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       <h1><big><font color="#3c34ec"><i>NuttX RTOS</i></font></big></h1>
-      <p>Last Updated: January 30, 2008</p>
+      <p>Last Updated: January 31, 2008</p>
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-  The 18th release of NuttX (nuttx-0.3.6) is available for download
+  The 19th release of NuttX (nuttx-0.3.7) is available for download
   from the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189573">SourceForge</a>
   website.
   The change log associated with the release is available <a href="#currentrelease">here</a>.
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   These unreleased changes are listed <a href="#pendingchanges">here</a>.
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-  NuttX 0.3.8 is the 7th release containing the integration of a network
+  This release includes the preliminary port of NuttX to the ZiLOG z16f 16-bit microcontroller.
-  subsystem and the uIP TCP/IP, UDP, and ICMP stacks based on
+  This port was verified using the ZiLOG z16f2800100zcog Development and the ZiLOG ZDS-II toolchain.
-  <a href="http://www.sics.se/~adam/uip/index.php/Main_Page">uIP</a>
+  See http://www.zilog.com for further information.
-  into NuttX.
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-  This release contains on a few changes.
+  I emphasize that this is a preliminary release of the z16f port and is only alpha or, perhaps,
-  The primary purpose of this release is to synchronize with the release
+  pre-alpha quality as of this writing.
-  of the pascal-0.1.0 add-on package.
+  There are a list of known issues in the TODO file in the <a href="TODO.txt">here</a>
-  This release of NuttX includes the following changes:
+  The overall quality of NuttX (excluding the z16f port) continues to improve beyond the late beta level.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The z16f port required numerous changes to NuttX to handle:
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-<li>Fixes for use with SDCC compiler, <li>
+  <li>NEAR and FAR addressing, and</li>
-<li>Added a simulated z80 target (arch/z80), <li>
+  <li>Use of a Windows native toolchain in a Cygwin build environment.</li>
-<li>Fix deadlock errors when using stdio but with no buffering, and</li>
-<li>Add support for the add-on Pascal P-Code interpreter (pcode/)
-  (see the pascal-0.1.0 package)</li>
 </ul>
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-  The Pascal add-on it integrated but has so far been tested very little;
+  In addition to the z16f port, at least one very critical bug was found and corrected in NuttX:
-  it is certainly at an early, pre-alpha release level.
+  The thread-specific errno value of one task was being randomly trashed when a different thread exitted.
-  The baseline functionality of NuttX (including recently added network)
-  functionality continues to mature and remains at post-beta or production level.
-  Extensive testing has been done for the ARM architecture using the GCC
-  compiler/toolchain.
-  Other architectures and the SDCC toolchain are also supported but not as
-  well exercised.
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-  The current release were verified only on the simulated Z80 and and host
+  This release were verified on the ZiLOG z16f2800100zcog, Neuros OSD (ARM9), and the simulation platforms.
-  simulation targets.  As usual, any feedback about bugs or suggestions
+  As usual, any feedback about bugs or suggestions for improvement would be greatly appreciated.
-  for improvement would be greatly appreciated.
-</p>
-<p>
-  <b>NOTE</b>:
-  There was an error in the initial 0.3.6 release that prevented
-  a successful build <i>unless</i> the Pascal add-on was present.  The
-  tarball was patched to include the fix.  Make sure that you download
-  the nuttx-0.3.6.1.tar.gz version to avoid this problem.
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       <b>STATUS:</b>
-      This is a work in progress.
+      The preliminary release of support for the z16f was made available in NuttX version 0.3.7.
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 <pre><ul>
-0.3.6 2008-01-06 Gregory Nutt &lt;spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr&gt;
+0.3.7 2008-01-31 Gregory Nutt &lt;spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr&gt;
-
-	* Changes for use with SDCC compiler
-	* Added a simulated z80 target
-	* Fix deadlock errors when using stdio but with no buffering
-	* Add support for Pascal P-Code interpreter
-
-0.3.6.1 2008-01-07 Gregory Nutt &lt;spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr&gt;
-
-	* The initial 0.3.6 release including an error that prevented
-	  building successfully if the Pascal add-on was
-	  was not present.
-</pre></ul>
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-    <a name="pendingchanges">Unreleased Changes</a>
-  </td>
-  </tr>
-</table>
-
-<pre><ul>
-0.3.7 2008-xx-xx Gregory Nutt &lt;spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr&gt;
 
 	* Added support for the Zilog Z16F using the Zilog Z16F2800100ZCOG
 	  Development Kit.
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 	  when a different task exits.  Effects all architectures.
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+    <a name="pendingchanges">Unreleased Changes</a>
+  </td>
+  </tr>
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+
+<pre><ul>
+0.3.8 2008-xx-xx Gregory Nutt &lt;spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr&gt;
+
+</pre></ul>
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