1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK 2 3Release notes for 4.2 (mickledore) 4---------------------------------- 5 6New Features / Enhancements in 4.2 7~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8 9- Python 3.8 is the minimum Python version required on the build host. 10 For host distributions that do not provide it, this is included as part of the 11 :term:`buildtools` tarball. 12 13- This release now supports a new ``addpylib`` directive to enable 14 Python libraries within layers. 15 16 This directive should be added to your layer configuration, 17 as in the below example from ``meta/conf/layer.conf``:: 18 19 addpylib ${LAYERDIR}/lib oe 20 21- Architecture-specific enhancements: 22 23- Kernel-related enhancements: 24 25- QEMU/runqemu enhancements: 26 27- Image-related enhancements: 28 29