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Changes between Memfault SDK 0.29.0 and SDK 0.28.2 - Feb 28, 2022

🚀 New Features

  • Added a port to Particle's Device OS. More details can be found in ports/particle/README.md.
  • Added several more reboot reason options:
    • kMfltRebootReason_KernelPanic for explicitly tracking fatal resets from within a OS or RTOS
    • kMfltRebootReason_FirmwareUpdateError for explicitly tracking resets due to firmware update failures or rollbacks

📈 Improvements

  • Added a convenience utility function for base64 encoding data in place. See memfault_base64_encode_inplace for more details!
  • Fixed compiler error in ESP-IDF port when compiling for ESP32-S2 targets

🏠 Internal

  • Added configuration option, MEMFAULT_COREDUMP_INCLUDE_BUILD_ID, which can be used to disable storing the Build Id in a coredump.
  • Fixed stale link in Mbed example app README.
  • Added utility script that can be used to "arduino-ify" the code in this repo.
  • Fixed linter errors in python scripts after addition of flake8-bugbear linter in CI.
  • Fixed compiler error in nRF91 sample test app when compiling with the nRF Connect SDK 1.2 release

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.28.2 and SDK 0.28.1 - Feb 1, 2022

🏠 Internal

  • Updated nRF91 sample test app to be compatible with nRF Connect SDK 1.9 release
  • Updated python scripts to be compatible with new flake8 linter options
  • Updated where lcov is sourced from when running unit tests in CI

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.28.1 and SDK 0.28.0 - Jan 20, 2022

📈 Improvements

  • Add an optional override flag to control the name used for Zephyr data regions- see ports/zephyr/common/memfault_zephyr_ram_regions.c. Only needed for unusual Zephyr + Memfault configurations prior to Zephyr v2.7 (for example, nRF Connect SDK v1.7.1 with Memfault SDK v0.27.3+)
  • Fix the STM32F7xx reboot reason port to correctly account for the internally wired Pin Reset
  • Fix a function prototype mismatch in the STM32L4 flash port (thanks to @schultetwin for reporting this in #22!)

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.28.0 and SDK 0.27.3 - Jan 4, 2022

🚀 New Features

📈 Improvements

  • Update the STM32 QP/C example (examples/qp) to compile and run correctly now
  • Add intructions for exercising Memfault OTA in the ESP32 example, see the "Testing OTA" section in examples/esp32/README.md
  • Update the Memfault HTTP client to URL-encode query params when checking for OTA updates (in the case of Device properties containing reserved characters, eg +). Update the ESP port to check for reserved characters in query params and emit an error
  • Fix an outdated comment in cmake/Memfault.cmake, as reported in issue #21 (thank you @C47D !)

🏠 Internal

  • Update Python tests to use a mocked-out gdb instance

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.27.3 and SDK 0.27.2 - Nov 22, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Fix a build error for the Nordic Connect SDK v1.7.99 development version
  • Correct an error in header file include order in the Mynewt port
  • Update the esp32 and zephyr examples to use 1.0.0-dev instead of 1.0.0+<6 digits of build id> for the version specifier. Build id is no longer required for symbol file reconciliation and the + character is a reserved character for URI schemes; this impacted OTA release requests. See this document for Memfault's recommended versioning strategy
  • Add a reboot reason port for the STM32F7xx family.

🏠 Internal

  • Re-run python black and isort formatters on python code

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.27.2 and SDK 0.27.1 - Nov 5, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • The Mynewt integration now supports the Memfault demo shell via mflt_shell_init(), see the Mynewt port README.md for details. Huge thanks to @t3zeng for providing this implementation!
  • Add support for ESP-IDF v4.3.1. This update should fix the bootlooping issue seen when using the port with v4.3.1+ of ESP-IDF.
  • Add support for LOG2 deferred mode on zephyr. This should fix bootloops when enabling LOG2.
  • Fix flipped args passed from MEMFAULT_ASSERT_RECORD() to MEMFAULT_ASSERT_EXTRA_AND_REASON() (regression in v0.23.0). This affected the _extra additional context value passed via this macro.
  • Fix a typo in ports/esp_idf/memfault/common/memfault_platform_http_client.c which caused the OTA example to always return "OTA Update Available" when the current version is already the latest.

🏠 Internal

  • Updated list of sample apps in (examples/README.md)[examples/README.md]

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.27.1 and SDK 0.27.0 - Oct 11, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Extended mynewt RTOS port to capture coredumps via a os_coredump_cb implementation when MEMFAULT_COREDUMP_CB=1

🏠 Internal

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.27.0 and SDK 0.26.1 - Oct 5, 2021

📈 Improvements

🏠 Internal

  • Fixed a missing symbol linker error for memfault_fault_handler that could arise when compiling with -flto.
  • Fixed a compiler error in memfault_fault_handling_arm.c that arose when using certain versions of the Clang compiler.
  • Cleaned up python scripts after enabling additional PEP8 naming convention linters.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.26.1 and SDK 0.26.0 - Sept 20, 2021

🏠 Internal

  • Updated modem_key_mgmt_exists API usage to be compatible with changes upcomming in nRF Connect SDK 1.8.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.26.0 and SDK 0.25.0 - Sept 15, 2021

📈 Improvements

🏠 Internal

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.25.0 and SDK 0.24.2 - August 30, 2021

📈 Improvements

🏠 Internal

  • The current version of the Memfault Firmware SDK can now be accessed programmatically from the memfault/version.h.
  • Improved HTTP util parser when dealing with malformed status codes
  • Updated nRF91 sample test app to be compatible with nRF Connect SDK 1.6

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.24.2 and SDK 0.24.1 - August 17, 2021

📈 Improvements

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.24.1 and SDK 0.24.0 - August 9, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Applied suggestions from @elliot-wdtl for the Zephyr ports (#15):
    • Updated software watchdog port to make use of MEMFAULT_SOFTWARE_WATCHDOG macro
  • Applied suggestions from @ioannisg & @mbolivar-nordic in (#14) to change the KConfig options used to select CONFIG_MEMFAULT_HTTP_ENABLE & CONFIG_MEMFAULT_ROOT_CERT_STORAGE_NRF9160_MODEM & CONFIG_MEMFAULT_NRF_CONNECT_SDK when using nRF91 targets.

