RIOT Release 2016.07

Dear RIOT developers and users,

we are happy to announce the eighth official release of the RIOT:

-------------------------- * RIOT 2016.07 * -----------------------------

This release was focused primarily on fixing bugs, but also adds two new supported radio transceivers: CC2420 and CC2538. This new radio support allows to new interoperability tests with other OS, allowing code size comparison and overall network performance for platforms based on these radios.

About 198 pull requests with about 325 commits have been merged since the last release and about 65 issues have been solved. 46 people contributed with code in 112 days. 632 files have been touched with 19863 insertions and 3682 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].

Thanks everyone for All the efforts on this release, I hope we will continue with this rhythm and continue this great job to make of RIOT the best IoT OS!

Cheers, Paco

[1] https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/releases/tag/2016.07 [2] https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/archive/2016.07.tar.gz [3] https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/blob/master/release-notes.txt