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+RIOT-2017.07 - Release Notes
+============================
+RIOT is a multi-threading operating system which enables soft real-time
+capabilities and comes with support for a range of devices that are typically
+found in the Internet of Things: 8-bit microcontrollers, 16-bit
+microcontrollers and light-weight 32-bit processors.
+
+RIOT is based on the following design principles: energy-efficiency, soft
+real-time capabilities, small memory footprint, modularity, and uniform API
+access, independent of the underlying hardware (with partial POSIX compliance).
+
+RIOT is developed by an international open-source community which is
+independent of specific vendors (e.g. similarly to the Linux community) and is
+licensed with a non-viral copyleft license (LGPLv2.1), which allows indirect
+business models around the free open-source software platform provided by RIOT.
+
+About this release:
+===================
+This release provides fixes, code cleanup and improved documentation, as well as
+enhancements.
+New features brought by this release include:
+* CAN support (Controller Area Network)
+* Support for CoAP OBSERVE requests
+* Basic Thread stack support (initial support for OpenThread)
+* radio duty cycling with LwMAC protocol
+* LoRa radio drivers supporting Semtech hardware
+
+
+About 230 pull requests with about 442 commits have been merged since the last
+release and about 13 issues have been solved. 45 people contributed with code
+in 56 days. 1395 files have been touched with 211720 insertions and 65729 deletions.
+
+Notations used below:
+=====================
++ means new feature/item
+* means modified feature/item
+- means removed feature/item
+
+New features and changes
+========================
+
+
+API changes
+-----------
+- removed conn API
+
+System libraries
+----------------
++ AES CMAC encryption
++ GCC's Stack Smashing Protector (SSP) support
+- Remove 3-DES crypto
+
+
+Networking
+----------
++ CAN stack
++ CoAP OBSERVE request
++ LwMAC protocol
++ OpenThread
++ Layer 2 filtering (l2filter)
+* LwIP port to v2.0.2
+* NHDP port to sock API
+- removed conn API
+
+
+Packages
+--------
++ OpenThread
+
+Boards
+------
++ Arduino MKR1000 (without WiFi)
++ Nucleo144-f412
++ Nucleo144-f746
++ Nucleo144-f767
++ NZ32-SC151 (STM32L1)
++ ST B-L072-LRWAN1 (with LoRa radio)
++ STM32F769 discovery
+* Full support for PhyNode
+
+CPU
+---
++ lm4120: SPI support
++ SAM3: ADC support, DAC support
++ SAMD21: flashpage, ADC support
++ SAML21: ADC, I2C support
++ STM32F413vg support
++ STM32F7 family (ARM Cortex-M7)
++ STM32L0 family: I2C support
+* STM32: unified DAC support
+* STM32F1/F2/F4 clock initialization refactoring
+
+
+Device Drivers
+--------------
++ ADCXX1C I2C ADC support
++ BMP280 temperature/pressure sensor
++ DSP0401 4 digits 16 segment alphanumeric display
++ MMA8x5x motion detection sensor
++ Semtech SX1272 and SX1276 LoRa drivers
+
+
+Build System
+------------
++ EDBG support
++ http download with caching (dlcache)
++ Use Coccinelle static code checker in CI
+
+
+Special Thanks
+==============
+We would like to give our special thanks to all the companies that provided us
+with their hardware for porting and testing, namely the people from (in alphabeticalorder):
+Atmel, Freescale, Imagination Technologies, Nordic, OpenMote, Phytec, SiLabs, UDOO,
+and Zolertia;
+and also companies that directly sponsored development time:
+Cisco Systems, Eïsox, Eistec, Ell-i, Engineering Spirit, Mesotic, Nordic, OTA keys and Phytec.
+We also would like to thank people from Inria Chile for their work on
+OpenThread integration and Semtech LoRa drivers.
+
+More information
+================
+http://www.riot-os.org
+
+Mailing lists
+-------------
+* RIOT OS kernel developers list
+  devel@riot-os.org (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel)
+* RIOT OS users list
+  users@riot-os.org (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/users)
+* RIOT commits
+  commits@riot-os.org (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/commits)
+* Github notifications
+  notifications@riot-os.org (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/notifications)
+
+IRC
+---
+* Join the RIOT IRC channel at: irc.freenode.net, #riot-os
+
+License
+=======
+* The code developed by the RIOT community is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public
+  License (LGPL) version 2.1 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+* Some external sources and pkg are published under a separate license.
+
+All code files contain licensing information.
+
+
+
+
+
+
 RIOT-2017.04 - Release Notes
 ============================
 RIOT is a multi-threading operating system which enables soft real-time