Chapter 5. Migrating to a Newer Yocto Project Release

Table of Contents

5.1. Moving to the Yocto Project 1.3 Release
5.1.1. Local Configuration
5.1.2. Recipes
5.1.3. Linux Kernel Naming
5.2. Moving to the Yocto Project 1.4 Release
5.2.1. BitBake
5.2.2. Build Behavior
5.2.3. Proxies and Fetching Source
5.2.4. Custom Interfaces File (netbase change)
5.2.5. Remote Debugging
5.2.6. Variables
5.2.7. Target Package Management with RPM
5.2.8. Recipes Moved
5.2.9. Removals and Renames
5.3. Moving to the Yocto Project 1.5 Release
5.3.1. Host Dependency Changes
5.3.2. atom-pc Board Support Package (BSP)
5.3.3. BitBake
5.3.4. QA Warnings
5.3.5. Directory Layout Changes
5.3.6. Shortened Git SRCREV Values
5.3.7. IMAGE_FEATURES
5.3.8. /run
5.3.9. Removal of Package Manager Database Within Image Recipes
5.3.10. Images Now Rebuild Only on Changes Instead of Every Time
5.3.11. Task Recipes
5.3.12. BusyBox
5.3.13. Automated Image Testing
5.3.14. Build History
5.3.15. udev
5.3.16. Removed and Renamed Recipes
5.3.17. Other Changes

This chapter provides information you can use to migrate work to a newer Yocto Project release. You can find the same information in the release notes for a given release.