🏠 Internal

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you are were using a custom nRF91 based board config (i.e neither BOARD_NRF9160DK_NRF9160NS or BOARD_THINGY91_NRF9160NS), the following KConfig options will now be enabled by default. The following can be added to your prj.conf to restore the original behavior:
    • CONFIG_MEMFAULT_HTTP_ENABLE=n
    • CONFIG_MEMFAULT_NRF_CONNECT_SDK=n
    • CONFIG_MEMFAULT_ROOT_CERT_STORAGE_TLS_CREDENTIAL_STORAGE=y

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.24.0 and SDK 0.23.0 - July 27, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Added "compact log" support to trace events. When enabled, the format string will be removed at compile time from calls to MEMFAULT_TRACE_EVENT_WITH_LOG and an integer along with arguments will be serialized instead. The actual string will recovered and formatted when it arrives in the Memfault cloud. This leads to a massive reduction in space & bandwidth needed to send trace events. For more details about how to set up, check out this guide!
  • Fixed a -Wshadow compiler error that would arise in memfault_coredump_regions_armv7.c when MEMFAULT_COLLECT_MPU_STATE was enabled
  • Updated debug print utility in memfault_coredump_storage_debug.c to guard against potentially printing an uninitialized string.
  • Removed unnecessary extra argument from MEMFAULT_SOFTWARE_WATCHDOG

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you were already using MEMFAULT_SOFTWARE_WATCHDOG, you will need to update your call site invocations to remove the argument being passed. i.e
-      MEMFAULT_SOFTWARE_WATCHDOG(0);
+      MEMFAULT_SOFTWARE_WATCHDOG();

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.23.0 and SDK 0.22.0 - July 8, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Support for Dialog DA1469x chip family (Huge thanks to @iandmorris for the help here!)
    • Example eclipse project and more details about how to add the port to any DA1469x based project can be found here.
  • Added a simple utility to track heap allocations. This can be used to more easily debug what allocations led to out of memory situations with the addition of only several hundred bytes to a coredump capture. For more details, see memfault/core/heap_stats.h
    • For FreeRTOS users, automatic tracking of heap allocations can be enabled with the Memfault port. To enable, see the "Heap Tracking" section in the README at ports/freertos/.
  • Added new convenience utilities for asserting when a watchdog event is detected, MEMFAULT_SOFTWARE_WATCHDOG. This will result in the issue in the Memfault UI being classified for as a "Software Watchdog" instead of an "Assert" for easier classification.
  • Fixed a 🐛 in Zephyr port where cpu runtime metrics were never getting reset after a heartbeat was collected leading to always increasing runtime values getting reported.

🏠 Internal

  • Improved support for running tests against different versions of clang and gcc and enabled more address sanitizers such as -fsanitize=undefined
  • Misc documentation edits

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.22.0 and SDK 0.21.1 - June 17, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Reduced code space utilized by metric subsystem by transitioning from a string representation of metric names to an enum representation.
  • Updated memfault_gdb.py helper script to use latest Memfault API for uploading symbol files.
  • Removed "DST Root CA X3" from the required Memfault root certificate list as there is no infrastructure that relies on it anymore.
  • Updated PEM representation of all root certificates to include newlines after 64-character intervals to improve portability with various TLS stacks.

🏠 Internal

  • Updated fw_build_id.py script. The same script can now also be installed via pypi: pip install mflt_build_id
  • Various improvements to example app documentation

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.21.1 and SDK 0.21.0 - June 9, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Zephyr / nRF Connect SDK port:
    • Made periodic upload a named choice, MEMFAULT_HTTP_PERIODIC_UPLOAD_CONTEXT, so the default can be overriden from other Kconfig files.
    • Added prompt text for MEMFAULT_HTTP_DEDICATED_WORKQUEUE_STACK_SIZE

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.21.0 and SDK 0.20.2 - June 8, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Zephyr / nRF Connect SDK port:
    • CONFIG_MEMFAULT_NRF_CONNECT_SDK is now only enabled by default when CONFIG_MEMFAULT=y
    • CONFIG_DEBUG_THREAD_INFO=y is now selected by default (in prep for deprecation of CONFIG_OPENOCD_SUPPORT)
    • Added new option (CONFIG_MEMFAULT_USER_CONFIG_ENABLE=y) which can be used to remove requirement of providing any user specific configuration.
    • Added two choices for periodic posting of memfault data:
      • CONFIG_MEMFAULT_HTTP_PERIODIC_UPLOAD_USE_SYSTEM_WORKQUEUE. This is the default and matches previous release behavior of posting data to Memfault from the system work queue
      • CONFIG_MEMFAULT_HTTP_PERIODIC_UPLOAD_USE_DEDICATED_WORKQUEUE This is a new option which can be used to post data from a dedicated worker queue. This can be useful if the network stack may block for extended periods of time which would stall other system work queue jobs from getting processed.

💥 Breaking Changes

  • The Zephyr & nRF Connect SDK ports will now only enable the MEMFAULT_SHELL by default when the Zephyr shell is enabled. CONFIG_SHELL=y must now be enabled explicitly in your prj.conf for the Memfault Shell to be enabled.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.20.2 and SDK 0.20.1 - June 4, 2021

🏠 Internal

  • Updated sMemfaultBuildIdStorage structure to track the build id length used for event serialization and updated fw_build_id.py script to extract information.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.20.1 and SDK 0.20.0 - May 28, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Zephyr / nRF Connect SDK port:
    • Replaced MEMFAULT_DEFAULT_REBOOT_REASON_IMPL Kconfig option with MEMFAULT_REBOOT_REASON_GET_CUSTOM and updated default configuration for the nRF Connect SDK. This fixes an issue resulting in the generic memfault_reboot_reason_get getting linked rather than the nRF Connect SDK port.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.20.0 and SDK 0.19.0 - May 27, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Updated memfault_fault_handling_arm.c to work around a compiler bug when using 6.x of the GNU ARM Toolchain
  • Port Improvements:
    • SAML10/SAML11
    • Updated esp-idf port to streamline integrations making use of the amazon-freertos
    • Zephyr
      • Added several Kconfig options for better control over information collected in a coredump:
        • CONFIG_MEMFAULT_COREDUMP_COLLECT_DATA_REGIONS to enable/disable collection of .data region
        • CONFIG_MEMFAULT_COREDUMP_COLLECT_BSS_REGIONS to enable/disable collection of .bss region
        • CONFIG_MEMFAULT_COREDUMP_STORAGE_CUSTOM=y can be used to opt out of the default RAM backed coredump implementation and provide a custom one in the port.
  • Reduced instruction cycles required to update a heartbeat metric
  • Events will now store an abbreviated build id when serialized

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.19.0 and SDK 0.18.0 - May 19, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Added support for collecting additional register information when a Hardfault takes place when using the Zephyr port. This information will be decoded and displayed in the Memfault UI in the "Exceptions" tab.

  • Updated buffered_coredump_storage.h to use memmov instead of memcpy since dst and src buffers may overlap when all of .bss is saved in a coredump capture.

  • Added a new Kconfig option to the Zephyr port, CONFIG_MEMFAULT_METRICS_EXTRA_DEFS_FILE=y, which causes memfault_metrics_heartbeat_extra.def to be included in the metric definitions. This can be utilized by a third party consumer of Zephyr to more easily extend the default heartbeat metrics collected when using memfault.

🏠 Internal

  • Updated memfault_gdb.py helper script to use latest Memfault API for uploading symbol files.

