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Release Date
April 9, 2020 (Final)
February 10, 2020 (Planned)
Important Notes
newtmgr has been removed in favor of mynewt-mcumgr
Dialog CMAC driver was moved from to core to NimBLE repo
New Features
FCB2 support for config
This allows to store config in FCB2.
Drivers
- HASH driver
- LIS2MDL Mag magnetometer
mbedTLS updated to 2.16.5
https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/releases/mbedtls-2.16.5-and-2.7.14-released
nrfx updated to 2.1.0
https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/nrfx/releases/tag/v2.1.0
Newt Tool enhancements
- Support for running custom command at build time
- Support for passing pre-link artifacts to linker
- Support for repositories info in syscfg.h
- Better support for git submodules
Newt Manager (newtmgr)
- new '"shell exec" command for executing specified CLI command on target device
- log show now includes imghash
- multi-image support
Improvements to existing features
DA1469x support improvements
Read trim value from OTP, encrypted flash driver support.
sensor_creator
Support for more sensors: BMA253, lis2dh12, lsm3dso
shell and console
Lot of improvements, including cursor, path handling, completion and (permanent) history support.
FCB2 support improvements
Allow to use FCB2 to store configuration and logging with bookmarks.
Bus driver
More drivers are now using bus driver (bno055, da1469x I2C, tcs34725)
Additional Board Support Packages
- P-NUCLEO-WB55
- Nucleo-F411RE
- Adafruit Feather STM32F405 Express
Known Issues and Limitations
- sensorhub BSP support was removed