Work In Progress

NuttX X.Y has not been released yet. These Release Notes are a work-in-progress in preparation for the next release of NuttX.  There is a board tracking the PRs that need to be looked at to add to this doc for the OS TODO ADD LINK and for the Apps TODO ADD LINK

What's New In This Release

Changes to Core OS

Sched

* [#9084](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9084) sched: add adjtime() interface  
* [#9132](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9132) sched: add the CPU bitset to initialize the non-exclusive CPU  
* [#9583](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9583) sched: automatically find deadlocks when assert  
* [#7464](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/7464) sched: fix context switching with locked scheduler  
* [#8867](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/8867) sched: Optimize implementation of strsignal()  
* [#9030](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9030) sched/addrenv, binfmt: Always allocate address environment from heap  
* [#9090](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9090) sched/addrenv: Implement re-entrancy for addrenv_select()  
* [#9021](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9021) sched/addrenv: Miscellaneous clean-up and fixes  
* [#9595](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9595) sched/assert: Change show_xxx to dump_xxx  
* [#8955](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/8955) sched/assert: Simplify the fatal detection logic  
* [#9528](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9528) sched/group: Ensure that the setting of tg_members if safe in SMP  
* [#9003](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9003) sched/irq: optimizing IRQMONITOR, move up_perf_convert to irq_procfs  
* [#9369](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9369) sched/misc: add coredump support on assert  
* [#9002](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9002) sched/pthread: repalce sched_lock to enter_critical_section  
* [#9539](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9539) sched/pthread: Return ESRCH when the task is in the process of exit.  
* [#9202](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9202) sched/pthread: sched_lock should replace with enter_critical_secion  
* [#9091](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9091) sched/sem/sem_init: Change sem_xxx -> nxsem_xxx in kernel modules  
* [#8951](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/8951) sched/semaphore: rework semaphore holder check for priority inheritance  
* [#9039](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9039) sched/sched: address performance concerns for sched_lock in non-SMP case  
* [#8988](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/8988) sched/sched_note: add function auto-tracing  
* [#8786](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/8786) sched/sig_timewait:changes the macro for waitticks  
* [#9203](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9203) sched/signal: fix the issue of asynchronous signal processing  
* [#9100](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9100) sched/spawn: remove spawn proxy thread to simplify task/posix_spawn()  
* [#9527](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9527) sched/tls: remove PTHREAD_CLEANUP from Kconfig  
* [#9007](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9007) sched/wqueue: fix issue about worker can't wake up thread before work_thread running  

mm

libs

Misc

Changes to the Build System

Improvements

* [#9400](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9400) tools: Add way to get current defconfig name on runtime  
* [#9572](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9572) tools: Fix CONFIG_BASE_DEFCONFIG generation  
* [#9107](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9107) tools: Fix some error in Windows native build  
* [#9462](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9462) tools: Support string upper/lower case in make 
* [#9334](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9334) tools/mkallsyms: add exception handle 
* [#9069](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9069) tools/mksymtab: Fix a compilation warning 
* [#9210](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9210) tools/nuttx-gdbinit/armv7-a: reorder and synchronization registers of save/restore  
* [#9198](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9198) tools/nuttx-gdbinit: improve experience of gdb backend scripts  
* [#9234](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9234) tools/nuttx-gdbinit/armv7-a: add fpu support  
* [#9211](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9211) tools/Unix: treat kconfig warning as failure 
* [#9231](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9231) tools/refresh.sh: Add option to refresh all archs or all chips 


Architectural Support

New Architecture Support


* [#9465](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9465) initial FPU support for ARMv8R AARCH32 
* [#9443](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9443) Support for ARMv8R AARCH32

Improvements

Driver Support

New Drivers

* [#9189](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9189) drivers/audio: add support for the ES8311 codec  
* [#8775](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/8775) drivers/audio: add audio_dma device driver.  
* [#9372](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9372) drivers/lcd: add JD9851 driver  
* [#8982](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/8982) drivers/sensors: add support of InvenSense MPU-9250 sensor  
* [#9452](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9452) drivers/sensors: add BMI270 IMU support  
* [#9453](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9453) drivers/sensors: add bh1749nuc color sensor support  
* [#9258](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9258) drivers/virtio: add virtio-mmio-blk driver 

Audio Support

* [#9381](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9381) audio: add channels range  
* [#9152](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9152) audio/pcm_decode: fix warnings regarding unused functions and vars  

Board Support

New Board Support

* [#9322](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9322)boards/nrf52: add initial support for Thingy:52 board  
* [#9323](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9323)boards/nrf53: add initial support for Thingy:53 board  

Improvements

File System

Improvements 

* [#8939](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/8939) fs: Flush the file system cache in BOARDIOC_POWEROFF too 
* [#9521](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9521) fs: move memset to upper lever for statfs and add f_fsid field  
* [#9060](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9060) fs/cromfs: Fix faulty DEBUGASSERT() check  
* [#9000](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9000) fs/hostfs: align operation flags define with fcntl.h  
* [#8868](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/8868) fs/hostfs: switch working directory  
* [#9093](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9093) fs/inode: when searching for nextname skip "/" and "./"  
* [#9037](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9037) fs/littlefs: littlefs shouldn't be used without C99 BOOL 
* [#9120](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9120) fs/littlefs: Add patch for littlefs to use kmm_malloc/free on kernel with MMU. Upgrade to latest littlefs  
* [#9140](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9140) fs/mtd: add support for MTDIOC_ERASESECTORS ioctl  
* [#9146](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9146) fs/mtd: Implement MTDIOC_ERASESTATE and MTDIOC_ERASESECTORS  
* [#9144](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9144) fs/mtd: minor fix for mtd/nand driver  
* [#9145](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9145) fs/mtd/nand: Add nand_raw_initialize to skip the probing  
* [#9347](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9347) fs/partition: register partition device if caller doesn't provide handler  
* [#9394](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9394) fs/procfs: add cpuinfo  
* [#9073](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9073) fs/procfs: fix readdir loss last character  
* [#9550](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9550) fs/fdcheck: Let FDCHECK depend on SCHED_HAVE_PARENT  
* [#9385](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9385) fs/vfs/fs_poll: Fix wrong return value in CONFIG_BUILD_KERNEL  
* [#9540](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9540) fs/vfs: Proper use of sigisemptyset  
* [#9205](https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/9205) fs/vfs: Zero file struct field with memset


Networking

Improvements

Security Issues Fixed In This Release

Compatibility Concerns

More Information

How to Download

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How to Clone the Git Repository

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There are two primary repositories:

The main "Single Source of Truth" repositories are hosted by the ASF:

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