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| Zephyr Kernel 1.12.0 (DRAFT) |
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| We are pleased to announce the release of Zephyr kernel version 1.12.0. |
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| Major enhancements with this release include: |
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| - 802.1Q - Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) traffic on an Ethernet network |
| - Support multiple concurrent filesystem devices, partitions, and FS types |
| - Support for TAP net device on the the native POSIX port |
| - SPI slave support |
| - Runtime non-volatile configuration data storage system |
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| The following sections provide detailed lists of changes by component. |
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| Kernel |
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| * Added k_thread_foreach API |
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| Architectures |
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| * nxp_imx/mcimx7_m4: Added support for i.MX7 Cortex M4 core |
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| Boards |
| ****** |
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| * Added support for the following Arm boards: |
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| * 96b_argonkey |
| * adafruit_feather_m0_basic_proto |
| * colibri_imx7d_m4 |
| * dragino_lsn50 |
| * lpcxpresso54114_m0 |
| * nrf51_ble400 |
| * nrf52_pca20020 |
| * nucleo_f070rb |
| * nucleo_f446re |
| * nucleo_l053r8 |
| * nucleo_l073rzA |
| * olimex_stm32_h407 |
| * stm32f0_disco |
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| * Added support for the following RISC-V boards: |
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| * hifive1 |
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| * Added support for the following Xtensa boards: |
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| * intel_s1000_crb |
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| * arc: Added device tree support for all ARC SoCs |
| * arm: Renamed lpcxpresso54114 to lpcxpresso54114_m4 |
| * nios2: Added device tree support for qemu_nios2 and altera_max10 |
| * Continued adding dts support for device drivers (gpio, spi, i2c, sensors, usb) |
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| Drivers and Sensors |
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| * can: Added CAN driver support for STM32 SoCs |
| * display: Added ILI9340 LCD display driver |
| * dma: Added dma driver for Nios-II MSGDMA core |
| * dma: Introduce Intel CAVS DMA |
| * ethernet: Added ethernet driver for native posix arch |
| * gpio: Added support for i.MX GPIO |
| * gpio: Added driver for SX1509B |
| * gpio: Added GPIO for SAM family |
| * gpio: Added GPIO driver for stm32l0x |
| * i2s: Introduce CAVS I2S |
| * ieee802154: Added OpenThread modifications to KW41Z driver |
| * interrupts: Introduce Desinware interrupt controller |
| * ipm: Added mcux ipm driver for LPC SoCs |
| * led: Added new public API and driver support for TI LP3943 |
| * pinmux: Added pinmux driver for stm32l0x |
| * rtc: Added mcux RTC driver for Kinetis SoCs |
| * sensor: Added sensorhub support to lsm6dsl driver |
| * sensor: Added trigger support to lsm6dsl |
| * serial: Added support for i.MX UART interface |
| * spi: Added shims for nrfx SPIS and SPIM drivers |
| * spi: Updated mcux shim driver to new SPI API |
| * spi: Updated sensor and radio drivers to new SPI API |
| * usb: Added usb device driver for Kinetis USBFSOTG controller |
| * usb: Added usb support for stml072/73, stm32f070/72 |
| * usb: Enable usb2.0 on intel_s1000 |
| * usb: Added nRF52840 USB Device Controller Driver |
| * watchdog: Added mcux watchdog driver for Kinetis SoCs |
| * watchdog: Added nrfx watchdog driver for NRF SoCs |
| * wifi: Added winc1500 WiFi driver |
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| Networking |
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| * Minimal server side websocket support. |
| * Add network support to syslog. |
| * Reducing net_pkt RAM usage. |
| * TCP code refactoring. TCP code is now in one place in tcp.c |
| * Support MSG_DONTWAIT and MSG_PEEK in recvfrom() socket call. |
| * Support MSG_DONTWAIT in sendto() socket call. |
| * Add support for freeaddrinfo() API. |
| * Allow empty service in getaddrinfo() API. |
| * Add PRIORITY support to net_context. This is working same way as SO_PRIORITY |
| in BSD sockets API. |
| * Add network traffic classification support to Rx and Tx paths. This allows |
| priorization of incoming or outgoing network traffic. Both Rx and Tx can |
| have max 8 network queues. |
| * Add network interface up/down command to net-shell. |
| * Create ethernet driver for native_posix board. The driver is enabled |
| automatically if networking is active when compiling for native_posix board. |
| * Support network packet checksum calculation offloading. This is available for |
| ethernet based boards. |
| * Add support for ethernet virtual LANs (VLAN). Following ethernet drivers |
| support VLANs: frdm_k64f, sam_e70_explained, native_posix and qemu. |
| * Allow network statistics collection / network interface. |
| * Add network management support to ethernet sub-system. |
| * Add network capabilities support to ethernet network drivers. This is used |
| for management purposes. |
| * Allow collection of ethernet statistics. Currently only native_posix ethernet |
| driver supports this. |
| * Add OpenThread support for KW41Z driver. |
| * Add initial WiFi management API definitions. |
| * Add a shell module for controlling WiFi devices. |
| * Add dedicated net mgmt hooks for WiFi offload devices. |
| * Use proper IPv4 source address when sending IPv4 packets. |
| * Add support for energy detection scan on IEEE 802.15.4 driver API. |
| * Add support for filtering source short IEEE 802.15.4 addresses. |
| * Add RPL border router sample application. |
| * LWM2M code refactoring. |
| * LWM2M OPTIONAL resource fixes. |
| * LWM2M source port fixes. |
| * LWM2M resource usage enhancements. |
| * Fixing network management event ordering. |
| * Fix ENC28J70 ethernet driver. |
| * CoAP sample application fixes. |
| * Network timeout fixes. |
| * ICMPv6 error check fixes. |
| * Net-app API port number fixes. |
| * WPAN USB driver and sample application fixes. |
| * BSD socket sample application fixes. |
| * Fix IPv4 echo-request (ping) in net-shell when having multiple network |
| interfaces. |
| * Fixing IPv6 compile error in certain configuration. |
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| Bluetooth |
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| Build and Infrastructure |
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| * kconfig: Drop support for CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_VARIANT |
| * kconfig: Remove the C Kconfig implementation |
| * scripts: kconfig: Add a Python menuconfig implementation |
| * scripts: west: introduce common runner configuration |
| * xtensa: provide XCC compiler support for Xtensa |
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| Libraries / Subsystems |
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| * subsys/disk: Added support for multiple disk interfaces |
| * subsys/fs: Added support for multiple instances of filesystem |
| * subsys/fs: Added Virtual File system Switch (VFS) support |
| * lib/posix: Added POSIX Mutex support |
| * crypto: Updated mbedTLS to 2.9.0 |
| * Imported libmetal and OpenAMP for IPC |
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| HALs |
| **** |
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| * altera: Add modular Scatter-Gather DMA HAL driver |
| * atmel: Added winc1500 driver from Atmel |
| * cmsis: Update ARM CMSIS headers to version 5.3.0 |
| * nordic: Import SVD files for nRF5 SoCs |
| * nordic: Update nrfx to version 1.0.0 |
| * nxp: imported i.MX7 FreeRTOS HAL |
| * nxp: Added dual core startup code for lpc54114 based on mcux 2.3.0 |
| * stm32l0x: Add HAL for the STM32L0x series |
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| Documentation |
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| Tests and Samples |
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| Added test for POSIX mutex |
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| Issue Related Items |
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| These GitHub issues were addressed since the previous 1.11.0 tagged |
| release: |
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| .. comment List derived from GitHub Issue query: ... |
| * :github:`issuenumber` - issue title |
