From c520a76ecdd4a9d940a90de0acc0b7116f1653d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kaspar Schleiser Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 12:45:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] RELEASE 2017.04 --- release-notes.txt | 119 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 119 insertions(+) diff --git a/release-notes.txt b/release-notes.txt index b3da30c93..8d5d17540 100644 --- a/release-notes.txt +++ b/release-notes.txt @@ -1,3 +1,122 @@ +RIOT-2017.04 - Release Notes +============================ +RIOT is a multi-threading operating system which enables soft real-time +capabilities and comes with support for a range of devices that are typically +found in the Internet of Things: 8-bit microcontrollers, 16-bit +microcontrollers and light-weight 32-bit processors. + +RIOT is based on the following design principles: energy-efficiency, soft +real-time capabilities, small memory footprint, modularity, and uniform API +access, independent of the underlying hardware (with partial POSIX compliance). + +RIOT is developed by an international open-source community which is +independent of specific vendors (e.g. similarly to the Linux community) and is +licensed with a non-viral copyleft license (LGPLv2.1), which allows indirect +business models around the free open-source software platform provided by RIOT. + +About this release: +=================== +This release provides a lot of new features, fixes and enhancements. Among +these has been a huge cleanup regarding cppcheck and documentation, and we're +pleased to announce that all remaining doxygen and cppcheck warnings have been +fixed. We're also proud to present a Virtual File System layer and integration +of the SPIFFS file system. A lot of work has gone into support for +STMicroelectronics's Nucleo family, with RIOT now supporting 28 (up from 13) +Nucleo boards. And as always, there was a lot of under-the-hood cleanup, bug +fixing and documentation work. + +About 200 pull requests with about 562 commits have been merged since the last release and about 23 +issues have been solved. 32 people contributed with code in 91 days. 2697 files have been touched with +716950 insertions and 492623 deletions. + +Notations used below: +===================== ++ means new feature/item +* means modified feature/item +- means removed feature/item + +New features and changes +======================== + +Core +---- ++ full C11 atomics support ++ rmutex, a recursive mutex implementation + +API changes +----------- +* renamed NTOH*() -> ntoh*(), HTON*() -> hton*() +- removed gpioint API, which was unnused and obsoleted by periph/gpio +* renamed uuid module to luid + +System libraries +---------------- ++ VFS: virtual file system layer ++ fmt: add print_byte_hex(), fmt_lpad() +- 3DES: removed support as 3DES is considered legacy crypto + +Networking +---------- ++ emCute - a small MQTT-SN implementation ++ sock_dns: a simple DNS resolver + +Packages +-------- ++ SPIFFS, the first file system supported by RIOT's VFS layer ++ jerryscript, a Javascript interpreter + +Drivers +------- +- added dynamixel server motor driver +- removed ltc4150 driver +- removed smb380 driver + +Build System +------------ ++ Experimental distributed building using Murdock ++ most makfiles moved from root into makefiles/ ++ added submodule support + +Special Thanks +============== +We like to give our special thanks to all the companies that provided us with their hardware for +porting and testing, namely the people from (in alphabeticalorder): Atmel, Freescale, Imagination +Technologies, Nordic, OpenMote, Phytec, SiLabs, UDOO, and Zolertia; and also companies that directly +sponsored development time: Cisco Systems, Eistec, Ell-i, Enigeering Spirit, Nordic, OTAkeys and Phytec. + +More information +================ +http://www.riot-os.org + +Mailing lists +------------- +* RIOT OS kernel developers list + devel@riot-os.org (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel) +* RIOT OS users list + users@riot-os.org (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/users) +* RIOT commits + commits@riot-os.org (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/commits) +* Github notifications + notifications@riot-os.org (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/notifications) + +IRC +--- +* Join the RIOT IRC channel at: irc.freenode.net, #riot-os + +License +======= +* Most of the code developed by the RIOT community is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public + License (LGPL) version 2.1 as published by the Free Software Foundation. +* Some external sources are published under a separate, LGPL compatible license + (e.g. some files developedby SICS). + +All code files contain licensing information. + + + + + + RIOT-2017.01 - Release Notes ============================ RIOT is a multi-threading operating system which enables soft real-time capabilities and comes with