changelog.md

Changelog {#changelog}

This changelog is meant as a quick & rough guide to what has changed between versions. The API is now fairly stable but when new calls/features are added they are listed here. Anything pre 0.2.x is ignored.

2.2.0

• Multiple fixes to improve project security and reliability on newly added platforms
• Removed Python 2 bindings and old node.js versions from CI
• Added detection for latest RPi board versions
• Fix for SPI frequency function not writing to file
• Common mraa API can now return C error strings from MRAA error codes
• Updated and extended installation instructions for some Linux distributions

2.1.0

• New platforms UP Xtreme, IPi SMARC, ROCK PI 4, Raspberry Pi 4, Ultra96
• Added support for chardev GPIO devices on Rock960
• Introduced APIs to initialize GPIOs by name
• Multiple fixes to address static tool scans and user submitted bug reports
• Revised documentation to reflect project transfer to the Eclipse Foundation
• Updated installation instructions for multiple distribution channels

2.0.0

• New platforms IEI Tank, Ultra-96, Rock960, Hikey960, Dragonboard 820c
• Added support for chardev GPIO devices with implementation on several boards
• Added string based I/O initialization for simpler integration with other frameworks
• Added GTest support for unit testing
• Extended named LED device APIs allowing them to be listed during board definition
• Removed packaging and CI for obsolete devkits
• Multiple bug fixes and cmake improvements

1.9.0

• Added support for RPi Zero W
• Added support for MIPS based Omega2 and Linkit Smart 7688
• New APIs for sysfs onboard LED control using the gpio-leds driver
• Restructured and cleaned-up examples
• Improved documentation generation and CI integration
• Static analysis fixes, added SonarQube badge
• Enhanced Node.js detection on some Linux distros (OpenSUSE)

1.8.0

• Added Up2 support & grovePi subplatform support
• Various improvements on 96board, rpi, beaglebone & Up boards
• CMake 3.8+ improvements
• Peripheral I/O improvements
• Json platform improvements
• Static analysis cleanup using SonarQube

1.7.0

• Peripheral I/O support for Android Things
• Deprecation of node v0.10.x and 0.12.x
• Documentation improvements

1.6.1

• mraa-deinit bug fix
• rpi3 fix
• ALTERA_SOCFPGA -> DE_NANO_SOC

1.6.0

• de-10 nano board support
• Improved Intel Joule support & renamed from GT_TUCHUCK to Joule
• Improved RPI3 support
• Fixes for UP, 96boards & phyboard-wega
• Call mraa_deinit with a gcc destructor attribute

1.5.1

• Small memleaks plugged
• imraa useless arp statements removed
• NPM 1.5.0 did not 100% match real 1.5.0 tag, this resolves this

1.5.0

• imraa now uses argp, slight option changes, you need to use -a to flash a 101
• Joule i2c enumeration much improved, uses pci id
• Firmata add a spinlock to remove possible race condition
• Mock Uart functionality

1.4.0

• Add support for Siemens SIMATIC IOT2000
• Cmake now enables much more error detection depending on compiler support
• Mraa Maven packages now enabled
• Galileo Gen2 AIO fix using pincmd
• Adding an already added firmata platform now returns MRAA_SUCCESS
• Cmake no longer tags builds without git as '-dirty' version.c for easier packaging support

1.3.0

• Fix GT GPIO bugs
• Mock SPI and travis now uses mock and tests it
• RPI zero support

1.2.3

• Revert 1.2.1 binding.gyp changed that had side effect of enabling JSONPLAT in mraa.c
• improve travis.ci to load mraa.node as compiled from make npmpkg target

1.2.2

• remove jsonplat from prehashed npm builds (see docs/npm.md for details)
• internal spelling fix

1.2.1

• Fix npm pkg build - no other fix

1.2.0

• JSON platform support
• mock I2c functionality
• Intel Joule PWM fix
• AIO firmata bug fix

1.1.2

• Mock platform support
• mraa-i2c treats i2c buses by default as linux
• Intel Joule i2c fixes
• travis now uses 14.04 instead of 12.04

1.1.1

• IIO 4.6 kernel matrix support
• Intel Joule radio led support
• mraa_init_io() examples
• MRAAPLATFORMFORCE fixes
• fix python documentation

