I'm happy to announce the availability of OpenOCD version 0.12.0.

Some major GNU/Linux distros (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, OpenWrt), Homebrew for macOS and MSYS2 for Windows have already picked the release up. If your distro doesn't provide it yet, please ping your maintainer, and if any packaging issues arise the OpenOCD devs would be happy to help with that.

The list of the most essential changes follows:

JTAG Layer:

add default to adapter speed when unspecified (100 kHz)
AM335X gpio (BeagleBones) adapter driver
BCM2835 support for SWD
Cadence Virtual Debug (vdebug) adapter driver
CMSIS-DAP support for SWO and SWD multidrop
Espressif USB JTAG Programmer adapter driver
Remote bitbang support for Windows host
ST-LINK add TCP server support to adapter driver
SWD multidrop support

Boundary Scan:

Target Layer:

aarch64: support watchpoints
arm: support independent TPIU and SWO for trace
arm adi v5: support Large Physical Address Extension
arm adi v6: support added, for jtag and swd transport
cortex_a: support watchpoints
elf 64bit load support
Espressif: support ESP32, ESP32-S2 and ESP32-S3 cores
semihosting: support user defined operations
Xtensa: support Xtensa LX architecture via JTAG and ADIv5 DAP

Flash Layer:

Atmel/Microchip SAM E51G18A, E51G19A, R35J18B, LAN9255 support
GigaDevice GD32E23x, GD32F1x0/3x0, GD32VF103 support
Nuvoton NPCX series support
onsemi RSL10 support
Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 support
ST BlueNRG-LPS support
ST STM32 G05x, G06x, G0Bx, G0Cx, U57x, U58x, WB1x, WL5x support
ST STM32 G0, G4, L4, L4+, L5, WB, WL OTP support

Board, Target, and Interface Configuration Scripts:

Ampere Computing eMAG8180, Altra ("Quicksilver") and Altra Max ("Mystique") board config
Cadence KC705 FPGA (Xtensa Development Platform) via JTAG and ADIv5 DAP board config
Digilent Nexys Video board config
Espressif ESP32 ETHERNET-KIT and WROVER-KIT board config
Espressif ESP32 via ESP USB Bridge generic board config
Espressif ESP32-S2 Kaluga 1 board config
Espressif ESP32-S2 with ESP USB Bridge board config
Espressif ESP32-S3 example board config
Kontron SMARC-sAL28 board config
LambdaConcept ECPIX-5 board config
Microchip ATSAMA5D27-SOM1-EK1 board config
Microchip EVB-LAN9255 board config
Microchip SAME51 Curiosity Nano board config
NXP FRDM-K64F, LS1046ARDB and LS1088ARDB board config
NXP RT6XX board config
Olimex H405 board config
Radiona ULX3S board config
Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspberry Pi 4 model B board config
Raspberry Pi Pico-Debug board config
Renesas R-Car V3U Falcon board config
ST BlueNRG-LPS steval-idb012v1 board config
ST NUCLEO-8S208RB board config
ST NUCLEO-G031K8, NUCLEO-G070RB, NUCLEO-G071RB board config
ST NUCLEO-G431KB, NUCLEO-G431RB, NUCLEO-G474RE board config
ST STM32MP13x-DK board config
TI AM625 EVM, AM642 EVM and AM654 EVM board config
TI J721E EVM, J721S2 EVM and J7200 EVM board config
Ampere Computing eMAG, Altra ("Quicksilver") and Altra Max ("Mystique") target config
Cadence Xtensa generic and Xtensa VDebug target config
Broadcom BCM2711, BCM2835, BCM2836 and BCM2837 target config
Espressif ESP32, ESP32-S2 and ESP32-S3 target config
Microchip ATSAMA5D2 series target config
NanoXplore NG-Ultra SoC target config
NXP IMX8QM target config
NXP LS1028A, LS1046A and LS1088A target config
NXP RT600 (Xtensa HiFi DSP) target config
onsemi RSL10 target config
Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 target config
Renesas R8A779A0 V3U target config
Renesas RZ/Five target config
Renesas RZ/G2 MPU family target config
Rockchip RK3399 target config
ST BlueNRG-LPS target config
ST STM32MP13x target config
TI AM625, AM654, J721E and J721S2 target config
Ashling Opella-LD interface config
Aspeed AST2600 linuxgpiod based interface config
Blinkinlabs JTAG_Hat interface config
Cadence Virtual Debug (vdebug) interface config
Espressif ESP32-S2 Kaluga 1 board's interface config
Espressif USB Bridge jtag interface config
Infineon DAP miniWiggler V3 interface config
PLS SPC5 interface config
Tigard interface config
Lattice MachXO3 family FPGA config

