Release 2017.07

Dear RIOTers,

we are happy to announce the 12th official release of RIOT:

----------------------- * RIOT 2017.07 * -----------------------

This release provides fixes, code cleanup and improved documentation, as well as enhancements.

New features brought by this release include: - CAN bus support (Controller Area Network) - Support for CoAP OBSERVE requests - Basic Thread stack integration (initial support for OpenThread) - Radio duty cycling with LwMAC protocol - LoRa radio drivers supporting Semtech hardware

About 230 pull requests with about 442 commits have been merged since the last release and about 13 issues have been solved. 45 people contributed with code in 56 days. 1395 files have been touched with 211720 insertions and 65729 deletions.

You can download the RIOT release from Github by cloning the repository [1] or by downloading the tarball [2], and look up the release notes for further details [3].

Many thanks to everyone for their contributions, discussions, testing and reviewing efforts.

Keep RIOTing!

Alex

[1] https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/releases/tag/2017.07 [2] https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/archive/2017.07.tar.gz [3] https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/blob/2017.07-branch/release-notes.txt

Yay! Thanks Alex for managing this release, and thanks to everyone else involved. Cheers Emmanuel