Releases: RIOT-OS/RIOT
Release-2017.07
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
- 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
- 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
Mailing lists
- RIOT OS kernel developers list
[email protected] (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel) - RIOT OS users list
[email protected] (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/users) - RIOT commits
[email protected] (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/commits) - Github notifications
[email protected] (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-2017.04
RIOT-2017.04 - 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 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 a lot of new features, fixes and enhancements. Among
these has been a huge cleanup regarding cppcheck and documentation, and we're
pleased to announce that all remaining doxygen and cppcheck warnings have been
fixed. We're also proud to present a Virtual File System layer and integration
of the SPIFFS file system. A lot of work has gone into support for
STMicroelectronics's Nucleo family, with RIOT now supporting 28 (up from 13)
Nucleo boards. And as always, there was a lot of under-the-hood cleanup, bug
fixing and documentation work.
About 200 pull requests with about 562 commits have been merged since the last release and about 23
issues have been solved. 32 people contributed with code in 91 days. 2697 files have been touched with
716950 insertions and 492623 deletions.
Notations used below:
- means new feature/item
- means modified feature/item
- means removed feature/item
New features and changes
Core
- full C11 atomics support
- rmutex, a recursive mutex implementation
API changes
- renamed NTOH*() -> ntoh*(), HTON*() -> hton*()
- removed gpioint API, which was unnused and obsoleted by periph/gpio
- renamed uuid module to luid
System libraries
- VFS: virtual file system layer
- fmt: add print_byte_hex(), fmt_lpad()
- 3DES: removed support as 3DES is considered legacy crypto
Networking
- emCute - a small MQTT-SN implementation
- sock_dns: a simple DNS resolver
Packages
- SPIFFS, the first file system supported by RIOT's VFS layer
- jerryscript, a Javascript interpreter
Drivers
- added dynamixel server motor driver
- removed ltc4150 driver
- removed smb380 driver
Build System
- Experimental distributed building using Murdock
- most makfiles moved from root into makefiles/
- added submodule support
Special Thanks
We 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, Eistec, Ell-i, Enigeering Spirit, Nordic, OTAkeys and Phytec.
More information
http://www.riot-os.org
Mailing lists
- RIOT OS kernel developers list
[email protected] (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel) - RIOT OS users list
[email protected] (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/users) - RIOT commits
[email protected] (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/commits) - Github notifications
[email protected] (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/notifications)
IRC
- Join the RIOT IRC channel at: irc.freenode.net, #riot-os
License
- Most of 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 are published under a separate, LGPL compatible license
(e.g. some files developedby SICS).
All code files contain licensing information.
RIOT-2017.01
RIOT-2017.01 - 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 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 a lot of new features, fixes and enhancements. Among others these features
contain an initial - still experimental - TCP implementation based on the GNRC network stack, support
for reading from and writing to SD cards, a new power management architecture as well additional third
party packages such as TweetNaCl, a cryptographic library, and Heatshrink a data compression library
optimized for embedded real-time systems.
We added support for new platforms including the Calliope mini, Maple mini, and a couple of STMs
Nucleo boards. Device support was extended by several new drivers, e.g., for NXP PN532 NFC, Microchip
MRF24J40 802.15.4 radio (experimental), or Bosch BME280 pressure/humidity/temperature sensor.
We completely refactored the SPI interface, allowing for internally handled hardware or software chip
select lines and shared bus usage for multiple devices with different SPI configurations.
About 278 pull requests with about 606 commits have been merged since the last release and about 84
issues have been solved. 44 people contributed with code in 87 days. 2230 files have been touched with
220275 insertions and 159840 deletions.
