2.7 Release Notes WIP

Security Fixes

avahi: CVE-2017-6519
bind: CVE-2018-5738, CVE-2018-5740, CVE-2018-5744, CVE-2018-5745, CVE-2019-6465
bluez5: CVE-2018-10910
cairo: CVE-2018-19876, CVE-2019-6461, CVE-2019-6462
curl: CVE-2018-16890, CVE-2019-3822, CVE-2019-3823
gettext: CVE-2018-18751
ghostscript: CVE-2019-6116, CVE-2019-3835, CVE-2019-3838
glibc: CVE-2019-7309, CVE-2019-9169
icu: CVE-2018-18928
libarchive: CVE-2019-1000019, CVE-2019-1000020, CVE-2018-1000877, CVE-2018-1000878, CVE-2018-1000879, CVE-2018-1000880
libcroco: CVE-2017-7961
libexif: CVE-2016-6328, CVE-2018-20030
libid3tag: CVE-2004-2779
libpng: fix CVE-2019-7317
libsndfile1: CVE-2017-14245, CVE-2017-14246, CVE-2017-12562, CVE-2018-19758, CVE-2017-17456, CVE-2017-17457, CVE-2018-19661, CVE-2018-19662, CVE-2018-19432, CVE-2019-3832
linux-yocto/4.19: CVE-2019-7221, CVE-2019-6974, CVE-2019-7222
nettle: CVE-2018-16868, CVE-2018-16869
nss: CVE-2018-12404
openssl: CVE-2019-1543
python-native: CVE-2018-14647
qemu: CVE-2018-16872, CVE-2018-20124, CVE-2018-20125, CVE-2018-20126, CVE-2018-20191, CVE-2018-20216, CVE-2019-3812
sqlite3: CVE-2019-9936, CVE-2019-9937
systemd: CVE-2019-6454, CVE-2018-16864, CVE-2018-16865, CVE-2018-16866

New Features / Enhancements

Linux kernel 5.0/4.19, gcc 8.3, glibc 2.29 and ~230 other recipe upgrades
Added support for virgl GL acceleration within QEMU / runqemu
Added support SLiRP user-space networking in runqemu for easier networking within containers
New "packagegroup-core-base-utils" packagegroup to easily bring in full-featured versions of standard system utilities
New "ccmake" class to enable the CMake curses UI
New "mcextend" class to enable easily creating multiconfig recipe variants
New "xmlcatalog" class to update the XML catalogue
New recipes: eglinfo-wayland, inetutils, libdazzle, libjitterentropy, libmodulemd, libpsl, vim, virglrenderer
Architecture-specific changes:

- linux-yocto: add baseline ARC support
- qemuarm64: Add graphics support
- qemuarm: Swap for an arm7ve (A15) configuration
- qemumips64: change tune to mips64r2
- qemumips: Enable the poweroff driver
- arch-armv7*.inc: Add Cortex vfpv4-d16 support
- arch-armv8a.inc: add tune include for armv8
- arm-tunes: Remove -march option if mcpu is already added
- ThunderX: update the armv8a rules
- tune-cortexa32: add tunes for ARM Cortex-A32
- tune-cortexa35: add tunes for ARM Cortex-A35
- tune-cortexa53: add tunes for ARM Cortex-A53
- tune-cortexa5.inc: Add tune options for vfpv4
- tune-cortexa72: add tunes for ARM Cortex-A72
- linux-yocto/4.19: introduce qemuriscv64 and qemuarma15 BSP definitions
- gcc: Enable secureplt for powerpc64 target too
- goarch: Add riscv64
- gstreamer: Add RISC-V support
- kernel-fitimage: support RISC-V
- lib/oe/elf.py: Add powerpc64 architecture definition for musl
- webkitgtk: Enable building for ARC architecture
- linux-yocto: pinctrl config change for cannonlake
- mdadm: add mdmon service to support Intel VROC
- mesa: Allow building the r600 driver
- locale: Allow usage of cross-localedef for ARC
- Added armeb support to meson class

Kernel-related changes:

