Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[0.6.6] - Unreleased

Fixed

  • Fixed specifications of nifs from esp_adc module

  • ESP32: fix gpio:init/1 on GPIO >= 32

[0.6.5] - 2024-10-15

Added

  • ESP32: add a new Elixir release “flavor” with a bigger boot.avm partition that has room for Elixir standard library modules

  • ESP32: --boot option to mkimage.sh tool

  • Add erlang:atom_to_binary/1 that is equivalent to erlang:atom_to_binary(Atom, utf8)

  • Support for Elixir String.Chars protocol, now functions such as Enum.join are able to take also non string parameters (e.g. Enum.join([1, 2], ",")

  • Support for Elixir Enum.at/3

  • Add support for is_bitstring/1 construct which is used in Elixir protocols runtime.

  • Add support to Elixir Enumerable protocol also for Enum.all?, Enum.any?, Enum.each, Enum.filter, Enum.flat_map, Enum.reject, Enum.chunk_by and Enum.chunk_while

  • Support for maps:merge_with/3

  • Support for lists:last/1 and lists:mapfoldl/3

  • Add support to Elixir for Process.send/2 Process.send_after/3/4 and Process.cancel_timer/1

  • Add support for handle_continue callback in gen_server

  • Support for Elixir List.Chars protocol

  • Support for gen_server:start_monitor/3,4

  • Support for code:ensure_loaded/1

  • Support for io_lib:latin1_char_list/1

  • Add support to Elixir for Keyword.split/2

  • Support for binary:split/3 and string:find/2,3

  • Support for large tuples (more than 255 elements) in external terms.

  • Support for io:put_chars/2

  • Support for lists:nthtail/2

  • Support for Elixir IO.chardata_to_string/1

  • Support for Elixir List.duplicate/2

  • Support for binary:copy/1,2

  • Support for directory listing using POSIX APIs: (atomvm:posix_opendir/1, atomvm:posix_readdir/1, atomvm:posix_closedir/1).

  • ESP32: add support for esp_adc ADC driver, with Erlang and Elixir examples

  • Add handler for ESP32 network driver STA mode beacon_timeout (event: 21), see issue #1100

  • Support for mounting/unmounting storage on ESP32 (such as SD or internal flash) using esp:mount/4 and esp:umount/1

  • Support for binary_to_integer/2

  • Support for binary:decode_hex/1 and binary:encode_hex/1,2

  • Support for Elixir Base.decode16/2 and Base.encode16/2

  • Make external term serialize functions available without using externalterm_to_binary so terms can be written directly to a buffer.

  • Support for erlang:list_to_integer/2

  • Add externalterm_to_term_copy that can be safely used from NIFs taking temporary buffers

Changed

  • ESP32: Elixir library is not shipped anymore with esp32boot.avm. Use elixir_esp32boot.avm instead

  • Enum.find_index and Enum.find_value support Enumerable and not just lists

  • Install AtomVM libraries source code and binaries for better dialyzer integration

  • Made the device_config properties list in spi:open/1 optional (defaults to []), so you can use the function with only a bus_config

Fixed

  • ESP32: content of boot.avm partition is not truncated anymore

  • ESP32: Fixed gpio:set_int to accept any pin, not only pin 2

  • Fix memory corruption in unicode:characters_to_binary

  • Fix handling of large literal indexes and large extended literal indexes

  • unicode:characters_to_list: fixed bogus out_of_memory error on some platforms such as ESP32

  • Fix crash in Elixir library when doing inspect(:atom)

  • General inspect() compliance with Elixir behavior (but there are still some minor differences)

  • Fix several uses of free on prevously released memory on ESP32, under certain error condition using network:start/1, that would lead to a hard crash of the VM.

  • Fix a bug in ESP32 network driver where the low level driver was not being stopped and resoureces were not freed when network:stop/0 was used, see issue #643

  • uart:open/1,2 now works with uppercase peripheral names

[0.6.4] - 2024-08-18

Added

  • Implement gpio:init/1 on esp32 to initialize pins for GPIO usage, which some pins require depending on default function and bootloader code

  • Implement missing opcode 161 (raw_raise), that looks more likely to be generated with Elixir code

  • Support for Elixir Map.replace/3 and Map.replace!/3

  • Support for Elixir Kernel.struct and Kernel.struct!

