- Improve lock file function error handling
- Add username handling to the git fetcher (Robert Bragg)
- Add support for HTTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY_IGNORE variables to the wget fetcher
+ - Export more variables to the fetcher commands to allow ssh checkouts and checkouts through
+ proxies to work better. (from Poky)
+ - Also allow user and pswd options in SRC_URIs globally (from Poky)
+ - Improve proxy handling when using mirrors (from Poky)
Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
- Release 1.7.x as a stable series