Changelog for nRF Connect SDK v2.0.99

The most relevant changes that are present on the main branch of the nRF Connect SDK, as compared to the latest official release, are tracked in this file.

Note

This file is a work in progress and might not cover all relevant changes.

Known issues

Known issues are only tracked for the latest official release. See known issues for nRF Connect SDK v2.0.0 for the list of issues valid for the latest release.

Changelog

The following sections provide detailed lists of changes by component.

Application development

• Added information about Output build files on the Build and configuration system page.

Protocols

This section provides detailed lists of changes by protocol. See Samples for lists of changes for the protocol-related samples.

Bluetooth mesh

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

See Bluetooth mesh samples for the list of changes for the Bluetooth mesh samples.

Matter

• Removed the low-power configuration build type from all Matter samples.

See Matter samples for the list of changes for the Matter samples.

Matter fork

The Matter fork in the nRF Connect SDK (sdk-connectedhomeip) contains all commits from the upstream Matter repository up to, and including, 25e241ebcbf11b1f63dbe25546b1f10219866ad0.

The following list summarizes the most important changes inherited from the upstream Matter:

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Thread

• Added information about Synchronized Sleepy End Device (SSED) and SED vs SSED activity in the Device types documentation.

• Multiprotocol support was removed from overlay-cert.config and moved to overlay-multiprotocol.conf.

See Thread samples for the list of changes for the Thread samples.

Zigbee

• Updated:

  • Enabled the PAN ID conflict resolution in applications that uses Zigbee application utilities library. For details, see Libraries for Zigbee.

  • Changed the default entropy source of Zigbee samples and unit tests to Cryptocell for SoCs that have Cryptocell.

See Zigbee samples for the list of changes for the Zigbee samples.

ESB

• Fixed the update_radio_crc() function in order to correctly configure the CRC’s registers (8 bits, 16 bits, or none).

RF Front-End Modules

• Fixed a build error that occurred when building an application for nRF53 SoCs with Simple GPIO Front-End Module support enabled.

Applications

This section provides detailed lists of changes by application.

nRF9160: Asset Tracker v2

• Removed:

  • CONFIG_APP_REQUEST_GNSS_ON_INITIAL_SAMPLING option.

  • CONFIG_APP_REQUEST_NEIGHBOR_CELLS_DATA option.

• Updated:

  • The default value of the GNSS timeout in the application’s Real-time configurations is now 30 seconds.

• Fixed:

  • An issue that reports GNSS altitude, accuracy, and speed incorrectly when using LwM2M engine.

  • An issue that caused modem FOTA jobs to be reported as not validated to nRF Cloud.

nRF9160: Serial LTE modem

• Added:

  • URC for GNSS sleep and wakeup events.

  • Selected flags support in #XRECV and #XRECVFROM commands.

  • Multi-PDN support in the Socket service.

• Updated:

  • The AT response and the URC sent when the application enters and exits data mode.

  • WAKEUP_PIN and INTERFACE_PIN are now defined as Active Low. Both are High when the SLM application starts.

• Removed:

  • The software toggle of INDICATE_PIN in case of reset.

nRF5340 Audio

• Documentation in the Building and programming using script section now mentions how to recover the device if programming using script fails.

nRF Machine Learning (Edge Impulse)

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

nRF Desktop

• nRF Desktop peripherals no longer automatically send security request immediately after Bluetooth LE connection is established. The feature can be turned on using CONFIG_CAF_BLE_STATE_SECURITY_REQ.

• nRF Desktop dongles start peripheral discovery immediately after Bluetooth LE connection is established. The dongles no longer wait until the connection is secured.

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Thingy:53 Zigbee weather station

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Samples

This section provides detailed lists of changes by sample, including protocol-related samples. For lists of protocol-specific changes, see Protocols.

Bluetooth samples

• Bluetooth: nRF Distance Measurement with Bluetooth LE discovery sample:

  • Split the configuration of the Distance Measurement module from the Nordic Distance Measurement library. This allows the use of the Nordic Distance Measurement library without the module.

• Bluetooth: Direct Test Mode sample:

  • Added a workaround for nRF5340 revision 1 Errata 117.

• Bluetooth: Peripheral Heart Rate Monitor with Coded PHY sample:

  • Added configuration for the nRF5340 target.

  • Fixed advertising start on the nRF5340 target with the Zephyr LL controller. Previously, it was not possible to start advertising, because the CONFIG_BT_EXT_ADV option was disabled for the Zephyr LL controller.

• Bluetooth: Central Heart Rate Monitor with Coded PHY sample:

  • Added configuration for the nRF5340 target.

  • Fixed scanning start on the nRF5340 target with the Zephyr LL controller. Previously, it was not possible to start scanning, because the CONFIG_BT_EXT_ADV option was disabled for the Zephyr LL controller.

