Lingua Franca 0.8.0

v0.8.0 (2024-07-02)

Highlights

This release includes new features including support for the FlexPRET platform and multi-threading on the RP2040 platform. Enhancements include broader and more customizable support for Docker, as well as fixes for various bugs related to C++ ports, nRF52, and Dockerfile generation. Additionally, new tests were added, dependencies were updated, and several bug fixes and enhancements were made across various runtime implementations.

🚀 New Features

• Support for FlexPRET platform #2262 (@magnmaeh)
• Rp2040 multithreaded target support #2178 (@sberkun)
• Support for Docker environment files #2349 (@lhstrh)

✨ Enhancements

• Support for Python 3.9.x #2292 (@jackyk02)
• Fix deadline inference, test GEDF, and remove chain ID #2294 (@edwardalee)
• Improved support for Docker #2234 (@lhstrh)
• Fixed docker generation for images that use /bin/sh #2335 (@cmnrd)
• Safer directory creation in Docker container #2337 (@lhstrh)
• Docker networking enhancements #2345 (@lhstrh)

🔧 Fixes

• Disambiguate set(0) for C++ ports #2302 (@cmnrd)
• Fixed CMake generator for pico platform #2303 (@edwardalee)
• Fixed NRF52 support #2305 (@edwardalee)
• No more support for Python 3.9 #2312 (@lhstrh)
• Make files available in Docker runner image #2327 (@petervdonovan)
• Bugfixes in handling of target properties across imports #2232 (@byeonggiljun)
• Fixed bug in modes with microsteps #2338 (@edwardalee)
• Add tty:true to docker-compose.yml #2344 (@lhstrh)
• Fixed copying of multiple files in the generated dockerfiles #2348 (@cmnrd)
• Fixes in adaptive scheduler for federated execution #2347 (@petervdonovan)

🧪 Tests

• Fixed docker testing #2328 (@cmnrd)
• Added test case for inheriting auth property #2343 (@lhstrh)

⬆️ Updated Dependencies

• Bumped klighd version to 3.0.2.v20240507 #2301 (@cmnrd)

Submodule lf-lang/reactor-c

🚀 New Features

• Support for FlexPRET platform #412 (@magnmaeh)
• Rp2040 multithreaded target support #344 (@sberkun)
• Trace deadline violations #457 (@petervdonovan)

✨ Enhancements

• Let pthread detect if the cpu number is valid #436 (@erlingrj)
• Run one worker on main thread #437 (@sberkun)
• Rp2040 multithreaded target support #344 (@sberkun)
• Redesign of GEDF scheduler #433 (@edwardalee)

🔧 Fixes

• Support for hyphens and underscores in rti host name #435 (@erlingrj)
• Redesign of GEDF scheduler #433 (@edwardalee)
• Fix cmake syntax #440 (@edwardalee)
• RP2040 support based on low-level platform API #441 (@edwardalee)
• Suppress error: cast from pointer to integer of different size #448 (@petervdonovan)
• Fixed initialization of the master worker thread id #454 (@cmnrd)
• Increment tag after mode switch rather than set to 1 #459 (@edwardalee)
• Fixes to prevent memory leaks in RTI #446 (@byeonggiljun)
• Fix support for NRF52 #442 (@edwardalee)
• Fix adaptive scheduler #463 (@petervdonovan)
• Make tracing usable for debugging #462 (@petervdonovan)

🚧 Maintenance and Refactoring

• Redesign of GEDF scheduler #433 (@edwardalee)

Submodule lf-lang/reactor-cpp

• Run spell-checker on docs #56 (@erlingrj)
• Disambiguated set(0) on ports #57 (@cmnrd)

Submodule lf-lang/reactor-rs

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