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TinyGo v0.8.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-09-18 // over 4 years ago

  • 🚀 This release improves reflect support, extends and improves the scheduler, and has a whole list of improvements to microcontroller boards. In particular, it adds supports for the ItsyBitsy M4, the NUCLEO-F103RB, and even adds some preliminary support for the GameBoy Advance.

    • 💻 command line
      • fix parsing of beta Go versions
      • check the major/minor installed version of Go before compiling
      • validate -target flag better to not panic on an invalid target
    • compiler
      • implement full slice expression: s[:2:4]
      • fix a crash when storing a linked list in an interface
      • fix comparing struct types by making type IDs more unique
      • fix some bugs in IR generation
      • add support for linked lists in reflect data
      • implement []rune to string conversion
      • implement support for go on func values
    • standard library
      • reflect: add support for named types
      • reflect: add support for t.Bits()
      • reflect: add basic support for t.AssignableTo()
      • reflect: implement t.Align()
      • reflect: add support for struct types
      • reflect: fix bug in v.IsNil and v.Pointer for addressable values
      • reflect: implement support for array types
      • reflect: implement t.Comparable()
      • runtime: implement stack-based scheduler
      • runtime: fix bug in the sleep queue of the scheduler
      • runtime: implement memcpy for Cortex-M
      • testing: implement stub testing.B struct
      • testing: add common test logging methods such as Errorf/Fatalf/Printf
    • targets
      • 386: add support for linux/386 syscalls
      • atsamd21: make SPI pins configurable so that multiple SPI ports can be
        👉 used
      • atsamd21: correct issue with invalid first reading coming from ADC
      • atsamd21: add support for reset-to-bootloader using 1200baud over USB-CDC
      • atsamd21: make pin selection more flexible for peripherals
      • atsamd21: fix minimum delay in time.Sleep
      • atsamd51: fix minimum delay in time.Sleep
      • nrf: improve SPI write-only speed, by making use of double buffering
      • stm32f103: fix SPI frequency selection
      • stm32f103: add machine.Pin.Get method for reading GPIO values
      • stm32f103: allow board specific UART usage
      • nucleo-f103rb: add support for NUCLEO-F103RB board
      • itsybitsy-m4: add support for this board with a SAMD51 family chip
      • cortex-m: add support for arm.SystemReset()
      • gameboy-advance: add initial support for the GameBoy Advance
      • wasm: add //go:wasm-module magic comment to set the wasm module name
      • wasm: add syscall/js.valueSetIndex support
      • wasm: add syscall/js.valueInvoke support