[yocto] Yocto Project 1.2.1 release readiness

[Liu, Song]

Hi All,

Thanks to Scott Garman and great support from everyone else, we are getting ready for 1.2.1 release and we will discuss the release readiness in our technical team meeting next Tuesday. What we have in this release mainly includes:

1. Security update and key bug fixes. 
2. Validation of BSP compatibility with Yocto Project 1.2 release.
3. Validation of the following distros: Fedora 17, OpenSuse 12.1 and Ubuntu 12.04  

The full test report for this release is available here: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_1.2.1_Test_Report

Following is the bug fixes and known issues of this release:

  BUG# 	SUMMARY	
 * 1465 	bitbake cannot fetch local files from SRC_URI when -b is used
 * 1858 	Rootfs creation broken when using package_deb as primary PACKAGE_CLASSES with non Debian-OS build system
 * 1892 	Beagleboard doesn't boot
 * 1906 	[QEMU]loses focus in qemux86-64 terminal When I press key [CTRL+L]
 * 1912 	[Beagleboard C4]Segmentation fault when reboot the system with 3.0 kernel
 * 1937 	oe-core build of python 2.7.2 is broken
 * 2142 	bitbake not be stoped when force exit hob in early parising recipes after selected a new arch
 * 2173 	[Hob2] Hob needs documentation for the release.
 * 2219 	[yocto-kernel] fail to find bblayers if TOPDIR is not "build"
 * 2297 	fotowall parallel make race
 * 2298 	ncurses failure non-gplv3 build (race issue)
 * 2311 	SRC checksums are not being checked
 * 2329 	Forwarding only sometimes works from qemu connman-based images
 * 2330 	Yocto BSP Tools: add doc and error message for meta-intel BSPs
 * 2334 	[Hob2] BB_NUMBER_THREADS not getting set in Hob?
 * 2335 	[Hob2] The "working" animated gif appears to have mis-ordered images
 * 2336 	Proxy sanity check message is getting burried
 * 2340 	[Hob2] Top screen (i) doesn't work on Hob in the Build Appliance
 * 2341 	[Hob2] weird 18 second delay when parsing recipes
 * 2352 	Security vulnerability in libpng 1.2.46
 * 2355 	[multilib] lib64 core-sato-sdk build against qemux86 fails at qt4-x11-free
 * 2356 	[multilib] fonts corrupted with ipk build for 32bit connman against qemux86-64
 * 2360 	PACKAGE_ARCHS cause wrong packages installed into image
 * 2362 	pseudo-native failed to compile on opensuse12.1 64bit
 * 2363 	duplicated bash causes do_rootfs failed on Fedora 17
 * 2366 	meta-yocto/recipes-core/netbase/netbase_4.45.bbappend misses ${PV}
 * 2368 	Security vulnerability in openssl 1.0.0h
 * 2371 	[Hob]Handle out of memory exception in HOB
 * 2372 	[eclipse]Can't import or create Bitbake Commander Project if sanity network check fail
 * 2374 	[eglibc] mtrace should be packaged on it's own
 * 2384 	Update distro version warning to not warn about new Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSUSE releases
 * 2385 	live image install doesn't work with mmcblk devices
 * 2411 	Buildhistory multiple commits broken
 * 2437 	Yocto-bsp tool in Eclipse fail to create BSP
 * 2468 	Security vulnerabilities in freetype 2.4.8 

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Known Issues
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The Yocto project uses an implementation of Bugzilla at http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org
to handle bug tracking.  You should always consult that source first when experiencing
any issue with a Yocto Project release.

The following bugs are known issues in 1.2.1 and are currently scheduled to be fixed in the next Denzil release, 1.2.2:

   BUG# 	SUMMARY
 * 2724 	Denzil fails to build on host distros that use eglibc 2.16

Please take a look and be prepared for the release readiness discussion next Tuesday. Feel free to respond to this email too if you have any comments.

Thanks,
Song