Notations used below:
- means new feature/item
- means modified feature/item
- means removed feature/item
New features and changes
General
- New power management architecture
Core
- Initial (experimental) OpenOCD/GDB thread support
- Make Semaphore implementation IPC independent
API changes
- SPI driver interface (rework)
- Add Mutex lock with timeout parameter
- Xtimer allow for arbitrary frequency & additional convenience functions
- HDC1000 driver remodeling
- MMA8652 driver remodeling (MMA8x5x now)
System libraries
- Lightweight CRC16 implementation
- Remove Twofish and RC5 implementation
Networking
- Initial (experimental) GNRC TCP implementation
- Provide sock-port for POSIX SOCKETS
- Provide sock-port for GCOAP
- Provide sock-port for UHCPC
- Provide sock_ip wrapper for LWIP
- Native: allow for multiple netdev2_tap devices
Packages
- TweetNaCl: cryptographic library
- Heatshrink: compression/decompression library
- Removed: OpenWSN
Platforms
- Support for Maple mini board
- Support for ST Nucleo-32 F303 board
- Support for ST Nucleo-32 F042 board
- Support for Calliope mini board
- Drop support for PTTU platform
Drivers
- Rework SPI driver interface
- Peripheral flashrom driver interface
- SD Card driver (SPI)
- NXP PN532 NFC driver
- Initial (experimental) Microchip MRF24J40 radio driver
- JEDEC JC42.4 temperatur sensors
- Bosch BME280 pressure, humidity and temperature sensor
- NXP MMA8x5x accelerometer (previously MMA8652)
- Unified STM32 RTC driver
- Unified STM32 UART driver
- Unified STM32 PWM driver
- Unified STM32 timer driver
- Unified NRF5x low power modes
- Low power modes for the STM32F1 family
- Unified Kinetis low power modes
- Xbee port to netdev2 API
- W5100 port to netdev2 API
- NRF5x/'nrfmin' port to netdev2 API (w/o 6LoWPAN support currently)
- Refactor synchronous UART by new 'isrpipe' module
Build System
- Experimental Jenkins CI
- Python3 support for compile script (compile_test.py)
Other
- UUID module for central ID/address generation
Fixed Issues from the last release
#4388: POSIX sockets: open socket is bound to a specific thread
#4737: cortex-m: Hard fault after a thread exits
#4874: Using single RSSI_BASE_VALUE for all Atmel radios
#5034: gnrc_networking: offers txtsnd, does not print received packets
#5083: AVR8: Reboots after return 0;
#5719: cc2538: rf driver doesn't handle large packets
#5954: nRF52 uart_write gets stuck
#6036: tinydtls: DTLS randomly missing functions
#6037: pkg/nanocoap: native build fails on macOS
#6358: arduino uno : xtimer accuracy problem
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: potential racey memory leak: According to the packet buffer stats, flood-pinging a multicast
destination may lead to a memory leak due to a race condition. However, it seems to be a rare
case and a completely filled up packet buffer was not observed.
#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
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
#4841: xtimer: timer already in the list: Under some conditions an xtimer can end up twice in the
internal list of the xtimer module
#4902: xtimer: xtimer_set: xtimer_set does not handle integer overflows well
#5338: xtimer: xtimer_now() not ISR safe for non-32-bit platforms.
#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()
#6052: tests: xtimer_drift gets stuck: xtimer_drift application freezes after ~30-200 seconds
#6331: RTC alarm triggered with 1s delay
#6419: cpu/cc2538: timer broken
#6427: xtimer: infinite loop with xtimer_mutex_lock_timeout
#6502: cpu/stm32l1: RTC broken
#6542: boards/nucle-f0xx: misconfigured timer configuration (fix in #6494)
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
#4590: pkg: building relic with clang fails.
#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
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
#2006: cpu/nrf51822: timer callback may be fired too early
#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)
#4694: drivers/lm75a: does not build
#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
#5361: cpu/cc26x0: timer broken
#5405: Eratic timings on iotlab-m3 with compression context activated
#5460: cpu/samd21: i2c timing with compiler optimization
#5486: at86rf2xx: lost interrupts
#5489: cpu/lpc11u34: ADC broken
#5678: at86rf2xx: failed assertion in _isr
#5799: kw...
