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| Zephyr Kernel 1.9.2 |
| ################### |
| |
| This is a maintenance release with fixes. |
| |
| Kernel |
| ****** |
| * Generic queue item acquisition fixed to always return a valid item when |
| using K_FOREVER |
| |
| Bluetooth |
| ********* |
| * Multiple stability fixes for BLE Mesh |
| * Multiple stability fixes for the BLE Controller |
| |
| Zephyr Kernel 1.9.1 |
| ################### |
| |
| This is a maintenance release with fixes and a two new features in the |
| BLE Controller. |
| |
| Drivers and Sensors |
| ******************* |
| * mcux ethernet driver buffer overflow fixed |
| * STM32 PWM prescaler issue fixed |
| |
| Networking |
| ********** |
| * Support for IPv6 in DNS fixed |
| |
| Bluetooth |
| ********* |
| * Multiple stability fixes for the BLE Controller |
| * Support for PA/LNA amplifiers in the BLE Controller |
| * Support for additional VS commands in the BLE Controller |
| |
| Zephyr Kernel 1.9.0 |
| ################### |
| |
| We are pleased to announce the release of Zephyr kernel version 1.9.0 |
| |
| Major enhancements planned with this release include: |
| |
| * Bluetooth 5.0 Support (all features except Advertising Extensions) |
| * Bluetooth Qualification-ready BLE Controller |
| * BLE Mesh |
| * Lightweight Machine to Machine (LwM2M) support |
| * Pthreads compatible API |
| * BSD Sockets compatible API |
| * MMU/MPU (Cont.): Thread Isolation, Paging |
| * Expand Device Tree support to more architectures |
| * Revamp Testsuite, Increase Coverage |
| * Stack Sentinel support (See details below) |
| |
| The following sections provide detailed lists of changes by component. |
| |
| Kernel |
| ****** |
| |
| * Added POSIX thread IPC support for Kernel |
| * kernel: introduce opaque data type for stacks |
| * Timeslicing and tickless kernel improvements |
| |
| Architectures |
| ************* |
| |
| * arm: Added STM32F405, STM32F417, STM32F103x8 SoCs |
| * arm: Added TI CC2650 SoC |
| * arm: Removed TI CC3200 SoC |
| * arm: Added MPU support to nRF52, STM32L4, and STM32F3 |
| * xtensa: Added ESP32 support |
| * Stack sentinel: This places a sentinel value at the lowest 4 bytes of a stack |
| memory region and checks it at various intervals, including when servicing |
| interrupts or context switching. |
| * x86: Enable MMU for application memory |
| * ARC: Added initial MPU support, including stack sentinel checking for ARC |
| configurations not featuring hardware stack bounds checking |
| * ARC: Nested interrupt support for normal, non-FIRQ interrupts |
| |
| Boards |
| ****** |
| |
| * Added device tree support for Intel Quark based microcontroller boards |
| such as Arduino_101, tinytile, and Quark_d2000_crb. |
| * arm: Added Atmel SAM4S Xplained board |
| * arm: Added Olimex STM32-E407 and STM32-P405 boards |
| * arm: Added STM32F412 Nucleo and STM32F429I-DISC1 boards |
| * arm: Added TI SensorTag board |
| * arm: Removed TI CC3200 LaunchXL board |
| * arm: Added VBLUno51 and VBLUno52 boards |
| * xtensa: Added ESP32 board support |
| * ARC: Added support for EMSK EM7D v2.2 version (incl. MPU) |
| * ARC: Board configuration restructuring, peripheral configs moved from soc to |
| board level |
| |
| Drivers and Sensors |
| ******************* |
| |
| * KW40Z IEEE 802.15.4 radio driver support added |
| * APDS9960 sensor driver added |
