Release 3.3 (hardknott)

This section provides migration information for moving to the Yocto Project 3.3 Release (codename “hardknott”) from the prior release.

Minimum system requirements

You will now need at least Python 3.6 installed on your build host. Most recent distributions provide this, but should you be building on a distribution that does not have it, you can use the buildtools-tarball (easily installable using scripts/install-buildtools) — see Required Git, tar, Python, make and gcc Versions for details.

Removed recipes

The following recipes have been removed:

  • go-dep: obsolete with the advent of go modules

  • gst-validate: replaced by gst-devtools

  • linux-yocto: removed 5.8 version recipes (5.4 / 5.10 still provided)

  • vulkan-demos: replaced by vulkan-samples

Single version common license file naming

Some license files in meta/files/common-licenses have been renamed to match current SPDX naming conventions:

  • AGPL-3.0 -> AGPL-3.0-only

  • GPL-1.0 -> GPL-1.0-only

  • GPL-2.0 -> GPL-2.0-only

  • GPL-3.0 -> GPL-3.0-only

  • LGPL-2.0 -> LGPL-2.0-only

  • LGPL-2.1 -> LGPL-2.1-only

  • LGPL-3.0 -> LGPL-3.0-only

Additionally, corresponding “-or-later” suffixed files have been added e.g. GPL-2.0-or-later.

It is not required that you change LICENSE values as there are mappings from the original names in place; however, in rare cases where you have a recipe which sets LIC_FILES_CHKSUM to point to file(s) in meta/files/common-licenses (which in any case is not recommended) you will need to update those.

New python3targetconfig class

A new python3targetconfig class has been created for situations where you would previously have inherited the python3native class but need access to target configuration data (such as correct installation directories). Recipes where this situation applies should be changed to inherit python3targetconfig instead of python3native. This also adds a dependency on target python3, so it should only be used where appropriate in order to avoid unnecessarily lengthening builds.

Some example recipes where this change has been made: gpgme, libcap-ng, python3-pycairo.

setup.py path for Python modules

In a Python module, sometimes setup.py can be buried deep in the source tree. Previously this was handled in recipes by setting S to point to the subdirectory within the source where setup.py is located. However with the recent pseudo changes, some Python modules make changes to files beneath ${S}, for example:

S = "${WORKDIR}/git/python/pythonmodule"

then in setup.py it works with source code in a relative fashion, such as ../../src. This causes pseudo to fail as it isn’t able to track the paths properly. This release introduces a new DISTUTILS_SETUP_PATH variable so that recipes can specify it explicitly, for example:

S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
DISTUTILS_SETUP_PATH = "${S}/python/pythonmodule"

Recipes that inherit from distutils3 (or setuptools3 which itself inherits distutils3) that also set S to point to a Python module within a subdirectory in the aforementioned manner should be changed to set DISTUTILS_SETUP_PATH instead.

BitBake changes

  • BitBake is now configured to use a default umask of 022 for all tasks (specified via a new BB_DEFAULT_UMASK variable). If needed, umask can still be set on a per-task basis via the umask varflag on the task function, but that is unlikely to be necessary in most cases.

  • If a version specified in PREFERRED_VERSION is not available this will now trigger a warning instead of just a note, making such issues more visible.

Packaging changes

The following packaging changes have been made; in all cases the main package still depends upon the split out packages so you should not need to do anything unless you want to take advantage of the improved granularity:

  • dbus: -common and -tools split out

  • iproute2: split ip binary to its own package

  • net-tools: split mii-tool into its own package

  • procps: split ps and sysctl into their own packages

  • rpm: split build and extra functionality into separate packages

  • sudo: split sudo binary into sudo-sudo and libs into sudo-lib

  • systemtap: examples, Python scripts and runtime material split out

  • util-linux: libuuid has been split out to its own util-linux-libuuid recipe (and corresponding packages) to avoid circular dependencies if libgcrypt support is enabled in util-linux. (util-linux depends upon util-linux-libuuid.)

Miscellaneous changes

  • The default poky DISTRO_VERSION value now uses the core metadata’s git hash (i.e. METADATA_REVISION) rather than the date (i.e. DATE) to reduce one small source of non-reproducibility. You can of course specify your own DISTRO_VERSION value as desired (particularly if you create your own custom distro configuration).

  • adwaita-icon-theme version 3.34.3 has been added back, and is selected as the default via PREFERRED_VERSION in meta/conf/distro/include/default-versions.inc due to newer versions not working well with librsvg 2.40. librsvg is not practically upgradeable at the moment as it has been ported to Rust, and Rust is not (yet) in OE-Core, but this will change in a future release.

  • ffmpeg is now configured to disable GPL-licensed portions by default to make it harder to accidentally violate the GPL. To explicitly enable GPL licensed portions, add gpl to PACKAGECONFIG for ffmpeg using a bbappend (or use PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-ffmpeg = " gpl" in your configuration.)

  • connman is now set to conflict with systemd-networkd as they overlap functionally and may interfere with each other at runtime.

  • Canonical SPDX license names are now used in image license manifests in order to avoid aliases of the same license from showing up together (e.g. GPLv2 and GPL-2.0)