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Quote for the week

Let the dogs bark, Sancho. It's a sign that we are moving forward. -- Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote

Yoe Release 2023.10 - "Hampshire"

Changed

  • Upgrade clang to 17.0.3
  • Fix libcgroup and kernel-selftest to build with lld linker
  • Fix ptest images to match core layer naming convention
  • Fix ptest reporting issues in meta-oe packages
  • Upgrade mason to 1.2.2
  • Upgrade u-boot to 2023.10
  • Add 6.5 kernel and switch to using it as default for qemu machines
  • Add kernel-selftest to slow ptest image for x86 and enable bpf tests
  • Upgrade cryptodev to build with kernel 6.5
  • Use ttyrun to get getty on busybox init and sysvinit init systems
  • Add static-passwd and static-group files for meta-openembedded layers
  • Fix ptest failures in poco, libtevent, and libnet-idn-encode
  • Add ptests for libldb, cjson, re2
  • Upgrade linux-yocto recipes to v6.1.57, v6.5.7
  • Upgrade go compiler to 1.20.10
  • Upgrade curl to 8.4.0
  • Fix ptests for python3-py-cpuinfo and python3-pytest-mock
  • Add ptest for libtext-diff-perl
  • Update QT6.5 to latest
  • Upgrade openSSH to 9.5p1
  • Update dtb path for qemuarmv5 in linux-yocto 6.5 onwards
  • Fix pvr drivers to work with musl on visionfive2
  • Fix pvr visionfive2 drivers on musl
  • Update nodejs to 20.8.1
  • Make systemd packaging more granular
  • Replace RUNTIME variable with TC_CXX_RUNTIME
  • Do not set powersave as the default CPU governor in linux-raspberrypi
  • Update simpleIOT to 0.13.1
  • Switch to using QT 6.6
  • Update ostree to 2023.7 and add ed25519-openssl support

Added

  • Added recipes - tayga, ttyrun, python3-arrow, python-git-pw
    • libexosip2, libosip2, pcapplusplus
  • Add bblock feature to core
  • Add Yoe updater support for VisionFive2 board

Removed

  • Dropped recipes for linux-yocto/6.4, po4a, debsums
  • Remove bitbake-whatchanged bitbake utility
  • Drop DEPLOY_DIR_TAR variable

Simple IoT release v0.14.1

  • update to nats-server to v2.10.4
  • update to nats client package to v1.31.0
  • development: envsetup.sh sources local.sh if it exists
  • Go client API for export/import nodes to/from YAML
  • siot CLI export and import commands
  • simpleiot-js improvements
  • Network Manager Client (WIP)
  • NTP Client
  • serial client: allow configuration of HR point destination
  • serial client: add "Sync Parent" option
  • Signal generator client: add support for square, triangle, and random walk patterns. See docs
  • fix issue with batched points of the same type/key (#658)

Note, use v0.14.1 with updated frontend assets.

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