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Device OS 3.2.0 Release is available in the Web IDE, Particle CLI and Workbench for (Photon/P1/Electron/Argon/Boron/B SoM/B5 SoM/Tracker).

Released on January 18th, 2021

Note: This is a Release and may be used for production. Any known issues are likely slated for a future version, see GitHub issues.

This is the first release on non-LTS feature development branch (3.x). To learn more about our new LTS release line, read our blog post.

You can view information about Device OS versions, upgrades and downgrades here.

3.2.0

FEATURES

  • [wiring] acquireSerialXBuffer() API support for UART #2375
  • [Boron / B SoM ] Support for SARA R510 #2359 #2365
  • [Electron] Optional feature to use HSE/LSI as RTC clock source instead of LSE (external 32KHz XTAL) #2354
  • [Gen 3] BLE: Add ability to set and scan extended advertisement size (when using Coded PHY) #2331

ENHANCEMENTS

  • Enable GCC -Wextra when building Device OS to enable additional diagnostics provided by GCC. Fix issues uncovered #2340
  • Refactor system describe/info JSON generation to reduce size and remove invalid modules from it #2347 #2349
  • [Boron / B SoM / R510] Add additional modem responsiveness check on warm boot to avoid triggering R510-specific initialization issue #2373

BUGFIXES

  • Fix hardfault handler to SOS again #2381
  • [Gen 3] Fix LittleFS truncate causing file corruption #268 #2385
  • [Gen 3] HAL - Only skip modules that fail integrity check from module info #2387
  • [Gen 3] BLE: fix unintialized scan_phys in default scan parameters, preventing scanning from working unless BLE.setScanPhy() is manually set #2338 #2345
  • [Argon / Tracker] Avoid power leakage through ESP32 ESPBOOT pin #2342
  • Fix parsing of JSON strings with more than 127 tokens #2348
  • Clear module slots in DCT when preparing for an OTA update #2346
  • [Gen 3] Increase BLE operation timeout to ensure that BLE events are correctly handled and do not trigger an assertion #2371
  • [Argon] Fix occasional WiFI setup issue over BLE #2372
  • [Gen 3] Ensure that invalid modules are not presented to the cloud in System Describe message #2374
  • [Gen 3] BLE: Fix copy-constructor and assignment operator issues in wiring APIs #2376

INTERNAL

  • Fix compilation errors on recent Linux distros with GCC 11 and updated system header files #2383
  • [Photon / P1] system part 2 size optimizations #2349
  • Fix gcovr installation on CI #2361 #2364
  • [test] Increase cloud connection timeout to 9 min for on-device tests where applicable #2369
  • [test] Enable wiring/ble_central_peripheral and wiring/ble_scanner_broadcaster tests to be run under device-os-test-runner #2376

System Binaries (all devices)

https://github.com/particle-iot/device-os/releases/download/v3.2.0/particle_device-os@3.2.0.zip

Programming and Debugging

You can view specific programming and debugging notes for this version of firmware here.