  • Support for Elixir IO.iodata_to_binary/1

  • Support for Elixir exceptions: Exception module and the other error related modules such as ArgumentError, UndefinedFunctionError, etc…

  • Support for Elixir Enumerable and Collectable protocol

  • Support for Elixir Enum functions: split_with, join, map_join, into, reverse, slice and to_list

  • Support for Elixir MapSet module

  • Support for Elixir Range module

  • Support for Elixir Kernel.min and Kernel.max

  • Support (as stub) for erlang:error/3 (that is required from Elixir code)

[0.6.3] - 2024-07-20

Added

  • Simple http client, that can be used for different use case such as downloading OTA updates

  • Elixir support for Keyword.merge Keyword.take Keyword.pop(!) Keyword.keyword? Keyword.has_key? functions.

  • Support for ESP32-H2

  • lists:keytake/3 implemented.

  • Support for setting channel used by network driver wifi access point.

  • Support for maps:iterator/2 and ~kp with io_lib:format/2 that were introduced with OTP26.

  • Support for erlang:apply/2

  • Support for lists:keystore/4

  • Support for erlang:size/1 bif

  • Support for USB serial output on ESP32 (needs to be manually enabled)

  • Support for lists:filtermap/2

  • Support for standard library queue module

  • Support for maps:from_keys/2 NIF

  • Support for standard library sets module

Changed

  • ESP32 network driver messages for event 40 (home channel change events) are now suppressed, but the details for the channel changes can be observed in the console log if “debug” level logging is enabled in ESP-IDF Kconfig options.

  • Default size of ESP32 RTC slow memory from 4086 to 4096, except on ESP32-H2 where it’s 3072

  • Update byte_size/1 and bit_size/1 to implement OTP27 match context reuse optimization OTP-18987.

Fixed

  • Fix bug (with code compiled with OTP-21) with binary pattern matching: the fix introduced with 02411048 was not completely right, and it was converting match context to bogus binaries.

  • Fix creation of multiple links for the same process and not removing link at trapped exits. See issue #1193.

  • Fix error that is raised when a function is undefined

  • Fix a bug that could yield crashes when functions are sent in messages

  • Fix bug where failing guards would corrupt x0 and x1

  • Fix a memory leak when raising out of memory error while executing PUT_MAP_ASSOC instruction

[0.6.2] - 25-05-2024

Added

  • Support for DragonFly BSD (generic_unix platform).

  • Added guards is_even and is_odd to the Integer module

  • Add a number of functions to proplists module, such as delete/2, from/to_map/1, etc…

  • Add esp:deep_sleep_enable_gpio_wakeup/2 to allow wakeup from deep sleep for ESP32C3 and ESP32C6.

  • Obtain RSSI of the current connection with network:sta_rssi/0 on ESP32.

  • Pico-W support for network:sta_rssi/0.

  • Add support to ESP32C2

Fixed

  • Fix invalid read after free in ssl code, see also issue #1115.

  • Fix semantic of ssl:recv(Socket, 0) to return all available bytes, matching what OTP does.

  • Fix binary option handling in ssl:connect/3 so binary can be used instead of {binary, true}.

  • Fix scheduling of trapped process that were wrongly immediately rescheduled before being signaled.

  • Fix gen_tcp and ssl types.

  • Fix documentation and specification of esp:sleep_enable_ext0_wakeup/2 and esp:sleep_enable_ext1_wakeup/2.

Changed

  • Stacktraces are included by default on Pico devices.

  • Changed ssl default from {active, false} to {active, true} in order to have same behavior as OTP. Since active mode is not supported right now, active must be explicitly set to false: ssl:connect(..., ..., [{active, false}, ...]), otherwise it will crash.

