EDK II Release Notes

edk2-stable201905 tag

New Features

• Update OpenSSL version to upcoming 1.1.1
• Add new tool chain for LLVM/CLANG8.0
• FeatureFlagExpression Support in LibraryClasses section of INF file
• Delete EdkCompatibilityPkg from edk2/master
• Remove IntelFrameworkPkg
• Remove IntelFrameworkModulePkg
• Remove .S assembly code for IA32 and X64 arch
• Replace BSD 2-Clause License with BSD + Patent Licence
• Recovery PEI BlockIO support for ATA device
• Standardize EDK II PI root-of-trust verification implementation
• Add PCD to Enabled/Disabled IPv4/IPv6 PXE Support in NetworkPkg
• Remove NetworkPkg/IpSecDxe
• Add api to DebubLib to expose a print routine with VaList parameter
• Introduce DebugPpi to save the image size with the debug message
• ResetSystemLib Adds a new API ResetSystem
• ResetUtilityLib Add a new API ResetSystemWithSubtype
• Add support for get organization name to x509 in BaseCryptLib
• Add support for checking x509 EKUs in BaseCryptLib
• Add support for PKCS 1v2 RSAES-OAEP PKI encryption in BaseCryptLib
• Remove ShellBinPkg from edk2/master

Uncyclo

TBD

Update Notes

1. PEIM DebugServicePei and library instance PeiDebugLibDebugPpi are added to save the PEIM Debug Image size. This can be enabled in platform DSC/FDF. Platform DSC is changed to include DebugServicePei and update DebugLib library instance.

[LibraryClasses.Common.PEIM]
  DebugLib|MdeModulePkg/Library/PeiDebugLibDebugPpi/PeiDebugLibDebugPpi.inf

[Components]
  MdeModulePkg/Universal/DebugServicePei/DebugServicePei.inf {
    <LibraryClasses>
      DebugLib|MdeModulePkg/Library/PeiDxeDebugLibReportStatusCode/PeiDxeDebugLibReportStatusCode.inf
  }

Platform FDF also needs to be changed to include DebugServicePei and place it into apriori list.

[FV.PEIFV]
APRIORI PEI {
  INF  MdeModulePkg/Universal/DebugServicePei/DebugServicePei.inf
  }
INF  MdeModulePkg/Universal/DebugServicePei/DebugServicePei.inf