We are happy to announce Sming version 5.2.0 - a new major release and our summer present for you.

Thanks to our great contributors and very very special thanks to @mikee47's for his fantastic work.

New features

• You can start using the latest ESP32 IDF verion 5.2 directly in your Sming projects.
• We have native 64-bit support for host builds [#2823] and now you can also compile your application for Host on MacOS [#2804]
• Initial version of editor for Graphics library [#2826]. Which allows you to do cool things like creating a graphic design for your embedded application and sending the design on the actual hardware to see if it looks good.
• We have added clang-tidy support for static code analysis [#2648]
• There is support for Esp8266 PHY settings runtime modification [#2830]
• Support for clang toolchain [#2798]

Improvements

• Improve sample applications [#2756]
• Upgrade toolchains [#2787]
• Update littlefs from 2.4.0 -> 2.9.3 [#2777]
• Use physical serial port if present on WSL2 [#2790]
• Update Esp8266 lwip2 to upstream master [#2793]
• Change SparkFun_APDS9960 to submodule [#2800]
• Update Adafruit_GFX library [#2799]
• Improve FlashString portability [#2796]
• Update ArduinoJson6 to current 6.x release [#2795]
• Provide better implementation for FileStream::id() [#2705]
• Only esp8266 requires special handling for _F() [#2699]
• Fix HttpUpgrader duplicate stream de-allocation [#2722]
• TcpClient does not send incomplete packets. [#2721]
• Improvements to OtaNetwork Http upgrader [#2725]
• PartitionStream requires blockErase, other OTA-related improvements [#2729]
• Use std::make_unique [#2736]
• Update USB library [#2737]
• Provide consistent serial console interface for samples [#2739]
• Improve CommandProcessing library [#2748]
• Improve Vector and HttpHeaders iteration [#2745]
• Free some esp8266 RAM [#2752]
• Improve sample applications [#2756]
• Optimise FlashString iteration and indexing [#2761]
• Fixes to hardware config editing/display [#2765]
• A few DateTime tweaks [#2767]
• Improvements to HostEd [#2768]
• Make time_t size check message more helpful [#2769]
• SMTP Client improvements. [#2802]
• Update ESP32 BLE libraries, apply fixes [#2847]
• Extend CsvReader capabilities, move into new library [#2805]
• Fix delayed sending of websocket messages [#2782]
• Improvements to HostEd [#2768]
• Free some esp8266 RAM [#2752]
• Move CommandProcessing into Libraries [#2740]

Bug fixes

• Fix WSL2 physical ports for esptool [#2791]
• Update host lwip to current master (2.2.x) [#2814]
• esp8266: NMI not disabled when timer1 ISR cleared [#2764]
• Fix potential memory leak in TcpClient::send [#2753]
• Fix client Websockets (broken) [#2749]
• Bugfix: stale HTTP connections may get missed in cleanup [#2741]
• Fix esp32c3 FPU issues [#2700]
• Fix esp32 timer issues [#2697]
• Fix hw_timer1_read() for esp32 [#2701]
• Fix build error for IDF 5.0 [#2703]
• Fix bluetooth build with esp32s3 for latest IDF 4.4 [#2708]
• Fix esp8266 timer1 testing [#2709]
• Add note in documentation about behaviour of one-shot Hardware timer with Esp8266 [#2713]
• Fix Adafruit_GFX writeColor implementation for ESP32 [#2712]
• Fix Esp32 hardware timer callbacks [#2716]
• Fix esp32 IDF version number handling for patch releases [#2707]
• Fix mechanism for OTA upgrade from Sming 4.2 [#2728]
• Fix esp8266 bootloader building and add diagnostic tools [#2734]
• Fix crashing rboot [#2738]
• Fix building lwip2 with ENABLE_LWIPDEBUG=1 [#2754]
• Fixes to Url default handling and query parameters [#2828]

• Fix potential memory leak in TcpClient::send [#2753]

  Changes

• Set ESP32 CONFIG_FREERTOS_UNICORE=y by default [#2696]

Deprecations

• Remove appveyor and travis CI compatibility. [#2831]
• Remove legacy esp8266 toolchain support [#2794]
• Deprecate old ESP IDF 4.x and 5.0 versions.

New Contributors

@acburigo made his first contribution in https://github.com/SmingHub/Sming/pull/2721

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SmingHub/Sming/compare/5.0.0...5.1.0