- Added modular device support and devicetree bindings for ILI9341, ILI9488, CST816S, XPT2046, and GPIO button input, updating several board configurations for display/touch/backlight/keyboard/battery.
- Added a setting to control deprecated HAL usage (device property + Kconfig).
- Disable BlueTooth driver by default, to ensure it doesn't allocate memory
- Update BlueTooth settings app behaviour to make sure it starts/stops the devices
- Disable SPI RAM usage for ST7789 as it broke App Hub
- Reduce T-Display and T-Deck display buffers from 1/3rd to 1/10th of resolution
- Enabled dynamic buffers for MbedTLS to optimize memory
- TLS 1.3 did not work with dynamic buffers: downgrade to 1.2 for now
- WiFi is now enabled from the Boot app callback to the WiFi service, instead of the WiFi service start() function. This avoids a lockup when WiFi is started by the service while the Boot app is updating the WiFi settings.
- New drivers:
- SD SPI
- spi_peripheral
- touch_placeholder
- display_placeholder
- Devicetree compiler:
- Implement phandle-arrays
- Implement device addresses
- Add placeholder drivers to all devices with a SPI display
- SPI driver: add `cs-pins` and set them to high on driver start
- FileSystem: add `file_system_set_owner()` and `file_system_get_owner()`
- File locking is now checking if the related `FileSystem` is part of a shared SPI bus
- Add `device_get_child_count()`
- SDMMC driver: Remove default of `slot` value
- Fix for Crowpanel Basic 3.5" display (add delay to booting)
- Fix for LilyGO T-HMI SD card mounting (delayed mounting by disabling it initially in the dts)
**New Features**
* Runtime font accessors and new symbol fonts for text, launcher, statusbar, and shared icons.
* Added font height base setting to device.properties
* Text fonts now have 3 sizes: small, default, large
**Improvements**
* Renamed `UiScale` to `UiDensity`
* Statusbar, toolbar and many UI components now compute heights and spacing from fonts/density.
* SSD1306 initialization sequence refined for more stable startup.
* Multiple image assets replaced by symbol-font rendering.
* Many layout improvements related to density, font scaling and icon scaling
* Updated folder name capitalization for newer style
* **Refactor**
* GPIO subsystem moved to a descriptor-based model for per-pin ownership and runtime pin management; many platform drivers now acquire/release descriptors.
* Device trees and drivers now use GPIO phandle-style pin specifications across all boards and all drivers.
* **Behavior**
* Device list now encodes per-device status (ok/disabled); boot will skip disabled devices accordingly.
* **Deprecation**
* Legacy GPIO HAL marked deprecated and replaced with descriptor-based interfaces.
* **Chores**
* Bindings and platform configs updated to the new GPIO pin-spec format.
* Updated runtime gating to enable LilyGO T-Deck specific apps and services
* New device compatibility and model-detection APIs
* Added a buffer-overflow error code and message
* Updated GitHub Actions checkout to v4
* Adjusted an LVGL-related library version
* Device config now emits a T-Deck workaround flag when applicable
* Removed internal developer comments and minor cleanups
* **DevicetreeCompiler**
* Binding properties now support default values.
* Compiler returns meaningful exit codes and reports errors more clearly.
* Stronger validation of device configurations with unified error handling.
* Added integration tests and a dedicated Devicetree test workflow.
* **Changes**
* Platform binding schemas updated: some fields made required, others gained explicit defaults.
* Many device-tree files simplified by removing unused/placeholder pin and transfer-size entries.
* **Documentation**
* Removed several outdated TODO items.
- Implement SPI devices in dts files for all devices
- Removed `tt::hal::spi` HAL and its configurations
- Fix for devicetree generator "boolean" support
- Remove unused custom locks in all `DisplayDevice` implementations
- Fixed some bugs with devices
- Updated XPT2046 driver
- Fix for `WifiEsp` deadlock
- Export a lot of new `math.h` symbols with `tt_init.cpp`
- Created `SpiDeviceLock` in `TactilityCore` as a wrapper for kernel SPI locking
- Improved `TactilityKernel` SPI driver.
- Add kernel support for SPI driver
- Add kernel support for UART driver
- Implemented ESP32 UART kernel driver
- Update existing UART-related code in Tactility to use new kernel driver
- Remove UART from tt::hal::Configuration
- Remove tt_hal_uart functionality but keep functions for now
- Update devicetrees for UART changes
- Kernel mutex and recursive mutex: improved locking API design
- Other kernel improvements
- Added device_exists_of_type() and device_find_by_name()
* **New Features**
* Added public accessors for querying module/device start and ready state.
* **Refactor**
* Internal state moved to opaque internal objects; module/device/driver initializers now explicitly initialize internal pointers.
* Lifecycle handling updated to construct/destruct internal state and use accessors.
* **Tests**
* Tests updated to use public accessors and explicit construct/destruct lifecycle calls.
* **Chores**
* Test build/include paths and small metadata updated.
* **New Features**
- Adds module symbol support and per-module symbol tables, including LVGL symbol exports moved into a dedicated table.
* **API**
- Adds symbol-resolution APIs and an accessor to enable dynamic lookup between modules.
* **Bug Fixes / Chores**
- Explicitly initializes module symbol pointers across device and platform modules to avoid uninitialized state.
* **Tests**
- Updates tests to account for symbol pointer initialization.
Standardised device module identifiers across all supported devices to use consistent naming conventions with lowercase alphanumeric and hyphen-separated formats.
* **New Features**
* Plugin-style modules for platforms and devices with start/stop lifecycle and a runtime-consumable device tree array.
* **Refactor**
* Consolidated initialization into a kernel/module startup flow.
* Generated devicetree artifacts moved to the build Generated directory.
* **Changes**
* Removed legacy no-op registration hooks and I2C lock/unlock wrappers.
* Driver ownership and private state moved to explicit module/owner model.
* Added ERROR_NOT_ALLOWED error code.
Devictree changes:
- Create DTS files for all remaining devices
- Update corresponding `devicetree.yaml`
- Remove `i2c` configuration from corresponding `tt::hal::Configuration`
Apps & HAL:
- Removed I2C Settings (we'll make a new one later after I rework that part of the HAL)
- Delete TactilityC GPIO and I2C functionality
- Delete Related SystemEvent types
- Refactor `tt::hal::i2c` to only use `struct Device*` wrapping
Scripting:
- Fix DevicetreeCompiler boolean parsing
- Create `build-all.py`
**New features**
- Created a devicetree DTS and YAML parser in Python
- Created new modules:
- TactilityKernel (LGPL v3.0 license)
- Platforms/PlatformEsp32 (LGPL v3.0 license)
- Platforms/PlatformPosix (LGPL v3.0 license)
- Tests/TactilityKernelTests
Most boards have a placeholder DTS file, while T-Lora Pager has a few devices attached.
**Licenses**
Clarified licenses and copyrights better.
- Add explanation about the intent behind them.
- Added explanation about licenses for past and future subprojects
- Added more details explanations with regards to the logo usage
- Copied licenses to subprojects to make it more explicit
Ken Van Hoeylandt