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you are using nRF Connect SDK / Zephyr port, the SDK will now automatically be picked up as a Zephyr Module! You will need to make two changes:
    1. Remove the ZEPHYR_EXTRA_MODULES addition from your projects CMakeLists.txt, i.e
    --- a/your_application/CMakeLists.txt
    +++ b/your_application/CMakeLists.txt
    @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
    - list(APPEND ZEPHYR_EXTRA_MODULES $ENV{ZEPHYR_BASE}/../modules/memfault-firmware-sdk/ports/nrf-connect-sdk)
    1. Add CONFIG_MEMFAULT_NRF_CONNECT_SDK=y to your projects prj.conf

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.18.0 and SDK 0.17.1 - May 14, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Support for Dialog DA145xx chip family (Huge thanks to @iandmorris for the help here!)
  • ESP32 port improvements
    • Added example of periodically posting data to memfault via a background task.
    • Added a new Kconfig option, MEMFAULT_COREDUMP_USE_OTA_SLOT=y which can be used to save a coredump in an unused OTA slot rather than the default coredump partition. This can be useful in situations where Memfault is being integrated after a product has shipped and updating the partition table is no longer possible.
  • Added MEMFAULT_EVENT_STORAGE_NV_SUPPORT_ENABLED=0 which can be used to disable dynamic configuration of non-volatile storage. Setting this flag when the non-volatile event storage API is not in use will save several hundred bytes of codespace.
  • Hardened memfault_http_parse_response() utility to parse HTTP responses with headers that exceed a length of 128 bytes
  • Fixed a 🐛 inmemfault_log_save_preformatted() leading to invalid logs being reported when attempting to save log lines > 128 bytes. (thanks @alvarop for the report!)
  • Added a convenience API, memfault_create_unique_version_string(), which can be used for easily appending a build id on the software version reported.

🏠 Internal

  • Updates to demo cli:
    • MEMFAULT_DEMO_SHELL_RX_BUFFER_SIZE can be used to shrink the maximum amount of bytes that can be buffered on a single line.
    • Made memfault_demo_shell_commands.h public and moved it to memfault/demo/shell_commands.h to facilitate easier overriding of the default set of commands used in a build.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.17.1 and SDK 0.17.0 - April 30, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • ESP32 Example App Updates:
    • Added export command to demonstrate how data can be dumped via the console
    • Added Memfault Build ID to example app as a reference
  • Fixed a 🐛 in memfault_platform_sanitize_address_range() template example.
  • Refactored nRF5 example app to mirror integration steps listed in the latest integration guide
  • Added a new configuration option, MEMFAULT_PLATFORM_FAULT_HANDLER_CUSTOM, which can be used to explicitly disable the stub memfault_platform_fault_handler() implementation
  • Improve the quality of backtrace recovery for asserts when using Arm Compiler 5 by removing use of noreturn function attribute for memfault_fault_handling_assert() declaration.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.17.0 and SDK 0.16.1 - April 26, 2021

🚀 New Features

  • Added support for collecting ARMv7-M MPU regions as part of coredump collection. To enable, set MEMFAULT_COLLECT_MPU_STATE=1 in your memfault_platform_config.h. Once enabled, the MPU will be automatically analyzed for configuration errors and results will be presented in the "MPU" tab in the Memfault UI for a coredump.
  • Added a new API, memfault_log_trigger_collection, which can be used to "freeze" the current contents of the log buffer when unexpected behavior takes place on the device for upload to Memfault. The logs can then be uploaded to Memfault just like any other data and appear in the UI for a device. For more details about the Memfault log subsystem see https://mflt.io/logging

📈 Improvements

🏠 Internal

  • Refreshed esp32 example app README and updated instructions for the v3.3.5 esp-idf
  • Added test_log & trigger_logs CLI commands to nRF5 & Zephyr example applications to exercise new log collection functionality.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.16.1 and SDK 0.16.0 - April 12, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Fixed a 🐛 in Zephyr port leading to a compilation error with nRF Connect SDK when CONFIG_DOWNLOAD_CLIENT=y & CONFIG_MEMFAULT_NRF_SHELL=y
  • Dialog DA1468x QSPI coredump storage port updates:
    • default storage parition (NVMS_LOG_PART) can be overridden MEMFAULT_PLATFORM_COREDUMP_STORAGE_PARTITION
    • Max space used within partition can be limited using MEMFAULT_PLATFORM_COREDUMP_STORAGE_MAX_SIZE_BYTES
  • Updated zephyr example application and docs to be compatible with v2.5 release.

🏠 Internal

  • Added memfault_log_save stub to unit tests to facilitate easier testing of logging dependencies
  • Improved correctness of strategy used to capture msp & psp register in Cortex-M fault handler.
  • Added new convenience utility, memfault_circular_buffer_read_with_callback(), to circular buffer api.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.16.0 and SDK 0.15.0 - April 8, 2021

📈 Improvements

🏠 Internal

  • Removed "Heartbeat triggered!" print when memfault_metrics_heartbeat_debug_trigger() is called

💥 Breaking Changes

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.15.0 and SDK 0.14.0 - March 24, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Added a new convenience API, memfault_device_info_dump() which can be used to pretty print the device information populated in the memfault_platform_get_device_info() dependency function.
  • Added memfault_platform_sanitize_address_range(). This functrions is intended for use in your memfault_platform_coredump_get_regions() implementation when capturing regions that are not defined at compile time.
  • Fixed a 🐛 with memfault_coredump_storage_debug_test_* which would generate a false positive test failure when the coredump storage area was not divisible by 16.
  • C++ header guards are now included in all headers in the ports/ directory for easier integration in mixed C/C++ environments
  • Port Updates:
  • Added additional comments to ports/templates directory to facilitate porting.

🏠 Internal

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you were using the ports/emlib/msc_coredump_storage.c port in your system, you must add MEMFAULT_PLATFORM_COREDUMP_STORAGE_USE_FLASH=1 to your memfault_platform_config.h
  • If you were using ports/panics/src/memfault_platform_ram_backed_coredump.c:
    • memfault_platform_sanitize_address_range() must be implemented.
    • The default coredump storage RAM size was changed from 700 to 1024 bytes so more information can be captured. The original size can be restored by setting MEMFAULT_PLATFORM_COREDUMP_STORAGE_RAM_SIZE 700 in your memfault_platform_config.h

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.14.0 and SDK 0.13.1 - March 18, 2021

📈 Improvements

🏠 Internal

  • Added support for automatically capturing logs with Zephyr when logging in synchronous mode CONFIG_LOG_IMMEDIATE=y
  • Unified nomenclature for references to the "Project Key" used to push data to Memfault

💥 Breaking Changes

If you were linking any files from the platforms folder into your project, the path needs to be updated to examples:

- ${MEMFAULT_FIRMWARE_SDK}/platforms/
+ ${MEMFAULT_FIRMWARE_SDK}/examples/

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.13.1 and SDK 0.13.0 - March 10, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Reference platform API implementations for DA1468x:
  • Fixed a 🐛 that led to a unit test failure in test_coredump_storage_debug in some environments where const arrays were getting dynamically built on the stack at runtime.
  • Worked around a limitation in GNU GCC 4.9's extended ASM to fix a compiler bug that would arise when compiling memfault_fault_handling_arm.c for Cortex-M0 targets.
  • Added a new ports/templates folder that can be copy/pasted into a project and used as a starting point for a Memfault port!

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.13.0 and SDK 0.12.0 - March 4, 2021

📈 Improvements

🏠 Internal

  • Started work to enable automatic capture of logs in a coredump for the Zephyr & nRF Connect SDK.

