v0.2.0 Release

v0.2.0 Release Overview

This release is a near-complete rewrite/reorganization of TSFFS with several goals:

• Use SIMICS build & packaging workflow
• Enable binary/package distribution and installation without building from source
• Improve the scripting interface to TSFFS
• Remove the CLI interface to TSFFS
• Improve the SIMICS API and migrate TSFFS to use the improved (more idiomatic) bindings

Release Notes

• Migrated to using the SIMICS build system/provided makefiles for building
  • Simplifies building and detection of SIMICS version/available symbols
  • Removes the need for C stubs in the SIMICS module code
  • Moves toward eventual binary releases
• Adds Windows host support
• Adds RISC-V (32/64 bit) and x86 guest support
• Improves the SIMICS/Python scripting interface
• Adds GitHub pages documentation at intel.github.io/tsffs/
  • Added the public SIMICS HTML documentation to the GitHub Pages documentation
  • Added crate rustdoc documentation for all component crates to the GitHub Pages documentation
• Rewrote the SIMICS API bindings
  • AttrValue is now a first-class serialization/deserialization target with derive macros
  • Idiomatic bindings for exception-throwing APIs translate SIMICS exceptions to Rust Results
  • Added documentation for most SIMICS APIs in the bindings, including HAPs and Interfaces
• Added distribution builds into the CI pipeline to output installable .ispm packages for all modern
  Linux systems. Build yourself with ./scripts/build.sh.

Merged Pull Requests

• CI fixes for public CI, update outdated dependencies by @novafacing in #16
• Bump ISPM version in setup guide by @novafacing in #18
• Do not document dependencies in CI by @novafacing in #21
• Fix another issue with CI doctest, fix typo, update FAQ by @novafacing in #22
• Fix Box::into_raw and add checks by @novafacing in #27
• 0.2.0 Release Candidate by @novafacing in #30
• Add development install documentation by @novafacing in #31
• Update logging API for deprecations in 6.0.177 by @novafacing in #32
• Add packaging for distribution by @novafacing in #33
• Add tutorials and fixes by @novafacing in #34
• Update doc build command by @novafacing in #35
• Additional doc build fixes by @novafacing in #36
• Fix permissions on documentation permissions fixing by @novafacing in #37
• Doc updates by @novafacing in #38

Full Changelog: https://github.com/intel/tsffs/commits/v0.2.0