Release notes for Yocto-5.1.2 (Styhead)

Security Fixes in Yocto-5.1.2

Fixes in Yocto-5.1.2

  • binutils: stable 2.43.1 branch update

  • bitbake: runqueue: Fix performance of multiconfigs with large overlap

  • bitbake: runqueue: Fix scenetask processing performance issue

  • bitbake: runqueue: Optimise setscene loop processing

  • build-appliance-image: Update to styhead head revision

  • builder: set CVE_PRODUCT

  • buildtools-docs-tarball: Add rsvg so we can handle svg files in docs

  • connman: Fix restart script

  • contributor-guide: submit-changes.rst: suggest to remove the git signature

  • cve-update-nvd2-native: Handle BB_NO_NETWORK and missing db

  • cve-update-nvd2-native: Tweak to work better with NFS DL_DIR

  • dev-manual: bmaptool.rst: correct command for bmaptool-native

  • dev-manual: bmaptool.rst: simplify and fix instructions

  • dev-manual: fix styling of references to bmaptool

  • dnf: drop python3-iniparse from DEPENDS and RDEPENDS

  • do_package/sstate/sstatesig: Change timestamp clamping to hash output only

  • docs: Gather dependencies in poky.yaml.in

  • docs: Update the documentation for SRCPV

  • docs: standards.md: add a section on admonitions

  • docs: update current releases

  • expat: upgrade to 2.6.4

  • gcc: Fix c++: tweak for Wrange-loop-construct

  • ghostscript: upgrade 10.04.0

  • glibc: stable 2.40 branch updates.

  • groff: Fix race issues for parallel build

  • gstreamer1.0-libav: explicitly disable documentation

  • gstreamer1.0: run ptests in parallel

  • gstreamer1.0: upgrade to 1.24.10

  • linux-yocto/6.6: bsp/genericarm64: disable ARM64_SME

  • linux-yocto/6.6: genericarm64.cfg: enable CONFIG_DMA_CMA

  • linux-yocto/6.6: update to v6.6.69

  • lttng-modules: fix sched_stat_runtime changed in Linux 6.6.66

  • migration-guides: add release notes for 4.0.23, 5.0.4, 5.0.5 and 5.1.1

  • oeqa/ssh: Improve performance and log sizes

  • oeqa/utils/gitarchive: Return tag name and improve exclude handling

  • poky.conf: add new tested distros

  • poky.conf: bump version for 5.1.2

  • poky.yaml.in: add missing locales dependency

  • poky.yaml.in: replace inkscape dependency by librsvg2-bin

  • populate_sdk_ext: write_local_conf add shutil import

  • python3-poetry-core: drop python3-six from RDEPENDS

  • python3: upgrade to 3.12.8

  • ref-manual: SSTATE_MIRRORS/SOURCE_MIRROR_URL: add instructions for mirror authentication

  • ref-manual: classes: fix bin_package description

  • ref-manual: devtool-reference: add warning note on deploy-target and shared objects

  • ref-manual: merge two separate descriptions of RECIPE_UPGRADE_EXTRA_TASKS

  • ref-manual: move runtime-testing section to the test-manual

  • ref-manual: packages: move ptest section to the test-manual

  • ref-manual: qa-checks: remove patch-status-core/patch-status-noncore

  • ref-manual: use standardized method accross both ubuntu and debian for locale install

  • reproducible-builds.rst: show how to build a single package

  • resulttool: Add –logfile-archive option to store mode

  • resulttool: Allow store to filter to specific revisions

  • resulttool: Clean up repoducible build logs

  • resulttool: Fix passthrough of –all files in store mode

  • resulttool: Handle ltp rawlogs as well as ptest

  • resulttool: Improve repo layout for oeselftest results

  • resulttool: Trim the precision of duration information

  • resulttool: Use single space indentation in json output

  • rxvt-unicode.inc: disable the terminfo installation by setting TIC to :

  • selftest/reproducible: Clean up pathnames

  • selftest/reproducible: Drop rawlogs

  • shadow: use update-alternatives to handle su.1 and nologin.8

  • system-requirements.rst: add dependencies for pdf builds

  • system-requirements: add fedora 39 to supported distros

  • system-requirements: update list of supported distros

  • systemd-boot: drop intltool-native from DEPENDS

  • systemd: drop intltool-native from DEPENDS

Known Issues in Yocto-5.1.2

  • N/A

Contributors to Yocto-5.1.2

Thanks to the following people who contributed to this release:

  • Alexander Kanavin

  • Antonin Godard

  • Bruce Ashfield

  • Changqing Li

  • Deepthi Hemraj

  • Guénaël Muller

  • Guðni Már Gilbert

  • Hitendra Prajapati

  • Lee Chee Yang

  • Mark Hatle

  • Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi

  • Michael Opdenacker

  • Peter Marko

  • Richard Purdie

  • Robert Yang

  • Ross Burton

  • Sid-Ali

  • Steve Sakoman

  • Sunil Dora

  • Trevor Gamblin

  • Wang Mingyu

  • Xiangyu Chen

  • Yash Shinde

Repositories / Downloads for Yocto-5.1.2

poky

openembedded-core

meta-mingw

bitbake

yocto-docs