RIOT-2016.10
RIOT-2016.10 - Release Notes
RIOT is a real-time multi-threading operating system that supports 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, real-time
capabilities, small memory footprint, modularity, and uniform API access,
independent of the underlying hardware (this API offers 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 a lot of new features as well as it fixes several major
bugs. Among these new features are the new simplified network socket API
called sock, the GNRC specific CoAP implementation gcoap and several new
packages: TinyDTLS, the Aversive++ microcontroller library for robotics, the
u8g2 graphic library, and nanocoap.
Using the new sock API an implementation of the Simple Time Network Protocol
(SNTP) was also introduced, allowing for time synchronization between nodes.
New platforms include the Arduino Uno, the Arduino Duemilanove, the Arduino
Zero, SODAQ Autonomo, and the Zolertia remote (rev. B).
The most significant bug fix was done in native which led to a significantly
more robust handling of ISRs and now allows for at least 1,000 native
instances running stably on one machine.
About 263 pull requests with about 398 commits have been merged since the last
release and about 42 issues have been solved. 37 people contributed with code
in 100 days. 1006 files have been touched with 166500 insertions and 26926
deletions.
Notations used below:
- means new feature/item
- means modified feature/item
- means removed feature/item
New features and changes
General
- Verbose behavior for assert() macro
Core
- MPU support for Cortex-M
API changes
- Socket-like sock API (replacing conn)
- netdev2: Add Testmodes and CCA modes
- IEEE 802.15.4: clean-up Intra-PAN behavior
- IEEE 802.15.4: centralize default values
- gnrc_pktbuf: allow for 0-sized snips
- gnrc_netapi: mbox and arbitrary callback support
System libraries
No new features or changes
Networking
- Provide sock-port for GNRC
- gcoap: a GNRC-based CoAP implementation
- Simple Network Time Protocol (RFC 5905, section 14)
- Priority Queue for packet snips
- IPv4 header definitions
Packages
- nanocoap: CoAP header parser/builder
- TinyDTLS: DTLS library
- tiny-asn1: asn.1/der decoder
- Aversive++ microcontroller programming library
- u8g2 graphic library
Platforms
- Support for stm32f2xx MCU family
- Low power modes for samd21 CPUs
- More Arduino-based platforms:
- Arduino Uno
- Arduino Duemilanove
- Arduino Zero
- More boards of ST's Nucleo platforms:
- ST Nucleo F030 board support
- ST Nucleo F070 board support
- ST Nucleo F446 board support
- SODAQ Automono
- Zolertia remote rev. B
Drivers
- W5100 Ethernet device
- Atmel IO1 Xplained extension
- LPD8808 LED strips
- at86rf2xx: provide capability to access the RND_VALUE random value register
Build System
- static-tests build target for easy local execution of CI's static tests
Other
- Provide Arduino API to Nucleo boards
- Packer configuration file to build vagrant boxes
- CC2650STK Debugger Support
- ethos: add Ethos over TCP support
Fixed Issues from the last release
#534: native debugging on osx fails
#2071: native: long overdue fixes
#3341: netdev2_tap crashes when hammered
#5007: gnrc icmpv6: Ping reply goes out the wrong interface
#5432: native: valgrind fails
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: potential racey memory leak: According to the packet buffer stats,
flood-pinging a multicast destination may lead to a memory leak due to
a race condition. However, it seems to be a rare case and a completely
filled up packet buffer was not observed.
#4388: POSIX sockets: open socket is bound to a specific thread: This was an
inherit problem of the conn API under GNRC. Since the POSIX sockets are
still based on conn for this release, this issue persists
#4527: gnrc_ipv6: Multicast is not forwarded if routing node listens to the
address (might still be fixable for release, see #5729, #5230: gnrc
ipv6: multicast packets are not dispatched to the upper layers)
#5016: gnrc_rpl: Rejoining RPL instance as root after reboot messes up routing
#5055: cpuid: multiple radios will get same EUI-64 Nodes with multiple
interfaces might get the same EUI-64 for them since they are generated
from the same CPU ID.
#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
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
#4841: xtimer: timer already in the list: Under some conditions an xtimer can
end up twice in the internal list of the xtimer module
#4902: xtimer: xtimer_set: xtimer_set does not handle integer overflows well
#5338: xtimer: xtimer_now() not ISR safe for non-32-bit platforms.
