Firmware Changelog

1.6.2 (May 18, 2009)

Serial port bug fix

• Fixed regression in the serial port code that prevented it from starting up properly.
• Small change in web client so that parameters to get() and post() are consistent.

1.6.1 (March 19, 2009)

Support for Controller Board v2.0

• Simply adding support for the hardware changes in Controller Board v2.0.  Now specify CONTROLLER_VERSION as 200 in your config.h file.
• No new features, no bug fixes

1.6.0 (January 8, 2009)

Small additions and bug fixes.

• can now erase board and set into upload (SAM-BA) mode from software - no unplug/replug needed!  Big thanks to Lou Sortman for his work on this.
• added control of 2nd serial port - now you can use both
• raw GCC and CrossWorks builds now have same linking scheme - minimizes chance of different code being generated across environments.  Big thanks again to Lou!
• documentation fixes and updates

1.5.1 (August 13, 2008)

Minor bug fix release to 1.5.0

• new Serial functions: Serial_Flush(), Serial_GetErrors(), Serial_ClearErrors(), Serial_StartBreak(), Serial_StopBreak()
• remove compile warnings that accidentally made it into 1.5.0
• update webserver OSC documentation
• improved XBee_GetPacket() parser
• fix DipSwitch_GetValueChannel()
• better documentation (especially for XBee, network, and JSON)

1.5.0 (August 6, 2008)

• major reorganization: code is now grouped into core and libraries modules, making it easier to add/remove modules of code from a particular project
• added new libraries:
  • AES: now you can encrypt/decrypt information for secure communication
  • JSON: a simple parser and generator for JSON.
  • Base 64: encode and decode data as base 64.
• updated Ethernet system to lwIP 1.3.0.  Much stabler and now provides capability to do DNS name lookups.
• the Socket system now provides a BytesAvailable function to check how many bytes are available to be read.
• SocketRead now blocks until it has read as many bytes as you asked for.
• fixed USB issue that would not write packets when the packet length was a multiple of 64.
• webserver has been moved from core to a library
• webserver can now handle simple HTML forms
• made webclient HTTP GET routine more robust
• enhanced PWM system to set frequency/polarity/waveform alignment. (thestigg)
• fixed bug in Stepper system that would not handle negative positions properly
• added more examples to API documentation
• resolved all compiler warnings.  code builds cleanly now

Thanks to everybody who reported bugs in the issue tracker, especially rmann and thestigg for patches and ideas!