- kernel: defaults for KBUILD_BUILD_USER and KBUILD_BUILD_HOST are now soft
- kernel-fitimage: Introduce a way to provide external dtb
- kernel-yocto: allow kernel-meta repositories to be patched

Introduce sstate hash equivalence server to accelerate subsequent builds by matching compatible sstate
New "resulttool" for managing and storing test results and executing manual tests
Significant cleanup of ptests, 100% pass rate for python3, and new ptests for json-glib, opkg, ruby
devtool improvements:

- Handle exporting generated kernel config fragments
- Support kmeta directory usage with devtool modify/finish
- Add "check-upgrade-status" command to print an overall list of recipes that can be updated
- Allow allow use of alternate ssh command with devtool deploy-target

Changed default debug split to make separate source packages
Add "src-pkgs" IMAGE_FEATURES item to install all debug sources (default enabled for the SDK)
Extended recipes to native: libaio, libepoxy, gtk+3, mesa, adwaita-icon-theme, hicolor-icon-theme, liberation-fonts, libxi, libxtst, at-spi2-atk, at-spi2-core, vte
Extended recipes to nativesdk: gtk+3, libepoxy, fontconfig, libice, libsm, libxft, libxml-namespacesupport-perl, libxml-sax-base-perl, libxml-sax-perl, libxt, mesa, gdk-pixbuf, adwaita-icon-theme, hicolor-icon-theme, cairo, harfbuzz, libjpeg-turbo, pango, liberation-fonts, libxcomposite, libxdamage, libxi, libxtst, at-spi2-atk, at-spi2-core, atk, vte
Added meson to standard host SDK packages
Moved a number of recipes from autotools to meson
Bitbake's gitsm fetcher reworked to support MIRRORS and BB_NO_NETWORK
Removed site_config and glibc-initial
Dropped gcc-cross-initial and use gcc-cross instead
libpcre: enable JIT compilation by default for improved performance
asciidoc: use Python 3 port
bind-utils: Install nslookup
busybox: Enable domain search list support
busybox: Enable mountpoint and setsid applets
Enable ccache to work properly for several recipes and allow it to be shared between different builds
classes/buildhistory: display modified git branches
classes/icecc: Add ICECC_REMOTE_CPP variable
classes/testsdk: Split implementation into classes
cmake: Support Eclipse and other cmake generators
classes/devicetree: Add support to compile overlays separately
classes/devicetree: Add virtual provider for dtb
initramfs-framework: add lvm module
sqlite3: add PACKAGECONFIG options to allow disabling functions to enable shrinking for very small targets
Added PACKAGECONFIG options to alsa-plugins, consolekit, curl, gconf, gst-plugins-bad, gtk+3, json-glib, libpcre, libsdl2, mesa, mtd-utils, openssl, pulseaudio, squashfs-tools, systemd, sqlite3, util-linux, wget
initscripts: Add support for /etc/default/timestamp
libusb1: Add udev support
libunwind: Enable building static archive on musl
linux-firmware: recommend split up packages
linux-firmware: split out liquidio firmware
mdadm: add init and service scripts
meson: support multiple cross configuration files
native: Enable RDEPENDS handling
opkg: add --ignore-recommends flag and use it for BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS
patch/insane: Rework patch fuzz handling
ptest.bbclass: Add feature to populate a binary directory
python: add tk support
testimage: Add possibility to pass parameters to qemu/runqemu
runqemu: Make QB_MEM easier to set
qemu: split the native version into usermode and system parts
scripts: Add oe-pylint
runqemu: Add serialstdio mode
image_types: add base64 conversion
u-boot: Add mkenvimage tool
u-boot: Support menuconfig for u-boot
u-boot: install dumpimage and fit_check_sign in u-boot-tools
util-linux: package each binary separately
wic: allow bitbake variables in kickstart files
wic: bootimg-efi: add a title source parameter
gsettings: allow the schemas to be in any package
insane.bbclass: Add configure-unsafe and configure-gettext
insane.bbclass: support unrecognized configure checking for Meson
insane: Clarify GNU_HASH warning
base.bbclass: Display name of licenses which caused SkipRecipe
distro_features_check.bbclass: show all error info at one time
bitbake: Allow arguments in FAKEROOTCMD
bitbake: bitbake-diffsigs: Support recursive deps with signature files
bitbake: fetch2: Print SCMs list when SRCREV_FORMAT is not set
rpm: produce sane amount of logging when creating a rootfs
licence: Add license file CC-BY-SA-4.0
Set default CONNECTIVITY_CHECK_URIS for OE-Core
Enabled config cache for gettext, ncurses & gcc-runtime for a slight speedup in do_configure
cmake-native: Set --parallel for configure for significant speedup
lib/oe/recipeutils.py: parallelize upstream version checks
sstate: add support for caching shared workdir tasks
sstate: two improvements to performance for large sstate caches
Removed lrzsz from packagegroup-self-hosted and packagegroup-core-tools-testapps
glibc-locale: enable progress meter for the do_package task