#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()
#6052: tests: xtimer_drift gets stuck: xtimer_drift application freezes after
~30-200 seconds
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
#4590: pkg: building relic with clang fails.
#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.
other platform related issues
#1891: newlib-nano: Printf formatting does not work properly for some numberic
types: PRI[uxdi]64, PRI[uxdi]8 and float are not parsed in newlib-nano
#2006: cpu/nrf51822: timer callback may be fired too early
#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
#4522: avsextrem: linker sometimes doesn't find bl_init_clks()
#4560: make: clang is more pedantic than gcc oonf_api is not building with
clang. (Partly solved by #4593)
#4694: drivers/lm75a: does not build
#4737: cortex-m: Hard fault after a thread exits (under some circumstances)
#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
#5361: cpu/cc26x0: timer broken
#5405: Eratic timings on iotlab-m3 with compression context activated
#5460: cpu/samd21: i2c timing with compiler optimization
#5486: at86rf2xx: lost interrupts
#5489: cpu/lpc11u34: ADC broken
#5603: atmega boards second UART issue
#5678: at86rf2xx: failed assertion in _isr
#5719: cc2538: rf driver doesn't handle large packets
#5799: kw2x: 15.4 duplicate transmits
#5944: msp430: ipv6_hdr unittests fail
#5848: arduino: Race condition in sys/arduino/Makefile.include
#5954: nRF52 uart_write get stuck
#6018: nRF52 gnrc 6lowpan ble memory leak
other issues
#1263: TLSF implementation contains (a) read-before-write error(s).
#3256: make: Sett...
RIOT-2016.07
RIOT-2016.07 - Release Notes
RIOT is a real-time multi-threading operating system that supports 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, real-time
capabilities, small memory footprint, modularity, and uniform API access,
independent of the underlying hardware (this API offers 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 was focused primarily on fixing bugs, but also adds two new
supported radio transceivers: CC2420 and CC2538.
This new radio support allows to new interoperability tests with other OS,
allowing code size comparison and overall network performance for
platforms based on these radios.
About 198 pull requests with about 325 commits have been merged since the
last release and about 65 issues have been solved. 46 people contributed with
code in 112 days. 632 files have been touched with 19863 insertions and
3682 deletions.
Notations used below:
+ means new feature/item
- means modified feature/item
- means removed feature/item
New features and changes
General
* No major changes or new features coming on this release.
Core
+ Introduced Mailbox IPC API (#4919)
- Improved clist
Network Stack
+ Introduction of netstats in several platforms.
- RPL optional auto initialisation
Packages
+ Added statistics for TLSF package (#5418)
- Added U8g2 library for monochrome displays (#5549)
- Added on-the-fly content creation for CCN-lite.
Platforms
+ nrf52dk: add support for building with Nordic SoftDevice (6lo over BLE)
- Added support for Libellium's waspmote-pro board.
- Added support for the iotlab A8/M3 node (https://www.iot-lab.info/hardware/a8/)
- Added initial and rudimentary port for TI cc2650stk "SensorTag" (#4675)
- Split Zolertia Remote support into Remote Prototype A (remote-pa) and
Remote Revision A (remote-reva)
Drivers
+ Texas Instruments CC2538 RF driver (PR #5291)
- Texas Instruments CC2420 RF driver (PR #5591)
- Bosch BM180 sensor.
- Added XBee optional AES encryption support
System libraries
* Several xtimer bug fixes
Build System
+ Ubuntu 16.04 packaged gcc-arm-none-eabi toolchain can now be used to compile
RIOT for ARM boards
Other
* Reworked UART and code factorisation for ATmega CPUs.
API changes
* Unified interface of hashing functions
Fixed Issues from the last release
#3824: native: gnrc: hardcore pinging crashes.
#4583: cpp11: clang doesn't allow mutex_t to be used with constexpr All
cpp11-* tests fail with clang.
#5388: gnrc_sixlowpan_iphc_nhc: receiving NHC compressed UDP
packets hits assert in IPv6 (Fixed by #5281).
