CHANGES

2016.05-rc2, Released May 17th, 2016

	Fixes all over the tree.

	Rootfs overlay handling now refuses to overwrite
	/{usr,bin,sbin,lib} symlinks from BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR option
	even if these directories are present in the overlay.

	External toolchain: Unbreak user provided libraries deployment
	(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_LIBS) handling after refactoring.

	QEMU coldfire: Fix for signal handling kernel issue, enable
	networking support.

	Updated/fixed packages: android-tools, assimp, boost, gcc,
	glibc, glmark2, gmrender-resurrect, go, go-bootstrap, iputils,
	jack2, kodi-screensaver-asterwave, kodi-screensaver-rsxs,
	kodi-visualisation-shadertoy, libarchive, libinput, libpjsip,
	mali-t76x, mtr, nginx, opencv, openvpn, python-coherence,
	qt5multimeda, quagga, samba4, sg3-utils, stress-ng, turbolua

2016.05-rc1, Released May 10th, 2016

	Fixes all over the tree and new features.

	Architectures: new ARM variants: Cortex A17 and M4, improved
	nonmmu (cortex-M) support, m68k has been re-enabled with
	support for ColdFire. For x86, support for the i386 variant
	has been dropped.

	Toolchain: Add GCC 6 support, remove GCC 4.5, mark GCC 4.7 as
	deprecated. Go programming language support, Add Binutils 2.26
	support. Old Sourcery PowerPC external toolchains removed,
	Sourcery MIPS 2016.06-8, AMD64 2015.11-139, NiosII 2015.11-130
	added, Linaro ARM/ARMeb/Aarch64 toolchains updated.

	New defconfigs: Firefly RK3288, Boundary Devices i.MX7 Nitrogen7,
	STM32F429 and STM32F469 Discovery boards, Hardkernel ODROID-C2,
	Raspberry Pi Zero and Raspberry Pi 3. Some Qemu defconfigs were
	added for m68k, eXtensa-nommu and ColdFire.

	Linux: use zImage by default on ARM, subversion repository
	support (for u-boot as well).

	New packages: aer-inject, android-tools, cannelloni,
	cbootimage, cgroupfs-mount, connman-gtk, crudini, dt,
	gmrender-resurrect, flannel, font-awesome, freeswitch, go,
	go-bootstrap, gr-osmosdr, granite, i7z, imx-uuc,
	kodi-adsp-basic, kodi-adsp-freesurround,
	kodi-audiodecoder-opus, kodi-pvr-hdhomerun,
	kodi-screensaver-asterwave, kodi-screensaver-cpblobs,
	kodi-screensaver-matrixtrails, kodi-screensaver-planestate,
	kodi-screensaver-rsxs, kodi-visualisation-fishbmc,
	kodi-visualisation-fountain, kodi-visualisation-goom, libgee,
	libimxvpuapi, libpjsip, libtomcrypt, libtommath, libusbgx,
	lksctp-tools, mali-t76x, mkpimage, mpv, msr-tools, nload,
	norm, nvme, owfs, pound, privoxy, procrank_linux, putty,
	python-autobahn, python-characteristic, python-crossbar,
	python-cryptography, python-iniparse, python-iowait,
	python-lmdb, python-pexpect, python-ptyprocess,
	python-pyasn-modules, python-pygments, python-pymysql,
	python-pynacl, python-pyopenssl, python-pysocks,
	python-pytrie, python-rpi-gpio, python-service-identity,
	python-setproctitle, python-shutilwhich, python-treq,
	python-txaio, python-ujson, python-wsaccel, qt5canvas3d,
	qt5location, qt5quickcontrols2, qt5serialbus, qt5tools,
	raptor, scrub, taskd, tegrarcm, turbolua, valijson,
	wayland-protocols, webkitgtk, wilc1000-firmware, wpan-tools,
	xdriver_xf86-video-amdgpu

	Removed packages: foomatic-filters, python-m2crypto,
	qt5quick1, qt5webkit-examples, samba, xdriver_xf86-input-void

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

	#6830: Qt5: no fonts are installed
	#7562: musl buildroot-toolchain and BR2_MIPS_SOFT_FLOAT break
	#7580: Invalid filesystem in Pandaboard defconfig
	#8346: wf111 package removes all kernel module dependencies
	#8436: xserver_xorg-server Segmentation fault
	#8736: IPV6 forced on in busybox
	#8746: At startup system stops with 'cannot set terminal proces..
	#8751: make fail [fio does not build on sh]
	#8766: Compiling host-gcc-final-4.9.3 broken on i386
	#8771: make savedefconfig modifies sources
	#8781: Unable to build uboot for imx28evk
	#8786: gdb fails to build with xz and expat support at the same
	#8801: Compilation of Buildroot 2016.2 for Raspberry Pi with...
	#8806: Buildroot 2016.2 for Raspberry Pi requires that ext4...
	#8836: Can't select Vim in menuconfig
	#8851: Make sure fio can compile with libaio support if it...
	#8861: With buildroot 2016.02 trying to build for corei7-avx
	       fails while trying to build host-binutils
	#8866: Making an USB flash bootable with extlinux build with
	        buildroot does not work

2016.02, Released March 1st, 2016

	Minor fixes, mostly security related.

