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RIOT-2018.07 - 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 and 16-bit microcontrollers as well as
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:
===================
The 2018.07 release includes new features, like NimBLE (ble stack),
a MQTT-SN client, SHA-1 based PRNG, an UUID implementation. The RISC-V CPU
architecture support used by the hifive1 board.
Effort was done on refactoring, documentation, test improvements and bug fixes.
During the last release, maintainers contributed by running the automated test
suites on their boards. This gave valuable feedback on the board support state,
test reliability and where to focus effort to make testing easier and more
reliable.
About 380 pull requests with about 675 commits have been merged since the last
release and about 27 issues have been solved. 45 people contributed with code
in 93 days. Approximately 1678 files have been touched with 147122 insertions
and 16060 deletions.
Notations used below:
=====================
+ means new feature/item
* means modified feature/item
- means removed feature/item
New features and changes
========================
Community
---------
+ Maintainers guidelines have been written and added to the repository
Documentation
-------------
+ Fix undefined doxygen groups and add a dedicated static check
+ Extend `auto_init` documentation
Core
----
+ core: clist_foreach() now returns break-causing node
System libraries
----------------
+ puf_sram: SRAM PUF feature to seed PRNGs cortex-m platforms
+ random: SHA-1 based PRNG
+ matstat: Integer mathematical statistics library
+ UUID: [RFC4122](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122) Unique ID library
* analog_util: Refactor, add unit test
- cbor: Deprecation of this module, use cn-cbor or tinycbor package
instead
Networking
----------
+ 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
============
Networking related issues
-------------------------
#4527: gnrc_ipv6: Multicast is not forwarded if routing node listens to the
address
#5016: gnrc_rpl: Rejoining RPL instance as root after reboot messes up rooting
#5051: Forwarding a packet back to its link layer source should not be allowed
#5230: gnrc_ipv6: multicast packes are not dispatched to the upper layers
#5748: gnrc: nodes crashing with too small packet buffer
#6123: gnrc: crash with (excessive) traffic in native
#7474: 6lo: gnrc fragmentation expects driver to block on TX
#7737: pkg: libcoap is partially broken and outdated
#8086: gnrc_rpl_p2p: not compiling
#8130: gcoap: can't build witth network stacks other than gnrc
#8172: gnrc_netif, gnrc_uhcpc: Replacing prefix on border router results in no
configured prefix
#8271: app/netdev: application stops working after receiving frames with
assertion or completely without error
#9616: at86rf2xx: can not correctly set channel after `NETOPT_STATE_RESET`
#9656: gnrc/netif: various problems after resetting interface a second time
#9573: pkg/lwip: assert on samr21-xpro
#9584: drivers/cc2420: add netopt NETOPT_MAX_PACKET_SIZE
Timer related issues
--------------------
#5103: xtimer: weird behavior of tests/xtimer_drift
#5338: xtimer: xtimer_now() is not ISR safe
#6052: tests: xtimer_drift_gets_stuck
#7114: xtimer: adds items to the wrong list if the timer overflows between
_xtimer_now() and irq_disable()
#7347: xtimer_usleep stuck for small values
#8251: telosb: timer config wrong when running o a tmote sky
#9052: misc issues with tests/trickle
Native related issues
---------------------
#495: native not float safe
#5796 native: tlsf: early malloc will lead to a crash
#6442: cpu/native: timer interrupt issue
#7206: native: race-condition in IPC
Other platforms related issues
------------------------------
#4512: pkg: tests: RELIC unittests fail on iotlab-m3
#4612: pkg: TLSF does not build for 16 bit platforms
#4872: at86rf2xx: Simultaneous use of different transceiver types is not
supported
#4954: chronos: compiling with -O0 breaks
#4866: periph: GPIO drivers are not thread tafe
#5009: RIOT is saw-toothing in energy consumption (even when idling)
#5128: some use of asm keyword might be missing volatile
#5486: at86rf2xx: lost interrupts
#5774: cpu: cortexm_common: context switching code breaks when compiling with
LTO
#5848: arduino: Race condition in sys/arduino/Makefile.include
#6018: nRF52: gnrc 6lowpan ble memory leak
#6437: periph/spi: Leftovers from SPI rework in #4780
#6567: periph/spi: Switching between CPOL=0,1 problems on Kinetis with software
CS
#6650: GPIO Port shift in cc2538 is unconsistent
#6838: Issuing a reboot on ATmega328p makes the board loop-reboot
#6874: SAMD21: possible CMSIS bug
#7020: isr_rfcoreerrors while pinging between CC2538DKs
#7667: sam0 flashpage_write issues
#7846: stm32f1: I2C read functions return bogus values with unconnected devices
#8028: diskio: failed assertion in send_cmd() on lpc2387
#8045: stm32/periph/uart: extra byte transmitted on first transmission
#8436: Kinetis PhyNode: failed to flash binary > 256K
#8444: tests/thread_priority_inversion hangup
#9616: ATmega platform issues.
