Buildroot 2014.02 released

Hi,

Buildroot 2014.02 is released - Go download it at:

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2014.02.tar.gz

or

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2014.02.tar.bz2

Or get it from Git:

git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot

After 3 months of development a new stable Buildroot release is out. Significant changes are:

- Support for external packages/defconfigs (BR2_EXTERNAL). See user manual for details.

- Cleanup of environment variable names for consistency. The download directory location override (BUILDROOT_DL_DIR) is now called BR2_DL_DIR. Likewise the name of the current .config is renamed from BUILDROOT_CONFIG to BR2_CONFIG. Please update your post build scripts if you use this!

- Toolchains: uClibc pread/pwrite fixes, GCC stack corruption on ARM fix, updated Linaro and Sourcery Codebench external toolchains. Internal toolchain support for Microblaze.

- Python and Luarocks package infrastructure support. See user manual for details.

- Large number of new packages (67): Mostly networking related: c-ares, ca-certificates, fping, libmbim, libnfs, libshairplay, libsocketcan, modemmanager, mtr, net-tools, rtmpdump, rtptools, smcroute and tcpreplay. Multimedia: gst1-libav, fswebcam, jasper, lbreakout2, libass, libbluray, libcdio, libmodplug, ltris, minidlna and vlc.
Hardware: avrdude, cwiid, gpm, intel-microcode, iucode-tools, libevdev, mmc-utils, smstools3 and ti-uim.
Python: configobj, dialog, json-schema-validator, keyring, msgpack, posix-ipc, pyasn, pycrypto, pysnmp, pysnmp-apps, pysnmp-mibs, pyusb, simplejson, tornado and versiontools. Lua: lsyscall and luarocks.
Development: apitrace, evemu and ktap.

- New defconfigs: Armadeus APF51 and Zedboard added, updates to a bunch of our existing configs.

And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. See the CHANGES file for details:

http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2014.02

This time we had more than 80 unique contributors! I'm very happy to see so many "new" people next to the "oldtimers". It was once again a very busy cycle with more than 1100 commits (biggest so far!) and changes all over the tree.

This release also marks the 5 year anniversary of us doing regular releases every 3 months!

Many thanks to all the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -n 2013.11..

   188  Gustavo Zacarias
   133  Thomas Petazzoni
    94  Peter Korsgaard
    80  Yann E. MORIN
    73  Thomas De Schampheleire
    58  Bernd Kuhls
    40  Simon Dawson
    33  Axel Lin
    30  Francois Perrad
    30  Samuel Martin
    29  Baruch Siach
    25  Jerzy Grzegorek
    22  Maxime Hadjinlian
    22  Ryan Barnett
    20  Vicente Olivert Riera
    19  Yegor Yefremov
    17  Arnout Vandecappelle
    15  Romain Naour
    12  Fatih A??c?
    11  Spenser Gilliland
    10  Fabio Porcedda
    10  Julien Boibessot
     8  Mischa Jonker
     8  Sven Neumann
     7  Anders Darander
     6  Danomi Manchego
     6  Paul Cercueil
     5  eric.le.bihan.dev at free.fr
     4  Ezequiel Garc?a
     4  Frank Hunleth
     4  Jeremy Kerr
     4  Jeremy Rosen
     4  J?r?me Pouiller
     4  Ludovic Desroches
     4  Marcelo Guti?rrez(UTN/FRH)
     4  Martin Bark
     3  Bj?rn Forsman
     3  Chris Packham
     3  Matt Weber
     3  Peter Seiderer
     3  Shawn Landden
     3  Sonic Zhang
     3  Wojciech M. Zabolotny
     3  trem
     2  Adrien B?raud
     2  Alexander Lukichev
     2  Alexandre Belloni
     2  Anton Blanchard
     2  Anton Kolesov
     2  Arnaud R?billout
     2  Christophe Vu-Brugier
     2  Frank Bergmann
     2  Lucas De Marchi
     2  Nathan Lynch
     2  Naumann Andreas
     2  Sagaert Johan
     2  Stefan S?rensen
     1  Alan Ott
     1  Andi Shyti
     1  Andrew Ruder
     1  Antoine Pierlot-Garcin
     1  Arnaud Aujon
     1  Clayton Shotwell
     1  Daniel Nystr?m
     1  Gary Bisson
     1  Markos Chandras
     1  Mathias De Mar?
     1  Matthew Weber
     1  Max Filippov
     1  Nicolas Dechesne
     1  Nix
     1  Noam Camus
     1  Philippe Reynes
     1  Rafal Fabich
     1  S?bastien Szymanski
     1  Thierry Bultel
     1  Thomas Pedersen
     1  Tristan Lelong
     1  Valentine Barshak
     1  Zoltan Gyarmati
     1  universe II

