Release v1.7.0

Release date: 2021-04-25

This release drops support for the STLINK/V1 programmer on macOS 10.13.

Features:

• Extended set of cmd line arguments for st-info and st-util (#332, #990, #1091, #1114)
• Extended support for STM32H7 & rework of software reset (#532, #801, #868, #1008, #1059, #1063, #1071)
• Added support for STM32H742/743/753 (#671, #793, #823, #998, #1052, #1184, #1324)
• Official support for STLINK-V3 programmers (commit #5e0a502, #820, #1022, #1025)
• Added preliminary support for STM32L5x2 (#904, #999)
• Option bytes on the STM32F767 ZIT6 Nucleo-144 (#968, #997)
• Use SetConsoleCtrlHandler for Windows (#1021)
• Increase STM32L0 option_size to 20 (#1046)
• st-util: Add specialized memory map for STM32H7 devices (#1060)
• Support for STM32F4 option bytes (#1062)
• Link for WIN32 & APPLE with stlink-static (#1069)
• ITM functionality for STLink/V2 and STM32Fxx chipsets (#136, #179, #815, #1072)
• Included ITM functionality for building with MSVC (#1080)
• Update for CI integration (commit #0eebc9a, #1118)

Updates & changes:

• [doc] Added tutorial section on unknown chip id error (commit #229c721, #107, #568)
• [doc] Updated documentation on target resetting (#261, #533, #1107)
• [doc] Added note on (gdb) run command (commit #03793d4, #267)
• [doc] st-flash --reset parameter (one solution for #356) (#642)
• [refactoring] General maintenance (#864. #978)
• Imported debian pkg-settings (#986)
• Add support for FreeBSD's libusb reimplementation (#992, #993)
• [doc] Added explanation about STM32F103 fake chips (commit #a66557a, #1024)
• [doc] Added example for output of st-info --probe (#1007, #1049)
• [refactoring] Correctly handle endianness without reference to host platform (#1081)
• Check format string for log messages (#1093)
• Removed abort() from stlink-lib (#1116)

Fixes:

• Improvements and fixes of the flash loaders, unification of the reset function (#244, #382, #705, #724, #980, #995, #1008, #1115, #1117, #1122, #1124)
• Flash loader rework (#356, #556, #593, #597, #607, #612, #638, #661, #690, #724, #807, #817, #818, #854, #868, #967, #979, #1008, #1043, #1054, #1092, #1105, #1113)
• Fixed old DFU serial number for STLINK programmers (#417, #494, #1106, #1121)
• Improvements for Chip_ID read (#620, #1008, #1120)
• Use vl flashloader for all STM32F1 series (#724, #769, #1041, #1044)
• [regression] Changed timeout on flash write (#787, #981, #987)
• cmake compile failure with external CMAKE_MODULE_PATH set (#962)
• doc/man: Fixed installation directory (#970)
• Fixed installation path for desktop-file and icons (#972)
• Fix for static linking of libssp (#973, #974)
• [regression] Fixed wrong formatting for library install path (#978, #1089, #1277)
• Fixed installation of header files needed for compiling with libstlink.so.1.6.1 (commit #31b1fa1, #982)
• Fixed connect under reset for st-flash and st-util (#983)
• Fix for mmap() size_t overflow in st-flash (#988, #989)
• [regression] stlink-gui installation issue on Ubuntu-18.04 (#1001, #1004, #1006)
• st-util: wrong register values passed to gdb (STLink/V2) (#1002, #1011, #1026, #1027, #1038, #1064, #1065)
• GDB: Fixed problems with target description (#1013, #1088, #1109)
• [doc] Fixed wrong path for rules.d folder (#1020)
• Fixed support for STLINK/V1 programmer (#1045, #1105)
• st-util v1.6.1 does not recognize option --freq (commit #e576768, #1055)
• Fixed gettimeofday for MSVC (#1074)
• Bugfixes for compilation with clang (#1076, #1078)
• Fixed compilation with GCC 11 (#1077)
• [regression] Flash_loader: increased wait rounds for slow boards (#1085)
• Fixed support for writing option bytes (#1102, #1128)
• [doc] Corrected spelling mistake in bug report template (#1103)
• Fixed STM32WB55 reading DEBUG IDCODE from the wrong address (#1100, #1101)
• Applied missing changes to tests (#1119)
• Fixed reading of chip ID on Cortex-M0+ core (#1017, #1125, #1126, #1133)