[0.6.1] - 2024-04-17

Added

  • Added experimental optimized GC mode that makes use of C realloc instead of copying data around, it can be enabled with -DENABLE_REALLOC_GC=On.

Fixed

  • Fix bug in erlang:ref_to_list/1 and erlang:display/1: the unique integer was truncated on some 32-bit architectures

  • Stop hardcoding erl_eval as module name in both display and fun_to_list

  • Correctly display and convert to list funs such as fun m:f/a

  • Fixed bug in STM32 cmake that could cause builds with multiple jobs to fail due to incorrect artifact dependency

  • Fix crash on macOS due to missing call to psa_crypto_init for TLS 1.3

  • Fix crypto test on rp2040

[0.6.0] - 2024-03-05

Fixed

  • Fix a bug that broke sockets on ESP32-C3 and other single core ESP32 devices, that may also cause other issues. The bug has been introduced with messages from tasks change between beta.1 and rc.0

  • Fixed several issues related to Esp32 socket_driver that made it unreliable, especially with single core MCUs

[0.6.0-rc.0] - 2024-03-03

Added

  • BOOTLOADER_OFFSET for all current Esp32 models.

  • Added API to send messages from FreeRTOS tasks or pthreads, typically to easily support integration with Esp32 callbacks

Fixed

  • BOOTLOADER_OFFSET was incorrect for Esp32-C6 and Esp32-S2.

  • Fixed a bug that would fail to set DHCP hostname in STA+AP mode on all ESP32 platforms.

  • ESP32-S3: crash in network driver caused by a smaller stack size for scheduler threads, when calling esp_wifi_init(). See also issue #1059.

  • Fixed Esp32 network driver on non-SMP builds

  • ESP32: fixed bug in gpio:stop/0 and gpio:close/1 that would cause the VM to crash.

[0.6.0-beta.1] - 2024-02-28

Added

  • Support for utf8 encoding to *_to_atom and atom_to_* functions

  • binary_to_atom/1 and atom_to_binary/1 that default to utf8 (they were introduced with OTP23)

  • Added Pico cmake option AVM_WAIT_BOOTSEL_ON_EXIT (default ON) to allow tools to use automated BOOTSEL mode after main application exits

  • Use UTF-8 encoding for atoms when using erlang:term_to_binary/1, in conformance with OTP-26

  • Pico: Wait for USB serial connection cmake configuration option AVM_USB_WAIT_SECONDS added with 20 second default.

  • Support for code that makes use of more than 16 live registers, such as functions with > 16 parameters and complex pattern matchings.

Fixed

  • ESP32: fix i2c_driver_acquire and i2c_driver_release functions, that were working only once.

  • Sending messages to registered processes using the ! operator now works.

  • Fixed bug in OP_SEND that would accept sending a message to any integer or term without raising an error.

  • binary_to_term checks atom encoding validity, and fix latin1 support (when non-ASCII chars are used)

  • ESP32: fixed bug in gpio:set_pin_mode/2 and gpio:set_direction/3 that would accept any atom for the mode parameter without an error.

  • ESP32: GPIO driver fix bug that would accept invalid pull direction, and silently set pull direction to floating without issuing an error.

  • ESP32: fixed bug in gpio driver that would accept invalid pin numbers (either negative, or too large)

  • RP2040: fixed bug in gpio:set_pin_pull/2 that would accept any parameter as a valid pull mode.

  • Support to function with 10 or more parameters

  • Very unlikely but possible corruption caused by generated code that uses 16 live registers

Changed

  • binary_to_atom/2 validates utf8 strings

  • *_to_atom and atom_to_* properly convert latin1 (not just ASCII) to utf8 and viceversa

  • ESP32: use esp-idf v5.1.3 for building release binaries

[0.6.0-beta.0] - 2024-02-08

Added

  • Added esp:get_default_mac/0 for retrieving the default MAC address on ESP32.