And a special thanks to our patch reviewers:

git log 2013.11.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | \
sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r

42 "Yann E. MORIN" <[email protected]>
24 Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]> 20 Thomas De Schampheleire <[email protected]> 18 Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <[email protected]> 10 Samuel Martin <[email protected]>
5 Ryan Barnett <[email protected]>
4 "Samuel Martin" <[email protected]>
4 Luca Ceresoli <[email protected]>
4 Gustavo Zacarias <[email protected]>
1 Thomas De Schampheleire <[email protected]> 1 Spenser Gilliland <[email protected]>
1 Simon Dawson <[email protected]>
1 Samuel Martin <[email protected]>
1 Maxime Hadjinlian <[email protected]> 1 Markos Chandras <[email protected]>
1 Julien Boibessot <[email protected]> 1 Ezequiel Garcia <[email protected]> 1 Eric Jarrige <[email protected]>
1 Arvid Picciani <[email protected]>

Once again our autobuilders have helped us fix a huge amount of build issues. Thanks to all the people reviewing failures and fixing issues:

for i in $(git log --format=%H 2013.11..); do \
git show --quiet $i | grep -q http://autobuild && \
git show --quiet --format="%an" $i ; done | sort | uniq -c | \
sort -rn -k1

40 Thomas Petazzoni
28 Gustavo Zacarias
23 Baruch Siach
19 Peter Korsgaard
13 Samuel Martin
10 Ryan Barnett
9 Romain Naour
8 Vicente Olivert Riera
7 Thomas De Schampheleire
6 Simon Dawson
4 Bernd Kuhls
3 Arnout Vandecappelle
3 Francois Perrad
3 Fatih A??c?
3 Fabio Porcedda
2 Yann E. MORIN
2 Spenser Gilliland
2 Maxime Hadjinlian
2 Anton Kolesov
1 Sonic Zhang
1 Julien Boibessot
1 Jeremy Rosen
1 Frank Bergmann
1 Ezequiel Garc?a
1 Clayton Shotwell
1 Christophe Vu-Brugier
1 Axel Lin
1 Alexander Lukichev

A special thanks to Thomas Petazzoni for handling the maintainer duties while I was away!

Next release will be 2014.05. Expect the first release candidate early May, and the final release at the end of the month.

We had a very nice developer days meeting after FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium. Thanks to all the attendees and especially Arnout Vandecappelle for writing a detailed report about the session and to Google and Mind for sponsoring:

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2014-February/088373.html

The next developers meeting will take place just before the Embedded Linux Conference Europe in D?sseldorf, Germany:

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2014-February/088978.html

We are looking for companies willing to sponsor this Developers Meeting. The budget is in the 250-500 EUR range, so it's fairly cheap for most companies, but allows us to cover the cost of the meeting room, and optionally the Saturday dinner for the participants.

And finally we already have a number of interesting changes lined up for the next cycle (either already on next or under review):

- Uptodate systemd package and support for eudev

- Update of the Freescale iMX hardware acceleration and TI graphics drivers

- Python version update and support for building external python packages against python 3.

- Support for Glibc 2.19 in the internal toolchain

- Infrastructure for parallel toplevel builds

- Perl packaging infrastructure

- XBMC

.. And a new website!

Enjoy!

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