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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK

Release notes for Yocto-4.2.3 (Mickledore)
------------------------------------------

Security Fixes in Yocto-4.2.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-  bind: Fix :cve:`2023-2828` and :cve:`2023-2911`
-  cups: Fix :cve:`2023-34241`
-  dmidecode: Fix :cve:`2023-30630`
-  erofs-utils: Fix :cve:`2023-33551` and :cve:`2023-33552`
-  ghostscript: Fix :cve:`2023-36664`
-  go: Fix :cve_mitre:`2023-24531`
-  libarchive: ignore :cve:`2023-30571`
-  libjpeg-turbo: Fix :cve:`2023-2804`
-  libx11: Fix :cve:`2023-3138`
-  ncurses: Fix :cve:`2023-29491`
-  openssh: Fix :cve:`2023-38408`
-  python3-certifi: Fix :cve:`2023-37920`
-  python3-requests: Fix :cve:`2023-32681`
-  python3: Ignore :cve:`2023-36632`
-  qemu: fix :cve:`2023-0330`, :cve_mitre:`2023-2861`, :cve_mitre:`2023-3255` and :cve_mitre:`2023-3301`
-  ruby: Fix :cve:`2023-36617`
-  vim: Fix :cve:`2023-2609` and :cve:`2023-2610`
-  webkitgtk: Fix :cve:`2023-27932` and :cve:`2023-27954`


Fixes in Yocto-4.2.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-  acpica: Update :term:`SRC_URI`
-  automake: fix buildtest patch
-  baremetal-helloworld: Fix race condition
-  bind: upgrade to v9.18.17
-  binutils: stable 2.40 branch updates
-  build-appliance-image: Update to mickledore head revision
-  cargo.bbclass: set up cargo environment in common do_compile
-  conf.py: add macro for Mitre CVE links
-  curl: ensure all ptest failures are caught
-  cve-update-nvd2-native: actually use API keys
-  cve-update-nvd2-native: fix cvssV3 metrics
-  cve-update-nvd2-native: handle all configuration nodes, not just first
-  cve-update-nvd2-native: increase retry count
-  cve-update-nvd2-native: log a little more
-  cve-update-nvd2-native: retry all errors and sleep between retries
-  cve-update-nvd2-native: use exact times, don't truncate
-  dev-manual: wic.rst: Update native tools build command
-  devtool/upgrade: raise an error if extracting source produces more than one directory
-  diffutils: upgrade to 3.10
-  docs: ref-manual: terms: fix typos in :term:`SPDX` term
-  file: fix the way path is written to environment-setup.d
-  file: return wrapper to fix builds when file is in buildtools-tarball
-  freetype: upgrade to 2.13.1
-  gcc-testsuite: Fix ppc cpu specification
-  gcc: don't pass --enable-standard-branch-protection
-  glibc-locale: use stricter matching for metapackages' runtime dependencies
-  glibc-testsuite: Fix network restrictions causing test failures
-  glibc/check-test-wrapper: don't emit warnings from ssh
-  go: upgrade to 1.20.6
-  gstreamer1.0: upgrade to 1.22.4
-  ifupdown: install missing directories
-  kernel-module-split add systemd modulesloaddir and modprobedir config
-  kernel-module-split: install config modules directories only when they are needed
-  kernel-module-split: make autoload and probeconf distribution specific
-  kernel-module-split: use context manager to open files
-  kernel: Fix path comparison in kernel staging dir symlinking
-  kernel: config modules directories are handled by kernel-module-split
-  kernel: don't fail if Modules.symvers doesn't exist
-  libassuan: upgrade to 2.5.6
-  libksba: upgrade to 1.6.4
-  libnss-nis: upgrade to 3.2
-  libproxy: fetch from git
-  libwebp: upgrade to 1.3.1
-  libx11: upgrade to 1.8.6
-  libxcrypt: fix hard-coded ".so" extension
-  linux-firmware : Add firmware of RTL8822 serie
-  linux-firmware: Fix mediatek mt7601u firmware path
-  linux-firmware: package firmare for Dragonboard 410c
-  linux-firmware: split platform-specific Adreno shaders to separate packages
-  linux-firmware: upgrade to 20230625
-  linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.124
-  linux-yocto/6.1: cfg: update ima.cfg to match current meta-integrity
-  linux-yocto/6.1: upgrade to v6.1.38
-  ltp: Add kernel loopback module dependency
-  ltp: add :term:`RDEPENDS` on findutils
-  lttng-ust: upgrade to 2.13.6
-  machine/arch-arm64: add -mbranch-protection=standard
-  maintainers.inc: Modify email address
-  mdadm: add util-linux-blockdev ptest dependency
-  mdadm: fix 07revert-inplace ptest
-  mdadm: fix segfaults when running ptests
-  mdadm: fix util-linux ptest dependency
-  mdadm: re-add mdadm-ptest to PTESTS_SLOW
-  mdadm: skip running known broken ptests
-  meson.bbclass: Point to llvm-config from native sysroot
-  migration-guides: add release notes for 4.0.10
-  migration-guides: add release notes for 4.0.11
-  migration-guides: add release notes for 4.2.2
-  oeqa/runtime/cases/rpm: fix wait_for_no_process_for_user failure case
-  oeqa/runtime/ltp: Increase ltp test output timeout
-  oeqa/selftest/devtool: add unit test for "devtool add -b"
-  oeqa/ssh: Further improve process exit handling
-  oeqa/target/ssh: Ensure EAGAIN doesn't truncate output
-  oeqa/utils/nfs: allow requesting non-udp ports
-  openssh: upgrade to 9.3p2
-  openssl: add PERLEXTERNAL path to test its existence
-  openssl: use a glob on the PERLEXTERNAL to track updates on the path
-  opkg-utils: upgrade to 0.6.2
-  opkg: upgrade to 0.6.2
-  pkgconf: update :term:`SRC_URI`
-  poky.conf: bump version for 4.2.3 release
-  poky.conf: update :term:`SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS` to match autobuilder
-  ptest-runner: Pull in parallel test fixes and output handling
-  python3-certifi: upgrade to 2023.7.22
-  python3: fix missing comma in get_module_deps3.py
-  recipetool: Fix inherit in created -native* recipes
-  ref-manual: LTS releases now supported for 4 years
-  ref-manual: document image-specific variant of :term:`INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE`
-  ref-manual: releases.svg: updates
-  resulttool/resultutils: allow index generation despite corrupt json
-  rootfs-postcommands.bbclass: Revert "add post func remove_unused_dnf_log_lock"
-  rootfs: Add debugfs package db file copy and cleanup
-  rootfs_rpm: don't depend on opkg-native for update-alternatives
-  rpm: Pick debugfs package db files/dirs explicitly
-  rust-common.bbclass: move musl-specific linking fix from rust-source.inc
-  scripts/oe-setup-builddir: copy conf-notes.txt to build dir
-  scripts/resulttool: add mention about new detected tests
-  selftest/cases/glibc.py: fix the override syntax
-  selftest/cases/glibc.py: increase the memory for testing
-  selftest/cases/glibc.py: switch to using NFS over TCP
-  shadow-sysroot: add license information
-  systemd-systemctl: fix errors in instance name expansion
-  taglib: upgrade to 1.13.1
-  target/ssh: Ensure exit code set for commands
-  tcf-agent: upgrade to 1.8.0
-  testimage/oeqa: Drop testimage_dump_host functionality
-  tiff: upgrade to 4.5.1
-  uboot-extlinux-config.bbclass: fix old override syntax in comment
-  util-linux: add alternative links for ipcs,ipcrm
-  vim: upgrade to 9.0.1592
-  webkitgtk: upgrade to 2.38.6
-  weston: Cleanup and fix x11 and xwayland dependencies


