Re: bitbake 2 is outdated

[Anton Mikanovich <amikan@ilbers.de>]

10/02/2023 21:35, Henning Schild wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i think we are now at bitbake 2.0.5
>
> a9bbdeeb7174 ("bitbake: update to Bitbake 2.0.5")
>
> upstream is at 2.2
>
> the "small jump" in Isar might have been intentional to split up the
> "major" and "what is to come"
>
> But now that this is done we can/should? look into going from 2.0.5 to
> 2.2.
>
> In the hope that we get fixes and not even more interface changes.
>
> I did not follow why we decided to small jump, it likely makes sense.
> But we should try to catch up and not leave fixes behind now, looking
> at upstream bitbake code for my latest layer migration ... i kind of
> had the feeling we have bugs worth fixing. But no blocking points at
> the moment.
>
> Just a strong feeling that we should keep up to get fixes and detect
> new lurking problems early ... because we have to follow anyhow.
>
> Henning
>
Bitbake 2.0 is used in LTS branch of Yocto 4.0, while 2.2 is used in 4.1
supported until May 2023 only. That's why we've switched to 2.0.5 only 
for now.