Preparation for Release 3.8.0

[slaff]

This issue is created to collect all the tasks we need to do before the 3.8.0 release ( originally this was set to 3.7.2 but the improvements are so much that it's worth dedicating a new version to it ).

Source Code

• Update Sming/SmingCore/SmingCore.h
• Update Readme.md
• Merge develop into master
• Tag the source code in the master branch

New features

• Interceptor for system messages Hook system debug messages #1613
• Introduce ObjectMap Introduce ObjectMap #1638
• Add optional deferMillis parameter to System::restart() Add optional deferMillis parameter to System::restart() #1611
• Expand SSLSessionId structure to manage allocated memory. Expand SSLSessionId structure to manage allocated memory. #1614
• Adafruit_SSD1306 library add support for 64 × 48 pixels OLED Shield Adafruit_SSD1306 library add support 64 × 48 pixels OLED Shield #1622
• WifiSniffer Add WifiSniffer class and sample application #1647

Improvements

• GDB and exception handling improvements. GDB and exception handling improvements #1655
• A couple of general additions to uart driver for reporting error status and handling line breaks GDB and exception handling improvements #1655
• Better handling of out-of-memory issues in axTLS Added work-around patch for returning error instead of hanging. #1651
• Add support for escaped URLs Add support for escaped URLs #1642
• Refactor Ftp classes Refactor Ftp classes #1633
• WebsocketConnection improvements WebsocketConnection improvements #1632
• DateTime fixes & improvements DateTime fixes & improvements #1625
• Add HttpClientConnection class Add HttpClientConnection class #1624
• Improve memory management of SSL fingerprint data Improve memory management of SSL fingerprint data #1618
• Http connection base improvements Http connection base improvements #1601
• Improvements to the ssl structure management Fix/ssl structure management #1600 Add null/zero-length checks in SSLKeyCertPair::assign() #1606
• General tidy of Netutils module General tidy of Netutils module #1599
• HttpServer_Websockets sample: wait 1 second before calling server.shutdown() HttpServer_Websockets sample: wait 1 second before calling server.shutdown() #1598
• TCP improvements TCP improvements #1595
• StreamTransformer improvements StreamTransformer improvements #1593
• Change use of ReadWriteStream* to IDataSourceStream* where appropriate Change use of ReadWriteStream* to IDataSourceStream* where appropriate #1588
• Change fileSetContent() to return a result Change fileSetContent() to return a result #1657

Bug fixes

• Fixes to the SPIFFS size calculation. Fixed the SPIFFS size calculation. #1653
• Fix map() bug in WMath.cpp Fix map() bug in WMath.cpp #1636
• Fix: HttpConnection memory leak Fix/HttpConnection memory leak #1639
• Fix: HardwareSerial interrupt callback code not in IRAM Fix: HardwareSerial interrupt callback code not in IRAM #1610
• Fix mqtt fifo memleak Fix/mqtt fifo memleak #1612
• Fix file stream size tracking Fix/file stream size tracking #1608
• Fix signed/unsigned bug introduced in General tidy of Netutils module #1599 and highlighted by codacy Fix signed/unsigned bug introduced in #1599 and highlighted by codacy #1605
• MqttClient memory leak MqttClient memory leak #1594
• Updated the mqtt-codec version with fixes to the remaining length cal… Updated the mqtt-codec version with fixes to the remaining length cal… #1591
• Revert to default MAC string format for getMAC method... Revert to default MAC string format for getMAC method... #1584 {StationClass,AccessPointClass}::getMAC - undocumented change in behaviour #1583
• Do not flash blankfs.bin if SPIFFS is disabled Do not flash blankfs.bin if SPIFFS is disabled  #1586
• Fix for the compilation of esp-gdbstub with SDK 3.0.0 in strict mode. Fix for the compilation of esp-gdbstub with SDK 3.0.0 in strict mode. #1582
• MqttClient bugfix: payloadStream discarded MqttClient bugfix: payloadStream discarded #1587
• SPIFFS updated to its latest version Updated SPIFFs with fix for object writes. #1664

Coding style

• Ensure all core code has standard header and consistent guard naming Ensure all core code has standard header and consistent guard naming #1630
• Enforce code deprecation and virtual methods
  Enforce code deprecation and virtual methods #1629
• Coding style changes: deprecated and override Coding style changes: deprecated and override #1620
• Switched to clang-format v6 Switched to clang-format v6. #1589

All PRs that were merged in this release can be seen from here

[mikee47]

Fix signed/unsigned bug introduced in #1599 and highlighted by codacy #1605

Relates to PR in this release

[mikee47]

There's been an update to SPIFFS - will that get pulled into 3.8.0?

[slaff]

There's been an update to SPIFFS - will that get pulled into 3.8.0?

Yes, I can include that too.

[slaff]

PR #1664 is addressing the SPIFFS update.

[mikee47]

GDB and exception handling improvements ** ref 1655 **

PR also includes a couple of general additions to uart driver for reporting error status and handling line breaks