Main Changes

Associated changes in Wireless Coprocessor Binary:

• Support of new binary:
  • stm32wb5x_BLE_Mac_802_15_4_fw.bin : This binary supports static concurrency between BLE and MAC
• FUS:
  • General security enhancements
  • Allow larger image upgrade with lower flash size
• 802.15.4 General:
  • Support of external PA
• Phy 802.15.4:
  • New functions CW_start and CW_stop implemented. A pure signal (i.e. no modulation) is generated at a specific frequency.
• THREAD:
  • Updated OpenThread stack to SHA-1: 3dbd91aa2b70c7d5cc71b2c465ce3583a13dea79 (tag thread-reference-20191113)
  • ID 91270 : Add CoAP Secure support
• Zigbee:
  • ZDO permit join request rejected if duration is equal to 0xff
  • Memory allocation improvement when closing a Zigbee session
  • M0 heap size used by the stack updated in RFD configuration (8K instead of 32K)
  • TouchLink feature improvement
• BLE:
  • ID 97211 : Continuous scan hangs without scan completion event, Fix an identified GAP advertising filtering issue
  • ID 98174 : Update BLE interface documentation about ACI_HAL_GET_LINK_STATUS
  • ID 97936 : L2CAP update to support IP over BLE (M.6874), SHCI_C2_BLE_init() updated parameters to be provided to CPU2 with new BLE stack Options flags to be configured as: - SHCI_C2_BLE_INIT_OPTIONS_LL_ONLY - SHCI_C2_BLE_INIT_OPTIONS_LL_HOST - SHCI_C2_BLE_INIT_OPTIONS_NO_SVC_CHANGE_DESC - SHCI_C2_BLE_INIT_OPTIONS_WITH_SVC_CHANGE_DESC - SHCI_C2_BLE_INIT_OPTIONS_DEVICE_NAME_RO - SHCI_C2_BLE_INIT_OPTIONS_DEVICE_NAME_RW - SHCI_C2_BLE_INIT_OPTIONS_POWER_CLASS_1 - SHCI_C2_BLE_INIT_OPTIONS_POWER_CLASS_2_3
  • ID 94042, ID 97931 : STM32WB to handle certification BT5.2 (tcrl 2019-2)
  • ID 94489 : Enhancement of BLE Device (MAC) Address from UID64
  • ID 97789 : The memory manager shall be more efficient
• BLE Zigbee Static mode:
  • Fix memory leak: Clean stop of Zb timers and free all ZB heap, before a switch Zigbee to BLE

Firmware Upgrade Services Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in flash procedure “STEP 5/6” via USB or via SWD/JTAG.

Wireless Coprocessor Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in flash procedure “STEP 7” via USB or via SWD/JTAG.

Main Changes

Associated changes in Wireless Coprocessor Binary:

• BLE:
  • ID 87954 : Minimal time to keep Sem7 released by CPU1 so CPU2 can take it
  • ID 89925 : LLD_BLE_StopActivity does not stop BLE activity
  • ID 91232 : aci_gap_start_general_discovery_proc stopped in scan only configuration
    
  • ID 93009 : The dyn_alloc_a (GAP) and dyn_alloc_gatt_a (GATT) shall have fixed size
  • ID 93025 : The HSERDY bit stays high after CPU2 is started
• BLE ZIGBEE Static mode:
  • ID 93176 : Low power mode is activated for BLE and Zigbee.

Firmware Upgrade Services Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in flash procedure “STEP 5/6” via USB or via SWD/JTAG.

Wireless Coprocessor Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in flash procedure “STEP 7” via USB or via SWD/JTAG.

