CHANGES

2017.08, To be released

	Fixes all over the tree.

	Toolchain: Don't allow internal toolchain builds for MIPS
	M6201/P6600, as support for these are not yet in mainline GCC.

	Updated/fixed packages: bcusdk, connman, dialog, dnsmasq,
	gnupg, grub2, iostat, iucode-tool, libgcrypt, libkcapi,
	libphidget, libv4l, linux-tools, mediastreamer, minidlna,
	nss-pam-ldapd, nvidia-driver, qt-webkit-kiosk, rpcbind, squid,
	transmission, vde2, vim

	Updated/fixed defconfigs:

	Removed packages: simicfs.

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

	#10261: Grub2 fails to build for x86_64

2017.08-rc3, Released August 23rd, 2017

	Fixes all over the tree.

	Updated/fixed packages: alsa-lib, alsa-utils, cc-tool,
	dbus-cpp, e2fsprogs, elf2flt, faad2, fakeroot, gcc, git, gpsd,
	gst1-validate, kvmtool, libconfuse, libepoxy, librsync,
	libspatialindex, libunwind, linux, linux-headers, lua,
	mariadb, mesa3d, mtd, openocd, python3, syslinux, sysvinit,
	whois, xen, zmqpp.

	Updated/fixed defconfigs: ci20, socrates_cyclone5,
	toradex_apalis_imx6.

	Removed defconfig: Armadeus APF9328.

	skeleton-* packages introduced in -rc1 have been renamed to
	skeleton-init-* instead.

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

	#10141: Squashfs extended attribute failures

2017.08-rc2, Released August 11th, 2017

	Fixes all over the tree.

	Updated/fixed packages: bind, dbus, erlang-p1-xml, faad2,
	ficl, gcc, gdb, glibc, jack2, libcurl, linux, linux-headers,
	lua, mutt, nvme, qt5base, skeleton-common, snappy, stella,
	swupdate, uclibc, valgrind, webkitgtk.

	Updated/fixed defconfigs: beaglebone_qt5, minnowboard_max,
	nanopi_m1{, _plus}, olimex_a20_olinuxino_lime, qemu_sparc,
	qemu_sparc64.

	The cmake-package infrastructure for host packages has been
	fixed to not incorrectly detect target packages through
	pkg-config.

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

	#9926:  systemd-resolved.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE (systemd 233)
	#10021: libqeglfs-viv-integration.so file is missing for qt5 on armv7
	#10026: lua-5.3.4: fix lua linker error in swupdate
	#10146: package/skeleton-common fix recursive variable
	#10156: glibc compilation fails for X86 32bits (i386)
	#10201: toolchain-wrapper.c:192: (error) Memory leak:
	#10221: Buildroot Support

2017.08-rc1, Released August 2nd, 2017

	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 usr -> . link 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: cloog, input-tools, mke2img

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

	#7892: systemd-journald is broken