From: Paul Fertser Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:08:26 +0000 (+0400) Subject: NEWS: add release highlights X-Git-Tag: v0.8.0-rc1~3 X-Git-Url: https://review.openocd.org/gitweb?p=openocd.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=086a523ca816160e44b20f8b43204e2dc333d25e NEWS: add release highlights Change-Id: Ifa4459b3b7b58b639d6c885a2ea88cefbfac2680 Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser Reviewed-on: http://openocd.zylin.com/1881 Tested-by: jenkins --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a7bdce5433..ae08858afb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,25 +1,107 @@ -This file includes highlights of the changes made in the -OpenOCD source archive release. See the -repository history for details about what changed, including -bugfixes and other issues not mentioned here. +This file includes highlights of the changes made in the OpenOCD +source archive release. JTAG Layer: + * New CMSIS-DAP driver + * Andes AICE debug adapter support + * New OpenJTAG driver + * New BCM2835 (RaspberryPi) driver + * JTAG VPI client driver (for OpenRISC Reference Platform SoC) + * Xilinx BSCAN_* for OpenRISC support + * ST-LINKv2-1 support + * ST-LINKv2 SWO tracing support (UART emulation) + * JLink-OB (onboard) support + * Altera USB Blaster driver rewrite, initial Blaster II + support + * ULINK driver ported to libusb-1.0, OpenULINK build fixes + * Support up to 64 bit IR lengths + * SVF playback (FPGA programming) fixes + * "ftdi" interface driver got extensive testing and is now + recommended over the old ft2232 implementation Boundary Scan: Target Layer: + * New target: Andes nds32 + * New target: OpenRISC OR1K + * New target: Intel Quark X10xx + * MIPS EJTAG 1.5/2.0 support + * MIPS speed improvements + * Cortex-M, Cortex-A (MEM-AP, APB-AP) targets working with BE + hosts now + * XScale vector_catch support, reset fixes + * dsp563xx ad-hoc breakpoint/watchpoint support + * RTOS support for embKernel + * Target profiling improvements + * Memory access functions testbench Flash Layer: + * STM32 family sync with reference manuals, other bugfixes + * STM32F401, STM32F07x support + * Atmel SAM4L, SAMG5x support + * at91sam3sd8{a,b}, at91sam3s8{a,b,c}, at91sam4s, + at91sam3n0{a,b,0a,0b} support, bugfixes + * Atmel SAMD support + * Milandr 1986ВЕ* support + * Kinetis KL, K21 support + * Nuvoton NuMicro MINI5{1,2,4} support + * Nuvoton NUC910 series support + * NXP LPC43xx, LPC2000 fixes + * NXP LPC800, LPC810 support + * More ATmega parts supported + * Fujitsu MB9Ax family support + * EFM32 Wonder Gecko family support + * Nordic nRF51 support Board, Target, and Interface Configuration Scripts: + * STM32W108xx generic target config + * STM32F429 discovery board config + * STM32 Nucleo boards configs + * DENX M53EVK board config + * Altera Cyclone V SoC, SoCkit config + * New TI Launchpads board configs + * TI am43xx devices, AM437x GP EVM, AM438x ePOS EVM board + configs + * Marvell Armada 370 family initial support + * TI TMDX570LS31USB (TMS570, Cortex-R4) support scripts + * Freescale FRDM-KL25Z, KL46Z board configs + * Digilent Zedboard config + * Asus RT-N16, Linksys WRT54GL board configs + * Atmel Xplained initial support + * Broadcom bcm28155_ap board config + * TUMPA, TUMPA Lite interface configs + * Digilent JTAG-SMT2 interface config + * New RAM testing functions + * Easy-to-use firmware recovery helpers targetting ordinary + users with common equipment + +Server Layer: + * Auto-generation of GDB target description for ARMv7-M, + ARM4, nds23, OR1K, Quark + * GDB File-I/O Remote Protocol extension support + * Default GDB flashing events handlers to initialise and reset + the target automatically when "load" is used Documentation: + * Extensive README* changes + * The official User's Guide was proofread + * Example cross-build script + * RTOS documentation improvements + * Tcl RPC documentation added Build and Release: + * *BSD, OS X, clang, ARM, windows build fixes + * New pkg-config support changes the way libusb (and other + dependencies) are handled. Many adapter drivers are now + selected automatically during the configure stage. + + +This release also contains a number of other important functional and +cosmetic bugfixes. For more details about what has changed since the +last release, see the git repository history: + +http://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/ci/v0.8.0/log/?path= -For more details about what has changed since the last release, -see the git repository history. With gitweb, you can browse that -in various levels of detail. For older NEWS, see the NEWS files associated with each release (i.e. NEWS-).