  • Added support for pico and poci as an alternative to mosi and miso for SPI

  • ESP32: Added support to SPI peripherals other than hspi and vspi

  • Added gpio:set_int/4, with the 4th parameter being the pid() or registered name of the process to receive interrupt messages

  • Added support for lists:split/2

  • Added ESP32 API for allowing coexistence of native and Erlang I2C drivers

Changed

  • Shorten SPI config options, such as sclk_io_num -> sclk

  • Shorten I2C config options, such as scl_io_num -> scl

  • Shorten UART config options, such as tx_pin -> tx

  • Introduced support to non-integer peripheral names, "i2c0", "uart1" (instead of just 0 and

  • 1, which now they are deprecated)

  • New atom table, which uses less memory, has improved performances and better code.

  • SPI: when gpio number is not provided for miso or mosi default to disabled

  • Change port call tuple format to the same format as gen_server, so casts can be supported too

Fixed

  • Fix several missing memory allocation checks in libAtomVM.

  • Fixed a possible memory leak in libAtomVM/module.c module_destroy.

  • Fix possibile bug in random number generator on ESP32 and RPi2040

  • Fixed interpretation of live for opcodes, thus altering GC semantics for nifs. See also UPDATING.

[0.6.0-alpha.2] - 2023-12-10

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where guards would raise exceptions instead of just being false

  • Fixed support for big endian CPUs (such as some MIPS CPUs).

  • Fixed STM32 not aborting when AVM_ABORT() is used

  • Fixed a bug that would leave the STM32 trapped in a loop on hard faults, rather than aborting

  • Fixed a bug that would make the VM to loop and failing to process selected fds on Linux

  • Fixed classes of exceptions in estdlib.

  • Fixed STM32 code that was hard coded to the default target device, now configured based on the cmake -DDEVICE= parameter

  • Fixed hard fault on STM32 durung malloc on boards with more than one bank of sram

  • Fixed invalid src_clk error on ESP-IDF >= 5.0

  • Fixed changed default to AVM_USE_32BIT_FLOAT=on for STM32 platform to enable use of single precision hardware FPU on F4/F7 devices.

  • Fixed a bug where emscripten register_*_callback/1 functions would use x[1] as second argument

  • Fixed precision of integers used with timers which could yield to halts and wait times smaller than expected

  • Add support for ESP32-C6

Changed

  • Crypto functions on generic_unix platform now rely on MbedTLS instead of OpenSSL

  • Platform function providing time used by timers was changed from sys_monotonic_millis to sys_monotonic_time_u64, sys_monotonic_time_u64_to_ms and sys_monotonic_time_ms_to_u64.

  • Implement atomvm:random/0 and atomvm:rand_bytes/1 on top of crypto:strong_rand_bytes/1 on generic_unix, ESP32 and RP2040 platforms.

  • Performance improvements

Added

  • Added support for the OTP socket interface.

  • Enhancd performance of STM32 by enabling flash cache and i-cache with branch prediction.

  • Added cmake configuration option AVM_CONFIG_REBOOT_ON_NOT_OK for STM32

  • New gpio driver for STM32 with nif and port support for read and write functions.

  • Added support for interrupts to STM32 GPIO port driver.

  • Added suppoprt for PicoW extra gpio pins (led) to the gpio driver.

  • Added support for net:getaddrinfo/1,2

  • Added minimal support for the OTP ssl interface.

  • Added support for crypto:one_time/4,5 on Unix and Pico as well as for crypto:hash/2 on Pico

  • Added ability to configure STM32 Nucleo boards onboard UART->USB-COM using the -DBOARD=nucleo cmake option

  • Added STM32 cmake option -DAVM_CFG_CONSOLE= to select a different uart peripheral for the system console

  • Added crypto:strong_rand_bytes/1 using Mbed-TLS (only on generic_unix, ESP32 and RP2040 platforms)

  • Added support for setting the default receive buffer size for sockets via socket:setopt/3

  • Added support for pattern matching binaries containing 32 and 64 bit floating point values, but only when aligned to byte boundaries (e.g. <<0:4, F:32/float>> = Bin is not supported).

  • Added experimental backend to get_tcp and get_udp based on the new socket interface

  • Added API for managing ESP32 watchdog (only on esp-idf >= v5.x)

Removed

  • OpenSSL support, Mbed-TLS is required instead.

