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diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-5.0.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-5.0.rst index 4bd9125d179..f53f5459af9 100644 --- a/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-5.0.rst +++ b/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-5.0.rst @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 5.0 - :term:`TARGET_DBGSRC_DIR`: specifies the target path to debug source files + - :term:`USERADD_DEPENDS`: provides a way to declare dependencies on the users + and/or groups created by other recipes, resolving a long-standing build + ordering issue + - Architecture-specific enhancements: - ``genericarm64``: a new :term:`MACHINE` to represent a 64-bit General Arm @@ -155,6 +159,12 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 5.0 - Testing: + - Move `patchtest` to the core (as ``scripts/patchtest``, test cases under + ``meta/lib/patchtest/tests``) and make a number of improvements to enable + it to validate patches submitted on the mailing list again. Additionally, + make it work with the original upstream version of + `Patchwork <http://jk.ozlabs.org/projects/patchwork/>`__. + - Add an optional ``unimplemented-ptest`` QA warning to detect upstream packages with tests, that do not use ptest. @@ -163,6 +173,9 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 5.0 - ``oeqa``, ``oe-selftest``: add test cases for Maturin (SDK and runtime). + - Proof-of-concept of screenshot-based runtime UI test + (``meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/login.py``) + - Enable ptests for ``python3-attrs``, ``python3-pyyaml``, ``xz`` - Utility script changes: @@ -191,8 +204,6 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 5.0 extra tasks if the system load is too high, especially in distributions where ``/proc/pressure`` is disabled. - - Add garbage collection to remove unused unihashes from the database. - - ``taskexp_ncurses``: add ncurses version of ``taskexp``, the dependency explorer originally implemented with GTK. @@ -208,6 +219,17 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 5.0 - ``git-make-shallow`` script: add support for Git's ``safe.bareRepository=explicit`` configuration setting. + - Hash equivalence gained a number of scalability improvements including: + + - Support for a wide range of database backends through `SQLAlchemy` + + - Support for hash equivalence server and client to communicate over websockets + + - Support for per-user permissions in the hashserver, and on the client side + specifying credentials via the environment or .netrc + + - Add garbage collection to remove unused unihashes from the database. + - devtool improvements: - Introduce a new ``ide-sdk`` plugin to generate a configuration to use @@ -255,6 +277,12 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 5.0 incremental update can be configured with :term:`CVE_DB_INCR_UPDATE_AGE_THRES` variable. +- Toaster Web UI improvements: + + - Numerous bugfixes, and additional input validation + + - Add `pytest` support and add/update test cases + - Prominent documentation updates: - Documentation for using the new ``devtool ide-sdk`` command and features. |