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author | Paul Eggleton <bluelightning@bluelightning.org> | 2024-04-18 11:27:55 -0700 |
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committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2024-04-24 14:22:55 +0100 |
commit | 30d5b6f7ddfea99fdc97709978d0a3ecf00e0ee0 (patch) | |
tree | 682c10662a03131d5463e5cc1b087a96ed781f05 /documentation | |
parent | 34a67fc165306034b5d00d6c8a519d8343ec2403 (diff) | |
download | poky-30d5b6f7ddfea99fdc97709978d0a3ecf00e0ee0.tar.gz |
release-notes: add a few more new features
Add some features I missed earlier (patchtest, Toaster, hash
equivalence enhancements, screenshot-based UI test,
USERADD_DEPENDS).
(From yocto-docs rev: 774f0ba6345592571c7c7cff495f2b15dca21f25)
Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning@bluelightning.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-5.0.rst | 32 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-5.0.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-5.0.rst index 4bd9125d17..2501acdaf9 100644 --- a/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-5.0.rst +++ b/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-5.0.rst | |||
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 5.0 | |||
25 | 25 | ||
26 | - :term:`TARGET_DBGSRC_DIR`: specifies the target path to debug source files | 26 | - :term:`TARGET_DBGSRC_DIR`: specifies the target path to debug source files |
27 | 27 | ||
28 | - :term:`USERADD_DEPENDS`: provides a way to declare dependencies on the users | ||
29 | and/or groups created by other recipes, resolving a long-standing build | ||
30 | ordering issue | ||
31 | |||
28 | - Architecture-specific enhancements: | 32 | - Architecture-specific enhancements: |
29 | 33 | ||
30 | - ``genericarm64``: a new :term:`MACHINE` to represent a 64-bit General Arm | 34 | - ``genericarm64``: a new :term:`MACHINE` to represent a 64-bit General Arm |
@@ -155,6 +159,12 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 5.0 | |||
155 | 159 | ||
156 | - Testing: | 160 | - Testing: |
157 | 161 | ||
162 | - Move `patchtest` to the core (as ``scripts/patchtest``, test cases under | ||
163 | ``meta/lib/patchtest/tests``) and make a number of improvements to enable | ||
164 | it to validate patches submitted on the mailing list again. Additionally, | ||
165 | make it work with the original upstream version of | ||
166 | `Patchwork <http://jk.ozlabs.org/projects/patchwork/>`__. | ||
167 | |||
158 | - Add an optional ``unimplemented-ptest`` QA warning to detect upstream | 168 | - Add an optional ``unimplemented-ptest`` QA warning to detect upstream |
159 | packages with tests, that do not use ptest. | 169 | packages with tests, that do not use ptest. |
160 | 170 | ||
@@ -163,6 +173,9 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 5.0 | |||
163 | 173 | ||
164 | - ``oeqa``, ``oe-selftest``: add test cases for Maturin (SDK and runtime). | 174 | - ``oeqa``, ``oe-selftest``: add test cases for Maturin (SDK and runtime). |
165 | 175 | ||
176 | - Proof-of-concept of screenshot-based runtime UI test | ||
177 | (``meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/login.py``) | ||
178 | |||
166 | - Enable ptests for ``python3-attrs``, ``python3-pyyaml``, ``xz`` | 179 | - Enable ptests for ``python3-attrs``, ``python3-pyyaml``, ``xz`` |
167 | 180 | ||
168 | - Utility script changes: | 181 | - Utility script changes: |
@@ -191,8 +204,6 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 5.0 | |||
191 | extra tasks if the system load is too high, especially in distributions | 204 | extra tasks if the system load is too high, especially in distributions |
192 | where ``/proc/pressure`` is disabled. | 205 | where ``/proc/pressure`` is disabled. |
193 | 206 | ||
194 | - Add garbage collection to remove unused unihashes from the database. | ||
195 | |||
196 | - ``taskexp_ncurses``: add ncurses version of ``taskexp``, the dependency | 207 | - ``taskexp_ncurses``: add ncurses version of ``taskexp``, the dependency |
197 | explorer originally implemented with GTK. | 208 | explorer originally implemented with GTK. |
198 | 209 | ||
@@ -208,6 +219,17 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 5.0 | |||
208 | - ``git-make-shallow`` script: add support for Git's ``safe.bareRepository=explicit`` | 219 | - ``git-make-shallow`` script: add support for Git's ``safe.bareRepository=explicit`` |
209 | configuration setting. | 220 | configuration setting. |
210 | 221 | ||
222 | - Hash equivalence gained a number of scalability improvements including: | ||
223 | |||
224 | - Support for a wide range of database backends through `SQLAlchemy` | ||
225 | |||
226 | - Support for hash equivalence server and client to communicate over websockets | ||
227 | |||
228 | - Support for per-user permissions in the hashserver, and on the client side | ||
229 | specifying credentials via the environment or ``.netrc`` | ||
230 | |||
231 | - Add garbage collection to remove unused unihashes from the database. | ||
232 | |||
211 | - devtool improvements: | 233 | - devtool improvements: |
212 | 234 | ||
213 | - Introduce a new ``ide-sdk`` plugin to generate a configuration to use | 235 | - Introduce a new ``ide-sdk`` plugin to generate a configuration to use |
@@ -255,6 +277,12 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 5.0 | |||
255 | incremental update can be configured with :term:`CVE_DB_INCR_UPDATE_AGE_THRES` | 277 | incremental update can be configured with :term:`CVE_DB_INCR_UPDATE_AGE_THRES` |
256 | variable. | 278 | variable. |
257 | 279 | ||
280 | - Toaster Web UI improvements: | ||
281 | |||
282 | - Numerous bugfixes, and additional input validation | ||
283 | |||
284 | - Add `pytest` support and add/update test cases | ||
285 | |||
258 | - Prominent documentation updates: | 286 | - Prominent documentation updates: |
259 | 287 | ||
260 | - Documentation for using the new ``devtool ide-sdk`` command and features. | 288 | - Documentation for using the new ``devtool ide-sdk`` command and features. |