| * Added TICKLESS KERNEL support for nrf RTC Timer |
| * Added Kinetis adc and pwm drivers |
| * Removed deprecated PWM driver APIs |
| * Added ESP32 drivers for GPIO, pin mux, watchdog, random number generator, |
| and UART |
| * sensor: Add BMM150 Geomagnetic sensor driver |
| |
| Networking |
| ********** |
| |
| * LWM2M support added |
| * net-app API support added. This is higher level API that can be used |
| by applications to create client/server applications with transparent |
| TLS (for TCP) or DTLS (for UDP) support. |
| * MQTT TLS support added |
| * Add support to automatically setup IEEE 802.15.4 and Bluetooth IPSP networks |
| * TCP receive window support added |
| * Network sample application configuration file unification, where most of the |
| similar configuration files were merged together |
| * Added Bluetooth support to HTTP(S) server sample application |
| * BSD Socket compatible API layer, allowing to write and/or port simple |
| networking applications using a well-known, cross-platform API |
| * Networking API documentation fixes |
| * Network shell enhancements |
| * Trickle algorithm fixes |
| * Improvements to HTTP server and client libraries |
| * CoAP API fixes |
| * IPv6 fixes |
| * RPL fixes |
| |
| Bluetooth |
| ********* |
| |
| * Bluetooth Mesh support (all mandatory features and most optional ones) |
| * GATT Service Changed Characteristic support |
| * IPSP net-app support: a simplified networking API reducing duplication |
| of common tasks an application writer has to go through to connect |
| to the network. |
| * BLE controller qualification-ready, with all required tests passing |
| * Controller-based privacy (including all optional features) |
| * Extended Scanner Filter Policies support in the controller |
| * Controller roles (Advertiser, Scanner, Master and Slave) separation in |
| source code, conditionally includable |
| * Flash access cooperation with BLE radio activity |
| * Bluetooth Kconfig options have been renamed have the same (consistent) |
| prefix as the Bluetooth APIs, namely BT_* instead of BLUETOOTH_*. |
| Controller Kconfig options have been shortened to use CTLR instead of |
| CONTROLLER. |
| * Removed deprecated NBLE support |
| |
| Build and Infrastructure |
| ************************ |
| |
| * change description |
| |
| Libraries |
| ********* |
| |
| * mbedTLS updated to 2.6.0 |
| * TinyCrypt updated to 0.2.7 |
| |
| HALs |
| **** |
| |
| * Added support for stm32f417 SOC |
| * Added support for stm32f405 SOC |
| * pinmux: stm32: 96b_carbon: Add support for SPI |
| * Added rcc node on stm32 socs |
| * Added pin config for USART1 on PB6/PB7 for stm32l4 |
| * Removed TI cc3200 SOC and LaunchXL board support |
| |
| Documentation |
| ************* |
| |
| * CONTRIBUTING.rst and Contribution Guide material added |
| * Configuration options doc reorganized for easier access |
| * Navigation sidebar issues fixed for supported boards section |
| * Fixed link targets hidden behind header |
| * Completed migration of wiki.zephyrproject.org content into docs and |
| GitHub wiki. All links to old wiki updated. |
| * Broken link and spelling check scans through .rst, Kconfig (used for |
| auto-generated configuration docs), and source code doxygen comments |
| (used for API documentation). |
| * API documentation added for new interfaces and improved for existing |
| ones. |
| * Documentation added for new boards supported with this release. |
