RIOT-2016.04 - Release Notes
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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:
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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:
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+ means new feature/item
* means modified feature/item
- means removed feature/item
New features and changes
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General
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+ added Makefile support for creating a "binary distribution", making it easier to create closed source applications while still complying to LGPL
Testing
add encryption to drivers
fix new line at the end of file
add shell command for enable encryption and set encryption key on a given device
modify _net_if_set_encrypt_key to support any key length
modify _net_if_set_encrypt_key to support any key length of the key
modify blank line
fix ace before tab in indent
fix ace before tab indent
fix ace before tab indent an error
fix trailing white space
drivers/xbee: encryption support
add encryption to drivers
fix new line at the end of file
add shell command for enable encryption and set encryption key on a given device
modify _net_if_set_encrypt_key to support any key length
modify _net_if_set_encrypt_key to support any key length of the key
modify blank line
fix ace before tab in indent
fix ace before tab indent
fix ace before tab indent an error
fix trailing white space
modify drivers/xbee/xbee.c
fix white spaces on xbee.c
Update xbee encryption driver
white line at end xbee.h
fix error
fix sc_netif.c
fix rebase master interactive
drivers/xbee: encryption support
add encryption to drivers
fix new line at the end of file
add shell command for enable encryption and set encryption key on a given device
modify _net_if_set_encrypt_key to support any key length
modify _net_if_set_encrypt_key to support any key length of the key
modify blank line
fix ace before tab in indent
fix ace before tab indent
fix ace before tab indent an error
fix trailing white space
drivers/xbee: encryption support
add encryption to drivers
fix new line at the end of file
add shell command for enable encryption and set encryption key on a given device
modify _net_if_set_encrypt_key to support any key length
modify _net_if_set_encrypt_key to support any key length of the key
modify blank line
fix ace before tab in indent
fix ace before tab indent
fix ace before tab indent an error
fix trailing white space
modify drivers/xbee/xbee.c
fix white spaces on xbee.c
Update xbee encryption driver
white line at end xbee.h
fix error
fix rebase conflict 4
fix same missing in patches changes
fix ascii to hex index parser
fix syntax rules
fix syntax issue 2
add _netopt_strmap NETOPT_ENCRYPTION e NETOPT_ENCRYPTION_KEY
fix trailng white spaces
This is a temporary quick-fix for #5122 to not have GUAs removed on an
interface.
It solves the issue by both not letting the registration run out on the router
and by not letting the lifetime of an auto-configured address expire.
The IPSR (=Interrupt Program Status Register) contains the exception
type number of the current Interrupt Service Routine. Printing this
out can be useful to detect if a certain interrupt is not implemented.
The workaround for the pktbuf size is not longer needed, since native itself assures a big enough buffer.
Using a neighbor cache size of 1 is mandatory for all platforms when compiling pedantically.
