Zephyr 3.6.0 (Working Draft)

We are pleased to announce the release of Zephyr version 3.6.0.

Major enhancements with this release include:

An overview of the changes required or recommended when migrating your application from Zephyr v3.5.0 to Zephyr v3.6.0 can be found in the separate migration guide.

The following sections provide detailed lists of changes by component.

Kernel

Architectures

  • ARC

  • ARM

  • ARM64

  • RISC-V

  • Xtensa

  • x86

  • POSIX

Bluetooth

  • Audio

  • Direction Finding

  • Host

  • Mesh

    • Added the delayable messages functionality to apply random delays for the transmitted responses on the Access layer. The functionality is enabled by the CONFIG_BT_MESH_ACCESS_DELAYABLE_MSG Kconfig option.

    • The Bluetooth Mesh Protocol 1.1 is now supported by default.

  • Controller

Boards & SoC Support

  • Added support for these SoC series:

  • Removed support for these SoC series:

  • Made these changes in other SoC series:

  • Added support for these ARC boards:

  • Added support for these ARM boards:

  • Added support for these ARM64 boards:

  • Added support for these RISC-V boards:

  • Added support for these X86 boards:

  • Added support for these Xtensa boards:

  • Added support for these POSIX boards:

  • Made these changes for ARC boards:

  • Made these changes for ARM boards:

  • Made these changes for ARM64 boards:

  • Made these changes for RISC-V boards:

  • Made these changes for X86 boards:

  • Made these changes for Xtensa boards:

  • Made these changes for POSIX boards:

  • Removed support for these ARC boards:

  • Removed support for these ARM boards:

  • Removed support for these ARM64 boards:

  • Removed support for these RISC-V boards:

  • Removed support for these X86 boards:

  • Removed support for these Xtensa boards:

  • Made these changes in other boards:

  • Added support for these following shields:

Build system and infrastructure

  • Dropped the COMPAT_INCLUDES option, it was unused since 3.0.

Drivers and Sensors

  • ADC

  • CAN

  • Clock control

  • Counter

  • DAC

  • Disk

  • Display

  • DMA

  • EEPROM

  • Entropy

  • Ethernet

  • Flash

  • GPIO

  • I2C

  • I2S

  • I3C

  • IEEE 802.15.4

    • Removed CONFIG_IEEE802154_SELECTIVE_TXPOWER Kconfig option.

  • Interrupt Controller

  • Input

  • PCIE

  • ACPI

  • Pin control

  • PWM

  • Regulators

  • Reset

  • Retained memory

  • RTC

  • SDHC

  • Sensor

  • Serial

  • SPI

  • Timer

  • USB

  • WiFi

Networking

USB

Devicetree

API

Bindings

Libraries / Subsystems

  • Management

    • Fixed an issue in MCUmgr image management whereby erasing an already erased slot would return an unknown error, it now returns success.

    • Fixed MCUmgr UDP transport structs being statically initialised, this results in about a ~5KiB flash saving.

    • Fixed an issue in MCUmgr which would cause a user data buffer overflow if the UDP transport was enabled on IPv4 only but IPv6 support was enabled in the kernel.

    • Implemented datetime functionality in MCUmgr OS management group, this makes use of the RTC driver API.

  • File systems

  • Modem modules

  • Power management

  • Random

  • Retention

  • Binary descriptors

  • POSIX API

  • LoRa/LoRaWAN

  • CAN ISO-TP

  • RTIO

  • ZBus

HALs

MCUboot

Nanopb

LVGL

Trusted Firmware-A

Documentation

Tests and Samples

  • Fixed an issue in SMP server sample whereby if USB was already initialised, application would fail to boot properly.