| * Python packages needed for document generation added to new python |
| pip requirements.txt |
| |
| |
| Build System and Tools |
| ********************** |
| * Convert post-processing host tools to python, this includes the following |
| tools: gen_offset_header.py gen_idt.py gen_gdt.py gen_mmu.py |
| |
| |
| Tests and Samples |
| ***************** |
| |
| * Added test Case to stress test round robin scheduling in schedule_api test. |
| * Added test case to stress test priority scheduling in scheduling_api_test. |
| |
| |
| JIRA Related Items |
| ****************** |
| * ``ZEP-230`` - Define I2S driver APIs |
| * ``ZEP-601`` - enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO |
| * ``ZEP-702`` - Integrate Nordic's Phoenix Link Layer into Zephyr |
| * ``ZEP-749`` - TinyCrypt uses an old, unoptimized version of micro-ecc |
| * ``ZEP-896`` - nRF5x Series: Add support for power and clock peripheral |
| * ``ZEP-1067`` - Driver for BMM150 |
| * ``ZEP-1396`` - Add ksdk adc shim driver |
| * ``ZEP-1426`` - CONFIG_BOOT_TIME_MEASUREMENT on all targets? |
| * ``ZEP-1552`` - Provide apds9960 sensor driver |
| * ``ZEP-1647`` - Figure out new combo for breathe/doxygen/sphinx versions that are supported |
| * ``ZEP-1744`` - UPF 56 BLE Controller Issues |
| * ``ZEP-1751`` - Add template YAML file |
| * ``ZEP-1819`` - Add tickless kernel support in nrf_rtc_timer timer |
| * ``ZEP-1843`` - provide mechanism to filter test cases based on available hardware |
| * ``ZEP-1892`` - Fix issues with Fix Release |
| * ``ZEP-1902`` - Missing board documentation for arm/nucleo_f334r8 |
| * ``ZEP-1911`` - Missing board documentation for arm/stm3210c_eval |
| * ``ZEP-1917`` - Missing board documentation for arm/stm32373c_eval |
| * ``ZEP-1918`` - Fix connection parameter request procedure |
| * ``ZEP-2018`` - Remove deprecated PWM APIs |
| * ``ZEP-2020`` - tests/crypto/test_ecc_dsa intermittently fails on riscv32 |
| * ``ZEP-2025`` - Add mcux pwm shim driver for k64 |
| * ``ZEP-2031`` - ESP32 Architecture Configuration |
| * ``ZEP-2032`` - Espressif Open-source Toolchain Support |
| * ``ZEP-2039`` - Implement stm32cube LL based clock control driver |
| * ``ZEP-2054`` - Convert all helper script to use python3 |
| * ``ZEP-2062`` - Convert gen_offset_header to a python script |
| * ``ZEP-2063`` - Convert gen_idt to python |
| * ``ZEP-2068`` - Need Tasks to Be Tracked in QRC too |
| * ``ZEP-2071`` - samples: warning: (SPI_CS_GPIO && SPI_SS_CS_GPIO && I2C_NRF5) selects GPIO which has unmet direct dependencies |
| * ``ZEP-2085`` - Add CONTRIBUTING.rst to root folder w/contributing guidelines |
| * ``ZEP-2089`` - UART support for ESP32 |
| * ``ZEP-2115`` - Common API for networked applications for setting up network |
| * ``ZEP-2116`` - Common API for networked apps to create client/server applications |
| * ``ZEP-2141`` - Coverity CID 169303 in tests/net/ipv6/src/main.c |
| * ``ZEP-2150`` - Move Arduino 101 to Device Tree |
| * ``ZEP-2151`` - Move Quark D2000 to device tree |
| * ``ZEP-2156`` - Build warnings [-Wformat] with LLVM/icx (tests/kernel/sprintf) |
| * ``ZEP-2168`` - Timers seem to be broken with TICKLESS_KERNEL on nRF51 (Cortex M0) |
| * ``ZEP-2171`` - Move all board pinmux code from drivers/pinmux/stm32 to the corresponding board/soc locations |
| * ``ZEP-2184`` - Split data, bss, noinit sections into application and kernel areas |
