl 1.1.12,
	  uclibc-ng 1.0.8, host-gdb enabled on AArch64.

	- The toolchain wrapper which was used only for external
	  toolchains is now also used for Buildroot internal
	  toolchains. This allowed to fix the ccache support, prepare
	  the way for top-level parallel build support and remove gcc
	  patches used to detect header/library path poisoning.

	- Remove Analog Devices Blackfin toolchain 2012R2.

	- Fix several Xtensa build failures by switching from
	  text-section-literals to auto-litpools.

	- Enable MIPS64 support in uClibc-ng, use uClibc on ARC
	  rather than a specific fork.

	- Linaro toolchains for ARM, ARMeb and AArch64 updated to
	  2015.08. 2014.09 version is kept since 2015.08 only runs on
	  x86_64 hosts.

	Bootloaders:

	- Fix ARM64 support in U-Boot.

	Defconfigs:

	- Added: ARC HS38 VDK virtual boards, Avnet Microzed, Boundary
	  Devices Nitrogen SoloX, Freescale i.MX6 SoloX Sabre SD,
	  OLinuxino A20 Lime2, Qemu Sparc64, Qemu SuperH 4 big endian,
	  Synopsys AArch64 VDK virtual platform.

	- Updated: calao_qil_a9260, calao_usb_a9g20_lpw, ci20,
	  cubieboad, freescale_imx6_*, imx53loco, imx6_vab820,
	  mpc8315erdb, qmx6, p1010rdb, qemu, raspberrypi,
	  raspberrypi2, riotboard, snps_axs10*, wandboard.

	- Removed: at91rm9200df, at91sam9260dfc, at91sam9263ek,
	  calao_snowball_defconfig, gnublin, integrator926_defconfig.

	Infrastructure:

	- Support for fetching from Mercurial tags fixed.

	- Introduce LINUX_NEEDS_MODULES, which allows to enforce
	  module support to be enabled in the kernel when a package
	  builds out-of-tree kernel modules (through the
	  pkg-kernel-module infrastructure or on its own).

	- Improve the perl package infrastructure to automatically add
	  the dependency to the perl interpreter to target perl module
	  packages.

	- Remove trailing slashes in <pkg>_SITE and addition of a
	  check to ensure such trailing slashes are no longer added.

	- Extend the legal infrastructure to allow packages to declare
	  their actual source code. This is useful for packages for
	  which <pkg>_SOURCE points to pre-built binaries (as is the
	  case for external toolchains). The new <pkg>_ACTUAL_SOURCE
	  variable allows to point to the source code in such cases.

	- Improved ccache support, thanks to the usage of a toolchain
	  wrapper for internal toolchain. Now a single cache directory
	  can be shared between different Buildroot builds.

	- Addition of a 'graph-size' make targets, which generates a
	  PDF graph of per-package size of the root filesystem.

	- Addition of <pkg>_EXCLUDES so that packages can request
	  certain parts of the source code tarball to not be
	  extracted. This feature is currently used by gcc and
	  toolchain-external.

	- Packages can now use the <pkg>_PKGDIR variable, provided by
	  the package infrastructure, to reference their package
	  directory, instead of explicitly using package/<pkg>/.

	Filesystems:

	- Add high lz4 compression to squashfs.

	- Simplification of shell profile files in the default
	  skeleton.

	- Remove ftp user and /home/ftp from the skeleton, and let ftp
	  server packages create these when needed.

	- Add support for /bin, /sbin and /lib to be symlinks to their
	  corresponding directories in /usr. This is enforced for
	  systemd configurations, and optional for other
	  configurations.

	- Support for AXFS filesystem image generation added.

	- New options to add extra space/inodes to ext2/3/4 images.