Recipe Upgrades

acpid: upgrade 2.0.30 -> 2.0.31
adwaita-icon-theme: upgrade 3.28.0 -> 3.30.1
alsa-lib: 1.1.6 -> 1.1.8
alsa-plugins: 1.1.6 -> 1.1.8
alsa-tools: 1.1.6 -> 1.1.7
alsa-utils: 1.1.6 -> 1.1.8
apr: upgrade 1.6.3 -> 1.6.5
atk: upgrade 2.28.1 -> 2.30.0
at-spi2-atk: upgrade 2.26.2 -> 2.30.0
at-spi2-core: upgrade 2.28.0 -> 2.30.0
at: upgrade to 3.1.23
bind: update to 9.11.5-P4
binutils: upgrade to 2.32
blktool: update to 4-7.1
bmap-tools: update from 3.4 to 3.5
boost: update to 1.69.0
btrfs-tools: update to 4.20.1
busybox: update to 1.30.1
ca-certificates: upgrade 20180409 -> 20190110
cairo: upgrade 1.14.12 -> 1.16.0
ccache: 3.4.2 -> 3.6
clutter-gst-3.0: upgrade 3.0.26 -> 3.0.27
cmake: update to 3.14.1
connman: update to 1.36
createrepo-c: update to 0.12.1
cryptodev: 1.9 -> 1.10
cups: upgrade to 2.2.10
curl: upgrade to 7.64.0
dbus-test: upgrade to 1.12.12
dbus: upgrade to 1.12.12
debianutils: update to 4.8.6.1
diffutils: upgrade to 3.7
dmidecode: update to 3.2
dnf: update to 4.1.0
dpkg: Upgrade to 1.19.4
dropbear: update to 2019.77
e2fsprogs: 1.44.3 -> 1.44.5
ed: upgrade 1.14.2 -> 1.15
eglinfo: upgrade SRCREV to 223817ee3798
elfutils: 0.174 -> 0.176
epiphany: update to 3.30.3
ethtool: 4.17 -> 4.19
eudev: upgrade 3.2.5 -> 3.2.7
ffmpeg: update to 4.1.1
file: upgrade 5.34 -> 5.36
fts: Bump FTS to version 1.2.7
gcc: Update to 8.3 latest on 8.x release
gcr: upgrade 3.28.0 -> 3.28.1
gdbm: update to 1.18.1
gdb: Upgrade 8.2 -> 8.2.1
gdk-pixbuf: update to 2.38.0
ghostscript: 9.25 -> 9.26
git: 2.18.1 -> 2.20.1
glib-2.0: upgrade 2.58.0 -> 2.58.3
glibc: Update to 2.29 release
glib-networking: upgrade 2.54.1 -> 2.60.1
gnome-desktop-testing: upgrade to 2018.1
gnu-config: upgrade to 20181128 revision
gnu-efi: upgrade 3.0.8 -> 3.0.9
gnupg: upgrade 2.2.9 -> 2.2.13
gnutls: update to 3.6.5
go: add recipes for 1.12.1 and make it default
go: Upgrade 1.11.1 -> 1.11.4 minor release
gobject-introspection: update to 1.58.3
gpgme: 1.11.1 -> 1.12.0
grep: upgrade 3.1 -> 3.3
gsettings-desktop-schemas: upgrade 3.28.0 -> 3.28.1
gst-examples: upgrade to latest revision
gstreamer1.0: upgrade to version 1.14.4
gstreamer1.0-libav: upgrade to version 1.14.4
gstreamer1.0-omx: upgrade to version 1.14.4
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad: upgrade to version 1.14.4
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base: upgrade to version 1.14.4
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good: upgrade to version 1.14.4
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly: upgrade to version 1.14.4
gstreamer1.0-python: upgrade to version 1.14.4
