From patchwork Fri May 5 12:47:54 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Richard Purdie X-Patchwork-Id: 23421 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EBFBC77B75 for ; Fri, 5 May 2023 12:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wr1-f54.google.com (mail-wr1-f54.google.com [209.85.221.54]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web10.26067.1683290878476016046 for ; Fri, 05 May 2023 05:47:58 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=fail reason="signature has expired" header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.s=google header.b=fVM3v1Gx; spf=pass (domain: linuxfoundation.org, ip: 209.85.221.54, mailfrom: richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org) Received: by mail-wr1-f54.google.com with SMTP id ffacd0b85a97d-306f2b42a86so1151234f8f.3 for ; Fri, 05 May 2023 05:47:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=google; t=1683290876; x=1685882876; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:message-id:date:subject:to :from:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=pNALD3oW4AxbwAmtSKOsjuP/bxUs5pF0pHi3ZUU+g2k=; b=fVM3v1GxqF8Bbf+RwSv/7j4Qbxs5k868Ff7uHCW4iG076YL+h6PBqK5tteC4AncF/s 01UhC6MHPrnIC/0OhjjksjaZvSx+iWOl9oRmcGzC3dXBr0+3wLCXeMYLCIPFb5rP4bS6 YImA06w3yRbMpYFp5TJx4y51Yj/sOoNHdWm9g= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1683290876; x=1685882876; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:message-id:date:subject:to :from:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=pNALD3oW4AxbwAmtSKOsjuP/bxUs5pF0pHi3ZUU+g2k=; b=ExkGPSV0UQ/FfP93NcVBNtwE2H0kHdSR9J8Fz4uPXjqwGZJn8XnfmRfTjTanHtOdc2 zav7vyUi+CR2vy7rS0PWg4XbnpGYSASFrHjY2iOtEQMmfu7CP5w7MMN8OsFAiKZxN4mY GFd51echXIzEkoIiKTMqvEHAG9bbdSu5SZvWb6CgVScv4DM+4gDDzcxpwCjJgyEFSLk2 RANid71uXj8NKMrWOCd14KZbpRkN7gRhQOd36JjIPOZn+JOtdI09+PGwLmLesK5Fvju6 T5bAf9S/nOCmn6kFiLCtfUfEUYtvtADIGhkB1bDK0mcLH0Vtp4yKCJkTc18DR1AwWeoW fCeg== X-Gm-Message-State: AC+VfDzKOcVLLe87+T7qbHNfEjF8+qzeaDYb7KJ988pYnauJEuVfqmeF NDjEocfL8qnmtR/gBe+WMkebaEJsLm8OlZ7nhnNAmQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACHHUZ7ULf4X/P8jq9eaC0LDrxjwmxJ1IqU39879qT19sffVZG0OkEbYmy8Blj+qJYLIm2h1fXA8Hw== X-Received: by 2002:adf:f052:0:b0:306:284c:8f4c with SMTP id t18-20020adff052000000b00306284c8f4cmr1214593wro.64.1683290876175; Fri, 05 May 2023 05:47:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from max.int.rpsys.net ([2001:8b0:aba:5f3c:aa1b:875d:4fc3:dd86]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q4-20020a5d61c4000000b003063772a55bsm2324531wrv.61.2023.05.05.05.47.55 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 05 May 2023 05:47:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Purdie To: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org Subject: [PATCH] migration/release-notes-4.3: Add extra notes Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 13:47:54 +0100 Message-Id: <20230505124754.3136997-1-richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from li982-79.members.linode.com [45.33.32.79] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Fri, 05 May 2023 12:48:04 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/3913 Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker --- .../migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst | 28 ++++++++++++++++++- .../migration-guides/release-notes-4.3.rst | 11 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst index 914012ce6..74e540126 100644 --- a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst +++ b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst @@ -9,6 +9,23 @@ Migration notes for 4.3 (nanbield) This section provides migration information for moving to the Yocto Project 4.3 Release (codename "nanbield") from the prior release. +.. _migration-4.3-supported-kernel-versions: + +Supported kernel versions +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The OLDEST_KERNEL setting has been changed to 5.15 in this release, meaning that +out the box, older kernels are not supported. There were two reasons for this. +Firstly it allows glibc optimisations that improve the performance of the system +by removing compatibility code and using modern kernel APIs exclusively. The second +issue was this allows 64 bit time support even on 32 bit platforms and resolves Y2038 +issues. + +It is still possible to override this value and build for older kernels, this is just +no longer the default supported configuration. This setting does not affect which +kernel versions SDKs will run against and does not affect which versions of the kernel +can be used to run builds. + .. _migration-4.3-supported-distributions: Supported distributions @@ -27,7 +44,7 @@ Go language changes - Support for the Glide package manager has been removed, as ``go mod`` has become the standard. - + .. _migration-4.3-recipe-changes: Recipe changes @@ -36,6 +53,15 @@ Recipe changes - Runtime testing of ptest now fails if no test results are returned by any given ptest. +.. _migration-4.3-class-changes: + +Class changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- The perl-version class no longer provides the PERLVERSION and PERLARCH variables + as there were no users in any core layer. The functions for this functionality + are still available. + .. _migration-4.3-removed-variables: Removed variables diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-4.3.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-4.3.rst index 16320d3db..131465ff9 100644 --- a/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-4.3.rst +++ b/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-4.3.rst @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.3 - New core recipes: +- New classes: + + - A ptest-cargo class was added to allow cargo based recipes to easily add ptests + - QEMU/runqemu enhancements: - Image-related enhancements: @@ -37,6 +41,13 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.3 - Miscellaneous changes: + - Git based recipes in OE-Core which used the git protocol have been + changed to use https where possibile. https is now believed to be + faster and more reliable. + + - The os-release recipe added a CPE_NAME to the fields provided, with the + default being populated from :term:`DISTRO`. + Known Issues in 4.3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~