Other issues
------------
#1263: sys: the TLSF implementation contains (a) read-before-write error(s)
#4053: macros: RIOT_FILE_RELATIVE printing wrong file name for headers
#4488: making the newlib thread-safe
#5561: C++11 extensions in header files
#5776: make: Predefining CFLAGS are parsed weirdly
#5863: OSX+SAMR21-xpro: shell cannot handle command inputs larger than 64 chars
#6120: Windows AVR Mega development makefile Error
#7220: sys/fmt: Missing tests for fmt_float,fmt_lpad
#7877: SPI connection can't read 16bit size register
#8107: crypto/ccm: bugs in the implementation of CCM mode
#9548: Many i2c bugs found with the i2c api rework but did not reach the release
#9709: examples: failed assertion in dtls-echo example
Fixed Issues from the last release (2018.04)
============================================
#8112 crypto/ccm: fix input_len checking with length_encoding
#8532 kinetis: timer_set_absolute randomly misses its target
#8778 sys/random: random_uint32_range is only uniform if range is a power of 2
bug quality defect
#9065 flashpage_write broken on iotlab-m3
#9154 cpu/lpc2387: Fixed broken SPI driver
#9451 Makefile.include: fully define BASELIBS before using its value
#9579 stm32_common: fix ram length for MCUs with non-contiguous ram regions
#9675 tests: gnrc_netif: fix group join iteration macro
You can get the complete detail in the git history and in the release milestone
[Release 2018.07](https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/milestone/23?closed=1).
Acknowledgements
================
We would like to thank all companies (vendors) that provided us with (their)
hardware for porting and testing RIOT-OS. Further thanks go to companies and
institutions that directly sponsored development time. And finally, big thanks
to all of you contributing in so many different ways to make RIOT worthwhile!
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
=======
* 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 and packages are published under a separate license.
All code files contain licensing information.
RIOT-2018.04 - 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 and 16-bit microcontrollers as well as
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:
===================
The 2018.04 release includes major progress in support for current crypto
libraries. A lot of work has gone into updating drivers to RIOT's unified
configuration scheme. Support for ten new boards has been added. In our quest
to improve and automate testing, many test scripts have been fixed and
improved, and RIOT's CI now runs many tests on real hardware during its nightly
build testing. And as usual, many tiny fixes and improvements have been merged.
About 390 pull requests with about 1073 commits have been merged since the last
release and about 54 issues have been solved. 44 people contributed with code
in 98 days. Approximately 1491 files have been touched with 208426 insertions.