Server Layer:

GDB: add per-target remote protocol extensions
GDB: more 'Z' packets support
IPDBG JtagHost server functionality
semihosting: I/O redirection to TCP server
telnet: support for command's autocomplete

RTOS:

'none' rtos support
Zephyr rtos support

Documentation:

Build and Release:

Add json extension to jimtcl build
Drop dependency from libusb0
Drop repository repo.or.cz for submodules
Move gerrit to https://review.openocd.org/
Require autoconf 2.69 or newer
Update jep106 to revision JEP106BF.01
Update jimtcl to version 0.81
Update libjaylink to version 0.3.1
New configure flag '--enable-jimtcl-maintainer' for jimtcl build

This release also contains a number of other important functional and cosmetic bugfixes. For more details about what has changed since the last release, see the git repository history:

http://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/ci/v0.12.0/log/?path=

Hooray for the developers!

407  Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@gmail.com>
100  Tomas Vanek <vanekt@fbl.cz>
 96  Tarek BOCHKATI <tarek.bouchkati@gmail.com>
 76  Marc Schink <dev@zapb.de>
 34  Erhan Kurubas <erhan.kurubas@espressif.com>
 22  Tim Newsome <tim@sifive.com>
 17  Jan Matyas <matyas@codasip.com>
 17  Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
 15  Ian Thompson <ianst@cadence.com>
 13  Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>
 13  Steve Marple <stevemarple@googlemail.com>
 11  Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@spacecubics.com>
 10  Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
  9  R. Diez <rdiezmail-openocd@yahoo.de>
  8  Kevin Burke <kevinb@os.amperecomputing.com>
  5  Daniel Anselmi <danselmi@gmx.ch>
  4  Adrian Negreanu <adrian.negreanu@nxp.com>
  4  Andreas Fritiofson <andreas.fritiofson@gmail.com>
  4  Daniel Goehring <dgoehrin@os.amperecomputing.com>
  4  Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
  4  Markus Reiter <me@reitermark.us>
  4  Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
  4  micbis <michele.bisogno.ct@renesas.com>
  3  Ben McMorran <bemcmorr@microsoft.com>
  3  Frank Dischner <frank.dischner@gmail.com>
  3  Julien Massot <julien.massot@iot.bzh>
  3  Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
  3  Matthew Mets <matt@blinkinlabs.com>
  3  Sebastiaan de Schaetzen <sebastiaan.de.schaetzen@gmail.com>
  3  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
  3  Tim Nordell <tnordell@airgain.com>
  2  Alex Crawford <openocd@code.acrawford.com>
  2  Andreas Bolsch <hyphen0break@gmail.com>
  2  Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.uk>
  2  Andrew Wesie <awesie@gmail.com>
  2  Antonio Borneo <antonio.borneo@st.com>
  2  Christian Hoff <christian.hoff@advantest.com>
  2  Doug Brunner <doug.a.brunner@gmail.com>
  2  Evgeniy Didin <didin@synopsys.com>
  2  Evgeniy Naydanov <evgeniy.naydanov@syntacore.com>
  2  Hans-Erik Floryd <hans-erik.floryd@rt-labs.com>
  2  Jacek Wuwer <jacekmw8@gmail.com>
  2  Jae Hyun Yoo <quic_jaehyoo@quicinc.com>
