NEWS

   1 This file includes highlights of the changes made in the OpenOCD
   2 source archive release.
   3
   4 JTAG Layer:
   5         * SWD support with FTDI, Versaloon, J-Link, sysfsgpio
   6         * CMSIS-DAP massive speed and stability improvements
   7         * Versaloon driver ported to libusb-1.0
   8         * STLink can reestablish communication with a target that was
   9           disconnected or rebooted
  10         * STLink FAULT and WAIT SWD handling improved
  11         * New hla_serial command to distinguish between several HLA
  12           adapters attached to a single machine
  13         * Serial number support for CMSIS-DAP and J-Link adapters
  14         * Support for more J-Link adapters
  15         * TAP autoprobing improvements
  16         * Big speedup for SVF playback with USB Blaster
  17
  18 Boundary Scan:
  19
  20 Target Layer:
  21         * Stability improvements for targets that get disconnected or
  22           rebooted during a debug session
  23         * MIPS speed and reliability improvements
  24         * MIPS 1.5/2.0 fixes
  25         * ARMv7-R improvements
  26         * Cortex-A improvements, A7, A15 MPCores support
  27         * FPU support for ARMv7-M (Cortex-M4F)
  28         * TPIU/ITM support (including SWO/SWV tracing), can be
  29           captured with external tools or STLink
  30         * JTAG Serial Port (Advanced Debug System softcore) support
  31         * Profiling support for OpenRISC
  32         * ChibiOS/RT 3.0 support (with and without FPU)
  33         * FreeRTOS current versions support
  34         * Freescale MQX RTOS support
  35         * GDB target description support for MIPS
  36         * The last created target is auto-selected as the current
  37
  38 Flash Layer:
  39         * nRF51 async loader to improve flashing performance and stability
  40         * Cypress PSoC 41xx/42xx family flash driver
  41         * Silabs SiM3 family flash driver
  42         * Marvell Wireless Microcontroller SPI flash driver
  43         * Kinetis mass erase (part unsecuring) implemented
  44         * lpcspifi stability fixes
  45         * STM32 family sync with reference manuals, L0 support, bugfixes
  46         * LPC2000 driver automatically determines part and flash size
  47         * NXP LPC11(x)xx, LPC13xx, LPC15xx, LPC8xx, LPC5410x, LPC407x support
  48         * Atmel SAMD, SAMR, SAML21 devices support
  49         * Atmel SAM4E16 support
  50         * ZeroGecko family support
  51         * TI Tiva C Blizzard and Snowflake families support
  52         * Nuvoton NuMicro M051 support
  53
  54 Board, Target, and Interface Configuration Scripts:
  55         * Normal target configs can work with HLA (STLink, ICDI) adapters
  56         * STM32 discovery and Nucleo boards configs
  57         * Gumstix AeroCore board config
  58         * General Plus GP326XXXA target config
  59         * Micrel KS869x target config
  60         * ASUS RT-N66U board config
  61         * Atmel SAM4E-EK board config
  62         * Atmel AT91SAM4L proper reset handling implemented
  63         * TI OMAP/AM 3505, 3517 target configs
  64         * nRF51822-mKIT board config
  65         * RC Module К1879ХБ1Я target config
  66         * TI TMDX570LS20SUSB board config
  67         * TI TMS570 USB Kit board config
  68         * TI CC2538, CC26xx target configs
  69         * TI AM437x major config improvements, DDR support
  70         * TI AM437X IDK board config
  71         * TI SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3200 LaunchPad configs
  72         * Silicon Labs EM357, EM358 target configs
  73         * Infineon XMC1000, XMC4000 family targets and boards configs
  74         * Atheros AR9331 target config
  75         * TP-LINK TL-MR3020 board config
  76         * Alphascale asm9260t target and eval kit configs
  77         * Olimex SAM7-LA2 (AT91SAM7A2) board config
  78         * EFM32 Gecko boards configs
  79         * Spansion FM4 target and SK-FM4-176L-S6E2CC board configs
  80         * LPC1xxx target configs were restructured
  81         * IoT-LAB debug adapter config
  82         * DP BusBlaster KT-Link compatible config
  83
  84 Server Layer:
  85         * Polling period can be configured
  86         * "shutdown" command has an immediate effect
  87         * The "program" command doesn't lead to a shutdown by
  88           default, use optional "exit" parameter for the old behaviour
  89         * Proper OS signal handling was implemented
  90         * Async target notifications for the Tcl RPC
  91
  92 Documentation:
  93
  94 Build and Release:
  95
  96
  97 This release also contains a number of other important functional and
  98 cosmetic bugfixes. For more details about what has changed since the
  99 last release, see the git repository history:
 100
 101 http://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/ci/v0.9.0-rc1/log/?path=
 102
 103
 104 For older NEWS, see the NEWS files associated with each release
 105 (i.e. NEWS-<version>).
 106
 107 For more information about contributing test reports, bug fixes, or new
 108 features and device support, please read the new Developer Manual (or
 109 the BUGS and PATCHES.txt files in the source archive).