	Updated/fixed packages:

	adwaita-icon-theme, apache, apitrace, atk, audit, avahi,
	barebox, bash, batctl, bind, binutils, bluez_utils, boost,
	bridge-utils, cairo, ccache, chrony, clapack, cloog, cmake,
	collectd, connman, conntrack-tools, coreutils, cpio,
	cryptsetup, dbus, dbus-cpp, devmem2, dhcp, dhcpcd, dhcpdump,
	dhrystone, dillo, directfb, directfb-examples, dmraid,
	dos2unix, dovecot, dovecot-pigeonhole, drbd-utils, dropbear,
	dropwatch, dtc, e2fsprogs, ebtables, efl, eigen, ejabberd,
	elf2flt, elfutils, erlang, ethtool, eudev, evemu, exfat,
	exfat-utils, expat, faifa, fbterm, fdk-aac, feh, ffmpeg, file,
	flashrom, fping, freerdp, freescale-imx, freetype, gdk-pixbuf,
	genimage, gettext, git, glib-networking, glmark2, gnupg2,
	gnuradio, gnutls, gpsd, grep, grub2, gst1-imx, gst1-libav,
	gst1-plugins-bad, gst1-plugins-base, gst1-plugins-good,
	gst1-plugins-ugly, gst1-validate, gst-fsl-plugins,
	gst-plugins-bad, gstreamer1, guile, gvfs, harfbuzz, haveged,
	hostapd, icu, imagemagick, impiutil, imx-gpu-viv, imx-vpu,
	inadyn, intltool, iostat, iperf3, ipmiutil, iproute2,
	iptables, iw, jpeg-turbo, jq, jsoncpp, kexec-lite, kmod, kodi,
	kodi-audioencoder-flac, kodi-pvr-argustv, kodi-pvr-filmon,
	kodi-pvr-hts, kodi-pvr-mythtv, kodi-pvr-pctv,
	kodi-pvr-stalker, kodi-pvr-vbox,
	kodi-visualisation-waveforhue, less, lftp, libbluray,
	libcgroup, libconfuse, libcurl, libdcadec, libdrm, libevdev,
	libffi, libfribidi, libfslcodec, libfslparser, libfslvpuwrap,
	libgcrypt, libglew, libglib2, libgtk3, libidn, liblinear,
	liblockfile, libmicrohttpd, libnetfilter_conntrack, libnfs,
	libnftnl, libnl, libnspr, libnss, libpcap, libpfm4, libpng,
	libselinux, libserial, libsoup, libsoxr, libstrophe, libtasn1,
	libtirpc, libtorrent, libupnpp, liburcu, libusb-compat, libuv,
	libv4l, libva, libva-intel-driver, libxcb, lighttpd, links,
	linux, linux-firmware, linux-fusion, linux-headers,
	lirc-tools, localedef, lpeg, lsof, ltp-testsuite,
	lttng-libust, lttng-tools, lua-periphery, luaposix, lvm2, lxc,
	lz4, mdadm, mesa3d, mesa3d-headers, minicom, minidlna, moarvm,
	modem-manager, mosquitto, mpd, mpdecimal, mpg123, mplayer,
	mrouted, msmtp, mtd, mutt, nettle, network-manager, nfs-utils,
	nftables, nginx, nodejs, noip, ntp, ofono, opencv3, openpgm,
	openssl, openswan, openvpn, pango, parted, perl, perl-cross,
	perl-crypt-openssl-random, perl-http-message,
	perl-io-socket-ssl, perl-module-build, perl-mojolicious,
	perl-netaddr-ip, perl-net-dns, perl-net-http, perl-net-ssleay,
	perl-uri, perl-xml-libxml, php, picocom, pixman, pkgconf,
	poco, polarssl, portaudio, portmap, postgresql, proftpd,
	protobuf, protobuf-c, pulseaudio, python-configshell-fb,
	python-networkmanager, python-numpy, python-pyparsing,
	python-pypcap, python-rtslib-fb, python-spidev, python-urwid,
	python-web2py, qemu, qt5base, redis, rngtools, rng-tools,
	rpi-firmware, rpi-userland, rtmpdump, rtorrent, ruby, samba,
	samba4, sane-backends, sconeserver, sdl, sed, setools,
	shairport-sync, shared-mime-info, sland, smartmontools,