UDK2017

UDK2017

UDK2017 is a UDK release based on a validated snapshot of EDK II. The previous stable branch was UDK2015.

UDK2017 was released in June 2017. Please refer to the release documentation: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases/tag/vUDK2017

UDK2017 Branch/Tag

There is a tag ('vUDK2017') for the UDK2017 release in github: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/tree/vUDK2017

There is also a UDK2017 branch in github: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/tree/UDK2017

UDK2017 Key Features

• Industry Standards & Public Specifications
  • UEFI 2.6
  • UEFI PI 1.4a
  • UEFI Shell 2.2
  • SMBIOS 3.1.0 3.1.1
  • Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals for model specific register (MSR) definitions
• Storage Technologies
  • NVMe
  • RAM Disk (UEFI 2.6, Section 12.17, RAM Disk Protocol)
• Compilers
  • GCC 5.x
  • CLANG/LLVM
  • NASM
• OpenSSL 1.1.0e
• UEFI HTTP/HTTPS Boot with TLS
• Adapter Information Protocol
• Regular Expression Protocol
• Signed Capsule Update
• Signed Recovery Images
• SMM Communication Buffer Protections
• SMI Handler Profile
• SMM Page Protection Feature
• STM Launch
• Memory Allocation/Free Profiler
• NX Page Protection in DXE
• LZMA Compression 16.04
• Brotli Compression
• MP Init Library & CPU Feature Initialization
• EFI Byte Code (EBC) Debugger
• New packages: IntelFsp2Pkg, IntelFsp2WrapperPkg, IntelSiliconPkg, SignedCapsulePkg