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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
2016-04-22 16:24:15 +02:00
boards Merge pull request #4435 from thomaseichinger/pr/mulle_serial_port_osx 2016-04-20 18:46:31 +02:00
core Merge pull request #5270 from authmillenon/core/fix/mutex-debug 2016-04-20 15:05:11 +02:00
cpu Merge pull request #5356 from DipSwitch/pr/fix_cc2538_spi_compile_warning 2016-04-20 14:47:54 +02:00
dist tools: ethos: allow start_network.sh script to run from anywhere 2016-04-19 14:34:18 +02:00
doc doc: fix typo 2016-04-08 16:08:40 +02:00
drivers Merge pull request #2842 from FrancescoErmini/drivers_xbee_encryption 2016-04-21 10:26:06 +09:00
examples Merge pull request #5229 from OlegHahm/pktbuf_minimal_check 2016-04-20 14:44:30 +02:00
pkg pkg/openwsn: prevent build loop 2016-04-07 08:22:40 +02:00
sys Merge pull request #2842 from FrancescoErmini/drivers_xbee_encryption 2016-04-21 10:26:06 +09:00
tests tests/unittests: cc2650stk insufficient memory 2016-04-18 19:00:50 +02:00
.drone.yml drone: added Drone file 2015-05-14 15:40:09 +02:00
.gitattributes git: handle patch files as binary 2015-12-04 11:46:33 +01:00
.gitignore gitignore: add __pycache__ 2016-03-05 16:05:10 +01:00
.travis.yml ci: split up cortex_m4 in even more groups 2016-03-08 20:37:25 +01:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Update CONTRIBUTING.md 2014-07-11 09:20:58 +02:00
doc.txt doc: enable helper macros for doxygen 2015-03-03 17:53:32 +01:00
LICENSE * updated LICENSE file from GPL to LPGL 2013-06-18 17:19:53 +02:00
Makefile doxygen: add make targets to build man and latex 2015-07-20 19:30:30 +02:00
Makefile.application tests: make embUnit a normal sys module 2014-12-21 20:04:57 +01:00
Makefile.base make: use ccache if environment variable is set 2015-05-29 09:45:40 +02:00
Makefile.bindist make: add bindist targets / Makefiles 2016-03-29 22:46:28 +02:00
Makefile.buildtests make: buildtest: pass GIT_CACHE_DIR to buildtest targets 2016-03-23 15:10:01 +01:00
Makefile.cflags make: enable assert() in make scan-build 2015-09-24 23:51:05 +02:00
Makefile.defaultmodules core: make messaging optional 2016-03-30 23:27:09 +02:00
Makefile.dep make: disable NHC 2016-04-21 18:29:53 +02:00
Makefile.docker Makefile.docker: pass command line make variables on the command line 2016-03-22 06:32:58 +01:00
Makefile.include Merge pull request #5221 from Kijewski/rm-rf-safe 2016-04-20 23:47:01 +02:00
Makefile.modules make: Move BOARD and CPU includes to Makefile.modules 2016-02-10 16:37:03 +01:00
Makefile.pseudomodules sys/saul: Add analog inputs to SAUL via periph/adc 2016-04-08 10:18:12 +02:00
Makefile.scan-build make: enable assert() in make scan-build 2015-09-24 23:51:05 +02:00
Makefile.vars Merge pull request #5112 from kaspar030/use_git_cache 2016-03-21 22:32:33 +01:00
README.md doc: updated and clarified tapsetup usage 2016-03-10 17:40:22 +01:00
release-notes.txt RELEASE 2016.04 2016-04-22 16:24:15 +02:00
uncrustify-riot.cfg Merge pull request #4481 from authmillenon/uncrustify/enh/ignore-return-parens 2016-01-26 18:55:26 +01:00
Vagrantfile vagrant: rename RIOT-OS => RIOT and mount the synced folder directly to /home/cnk 2015-12-11 08:53:25 +01:00

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The friendly Operating System for IoT!

FEATURES

RIOT OS is an operating system for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It is based on a microkernel and designed for

  • energy efficiency
  • hardware independent development
  • a high degree of modularity

Its features comprise

  • a preemptive, tickless scheduler with priorities
  • flexible memory management
  • high resolution, long-term timers
  • support for AVR, MSP430, ARM7, and ARM Cortex-M on over 50 boards
  • the native port allows to run RIOT as-is on Linux, BSD, and MacOS. Multiple instances of RIOT running on a single machine can also be interconnected via a simple virtual Ethernet bridge
  • IPv6
  • 6LoWPAN (RFC4944, RFC6282, and RFC6775)
  • UDP
  • RPL (storing mode)
  • CoAP
  • CCN-Lite

GETTING STARTED

USING THE NATIVE PORT WITH NETWORKING

If you compile RIOT for the native cpu and include the netdev2_tap module, you can specify a network interface like this: PORT=tap0 make term

SETTING UP A TAP NETWORK

There is a shellscript in RIOT/dist/tools/tapsetup called tapsetup which you can use to create a network of tap interfaces.

USAGE To create a bridge and two (or count at your option) tap interfaces:

./dist/tools/tapsetup/tapsetup [-c [<count>]]

CONTRIBUTE

To contribute something to RIOT, please refer to the development procedures and read all notes for best practice.

MAILING LISTS

LICENSE

  • All sources and binaries that have been developed at Freie Universität Berlin are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
  • Some external sources, especially files developed by SICS are published under a separate license.

All code files contain licensing information.

For more information, see the RIOT website:

http://www.riot-os.org