Notations used below:
=====================
+ means new feature/item
* means modified feature/item
- means removed feature/item
New features and changes
========================
System libraries
----------------
- cbor: deprecated in favour of cn-cbor
+ hashes: add sha-3 implementation
Networking
----------
* netdev: replaced "struct iovec" with iolist_t
+ nanocoap: added server-side block1 support
+ skald: a BLE advertising stack
Packages
--------
+ cayenne-lpp: A Cayenne LPP library written in C
+ HACL*: a formally verified cryptographic library written in F*
+ qDSA: Small and Secure Digital Signatures with Curve-based
Diffie--Hellman Key Pairs
+ libcose: Constrained node COSE library
+ cn-cbor: A constrained node implementation of CBOR in C
+ ucglib
Boards
------
+ arduino-mkrfox1200
+ frdm-kw41z
+ jiminy-mega256rfr2
+ mega-xplained
+ nucleo-l433rc
+ nucleo-l452re
+ slstk3401a
+ slwstk6000b
+ stk3600
+ stk3700
CPU
---
+ atmega1284p
+ NXP Kinetis KW41Z
Device Drivers
--------------
+ bmx055: Bosch bmx055 9-axis IMU
+ ata8520e: Microchip ATA8520E Sigfox(tm) transceiver
Build System / Tooling
----------------------
+ ci: initial on-hardware test support
Known Issues
===========
Please refer to the issue tracker at https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/issues.
Acknowledgements
================
We would like to thank all companies (vendors) that provided us with (their)
hardware for porting and testing RIOT-OS. Further thanks go to companies and
institutions that directly sponsored development time. And finally, big thanks
to all of you contributing in so many different ways to make RIOT worthwhile!
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
=======
* 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 and packages are published under a separate license.
All code files contain licensing information.
RIOT-2018.01 - 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 and 16-bit microcontrollers as well as
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:
===================
The 2018.01 release includes major progress in RIOTs network communication
capabilities, i.e., rewrite of GNRC's neighbour discovery, confirmable messages
in (g)CoAP, LoRa, and GoMacH as well as updates on CCN-lite and LWIP.
Furthermore, RIOT contributes to _IKEA-Hacking_ by bringing support for
the smart home lighting system TRADFRI (note: this will void the warranty).
Needless to say that this release also adds and updates support for several
platforms, drivers, and of course lots of enhancements to the documentation
as well as numerous bug fixes. Last but not least, RIOT now has an official
code of conduct (https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
More than 442 pull requests with about 865 commits have been merged since the
last release and about 96 issues have been solved. 54 people contributed with code
in 96 days. Approximately 2370 files have been touched with 223970 insertions
and 181409 deletions.
Notations used below:
=====================
+ means new feature/item
* means modified feature/item
- means removed feature/item
New features and changes
========================
System libraries
----------------
+ event: event queue framework like libevent
Networking
----------
+ gcoap: confirmable messages
+ nanocoap: no external package anymore
* GNRC: major rewrite of neighbour discovery
* GNRC: new API for network interface handling
Packages
--------
+ gecko_sdk: library for EFM/EFR/EZR32 MCUs
* libcoap: git patching fixed
+ littlefs: filesystem for constraint devices
- nanocoap: now part of RIOT
* openthread: updated
+ semtech-loramac: LoRa MAC
+ umorse: morse encoder
Boards
------
+ acd52832
* common: restructured shared code for boards
+ b-l475e-iot01a
+ bluepill
+ ikea-tradfri
- pca10000
- pca10005
- qemu-i386
+ ruuvitag
+ sltb001a
+ teensy31
+ thingy52
- x86
CPU
---
+ efm32
* kinetis: unified all MCU variants
- x86
Device Drivers
--------------
+ socket_zep: emulated IEEE 802.15.4 device over a UDP for native
+ hts221
+ lc709203f
+ lis2dh12
+ rn2xx3
+ soft_spi
+ tja1042
Build System / Tooling
----------------------
+ flake8: python code checker
* make: set `-Wall -Wextra` as default for all compilers and platforms
- sniffer: moved to applications repository
+ tests: add automated test scripts for many apps
Fixed Issues from the last release (2017.10)
============================================
#2143: unittests: tests-core doesn't compile for all platforms
#4499: handle of l2src_len in gnrc_ndp_rtr_sol_handle
#4822: kw2xrf: packet loss when packets get fragmented
#5005: ndp: router advertisement sent with global address
#5122: NDP: global unicast address on non-6LBR nodes disappears after a while
#5656: Possible Weakness with locking in the GNRC network stack
#5790: ND: Lost of Global IPV6 on node after sending lot of UDP frame from BR
#5944: msp430: ipv6_hdr unittests fail
#6451: Wrong value in SRF08 driver
#6502: cpu/stm32l1: RTC broken
Known Issues
============
Networking related issues
-------------------------
#5230: gnrc ipv6: multicast packets are not dispatched to the upper layers
#5858: gnrc: 6lo: potential problem with reassembly of fragments: If one frame
gets lost the reassembly state machine might get out of sync
#7035: lwIP: hangs due to sema change after a while
Timer related issues
--------------------
#5103: xtimer: weird behavior of tests/xtimer_drift: xtimer_drift randomly
jumps a few seconds on nrf52
#5338: xtimer: xtimer_now() not ISR safe for non-32-bit platforms.