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you were linking memfault_nrf5_coredump.c in your project:
    • the file has been split into nrf5_coredump_regions.c (which defines the regions to collect in a coredump) & nrf5_coredump_storage.c (which implements the port for saving coredumps to internal flash). Both of these files must be added to your build system.
    • Linker script names for region to save coredump to and regions to collect need to be updated:
      • Update__CoreStart & __MemfaultCoreStorageEnd to __MemfaultCoreStorageStart & __MemfaultCoreStorageEnd in linker script.
      • Update __MfltCoredumpRamStart & __MfltCoredumpRamEnd to __MemfaultCoredumpRamStart & __MemfaultCoredumpRamEnd

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.12.0 and SDK 0.11.4 - Feb 14, 2021

📈 Improvements

💥 Breaking Changes

  • You must create the file memfault_platform_config.h and add it to your include path. This file can be used in place of compiler defines to tune the SDK configurations settings.
  • If you are not using a Memfault build system helper
    1. Remove all include paths at ${MEMFAULT_FIRMWARE_SDK}/components/${COMPONENT}/include
    2. Add include path ${MEMFAULT_FIRMWARE_SDK}/components/include to your build system
  • If you were linking any of the nRF5 example app files in your project, the directory has changed:
- ${MEMFAULT_FIRMWARE_SDK}/nrf5/libraries/memfault/platform_reference_impl/memfault_platform_reboot_tracking.c
+ ${MEMFAULT_FIRMWARE_SDK}/ports/nrf5_sdk/resetreas_reboot_tracking.c
- ${MEMFAULT_FIRMWARE_SDK}/nrf5/libraries/memfault/platform_reference_impl/memfault_platform_coredump.c
+ ${MEMFAULT_FIRMWARE_SDK}/ports/nrf5_sdk/memfault_nrf5_coredump.c

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.11.4 and SDK 0.11.3 - Feb 4, 2021

  • ESP8266 Updates
    • Added new Kconfig option which can be set via make menuconfig and be used to disable the Memfault integration, CONFIG_MEMFAULT=n.
    • Fixed a 🐛 leading to a compilation error when bothCONFIG_USING_ESP_CONSOLE=n and CONFIG_MEMFAULT_CLI_ENABLED=n
  • Added default implementations for MEMFAULT_GET_LR(), MEMFAULT_GET_PC(), and MEMFAULT_BREAKPOINT() to compiler_gcc.h to facilitate compilations of the SDK against other architectures.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.11.3 and SDK 0.11.2 - Jan 31, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Reference platform API implementations for the following MCUs/SDKs:
    • nRF Connect SDK
      • Added support for nRF Connect SDK v1.3.x
      • Added support for FOTA with Memfault. See memfault_fota_start() for more details
    • Zephyr
      • Added implementations for memfault_platform_metrics_timer_boot() & memfault_platform_get_time_since_boot_ms() memfault dependencies to Zephyr port. A custom implementation can still be provided by settingMEMFAULT_METRICS_TIMER_CUSTOM=y
      • Metrics support is now enabled by default when CONFIG_MEMFAULT=y and can be disabled by setting CONFIG_MEMFAULT_METRICS=n
      • Added support for periodically uploading Memfault data in the background. This is off by default and can be enabled with the CONFIG_MEMFAULT_HTTP_PERIODIC_UPLOAD=y option
  • Fixed a 🐛 that could lead to an invalid coredump being sent to Memfault when memfault_packetizer_abort() was called after a coredump was partially sent.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.11.2 and SDK 0.11.1 - Jan 21, 2021

📈 Improvements

  • Added support for nRF Connect SDK v1.2.x and updated the integration guide accordingly.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.11.0 and SDK 0.10.1 - Jan 19, 2021

🚀 New Features

  • Added full support for the ESP8266 (Tensilica Xtensa LX106) MCU architecture! A step-by-step integration guide can be found here and the port to the ESP8266 RTOS SDK can be found here.

📈 Improvements

  • Added a convenience header for picking up includes for all Memfault components. If you are using the build system helpers, this path will be picked up automatically.
#include "memfault/components.h"

// call to any Memfault API in the components folder
  • Fixed a 🐛 leading to Root CAs not get loaded correctly when using the nRF Connect SDK port and the MEMFAULT_ROOT_CERT_STORAGE_TLS_CREDENTIAL_STORAGE=y Kconfig option.
  • Applied suggestions from @rerickson1 for the Zephyr and nRF Connect SDK ports:

🏠 Internal

  • Refactored the nRF Connect SDK port to build directly on top of the zephyr port reducing code duplication and facilitate the rollout of additional features to both SDKs at the same time moving forward.

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you are using a Memfault build system helper and not using the trace or metrics functionality, you will now need to create a memfault_trace_reason_user_config.def or memfault_metrics_heartbeat_config.def file, respectively, and add it to your include path.
  • When using the Zephyr port, the memfault integration must be enabled explicitly by adding CONFIG_MEMFAULT=y to your prj.conf

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.10.1 and SDK 0.10.0 - Jan 10, 2021

📈 Improvements

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.10.0 and SDK 0.9.2 - Jan 5, 2021

📈 Improvements

🚀 New Features

  • Added several more reboot reason options:
    • kMfltRebootReason_PinReset for explicitly tracking external pin resets.
    • kMfltRebootReason_SoftwareWatchdog & kMfltRebootReason_HardwareWatchdog for easier disambiguation between watchdog resets where a coredump was captured versus ones where no software handler ran and hardware reset the device.
    • kMfltRebootReason_ClockFailure for explicit tracking of resets due to loss of a clock signal or PLL lock.
    • kMfltRebootReason_Lockup for explicit tracking of faults from within the Hardfault or NMI exceptions on ARM Cortex-M MCUs.
  • Added a utility which can be used to verify a platform coredump storage implementation is working as corrected. For more details about how to use, see memfault_coredump_storage_debug.c.

🏠 Internal

  • Added infrastructure to coredump collection in panics component to support ESP8266 (Tensilica Xtensa LX106) MCU architecture.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.9.3 and SDK 0.9.2 - Dec 14, 2020

📈 Improvements

  • nRF Connect Updates:

    • Updated port to support nRF Connect SDK v1.4.0
    • Added port of HTTP client to post data to Memfault
    • Added support for capturing state of all Zephyr tasks during a crash. This way the state of all threads can be seen in the Memfault UI when a crash is uploaded.
    • Updated memfault_demo_app to use the nRF9160-DK
    • Added notes to the step-by-step integration guide for the nRF9160.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.9.2 and SDK 0.9.1 - Dec 10, 2020

📈 Improvements

  • Added Memfault OTA support to esp-idf port. Updates can now be performed by calling memfault_esp_port_ota_update(). More details can be found in ports/esp_idf/memfault/include/memfault/esp_port/http_client.h
  • The esp-idf port debug CLI can now easily be disabled by using the MEMFAULT_CLI_ENABLED=n Kconfig option.
  • Added FreeRTOS utility to facilitate collecting minimal set of RAM in a coredump necessary to recover backtraces for all tasks. More details can be found in ports/freertos/include/memfault/ports/freertos_coredump.h
  • Previously, if the Memfault event storage buffer was out of space, a "storage out of space" error would be printed every time. Now, an error message is printed when the issue first happend and an info message is printed when space is free again.
  • Added a reference software watchdog port for the STM32H7 series LPTIM peripheral. Users of the STM32 HAL can now compile in the reference port and the MemfaultWatchdog_Handler. The handler will save a coredump so the full system state can be recovered when a watchdog takes place. More details can be found in ports/include/memfault/ports/watchdog.h.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.9.1 and SDK 0.9.0 - Nov 24, 2020