1.1.0

• build python2 & python3 bindings
• Intel Joule support
• mraa_init_io() generic funtion
• mraa-gpio fixes
• edison PWM 0% improvements
• iio location maping fix

1.0.0

• Change API to enhance error checking in C. Changes include:
  • mraa_aio_read
  • mraa_i2c_read_byte
  • mraa_i2c_read
  • mraa_i2c_read_byte_data
  • mraa_i2c_read_word_data
  • mraa_spi_write_word
  • mraa::Spi:write_word becomes mraa::Spi::writeWord
• Remove MRAA_ERROR_PLATFORM_ALREADY_INITIALISED which was deprecated for C89 compatibility
• Remove pwm config_* apis as unused
• Add mraa_remove_subplatform
• Support NPM for android
• Fix AIO always returning channel 0 with firmata support

0.10.1

• Remove imraa from node package

0.10.0

• Add Firmata support with -DFIRMATA=ON
• Add imraa with support for pinmuxing and arduino101 flashing
• Add better support for NVM installed node via NODE_ROOT_DIR.
• Mraa bindings now link to libmraa.so.x
• mraa_init() now returns MRAA_SUCCESS if platform is already initialize
• Mraa java bindings now support JNI 1.6+
• Added support for a02082 rpi2
• Mraa has a logo!

0.9.6

• ftdi ft4222 now dynamically loaded
• FT4222 improved ISR code

0.9.5

• Add support for the UP board (up-board.org)
• Support OpenJDK 7 as well as OpenJDK 8
• 96board better pin numbering
• node v4 improvements
• Support for PCA9555 i2c expander read/write on FT4222

0.9.4

• Fix issue with edison ADC initilisation
• documentation update

0.9.3

• Intel edison detection much improved
• ftdi ft4222 interrupt improvement
• small fixes to java lib

0.9.2

• Fix bug with mraa_init & USBPLAT
• Add mraa_gpio_read_dir call
• Enable cherryhill/braswell platform
• Improved 96 board support

0.9.1

• Minnowboard Turbot support
• Change to java runables for ISR support
• New platform version call
• Default i2c bus on edison miniboard is now i2c-1
• More compatibility with node.js versions > 0.10
• New C++ get i2c default bus call
• Various bug fixes & optimisations

0.9.0

• Beta iio API in C & C++ (no SWIG support)
• Added 96Board support
• Added Brillo/Android support
• Java ISR fixes
• FT4222 gpio support

0.8.1

• Nodejs 4.1.1 support
• Java examples fixes
• Nodejs SPI tweaks
• Misc fixes

0.8.0

• Better java support
• Support for FT4222 subplatforms
• New types.hpp improves C++ & SWIG APIs
• Added support for minnowboard max compatible boards

0.7.5

• 5th Generation NUC i2c support
• NPM 0.10.x ia32 fix

0.7.4

• Minnowboard i2c fix
• Add NPM arm support
• Uart initialisation improved
• Better i2c bus detection on DE3815 & mmax

0.7.3

• DE3815 i2c fix when using different kernels
• Fixed various memory leaks in SWIG wrappers
• gpio enums all prefixed with mraa_
• Fix SPI CS pin caps causing mux_total to be > 0
• Improved error checking/handling

0.7.2

• Fix node.js npm builds with binding.gyp that didn't use --target-arch

0.7.1

• Uart now uses binary arrays and has optional 'Str' functions in C++/SWIG
• Various Uart module bugfixes
• Node.js 0.12.4 support
• Node.js documentation support

0.7.0

• Uart module now contains read/write interactions and configuration
• Python API contains more buffer checks
• Java support
• RPM cpack support

0.6.2

• Node.js 0.12 support
• NPM support
• Formatting done with clang-format
• Various examples and documentation updates
• Supported added for Beaglebone Black + Banana Pi

0.6.1

• 16bit spi iunctions added
• Node.js ISR now supported

0.6.0

• add device path queries for uart
• add platform configuration querying
• gpio sample added
• improve i2c/spi write/read API for python & nodejs
• performance improvements on edison & galileo