#6052: tests: xtimer_drift gets stuck: application freezes after ~30-200 seconds
#7114: xtimer: add's items to the wrong list if the timer overflows between
_xtimer_now() and irq_disable()
native related issues
---------------------
#495: native not float safe: When FPU is used and an asynchronous context
switch occurs, either the stack gets corrupted or a floating point
exception occurs.
#6442: cpu/native: timer interrupt does not yield thread
other platform related issues
-----------------------------
#1891: newlib-nano: Printf formatting does not work properly for some numeric
types: PRI[uxdi]64, PRI[uxdi]8 and float are not parsed in newlib-nano
#4866: not all GPIO driver implementations are thread safe: Due to non-atomic
operations in the drivers some pin configurations might get lost.
#5848: Arduino: Race condition in sys/arduino/Makefile.include
#6018: nRF52 gnrc 6lowpan ble memory leak
#6261: SAMD21: TC3 & TC4 issue when using TCC2
#6379: nrf52dk/nordic_soft_device: not working anymore
#6437: periph/spi: Leftovers from SPI rework
#6526: atmega based boards freeze when main thread is over
#6836: Issuing a reboot on ATmega328p makes the board loop-reboot
#7753: pic32-wifire: race-condition when linking in concurrent build
other issues
------------
#1263: TLSF implementation contains (a) read-before-write error(s).
#3366: periph/i2c: handle NACK
#4488: Making the newlib thread-safe: When calling puts/printf after
thread_create(), the CPU hangs for DMA enabled UART drivers.
#5776: make: Predefining CFLAGS are parsed weirdly
#5863: OSX + SAMR21-xpro: shell cannot handle inputs of length >64 chars
#5962: Makefile: UNDEF variable is not working as documented
Acknowledgements
================
We would like to thank all companies (vendors) that provided us with (their)
hardware for porting and testing RIOT-OS. Further thanks go to companies and
institutions that directly sponsored development time. And finally, big thanks
to all of you contributing in so many different ways to make RIOT worthwhile!
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
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* Github notifications
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IRC
---
* Join the RIOT IRC channel at: irc.freenode.net, #riot-os
License
=======
* 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 and packages are published under a separate license.
All code files contain licensing information.
RIOT-2017.10 - 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:
===================
Most notable, this release is bringing RIOT a step closer to supporting
over-the-air-updates by containing initial support for MCUBoot.
Furthermore, it adds support for some new platforms (e.g. arduino-mkzero,
nucleos, and frdm-k22f), drivers (e.g. my9221, apa102, ds1307), and of course
a large number of bug fixes (e.g. `make buildtest` now working properly,
various fixes to `xtimer`).
About 390 pull requests with about 500 commits have been merged since the last
release and about 60 issues have been solved. 39 people contributed with code
in 113 days. 1825 files have been touched with 223454 insertions and 66146 deletions.
