CHANGES

2017.08-rc1, To be released

	Major revamp of the gettext handling, with user-visible
	effect:

	  - prior to this revamp, when BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE=y, each
	    package could decide to enable or not NLS support. When
	    BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE was disabled, NLS support was forced off
	    by passing --disable-nls to packages.

	  - after this revamp, a new BR2_SYSTEM_ENABLE_NLS option
            controls whether NLS support should be enabled or not in
            packages. This option defaults to disabled, which means
            that now, NLS support is by default disabled in all
            packages.

	Therefore, if you need NLS support in packages, you must now
	explicitly enable the BR2_SYSTEM_ENABLE_NLS option.

	Infrastructure:

	- The host directory no longer has a usr/ component. This
	  makes it much more natural to use that directory as an
	  externally used toolchain. For compatibility with existing
	  scripts, a link usr -> . is still added.

2017.05.1, Released July 4th, 2017

	Important / security related fixes.

	Update support/scripts/scancpan to use METACPAN v1 API as v0
	has been shutdown.

	Update support/scripts/mkusers to handle setups where
	/etc/shadow is a symlink.

	External toolchain: Don't create musl dynamic loader symlink
	for static builds.

	Setlocalversion: Correct detection of mercurial revisions for
	non-tagged versions.

	Defconfigs: at91sam9x5ek_mmc: workaround boot rom issue.

	Updated/fixed packages: apache, automake, bind, botan, c-ares,
	dhcp, expat, fcgiwrap, gcc, gdb, gesftpserver, glibc, glmark2,
	gnutls, gst1-plugins-bad, imagemagick, imx-uuc, intltool,
	iperf, ipsec-tools, irssi, kmod, libcurl, libgcrypt, libmad,
	libnl, lugaro, mosquitto, mpg123, ncurses, nodejs, ntp,
	openssh, openvpn, pngquant, python-simplegeneric, qt5base,
	qt5multimedia, rtl8821au, socat, spice, systemd, tor, trinity,
	tslib, vlc, x264, xen, xlib_libxshmfenc, xserver_xorg-server

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

	#9976: License file for package 'rtl8821au' incorrect

2017.05, Released May 31st, 2017

	Minor fixes.

	External toolchain: musl dynamic linker symlink for mips-sf
	corrected.

	Updated/fixed packages: agentpp, bash, exim, hans, madplay,
	qpid-proton, rtl8188eu, snmppp, stm32flash, strongswan, sudo,
	xen

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

	#9906: genimage: Disk full

2017.05-rc3, Released May 30th, 2017

	Fixes all over the tree.

	ARC toolchain bumped to 2017.03

	Runtime testing improvements and cleanups.

	Updated/fixed packages: acpica, armadillo, audiofile, c-icap,
	cppcms, dhcp, docker-engine, dropbear, elfutils, erlang,
	fbgrab, ffmpeg, flashrom, ftop, gnutls, google-breakpad,
	keepalived, kodi, libcdio, libepoxy, libev, libminiupnpc,
	libqmi, libtasn1, libv4l, mariadb, mono, mosh, mosquitto,
	mxml, ntp, opencv, openpowerlink, oracle-mysql, popt,
	pulseview, python-enum34, rabbitmq-c, redis, samba4, stella,
	xen

	Removed packages: firejail, ola

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

	#9871: fbgrab 1.3 won't build with BR2_REPRODUCIBLE set
	#9876: aarch64 support with gcc 4.8 toolchain
	#9896: host-gcc-initial error downloading because incorrect URL

2017.05-rc2, Released May 17th, 2017

	Fixes all over the tree.

	ARC toolchain bumped to 2017.03-rc2

	Updated/fixed packages: bluez_utils, boost, clamav, daemon,
	efibootmgr, efl, espeak, expedite, faketime, ffmpeg, fxload,
	git, gpsd, kvm-unit-tests, libcdio, libv4l, lua, mke2img,
	mpir, mpv, odroid-scripts, openblas, opencv3, openvpn, php,
	postgresql, protobuf, qt5declarative, qwt, radvd, rpcbind,
	rtmpdump, strongswan, sudo, ltp-testsuite, uclibc-ng-test,
	vlc, x11vnc, xfsprogs

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

	#9796: source-check broken for Git downloads
	#9866: BASE_DIR usage

2017.05-rc1, Released May 8th, 2017

	Fixes all over the tree and new features.

	Infrastructure:

	- Installed binaries are now checked for correct architecture
	  to catch natively built binaries or binaries built for other
	  architecture variants.

	- Luarocks infrastructure improvements to extraction handling,
	  support for upstream name != Buildroot package name.

	- 'make printvars' output format has changed to make it easier
	  to use in scripts. It now has options to quote the variables
	  and to show the expanded/unexpanded values.

	- Automatic ext2 rootfs size calculation has been removed. The
	  logic was not working working reliable in all setups as it
	  depends on the host filesystem behaviour, so instead now the
	  size has to be specified explicitly (defaults to 60MB).

	- The git download infrastructure now ensures that GNU format
	  tar files are created.

	- Fixed a variable clashing issue in the mkusers script with
	  internal bash variables.

	- Fakeroot now links against libacl to fix issues on
	  distributions using acls.

	- Correct permissions for /dev/pts/ptmx when systemd is used
	  with recent glibc versions.

	- br2-external: Improve error reporting.

	- A wrapper script for genimage has been added in
	  support/scripts/genimage.sh for easy use of genimage from
	  post-image scripts.

	- A script to check for common style issues in new packages
	  before submitting has been added in support/scripts/check-package

	- Defconfigs are now tested by gitlab-CI instead of Travis:
	  https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot

	- Infrastructure for runtime testing has been added to
          support/testing

	Toolchain:

	- External linaro toolchains updated to 2017.02, ARC toolchain
          updated to 2017.03-rc1, NIOSII CodeSourcery to 2017.05

	- A number of fixes and improvements to the external toolchain
	  handling, including C library detection, multilib and ld.so
	  handling

	- Glibc 2.25 and uClibc-ng 1.0.24 added, wordexp support enabled
          for uClibc-ng

	- Binutils 2.28 added and default changed to 2.27


	Architectures:

	- Support for the C-SKY architecture has been added.


	License handling:

	- The package license markings for legal info now uses the
	  SPDX short identifiers for the license string where possible.

	- License info has been improved / added for a number of packages.


	Misc:

	- Cmake 3.7.x installed on the host is no longer ignored as a
          workaround for the RPATH issues has been implemented.

	- Docker-engine can now be built statically on an otherwise
	  dynamic linked build for docker-in-docker setups.