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
- 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
- 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

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
asciidoc: use Python 3 port
bind-utils: Install nslookup
busybox: Enable domain search list support
busybox: Enable mountpoint and setsid applets
ccache.bbclass: Make it can 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
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
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
qemumips: Enable the poweroff driver
scripts: Add oe-pylint
runqemu: Add serialstdio mode
image_types: add base64 conversion
sstate: Implement hash equivalence sstate
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
licence: Add license file CC-BY-SA-4.0
Set default CONNECTIVITY_CHECK_URIS for OE-Core

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

optimisation

locale: Allow usage of cross-localedef for ARC
meta/icecc.bbclass: Move system blacklist to variables
sstate.bbclass: set SSTATE_EXTRAPATHWILDCARD explicitly
sstate.bbclass: Only remove sstate file when task is existed
bitbake: pysh: Remove unused modules
bitbake: pysh/sherrors.py: Remove unused classes
runqemu: clean up subprocess usage
linux-yocto: remove obselete options from lxc config
glibc: Remove site_config and glibc-initial
gcc: Drop gcc-cross-initial and use gcc-cross instead
package_ip.bbclass: add xz threading
bitbake: bitbake-diffsigs: Merge with bitbake-dumpsig
sstate: add support for caching shared workdir tasks
cmake-native: Set --parallel for configure
bitbake: cooker: Remove Feeder() since its no longer needed with moderm multiprocessing
bitbake: cooker: Split recipes to parse amongst threads ahead of time
buildhistory: simplify buildhistory_list_files()
pulseaudio: switch configuration module from GConf to GSettings
cmake.bbclass: Make it work with ccache
apr/openssl10: Enable ccache for them
rpm: produce sane amount of logging when creating a rootfs
bitbake: gitsm.py: Optimize code and attempt to resolve locking issue
bitbake: gitsm.py: revise unpack
bitbake: gitsm.py: Rework the shallow fetcher and test case
bitbake: gitsm.py: Refactor the functions and simplify the class
bitbake: bb.data_smart: only try to expand refs to valid variable names
gettext: Add --cache-file to EXTRA_OECONF
ncurses: Add --cache-file to EXTRA_OECONF
gcc-runtime: Add --cache-file to EXTRA_OECONF
packagegroup.bbclass: Set INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS
kmscube: make gstreamer dependency optional
lib/oe/reciputils.py: parallelize upstream version checks
dbus: volatiles are only needed by sysvinit configuration
base-files: filesystems serves no real purpose
util-linux: remove erroneous patch (qsort_r)
update-alternatives: convert file renames to PACKAGE_PREPROCESS_FUNCS
timezone: refactor to simplify maint
qemuarm64: Use arch-armv8a tune instead of arch-armv8
OpkgPM: use --add-ignore-recommends to process BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS
util-linux: be more explicit about what files go into packages
util-linux: simplify meta-package RDEPENDS / RRECOMMENDS
util-linux: final cleanup
package: Rework debug source file handling
quilt-native: Remove RDEPENDS on util-linux-native
glib-2.0: Improve shared-mime-info dependency handling
libc-package.bbclass: Add a progress meter for the package task
mesa: Replace dri-native with dri for native and nativesdk classes
openssl: move c_rehash pkg to avoid perl dep
qemu: split the native version into usermode and system parts
default-distrovars: Drop DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC
openssl: drop Python 2.x dependency in -ptest
libpcre: recipe cleanup
libpcre: enable JIT
linux-yocto/4.19: configuration cleanups
packagegroup-self-hosted: remove lrzsz
packagegroup-core-tools-testapps: remove lrzsz
util-linux: remove spurious lzo-native dependency
glibc: Drop upstream rejected patches
qemuarm64: config cleanups
rng-tools: Make nistbeacon support optional
kmod: Remove compatibility for ancient hosts
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly: remove redundant libid3tag dependency
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad: remove redundant jpeg dependency
cmake: Reduce verbosity for make invocation
openssl: Remove the c_rehash shell re-implementation
insane: improve license checksumming logic
qemumips64: change tune to mips64r2
bitbake: fetch2: Use bb.utils.to_boolean() for BB_NO_NETWORK
llvm: doesn't actually need pythonnative
llvm: don't inherit perlnative
tzdata: Install everything by default
xmlto: clean up RDEPENDS
gobject-introspection: auto-enable/-disable gobject-introspection for meson

packageconfig

sqlite3: add PACKAGECONFIG tunables to enable/disable e.g. index and search functions to allow shrinking the library for very small targets.
gst-plugins-bad: add PACKAGECONFIG for msdk
curl: Add PACKAGECONFIG to enable NSS support
gtk+3: add PACKAGECONFIG for cups
json-glib: upgrade 1.4.2 -> 1.4.4
systemd: Add PACKAGECONFIG for gnutls
pulseaudio: add PACKAGECONFIGs for GConf and GSettings
systemd: only enable polkit if DISTRO_FEATURES asks for polkit
gconf: rename policykit to polkit
consolekit: rename policykit to polkit
systemd: Correct a conditional add to SYSTEMD_PACKAGES
libsdl2: Add packageconfigs jack & kmsdrm
alsa-plugins: 1.1.6 -> 1.1.8
mesa: Replace dri-native with dri for native and nativesdk classes
mesa: Add opengl to native and nativesdk PACKAGECONFIG
util-linux: add the missing manpages PACKAGECONFIG
libpcre: enable JIT
systemd: upgrade to 241
openssl: Add cryptodev-linux PACKAGECONFIG
mtd-utils: add lzo PACKAGECONFIG
squashfs-tools: add PACKAGECONFIGs for all the tunables
systemd: Add PACKAGECONFIG for openssl
wget: Convert EXTRA_OECONF to PACKAGECONFIG, extend PACKAGECONFIG
systemd: Add pattern matching support to PACKAGECONFIG

license

socat: fix LICENSE to be GPLv2 only as per documentation/comments
common-licenses: update Libpng license text
libgfortran: Set license to GPL-3.0-with-GCC-exception
libpam: libpamc is licensed under its own BSD-style licence
elfutils: remove Elfutils-Exception and include GPLv2 for shared libraries

Known Issues

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2.7 Release Notes WIP

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