📈 Improvements

  • A log can now be captured alongside a trace event by using a new API: MEMFAULT_TRACE_EVENT_WITH_LOG(reason, ...). This can be useful to capture arbitrary diagnostic data with an error event or to capture critical error logs that you would like to be alerted on when they happen. For example:
// @file memfault_trace_reason_user_config.def
MEMFAULT_TRACE_REASON_DEFINE(Critical_Log)
// @file your_platform_log_implementation.h
#include "memfault/core/trace_event.h"

#define YOUR_PLATFORM_LOG_CRITICAL(fmt, ....) \
    MEMFAULT_TRACE_EVENT_WITH_LOG(Critical_Log, fmt, __VA_ARGS__)
// @file your_platform_temperature_driver.c
void record_temperature(void) {
   // ...
   // erase flash to free up space
   int rv = spi_flash_erase(...);
   if (rv != 0) {
      YOUR_PLATFORM_LOG_CRITICAL("Flash Erase Failure: rv=%d, spi_err=0x%x", spi_bus_get_status());
   }
}
  • The error tracing facilities are now initialized automatically for the esp-idf
  • Fixed a 🐛 where an erroneous size was reported from memfault_coredump_storage_check_size() if MEMFAULT_COREDUMP_COLLECT_LOG_REGIONS=1and memfault_log_boot() had not yet been called

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.9.0 and SDK 0.8.2 - Nov 16, 2020

📈 Improvements

  • ESP32 port improvements:
    • The Memfault metrics component is now included by default in the ESP32 port
    • MEMFAULT_LOG_DEBUG messages now print by default
    • Added a heartbeat_dump CLI command for easy viewing of current heartbeat metrics
    • Custom handling of collecting Memfault data can now easily be implemented in the ESP32 port using the new memfault_esp_port_data_available() & memfault_esp_port_get_chunk() APIS. This can be useful in scenarios where there are external MCUs forwarding Memfault chunks to the ESP32.
  • The platform port for the memfault log dependency can now be implemented by macros (rather than the memfault_platform_log dependency). See components/include/memfault/core/debug_log.h for more details.

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you were using the ESP32 port:
    • Call to memfault_metrics_boot() can now be removed
    • Custom implementations for memfault_platform_metrics_timer_boot() & memfault_platform_get_time_since_boot_ms() can be removed as they are now provided as part of the port.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.8.2 and SDK 0.8.1 - Nov 13, 2020

📈 Improvements

  • Coredumps will now be truncated (instead of failing to save completely) when the memory regions requested take up more space than the platform storage allocated for saving. A warning will also be displayed in the Memfault UI when this happens. Regions are always read in the order returned from memfault_platform_coredump_get_regions() so it is recommended to order this list from the most to least important regions to capture.
  • Updated FreeRTOS port to use static allocation APIs by default when the configSUPPORT_STATIC_ALLOCATION=1 configuration is used.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.8.1 and SDK 0.8.0 - Nov 3, 2020

📈 Improvements

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.8.0 and SDK 0.7.2 - Oct 26, 2020

📈 Improvements

  • Added a new convenience API, memfault_coredump_storage_check_size(), to check that coredump storage is appropriately sized.
  • Fixed a 🐛 with heartbeat timers that would lead to an incorrect duration being reported if the timer was started and stopped within the same millisecond.
  • Fixed an issue when using TI's compiler that could lead to the incorrect register state being captured during a fault.

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you were not using the error tracing functionality, you will need to create the configuration file "memfault_trace_reason_user_config.def" and add it to your include path. This removes the requirement to manually define MEMFAULT_TRACE_REASON_USER_DEFS_FILE as part of the compiler flags.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.7.3 and SDK 0.7.2 - Oct 5, 2020

📈 Improvements

  • Add support for sending multiple events in a single chunk. This can be useful for optimizing throughput or packing more data into a single transmission unit. The behavior is disabled by default but can be enabled with the MEMFAULT_EVENT_STORAGE_READ_BATCHING_ENABLED compiler flag. More details can be found in memfault_event_storage.c
  • Added convenience API, memfault_build_id_get_string, for populating a buffer with a portion of the Memfault Build ID as a string.
  • Added default implementations of several Memfault SDK dependency functions when using FreeRTOS to ports/freertos.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.7.2 and SDK 0.7.1 - Sept 1, 2020

📈 Improvements

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.7.1 and SDK 0.7.0 - Sept 1, 2020

📈 Improvements

  • Added support for TI's ARM-CGT Compiler
  • Removed dependency on NMI Exception Handler for MEMFAULT_ASSERTs. Instead of pending an NMI exception, the assert path will now "trap" into the fault handler by executing a udf instruction. This unifies the fault handling paths within the SDK and leaves the NMI Handler free for other uses within the user's environment.
  • Added several more reboot reason options: kMfltRebootReason_PowerOnReset, kMfltRebootReason_BrownOutReset, & kMfltRebootReason_Nmi.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.7.0 and SDK 0.6.1 - Aug 6, 2020

📈 Improvements

  • Added utility to facilitate collection of the memory regions used by the logging module as part of a coredump. With this change, when the SDK is compiled with MEMFAULT_COREDUMP_COLLECT_LOG_REGIONS=1, the logging region will automatically be collected as part of a coredump. Step-by-step details can also be found in the logging integration guide.
  • Added MEMFAULT_METRICS_KEY_DEFINE_WITH_RANGE() which can be used for defining the minimum and maximum expected range for a heartbeat metric. This information is used by the Memfault cloud to better normalize the data when it is presented in the UI.

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you are not using our CMake or Make build system helpers and are using the panics component, you will need to manually add the following file to your build system: $(MEMFAULT_SDK_ROOT)/components/panics/src/memfault_coredump_sdk_regions.c

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.6.1 and SDK 0.6.0 - July 27, 2020

📈 Improvements

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.6.0 and SDK 0.5.1 - July 21, 2020

🚀 New Features

  • Added memfault/core/data_export.h API to facilitate production and evaluation use cases where Memfault data is extracted over a log interface (i.e shell, uart console, log file, etc). See the header linked above or the integration guide for more details.

📈 Improvements

  • Fixed a 🐛 that would cause the demo shell to get stuck if backspace chracters were entered while no other characters had been entered.
  • Updated the GDB chunk test utility to automatically detect when the data export API is integrated and post-chunks to the cloud directly from GDB when the function is invoked.