  2  Jian-Hong Pan <chienhung.pan@gmail.com>
  2  Jiri Kastner <cz172638@gmail.com>
  2  Koudai Iwahori <koudai@google.com>
  2  Pavel Kirienko <pavel.kirienko@gmail.com>
  2  Peter Lawrence <majbthrd@gmail.com>
  2  Toms Stūrmanis <toms.sturmanis@gmail.com>
  2  asier70 <asier70@gmail.com>
  1  Adrien Grassein <adrien.grassein@gmail.com>
  1  Adrien Grassein <agrassein@nanoxplore.com>
  1  Alvin Šipraga <alsi@bang-olufsen.dk>
  1  Anthony Ferranti <ferranti@os.amperecomputing.com>
  1  Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
  1  Asier Llano <allano@hubbell.com>
  1  Ben Bender <benjbender@gmail.com>
  1  Bohdan Tymkiv <bohdan200@gmail.com>
  1  Cheng-Shiun Tsai <cheng.shiun.tsai@gmail.com>
  1  Chengyu Zheng <chengyu.zheng@polimi.it>
  1  Dan Stahlke <dan@stahlke.org>
  1  Diego Herranz <diegoherranz@diegoherranz.com>
  1  Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
  1  Florian Meister <florian.meister@advantest.com>
  1  Florian Zaruba <florian@openhwgroup.org>
  1  Gabor Csapo <gaborcsapo@google.com>
  1  George Voicu <razvanvg@hotmail.com>
  1  Giulio Fieramosca <giulio@glgprograms.it>
  1  Jaehoon Park <52432979+jaehoon-sifive@users.noreply.github.com>
  1  Jan Matyas <50193733+JanMatCodasip@users.noreply.github.com>
  1  Janco Kock <janco@factorylab.nl>
  1  Jesse Sheridan <jesse.sheridan@gmail.com>
  1  Jimmy <nhminus@gmail.com>
  1  Joerg Wunsch <openocd@uriah.heep.sax.de>
  1  Jonathan Bell <jonathan@raspberrypi.com>
  1  Karl Palsson <karlp@tweak.net.au>
  1  Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
  1  Laszlo Sitzer <dlsitzer@gmail.com>
  1  Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>
  1  Liming Sun <lsun@mellanox.com>
  1  Luis de Arquer <luis.dearquer@inertim.com>
  1  MadSquirrel <benoit.forgette@ci-yow.com>
  1  Marcin Niestroj <m.niestroj@emb.dev>
  1  Martin Hierholzer <martin.hierholzer@desy.de>
  1  Mischa Studer <mischa.studer@csa.ch>
  1  Nick Kraus <nick@nckraus.com>
  1  Nima Palizban <n.palizban@gmail.com>
  1  Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
  1  Olivier DANET <odanet@caramail.com>
  1  Patrick Stewart <patrick@rfcreations.com>
  1  Piotr Kasprzyk <ciri@ciri.pl>
  1  PoroCYon <porocyon@titandemo.org>
  1  Ranjith Chandran <ranjith.tc@ashling.com>
  1  Raúl Sanchez Siles <rasasi78@gmail.com>
  1  Raúl Sánchez Siles <rasasi78@gmail.com>
  1  Rene Kita <git@rkta.de>
  1  Rocco Marco Guglielmi <roccomarco.guglielmi@gmail.com>
  1  Rohit Singh <rohit91.2008@gmail.com>
  1  Salvatore Giorgio PECORINO <salvatore-giorgio.pecorino@st.com>
  1  Simon Johansson <ampleyfly@gmail.com>
  1  Simon Smiganovski <simon.smiganovski@fruitcore.de>
  1  Tarek BOCHKATI <tarek.bouchkati@st.com>
  1  Thomas Hebb <tommyhebb@gmail.com>
  1  Wealian Liao <WHLIAO@nuvoton.com>
  1  Yun Liu <liuyun.97@gmail.com>
  1  Zoltán Dudás <zedudi@gmail.com>
  1  fatalc <cnfatal@gmail.com>
  1  iysheng <iyysheng@gmail.com>
  1  jihongbin <longma@orbbec.com>
  1  root <acalando@free.fr>

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