gstreamer1.0-rtsp-server: upgrade to version 1.14.4
gstreamer1.0-vaapi: upgrade to version 1.14.4
gst-validate: upgrade 1.14.2 -> 1.14.4
gtk+3: update to 3.24.5
gzip: upgrade 1.9 -> 1.10
harfbuzz: upgrade 1.8.8 -> 2.3.1
hdparm: upgrade 9.56 -> 9.58
i2c-tools: upgrade 4.0 -> 4.1
icu: update to 63.1
iproute2: 4.18.0 -> 4.19.0
iso-codes: upgrade 4.1 -> 4.2
json-glib: upgrade 1.4.2 -> 1.4.4
kexec-tools: update 2.0.19
kmod: upgrade to 26
kmscube: update to latest commit
less: upgrade 530 -> 550
libassuan: update to 2.5.3
libatomic-ops: upgrade 7.6.6 -> 7.6.8
libcap: upgrade 2.25 -> 2.26
libcomps: upgrade 0.1.8 -> 0.1.10
libdnf: update to 0.26.0
libdrm: Upgrade 2.4.94 -> 2.4.97
libepoxy: upgrade 1.5.2 -> 1.5.3
liberror-perl: upgrade 0.17026 -> 0.17027
libevdev: upgrade 1.5.9 -> 1.6.0
libfm-extra: upgrade 1.3.0.2 -> 1.3.1
libfm: upgrade 1.3.0.2 -> 1.3.1
libfontenc: update to 1.1.4
libgcrypt: upgrade 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4
libgpg-error: Bump to version 1.35
libinput: upgrade 1.11.3 -> 1.12.6
libjpeg-turbo: upgrade 2.0.0 -> 2.0.2
libmodulemd: update to 2.1.0
libpcap: upgrade 1.8.1 -> 1.9.0
libpcre2: update to 10.32
libpcre: upgrade to 8.43
libpipeline: update to 1.5.1
libpng: upgrade 1.6.35 -> 1.6.36
librepo: update to 1.9.4
libsdl2: upgrade 2.0.8 -> 2.0.9
libsecret: upgrade 0.18.6 -> 0.18.7
libsm: update to 1.2.3
libsolv: update to 0.7.3
libsoup: upgrade to 2.64.2
libunwind: Upgrade to 1.3.1 release
liburcu: upgrade 0.10.1 -> 0.10.2
libva: update 2.2.0 -> 2.4.0
libva-utils: 2.2.0 -> 2.4.0
libwebp: update to 1.0.2
libx11-diet: update to 1.6.7
libx11: update to 1.6.7
libxau: upgrade 1.0.8 -> 1.0.9
libxcb: update to 1.13.1
libxcomposite: update to 0.4.5
libxcrypt: Upgrade to 4.4.2
libxcursor: update 1.2.0
libxdamage: update to 1.1.5
libxkbcommon: update to 0.8.4
libxslt: update to 1.1.33
lighttpd: update to 1.4.53
linux-firmware: Bump revision to 7bc2464
linux-libc-headers: update to 5.x headers
linux-yocto: introduce 4.19 recipes (4.19.30)
linux-yocto: introduce 5.0.3 recipes
linux-yocto-rt/4.19: update to -rt16
llvm: upgrade to 8.0.0
logrotate: upgrade 3.14.0 -> 3.15.0
ltp: Bump to 20190115
lttng-modules: upgrade 2.10.7 -> 2.10.8
lttng-tools: Upgrade 2.9.5 -> 2.10.6
lttng-ust: upgrade 2.10.1 -> 2.10.3
lz4: upgrade 1.8.2 -> 1.8.3
lzip: upgrade 1.20 -> 1.21
lzop: upgrade 1.03 -> 1.04
man-db: 2.8.3 -> 2.8.4
mc: upgrade 4.8.21 -> 4.8.22
mdadm: Upgrade to 4.1
menu-cache: upgrade 1.0.2 -> 1.1.0
mesa: Update 18.1.9 -> 19.0.1
meson: update to 0.49.2
mklibs-native: 0.1.43 -> 0.1.44
mobile-broadband-provider-info: upgrade 20170310 -> 20190116