Known Issues in Yocto-4.2.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- N/A


Contributors to Yocto-4.2.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-  Alejandro Hernandez Samaniego
-  Alex Kiernan
-  Alexander Kanavin
-  Alexis Lothoré
-  Andrej Valek
-  Anuj Mittal
-  Archana Polampalli
-  BELOUARGA Mohamed
-  Benjamin Bouvier
-  Bruce Ashfield
-  Changqing Li
-  Chen Qi
-  Daniel Semkowicz
-  Dmitry Baryshkov
-  Enrico Scholz
-  Etienne Cordonnier
-  Joe Slater
-  Joel Stanley
-  Jose Quaresma
-  Julien Stephan
-  Kai Kang
-  Khem Raj
-  Lee Chee Yang
-  Marek Vasut
-  Mark Hatle
-  Michael Halstead
-  Michael Opdenacker
-  Mingli Yu
-  Narpat Mali
-  Oleksandr Hnatiuk
-  Ovidiu Panait
-  Peter Marko
-  Quentin Schulz
-  Richard Purdie
-  Ross Burton
-  Sanjana
-  Sakib Sajal
-  Staffan Rydén
-  Steve Sakoman
-  Stéphane Veyret
-  Sudip Mukherjee
-  Thomas Roos
-  Tom Hochstein
-  Trevor Gamblin
-  Wang Mingyu
-  Yi Zhao
-  Yoann Congal
-  Yogita Urade
-  Yuta Hayama