Notations used below:
=====================
+ means new feature/item
* means modified feature/item
- means removed feature/item
New features and changes
========================
Bootloader
-----------
+ MCUBoot: A secure bootloader for ARM MCUs is now supported. This initial support
includes only the nrf52dk board. For more information about it refer to the mcuboot github
page at https://github.com/runtimeco/mcuboot/blob/master/README-RIOT.rst
System libraries
----------------
+ bcd: binary coded decimal en/decoder
Networking
----------
+ gcoap: Add URI-query strings for requests + various fixes
Packages
--------
* lwip: Updated to v2.0.3
Boards
------
+ NXP frdm-k22f
+ STM nucleo144-f722
+ Arduino arduino-mkzero
+ ti CC2650 LaunchPad
- weio
CPU
---
+ NXP k22f
+ cc2538: ADC
+ stm32l4: RTC
+ samr21e18a
+ msp430: added flashpage driver
- lpc11u34
* stm32: unified stmclk implementations, reworked RTC
* sam0: heavy unification and refactoring, updated vendor headers
+ sam_common: started unification of sam0 and sam3
* cortexm: interrupt vector cleanup
Device Drivers
--------------
+ my9221 - LED controller + Seeed Studio Grove LED bar
+ apa102 - RGB LED
+ ds1307: RTC
+ SAUL support: lps331ap
* SAUL gpio: allow configuration of initial state and low-active signals
* sdcard_spi: added mtd interface
* PM: fixed selection of default implementations for `pm_off` and `pm_set_lowest`
Build System / Tooling
------------
+ make: added pkt-prepare target
* gcc: enabled `-fdiagnostics-color` per default for `arm` and `native` targets
* edbg: use as default flash tool for sam0-based boards
+ added LOSTANDFOUND.md for listing removed features
Fixed Issues from the last 3 releases (known issues missing in 2017.04 and 2017.07)
===================================================================================
#2006: cpu/nrf51822: timer callback may be fired too early
#4841: xtimer: timer already in the list:
#4590: pkg: building relic with clang fails.
#4694: drivers/lm75a: does not build
#4902: xtimer: xtimer_set: xtimer_set does not handle integer overflows well
#5128: make: buildtest breaks when exporting FEATURES_PROVIDED var
#5207: make: buildest fails with board dependent application Makefiles
#5361: cpu/cc26x0: timer broken
#5460: cpu/samd21: i2c timing with compiler optimization
#5489: cpu/lpc11u34: ADC broken
#5799: kw2x: 15.4 duplicate transmits
#5928: xtimer: usage in board_init() crashes: some boards use the xtimer in there board_init()
function. The xtimer is however first initialized in the auto_init module which is executed
after board_init()
#6022: pkg: build order issue
#6331: RTC alarm triggered with 1s delay
#6419: cpu/cc2538: timer broken
#6427: xtimer: infinite loop with xtimer_mutex_lock_timeout
#6501: boards/nucleo: Pin usage collision (SPI clk vs. LED0)
#6542: boards/nucle-f0xx: misconfigured timer configuration
#6904: cpu/saml21: cannot use several EXTI
Known Issues
============
Networking related issues
-------------------------
#3075: nhdp: unnecessary microsecond precision: NHDP works with timer values of microsecond precision
which is not required. Changing to lower precision would save some memory.
#4048: gnrc: potential racey memory leak
#5016: gnrc_rpl: Rejoining RPL instance as root after reboot messes up routing
#5230: gnrc ipv6: multicast packets are not dispatched to the upper layers
#5656: Possible Weakness with locking in the GNRC network stack: For some operations mutexes to the
network interfaces need to get unlocked in the current implementation to not get deadlocked.
Recursive mutexes as provided in #5731 might help to solve this problem.