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you are not using our CMake or Make build system helpers and want to make use of the new data export API, you will need to manually add the following files to your build system:
    • Add: $(MEMFAULT_SDK_ROOT)/components/core/src/memfault_data_export.c
    • Add: $(MEMFAULT_SDK_ROOT)/components/util/src/memfault_base64.c

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.5.1 and SDK 0.5.0 - June 24, 2020

📈 Improvements

  • Updated code to support compilations with -Wunused-paramater, GNU GCC's -Wformat-signedness, and Clang's -Wno-missing-prototypes & -Wno-missing-variable-declarations.
  • Updated unit test setup to compile with newly supported warnings treated as errors

🏠 Internal

  • Misc utility additions including support for encoding floats and int64_t's in the cbor utility

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.5.0 and SDK 0.4.2 - June 11, 2020

🚀 New Features

  • Add additional utilities to the http component to facilitate easier release management integration in environments with no pre-existing http stack.
  • Add new cli command, mflt get_latest_release, to the Zephyr demo application (tested on the STM32L4) to demonstrate querying the Memfault cloud for new firmware updates.

📈 Improvements

  • Refactored demo component to make it easier to integrate an individual CLI commands into a project since some of the commands can be helpful for validating integrations. More details can be found in the README at components/demo/README.md.

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you are using the "demo" component and are not making use our CMake or Make build system helpers, you will need to make the following changes:
    • Update: $(MEMFAULT_SDK_ROOT)/components/demo/src/{memfault_demo_cli.c => panics/memfault_demo_panics.c}
    • Update: $(MEMFAULT_SDK_ROOT)/components/demo/src/{ => panics}/memfault_demo_cli_aux.c
    • Add: $(MEMFAULT_SDK_ROOT)/components/demo/src/memfault_demo_core.c
    • Add: $(MEMFAULT_SDK_ROOT)/components/demo/src/http/memfault_demo_http.c
  • If you are using the http component, the following macro names changed:
-#define MEMFAULT_HTTP_GET_API_PORT()
-#define MEMFAULT_HTTP_GET_API_HOST()
+#define MEMFAULT_HTTP_GET_CHUNKS_API_PORT()
+#define MEMFAULT_HTTP_GET_CHUNKS_API_HOST()

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.4.2 and SDK 0.4.1 - June 8, 2020

📈 Improvements

  • Moved reboot_tracking.h to core component since it has no dependencies on anything from the panics component. This allows the reboot tracking to be more easily integrated in a standalone fashion.
  • Published a new guide detailing how to manage firmware updates using Memfault.
  • Disabled optimizations for memfault_fault_handling_assert(). This improves the recovery of local variables of frames in the backtrace when certain optimization levels are used.
  • Updated memfault_sdk_assert.c to address a GCC warning (-Wpointer-to-int-cast) emitted when compiling the file for 64 bit architectures.
  • Misc README improvements.

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you are already using reboot tracking in your system, you will need to update the following includes in your code:
-#include "memfault/panics/reboot_tracking.h"
-#include "memfault/panics/reboot_reason_types.h"
+#include "memfault/core/reboot_tracking.h"
+#include "memfault/panics/reboot_reason_types.h"
  • If you are not using our CMake or Make build system helpers, you will need to update the path for the following files:

    • $(MEMFAULT_SDK_ROOT)/components/{panics => core}/src/memfault_ram_reboot_info_tracking.c
    • $(MEMFAULT_SDK_ROOT)/components/{panics => core}/src/memfault_reboot_tracking_serializer.c
  • eMfltResetReason was renamed to eMemfaultRebootReason.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.4.1 and SDK 0.4.0 - May 20, 2020

🚀 New Features

  • Added native SDK support for tracking and generating a unique firmware build id with any compiler! Quick integration steps can be found in memfault/core/build_info.h. It is very common, especially during development, to not change the firmware version between editing and compiling the code. This will lead to issues when recovering backtraces or symbol information because the debug information in the symbol file may be out of sync with the actual binary. Tracking a build id enables the Memfault cloud to identify and surface when this happens! You can also make use of two new APIs:
    • memfault_build_info_dump() can be called on boot to display the build that is running. This can be a useful way to sanity check that your debugger succesfully flashed a new image.
    • memfault_build_info_read() can be used to read the build id for your own use cases. For example you could append a portion of it to a debug version to make it unique.

📈 Improvements

  • The CMake build system helper is now compatible with any 3.x version of CMake (previously required 3.6 or newer).
  • The unique firmware build id is stored automatically as part of coredump collection.

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you are not using our CMake or Make build system helpers, you will need to add the following files to your build:
    • $(MEMFAULT_SDK_ROOT)/components/core/src/memfault_build_id.c
    • $(MEMFAULT_SDK_ROOT)/components/core/src/memfault_core_utils.c
  • We also encourage you to add a unique build id to your build (several line code change).

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.4.0 and SDK 0.3.4 - May 6, 2020

🚀 New Features

  • Added support for (optionally) storing events collected by the SDK to non-volatile storage mediums. This can be useful for devices which experience prolonged periods of no connectivity. To leverage the feature, an end user must implement the nonvolatile_event_storage platform API.

📈 Improvements

  • Added an assert used internally by the SDK which makes it easier to debug API misuse during bringup. The assert is enabled by default but can easily be disabled or overriden. For more details see memfault/core/sdk_assert.h.
  • Added a default implementation of memfault_platform_halt_if_debugging() for Cortex-M targets. The function is defined as weak so a user can still define the function to override the default behavior.

🏠 Internal

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you are not using our CMake or Make build system helpers, you will need to add $(MEMFAULT_SDK_ROOT)/components/core/src/memfault_sdk_assert.c to your project.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.3.4 and SDK 0.3.3 - April 22, 2020

📈 Improvements

  • Moved trace_event.h to core component since it has no dependencies on anything from the panics component. This allows the trace event feature to be more easily integrated in a standalone fashion.

💥 Breaking Changes

  • If you are already using MEMFAULT_TRACE_EVENT() in your project, you will need to update the include as follows:
-#include "memfault/panics/trace_event.h"
+#include "memfault/core/trace_event.h"
  • If you are not using our CMake or Make build system helpers, you will need to update the source path for components/panics/src/memfault_trace_event.c to components/core/src/memfault_trace_event.c

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.3.3 and SDK 0.3.2 - April 21, 2020

🚀 New Features

  • Added a new GDB command which can be used to post packetized Memfault data directly from GDB to the Memfault cloud. This can be helpful as a way to quickly test data collection functionality while working on an integration of the SDK.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.3.2 and SDK 0.3.1 - April 16, 2020

🚀 New Features

  • The captured_date for an event can now be set by implementing memfault_platform_time_get_current(). If the API is not implemented, the captured_date will continue to be set based on the time the event was received by the memfault cloud.

📈 Improvements

  • Added a reference implementation of reboot reason tracking to the NRF52 demo app and a new reboot CLI command to easily exercise it.
  • A reset_reason can now optionally be provided as part of sResetBootupInfo. This can be useful for scenarios where the reboot reason is known on bootup but could not be set prior to the device crashing.
  • A reboot reason event will now always be generated when memfault_reboot_tracking_boot() is called even if no information about the reboot has been provided. In this scenario, the reset reason will be kMfltRebootReason_Unknown

🏠 Internal

  • Updated a few Kconfig options in the Zephyr demo app to improve the ability to compute stack high water marks (CONFIG_INIT_STACKS=y) and determine if stacks has overflowed (CONFIG_MPU_STACK_GUARD=y).

