| **Date:** October 31, 2022 |
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| **Version:** F8.0 |
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| The following updates have been implemented. |
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| ### Component Framework |
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| The number of component manifest (.cmx) files decreased ~85%, from 1167 files to 189. |
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| ### Connectivity (Bluetooth, IOT, WLAN, Netstack) |
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| #### WLAN |
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| ##### Core |
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| - Improvements have been made for the following: |
| - WPA1, WPA2, and WPA3 compatibility for legacy APs. |
| - Internal WEP key encoding/decoding. |
| - Internal handling of supported rates and authentications. |
| - FullMAC and SoftMAC reconnect APIs have been simplified. |
| - Migration to fuchsia.wlan.sme.GenericSme API has been completed. |
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| ##### Drivers |
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| Broadcom WLAN driver (brcmfmac) updates include the following: |
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| - Migrated to netdevice model for data path operations, and new (re)connect API, which also helps with simpler WEP key handling. |
| - Race condition in EAPOL message handshake has been fixed. |
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| ##### Netstack |
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| Netdevice WLAN migration completed to improve performance. See more details in the [Drivers](#heading=h.j94ndet0dlc4) section. |
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| ##### Thread |
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| - Provisional Thread 1.3 Certification has been provided. |
| - Thread network now creates/starts automatically. |
| - Thread border routing has been enabled. |
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| ### Graphics and Media |
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| - Power efficiency improvements. |
| - Various memory-saving changes have been made, resulting in more reliable media playback. |
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| ### HCI (Input, A11y, i18n, and View System) |
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| - Mouse acceleration has been implemented. |
| - Emoji fonts have been added. |
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| ### Rust |
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| **Issue**: An issue preventing rustup users from linking binaries for Fuchsia. |
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| **Link**: [Use llvm-libunwind="in-tree" for Fuchsia targets](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/100341){: .external} |
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| **Impact**: Issue has been fixed. |
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| ### Software Assembly |
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| - `ffx assembly` now supports setting session URLs at assembly time, which allows reconfiguration of the session without rebuilding the platform. |
| - `ffx assembly` now supports product-provided base packages, cache packages, and config_data for both of those package sets. |
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| ### Software Delivery |
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| - Eager package updates have been introduced into omaha-client and pkg-resolver. Update for the Omaha Client Update Protocol to support persistence of updated packages across reboots. |
| - pkgfs removed and replaced its functionality with pkg-cache, written in Rust. |
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| ### Testing |
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| The following updates have been made for Platform: |
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| - Various stability fixes. |
| - Support added for running out-of-tree (OOT) tests. |
| - Refactored and simplified code path. |
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| ### Trusted Platform Services (TPS) |
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| Simplified the account APIs to remove features that were no longer required. |
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| ### Virtualization |
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| - The virtio_block device has been migrated from C++ to Rust. |
| - The bulk of virtualization components have been converted to CFv2. |
| - Support has been added for creating guests with more than 4GiB of memory. |
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