Release Notes

Release 2024.1

Summary of Changes

Upgraded JavaScript engine to a newer V8 version (v8.7)
Various improvements to the JavaScript engine, including new File and Crypto APIs
Improvements to JavaScript Server Page and Servlet system, including support for file uploads.
Added support for organizing devices and datapoints in a tree hierarchy
Added Datapoints library
BtLE APIs have been improved.
BtLE/BlueZ now implements an improved PeripheralBrowser service.
BtLE now has a new PeripheralManager service for dynamically creating and managing generic GATTPeripheral services for specific peripheral devices.
Added support for implementing Modbus devices
Added Modbus DatapointsServer (Modbus TCP/RTU connector for datapoints)
Added REST APIs for user and permissions management, as well as bundle and systems management
New services: Mailer, SMS and Settings.
Support for enabling/disabling components when building.
Upgraded POCO to release 1.11.8
Upgraded Remoting and OSP frameworks
Upgraded Paho to 1.3.12
Countless minor improvements and bug fixes.

Incompatible Changes and Possible Transition Issues

Cross-compiling requirements have changed, due to the updated V8 engine. Specifically, cross-compiling from a 64-bit host to a 32-bit target requires a 32-bit toolchain on the host, and the capability to run 32-bit executables created by that toolchain on the 64-bit host.
The BtLE APIs have been changed to use Poco::UUID instead of std::string for UUID parameters.
The BtLE PeripheralBrowser interface has changed. However, since this interface was not implemented before, this should not be an issue.

Release 2022.1

Summary of Changes

Upgraded POCO to release 1.11.3
Upgraded OSP and RemotingNG frameworks (see respective release notes)
Add support for building without JavaScript engine

Release 2021.1

Summary of Changes

License change: changed license of open source version to GPLv3
upgraded POCO to release 1.11.0
upgraded OSP and RemotingNG frameworks (see respective release notes)
MQTT: support for MQTT version 5, upgrade bundled Paho library
JavaScript: new UUID object
JavaScript: fixed potential heap corruption with asynchronous HTTP requests
JavaScript: fixed potential double free in BridgeWrapper
JavaScript: HTTP request and response object have new headers property
JavaScript: fix a race condition when stopping a script
JavaScript: add toJSON() to Buffer, DateTime, LocalDateTime and UUID objects
Upgrade OpenLayers to newer version to fix Safari display issues

Release 2020.1

Summary of Changes

upgraded POCO to release 1.10.1
updated OSP and Remoting frameworks (see their respective release notes for details)
modernized codebase to use C++14
JavaScript: fixed an unhandled exception in RecordSet.toJSON() if record set is empty
JavaScript: fixed potential memory leaks due to wrong v8::Persistent use in some places
JavaScript: optimized handling of timer callbacks to avoid excessive delays when
stopping a script with 10000s of timers
BtLE has been upgraded to work with current versions of bluepy-helper
BtLE: it's now possible create basic Peripheral devices and use them from JavaScript
Modbus: added ModbusMaster::reset() method
added device interface for cameras
various minor improvements and fixes

Release 0.10.0

Summary of Changes

upgraded POCO to release 1.9.0
OSP: added ServiceListener class (including JS bindings)
OSP: added Bundle-PreventUninstall manifest property
Added various samples
Remoting: added support for std::array and Poco::array
Added support for CAN bus (via Linux SocketCAN)
JS Data binding: added executeNonQuery() method which does not create a RecordSet result
added UnitsOfMeasure service
OSP: added StripBundle utility
OSP Web: improved support for framework-level CSRF/XSRF protection
Web user interface: fix potential XSRF issues
Naming of device services: use port or device ID from config properties instead of index
Various smaller fixes and improvements

Release 0.7.0 - Developer Preview 7

Summary of Changes

upgraded POCO to release 1.7.8p2
Remoting: Added a new framework for authentication and authorization
RemoteGen bugfix: fix: don't generate () for empty default initialization in Skeleton code
RemoteGen bugfix: generate correct code for EventDispatcher and EventSubscriber for classes that inherit events from base classes
OSP: improved error message when starting a bundle fails because a dependency failed to start
JavaScript engine modularization: HTTP and Database classes are now in their own bundles/modules
MQTT/Paho: fix socket leak if connect fails
added UDP/6LoWPAN support
improved Modbus support
improved BtLE support
added support for Bosch XDK device

Release 0.6.0 - Developer Preview 6

Summary of Changes

upgraded POCO to release 1.7.6
make JS/Core, JS/Net, JS/Data and JS/Bridge build on Windows (including VS project files)
allow specifying a script memory limit through the osp.js.memoryLimit bundle property (also for JavaScript Servlets and Server Pages)
fixed memory usage issues in JavaScript
improved script stopping behavior (fix a race condition introduced in 0.5.0)
OSP: added BundleContext::listBundles() and BundleLoader::listBundles() overloads accepting a BundleFilter; BundleRepository: add installBundle() overloads that take a bundle repository path.
various minor fixes

Release 0.5.0 - Developer Preview 5

Summary of Changes

fixed a memory usage issue with Session wrapper in JavaScript servlet engine
handle potentially empty V8 handles returned by *::New()
upgrade bundled Paho to 1.1.0
fixed a bug in RemoteGen: generated serializers and deserializers for classes/structs using more than one level of inheritance would only serialize members of direct base class.
various minor fixes

Release 0.4.0 - Developer Preview 4

Summary of Changes

Script Scheduler improvements (@once) and documentation.
Added POCO Redis library to platform
Moved serial port library to platform

Release 0.3.0 - Developer Preview 3

Summary of Changes

Updated bundled POCO libraries to 1.7.5
Added NetworkEnvironmentService
Remoting improvements

Release 0.2.0 - Developer Preview 2

Summary of Changes

upgraded POCO C++ Libraries to 1.7.4
upgraded V8 to release 3.28.4
added BarcodeReader interface
GNSSSensor implementation based on NMEA 0183 protocol via serial port
GNSSSensor interface - added positionLost event
added WebTunnel protocol support for connecting to my-devices.net
Serial Port: added support for baud rates 460800 to 4000000 if available
enable V8 snapshot feature to improve JavaScript startup time
added LED device interface and implementation for Linux /sys/class/leds
various improvements, bugfixes and optimizations in JS library
added support for XBee protocol and XBee Sensor (light, temperature, humidity)
added Sensor::ready() method
added SimulatedGNSSSensor which plays back GPX files
added web-based Console
improved JavaScript logger wrapper (support for formatted messages)
added JavaScript console object
JavaScript: HTMLForm JavaScript wrapper now has property accessor for fields: write form.a instead of form.getField('a') (GH #16)
various minor bugfixes and improvements
fixed a potential crash when converting a std::string to JavaScript string and the string contains invalid UTF-8.
added support for Modbus protocol
added support for BtLE devices
added DeviceStatus service
added JavaScript task scheduler
performance improvements

Release 0.1.0 - Developer Preview 1

This is the first release of macchina.io, released with the intent to get early feedback from the IoT developer community.

macchina.io is still in development. The core platform code is done and considered stable (it's based on code having seen heavy production use for a few years already). Work leading to 1.0 release focuses on adding additional sensor, device and cloud service interfaces, as well as improving the existing interfaces.