v0.15.0

Release notes

Breaking interface changes

• This version of East created breaking changes in the interface. This was
  done due to the consistency with existing west interface.
  Changes:
  • east sys-setup was removed and replaced with east install.
  • east install now contains several subcommands, which can be used to
    install codechecker, toolchain, nrfutil-toolchain-manager, etc.
  • east update is now just a wrapper around west update command.
  • Newly added east init is now just a wrapper around west init command.

Added

• Support for Codechecker, a static analysis infrastructure. Newly added
  command east codechecker contains several subcommands:
  • Users can now check their Zephyr projects with clang-tidy and
    clangsa,
  • apply suggested fixes with fixit,
  • store the results of the Codechecker analysis to a server,
  • servdiff - compare the local analysis against the last server analysis,
  • See example codechecker_config.yaml file with example-config,
  • or directly run any Codechecker command with bypass.
    An effort was made to make the east codechecker check command most useful:
  • Most of the warnings that are reported because of the Zephyr's macros are
    filtered out.
  • Installation of Codechecker and all its dependencies is seamless, you only
    need to run east install codechecker.
• Support for generating the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) in SPDX format.
  To generate SPDX files add --spdx or --spdx-app-only flags to
  east build or east release respectively. east build command will place
  SPDX files in the build folder, while east release will generate them for
  each combination of parameters and place them next to the respective
  artefacts.
• Add EAST_BUILD_TYPE CMake define to the build and release commands.
  This define is emitted only if we are building an app with build type
  functionality (so, it is not emitted for samples). It contains a string,
  identical to the given --build-type flag.

Fixed

• Build type issue when building app not listed in the east.yaml (#85)
• pykwalify error caused by an empty east.yml (#85)
• Always delete build folder when build settings do not match. (#85)
• Incorrect removal of toolchain when using --force flag. (#85)
• Improve error message when running bypass in non NCS repo. (#85)
• Correctly handle ctrl+c when running east debug. Previously everything
  broke (yes, everything), when user wanted to stop a running program inside
  gdb. Essentially the ctrl+c combination was passed twice to gdb, which
  caused all sort of problems.

Removed

• Conda from list of installed tools. Conda was originally intended to be used
  as bootstrapping environment, however there was never need for it.