WAMR-1.2.0

Breaking Changes

New Features

Implement two-level Multi-tier JIT engine: tier-up from Fast JIT to LLVM JIT to get quick cold startup and better performance
Enable running mode control for runtime, wasm module instance and iwasm
Implement wasi-threads feature
Upgrade toolkits: upgrade to llvm-15.0, wasi-sdk-19.0, emsdk-3.1.28 and so on
Port WAMR to the FreeBSD platform
Refactor wasi-nn to simplify the support for multiple frameworks
wasi-nn: Enable GPU support
wasi-nn: Support multiple TFLite models
Add WAMR API bindings in Python
Add libsodium benchmark

Bug Fixes

Fix wasm-c-api import func link issue in wasm_instance_new
Fix watchpoint segfault when using debug interp without server
libc-wasi: Fix spurious poll timeout
Fix typo verify_module in aot_compiler.c
Fix failure about preopen of reactor modules
Fix equal check in AOT XIP float cmp intrinsic
Fix issue of resolving func name in custom name section
Fix go language binding build on macos arm64
Prevent undefined behavior from c_api_func_imports == NULL
Fix potential block issue in source debugger
SGX IPFS: Fix a segfault and support seeking beyond the end of files while using SEEK_CUR/SEEK_END
Fix undef error about WAMR_BUILD_MEMORY_PROFILING
Fix jit memory overwritten after instance deinstantiate
Fix stack alignment issue on ia32
Fix explicit casts and types in espidf_socket.c
Fix potential integer overflow issue in wasm-c-api
Fix libc-wasi build failure when using clang
Fix wamrapi python binding for darwin
Fix getting port issue in posix os_socket_bind
Fix key error in build_llvm.py
nuttx: Add missing pthread.h header
Fix os_socket_addr_resolve() for IPv6
Enhance/Fix sample socket-api and workload
Fix fast-jit build error
Fix dead lock in source debugger
fix debugger: Set termination flags also when in debug mode

Enhancements

Add WAMR-IDE vscode extension to the Visual Studio Marketplace
Refine Windows thread waiting list operations
Improve wasm-c-api instantiation-time linking
Enable platform support for esp-idf v5.0.1
Readme refactoring
Add architecture diagram for wasm function
Add architecture document for wasm export
Add architecture diagram for wasm globals and classic-interp stack frame
Use boringssl instead of openssl to implement wasm cache loading
Implement i32.rem_s and i32.rem_u intrinsic
Perfect the codebase for wamr-ide
Remove unnecessary ret value control when spec test is enabled
Use float version library routine for XIP aot_intrinsic_xxx APIs
Register missing symbols for f32 to 64 bit integer conversion
Report error in instantiation when meeting unlinked import globals
Add more types and APIs for attr_container
Simplify fcmp intrinsic logic for AOT/XIP
Add some missing macros for int literals in wamr-sdk libc-builtin-sysroot stdint.h
nuttx: Mock socket APIs if NET is disabled
Main thread spread exception when thread-mgr is enabled
Implement opcode atomic.wait and atomic.notify for Fast JIT
Add docker images auto check and setup support for WAMR-IDE
Make memory profiling show native stack usage
Enable gcc-4.8 compilation
Enable specifying out-of-source platform configuration cmake file
Add gh api call for fetching llvm version (#1942) Fixes
Don't terminate other threads when create thread failed
Modify poll_oneoff in libc-wasi to make it interruptible
Expose wasm_runtime_call_indirect
Make a workaround for EGO when fstat returns NOT_SUPPORT
Re-org calling post instantiation functions
Enable custom llvm build flags
support SSH for git clone llvm
Support dump call stack on exception and dump call stack on nuttx
Update document for source debugging
Document some info about estimating memory usage

Others

Enable XIP in CI daily test
Integrate wasi test suite to wamr-test-suites and CI
Add CI for wasi-threads tests
Update CIs and documents to make naming of generated binaries consist
Enable CI wasi test suite for x86-32 classic/fast interpreter
CI: Enable libc-wasi compilation test on NuttX
CI: Enable Multi-tier JIT by default for released iwasm binary