Known 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.
#3086: Max. packet length for AT86RF2XX
#4048: potential racey memory leak According to the packet buffer stats,
flood-pinging a multicast destination may lead to a memory leak due to a
race condition. However, it seems to be a rare case and a completely filled
up packet buffer was not observed.
#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.
#5007: gnrc icmpv6: Ping reply goes out the wrong interface
#5055: cpuid: multiple radios will get same EUI-64 Nodes with multiple
interfaces might get the same EUI-64 for them since they are generated from
the same CPU ID.
#5230: gnrc ipv6: multicast packets are not dispatched to the upper layers.
(Fix exists, but was postponed)
#5390: pkg: OpenWSN does not compile This package still uses deprecated
modules and was not tested for a long time.
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.
#534: native debugging on osx fails Using valgrind or gdb with a nativenet
target in OSX leads to "the network" being stuck (gdb) or the whole process
being stuck (valgrind).
#334: nativenet crashes when hammered Flood-pinging a native instance
from more than one host (either multiple threads on the host system or multiple
other native instances), leads to a SEGFAULT.
#2071; WIP: native: overdue fixes
#4590: pkg: building relic with clang fails.
#5432: native: valgrind fails
other platform related issues
#4560: make: clang is more pedantic than gcc oonf_api is not building with
clang.
(Partly solved by #4593)
#4866: not all GPIO driver implementations are thread safe Due to non-atomic
operations in the drivers some pin configurations might get lost.
#5486: at86rf2xx: lost interrupts
other issues
#1263: TLSF implementation contains (a) read-before-write error(s).
#2761: core: define default flags If a thread is created without the
corresponding flag (CREATE_STACKTEST), the ps command will yield wrong
numbers for the stack usage.
#2927: core: Automatically select the lowest possible LPM mode Not all
available low power modes (LPMs) are implemented for each platform and the
concept of how the LPM is chosen needs some reconsideration.
#2967: Makefile.features: location is not relevant for all features Provided
features for the build system should be split up into a board and cpu specific part
#4488: Making the newlib thread-safe When calling puts/printf after
thread_create(), the CPU hangs for DMA enabled uart drivers.
#4841: xtimer: timer already in the list Under some conditions an xtimer can end
up twice in the internal list of the xtimer module.
#5338: xtimer: xtimer_now() not ISR safe For non-32-bit platforms.
Special Thanks
We 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, Limifrog, Nordic, OpenMote, Phytec, SiLabs, UDOO,and Zolertia;
and also companies that directly sponsored development time:Cisco Systems,
Eistec, Ell-i, Enigeering Spirit, Nordic, FreshTemp LLC, and Phytec.
More information
Mailing lists
- RIOT OS kernel developers list
- RIOT OS users list
- Github notifications
IRC
- Join the RIOT IRC channel at: irc.freenode.net, #riot-os
License
- Most of 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 are published under a separate, LGPL compatible license
(e.g. some files developed by SICS).
All code files contain licensing information.
RIOT-2016.04
RIOT-2016.04 - Release Notes
RIOT is a real-time multi-threading operating system that supports 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, real-time
capabilities, small memory footprint, modularity, and uniform API access,
independent of the underlying hardware (this API offers 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 adds support for two additional network stacks: lwIP and emb6.
A bunch of additional protocols are now available, P2P-RPL in the GNRC
network stack, Ethernet-over-Serial (ethos). Murdock, the new, blazing fast
RIOT CI is now available to significantly speed up code merging procedures.
This release also adds support for a number of new boards and sensors and a new
tool for automated border router setup is now provided which greatly simplifies
that setup for newbies as well as for old-timers. Last but not least: this
release includes a number of bug fixes, mostly about stabilizing and enhancing
the networking capabilities of RIOT.
About 470 pull requests with about 1196 commits have been merged since the last
release and 127 additional issues have been solved. 55 people contributed code
in 124 days. 1521 files have been touched with ~91700 insertions and ~42200
deletions.
