Release 2.7.3 - PicoProbe updates, bugfixes , new toolchain

2.7.3

New features

• Upgrade to toolchain 1.5.0-b (#1196) (#1195) -- Fixes ::printf() debug output, for FreeRTOS and normal mode
• Add picoprobe CMSIS-DAP support (#1198) -- Raspberry Pi team is moving to CMSIS-DAP via the PicoProbe UF2
• Add isPicoW call to RP2040 object (#1204) -- Runtime detection of the board (best guess)
• Enable use of uninitialized_ram() macro (#1199) (#1200)
• Add rp2040.cpuid() call to get running core (#1190)
• Implement WiFi::softAPgetStationNum (#1174)
• Make uf2conf.py flush STDOUT for real-time updates (#1194)

Bug fixes

• Fix FreeRTOS hanging (#1193)
• Allow FreeRTOS to ::printf (#1195)
• Remove extra SPI byte flip (#1202)
• Fix SD.H FILE_WRITE mapping (#1178)
• Update SD examples with working SPI configs (#1175)

2.7.2

New boards

• Add the YD-RP2040 support files
• Add boot2_w25q128jv to generic Pico flash menu (#1142)
• Add uPesy Tutorials using Arduino Pico port. (#1151)
• Add correct boot source to helios (#1126)

Audio/I2S/ADC/PDM

• Avoid race condition in I2S/PWMAudio delete (#1163)
• PDM library re-port (#1160)

Serial UART

• Avoid initial glitch on Serial1/2 when RX high (#1154)
• Fix SerialUART::overflow reporting race condition (#1133)
• Add Serial UART break reporting (#1108)

ESP8266/ESP32 compatibility

• Add ESP8266/32 WiFi.isConnected wrapper (#1166)
• Apply SD.h fix from ESP8266 (#1171)

I2C/SPI/USB

• Fix SPI transfer16 return value (#1148)
• Fix USB VID/PID setting, rationalize boards.txt (#1144)

Upload

• Optimize and improve upload experience (#1136)
• Print useful uf2conv error if executable not found (#1141)

2.7.1

New boards

• Add VCC-GND YD-RP2040 board (#1120)
• Add 0xCB Helios (#1117)

Audio/I2S/ADC

• Add stereo support, docs for PWM playback (#1084)
• DMA-based ADC input (microphone, analog sensor) (#1101)
• Stop the I2S PIO when I2S::end called (#1103)
• Allow on-the-fly changes to PWMAudio when possible (#1098)
• Add LSBJ format support for I2S (#1095)

WebServer

• Add hook support to WebServer (#1119)

Compatibility

• Adding sei() and cli() as aliases for interrupts() and noInterrupts(). (#1089)
• Add WString.h include redirect for broader compat (#1083)
• Warn when Serial.printf() format is wrong (#1090)
• Move analogReadTemp() to C++-only (#1097)

General

• Redo boards menu, separate out upload method, add picotool upload (#1112)
• Add additional instructions for Linux Flatpak users (#1105)
• Handle slave mode I2C restarts (#1104)
• Update to LittleFS 2.5.1 (only minor updates) (#1099)
• Reduce stack usage of several components (#1093)
• Remove debug printout warnings (#1091)

2.7.0

• Add PWMAudio for DAC-free audio playback (#1076)
• digitalRead/WriteFast to sio_hw->gpio (#1077)
• Universal analogReadTemp() (#1075)
• Fix I2S::flush volatile casting (#1074)
• Reduce ADC memory footprint slightly (#1073)
• Make the AudioRingBuffer list-based (#1064)
• Speed up ADC reads by not re-initting (#1072)
• Add digitalWrite/ReadFast macros (#1069)
• Update to Adafruyit TinyUSB 1.17 (#1071)
• Degz Mizu changed to Viyalab Mizu RP2040 (#1062)
• Update to 1.5.0-a toolchain (#1060)
• Add nullbits Bit-C PRO board (#1051)
• Fix CI errors when more than one *.a in cache dir (#1049)