Main Changes

Associated changes in Wireless Coprocessor Binary:

• Introducing following new binaries:
  • stm32wb5x_BLE_HCI_AdvScan_fw.bin : Ability to do advertising and scanning through HCI interface,
    Any connection can’t be done, numOfLinks can be set to 1 at the stack initialization call
  • stm32wb5x_BLE_LLD_fw.bin : LLD BLE Radio Transparent firmware
  • stm32wb5x_BLE_Thread_dynamic_fw.bin : BLE Thread Dynamic concurrent mode
  • stm32wb5x_BLE_Zigbee_FFD_dynamic_fw.bin : BLE Zigbee Full Function Device Dynamic concurrent mode
  • stm32wb5x_BLE_Zigbee_RFD_dynamic_fw.bin : BLE Zigbee Reduced Function Device Dynamic concurrent mode
  • stm32wb5x_phy802_15_4_fw.bin replaces stm32wb5x_rfmonitor_phy802_15_4_fw.bin
• BLE Zigbee static mode is now split in two binaries:
  • stm32wb5x_BLE_Zigbee_FFD_static_fw.bin : BLE Zigbee Full Function Device Static concurrent mode
    • When using this static concurrent mode, the application can switch from BLE to Zigbee_FFD or from Zigbee_FFD to BLE on request. When in Zigbee mode, the device is acting as a Full Function Device
  • stm32wb5x_BLE_Zigbee_RFD_static_fw.bin : BLE Zigbee Reduced Function Device Static concurrent mode
    • When using this static concurrent mode, the application can switch from BLE to Zigbee_RFD or from Zigbee_RFD to BLE on request. When in Zigbee mode, the device is acting as a Reduced Function Device (End device or Sleepy End Device only)
• BLE:
  • ID 84973 : ACI_GAP_SET_DIRECT_CONNECTABLE command works for Directed_Advertising_Type in Low Duty Cycle Directed Advertising (0x01)
    only when Advertising_Interval_Min and Advertising_Interval_Max correctly set to 3.75 ms
  • ID 86883 : remove NVM relative code and constants from M0 firmware regenerated binaries for HCI Layer only
    and beacon only (BLE_HCILayer_fw,BLE_HCI_AdvScan_fw)
  • ID 86884 : remove const qualifier of NVM RAM emulation buffer in M0 firmware binaries to get in RAM not in ROM
  • ID 89110 : ACI_HAL_SCAN_REQ_REPORT_EVENT routine optimized in M0 firmware regenerated binaries as it was writing
    more data in memory than the allowed event size
  • ID 89430 : Integrate auto-generated DTM_cmd_db_xxx module in BLE stack libraries
  • ID 89456 : ERR_BLE_INIT event is enum listed, kept but not really supported as not reported
  • ID 90095 : Device Privacy Mode is now mandatory for BLE 5.0 and implemented to handle command HCI_LE_SET_PRIVACY_MODE command
  • ID 90607 : Beacon Only certification needs LE Test commands and LE Read Buffer Size command as:
    HCI_LE_RECEIVER_TEST, HCI_LE_TEST_END,HCI_LE_TRANSMITTER_TEST and LE_READ_BUFFER_SIZE integrated commands
  • ID 90891 : DEEPSLEEP mode on CPU2 not applied after aci_hal_stack_reset or hci_reset command is executed.
    A fix is to enable back the Stop Mode when the hci_reset() command is executed, included in all regenrated M0 firmware binaries
  • ID 91134 : SHCI_SUB_EVT_BLE_NVM_RAM_UPDATE not implemented on the stack side.
    A fix has been implemented on CPU2 to receive expected events on CPU1
  • ID 91157 : FLASH_SR_EOP flag remains set after the bonding info stored in NVM.
    A fix has been implemented to clear EOP flag after flash processing on CPU2
  • ID 91309 : A bug identified in the Link Layer which not de-allocate the memory it has allocated for ACL packets
    to be sent to the upper layer memory used for previous ACL packets.
    A fix implemented to de-allocate packet not yet sent to upper layers at the disconnection time
    