| * ``ZEP-2188`` - x86: Implement simple stack memory protection |
| * ``ZEP-2217`` - schedule_api test fails on ARM with tickless kernel enabled |
| * ``ZEP-2218`` - unexpected short timeslice when running schedule_api with tickless kernel enabled |
| * ``ZEP-2220`` - Extend MPU to stm32 family |
| * ``ZEP-2225`` - Ability to unregister GATT services |
| * ``ZEP-2226`` - BSD Sockets API: Basic blocking API |
| * ``ZEP-2227`` - BSD Sockets API: Non-blocking API |
| * ``ZEP-2229`` - test_time_slicing_preemptible fails on bbc_microbit and other NRF boards |
| * ``ZEP-2250`` - sanitycheck not filtering defconfigs properly |
| * ``ZEP-2258`` - Coverity static scan issues seen |
| * ``ZEP-2265`` - stack declaration macros for ARM MPU |
| * ``ZEP-2267`` - Create Release Notes |
| * ``ZEP-2270`` - Convert mpu_stack_guard_test from using k_thread_spawn to k_thread_create |
| * ``ZEP-2274`` - Build warnings [-Wpointer-sign] with LLVM/icx (tests/net/ipv6_fragment) |
| * ``ZEP-2278`` - KW41-Z 802.15.4 driver hangs if full debug is disabled |
| * ``ZEP-2279`` - echo_server TCP handler corrupt by SYN flood |
| * ``ZEP-2280`` - add test case for KBUILD_ZEPHYR_APP |
| * ``ZEP-2285`` - non-boards shows up in board list for docs |
| * ``ZEP-2286`` - Write a GPIO driver for ESP32 |
| * ``ZEP-2289`` - [DoS] Memory leak from large TCP packets |
| * ``ZEP-2296`` - ESP32: watchdog driver |
| * ``ZEP-2297`` - ESP32: Pin mux driver |
| * ``ZEP-2303`` - Concurrent incoming TCP connections |
| * ``ZEP-2305`` - linker: implement MMU alignment constraints |
| * ``ZEP-2306`` - echo server hangs from IPv6 hop-by-hop option anomaly |
| * ``ZEP-2308`` - (New) Networking API details documentation is missing |
| * ``ZEP-2310`` - Improve configuration documentation index organization |
| * ``ZEP-2314`` - Testcase failure :tests/benchmarks/timing_info/testcase.ini#test |
| * ``ZEP-2316`` - Testcase failure :tests/bluetooth/shell/testcase.ini#test_br |
| * ``ZEP-2318`` - some kernel objects sections are misaligned |
| * ``ZEP-2319`` - tests/net/ieee802154/l2 uses semaphore before initialization |
| * ``ZEP-2321`` - [PTS] All TC's of SM/GATT/GAP failed due to BTP_TIMEOUT error. |
| * ``ZEP-2326`` - x86: API to validate user buffer |
| * ``ZEP-2328`` - gen_mmu.py appears to generate incorrect tables in some situations |
| * ``ZEP-2329`` - bad memory access tests/net/route |
| * ``ZEP-2330`` - bad memory access tests/net/rpl |
| * ``ZEP-2331`` - bad memory access tests/net/ieee802154/l2 |
| * ``ZEP-2332`` - bad memory access tests/net/ip-addr |
| * ``ZEP-2334`` - bluetooth shell build warning when CONFIG_DEBUG=y |
| * ``ZEP-2335`` - Ensure the Licensing page is up-to-date for the release |
| * ``ZEP-2340`` - Disabling advertising gets stuck |
| * ``ZEP-2341`` - Build warnings:override: reassigning to symbol MAIN_STACK_SIZE with LLVM/icx (/tests/net/6lo) |
| * ``ZEP-2343`` - Coverity static scan issues seen |
| * ``ZEP-2344`` - Coverity static scan issues seen |
| * ``ZEP-2345`` - Coverity static scan issues seen |
| * ``ZEP-2352`` - network API docs don't mention when callbacks are called from a different thread |
| * ``ZEP-2354`` - ESP32: Random number generator |
| * ``ZEP-2355`` - Coverity static scan issues seen |
| * ``ZEP-2358`` - samples:net:echo_server: Failed to send UDP packets |
| * ``ZEP-2359`` - samples:net:coaps_server: unable to bind with IPv6 |