#5748: gnrc: nodes crashing with too small packet buffer: A packet buffer of size ~512 B might lead
to crashes. The issue describes this for several hundret nodes, but agressive flooding with
just two nodes was also shown to lead to this problem.
#5858: gnrc: 6lo: potential problem with reassembly of fragments: If one frame gets lost the reassembly
state machine might get out of sync
#6123: gnrc: crash with (excessive) traffic
#7035: lwIP: hangs due to sema change after a while
#7737: pkg: libcoap is partially broken and outdated
NDP is not working properly
---------------------------
#4499: handle of l2src_len in gnrc_ndp_rtr_sol_handle: Reception of a router solicitation might lead
to invalid zero-length link-layer addresses in neighbor cache.
#5005: ndp: router advertisement sent with global address: Under some circumstances a router might
send RAs with GUAs. While they are ignored on receive (as RFC-4861 specifies), RAs should have
link-local addresses and not even be send out this way.
#5122: NDP: global unicast address on non-6LBR nodes disappears after a while: Several issues
(also see #5760) lead to a global unicast address effectively being banned from the network
(disappears from neighbor cache, is not added again)
#5467: ipv6 address vanishes when ARO (wrongly) indicates DUP caused by outdated ncache at router
#5539: Border Router: packet not forwarded from ethos to interface 6
#5790: ND: Lost of Global IPV6 on node after sending lot of UDP frame from BR
Timer related issues
--------------------
#5338: xtimer: xtimer_now() not ISR safe for non-32-bit platforms.
#6052: tests: xtimer_drift gets stuck: xtimer_drift application freezes after ~30-200 seconds
#6502: cpu/stm32l1: RTC broken
#7114: xtimer: add's items to the wrong list if the timer overflows between _xtimer_now() and irq_disable()
native related issues
---------------------
#495: native not float safe: When the FPU is used when an asynchronous context switch occurs, either
the stack gets corrupted or a floating point exception occurs.
#2175: ubjson: valgind registers "Invalid write of size 4" in unittests
#5796: native: tlsf: early malloc will lead to a crash: TLSF needs pools to be initialized (which is
currently expected to be done in an application). If a malloc is needed before an application's
main started (e.g. driver initialization) the node can crash, since no pool is allocated yet.
#6145: native: system reboots on SIGTRAP
#6442: cpu/native: timer interrupt does not yield thread
#7206: native: race-condition in IPC
other platform related issues
-----------------------------
#1891: newlib-nano: Printf formatting does not work properly for some numeric types: PRI[uxdi]64,
PRI[uxdi]8 and float are not parsed in newlib-nano
#2143: unittests: tests-core doesn't compile for all platforms: GCC build-ins were used in the
unittests which are not available with msp430-gcc
#2300: qemu unittest fails because of a page fault
#4512: pkg: tests: RELIC unittests fail on iotlab-m3
#4560: make: clang is more pedantic than gcc oonf_api is not building with clang (partly fixed by #4593)
#4822: kw2xrf: packet loss when packets get fragmented
#4876: at86rf2xx: Simultaneous use of different transceiver types is not supported
#4954: chronos: compiling with -O0 breaks
#4866: not all GPIO driver implementations are thread safe: Due to non-atomic operations in the drivers
some pin configurations might get lost.
#5009: RIOT is saw-toothing in energy consumption (even when idling)
#5103: xtimer: weird behavior of tests/xtimer_drift: xtimer_drift randomly jumps a few seconds on nrf52
#5405: Eratic timings on iotlab-m3 with compression context activated
#5486: at86rf2xx: lost interrupts
#5678: at86rf2xx: failed assertion in _isr
#5944: msp430: ipv6_hdr unittests fail
#5848: arduino: Race condition in sys/arduino/Makefile.include
#6018: nRF52 gnrc 6lowpan ble memory leak
#6261: SAMD21 TC3 & TC4 issue when using TCC2
#6379: nrf52dk/nordic_soft_device: not working anymore
#6437: periph/spi: Leftovers from SPI rework
#6526: atmega based boards freeze when main thread is over
#6836: Issuing a reboot on ATmega328p makes the board loop-reboot
#7347: xtimer_usleep stuck for small values on nucleo-l1
#7753: pic32-wifire: race-condition when linking in concurrent build
#7846: stm32f1: I2C read functions return bogus values with unconnected devices
other issues
------------
#1263: TLSF implementation contains (a) read-before-write error(s).
