Lingua Franca 0.6.0

v0.6.0 (2024-01-26)

Highlights

This release improves the federated execution capability, makes the handling of target properties more modular and robust, and provides various bugfixes and small enhancements.

🚀 New Features

• Usage of high-resolution counter device on Zephyr boards. Update to v3.4.0 #2007 (@erlingrj)
• Bracket list expression for initialization without escaping #2003 (@oowekyala)
• [C] Self struct made available to initializers of state variables, parameters #2014 (@OmerMajNition)
• New --no-source-mapping switch to disable line directives #2092 (@lhstrh)
• Ability to specify rti image for dockerized federated programs #2144 (@lhstrh)

✨ Enhancements

• Show reaction names in diagrams #2030 (@cmnrd)
• Generate default values for the user-configurable CMake flags #2036 (@erlingrj)
• Fix to generate launch script for TS target and print informational message #2090 (@hokeun)
• Use more explicit include guards for Arduino #2102 (@petervdonovan)
• Better placement of line directives #2101 (@petervdonovan)
• String literal allowed as property name #2136 (@oowekyala)
• Various bugfixes and cleanups in the support for federated programs #2140 (@edwardalee)

🔧 Fixes

• Handling of unconnected outputs to avoid segmentation fault #2011 (@edwardalee)
• Fixed timeout and shutdown in C++ #2012 (@cmnrd)
• Stabilized LSP diagram genenation and added default expansion option #2018 (@cmnrd)
• Avoid null pointer exception in diagrams with bodyless reactions #2020 (@cmnrd)
• Removed "Reaction level" diagram synthesis option #2019 (@cmnrd)
• Fixed error reporting in the verifier #2031 (@cmnrd)
• Fixed trimming of the recorded test output #2040 (@cmnrd)
• Fix problems with assignment serialization in diagrams #2038 (@a-sr)
• Fixed bug in the C++ reaction dependency analysis #2050 (@cmnrd)
• Handling of unknown width for multiports #2057 (@edwardalee)
• Fixed race-condition in _lf_replace_template_token #2082 (@erlingrj)
• Output path specified in JSON used correctly #2088 (@lhstrh)
• Fix bug in C decentralized execution with small after delays #2032 (@petervdonovan)
• Use more explicit include guards for Arduino #2102 (@petervdonovan)
• Fixed mistake in code-generated reaction preamble #2105 (@erlingrj)
• Fix undetected scheduler and workers properties #2110 (@lsk567)
• Fix bug: set length on incoming token #2122 (@edwardalee)
• Type check error turned into warning #2111 (@lhstrh)
• Fix minimum spacing of actions and reference to freed event #2128 (@edwardalee)
• Bugfix for TypeScript in dev mode #2130 (@lhstrh)
• Parallel compilation disabled to avoid triggering deadlock in concurrent invocations of CMake #2145 (@edwardalee)
• Python docker parent image fixed at version 3.10 #2151 (@petervdonovan)
• Fix for cycle detection issue #2112 (@lhstrh)
• Fixed hashCode() implementation in TimeValue class #2157 (@lhstrh)
• Various bugfixes and cleanups in the support for federated programs #2140 (@edwardalee)
• Removal of image-specific commands in case base image is specified #2158 (@lhstrh)
• Fix some zephyr build issues #2160 (@erlingrj)
• Fix for #2087 #2147 (@a-sr)
• Fixed parameter forwarding for non-trivial types in C++ #2164 (@cmnrd)
• Fixed generation of preambles for unused imports #2165 (@cmnrd)

🚧 Maintenance and Refactoring

• Apply spotbugs plugin #2005 (@cmnrd)
• Cleaned up test code to fix all test related spotbugs warnings #2006 (@cmnrd)
• Remove deprecated C schedulers++ #2037 (@erlingrj)
• Removal of ulog from reactor-ts, code generator updated to allow this change #2052 (@axmmisaka)
• Refactoring of target properties and their validation #2008 (@lhstrh)
• The 'threading' CLI option/build param/target property changed to 'single threaded' #1817 (@patilatharva)
• Minimal changes to merge reactor-c enclaves #2095 (@erlingrj)
• Fix file structure for future networks option #2070 (@Jakio815)
• Fix minimum spacing of actions and reference to freed event #2128 (@edwardalee)

