CHANGES

2017.08-rc1, To be released

	Infrastructure:

	- The skeleton package has been split into multiple packages:
	  skeleton-sysv (when Busybox or SysV init are used),
	  skeleton-systemd (when systemd is used), skeleton-none (when
	  no init system is used) and skeleton-custom (when a custom
	  skeleton is used). Those packages, except skeleton-custom,
	  share common logic and data in a new package called
	  skeleton-common. The skeleton package becomes a virtual
	  package. This change allows to generate a filesystem that is
	  compliant with systemd expectations.

	- Support for using a read-only filesystem with systemd has
	  been fixed.

	- 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.

	- 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.

	- Hashes are now checked on tarballs by Buildroot when a
	  package is sourced from a Git repository.

	- Patches are no longer being downloaded from Github, since
	  auto-generated patches could change over time, and break
	  hashes. All patches that were downloaded from Github are now
	  stored in their respective package directories.

	- Hash files in packages can now contain hashes for the
	  license files contained in the package source code. This
	  allows to detect changes in such license files.

	- Binaries in $(TARGET_DIR) are now cleaned up from invalid
	  RPATHs at the end of the build.

	- A new "make sdk" target prepares $(HOST_DIR) to be
	  relocatable: turns RPATHs in host binaries into relocatable
	  ones, removes bogus RPATHs from staging binaries/libraries,
	  and provides a relocate-sdk script that can be executed to
	  relocate the SDK after installation.

	- Addition of utils/genrandconfig which generates a random
	  configuration based on a set of pre-defined toolchain
	  configurations (support/config-fragments/autobuild/) and a
	  random selection of packages. It is now used by the
	  autobuilders to generate the random configurations.

	Filesystems:

	- ext2/3/4 filesystems are now generated using mkfs.ext from
	  e2fsprogs instead of using genext2fs.

	Architecture:

	- Addition of support for ARM big.LITTLE variants
	- Improved MIPS support, with options to select NaN encoding
	  and FP32 mode.

	Toolchain:

	- Switch to gcc 6.x as the default gcc version, add support
	  for gcc 7.x, remove support for gcc 4.8
	- Switch to binutils 2.28 as the default binutils version, add
	  support for binutils 2.29, remove support for binutils 2.26
	- Support added for gdb 8.0
	- uClibc-ng bumped to 1.0.26
	- CodeSourcery toolchains for x86 and SuperH have been
	  removed, they were using a too old glibc version
	  (2.17). External toolchains with glibc 2.17 or earlier are
	  no longer supported.
	- The version selection in the glibc package has been
	  removed. Like musl and uClibc-ng, we now use the latest
	  glibc version.
	- Improved support for Xtensa toolchain overlays, which can
	  now be downloaded.

	Tools:

	- Numerous improvements to the runtime test infrastructure
	- Tests are now executed by Gitlab CI on a regular basis
	- Tools that are directly useful to the user have been moved
	  from support/scripts/ to utils/: brmake, check-package,
	  get-developers, scancpan, scanpipy, size-stats-compare,
	  test-pkg.

	New defconfigs: A13 Olinuxino, Engicam platforms (i.CoreM6
	Solo/Dual/DualLite/Quad, RQS SOM, GEAM6UL SOM, Is.IoT MX6UL
	SOM), Nano Pi M1 (Plus), OrangePi Zero and Plus.

	New packages: azure-iot-sdk-c, cracklib, dt-utils, easy-rsa,
	erlang-jiffy, erlang-p1-oauth2, erlang-p1-xmpp,
	ifupdown-scripts, irrlicht, kodi-inputstream-adaptive,
	kodi-inputstream-rtmp, kvazaar, let-me-create, libloki,
	libpwquality, libressl, libspatialindex, libva-utils,
	linuxconsoletools, linuxptp, luaossl, lua-sdl2, lua-stdlib,
	lsscsi, paxtest, pcre2, pixz, python-asn1crypto,
	python-backports-shutil-get-terminal-size, python-bcrypt,
	python-cheroot, python-h2, python-hpack, python-hyperframe,
	python-hyperlink, python-ipython-genutils, python-pathlib2,
	python-pickleshare, python-priority, python-portend,
	python-scandir, python-systemd, python-tempora,
	python-traitlets, python-typepy, qt5virtualkeyboard,
	ratpoison, rauc, refpolicy, rhash, sdl2_mixer, sdl2_net,
	xr819-xradio, zstd

	Removed packages: input-tools, mke2img

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

	#7892: systemd-journald is broken
	#9341: avahi-utils does not compile with uClibc +  libglib2
	#9441: Link BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GDB_SERVER_COPY to
	       BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG
	#9746: ext4 image generated by Buildroot is not working
	       properly with U-Boot
	#9886: Build fails with "unexpected EOF while looking for
	       matching `"'" if PATH contains a newline
	#9891: parted 3.1 => 3.2?
	#9911: qt5 does not build on sparc
	#9916: qt5 does not build on
	       arm-buildroot-linux-uclibcgnueabihf for ARMv8 cores
	#9936: Host QEMU does not build with SDL support because of
	       pkg-config
	#9941: nodejs option disappears for arm
	#9951: SCANCPAN failure
	#9966: util-linux-2.30/.stamp_built' failed
	#9976: License file for package 'rtl8821au' incorrect
	#9991: SGX Error implicit declaration of function
	       ‘dmac_map_area’
	#10011: wget does not work from Buildroot
	#10036: Buildroot builds Raspbian Jessie headless image
		presenting incorrect prompt
	#10051: make: *** No rule to make target
		'raspberrpi3_defconfig'. Stop reported with Buildroot
		v2017.05.1
	#10056: No .config file was produced in /buildroot folder
	#10061: gcc5.4 buildroot toolchain for powerpc libsanitizer
		failure
	#10076: Makefile:4113: recipe for target 'all-gcc'  failed
	#10121: webkit without the multimedia option causes build
		error

2017.05.2, Released July 27th, 2017

	Important / security related fixes.

	Webkitgtk bumped to the 2.16.x series, fixing a large number
	of security issues.

	host-aespipe compile fix for Debian/Gentoo/Ubuntu toolchains
	which default to PIE mode.

	Updated/fixed packages: aespipe, apache, bind, binutils,
	busybox, ccache, collectd, dieharder, efibootmgr, efivar,
	expat, ffmpeg, gcc, heimdal, iproute2, irssi, libglib2,
	libmemcached, libosip2, libtirpc, libxml-parser-perl,
	linux-fusion, linux-zigbee, mpg123, orc, pcre, php, protobuf,
	pulseaudio, python-setproctitle, qt5base, rpi-firmware,
	samba4, syslinux, systemd, spice, tcpdump, tiff, uboot-tools,
	webkitgtk, x265, xserver_xorg-server, xvisor

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

	#10061: gcc5.4 buildroot toolchain for powerpc libsanitizer...

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.