  • ID 91351 : CPU2 gets stuck when EOP and EOPIE both set in CPU1 FLASH interface prior CPU2 booting.
    A fix in NVM arbitrer implemented as enable SYSCFG only when EOPIE is enabled
  • ID 92458 : Replace the EOP polling by CFGBSY polling in CPU2 M0 firmware to get confirmation flash operation is completed
    to avoid unexpected interrupt on CPU1 side when its EOPIE bit is set
  • ID 91576 : The feature flag LE Power Class 1 shall be set when the ExtPa is used
• THREAD:
  • ID 91267 : Fix CoAP OpenThread API exposed on application side:
    The CoAP API is now compliant with OpenThread definition and mContext parameter is then correctly returned to the application.
• ZIGBEE:
  • Storage of the APS binding table in RFD mode (Persistence data management).
  • Integration of the dynamic concurrent mode between BLE and Zigbee.
• MAC 802.15.4:
  • ID 85031 : Association Procedure occasionally fails between 2 STM32WBxx
    • 802.15.4 LLD enhancement corrects this issue.
  • ID 91900 : Unexpected received Association Response
    • Fix provided in MAC reset procedure that deeply reset the Radio and 802.15.4 IP.

Firmware Upgrade Services Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in flash procedure “STEP 5/6” via USB or via SWD/JTAG.

Wireless Coprocessor Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in flash procedure “STEP 7” via USB or via SWD/JTAG.

Main Changes

Associated changes in Wireless Coprocessor Binary:

• BLE:
  • BLE Light Stack: Slave mode only, Secure connection, Privacy moe, and White list
  • BLE stack updates:
  • ID 72580 - Ellisys issue on LE_PHY_UPDATE_COMPLETE_EVENT with LL/CON/SLA-BV-40-C Test Fail
  • ID 76257 - Ellisys LL/SLA-BI-11-C Test Fail (Data Length Update)
  • ID 83714 - Support of four new events to notify the CPU1 about flash operation (after aci_gap_clear_security_db())
  • ID 83847 - Add event weak callback functions in ble_events.c called for each static event process function
  • ID 85414 - M0 FW: increase RNG pool size to 32
  • ID 85523 - Issue in generation of Non Resolvable Private Address
  • ID 85782 - Option to move NVM to unsecure SRAM2
  • ID 85833 - Update feature content of BLE Stack Light: Secure Connections, some Privacy and White List features
  • ID 87142 - Generic Access characteristics properties (Read/Write) for device name and appearance
  • ID 89182 - [GitHub][FUS]Fix FUS version value mentioned in the release note
• MAC:
  • ID 86016 - Wait ACK to be Tx (if expected) before managing incoming Frame
  • ID 86017 - Remove IFS Period management from MAC layer
  • ID 87175 - Function ip802154_lld_enterSleep() must not be called in IT context as RF is no more accessible after its execution
• ZIGBEE:
  • FFD Zigbee stack certified: Zigbee PRO Feature Set(2017) + Green Power
  • RFD Zigbee stack certification compliant: Zigbee PRO Feature Set(2017)
  • Low power mode support
  • Support of persistent data management (NVM)
  • ID 75709 - [LowPower] Improve SFTimer wrap around time
• THREAD:
  • ID 75709 - [LowPower] Improve SFTimer wrap around time
• BLE THREAD Concurrent Static Mode:
  • ID 82777 BLE Thread Static Concurrent Low Power Modes support

Firmware Upgrade Services Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in flash procedure “STEP 5/6” via USB or via SWD/JTAG.

Wireless Coprocessor Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in flash procedure “STEP 7” via USB or via SWD/JTAG.

Main Changes

Associated changes in Wireless Coprocessor Binary:

• MAC:
  • ID 81423 - Exceeding max Pending Data crashed the board
  • ID 81426 - Beacon Ind msg wrongly issued
• ZIGBEE:
  • Introducing stm32wb5x_Zigbee_RFD_fw.bin (targeted for Zigbee End Device)
    
