[OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD 0.10.0-rc1 is out

[Paul F. <fer...@gm...>]

Hello,

On behalf of the OpenOCD community, I'm happy to announce the
availability of the first release candidate for the upcoming 0.10.0
version.

As an experiment in trying to improve communication with our main
distro maintainers, I'm adding relevant people to the Cc. I'll try to
make this mail as short and meaningful as possible.

If you still find this inappropriate or annoying, please say so, my
intent is to make your lives easier, not harder, and I'm open to your
suggestions. If you want to be added to Cc when the final release is
announced, please say.

The NEWS file can be seen at [1].

Changes important for packaging:

1. OpenOCD depends on automake >= 1.14

2. Some ./configure options changed:
   1. ft2232, D2XX, oocd_trace, zy1000, ioutil support removed
   2. ftdilib is detected via pkgconfig; so presto, usb_blaster,
      openjtag options changed, these adapters can be auto-detected

3. udev rules are modified to have uaccess tag and the file was
   renamed to contrib/60-openocd.rules

4. J-Link driver now depends on libjaylink which can be built
   internally or an external library can be used with pkgconfig help

5. Release builds should now be reproducible

6. Support searching for scripts relative to the OpenOCD binary
   (important for relocatable toolchains)

7. Please add --enable-sysfsgpio for all targets running Linux, the
   kernel (esp. useful for SBCs), additionally for builds that support
   RaspberryPi, please add --enable-bcm2835gpio

8. Please remove --enable-maintainer-mode, it doesn't do anything
   since 2013

9. Open question: do you find it useful if OpenOCD had a script to
   generate AppStream
   https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/ metadata based
   on contrib/60-openocd.rules? I know Debian integrates Isenkram but
   what about the other systems?


Should you find any problem with this release candidate (especially
regressions), please report it.

The intent is to produce the final release as soon as possible, so no
new features are supposed to be merged before it's out.

Good luck, and happy hacking :)

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/ci/v0.10.0-rc1/tree/NEWS

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