[0.6.0-alpha.1] - 2023-10-09

Added

  • Added erlang:spawn_link/1,3

  • Added erlang:exit/2

  • Added links to process_info/2

  • Added lists:usort/1,2

  • Added missing documentation and specifications for available nifs

  • Added configurable logging macros to stm32 platform

  • Added support for ULP wakeup on ESP32

  • Added heap growth strategies as a fine-tuning option to spawn_opt/2,4

  • Added crypto:crypto_one_time/4,5 on ESP32

  • Improved nif and port support on STM32

  • Added support for atomvm:posix_clock_settime/2

  • Added support for creations of binaries with unaligned strings

  • Added -h and -v flags to generic_unix AtomVM command

  • Removed support to ESP32 NVS from network module in order to make it generic. See also UPDATING.

  • Added initial support for Pico-W: on-board LED, Wifi (STA and AP modes).

Changed

  • Changed offset of atomvmlib and of program on Pico. See also UPDATING.

Fixed

  • Fixed incorrect exit reason for exceptions of class exit

  • Fixed several incorrect type specifications

  • Fixed esp:nvs_set_binary functions.

  • Fixed monotonic_time/1 and system_time/1 functions for Raspberry Pi Pico

  • Fixed race conditions in atoms table.

  • Fixed a bug in the STM32 port that caused the final result to never be returned.

  • Fix bug when building a binary using a 64-bit integer on a 32-bit CPU.

  • Fix (using ‘auto’ option) SPI on ESP32 models other than ESP32, such as ESP32S2, ESP32C3, …

[0.6.0-alpha.0] - 2023-08-13

Added

  • Added the ability to specify the HSPI or VSPI ESP32 hardware interfaces when initializing the SPI Bus.

  • Added support for the spi:close/1 function.

  • Added AVM_VERBOSE_ABORT CMake define, which when set to on, will print the C module and line number when a VM abort occurs. This define is off by default.

  • Added spi:write/3 and spi:write_read/3 functions to support generalized SPI transactions and arbitrary-length reads and writes from SPI devices.

  • Added support for building ESP32 port with all currently supported versions of Espressif ESP-IDF, version 4.1.x through 4.4.x.

  • Added support for controlling_process/2 in gen_udp and gen_tcp modules.

  • Added ability to get the atomvm version via erlang:system_info.

  • Added erlang:is_boolean/1 Bif.

  • Added support for esp:partition_erase_range/2

  • Added support for i2c:close/1

  • Added support for erlang:unregister/1

  • Added Elixir ESP32 LEDC driver and example

  • Added support for uart:close/1

  • Added Bitwise support for Elixir

  • Added support for esp32-s2, esp32-s3, and esp32-c3 chips.

  • Added Elixir I2C driver and example

  • Added the ability to specify the I2C port

  • Added support for the OTP math module

  • Added support for erlang:integer_to_list/2 and erlang:integer_to_binary/2

  • Added functions esp:sleep_enable_ext0_wakeup/2 and esp:sleep_enable_ext1_wakeup/2.

  • Added support for FP opcodes 94-102 thus removing the need for AVM_DISABLE_FP=On with OTP-22+

  • Added support for stacktraces

  • Added support for utf-8, utf-16, and utf-32 bit syntax modifiers (put and match)

  • Added support for Erlang gpio:close/1 and Elixir GPIO.close/1 for ESP32

  • Added support for the Erlang gen_event module

  • Added start_link support for the network module

  • Added support for erlang:monotonic_time/1

  • Added start_link support for the gen_statem module

  • Added support for serializing floats in erlang external term encoding

  • Added support for the SMALL_BIG_EXT erlang external term encoding

  • Added support for erlang:memory(binary)

  • Added support for callbacks on SNTP updates

  • Multithreading support (SMP)

  • Added support for code:load_abs/1, code:load_binary/3

  • Added support for loading / closing AVMPacks at runtime

  • Added support for ESP-IDF v5.x

  • Added support for calendar:system_time_to_universal_time/2

  • Added support for calendar:datetime_to_gregorian_seconds/1

  • Added support for Raspberry Pi Pico

  • Added support for nodejs with Wasm

  • Added support for a subset of the OTP logger interface

  • Added esp:partition_list/0 function

  • Added esp:nvs_fetch_binary/2 and nvs_put_binary/3 functions (esp:nvs_set_binary and functions that default to ?ATOMVM_NVS_NS are deprecated now).