0.5.4

• pwm read_* fix introduced in 0.5.3
• improved npmpkg support

0.5.3

• OE toolchain support added to CMake
• Various UART fixes
• SPI add CS exposure
• Remove functions from mraa.c into modules
• Rework of support for mmap
• Intel Edison MMAP support added. Read and Write
• I2C clean up, add cleaner functions
• MinnowBoard Max support added
• PWM period is written before duty
• Node GYP build supported added
• Add Get Platform Name function

0.5.2

• pwm improvement & bugfix
• spi mraa_spi_bit_per_word fix
• new spi transfer function
• i2c object api uses uint8_t
• i2c readReg() calls added
• edison i2c bus now defaults to a sensible value
• edison uart enable support
• edison hardware CS exposed as IO10
• DE3815tykhe NUC support

0.5.1

• Intel Edison - Mini breakout board support
• Change to use syslog throughout instead of printing to stderr.
• Fix misc issues brought up throuh coverity scans
• Clear up Analog call documentation

0.5.0

• Intel Edison - Arduino board support.
• Boost Allowable i2c busses to 12
• Additional platform hooks added
• ADC is now 10bits by default on all platforms but can be changed

0.4.5

• if only one spidev we default to it reguardless of number
• mraa_pwm_config_ms & mraa_pwm_config_percent functions added
• Uart C++ class added, adds python & node support
• galileo gen2 gpio modes supported

0.4.4

• prefix SPI mode with MRAA_SPI_
• added C++ adc bitness calls

0.4.3

• SPI Mode function now functional, API Change in SPI
• I2C read in swig worked on.
• Galileo Gen 2: PWM setting period sets all channel's period
• Galileo Gen 2: I2C setup now specific to Gen 2.
• General commits around freeing memory at the right times.

0.4.2

• Barebone UART module added.
• Hook branch merged.
• I2C init hooks added.
• Intel Galileo Gen 2, I2C gpio pins now go hiz input when I2C initialised.

0.4.1

• Rename python & nodejs modules to mraa
• common.hpp introduced for C++
• python & nodejs modules can now take binary strings for Spi & I2c
• improved Aio module and clear bitness
• Improved Galileo Gen 2 support

0.4.0

• Rename to mraa
• get_platform_type function added.

0.3.1

• Initial Intel Galileo Gen 2 support
• mraa_gpio_isr parameters added.
• Detection of different supported platforms added.

0.3.0

• mraa_i2c_read now returns length of read

0.2.9

• Add global mraa.h & mraa.hpp headers
• usage of "gpio.h" is not legal you need to use "mraa/gpio.h" unless adding -L/usr/include/mraa

0.2.8

• Added mraa_set_priority call
• Added mmap gpio call mraa_gpio_use_mmaped

0.2.7

• C++ API now uses basic types and not unistd types as C
• Clearer and consistent use of unistd tpyes in C api

0.2.6

• C++ examples added, using c++ headers/api.
• moved to open instead of fopen in all modules
• rename mraa_check functions and made them internal to mraa only.
• removed "export" functions from api
• Intel Galileo Gen 1 (rev d) fixes, incorrect definition of some items
• SPI, implementation completed.
• I2C internal function, completed.
• PWM fix bug in period set method.
• Swig upstream can be used for building.
• No longer builds docs on default cmake, needs flag
• GPIO/PWM ownership guard prevents closing on existing pins, still can be forced.

0.2.5

• C++/Python/Node Enums/const names now do not contain MRAA_GPIO
• Enum type declaration for C++ changed
• Python/Node get_version() -> GetVersion()
• i2c read calls don't use const char* and i2c write calls do

0.2.4

• All mraa_ contexts now are pointers to the actual struct which is not delcared in the header. The only end user change is that instead of returning a type mraa_gpio_context pointer mraa_gpio_init() now returns a mraa_gpio_context (which is actually a pointer to struct _gpio internally).
• C++ API is available, use the .hpp headers and add stdc++ to the linker flags.
• Initial SPI implementation is provided

0.2.3

• mraa_aio_read_u16() -> mraa_aio_read()
• mraa_aio_read() now returns a uint16_t instead of an unsigned int

0.2.2

• First version with API considered 'stable'