• Bluetooth: Fast Pair sample:

  • Added possibility of toggling between show and hide UI indication in the Fast Pair not discoverable advertising.

Bluetooth mesh samples

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

nRF9160 samples

• Added nRF9160: Modem trace backend sample, demonstrating how to add a custom modem trace backend. The custom backend prints the amount of trace data received in bytes, trace data throughput, and CPU load.

• nRF9160: LwM2M Client sample:

  • Fixed:

    • Default configuration conforms to the LwM2M specification v1.0 instead of v1.1. For enabling v1.1 there is already an overlay file.

    • Bootstrap is not TLV only anymore. With v1.1, preferred content format is sent in the bootstrap request. SenML CBOR takes precedence over SenML JSON and OMA TLV, when enabled.

  • Added:

    • CoAP max message size is set to 1280 by default.

    • Number of SenML CBOR records is set to a higher value to cope with data exchange after registration with Coiote server.

• nRF9160: Modem Shell sample:

  • Added:

    • nRF9160 DK overlays for enabling BT support. When running this configuration, you can perform BT scanning and advertising using the bt command.

    • Support for injecting GNSS reference altitude for low accuracy mode. For a position fix using only three satellites, GNSS module must have a reference altitude that can now be injected using the gnss agps ref_altitude command.

    • New command startup_cmd, which can be used to store up to three MoSh commands to be run on start/bootup. By default, commands are run after the default PDN context is activated, but can be set to run N seconds after bootup.

  • Updated:

    • Changed timeout parameters from seconds to milliseconds in location and rest commands.

• nRF9160: nRF Cloud MQTT multi-service sample:

  • Changed:

    • This sample now uses the Modem antenna library to configure the GNSS antenna instead of configuring it directly.

• nRF9160: nRF Cloud REST FOTA sample:

  • Added: * Support for full modem FOTA updates.

Thread samples

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Matter samples

• Removed the low-power configuration build type from all Matter samples.

• Matter: Light switch:

  • Set CONFIG_CHIP_ENABLE_SLEEPY_END_DEVICE_SUPPORT to be enabled by default.

• Matter: Door lock:

  • Set CONFIG_CHIP_ENABLE_SLEEPY_END_DEVICE_SUPPORT to be enabled by default.

• Matter: Window covering:

  • Set CONFIG_CHIP_ENABLE_SLEEPY_END_DEVICE_SUPPORT and CONFIG_CHIP_THREAD_SSED to be enabled by default.

  • Added information about the SSED device type in the sample documentation.

NFC samples

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

nRF5340 samples

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Gazell samples

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Zigbee samples

• Zigbee: Light switch sample:

  • Fixed an issue where a buffer would not be freed after a failure occurred when sending a Match Descriptor request.

Other samples

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Drivers

This section provides detailed lists of changes by driver.

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Libraries

This section provides detailed lists of changes by library.

Binary libraries

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Bluetooth libraries and services

• Google Fast Pair Service (GFPS) service:

  • Added a SHA-256 hash check to ensure the Fast Pair provisioning data integrity.

  • Added unit test for the storage module.

  • Extended API to allow setting the flag for the hide UI indication in the Fast Pair not discoverable advertising data.

• Bluetooth EnOcean library * Added callback decommissioned to bt_enocean_callbacks when EnOcean switch is decommissioned.

• Bluetooth mesh profile library:

  • Added:

    • Silvair EnOcean Proxy Server added use of decommissioned callback when EnOcean switch is decommissioned.

Bootloader libraries

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Modem libraries

• Updated:

  • AT monitor library:

    • The at_monitor_pause() and at_monitor_resume() macros are now functions, and take a pointer to the AT monitor entry.

  • Modem key management library:

    • Fixed:

      • An issue that would cause the library to assert on an unhandled CME error when the AT command failed to be sent.

  • AT command parser library:

    • Fixed:

      • An issue that would cause AT command responses like +CNCEC_EMM with underscore to be filtered out.

  • PDN library:

    • Added:

      • The pdn_esm_strerror() function to retrieve a textual description of an ESM error reason. The function is compiled when CONFIG_PDN_ESM_STRERROR Kconfig option is enabled.

    • Updated:

      • Automatically subscribe to +CNEC=16 and +CGEREP=1 if the LTE link controller library is used to change the modem’s functional mode.

  • Modem library integration layer library:

    • Updated:

      • Ability to add custom trace backends.

  • Location library:

    • Changed timeout parameters’ type from uint16_t to int32_t, unit from seconds to milliseconds, and value to disable them from 0 to SYS_FOREVER_MS. This change is done to align with Zephyr’s style for timeouts.

Libraries for networking

• Updated:

  • nRF Cloud library:

    • Fixed:

      • An issue that caused the application to receive multiple disconnect events.

    • Added:

      • nrf_cloud_fota_pending_job_validate() function that enables an application to validate a pending FOTA job before initializing the nRF Cloud library.