Notations used below:
- means new feature/item
- means modified feature/item
- means removed feature/item
New features and changes
General
- added Makefile support for creating a "binary distribution", making it easier to create closed source applications while still complying to LGPL
Testing
- Murdock, the new RIOT CI
- unified pexpect code
- added various new unittests and test applications
Core
- added thread flags, a new method to signal events in an efficient and thread safe manner
- messaging is now compile-time optional, shaving off some bytes off each thread's state struct for projects not requiring it
- new, simpler list implementation increases mutex and msg performance
Network Stack
- P2P-RPL (RFC6997)
- netdev2_test: test framework for users of the netdev2 API
Packages
- emb6 network stack
- jsmn (minimal JSON parser)
- lwIP network stack
- unified and streamlined git package source handling
- added support for caching git repositories
Platforms
- reworked existing peripheral drivers and added SPI driver for arduino-mega2560
- added support for nRF52dk
- added support for nucleo-f072 and nucleo-f103
- unified LED macros for all boards
Drivers
- ethos "ethernet over serial" driver, enabling shared uart + network communication over one serial connection
- RHOM BH1750FVI ambient light sensor
- ST LIS3MDL three-axis magnetic sensor
- Silicon Labs Si70xx low-power temperature + humidity sensor
- simplified GPIO driver interface
- AES encryption for xbee radio driver
- added ADC mapping to SAUL
Sytem libraries
- vtimer support was dropped completely and removed
Build System
- made build system safe for concurrent building of multiple applications
- desvirt integration into the RIOT build system
Other
- simplified border router setup tool (single UART and automation script)
API changes
- at86rf2xx was moved from gnrc_netdev to the netdev2 API
- genrand_* -> random_*
- xtimer_remove() no longer returns whether a timer was actually removed
- disableIRQ(), enableIRQ(), restoreIRQ(), inISR() -> irq_disable(), irq_enable(), irq_restore(), irq_is_in()
- renamed periph/random to periph/hwrng
Fixed Issues from the last release
- #3109: periph/random: random_read should return unsigned int
- #3970: RPL: Advertise DODAG only over the assigned interface
- #4462: IPHC/NHC broken between Linux and a RIOT node with a RIOT-based border router in between.
- #4608: tests/xtimer_usleep_until: unstable behaviour
Known 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. - #3086: Max. packet length for AT86RF2XX
The size of the link-layer header is not dynamically calculated, but instead the maximum
size is always assumed. - #4048: potential racey memory leak
According to the packet buffer stats, flood-pinging a multicast destination may lead to a
memory leak due to a race condition. However, it seems to be a rare case and a
completely filled up packet buffer was not observed. - #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. - #5007: gnrc icmpv6: Ping reply goes out the wrong interface
- #5055: cpuid: multiple radios will get same EUI-64
Nodes with multiple interfaces might get the same EUI-64 for them since they are generated
from the same CPU ID - #5230: gnrc ipv6: multicast packets are not dispatched to the upper layers
- #5388: gnrc_sixlowpan_iphc_nhc: receiving NHC compressed UDP packets hits assert in IPv6
Fix already provided in #5281, but did not made it into the release due to its complexity - #5390: pkg: OpenWSN does not compile
This package still uses deprecated modules and was not tested for a long time
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. - #534: native debugging on osx fails
Using valgrind or gdb with a nativenet target in OSX leads to "the network"
being stuck (gdb) or the whole process being stuck (valgrind). - #3341 and #3824: nativenet crashes when hammered
Flood-pinging a native instance from more than one host (either multiple threads on the
host system or multiple other native instances), leads to a SEGFAULT
other platform related issues
- #4560: make: clang is more pedantic than gcc
oonf_api is not building with clang. - #4583: cpp11: clang doesn't allow
mutex_tto be used withconstexpr
All cpp11-* tests fail with clang. - #4866: not all GPIO driver implementations are thread safe
Due to non-atomic operations in the drivers some pin configurations might get lost
other issues
- #1263: TLSF implementation contains (a) read-before-write error(s)
- #2761: core: define default flags
If a thread is created without the corresponding flag (CREATE_STACKTEST),
the ps command will yield wrong numbers for the stack usage - #2927: core: Automatically select the lowest possible LPM mode
Not all available low power modes (LPMs) are implemented for each platform and the
concept of how the LPM is chosen needs some reconsideration - #2967: Makefile.features: location is not relevant for all features
Provided features for the build system should be split up into a board and cpu specific
part - #4488: Making the newlib thread-safe
When calling puts/printf after thread_create(), the CPU hangs for DMA enabled uart drivers. - #4841: xtimer: timer already in the list
Under some conditions an xtimer can end up twice in the internal list of the xtimer module. - #5338: xtimer: xtimer_now() not ISR safe
For non-32-bit platforms
Special Thanks
We 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 alphabetical
order): Atmel, Freescale, Limifrog, Nordic, OpenMote, Phytec, SiLabs, UDOO,
and Zolertia; and also companies that directly sponsored development time:
Cisco Systems, Eistec, Ell-i, Enigeering Spirit, FreshTemp LLC, and Phytec.