| * ``ZEP-2360`` - Initial implementation of Bluetooth Mesh |
| * ``ZEP-2361`` - Provide a POSIX compatibility Layer on top of native APIs |
| * ``ZEP-2365`` - samples/net/wpanusb/test_15_4 fail on nrf52840_pca10056 and frdm_kw41z |
| * ``ZEP-2366`` - implement \__kernel attribute |
| * ``ZEP-2367`` - NULL pointer read in udp, tcp, context net tests |
| * ``ZEP-2368`` - x86: QEMU: enable MMU at boot by default |
| * ``ZEP-2370`` - [test] Create a stress test to test preemptive scheduling on zephyr |
| * ``ZEP-2371`` - [test] Create a stress test to test round robin scheduling with equal priority tasks on zephyr |
| * ``ZEP-2374`` - Build warnings:override: reassigning to symbol NET_IPV4 with LLVM/icx (/tests/net/dhcpv4) |
| * ``ZEP-2375`` - Build warnings [-Wpointer-sign] with LLVM/icx (tests/net/udp) |
| * ``ZEP-2378`` - sample/bluetooth/ipsp: When build the app 'ROM' overflowed |
| * ``ZEP-2379`` - samples/bluetooth: Bluetooth init failed (err -19) |
| * ``ZEP-2380`` - TCP is broken by Zephyr commit 3604c391e |
| * ``ZEP-2382`` - Convert test to use ztest framework |
| * ``ZEP-2383`` - Net-app API needs to support DTLS |
| * ``ZEP-2384`` - "Common" bluetooth sample code does not build out of tree |
| * ``ZEP-2385`` - Update TinyCrypt to 0.2.7 |
| * ``ZEP-2395`` - Assert in http_server example when run over bluetooth on nrf52840 |
| * ``ZEP-2397`` - net_if_ipv6_addr_rm calls k_delayed_work_cancel() on uninitialized k_delayed_work object |
| * ``ZEP-2398`` - network stack test cases are only tested on x86 |
| * ``ZEP-2403`` - Enabling MMU for qemu_x86 broke active connect support |
| * ``ZEP-2407`` - [Cortex m series ] Getting a crash on Cortex m3 series when more than 8 preemptive threads with equal priority are scheduled |
| * ``ZEP-2408`` - design mechanism for kernel object sharing policy |
| * ``ZEP-2412`` - Bluetooth tester app not working from commit c1e5cb |
| * ``ZEP-2423`` - samples/bluetooth/ipsp's builtin TCP echo crashes on TCP closure |
| * ``ZEP-2432`` - ieee802154_shell.c, net_mgmt call leads to a BUS FAULT |
| * ``ZEP-2433`` - x86: do forensic analysis to determine stack overflow context in supervisor mode |
| * ``ZEP-2436`` - Unable to see console output in Quark_D200_CRB |
| * ``ZEP-2437`` - warnings when building applications for quark d2000 |
| * ``ZEP-2444`` - [nrf] Scheduling test API is getting failed in case of nrf51/nrf52 platforms |
| * ``ZEP-2445`` - nrf52: CPU lock-up when using Bluetooth + Flash driver + CONFIG_ASSERT |
| * ``ZEP-2447`` - 'make debugserver' fails for qemu_x86_iamcu |
| * ``ZEP-2451`` - Move Bluetooth IPSP support functions from samples/bluetooth to a separate library |
| * ``ZEP-2452`` - https server does not build for olimex_stm32_e407 |
| * ``ZEP-2457`` - generated/offsets.h is being regenerated unnecessarily |
| * ``ZEP-2459`` - Sample application not working with Quark SE C1000 |
| * ``ZEP-2460`` - tests/crypto/ecc_dh fails on qemu_nios2 |
| * ``ZEP-2464`` - "allow IPv6 interface init to work with late IP assignment" patch broke non-late IPv6 assignment |
| * ``ZEP-2465`` - Static code scan (coverity) issues seen |
| * ``ZEP-2467`` - Static code scan (coverity) issues seen |
| * ``ZEP-2468`` - Static code scan (coverity) issues seen |
| * ``ZEP-2469`` - Static code scan (coverity) issues seen |
| * ``ZEP-2474`` - Static code scan (coverity) issues seen |
| * ``ZEP-2480`` - Build warnings [-Wpointer-sign] with LLVM/icx (samples/net/coaps_server) |
