CHANGES

2018.05-rc1, Released May 9th, 2018

	Toolchain: glibc bumped to 2.27, musl bumped to 1.1.19,
	uClibc-ng 1.0.30, Linux kernel headers bumped to 4.16.x.

	Architecture: support for the Blackfin architecture has been
	removed.

	Numerous packages updated to have hashes for their license
	files.

	Systemd can now be built with uClibc toolchains.

	Linux: addition of BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_NEEDS_HOST_LIBELF and
	BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_NEEDS_HOST_OPENSSL to support building Linux
	kernel configurations that need libelf on the host or openssl
	on the host.

	Coding style:
	- all Python scripts are now verified with flake8
	- check-package extended to check all Config.in and .mk files
	  in tree, not only the ones in package/

	Infrastructure:

	- The download infrastructure has seen a major overhaul, with
	  the main visible new feature being Git caching: a package
	  fetched from Git no longer needs to be re-cloned entirely
	  everytime its version is changed. Anoter visible change is
	  that the download folder now has subfolders per package. See
	  http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2018-April/217923.html
	  for more details about those changes.

	- The logic that generates the root filesystem images has been
	  reworked, with the main goal of allowing several filesystem
	  images to be produced in parallel, also a requirement for
	  top-level parallel build. Now, a .tar filesystem image is
	  always created, and re-extracted in a private directory to
	  create each format-specific filesystem image.

	- A new package infrastructure was introduced for Go-based
	  packages: golang-package.

	- Dependencies on extraction tools are now handled as proper
	  per-package dependencies, using
	  <pkg>_EXTRACT_DEPENDENCIES. Beyond a cleanup, this is also a
	  preparation step for top-level parallel build support.

	- When a file being downloaded is part of a package with a
	  .hash file, but there is no hash listed for this file, the
	  file is now preserved in the download directory rather than
	  removed. This helps when updating a package, as it gives the
	  ability to easily calculate the hash of the file.

	- Addition of '<pkg>-show-recursive-depends' and
	  '<pkg>-show-recursive-rdepends' make targets, to
	  respectively display the recursive list of dependencies and
	  the recursive list of reverse dependencies of a given
	  package.

	- The /etc/shells file is now automatically generated with the
	  list of shell programs installed on the system.

	- Addition of -Ofast optimization level as an available
	  option.

	Major updates: Go updated to 1.10, Erlang bumped to 20.3, Qt5
	bumped to 5.10.1.

	New packages: 18xx-ti-utils, abootimg, bluez-alsa, brotli,
	chipmunk, clang, docker-compose, docker-proxy, flare-engine,
	flare-game, gst1-interpipe, gstreamer1-editing-services,
	hackrf, i2pd, imx-alsa-plugins, imx-mkimage, libcdio-paranoia,
	libkrb5, llvm, pixiewps, python-backports-ssl-match-hostname,
	python-cached-property, python-cython, python-docker,
	python-dockerpty, python-docker-pycreds,
	python-flask-sqlalchemy, python-functools32, python-influxdb,
	python-json-models, python-libusb1, python-networkx,
	python-psycopg2, python-pymodbus, python-sqlalchemy,
	python-subprocess32, python-texttable,
	python-websocket-client, python-yieldfrom, quotatool, reaver,
	snort, sunxi-mali-mainline, sunxi-mali-mainline-driver, tk,
	tpm2-abrmd, tpm2-tools, tpm2-tss, udftools, vte, woff2.

	New defconfigs: ARC HS Development Kit, Arcturus ucls1012a,
	Freescale i.MX6UL EVK (with vendor kernel), Freescale i.MX6
	SoloLite EVK (with vendor kernel), Freescale i.MX31 3Stack,
	Freescale i.MX8Q EVK Freescale p1025twr, Freescale t1040d4rdb,
	Qemu PPC64 E5500, SolidRun ClearFog Base, Tinker RK3288, Vyasa
	RK3288,

	Removed packages: iqvlinux, kodi-adsp-*, mplayer

	Removed defconfigs: ci40, firefly_rk3288,
	freescale_p1010rdb_pa, freescale_mpc8315erdb, riotboard,
	teliv_evk_pro3

2018.02.1, Released April 9th, 2018

	Important / security related fixes.