More information
Mailing lists
-
RIOT OS kernel developers list
-
RIOT OS users list
-
Github notifications
IRC
-
Join the RIOT IRC channel at: irc.freenode.net, #riot-os
License
-
Most of 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 are published under a separate, LGPL compatible license
(e.g. some files developed by SICS).All code files contain licensing information.
2016.04-RC3
Merge pull request #5386 from cgundogan/pr/backport/disable_nhc make: disable NHC (backport of #5385)
2016.04 RC2
Merge pull request #5379 from cgundogan/pr/backport/rm_rf_safe make: bail out if there are spaces in the path (backport of #5221)
2016.04-RC1
Merge pull request #5240 from basilfx/feature/si70xx_improvements drivers: si70xx: result bugfixes
RIOT-2015.12
RIOT-2015.12 - Release Notes
RIOT is a real-time multi-threading operating system that supports 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, real-time
capabilities, small memory footprint, modularity, and uniform API access,
independent of the underlying hardware (this API offers 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).
About this release:
This release is mostly a clean-up and bug-fixing release. Besides that, it introduces SAUL,
the [S]ensor [A]ctuator [U]ber [L]ayer, which offers a unified API to interact with all
different types of sensors and actuators on RIOT supported hardware. Furthermore, it re-enables
the support for ICN by integrating CCN-Lite as a package. A lot of new overall documentation was
added and existing documentation was improved (http://riot-os.org/api/). In addition,
a Vagrant (https://www.vagrantup.com/) configuration file was added to the RIOT repository in
order to create reproducible and portable environments that contain all necessary toolchains.
About 222 pull requests with about 631 commits have been merged since the last release and 48
additional issues have been solved. 37 people contributed code in 102 days. 980 files have been
touched with ~59779 insertions and ~12115 deletions.
Notations used below:
+ means new feature/item
- means modified feature/item
- means removed feature/item
New features and changes
General
Device support
+ SAUL [S]ensor [A]ctuator [U]ber [L]ayer
Core
* replaced deprecated dINT()/eINT() calls by up-to-date disableIRQ()/enableIRQ()/restoreIRQ()
calls throughout the whole core
Network Stack
+ TFTP support
- 6LoWPAN: Next Header Compression
- leaf mode for RPL nodes
- RPL: refactoring of instances and dodags (saved 1kB ROM and 0,5kB RAM)
- FIB: initial source route support
- change to non-blocking 6LoWPAN fragmentation
- POSIX sockets: various fixes
- periodic stats printing for ping6 command
- convert all vtimer into xtimer calls
- send router advertisements without PIOs
Packages
+ CCN-Lite as a ICN network stack
- RELIC: efficient cryptography library
- fix TLSF to compile with -pedantic
Supported platforms
Additional support for the following boards:
- weio board with NXP LPC11U34 (ARM Cortex-M0)
- Silicon Labs Wireless Eval Kit SLWSTK6220A (Wonder Gecko)
- STM32 Nucleo-F401
Drivers
+ Arduino-mega2560 GPIO
- Arduino pin mapping for Mega2560 and Due
Network drivers
+ enc28j60 Ethernet chip
- at86rf2xx: Add support for channel page
- at86rf2xx: fix LQI reading
- implement sleep mode for at86rf2xx
Sensors drivers
+ AT30TSE75x temperature sensor
- TCS3772 Color Light-to-Digital converter
System libraries
+ partial support for the Arduino API
- lightweight semaphores
- fmt: simple string formatting library
- xtimer: 32-bit version of msg_recv_timeout
- implicit socket binding for POSIX connect() and sendto()
- posix_semaphore: make API POSIX compliant
Examples
+ microcoap/conn example
- minimal GNRC networking example
Build System
* split the Cortex-M0 buildtest group to avoid timeout issues with Travis