💥 Breaking Changes

  • device_serial is no longer encoded by default as part of events. Instead, the device_serial in an event is populated from the the unique device identifier used when posting the data to the chunks REST endpoint. This leads to ~20% reduction in the size of a typical event. Encoding device_serial as part of the event itself can still be enabled by adding -DMEMFAULT_EVENT_INCLUDE_DEVICE_SERIAL=1 as a compilation flag but should not be necessary for a typical integration.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.3.1 and SDK 0.3.0 - April 9, 2020

🚀 New Features

  • Added memfault_log_read() API to make it possible to use the module to cache logs in RAM and then flush them out to slower mediums, such as a UART console or Flash, from a background task.

📈 Improvements

  • A pointer to the stack frame upon exception entry is now included in sCoredumpCrashInfo when memfault_platform_coredump_get_regions is invoked. This can (optionally) be used to configure regions collected based on the state or run platform specific cleanup based on the state.
  • Added Root Certificates needed for release downloads to MEMFAULT_ROOT_CERTS_PEM.

🏠 Internal

  • All sources that generate events now use the same utility function, memfault_serializer_helper_encode_metadata() to encode common event data.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.3.0 and SDK 0.2.5 - April 3, 2020

🚀 New Features

  • Introduced a lightweight logging module. When used, the logs leading up to a crash will now be decoded and displayed from the Memfault Issue Details Web UI. For instructions about how to use the module in your project, check out log.h.
  • The metrics component will now automatically collect the elapsed time and the number of unexpected reboots during a heartbeat interval. The Memfault cloud now uses this information to automatically compute and display the overall uptime of your fleet.

📈 Improvements

  • Added a new document walking through the design of Memfault event serialization.
  • Cleaned up test_memfault_root_cert.cpp and moved the base64 implementation within the unit test to the util component so it is easier to share the code elsewhere in the future.
  • Added const to a few circular_buffer.h API signatures.
  • Misc code comment improvements.

💥 Breaking Changes

  • The function signature for memfault_metrics_boot() changed as part of this update. If you are already using the metrics component, you will need to update the call accordingly. See the notes in metrics.h for more details.
  • If you are not using our CMake or Make build system helpers, you will need to add $(MEMFAULT_SDK_ROOT)/components/core/src/memfault_log.c to your project. (Note that until memfault_log_boot() is called, all calls made to the logging module will be a no-op).

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.2.5 and SDK 0.2.4 - March 20, 2020

  • Improve the memfault_platform_coredump_storage_clear() NRF52 reference implementation for situations where the SoftDevice is enabled and there is a lot of Bluetooth activity. (In this scenario, NRF52 flash operations may need retries or take a while to complete).
  • Fixed compiler error that could arise with the metrics component when using Arm Compiler 5 due to multiply defined weak symbols.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.2.4 and SDK 0.2.3 - March 10, 2020

  • Add support for ESP32 (Tensilica Xtensa LX6 MCU) to the panics component.
    • A step-by-step integration guide can be found here.
    • A drop-in port for an existing v3.x or v4.x based ESP-IDF project can be found at ports/esp_idf.
    • An example application exercising the memfault-firmware-sdk can be found here.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.2.3 and SDK 0.2.2 - March 3, 2020

  • If a software watchdog has been implemented on a Cortex-M device, MemfaultWatchdog_Handler can now be registered as the Exception Handler to automatically collect a coredump.
  • For heartbeat metrics, instead of serializing the name of each metric, we now recover it from the debug information in the symbol file in the Memfault cloud. For a typical heartbeat this reduces the serialization size by more than 50% and results in a smaller footprint than other structured serialization alternatives such as Protobuf.
  • Remove usage of __has_include macro for IAR compiler since not all versions fully support it.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.2.1 and SDK 0.2.2 - Feb 20, 2020

  • Add support for calling MEMFAULT_TRACE_EVENT() from interrupts. Note: If you are not using our CMake or Make build system helpers, this change requires that you add $(MEMFAULT_SDK_ROOT)/components/core/src/arch_arm_cortex_m.c to your project.
  • Misc documentation improvements.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.2.0 and SDK 0.2.1 - Feb 14, 2020

  • Add support for compressing coredumps as they are sent using Run Length Encoding (RLE). More details can be found in memfault/core/data_source_rle.h.
  • Update metrics component to support compilation with the IAR ARM C/C++ Compiler.
  • Update Mbed OS 5 port to use memfault_demo_shell instead mbed-client-cli, since mbed-client-cli is not part of the main Mbed OS 5 distribution.
  • Update nrf52 example application to only collect the active parts of the stack to reduce the overall size of the example coredump.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.2.0 and SDK 0.1.0 - Feb 5, 2020

  • Add a new API ("Trace Event") for tracking errors. This allows for tracing issues that are unexpected but are non-fatal (don't result in a device reboot). A step-by-step guide detailing how to use the feature can be found at: https://mflt.io/error-tracing
  • Update GDB coredump collection script to work with the ESP32 (Tensilica Xtensa LX6 Architecture)
  • Remove __task from IAR Cortex-M function handler declarations since it's not explicitly required and can lead to a compiler issue if the function prototype does not also use it.
  • Misc documentation and comment tweaks to make nomenclature more consistent

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.1.0 and SDK 0.0.18 - Jan 22, 2020

  • Update panics component to support compilation with IAR ARM C/C++ Compiler. More details about integrating IAR can be found at https://mflt.io/iar-tutorial. As part of the change MEMFAULT_GET_LR() now takes an argument which is the location to store the LR to (void *lr = MEMFAULT_GET_LR() -> void *lr; MEMFAULT_GET_LR(lr))

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.0.18 and SDK 0.0.17 - Jan 14, 2020

  • Update the chunk protocol to encode CRC in last chunk of message instead of first. This allows the CRC to be computed incrementally and the underlying message to be read once (instead of twice). It also makes it easier to use the data packetizer in environments where reads from data sources need to be performed asynchronously. More details can be found at https://mflt.io/data-to-cloud
  • Fixed a couple documentation links

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.0.17 and SDK 0.0.16 - Jan 7, 2020

  • Guarantee that all accesses to the platform coredump storage region route through memfault_coredump_read while the system is running.
  • Scrub unused portion of out buffer provided to packetizer with a known pattern for easier debugging

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.0.16 and SDK 0.0.15 - Jan 6, 2020

  • Add convenience API, memfault_packetizer_get_chunk(), to data_packetizer module.
  • Add a new eMfltCoredumpRegionType, MemoryWordAccessOnly which can be used to force the region to be read 32 bits at a time. This can be useful for accessing certain peripheral register ranges which are not byte addressable.
  • Automatically collect Exception / ISR state for Cortex-M based targets. NOTE that the default config requires an additional ~150 bytes of coredump storage. The feature can be disabled completely by adding -DMEMFAULT_COLLECT_INTERRUPT_STATE=0 to your compiler flags. More configuration options can be found in memfault_coredump_regions_armv7.c.
  • Improve documentation about integrating the SDK within a project in README
  • Update Release note summary to use markdown headings for easier referencing.
  • Update try script used to collect coredumps via GDB to also collect Exception/ISR register information.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.0.15 and SDK 0.0.14 - Dec 19, 2019

