Release-2025.01
RIOT-2025.01 - 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 and 16-bit microcontrollers as well as 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
The 2025.01 release includes:
More work done to update the legacy netdev API to its new version new_netdev_api
(#20978, #21012, #21015, #21016, #21020, #21028, #21091, #20991). This means
that if you are still using the legacy netdev API, start thinking about
updating!
We documented the community processes in a GOVERNANCE.md file.
This new file now clearly states all previously undocumented community procedures and
governance, and defines community roles, to further our goals of openness and transparency
within the community.