- split the Cortex-M4 buildtest group to avoid timeout issues with Travis
Other
+ vagrant configuration
- documentation: various high-level descriptions of crucial features
- IoT-LAB: create and connect to debug server
- pyterm: fix problems with German umlauts as input
Fixed Issues from the last release
#2724: Add support for serial number passing to CMSIS boards, document it
Documentation about how to discover and set the serial number of CMSIS-DAP chips is missing
#3201: Odd length packet snips cause invalid check sum
If an odd length packet snip occurs in a packet and is not the last snip
(in the order the packet is supposed to be, not in the list's order)
in a packet it will generate a wrong check sum.
Known Issues
network 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.
#3086: Max. packet length for AT86RF2XX
The size of the link-layer header is not dynamically calculated, but instead the maximum
size is always assumed.
#3970: RPL: Advertise DODAG only over the assigned interface
gnrc_rpl seems to multicast DIOs over all interfaces, though gnrc_rpl_init expects an
interface as parameter and sets the RPL-nodes multicast address only for that interface.
#4048: potential racey memory leak
According to the packet buffer stats, flood-pinging a multicast destination may lead to a
memory leak due to a race condition. However, it seems to be a rare case and a
completely filled up packet buffer was not observed.
#4462: IPHC/NHC broken between Linux and a RIOT node with a RIOT-based border router in between.
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.
#534: native debugging on osx fails
Using valgrind or gdb with a nativenet target in OSX leads to "the network"
being stuck (gdb) or the whole process being stuck (valgrind).
#3341 and #3824: nativenet crashes when hammered
Flood-pinging a native instance from more than one host (either multiple threads on the
host system or multiple other native instances), leads to a SEGFAULT.
#4608: tests/xtimer_usleep_until: unstable behaviour
The test starts to output "too large difference" and fails after a random period of time.
other platform related issues
#4560: make: clang is more pedantic than gcc
oonf_api is not building with clang.
#4583: cpp11: clang doesn't allow mutex_t to be used with constexpr
All cpp11-* tests fail with clang.
other issues
#2761: core: define default flags
If a thread is created without the corresponding flag (CREATE_STACKTEST),
the ps command will yield wrong numbers for the stack usage
#2927: core: Automatically select the lowest possible LPM mode
Not all available low power modes (LPMs) are implemented for each platform and the
concept of how the LPM is chosen needs some reconsideration
#2967: Makefile.features: location is not relevant for all features
Provided features for the build system should be split up into a board and cpu specific
part
#3109: periph/random: random_read should return unsigned int
The documentation of this function does not match corresponding implementation.
#4488: Making the newlib thread-safe
When calling puts/printf after thread_create(), the CPU hangs for DMA enabled uart drivers.
Special Thanks
We 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 alphabetical order):
Atmel, Freescale, Limifrog, Phytec, SiLabs, and Zolertia; and also companies that directly
sponsored development time:
Cisco Systems, Google, Eistec, Ell-i, Engineering Spirit, FreshTemp LLC, and Phytec.
More information
Mailing lists
- RIOT OS kernel developers list
- RIOT OS users list
- RIOT commits
- Github notifications
IRC
- Join the RIOT IRC channel at: irc.freenode.net, #riot-os
License
- Most of 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 are published under a separate, LGPL compatible license
(e.g. some files developed by SICS).
All code files contain licensing information.