Commit 36c966ef authored by Thomas Petazzoni's avatar Thomas Petazzoni
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CHANGES: update for 2013.08-rc1

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2013.08-rc1, Released August 5th, 2013:

	Architectures:
	 - improved support for floating point on ARM and Thumb/Thumb2
	 - support for ARM OABI removed

	Toolchains:
         - support added for Sourcery CodeBench ARM and MIPS 2013.05
         - Linaro ARM and Aarch64 toolchains updated
	 - support added for the Arago ARMv5 and ARMv7 toolchains
	 - gcc 4.8.x version bumped
	 - support for installing both FDPIC and FLAT libraries on
	   Blackfin
	 - support for uClibc 0.9.31 removed,
	 - convert the internal toolchain backend to use the package
	   infrastructure
	 - support added for eglibc in the internal toolchain backend
	 - toolchain components for the ARC architecture updated and
           gdb for ARC added.
	 - support for Blackfin in the internal toolchain fixed

	Defconfigs: beaglebone_defconfig updated, new defconfig for
	CubieBoard, for Olimex mx233 Olinuxino, for Calao Systems
	TNY-A9G20-LPW.

	A number of packages have been fixed to use the
	<pkg>_CONFIG_SCRIPTS mechanism to get their <pkg>-config shell
	script installed and modified properly. Licensing informations
	has been added to a number of packages.

	Use XZ tarballs for a number of packages.

	Noticeable package changes/additions:
         - The glib2/libgtk2/webkit stack has been updated to recent
           versions.
	 - Support for Gstreamer 1.x has been added.
	 - OpenGL support for TI OMAP platforms has been added.
	 - OpenGL support for Allwinner platforms has been added.
	 - OpenMAX support for RasberryPi has been added.

	Updated/fixed packages: acl, attr, autoconf, avahi, barebox,
	bind, binutils, busybox, bwm-ng, bzip2, cifs-utils, colletctd,
	cpanminus, cups, curl, dash, dbus, dhcp, directfb,
	directfb-examples, dnsmasq, dosfstools, dropbear, dtc,
	e2fsprogs, ed, efl, enlightenment, erlang, ethtool, fbgrab,
	fftw, firmware-imx, flot, fltk, freetype, gawk, gdk-pixbuf,
	gettext, gmp, gnutls, gsl, gutenprint, gvfs, gzip, haserl,
	hiawatha, httping, icu, imagemagick, imlib2, imx-lib,
	intltool, iozone, ipset, iptables, jquery, jquery-keyboard,
	jquery-sparkline, kmod, less, libart, libcdaudio, libcgicc,
	libesmtp, libftdi, libfuse, libglib2, libgtk, libgtk2, libidn,
	libiqrf, liblog4c-localtime, libnspr, libnss, libpcap,
	libroxml, libserial, libsigsev, libsoup, libtool, libtpl,
	libvncserver, libxml2, linphone, lm_sensors, logrotate,
	ltrace, lttng, luafilesystem, luajit, minicom, monit, mpg123,
	mtd, mutt, mxml, neard, netatask, netsnmp, nettle,
	network-manager, nodejs, nss-mdns, openssh, openswan, openvpn,
	opkg, opus, pcre, perl-cross, php, pixman, poco, polarssl,
	pulseaudio, pv, python, python3, qt, qt5, qt5declarative,
	qt5jsbackend, qt5quick1, readline, rpi-firmware, ruby, samba,
	sane-backends, sconeserver, sdl_image, sdparm, ser2net,
	socketcand, sqlite, squid, strace, tcl, tcpdump, tinyhttpd,
	tvheadend, tzdata, uboot, udpcast, usb_modeswitch,
	usb_modeswitch_data, usbutils, webkit, wireshark, wvstreams,
	xapp_luit, xapp_xmodmap, xenomai, xfsprogs, xlib_libX11, zic,
	zlib.

	New packages: a10disp, aespipe, am33x-cm3, cppcms, dhcpcd,
	dropwatch, dtc, ecryptfs-utils, eglibc, elf2flt, fdk-aac,
	gcc-final, gcc-initial, gcc-intermediate, git,
	gpu-viv-bin-mx6q, gst1-plugins-bad, gst1-plugins-base,
	gst1-plugins-good, gst1-plugins-ugly, gst-omx,
	gst-plugin-x170, gstreamer1, jimtcl, lbase64, libassuan,
	libbsd, libcec, libdvbsi, libedit, libgpgme, libqmi,
	libqrencode, libsvg, libsvg-cairo, libunwind, libvpx,
	linux-headers, lockdev, luabitop, luacrypto, lua-ev,
	luaexpatutils, msgpack, ocrad, on2-8170-libs,
	on2-8170-modules, p11-kit, pax-utils, ptpd, ptpd2,
	python-pyro, ramspeed/smp, snappy, strongswan, sunxi-boards,
	sunxi-cedarx, sunxi-mali, sunxi-tools, ti-gfx, tinymembench,
	tree, tstools, uclibc, w_scan.

	Issues resolved (http://bugs.uclibc.org):

	#4718: python (built for powerpc) distutils has paths to host
               compiler toolchain
	#5516: appended device tree blobs on uImage fails
	#6302: Versions of packages retrieved from github.com are wrong
	#6308: dosfstools download link is wrong
	#6326: Dropbear: Add options to allow better config for
               different target devices (e.g. routers)
	#6338: Wrong download link for minicom package
	#6344: Wrong handling of license text files with same name and
               different directory
	#6374: gnutls package broken if linux cryptodev module
               selected
	#6410: omap3_beagle has uimage error load address error

2013.05, Released May 31th, 2013:

	Minor fixes.