We’ve released new versions of all of the officially maintained Nerves Systems. The official systems, nerves_system_rpi0, nerves_system_bbb, etc., are now at v1.1.1. Going forward the version numbers will likely diverge due to board-specific bug fixes or features.
This is a patch release, but since this is also my first posting of a release to the Elixir forum and there are likely many people who haven’t upgraded to v1.1.0, let me go over the highlights:
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We’ve updated to Buildroot 2018.05. This includes many updates to embedded Linux components and if you’ve made a custom system to use a non-Elixir program, you’ll probably want to review the release notes. If not, this change will likely be invisible. As a policy, we try to keep the official systems sync’d to the latest version of Buildroot to pull in security patches.
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We’ve made it easier to provision serial numbers to devices and fixed a couple annoyances in this area. If you have more than one Nerves device or just want to give it a name rather than use the board’s built-in device ID, take a look at Provisioning Nerves Devices - Embedded Elixir.
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We’ve added a field called
meta-uuidto unambiguously identify the software running on a device. The Nerves.fwfiles can be queried offline for this UUID by runningfwup -m -i <filename.fw>. On the device, you can runNerves.Runtime.KV.get_active("nerves_fw_uuid")to see what’s running.
Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone users - the next release will likely contain a Linux kernel update to 4.14. We know several users have already updated. This is a big update (especially for the Beaglebone), so if you’ve already done it and have experience to offer, please let us know.
Thanks!
