NEWS-0.8.0

   1 This file includes highlights of the changes made in the OpenOCD
   2 source archive release.
   3
   4 JTAG Layer:
   5         * New CMSIS-DAP driver
   6         * Andes AICE debug adapter support
   7         * New OpenJTAG driver
   8         * New BCM2835 (RaspberryPi) driver
   9         * JTAG VPI client driver (for OpenRISC Reference Platform SoC)
  10         * Xilinx BSCAN_* for OpenRISC support
  11         * ST-LINKv2-1 support
  12         * ST-LINKv2 SWO tracing support (UART emulation)
  13         * JLink-OB (onboard) support
  14         * Altera USB Blaster driver rewrite, initial Blaster II
  15           support
  16         * ULINK driver ported to libusb-1.0, OpenULINK build fixes
  17         * Support up to 64 bit IR lengths
  18         * SVF playback (FPGA programming) fixes
  19         * "ftdi" interface driver got extensive testing and is now
  20           recommended over the old ft2232 implementation
  21
  22 Boundary Scan:
  23
  24 Target Layer:
  25         * New target: Andes nds32
  26         * New target: OpenRISC OR1K
  27         * New target: Intel Quark X10xx
  28         * MIPS EJTAG 1.5/2.0 support
  29         * MIPS speed improvements
  30         * Cortex-M, Cortex-A (MEM-AP, APB-AP) targets working with BE
  31           hosts now
  32         * XScale vector_catch support, reset fixes
  33         * dsp563xx ad-hoc breakpoint/watchpoint support
  34         * RTOS support for embKernel
  35         * Target profiling improvements
  36         * Memory access functions testbench
  37
  38 Flash Layer:
  39         * STM32 family sync with reference manuals, other bugfixes
  40         * STM32F401, STM32F07x support
  41         * Atmel SAM4L, SAMG5x support
  42         * at91sam3sd8{a,b}, at91sam3s8{a,b,c}, at91sam4s,
  43           at91sam3n0{a,b,0a,0b} support, bugfixes
  44         * Atmel SAMD support
  45         * Milandr 1986ВЕ* support
  46         * Kinetis KL, K21 support
  47         * Nuvoton NuMicro MINI5{1,2,4} support
  48         * Nuvoton NUC910 series support
  49         * NXP LPC43xx, LPC2000 fixes
  50         * NXP LPC800, LPC810 support
  51         * More ATmega parts supported
  52         * Fujitsu MB9Ax family support
  53         * EFM32 Wonder Gecko family support
  54         * Nordic nRF51 support
  55
  56 Board, Target, and Interface Configuration Scripts:
  57         * STM32W108xx generic target config
  58         * STM32F429 discovery board config
  59         * STM32 Nucleo boards configs
  60         * DENX M53EVK board config
  61         * Altera Cyclone V SoC, SoCkit config
  62         * New TI Launchpads board configs
  63         * TI am43xx devices, AM437x GP EVM, AM438x ePOS EVM board
  64           configs
  65         * Marvell Armada 370 family initial support
  66         * TI TMDX570LS31USB (TMS570, Cortex-R4) support scripts
  67         * Freescale FRDM-KL25Z, KL46Z board configs
  68         * Digilent Zedboard config
  69         * Asus RT-N16, Linksys WRT54GL, BT HomeHub board configs
  70         * Atmel Xplained initial support
  71         * Broadcom bcm28155_ap board config
  72         * TUMPA, TUMPA Lite interface configs
  73         * Digilent JTAG-SMT2 interface config
  74         * New RAM testing functions
  75         * Easy-to-use firmware recovery helpers targetting ordinary
  76           users with common equipment
  77
  78 Server Layer:
  79         * Auto-generation of GDB target description for ARMv7-M,
  80           ARM4, nds32, OR1K, Quark
  81         * GDB File-I/O Remote Protocol extension support
  82         * Default GDB flashing events handlers to initialise and reset
  83           the target automatically when "load" is used
  84
  85 Documentation:
  86         * Extensive README* changes
  87         * The official User's Guide was proofread
  88         * Example cross-build script
  89         * RTOS documentation improvements
  90         * Tcl RPC documentation and examples added
  91
  92 Build and Release:
  93         * *BSD, OS X, clang, ARM, windows build fixes
  94         * New pkg-config support changes the way libusb (and other
  95           dependencies) are handled. Many adapter drivers are now
  96           selected automatically during the configure stage.
  97
  98
  99 This release also contains a number of other important functional and
 100 cosmetic bugfixes. For more details about what has changed since the
 101 last release, see the git repository history:
 102
 103 http://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/ci/v0.8.0/log/?path=
 104
 105
 106 For older NEWS, see the NEWS files associated with each release
 107 (i.e. NEWS-<version>).
 108
 109 For more information about contributing test reports, bug fixes, or new
 110 features and device support, please read the new Developer Manual (or
 111 the BUGS and PATCHES.txt files in the source archive).