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RIOT-2018.07 - Release Notes
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RIOT is a multi-threading operating system which enables soft real-time
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capabilities and comes with support for a range of devices that are typically
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found in the Internet of Things: 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers as well as
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light-weight 32-bit processors.
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RIOT is based on the following design principles: energy-efficiency, soft
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real-time capabilities, small memory footprint, modularity, and uniform API
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access, independent of the underlying hardware (with partial POSIX compliance).
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RIOT is developed by an international open-source community which is
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independent of specific vendors (e.g. similarly to the Linux community) and is
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licensed with a non-viral copyleft license (LGPLv2.1), which allows indirect
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business models around the free open-source software platform provided by RIOT.
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About this release:
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The 2018.07 release includes new features, like NimBLE (ble stack),
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a MQTT-SN client, SHA-1 based PRNG, an UUID implementation. The RISC-V CPU
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architecture support used by the hifive1 board.
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Effort was done on refactoring, documentation, test improvements and bug fixes.
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During the last release, maintainers contributed by running the automated test
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suites on their boards. This gave valuable feedback on the board support state,
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test reliability and where to focus effort to make testing easier and more
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reliable.
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About 380 pull requests with about 675 commits have been merged since the last
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release and about 27 issues have been solved. 45 people contributed with code
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in 93 days. Approximately 1678 files have been touched with 147122 insertions
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and 16060 deletions.
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Notations used below:
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    + means new feature/item
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    * means modified feature/item
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    - means removed feature/item
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New features and changes
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Community
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    + Maintainers guidelines have been written and added to the repository
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Documentation
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    + Fix undefined doxygen groups and add a dedicated static check
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    + Extend `auto_init` documentation
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Core
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    + core: clist_foreach() now returns break-causing node
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System libraries
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    + puf_sram: SRAM PUF feature to seed PRNGs cortex-m platforms
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    + random: SHA-1 based PRNG
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    + matstat: Integer mathematical statistics library
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    + UUID: [RFC4122](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122) Unique ID library
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    * analog_util: Refactor, add unit test
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    - cbor: Deprecation of this module, use cn-cbor or tinycbor package
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      instead
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Networking
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+ asymcute: an asynchronous MQTT-SN client + gnrc_ipv6: full duplicate address detection support according to [RFC4862](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4862) + gnrc_ipv6: support to handle RDNSS option in neighbor discovery + netif.h: a network-stack agnostic API to network interfaces + lorawan: add example application of autonomous class A device * sock_udp: allocate ephemeral port on sock creation when port is 0 * gnrc_netif: Enable RX and TX complete events after netdev initialization * net/gcoap: Refine Observe re-registration * net/nanocoap: Build message with coap_pkt_t Packages -------- + NimBLE: Bluetooth Low Energy stack used in mynewt + TLSF: re-enable original API to have different pools + LUA: Add an example with the shell + semtech-loramac: add support for link_check MAC command * libcose: Use RIOT random_bytes instead of randombytes * tweetnacl: Use RIOT random_bytes instead of randombytes * hacl: Use RIOT random_bytes instead of randombytes Boards ------ + Nucleo boards use their marketing names + HiFive1 (RISC-V) + slstk3402a + stm32f429i-disc1 + stm32l476-disco + nucleo-l496zg + stm32mindev + frdm-k22f, frdm-k64f, frdm-kw41z: Add bus configuration for onboard FXOS8700CQ sensor * mulle: Fix mixed up RX TX pins on UART0 CPU --- + E310 (RISC-V) * kinetis: GPIO: Enable the correct IRQn on CM0+ * kinetis: Refactor PIT timer driver implementation * kinetis: Refactor RTT driver * kinetis: Refactor clock initialization code * kinetis: Refactor LPTMR timer implementation * kinetis: Clean up SPI module power handling * kinetis: Conditionally enable MCG Device Drivers -------------- + periph_eeprom API with support for STM32 L0/L1 and AVR + AT commands parser + Fix periph_flashpage for iotlab-a8-m3/iotlab-m3/fox boards + IO1 Xplained extension: add support for light sensor and SD card, fix GPIOs initialization and SAUL support + tests/bench_timers: A comprehensive benchmark for periph_timer Build System / Tooling ---------------------- + Correctly set the RIOT_VERSION on release archives + iotlab-m3/iotlab-a8-m3: fix boards flashing + Fix use of non completely initialized BASELIBS variable + newlib.mk: extract gcc include search directories for newlib-nano support + llvm: many compatibilities issues have been resolved * testbed-support: use new iot-lab command names Testing ------- + Address some of the failing tests + New tests enabled by default in CI + Improve testing automation for release testing Known Issues ============