  • Add ARMv6-M fault handling port to panics component for MCUs such as the ARM Cortex-M0 and Cortex-M0+.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.0.14 and SDK 0.0.13 - Dec 18, 2019

  • Update panics component to support compilation with Arm Compiler 5.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.0.13 and SDK 0.0.12 - Dec 16, 2019

  • Updated Cortex-M fault handler in panics component to also collect psp and msp registers when the system crashes. This allows for the running thread backtrace to be more reliably recovered when a crash occurs from an ISR.
  • Added optional MEMFAULT_EXC_HANDLER_... preprocessor defines to enable custom naming of exception handlers in the panics component.
  • Add port for Cortex-M based targets using Quantum Leaps' QP™/C & QP™/C++ real-time embedded framework. See ports/qp/README.md for more details.
  • Add demo application running Quantum Leaps' QP™/C running on the STM32F407 discovery board. See examples/qp/README.md for more details.
  • Added demo application and port for Arm Mbed OS 5 running on the STM32F429I-DISC1 evaluation board. See examples/mbed/README.md for more details.
  • Changed print_core to print_chunk in demo applications to better align with the Memfault nomenclature for data transfer.

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.0.12 and SDK 0.0.11 - Dec 4, 2019

  • Expose root certificates used by Memfault CI in DER format for easier integration with TLS libraries which do not parse PEM formatted certificates.
  • Add utilities to the http component for constructing Memfault cloud chunk endpoint POST requests to facilitate easier integration in environments with no pre-existing http stack.
  • Add port for Cortex-M based targets in the Zephyr RTOS. Ports are available for the 1.14 Long Term Support Release as well as the 2.0 Release. See ports/zephyr/README.md for more details
  • Add Zephyr demo application (tested on the STM32L4). See zephyr demo app directory for more details

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.0.11 and SDK 0.0.10 - Nov 25, 2019

  • Release of metrics component. This API can easily be used to monitor device health over time (i.e connectivity, battery life, MCU resource utilization, hardware degradation, etc) and configure Alerts with the Memfault backend when things go astray. To get started, see this document

Changes between Memfault SDK 0.0.10 and SDK 0.0.9 - Nov 22, 2019

  • Updated memfault_platform_coredump_get_regions() to take an additional argument, crash_info which conveys information about the crash taking place (trace reason & stack pointer at time of crash). This allows platform ports to dynamically change the regions collected based on the crash if so desired. This will require an update that looks like the following to your port:
-const sMfltCoredumpRegion *memfault_platform_coredump_get_regions(size_t *num_regions) {
+const sMfltCoredumpRegion *memfault_platform_coredump_get_regions(
+    const sCoredumpCrashInfo *crash_info, size_t *num_regions) {
  • Added a new API, memfault_coredump_storage_compute_size_required() which can be called on boot to sanity check that platform coredump storage is large enough to hold a coredump. For example:
  sMfltCoredumpStorageInfo storage_info = { 0 };
  memfault_platform_coredump_storage_get_info(&storage_info);
  const size_t size_needed = memfault_coredump_storage_compute_size_required();
  if (size_needed > storage_info.size) {
    MEMFAULT_LOG_ERROR("Coredump storage too small. Got %d B, need %d B",
                       storage_info.size, size_needed);
  }
  MEMFAULT_ASSERT(size_needed <= storage_info.size);
  • Added a convenience RAM backed reference port for coredump platform APIs. This can be used for persisting a coredump in RAM across a reset.

Changes between Memfault Firmware SDK 0.0.9 and 0.0.8 - Nov 15, 2019

  • Enhanced Reboot Tracking module within the panics component. Reboots that don't result in coredumps can now be easily tracked (i.e brown outs, system watchdogs, user initiated resets, resets due to firmware updates, etc). See memfault/core/reboot_tracking.h for more details and https://mflt.io/2QlOlgH for a step-by-step setup tutorial.
  • Added Event Storage module within the core component. This is a small RAM backed data store that queues up traces to be published to the Memfault cloud. To minimize the space needed and transport overhead, all events collected within the SDK are stored using the Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)

Changes between Memfault Firmware SDK 0.0.8 and 0.0.7 - Nov 7, 2019

  • Added helper makefile (makefiles/MemfaultWorker.mk). A user of the SDK can include this makefile when using a make as their build system to easily collect the sources and include paths needed to build Memfault SDK components
  • Make unit tests public & add CI to external SDK

Changes between Memfault Firmware SDK 0.0.7 and 0.0.6 - Oct 31, 2019

  • Added firmware side support for the Memfault cloud chunk endpoint. This is a sessionless endpoint that allows chunks of arbitrary size to be sent and reassembled in the Memfault cloud. This transport can be used to publish any data collected by the Memfault SDK. The data is read out on the SDK side by calling the memfault_packetizer_get_next() API in data_packetizer.h. More details here
  • Updated demo apps to use the new chunk endpoint
  • Added a new weak function, memfault_coredump_read() so platform ports can easily add locking on reads to coredump storage if necessary for transmission.
  • Updates to this version of the sdk will require the util component get compiled when using the panics API

Changes between Memfault Firmware SDK 0.0.6 and 0.0.5 - Oct 14, 2019

  • Added example port and demo for the STM32H743I-NUCLEO144 evaluation board running ChibiOS. See examples/stm32/stm32h743i/README.md for more details.
  • general README documentation improvements
  • Fixed compilation error that could arise in memfault_fault_handling_arm.c when using old versions of GCC

Changes between Memfault Firmware SDK 0.0.5 and 0.0.4 - September 23, 2019

  • Updated panics SDK to support complex hardware toplogies such as systems with multiple MCUs or systems running multiple binaries on a single MCU. More details here. Users of the SDK will need to update the implementation for memfault_platform_get_device_info()
  • Updated all ports to be in sync with SDK updates

Changes between Memfault Firmware SDK 0.0.4 and 0.0.3 - August 19, 2019

  • Updated panics core code to always collect fault registers for ARMv6-M & ARMv7-M architectures. The Memfault cloud will auto-analyze these and present an analysis.
  • Updated https://try.memfault.com gdb script to collect Cortex-M MPU region information for auto-analysis
  • general README documentation improvements
  • improved error reporting strategy and documentation in memfault/core/errors.h

Changes between Memfault Firmware SDK 0.0.3 and 0.0.2 - July 2, 2019

  • added example port and demo of panics SDK for the Nordic nRF52840 (PCA10056) development kit. See examples/nrf5/README.md for more details.
  • Made SDK headers suitable for includion in C++ files

First Public Release of Memfault Firmware SDK 0.0.2 - June 26, 2019

  • published initial Memfault SDK, see README.md in root for summary
  • published panics API which is a C SDK that can be integrated into any Cortex-M device to save a "core" (crash state) on faults and system asserts. Seecomponents/panics/README.md for more details
  • Added example port and demo of panics SDK for the BCM943364WCD1 evaluation board running the WICED Wifi stack. More details in examples/wiced/README.md
  • add python invoke based CLI wrapper for demo ports