nRF5 SDK for Thread and Zigbee

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Changelog

Thread

• No changes were made to Thread features in this release comparing with the previous release

Zigbee

• Fixed multiple issues occurring in the previous version of the ZBOSS stack (full list available withing the release notes)
• Added support for the Zigbee Cluster Library specification version 8 (ZCL 8)
• Added support for the Base Device Behavior specification version 3.0.1 (BDB 3.0.1)
• Added sources of the ZCL and BDB ZBOSS stack layers (previously provided as part of the ZBOSS binary)

Thread:

•    Production support for nRF52833
•    Optimized energy consumption for Sleepy End Devices
•    Enabled Thread certification by inheritance

Zigbee:
•    Optimized sleep current consumption in SED application and
•    Enabled the Control4 ecosystem

Common

• Support for the nRF52833 SoC with accompanying example applications
• Support for the nRF21540 RF front end module with examples for the nRF21540 DK (PCA10112)
• Updated SDK base to the nRF5 SDK 16.0.0 (including SoftDevice S140 7.0.1)

Zigbee

• Support for Zigbee PRO R22 specification
• Experimental support for Work With All Hubs (WWAH) cluster and extensions in the stack

Thread

• Support for nrf_security in OpenThread for the nRF52840 SoC
• Support for DHCPv6 Client and DHCPv6 Server

• Minor bugfix release

Thread and Zigbee common features

• Introduced a new configuration parameter of NRF_LOG module: NRF_LOG_NON_DEFFERED_CRITICAL_REGION_ENABLED.
  When this parameter is enabled, NRF_LOG_FLUSH is called from critical section when non deffered mode is used.
• Added implementation of mbedtls mutexes for FreeRTOS.
• Added an option to use the MA-L block (Nordic Semiconductor's f4-ce-36) to derive the EUI64 address.
• Introduced a new API for resetting the DFU progress in the settings structure ("nrf_dfu_settings_progress_reset"). 

 

New Thread features

• Introduced a set of new thread-safe libraries with concurrent access to cryptographic functions for RTOS environments.
• Thread devices now use the MA-L (OUI) block (Nordic Semiconductor's f4-ce-36) to derive the EUI64 address for commissioning purposes. 
• Several bugfixes
  
  
  

New Zigbee features

• Added an option to use a custom or the default MA-L block (Nordic Semiconductor's f4-ce-36) to derive the EUI64 address.
• Introduced Zigbee stack add-ons and moved the relevant parts of examples into add-ons.
• Added reset command to the Zigbee CLI. 

For more details see the release notes.

New Thread features

• Support for nRF52811
• Support for the new architecture - Radio Co-Processor (RCP or NCP-radio).
• New example that presents communication with Google Cloud Platform using CoAP and CoAP Secure.
• Introduced new nRF Sniffer for 802.15.4.
• Extended the Thread Benchmark application with new Bluetooth 5.0 features.
• Introduced the IEEE 802.15.4 multiprotocol configuration module.
  
  
  

New Zigbee features

• Multiprotocol Door Lock example, which demonstrates basic use of the Door Lock cluster.
• Multi-sensor example, which demonstrates how to create a custom Zigbee cluster.
• Multi-sensor FreeRTOS example, which demonstrates how to use the Zigbee stack with RTOS.
• Zigbee CLI wrapper example and Python library.

For more details see the release notes.

New Zigbee SDK features:

• Pre-built Zigbee 3.0 certified (pending formal approval) stack provided as a library
• Zigbee/Bluetooth LE multiprotocol of a Zigbee Sleepy End Device, acting as a BLE Central at the same time
• A Command Line Interface (CLI) example with a support for a subset of the Zigbee stack functionality
• An experimental Zigbee Over-the-Air Device Firmware Update (OTA DFU) example

New Thread SDK features:

• New examples presenting multiprotocol Bluetooth LE Scanner and Thread Sleepy End Devices
• Added nRF52840 USB dongle support  to CLI and NCP examples
• Updated OpenThread stack and Thread Border Router