3.0 Release Notes WIP

NOTE: The formatting in this page is not meant to look good in the wiki - it's just a convenient place to collaborate. We need to stick to the text formatting that will end up in the actual release notes.

Security Fixes

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New Features / Enhancements

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• Automated CVE analysis improvements [?]
• Adoption of SPDX license identifiers throughout Yocto Project's components
• "Multi-Config" builds reaching their full potential

 - Many bugfixes and improvements
 - sstate cache is now shared between configurations being built concurrently
 - multiconfig configurations can be contained in layers

• Automated tooling to support automated recipe upgrades [?]
• Build change equivalence is detected and used to avoid rebuilding unchanged components***
• Support for the latest host distibutions [?]
• Significant removal of old/obsolete software/patches ensuring we have a modern and up to date core Linux software stack.

 - LSB moved to separate layer (dated, replaced other config systemd)
 - GTK+ 2 moved to meta-oe
 - python2 dependencies minimised
 - many obsolete patches dropped

Recipe Upgrades

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• acpica: update to 20190405
• acpica: upgrade 20190405 -> 20190509
• acpica: upgrade 20190509 -> 20190816
• acpica: upgrade to 20190215

The above will be changed to

• acpica: update to 20190405
• acpica: upgrade 20190405 -> 20190816

license

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Known Issues

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