Add NEWS in preparation for the new release

Change-Id: I629158b59ff38f9b82a560f119a391bb97af43f2
Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: http://openocd.zylin.com/2701
Tested-by: jenkins

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6ad081edf6eb43781973880f8533cc8551211e33..6620bc69a0d2bb8e73a1b7ae44eb2b3d4d703548 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,16 +2,92 @@ This file includes highlights of the changes made in the OpenOCD
 source archive release.
 
 JTAG Layer:
+       * SWD support with FTDI, Versaloon, J-Link, sysfsgpio
+       * CMSIS-DAP massive speed and stability improvements
+       * Versaloon driver ported to libusb-1.0
+       * STLink can reestablish communication with a target that was
+          disconnected or rebooted
+       * STLink FAULT and WAIT SWD handling improved
+       * New hla_serial command to distinguish between several HLA
+          adapters attached to a single machine
+       * Serial number support for CMSIS-DAP and J-Link adapters
+       * Support for more J-Link adapters
+       * TAP autoprobing improvements
+       * Big speedup for SVF playback with USB Blaster
 
 Boundary Scan:
 
 Target Layer:
+       * Stability improvements for targets that get disconnected or
+          rebooted during a debug session
+       * MIPS speed and reliability improvements
+       * MIPS 1.5/2.0 fixes
+       * ARMv7-R improvements
+       * Cortex-A improvements, A7, A15 MPCores support
+       * FPU support for ARMv7-M (Cortex-M4F)
+       * TPIU/ITM support (including SWO/SWV tracing), can be
+          captured with external tools or STLink
+       * JTAG Serial Port (Advanced Debug System softcore) support
+       * Profiling support for OpenRISC
+       * ChibiOS/RT 3.0 support (with and without FPU)
+       * FreeRTOS current versions support
+       * Freescale MQX RTOS support
+       * GDB target description support for MIPS
+       * The last created target is auto-selected as the current
 
 Flash Layer:
+       * nRF51 async loader to improve flashing performance and stability
+       * Cypress PSoC 41xx/42xx family flash driver
+       * Silabs SiM3 family flash driver
+       * Marvell Wireless Microcontroller SPI flash driver
+       * Kinetis mass erase (part unsecuring) implemented
+       * lpcspifi stability fixes
+       * STM32 family sync with reference manuals, L0 support, bugfixes
+       * LPC2000 driver automatically determines part and flash size
+       * NXP LPC11(x)xx, LPC13xx, LPC15xx, LPC8xx, LPC5410x, LPC407x support
+       * Atmel SAMD, SAMR, SAML21 devices support
+       * Atmel SAM4E16 support
+       * ZeroGecko family support
+       * TI Tiva C Blizzard and Snowflake families support
+       * Nuvoton NuMicro M051 support
 
 Board, Target, and Interface Configuration Scripts:
+       * Normal target configs can work with HLA (STLink, ICDI) adapters
+       * STM32 discovery and Nucleo boards configs
+       * Gumstix AeroCore board config
+       * General Plus GP326XXXA target config
+       * Micrel KS869x target config
+       * ASUS RT-N66U board config
+       * Atmel SAM4E-EK board config
+       * Atmel AT91SAM4L proper reset handling implemented
+       * TI OMAP/AM 3505, 3517 target configs
+       * nRF51822-mKIT board config
+       * RC Module К1879ХБ1Я target config
+       * TI TMDX570LS20SUSB board config
+       * TI TMS570 USB Kit board config
+       * TI CC2538, CC26xx target configs
+       * TI AM437x major config improvements, DDR support
+       * TI AM437X IDK board config
+       * TI SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3200 LaunchPad configs
+       * Silicon Labs EM357, EM358 target configs
+       * Infineon XMC1000, XMC4000 family targets and boards configs
+       * Atheros AR9331 target config
+       * TP-LINK TL-MR3020 board config
+       * Alphascale asm9260t target and eval kit configs
+       * Olimex SAM7-LA2 (AT91SAM7A2) board config
+       * EFM32 Gecko boards configs
+       * Spansion FM4 target and SK-FM4-176L-S6E2CC board configs
+       * LPC1xxx target configs were restructured
+       * IoT-LAB debug adapter config
+       * DP BusBlaster KT-Link compatible config
 
 Server Layer:
+       * Polling period can be configured
+       * "shutdown" command has an immediate effect
+       * The "program" command doesn't lead to a shutdown by
+          default, use optional "exit" parameter for the old behaviour
+       * Proper OS signal handling was implemented
+       * Async target notifications for the Tcl RPC
 
 Documentation:
 
@@ -22,7 +98,7 @@ This release also contains a number of other important functional and
 cosmetic bugfixes. For more details about what has changed since the
 last release, see the git repository history:
 
-http://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/ci/v0.9.0/log/?path=
+http://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/ci/v0.9.0-rc1/log/?path=
 
 
 For older NEWS, see the NEWS files associated with each release