From 8ceb1028659f9f5f921195192cafef9791f29682 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Weickelt Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 16:36:14 +0200 Subject: Add changelog for the 1.16 release Change-Id: Ifaca92559983990b52064edf7ef85fb7a4569bca Reviewed-by: Christian Kandeler --- changelogs/changes-1.16.0.md | 126 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 126 insertions(+) create mode 100644 changelogs/changes-1.16.0.md (limited to 'changelogs/changes-1.16.0.md') diff --git a/changelogs/changes-1.16.0.md b/changelogs/changes-1.16.0.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..23628b904 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelogs/changes-1.16.0.md @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +# General + +* A new freedesktop module helps UNIX application developers to follow the + freedesktop.org guidelines. +* The Android module now allows resourcesDir, sourcesDir and assetsDir to be + specified as relative paths. +* A new ConanfileProbe allows better and more flexible integration of Qbs and + the Conan package manager. +* A new hostArchitecture property has been added to the qbs module. + + +# Language + +* List properties in modules are now merged according to inter-module + dependencies. This is important when flags like cpp.staticLibraries are + contributed by multiple modules with dependencies between each other. + (QBS-1517). +* Dependency matching of multiplexed products is now less strict and does not + require all multiplex properties to match. For instance, if product A is + multiplexed over qbs.architecture and qbs.buildVariant while product B is only + multiplexed over one of these axes, then Qbs no longer fails (QBS-1515). + + +# C/C++ Support + +* The Renesas RL78 architecture is now supported in GCC and IAR and the + toolchains are auto-detected by qbs-setup-toolchains. +* The Renesas RX as well as the RH850, V850, 78K are now supported in IAR and + the toolchains are auto-detected by qbs-setup-toolchains. +* The MPLAB X32 GCC-based toolchain is now auto-detected on Windows. +* Multiple occurrences of static libraries on the linker command line are now + pruned and the last instance always wins when using GCC or LLVM-based + toolchains. This avoids problems with excessively long linker command lines + (QBS-1273). +* Clang-cl and MSVC toolchains use the compiler frontend instead of the linker + when linking. The old behavior can be restored by setting cpp.linkerMode to + "manual". This allows to use sanitizers with clang-cl by passing + "-fsanitise=xxx" via cpp.driverFlags (QBS-1522). +* The clang-cl toolchain now uses "link.exe" as the default linker. + "lld-link.exe" can be explicitly selected by setting cpp.linkerVariant to + "lld" (QBS-1522). +* The MSVC, clang-cl and MinGW toolchains are now automatically detected if the + profile does not set an explicit installation location, for instance because + no profile was given. +* Installation of separate debug information can now be enabled and configured + by simply setting the installDebugInformation and debugInformationInstallDir + properties in the Application and Library convenience items. This works for + toolchains based upon GCC, MSVC or clang-cl. +* Xcode version 11.4 is now supported on macOS. + + +# Qt Support + +* Qbs now supports Qt 5.14 for Android which comes as a multi-architecture + package. The qbs-setup-android tool has been updated accordingly (QBS-1497). +* JSON metatype files generated by moc (Qt >= 5.15) are supported by setting + Qt.core.generateMetaTypesFile and Qt.core.metaTypesInstallDir (QBS-1531). +* Pure debug builds of Qt (>= 5.14) with MinGW are now properly supported. They + don't have the 'd' suffix (QTBUG-80792). +* The QML type declaration mechanism introduced in Qt 5.15 is now supported by + the Qt.qml module (QBS-1531). +* Generated qmltypes files are now named according to the product's targetName + property (QTBUG-82710). + + +# Documentation + +* The how-to chapter has been extended with sections about debugging Qbs files + and about building separate debug information in C++ projects. +* The item and module reference documentation has been improved for the + cpp.libraryPaths, cpp.dynamicLibraries (QBS-1516), qbs.toolchainType and + qbs.toolchain properties as well as the Export item and the Library + convenience item. +* Documentation for various path probes has been added (QBS-1187). +* The README was extended and a CONTRIBUTING file has been added which provides + useful information for potential contributors. This is important for people + looking at our github mirror. + + +# Infrastructure + +* The Debian Docker image has been removed. +* We are now using ccache and clcache in our CI pipelines to shrink the build + time. +* Clang-tidy is now used to identify potential problems in the code base and a + lot of action was taken upon a lot of findings. +* A Docker image for testing Qbs with Android and Qt has been added. + + +# Important Bug Fixes + +* Fix nullpointer access and heap-use-after-free error (QBS-1485). +* Select the right instance when Depends.profiles is used on a dependency with + an aggregator product (QBS-1513). +* Fix crash when specifying a non-existing profile in Depends.profiles + (QBS-1514). +* Try harder to detect GCC toolchains in qbs-setup-toolchains (QBS-1524). +* Code signing for Core Foundation Bundles on macOS has been fixed. +* Automatic artifact scanning now prefers artifacts from product dependencies if + multiple candidates are found. This improves dependency tracking in complex + projects (QBS-1532). +* The grpcIncludePath property in the probufcpp module has been fixed + (QBS-1542). +* Qbs does no longer crash when accessing a property of a non-existent module in + "IDE mode". + + +# Contributors + +* Alberto Mardegan +* Björn Schäpers +* BogDan Vatra +* Christian Kandeler +* Christian Stenger +* Denis Shienkov +* Ivan Komissarov +* Jochen Ulrich +* Joerg Bornemann +* Leon Buckel +* Marius Sincovici +* Maximilian Goldstein +* Mitch Curtis +* Oliver Wolff +* Orgad Shaneh +* Raphaël Cotty +* Richard Weickelt -- cgit v1.2.3