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.
- Added a limited implementation of the OTP
ets
interface - Added
code:all_loaded/0
andcode:all_available/0
- Added the ability to run beams from the CLI for Generic Unix platform (it was already possible with nodejs and emscripten).
- Fixed specifications of nifs from
esp_adc
module - ESP32: fix
gpio:init/1
on GPIO >= 32 - Adding missing check, passing a non numeric argument to a function expecting a floating point might lead to a crash in certain situations.
- Fixed several bugs in
http_server
(#1366) - Fixed generic_unix
socket_driver
to return{gen_tcp, closed}
when socket is closed on Linux instead of{gen_tcp, {recv, 104}}
- Fixed a memory leak where modules were not properly destroyed when the global context is destroyd
- 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 toerlang:atom_to_binary(Atom, utf8)
- Support for Elixir
String.Chars
protocol, now functions such asEnum.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 forEnum.all?
,Enum.any?
,Enum.each
,Enum.filter
,Enum.flat_map
,Enum.reject
,Enum.chunk_by
andEnum.chunk_while
- Support for
maps:merge_with/3
- Support for
lists:last/1
andlists:mapfoldl/3
- Add support to Elixir for
Process.send/2
Process.send_after/3/4
andProcess.cancel_timer/1
- Add support for
handle_continue
callback ingen_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
andstring: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
andesp:umount/1
- Support for
binary_to_integer/2
- Support for
binary:decode_hex/1
andbinary:encode_hex/1,2
- Support for Elixir
Base.decode16/2
andBase.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
- ESP32: Elixir library is not shipped anymore with
esp32boot.avm
. Useelixir_esp32boot.avm
instead Enum.find_index
andEnum.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 inspi:open/1
optional (defaults to[]
), so you can use the function with only abus_config
- 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
- 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
andMap.replace!/3
- Support for Elixir
Kernel.struct
andKernel.struct!
- Support for Elixir
IO.iodata_to_binary/1
- Support for Elixir exceptions:
Exception
module and the other error related modules such asArgumentError
,UndefinedFunctionError
, etc... - Support for Elixir
Enumerable
andCollectable
protocol - Support for Elixir
Enum
functions:split_with
,join
,map_join
,into
,reverse
,slice
andto_list
- Support for Elixir
MapSet
module - Support for Elixir
Range
module - Support for Elixir
Kernel.min
andKernel.max
- Support (as stub) for
erlang:error/3
(that is required from Elixir code)
- 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
withio_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
- 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
andbit_size/1
to implement OTP27 match context reuse optimization OTP-18987.
- 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
- Support for DragonFly BSD (generic_unix platform).
- Added guards
is_even
andis_odd
to theInteger
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
- 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 inssl:connect/3
sobinary
can be used instead of{binary, true}
. - Fix scheduling of trapped process that were wrongly immediately rescheduled before being signaled.
- Fix
gen_tcp
andssl
types. - Fix documentation and specification of
esp:sleep_enable_ext0_wakeup/2
andesp:sleep_enable_ext1_wakeup/2
.
- 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.
- 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
.
- Fix bug in
erlang:ref_to_list/1
anderlang: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
- 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
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
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
andgpio:close/1
that would cause the VM to crash.
- Support for utf8 encoding to
*_to_atom
andatom_to_*
functions binary_to_atom/1
andatom_to_binary/1
that default to utf8 (they were introduced with OTP23)- Added Pico cmake option
AVM_WAIT_BOOTSEL_ON_EXIT
(defaultON
) to allow tools to use automatedBOOTSEL
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 optionAVM_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.
- 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
andgpio: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 setpull
direction tofloating
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 validpull
mode. - Support to function with 10 or more parameters
- Very unlikely but possible corruption caused by generated code that uses 16 live registers
binary_to_atom/2
validates utf8 strings*_to_atom
andatom_to_*
properly convert latin1 (not just ASCII) to utf8 and viceversa- ESP32: use esp-idf v5.1.3 for building release binaries
- Added
esp:get_default_mac/0
for retrieving the default MAC address on ESP32. - Added support for
pico
andpoci
as an alternative tomosi
andmiso
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
- 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 just0
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
ormosi
default to disabled - Change port call tuple format to the same format as gen_server, so casts can be supported too
- 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.
- 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
- 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
tosys_monotonic_time_u64
,sys_monotonic_time_u64_to_ms
andsys_monotonic_time_ms_to_u64
. - Implement
atomvm:random/0
andatomvm:rand_bytes/1
on top ofcrypto:strong_rand_bytes/1
on generic_unix, ESP32 and RP2040 platforms. - Performance improvements
- 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 forcrypto: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
andget_udp
based on the newsocket
interface - Added API for managing ESP32 watchdog (only on
esp-idf
>= v5.x)
- OpenSSL support, Mbed-TLS is required instead.
- 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 offset of atomvmlib and of program on Pico. See also UPDATING.
- Fixed incorrect exit reason for exceptions of class exit
- Fixed several incorrect type specifications
- Fixed
esp:nvs_set_binary
functions. - Fixed
monotonic_time/1
andsystem_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, ...
- 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
andspi: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
ingen_udp
andgen_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
anderlang:integer_to_binary/2
- Added functions
esp:sleep_enable_ext0_wakeup/2
andesp: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
, andutf-32
bit syntax modifiers (put and match) - Added support for Erlang
gpio:close/1
and ElixirGPIO.close/1
for ESP32 - Added support for the Erlang
gen_event
module - Added
start_link
support for thenetwork
module - Added support for
erlang:monotonic_time/1
- Added
start_link
support for thegen_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
andnvs_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
andio_lib:format/2
- Added
unicode
module withcharacters_to_list/1,2
andcharacters_to_binary/1,2,3
functions - Added support for
crypto:hash/2
(ESP32 and generic_unix with openssl)
- 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
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 atomok
. Applications that usenetwork: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 fromerror
to{error, Reason}
, for improved diagnostics. - The eavmlib logger interface has been removed
- ESP-IDF v3.x support.
- 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.
- Fix
gen_statem
: Cancel outstanding timers during state transitions in order to prevent spurious timeout messages from being sent togen_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 frombs_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.