	Circular dependency issue with same-as-kernel linux-headers
	option fixed.

	Updated/fixed packages: bluez5_utils, heirloom-mailx,
	imx-gpu-viv, kodi-pvr-argustv, kodi-pvr-mediaportal-tvserver,
	kodi-pvr-nextpvr, libfcgi, openssl, pifmrds, powerpc-utils,
	python-m2crypto, slang, sox, squid, tn5250, xerces, zsh

2016.02-rc3, Released February 27th, 2016

	Fixes all over the tree.

	Defconfigs: Ensure EABIhf is correctly enabled for ARM cores
	where VFP is optional (but present on the specific hw). Fix
	ARM variant selection for freescale_imx31_3stack_defconfig.

	Ensure tarballs of downloaded git trees do not contain a
	timestamp.

	Clarify license of patches in COPYING.

	Updated/fixed package: avahi, binutils, cairo, can-festival,
	chrony, cifs-utils, dnsmasq, dvdauthor, e2fsprogs, efl,
	erlang-rebar, eudev, fbterm, gawk, gnupg2, gnuradio, gpm,
	gst1-plugins-good, hostapd, imagemagick, iproute2, iputils,
	jack2, kexec, kismet, lftp, libarchive, libeXosip2, libfm,
	libglib2, libsoil, libssh, libssh2, libuci, links, lshw, lxc,
	mediastreamer, mono, mraa, mutt, nfs-utils, numactl, ofono,
	omniorb, openipmi, openobex, patch, pax-utils, perf,
	pulseaudio, pure-ftp, qhull, qt, quagga, quota, sdl_sound,
	shairport-sync, spice, sysklogd, syslog-ng, trace-cmd,
	trousers, tvheadend, util-linux, vim, webkitgtk24, wireshark,
	wpa_supplicant, xerces, zsh

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

	#8651: libMonoPosixHelper.so wrong link reference in buildroot..

2016.02-rc2, Released February 18th, 2016

	Fixes all over the tree.

	Toolchain: PR19405 backport to binutils 2.25.1 to fix NIOS ld
	crash, backport of Xtensa .init/.fini literals handling.
	glibc security patches for CVE-2014-8121, CVE-2015-1781
	and CVE-2015-7547.

	Defconfigs for Acmesystems Arietta g25 added.

	Updated/fixed packages: binutils, boost, chrony, dovecot,
	e2fsprogs, fio, gdb, glibc, graphite2, icu, kbd, libbsd,
	libcue, libgcrypt, libraw, links, mc, mosquitto, nodejs,
	postgresql, pptp-linux, pulseaudio, samba4, spice, squid,
	sysklogd, systemd, tiff, uclibc, ulogd, util-linux, valgrind.

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

	#8576: Building embedded Linux for Atmel SAMA5D4_Xplained...
	#8606: Problem compiling on Arch Linux
	#8681: kbd 2.0.3 does not build on rpi

2016.02-rc1, Released February 10th, 2016

	Fixes all over the tree and new features.

	Toolchain: Support for GCC 5.3.x. ARC toolchain updated to
	arc-2015.12. Support for legacy uClibc dropped, default to
	uClibc-ng instead. Added sys/queue.h implementation for MUSL
	for compatibility. Updated versions of Code sourcery and
	Linaro toolchains. MIPS Codescape toolchains added. Version
	selection for preconfigured external toolchains removed.

	New Defconfigs: ARM Juno r0/r1 development boards, Freescale
	i.MX6UL Evaluation Kit, Intel Galileo Gen 2, Orange Pi PC.
	A number of defconfigs have been extended to generate complete
	system images using genimage.

	Linux: Automatically patch timeconst.pl for <3.9 kernels,
	which isn't compatible with modern perl versions, breaking the
	build when building on recent (Fedora 23, Debian
	Testing/Unstable, ..) distributions.

	Makedevs utility now accepts textual (non-numerical) user and
	group names.

	Vagrant file to easily setup a working development environment
	in a VM has been added.

	Size-stats-compare script to compare rootfs sizes between
	builds has been added.

	Infozip package renamed to zip. EFL packages restructured.

	Updated/fixed packages: aespipe, aiccu, alsa-lib, alsa-utils,
	angularjs, apache, apr, argp-standalone, armadillo, arptables,
	at, atk, audiofile, aumix, autoconf-archive, avahi, bash, bc,
	bcache-tools, bdwgc, beecrypt, bind, binutils, bluez5_utils,
	bluez_utils, bonnie, boost, busybox, cairo, cdrkit, chrony,
	clamav, cmake, collectd, connman, coreutils, cppcms, crda,
	cryptodev-linux, cryptsetup, cups, cwiid, cxxtest, dbus,