📖 Documentation

• Updated .github/workflows/README.md #2076 (@Jakio815)

🧪 Tests

• Fixed error reporting in the verifier #2031 (@cmnrd)
• Fixed trimming of the recorded test output #2040 (@cmnrd)
• Adjustment to test output to show progress #2137 (@lhstrh)
• Time limits imposed on integration tests #2141 (@lhstrh)

⬆️ Updated Dependencies

• Bumped Gradle and Gradle plugin versions #2024 (@lhstrh)

Submodule lf-lang/reactor-c

🚀 New Features

• Scheduling enclaves #242 (@erlingrj)

✨ Enhancements

• Use real-time sockets in federated execution #274 (@erlingrj)
• Progress towards Python 3.11 support #255 (@cmnrd)
• Use env command rather than /usr/bin/python3 #297 (@edwardalee)
• Priority queue refactoring #306 (@edwardalee)
• Detect ZDC in RTI and issue PTAG only for nodes in ZDC #311 (@edwardalee)
• Add an option for specifying the time interval of showing messages to the tracing visualizer #320 (@byeong-gil)
• Various bugfixes and cleanups in the support for federated programs #323 (@edwardalee)

🔧 Fixes

• Removal of the "waiting for tag" field #266 (@petervdonovan)
• Mixed microsteps and time #269 (@petervdonovan)
• Fedsd fix self_id #271 (@ChadliaJerad)
• Guard against unconnected outputs #275 (@edwardalee)
• Fixed argparse for fedsd #273 (@erlingrj)
• Fixed GEDF_NP and removal of deprecated schedulers #282 (@erlingrj)
• Fixed overflow bug affecting 32-bit Linux platforms #288 (@erlingrj)
• Zephyr: default thread stack size updated to 2KB #299 (@erlingrj)
• Bugfix in C decentralized execution with small after delays #280 (@petervdonovan)
• Added return for non-void return function for arduino support #309 (@chacalnoir)
• Handle messages arriving during initial STA wait #316 (@edwardalee)
• Fix minimum spacing of actions and reference to freed event #318 (@edwardalee)
• Fix LF_ASSERT #324 (@erlingrj)
• Various bugfixes and cleanups in the support for federated programs #323 (@edwardalee)
• Fix compiler warning in adaptive scheduler #335 (@petervdonovan)
• Fix for silly bug in pretty printing time #336 (@edwardalee)

🚧 Maintenance and Refactoring

• Do not link with thread library when we are compiling for Zephyr #272 (@erlingrj)
• Minor cleanups #279 (@edwardalee)
• Fixed GEDF_NP and removal of deprecated schedulers #282 (@erlingrj)
• Zephyr timing implementation refactored into two separate files #294 (@erlingrj)
• Clean up warnings and associated docs #296 (@edwardalee)
• Use env command rather than /usr/bin/python3 #297 (@edwardalee)
• Mentions of "unthreaded" replaced with "single-threaded" #250 (@patilatharva)
• Priority queue refactoring #306 (@edwardalee)
• Make new directory under federated named network #292 (@Jakio815)
• Update lingua-franca-ref.txt to point to master #315 (@edwardalee)
• Fix minimum spacing of actions and reference to freed event #318 (@edwardalee)
• LF_ASSERT: Cast to void to avoid unused warnings #326 (@erlingrj)

Submodule lf-lang/reactor-cpp

✨ Enhancements

• Timeout implemented so that shutdown is invoked only once #53 (@cmnrd)

🔧 Fixes

• Timeout implemented so that shutdown is invoked only once #53 (@cmnrd)
• Build the dependency graph only after establishing all connections #54 (@cmnrd)

Submodule lf-lang/reactor-rs

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