| * ``ZEP-2482`` - Build warnings [-Wpointer-sign] with LLVM/icx (samples/net/telnet) |
| * ``ZEP-2483`` - samples:net:http_client: Failed to get http requests in IPv6 |
| * ``ZEP-2484`` - samples:net:http_server: Failed to work in IPv6 |
| * ``ZEP-2485`` - Build warnings [-Wpointer-sign] with LLVM/icx (samples/net/coaps_client) |
| * ``ZEP-2486`` - Build warnings [-Wpointer-sign] with LLVM/icx (samples/net/mbedtls_dtlsserver) |
| * ``ZEP-2488`` - Build warnings [-Wpointer-sign] and [-Warray-bounds] with LLVM/icx (samples/net/irc_bot) |
| * ``ZEP-2489`` - bug in _x86_mmu_buffer_validate API |
| * ``ZEP-2496`` - Build failure on tests/benchmarks/object_footprint |
| * ``ZEP-2497`` - [TIMER] k_timer_start should take 0 value for duration parameter |
| * ``ZEP-2498`` - [Display] Minimum Duration argument to k_timer_start should be non Zero positive value |
| * ``ZEP-2508`` - esp32 linkage doesn't unify ELF sections correctly |
| * ``ZEP-2510`` - BT: CONFIG_BT_HCI_TX_STACK_SIZE appears to be too low for BT_SPI |
| * ``ZEP-2514`` - XCC sanitycheck build compile wrong targets |
| * ``ZEP-2523`` - Static code scan (Coverity) issue seen in file: /samples/net/zoap_server/src/zoap-server.c |
| * ``ZEP-2525`` - Static code scan (Coverity) issue seen in file: /samples/net/zoap_server/src/zoap-server.c |
| * ``ZEP-2531`` - Static code scan (Coverity) issue seen in file: /tests/net/lib/dns_resolve/src/main.c |
| * ``ZEP-2528`` - Static code scan (Coverity) issue seen in file: /samples/net/nats/src/nats.c |
| * ``ZEP-2534`` - Static code scan (Coverity) issue seen in file: /tests/kernel/irq_offload/src/irq_offload.c |
| * ``ZEP-2535`` - Static code scan (Coverity) issue seen in file: /tests/net/lib/zoap/src/main.c |
| * ``ZEP-2537`` - Static code scan (Coverity) issue seen in file: /tests/crypto/ecc_dh/src/ecc_dh.c |
| * ``ZEP-2538`` - Static code scan (Coverity) issue seen in file: /arch/arm/soc/st_stm32/stm32f1/soc_gpio.c |
| * ``ZEP-2539`` - Static code scan (Coverity) issue seen in file: /tests/net/ieee802154/l2/src/ieee802154_test.c |
| * ``ZEP-2540`` - Static code scan (Coverity) issue seen in file: /ext/lib/crypto/tinycrypt/source/ecc_dh.c |
| * ``ZEP-2541`` - Static code scan (Coverity) issue seen in file: /subsys/bluetooth/host/mesh/cfg.c |
| * ``ZEP-2549`` - Static code scan (Coverity) issue seen in file: /samples/net/leds_demo/src/leds-demo.c |
| * ``ZEP-2552`` - ESP32 uart poll_out always return 0 |
| * ``ZEP-2553`` - k_queue_poll not handling -EADDRINUSE (another thread already polling) properly |
| * ``ZEP-2556`` - ESP32 watchdog WDT_MODE_INTERRUPT_RESET mode fails |
| * ``ZEP-2557`` - ESP32 : Some GPIO tests are getting failed (tests/drivers/gpio/gpio_basic_api) |
| * ``ZEP-2558`` - CONFIG_BLUETOOTH_* Kconfig options silently ignored |
| * ``ZEP-2560`` - samples/net: the sample of zoap_server fails to add multicast address |
| * ``ZEP-2561`` - samples/net: The HTTP client failed to send the POST request |
| * ``ZEP-2568`` - [PTS] All TC's of L2CAP/SM/GATT/GAP failed due to BTP_ERROR. |
| * ``ZEP-2575`` - error:[ '-O: command not found'] with LLVM/icx (samples/hello_world) |
| * ``ZEP-2576`` - samples/net/sockets/echo, echo_async : fails to send the TCP packets |
| * ``ZEP-2581`` - CC3220 executable binary format support |
| * ``ZEP-2584`` - Update mbedTLS to 2.6.0 |
| * ``ZEP-713`` - Implement preemptible regular IRQs on ARC |
