Version 1.6.0

New major features

MCUboot updated to v1.9.0.

Mbed TLS updated to v3.1.0 (Support all required PSA Crypto APIs).

Enabled Secure Function (SFN) Model Partition compliance in IPC backend.

Interrupt support (both SLIH/FLIH) for the SFN backend.

MM-IOVEC Support for the SFN backend.

The following Secure Partitions are converted to SFN model:

Protected Storage

Internal Trusted Storage

Initial Attestation

FF-M v1.1 SFN Model supported in Profile Small.

HAL Separation of Library Model and IPC/SFN backend.

FP support for Armv8.1-M Mainline for IPC backend.

Simplified build output message and configurable output.

Halting instead of rebooting on panic in debug build type.

Automated testing of MCUboot BL2.

A new driver interface for the CC-312 runtime library as specified in the PSA Unified Driver spec 1.

Added reference bootloader stage 1 (BL1) bootloader for certain platforms.

A new CC312 ROM library for the BL1.

Updated documentation structure.

New security advisories

TFMV-5.

New platforms supported

AN552.

Deprecated platforms

None

Tested platforms

The following platforms are successfully tested in this release.

AN519
AN521
AN547
B-U585I-IOT02A
Corstone-1000
Corstone-Polaris
LPCXpresso55S69
Musca-B1
Musca-S1
nrf9160
nrf5340
NUCLEO-L552ZE-Q
PSoC 64
STM32L562E-DK

Known issues

Some open issues are not fixed in this release.

Descriptions	Issue links
PSA Arch framework test suite has several known failures.	PSA Arch framework test failures 3

Issues closed since v1.5.0

The following issues in v1.5.0 known issues list are closed.

Descriptions	Issue links
Arm Compiler [SDCOMP-59788]. See the Arm Compiler 6.18 release note 2 For details.	https://developer.trustedfirmware.org/T979

Reference

1: PSA Unified Driver spec
2: Arm Compiler 6.18 release note:
3: PSA Arch framework test failures