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Release 3.5 (kirkstone)
=======================
This section provides migration information for moving to the Yocto
Project 3.5 Release (codename "kirkstone") from the prior release.
Recipe changes
--------------
- To use more `inclusive language <https://inclusivenaming.org/>`__
in the code and documentation, some variables have been renamed or even
deleted. BitBake will stop with an error when renamed or removed variables
still exist in your recipes or configuration.
A :oe_git:`convert-variable-renames.py
</openembedded-core/tree/scripts/contrib/convert-variable-renames.py>`
script is provided to convert your recipes and configuration,
and also warns you about the use of problematic words.
- Because of the uncertainty in future default branch names in git repositories,
it is now required to add a branch name to all URLs described
by ``git://`` and ``gitsm://`` :term:`SRC_URI` entries. For example::
SRC_URI = "git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git;branch=master"
A :oe_git:`convert-srcuri </openembedded-core/tree/scripts/contrib/convert-srcuri.py>`
script to convert your recipes is available in :term:`OpenEmbedded-Core (OE-Core)`
and in :term:`Poky`.
- Because of `GitHub dropping support for the git:
protocol <https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/>`__,
recipes now need to use ``;protocol=https`` at the end of GitHub
URLs. The same script as above can be used to convert the recipes.
- Network access from tasks is now disabled by default on kernels which support
this feature (on most recent distros such as CentOS 8 and Debian 11 onwards).
This means that tasks accessing the network need to be marked as such with the ``network``
flag. For example::
do_mytask[network] = "1"
This is allowed by default from ``do_fetch`` but not from any of our other standard
tasks. Recipes shouldn't be accessing the network outside of ``do_fetch`` as it
usually undermines fetcher source mirroring, image and licence manifests, software
auditing and supply chain security.
- The :term:`TOPDIR` variable and the current working directory are no longer modified
when parsing recipes. Any code depending on that behaviour will no longer work.
- The ``append``, ``prepend`` and ``remove`` operators can now only be combined with
``=`` and ``:=`` operators. To the exception of the ``append`` plus ``+=`` and
``prepend`` plus ``=+`` combinations, all combinations could be factored up to the
``append``, ``prepend`` or ``remove`` in the combination. This brought a lot of
confusion on how the override style syntax operators work and should be used.
Therefore, those combinations can simply be replaced by a single ``append``,
``prepend`` or ``remove`` operator without any additional change.
For the ``append`` plus ``+=`` (and ``prepend`` plus ``=+``) combinations,
the content should be prefixed (respectively suffixed) by a space to maintain
the same behavior. You can learn more about override style syntax operators
(``append``, ``prepend`` and ``remove``) in the BitBake documentation:
:ref:`bitbake:bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata:appending and prepending (override style syntax)`
and :ref:`bitbake:bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata:removal (override style syntax)`.
- :ref:`allarch <ref-classes-allarch>` packagegroups can no longer depend on packages
which use :term:`PKG` renaming such as :ref:`ref-classes-debian`.
Class changes
-------------
- The `distutils*.bbclasses` have been moved to `meta-python`. The classes and
`DISTUTILS*` variables have been removed from the documentation.
- ``blacklist.bbclass`` is removed and the functionality moved to the
:ref:`base <ref-classes-base>` class with a more descriptive
``varflag`` named :term:`SKIP_RECIPE` which will use the `SkipRecipe()`
function. The usage will remain the same::
SKIP_RECIPE[my-recipe] = "Reason for skipping recipe"
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