This file includes highlights of the changes made in the

OpenOCD 0.5.0 source archive release. See the repository

history for details about what changed, including bugfixes

and other issues not mentioned here.

JTAG Layer:

New driver for "Bus Pirate"

Rename various commands so they're not JTAG-specific

There are migration procedures for most of these, but you should

convert your scripts to the new names, since those procedures

will not be around forever.

jtag jinterface ... is now adapter_name

jtag_khz ... is now adapter_khz

jtag_nsrst_delay ... is now adapter_nsrst_delay

jtag_nsrst_assert_width ... is now adapter_nsrst_assert_width

Support Voipac VPACLink JTAG Adapter.

Boundary Scan:

Transport framework core ... supporting future work for SWD, SPI, and other

non-JTAG ways to debug targets or program flash.

Target Layer:

ARM:

- basic semihosting support for ARMv7M.

- renamed "armv7m" command prefix as "arm"

MIPS:

- "ejtag_srst" variant removed. The same functionality is

obtained by using "reset_config none".

- added PIC32MX software reset support, this means srst is not

required to be connected anymore.

OTHER:

- preliminary AVR32 AP7000 support.

Flash Layer:

New "stellaris recover" command, implements the procedure

to recover locked devices (restoring non-volatile

state to the factory defaults, including erasing

the flash and its protection bits, and possibly

re-enabling hardware debugging).

PIC32MX now uses algorithm for flash programming, this

has increased the performance by approx 96%.

New 'pic32mx unlock' cmd to remove readout protection.

New STM32 Value Line Support.

New 'virtual' flash driver, used to associate other addresses

with a flash bank. See pic32mx.cfg for usage.

New iMX27 NAND flash controller driver.

Board, Target, and Interface Configuration Scripts:

Support IAR LPC1768 kickstart board (by Olimex)

Support Voipac PXA270/PXA270M module.

New $PARPORTADDR tcl variable used to change default

parallel port address used.

Remove lm3s811.cfg; use "stellaris.cfg" instead

Core Jim/TCL Scripting:

New "add_script_search_dir" command, behaviour is the same

as the "-s" cmd line option.

Documentation:

Build and Release:

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-<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.txt files in the source archive).