      • Handling for new nRF Cloud REST error code 40499. Moved the error log from the nrf_cloud_parse_rest_error() function into the calling function.

      • Support for full modem FOTA updates.

  • Multicell location library:

    • Added timeout parameter.

    • Made a structure for input parameters for multicell_location_get() to make updates easier in the future.

  • REST client library:

    • Updated timeout handling. Now using http_client library timeout also.

    • Removed CONFIG_REST_CLIENT_SCKT_SEND_TIMEOUT and CONFIG_REST_CLIENT_SCKT_RECV_TIMEOUT.

Libraries for NFC

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Other libraries

• Added:

  • nRF RPC IPC Service transport library.

• Flash patch library:

  • Allow the CONFIG_DISABLE_FLASH_PATCH Kconfig option to be used on the nRF52833 SoC.

• Firmware information module:

  • Fixed a bug where MCUboot would experience a fault when using the External APIs feature.

• nRF RPC IPC Service transport:

  • This library can use different transport implementation for each nRF RPC group.

  • Memory for remote procedure calls is now allocated on a heap instead of the calling thread stack.

Common Application Framework (CAF)

• CAF: Bluetooth LE state module:

  • Running on Bluetooth Peripheral no longer automatically send security request immediately after Bluetooth LE connection is established. The CONFIG_CAF_BLE_STATE_SECURITY_REQ can be used to enable this feature. The option can be used for both Bluetooth Peripheral and Bluetooth Central.

• CAF: Sensor data aggregator module:

  • Added unit tests for the library.

• CAF: Sensor manager module:

  • No longer uses floats to calculate and determine if the sensor trigger is activated. This is because the float uses more space. Also, data sent to sensor_event uses sensor_value instead of float.

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Shell libraries

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Libraries for Zigbee

• Zigbee application utilities library:

  • Added CONFIG_ZIGBEE_PANID_CONFLICT_RESOLUTION for enabling automatic PAN ID conflict resolution. This option is enabled by default.

sdk-nrfxlib

See the changelog for each library in the nrfxlib documentation for additional information.

Scripts

This section provides detailed lists of changes by script.

• Fast Pair provision script:

  • Added a SHA-256 hash of the Fast Pair provisioning data to ensure its integrity.

Unity

No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

MCUboot

The MCUboot fork in nRF Connect SDK (sdk-mcuboot) contains all commits from the upstream MCUboot repository up to and including e86f575f68fdac2cab1898e0a893c8c6d8fd0fa1, plus some nRF Connect SDK specific additions.

The code for integrating MCUboot into nRF Connect SDK is located in the ncs/nrf/modules/mcuboot folder.

The following list summarizes both the main changes inherited from upstream MCUboot and the main changes applied to the nRF Connect SDK specific additions:

• No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Zephyr

The Zephyr fork in nRF Connect SDK (sdk-zephyr) contains all commits from the upstream Zephyr repository up to and including 53fbf40227de087423620822feedde6c98f3d631, plus some nRF Connect SDK specific additions.

For the list of upstream Zephyr commits (not including cherry-picked commits) incorporated into nRF Connect SDK since the most recent release, run the following command from the ncs/zephyr repository (after running west update):

git log --oneline 53fbf40227 ^45ef0d2

For the list of nRF Connect SDK specific commits, including commits cherry-picked from upstream, run:

git log --oneline manifest-rev ^53fbf40227

The current nRF Connect SDK main branch is based on revision 53fbf40227 of Zephyr.

zcbor

The zcbor module has been updated from version 0.3.0 to 0.4.0. Release notes for 0.4.0 can be found in ncs/nrf/modules/lib/zcbor/RELEASE_NOTES.md.

The following major changes have been implemented:

• No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Trusted Firmware-M

• Fixed:

  • No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

cJSON

• No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.

Documentation

• Added:

  • Documentation for the Partition Manager flash map library.

  • Documentation for the adp536x library.

  • Documentation for the Flash patch library.

  • Debugging an application section on the Testing and debugging an application. Also added links to this section in different areas of documentation.

  • Pre-built libraries as a separate page instead of being part of Configuring Thread in the nRF Connect SDK.

  • Added software maturity entries for security features: TF-M, PSA crypto, Immutable bootloader, HW unique key.

  • A section about NFC in the Memory footprint optimization page.

• Updated:

  • Configuring Thread in the nRF Connect SDK page to better indicate what is required and what is optional. Also added further clarifications to the page to make everything clearer.

  • Getting started with nRF9160 DK guide by moving Updating the modem firmware section before Updating the application firmware because updating modem firmware erases application firmware.

  • Matter tools page with a new section about the ZAP tool.

  • Building and programming section in the Developing with nRF9160 DK documentation by adding Visual Studio Code and command line instructions.

• Removed:

  • No changes since the latest nRF Connect SDK release.