After a long time, there is a new offical release of eLua (0.9). A lot has changed since the previous version, the most important changes are listed below:
- New feature: system timer (micro-second accurate timer on all platforms)
- New feature: WOFS (write-once file system), a writeable file system that uses the internal MCU Flash memory as storage
- New feature: advanced shell (more shell commands, file masks)
- New feature: support for multiple SD cards
- New memory optimizations: pseudo read-only strings in Lua, reading Lua bytecode directly from Flash, NaN packing for Lua TValues
- Directory support in file systems (currently MMCFS only)
- Support for various new CPUs and boards
- Direct USB CDC support on some platforms
- New 64-bit integer-only compilation mode (lualonglong)
- New interrupts and Various interrupt support code on different platforms
- 'recv' is now able to save files too, not only execute them
- Various fixes and performance improvements in the serial multiplexer code
- Bug fixes on all platforms
- RPC fixes and improvements
- The shell commands are now callable from the 'elua' module