#3256: make: Setting constants on compile time doesn't really set them everywhere
#3366: periph/i2c: handle NACK
#4488: Making the newlib thread-safe: When calling puts/printf after thread_create(), the CPU hangs
for DMA enabled uart drivers.
#5561: C++11 extensions in header files
#5776: make: Predefining CFLAGS are parsed weirdly
#5863: OSX + SAMR21-xpro: shell cannot handle command inputs larger than 64 chars
#5962: Makefile: UNDEF variable is not working as documented
#6451: Wrong value in SRF08 driver
#7800: CBOR is broken
Special Thanks
==============
We would 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, Eïsox, Eistec, Ell-i, Engineering Spirit, Mesotic, Nordic, OTA keys and Phytec.
We also would like to thank people from Inria Chile for their work on
OpenThread integration and Semtech LoRa drivers.
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
=======
* 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 and pkg are published under a separate license.
All code files contain licensing information.
RIOT-2017.07 - 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 fixes, code cleanup and improved documentation, as well as
enhancements.
New features brought by this release include:
* CAN support (Controller Area Network)
* Support for CoAP OBSERVE requests
* Basic Thread stack support (initial support for OpenThread)
* radio duty cycling with LwMAC protocol
* LoRa radio drivers supporting Semtech hardware
About 230 pull requests with about 442 commits have been merged since the last
release and about 13 issues have been solved. 45 people contributed with code
in 56 days. 1395 files have been touched with 211720 insertions and 65729 deletions.
Notations used below:
=====================
+ means new feature/item
* means modified feature/item
- means removed feature/item
New features and changes
========================
API changes
-----------
- removed conn API
System libraries
----------------
+ AES CMAC encryption
+ GCC's Stack Smashing Protector (SSP) support
- Remove 3-DES crypto
Networking
----------
+ CAN stack
+ CoAP OBSERVE request
+ LwMAC protocol
+ OpenThread
+ Layer 2 filtering (l2filter)
* LwIP port to v2.0.2
* NHDP port to sock API
- removed conn API
Packages
--------
+ OpenThread
Boards
------
+ Arduino MKR1000 (without WiFi)
+ Nucleo144-f412
+ Nucleo144-f746
+ Nucleo144-f767
+ NZ32-SC151 (STM32L1)
+ ST B-L072-LRWAN1 (with LoRa radio)
+ STM32F769 discovery
* Full support for PhyNode
CPU
---
+ lm4120: SPI support
+ SAM3: ADC support, DAC support
+ SAMD21: flashpage, ADC support
+ SAML21: ADC, I2C support
+ STM32F413vg support
+ STM32F7 family (ARM Cortex-M7)
+ STM32L0 family: I2C support
* STM32: unified DAC support
* STM32F1/F2/F4 clock initialization refactoring
Device Drivers
--------------
+ ADCXX1C I2C ADC support
+ BMP280 temperature/pressure sensor
+ DSP0401 4 digits 16 segment alphanumeric display
+ MMA8x5x motion detection sensor
+ Semtech SX1272 and SX1276 LoRa drivers
Build System
------------
+ EDBG support
+ http download with caching (dlcache)
+ Use Coccinelle static code checker in CI
Special Thanks
==============
We would 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, Eïsox, Eistec, Ell-i, Engineering Spirit, Mesotic, Nordic, OTA keys and Phytec.
We also would like to thank people from Inria Chile for their work on
OpenThread integration and Semtech LoRa drivers.
More information