We are proud to annunce the release of eLua v0.8 (codename “FINALLY! It was about time for a new release” 🙂 ). eLua is an effort to expand the presence of the Lua programming language in the embedded world, especially on microcontroller-based platforms. It is meant to be a complete MCU development environment. It currently runs on a number of ARM variants (including Cortex-M3), AVR32 (and i386 as a proof of concept).
What follows is a list of new features in this release:
- Added the RFS (Remote File System), a new file system which allows sharing a directory on the PC with the eLua board.
- Added a serial multiplexer which allows using more virtual serial ports over a single physical UART connection.
- Added Lua and C interrupt handlers support, see here for more details.
- Added linenoise support (eLua and Lua shell command line history and navigation, more details here).
- Added generic I2C support and docs
- Added hardware flow control and runtime configurable buffers for UARTs.
- Added support for new boards: mbed, ATEVK1101, Mizar32, EK-LM3S1968
- Added SPI and SD/MMC support for EVK1100 and EVK1101 (AVR32)
- Added I2C support for STR-E912 (STR912)
- Added support for require() and autorun from SD/MMC
- Added external memory support for STR912
- Added long filename support for SD/MMC
- Added RTC (real time clock) platform specific support for str9 (see the documentation of the str9.rtc module).
- Added support for AsciiDoc in the documentation system
- Tutorials and new projects added to the eLua Wiki
- Demo files were moved out of the distro to http://wiki.eluaproject.net/Projects
- Added a media page with eLua related media on the project site
Fantastically Plastic 
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