-The OpenOCD 0.2.0 source archive release includes numerous improvements
-that were made since the initial 0.1.0 source archive release. Many
-contributors helped make this release a great success, and the community
-of developers and maintainers look forward to any response.
-
-In addition to the list of changes below, countless bug fixing and
-cleaning was performed across the tree. Various TCL command parameters
-must past stricter value checks, and many more error conditions have
-been handled correctly. These efforts helped to make the 0.2.0 release
-more stable and robust, though some changes may expose latent bugs in
-your existing configuration scripts.
-
-This release does not maintain backward compatibility in all respects,
-so some target or configuration scripts may need to be updated. In some
-cases, you may also see warnings; resolve those, because they indicate
-commands that will be removed in the future.
-
-The following areas of OpenOCD functionality changed in this release:
+This file includes highlights of the changes made in the OpenOCD
+source archive release.
JTAG Layer:
-- Improves modularity: core, TCL, driver commands, and interface have
- been separated, encapsulated, and documented for developers. Mostly.
-- Improves JTAG TAP transition tables:
- * Makes TAP paths variable length, rather than being fixed at 7 steps.
- * Fixes problems with some targets that did not like longer paths.
-- Improves JTAG driver/minidriver modularity and encapsulation.
-- New drivers:
- * Adds stub minidriver for developing new embedded JTAG interfaces.
-- Improves drivers:
- * ft2232+ftd2xx:
- + Adds initial high-speed device support: --enable-ftd2xx-highspeed
- + Supports more types of FTDI-based devices.
- * jlink:
- + Works with more versions of the firmware (v3 and newer)
- + Supports dynamically detects device capabilities and limits
- * vsllink:
- + Supports very long scan chains
- * amtjtagaccel:
- + Fixes broken ID code detection problems.
+ * 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 devices: AVR, FA526
-- Improved support: ARM ADI, ARM11, MIPS
-- Numerous other bug fixes and improvements
+ * 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:
-- Improved drivers: mflash
-- New drivers: AT91SAM3, AVR, Davinci NAND
+ * 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
-Board, Interface, and Target Configuration Scripts:
-- Many new and improved targets and boards are now available.
-- Better separation of "board" and "target" configuration
-- Moved all TCL files to top-level "tcl" directory in the source tree
-- Installation moved from '$pkglibdir/' to '$pkgdatadir/scripts/'.
-- Site-specific files should be installed under '$pkgdatadir/site/';
- files that exist this tree will be used in preference to default
- distribution configurations in '$pkgdatadir/scripts/'.
+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:
-- Updated User Guide: http://openocd.berlios.de/doc/html/index.html
- * Partially re-written and re-organized.
- * Standardized presentation for all commands.
- * Covers many drivers and commands that were previously omitted.
- * New index for commands and drivers.
-- Added Developer Manual: http://openocd.berlios.de/doc/doxygen/index.html
- * Now includes architecture, technical primers, style guides, and more.
- * Available in-tree and on-line.
+ * Extensive README* changes
+ * The official User's Guide was proofread
+ * Example cross-build script
+ * RTOS documentation improvements
+ * Tcl RPC documentation added
Build and Release:
-- Increased configuration and compilation warning coverage.
- * Use --disable-werror to work around build errors caused by warnings.
-- Use libtool to produce helper libraries as a step toward "libopenocd".
-- New processes and scripting to facilitate future source releases.
+ * *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 0.1.0, see the ChangeLog
-associated with this release.
+For older NEWS, see the NEWS files associated with each release
+(i.e. NEWS-<version>).
For more information about contributing test reports, bug fixes, or new
features and device support, please read the new Developer Manual (or
-the BUGS and PATCHES files in the source archive).
+the BUGS and PATCHES.txt files in the source archive).
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