Sun SPOT SDK Release Notes

Sun SPOT Development Kit: red-090706

This is release 5.0 of the Sun SPOT SDK (a.k.a. Red)

When reporting problems or bugs please be sure to specify which version of the SDK you are using.

Version compatibility

Incompatible changes to the radio stack in this release will prevent SPOTs running Red from communicating via the radio with SPOTs running older versions of the SDK. For details please see the notes below about the new default routing manager (LQRP) and making OTA operations more reliable.

This release has been tested against Power-Control-AVR firmware version 1.102. It may not work correctly with another version.

Summary of Major Changes

Notes

Known issues

Bugs fixed

Note: Bugs numbered 1231 or higher can be found at: https://squawk.dev.java.net/issues/query.cgi

1284

Add a new system-restore target to accompany 'ant upgrade'

FIXED
1309

Need to run tck nightly

FIXED
1349

Radiostream may not notice lost acknowledgements

FIXED
1365

[FLOATS] Failure

FIXED
1366

CLDC1.1=false was preventing the build to end.

FIXED
1385

Need access to system's thread state

FIXED
1388

The SPOT SDK is not compatible with rev 7 spots.

FIXED
1394

Solarium leaves squawk.exe running

FIXED
1399

romizer grabs too many files in resources dir

FIXED
1407

Don't wait for an isolate that will never start...

FIXED
1409

Whatever happened to -verbose:gc?

FIXED
1411

SleepManager.getUpTime() incorrect after clock adjustment

FIXED
1413

Expose GC tuning parameter(s)

FIXED
1414

Special case stripped KlassMetadata

FIXED
1415

Remove SuiteCreator support

FIXED
1416

Problems with Debugger-Proxy Sniffer

FIXED
1424

destroyApp never called

FIXED
1425

Add file name/line number info to assertions

FIXED
1427

Add some verbose output for running shutdown hooks...

FIXED
1433

"invalid return for non-void method" problem

FIXED
1435

SPOTWebDemo treats ownerless SPOTs as "unmanageable"

FIXED

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