Repositories / Downloads for Yocto-4.2.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

poky

-  Repository Location: :yocto_git:`/poky`
-  Branch: :yocto_git:`mickledore </poky/log/?h=mickledore>`
-  Tag:  :yocto_git:`yocto-4.2.3 </poky/log/?h=yocto-4.2.3>`
-  Git Revision: :yocto_git:`aa63b25cbe25d89ab07ca11ee72c17cab68df8de </poky/commit/?id=aa63b25cbe25d89ab07ca11ee72c17cab68df8de>`
-  Release Artefact: poky-aa63b25cbe25d89ab07ca11ee72c17cab68df8de
-  sha: 9e2b40fc25f7984b3227126ec9b8aa68d3747c8821fb7bf8cb635fc143f894c3
-  Download Locations:
   http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-4.2.3/poky-aa63b25cbe25d89ab07ca11ee72c17cab68df8de.tar.bz2
   http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/yocto-4.2.3/poky-aa63b25cbe25d89ab07ca11ee72c17cab68df8de.tar.bz2

openembedded-core

-  Repository Location: :oe_git:`/openembedded-core`
-  Branch: :oe_git:`mickledore </openembedded-core/log/?h=mickledore>`
-  Tag:  :oe_git:`yocto-4.2.3 </openembedded-core/log/?h=yocto-4.2.3>`
-  Git Revision: :oe_git:`7e3489c0c5970389c8a239dc7b367bcadf554eb5 </openembedded-core/commit/?id=7e3489c0c5970389c8a239dc7b367bcadf554eb5>`
-  Release Artefact: oecore-7e3489c0c5970389c8a239dc7b367bcadf554eb5
-  sha: 68620aca7c9db6b9a65d9853cacff4e60578f0df39e3e37114e062e1667ba724
-  Download Locations:
   http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-4.2.3/oecore-7e3489c0c5970389c8a239dc7b367bcadf554eb5.tar.bz2
   http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/yocto-4.2.3/oecore-7e3489c0c5970389c8a239dc7b367bcadf554eb5.tar.bz2

meta-mingw

-  Repository Location: :yocto_git:`/meta-mingw`
-  Branch: :yocto_git:`mickledore </meta-mingw/log/?h=mickledore>`
-  Tag:  :yocto_git:`yocto-4.2.3 </meta-mingw/log/?h=yocto-4.2.3>`
-  Git Revision: :yocto_git:`92258028e1b5664a9f832541d5c4f6de0bd05e07 </meta-mingw/commit/?id=92258028e1b5664a9f832541d5c4f6de0bd05e07>`
-  Release Artefact: meta-mingw-92258028e1b5664a9f832541d5c4f6de0bd05e07
-  sha: ee081460b5dff4fb8dd4869ce5631718dbaaffbede9532b879b854c18f1b3f5d
-  Download Locations:
   http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-4.2.3/meta-mingw-92258028e1b5664a9f832541d5c4f6de0bd05e07.tar.bz2
   http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/yocto-4.2.3/meta-mingw-92258028e1b5664a9f832541d5c4f6de0bd05e07.tar.bz2

bitbake

-  Repository Location: :oe_git:`/bitbake`
-  Branch: :oe_git:`2.4 </bitbake/log/?h=2.4>`
-  Tag:  :oe_git:`yocto-4.2.3 </bitbake/log/?h=yocto-4.2.3>`
-  Git Revision: :oe_git:`08033b63ae442c774bd3fce62844eac23e6882d7 </bitbake/commit/?id=08033b63ae442c774bd3fce62844eac23e6882d7>`
-  Release Artefact: bitbake-08033b63ae442c774bd3fce62844eac23e6882d7
-  sha: 1d070c133bfb6502ac04befbf082cbfda7582c8b1c48296a788384352e5061fd
-  Download Locations:
   http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-4.2.3/bitbake-08033b63ae442c774bd3fce62844eac23e6882d7.tar.bz2
   http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/yocto-4.2.3/bitbake-08033b63ae442c774bd3fce62844eac23e6882d7.tar.bz2

yocto-docs

-  Repository Location: :yocto_git:`/yocto-docs`
-  Branch: :yocto_git:`mickledore </yocto-docs/log/?h=mickledore>`
-  Tag: :yocto_git:`yocto-4.2.3 </yocto-docs/log/?h=yocto-4.2.3>`
-  Git Revision: :yocto_git:`8e6752a9e55d16f3713e248b37f9d4d2745a2375 </yocto-docs/commit/?id=8e6752a9e55d16f3713e248b37f9d4d2745a2375>`