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Zephyr Kernel 1.9.0 (WIP)
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We are pleased to announce the release of Zephyr kernel version 1.9.0
(planned for release in August 2017).

Major enhancements planned with this release include:

* POSIX API Layer
* BSD Socket Support
* Expand Device Tree support to more architectures
* BLE Mesh
* Full Bluetooth 5.0 Support
* Expand LLVM Support to more architectures
* Revamp Testsuite, Increase Coverage
* Zephyr SDK NG
* Eco System: Tracing, debugging support through 3rd party tools

These enhancements are planned, but may move out to a future release:

* LWM2M
* Thread Protocol (initial drop)
* MMU/MPU (Cont.): Thread Isolation, Paging
* Build and Configuration System (CMake)


The following sections provide detailed lists of changes by component.

Kernel
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* change description

Architectures
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* change description

Boards
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* change description

Drivers and Sensors
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* KW40Z IEEE 802.15.4 radio driver support added

Networking
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* 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 layer fixes and enhancements
* Networking API documentation fixes
* Network shell enhancements
* Trickle algorithm fixes
* CoAP API fixes
* IPv6 fixes
* RPL fixes

Bluetooth
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* change description

Build and Infrastructure
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* change description

Libraries
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* change description

HALs
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* change description

Documentation
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* change description

Tests and Samples
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* change description

JIRA Related Items
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.. comment  List derived from Jira query: ...

* :jira:`ZEP-000` - Title