  • Added most format possibilities to io:format/2 and io_lib:format/2

  • Added unicode module with characters_to_list/1,2 and characters_to_binary/1,2,3 functions

  • Added support for crypto:hash/2 (ESP32 and generic_unix with openssl)

Fixed

  • Fixed issue with formatting integers with io:format() on STM32 platform

  • Fixed a bug in the order of child initialization in the supervisor module

  • Fixed a bug in the evaluation of receive ... after infinity -> ... expressions

  • Fixed a bug in when putting integers in bit syntax with integer field sizes

  • Fixed numerous bugs in memory allocations that could crash the VM

  • Fixed SNTP support that had been broken in IDF 4.x builds

  • Fixed erlang:send/2 not sending to registered name

Breaking Changes

IMPORTANT: These changes are incompatible with previous releases of AtomVM.

  • Changed the configuration model of the SPI driver, in order to allow for multiple “follower” devices to be attached to the same SPI Bus.

  • Changed the return value from erlang:system_info(esp32_chip_info) from a tuple to a map, with additional information.

  • Changed the return type of the network:start function to return the tuple {ok, Pid} on a successful call, instead of the bare atom ok. Applications that use network:start and check the return value will need to be modified.

  • The return type of i2c:read_bytes has changed from returning just a binary to returning the tuple {ok, Binary} when successful.

  • The return type of many i2c operations under error conditions has changed from error to {error, Reason}, for improved diagnostics.

  • The eavmlib logger interface has been removed

Removed

  • ESP-IDF v3.x support.

[0.5.1] - Unreleased

Added

  • New function for atom comparison, useful when writing 3rd party components.

  • New function for translating an atom term to an int value, according to a given translation table. This function can be used for translating an atom term to an enum const before doing a switch.

  • New no-op ATOM_STR(...) macro for avoiding issues with clang-format.

  • [ESP32] REGISTER_PORT_DRIVER for registering additional port drivers without editing any source file. This allows adding new components by just copying them to the components directory.

  • [ESP32] REGISTER_NIF_COLLECTION for registering additional NIFs sets without editing any source file. This allows adding new NIFs by just copying them to the components directory.

  • New function for getting a map or proplist value using an atom string without poluting the atom table.

Fixed

  • Fix gen_statem: Cancel outstanding timers during state transitions in order to prevent spurious timeout messages from being sent to gen_statem process.

  • Fix missing Elixir libraries: examvlib was not packed into atomvmlib.avm

  • Fix bs_context_to_binary: match offset wasn’t used, leading in certain situations to infinite loops while matching binaries.

  • Fix how start option was handled from bs_restore2 instruction: last saved match offset was used instead of match starting offset, causing some bytes being skipped.

  • Fix another potential bug when doing pattern matching using code compiled with OTP 21.

  • [ESP32] [UART]: Allow using different pins for rx, tx, cts and rts.

  • [ESP32] [UART]: Replace custom UART handling with esp-idf UART event queues, hence other UARTs than UART0 are supported, with better performances and stability.

  • Fix binaries concat (bs_append instruction) that was adding some extra zeroes at the end of built binaries.

  • Fixed a bug in gen_tcp that prevents an accepting socket from inheriting settings on the listening socket.

  • Fixed a bug in packing and unpacking integers into and from binaries when the bit length is not a multiple of 8.

  • Fixed esp:deep_sleep/1 that did not accept values above 31 minutes.

  • Fixed a bug that could cause processes to hang indefinitely when calling ports that have terminated.

  • Fixed potential VM crash when parsing external terms.

  • Fixed the enforcement of min_free_space process option.

[0.5.0] - 2022-03-22