	Removed unmaintained defconfigs: Creator Ci40, Firefly rk3288,
	Freescale mpc8315erdb / p1010rdb_pa, Riotboard, Teliv EVK
	Pro3.

	Infrastructure: Speed up instrumentation for package size by
	comparing timestamps instead of md5 checksums, as doing
	checksums could lead to up to 25% longer build time for big
	configurations.

	Rename the internal <pkg>_BASE_NAME variable to <pkg>_NASENAME
	to avoid name clashes with packages ending on '-base'.

	Add a better fix for build issues for autotools based packages
	checking for C++ support on toolchains without C++ support.

	Build host-tar if tar is older than 1.27 on the build machine
	to work around reproducibility issues with git archives
	containing long paths.

	check-unique-files: Fix for filenames not representable in the
	users' locale.

	Check-bin-arch: Add support for per-package ignore paths
	(<pkg>_BIN_ARCH_EXCLUDE).

	Toolchain: Fix SSP support detection for external toolchains.

	linux: Add _NEEDS_HOST_OPENSSL / LIBELF options to ensure
	these dependencies are available for Linux configurations
	needed these dependencies, similar to how it is done for
	U-Boot.

	Support custom (not in tree) device tree files in addition to
	in-tree ones.

	U-Boot / uboot-tools: Fix header conflict with libfdt-devel
	installed on host.

	Updated/fixed packages: apache, busybox, c-ares, cmake,
	docker-engine, enlightenment, eudev, fbgrab, freescale-imx,
	gtest, imagemagick, intel-microcode, irssi, jimtcl, kmod,
	kodi, ktap, libcoap, libcurl, libfcgi, libhttpparser,
	libminiupnpc, libopenssl, libpjsip, libss7, libssh2, libupnp
	libupnpp, libuv, libvorbis, memcached, motion, musl, nodejs,
	ntp, openblas, opencv3, openocd, opus-tools, patch, php,
	pkgconf, postgresql, powerpc-utils, python-jsonschema,
	python-webpy, qemu, qt5bsae, qt5script, qt5webkit, rapidjson,
	rauc, sam-ba, samba4, sngrep, systemd, tremor, uboot-tools,
	uclibc-ng-test, upmpdcli, wireshark, xerces, xterm, zstd

	New packages: docker-proxy, python-functools32

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

	#10766: upmpdcli: Segmentation fault
	#10776: ktap fails to build
	#10846: error in compiling gnutls
	#10856: openblas on qemu_x86_64_defconfig fails with "sgemm_..

2018.02, Released March 4th, 2018

	Fixes all over the tree.

	Issues with systemd with a readonly rootfs and DBus fixed.

	Instructure:
	- check-uniq-files: fix Python 2.6 compatibility.
	- dependencies.sh: check for external argparse module for
	  Python 2.6.
	- Add infrastructure to detect and use a UTF-8 locale on the
	  host, needed by systemd.

	Update/fixed packages: clamav, dash, dhcp, dovecot, efl,
	ffmpeg, libv4l, mono, mosquitto, php, postgresql, qt,
	scanpypi, sdl2, systemd, tor, tvheadend, uboot, wavpack

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

	#10831: qemu_x86_64_defconfig build fails on linux-headers..

2018.02-rc3, Released February 27th, 2018

	Fixes all over the tree.

	check-bin-arch: skip /lib/modules to allow 32-bit userland
	with 64bit kernel.

	dependencies: Blacklist tar 1.30+ and build our own host-tar
	if needed as tar 1.30+ changed the --numeric-owner output for
	long path names. Build host-tar before other host-dependencies
	as they need it to extract their source tarballs.

	Update/fixed packages: asterisk, azmq, bluez5_utils, domoticz,
	e2fsprogs, erlang, exim, glibc, gpsd, jq, libglib2, libvorbis,
	mariadb, mbedtls, mesa3d, mesa3d-headers, mpv, patch, pcre2,
	php, qt5, qt5multimedia, qt5wayland, qt5webengine, qt5webkit,
	systemd, quagga, rustc, uboot, wireguard, zic, zlib-ng

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