mpfr: Upgrade to 4.0.2 release
mtools: upgrade 4.0.18 -> 4.0.19
musl: Upgrade to master beyond 1.1.21
nasm: Upgrade 2.13.03 -> 2.14.02
ncurses: upgrade 6.1 -> 6.1+20181013
netbase: update to 5.6
nettle: update to 3.4.1
nfs-utils: Upgrade to 2.3.3
ninja: update to 1.9.0
nspr: update 4.21
nss: update to 3.42.1
ofono: upgrade 1.24 -> 1.25
openssh: Update to 7.9
openssl10: update to 1.0.2r
openssl: update to 1.1.1b
opkg: upgrade to version 0.4.0
opkg-utils: upgrade to version 0.4.0
p11-kit: upgrade 0.23.14 -> 0.23.15
pcmanfm: upgrade 1.3.0 -> 1.3.1
perl: add a version that builds the recipe using perl-cross, and update to 5.28.1
piglit: upgrade to current HEAD
pixman: upgrade 0.34.0 -> 0.38.0
pkgconf: upgrade 1.5.3 -> 1.6.0
powertop: update to 2.10
pseudo: update to latest master
psmisc: update to 23.2
ptest-runner: Upgrade to 2.3.1
python3-gitdb: upgrade 2.0.4 -> 2.0.5
python3-pbr: upgrade to 5.1.2
python3-pip: upgrade 18.0 -> 19.0.2
python3-setuptools: upgrade 40.0.0 -> 40.8.0
python3-six: upgrade 1.11.0 -> 1.12.0
python3-smmap: upgrade to 2.0.5
python3: upgrade to 3.7.2
qemu: Bump to version 3.1
readline: upgrade 7.0 -> 8.0
rng-tools: 5 -> 6.6
rpcbind: 0.2.4 -> 1.2.5
rpm: update to 4.14.2.1
ruby: upgrade 2.5.1 -> 2.5.3
sbc: upgrade 1.3 -> 1.4
sqlite3: Update to 3.27.2
strace: upgrade to version 4.26
subversion: upgrade 1.10.0 -> 1.11.1
sudo: upgrade to 1.8.27
syslinux: upgrade to 6.04-pre2
sysprof: update to 3.30.2
sysstat: upgrade to 12.1.3
systemd-boot: upgrade to 241
systemd: Update to systemd-stable v241-stable release
systemtap: update to enable 5.0 kernel capabilities
tar: upgrade to 1.31
tcl: Upgrade to 8.6.9
tiff: update to 4.0.10
tzdata/tzcode-native: update to 2019a
u-boot: Upgrade to 2019.01 release
vala: update to 0.42.5
wayland-protocols: upgrade 1.16 -> 1.17
wayland: upgrade 1.16.0 -> 1.17.0
webkitgtk: update to 2.22.7
wget: upgrade 1.19.5 -> 1.20.1
wpa-supplicant: update to 2.7
x264: update to latest on stable branch
xev: update to 1.2.3
xf86-input-libinput: update to 0.28.2
xf86-video-intel: update to latest
xhost: update to 1.0.8
xinit: update to 1.4.1
xkeyboard-config: update to 2.26
xmodmap: update to 1.0.10
xprop: update to 1.2.4
xserver-xorg: update to 1.20.4
xvinfo: update to 1.1.4
yocto-uninative: Update to 2.4

license

The following corrections have been made to the LICENSE values set by recipes:

socat: corrected LICENSE to be GPLv2 rather than GPLv2+
libgfortran: Set license to GPL-3.0-with-GCC-exception
elfutils: removed Elfutils-Exception and set GPLv2 for shared libraries

Known Issues

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