  • MAC layer bug fixed
• THREAD:
  • Parameter check updates for notification to the application.
  • ID 80054 - Coap Default Handler fixed
  • ID 82579 - Some commands such as otLinkGetExtendedAddress return data in the SRAM2a section
• BLE:
  • BLE stack updates:
  • Fix vulnerability referenced as CVE-2019-19192
  • ID 82231 - The PESD bit is kept high when BLE Mesh un-provisioning is requested by AT Command
  • ID 68815 - Min connection interval does not allow scan @ master side
  • ID 76341 - Ellisys LL/SEC/ADV/BV-03-C test fail due to wrong RPA Timeout value 10.7s vs 10s expected
  • ID 74352 - STM32WB BLE Stack DoS deadlock vulnerability
  • ID 81795 - STM32WB BLE stack blocks at some commands following ACI_HAL_RX_START
  • ID 81758 - Apply specific workarounds and RF trimming parameters when using ACI_HAL_TONE_START
  • ID 77395 - Ellisys LL/CON/INI/BV-04 issue on connection supervision timeout
  • ID 82288 - BLE stack: behavior of HCI SC key events in full stack mode
  • ID 79038 - SMP changes to avoid master pairing without “force rebond” working after bond lost
  • ID 68859 - Multilink Secure Pairing Collision make pairing failing
  • ID 75302 - SMP: no more possible from master or slave to redo a new refresh key, or force rebond if master send several GAP_send_pairing_REQ before HCI_ENCRYPTION event issue.
  • ID 76809 - PTS: SM/MAS/SCOB/BV-01-C issue on GAP_AUTHENTICATON that modifies OOB data
  • ID 79042 - SMP: bond lost event on master side
  • ID 81007 - HCI_Data_Buffer_Overflow event to be removed as useless
  • ID 82059 - BLE stack init: change handling of a too large number of links parameter

Firmware Upgrade Services Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in flash procedure “STEP 5” via USB or “STEP 3” via SWD/JTAG.

Wireless Coprocessor Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in flash procedure “STEP 6” via USB or “STEP 4” via SWD/JTAG.

Main Changes

Associated changes in Wireless Coprocessor Binary:

• FUS:
  • New revision
  • Add Antirollback mechanism: when this option is activated it cannot be reverted and it prevents installation of any older version of firmware (refer to AN5185 for more details)
  • Add ECC error management (factory reset).
  • Add Flash corruption error management (factory reset).
  • Replace the safeboot complete device lock by factory reset.
• Introducing new binary stm32wb5x_BLE_Zigbee_FFD_static_fw.bin:
  • Supporting BLE and Zigbee in static mode
• THREAD:
  • Correct the way the OpenThread API parameters are shared between M4 and M0. M4 is no more accessing parameters stored in secure SRAM.
  • LLD enhancement
  • Support of External PA
• ZIGBEE:
  • Reducing memory footprint
  • Fix memory allocation issue
  • Zigbee stack enhancement (Fix basic cluster string initialization and Fix zb_ipc_m0_zdo_match_desc callback issue)
  • LLD enhancement
  • Support of External PA
• MAC 802.15.4:
  • Support of Low Power mode
  • Fix issue on silent start as device was not able to emit data on such start, SyncLossIndication now provides the right PANID
  • LLD enhancement
  • Support of External PA
• BLE:
  • Introduction of new binary stm32wb5x_BLE_Stack_light_fw.bin for supporting Slave only (cf previous detailed description).
  • WARNING: when using the stm32wb5x_BLE_Stack_light_fw.bin binary, the maximum number of simultaneous connections that the device will support is 2
    then #define CFG_BLE_NUM_LINK in app_conf.h shall be updated accordingly.
  • Erase/Write Flash of Wireless Stack Non Volatile Memory while BLE link is active (Min Interval 28ms)
  • Fix IFS (Inter Frame Spacing) sometimes longer than 152us

Firmware Upgrade Services Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in flash procedure “STEP 5” via USB or “STEP 3” via SWD/JTAG.

Wireless Coprocessor Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in flash procedure “STEP 6” via USB or “STEP 4” via SWD/JTAG.

Main Changes

Associated changes in Wireless Coprocessor Binary:

• ZIGBEE :
  • Reducing memory footprint
  • Use Hardware Acceleration for AES processing
  • Improved trace mechanism
• BLE :
  • Add GAP appearance definitions in ble_defs.h
  • Fix issue with ACI_GATT_[SIGNED_]WRITE_WITHOUT_RESP when ATT packet with a size between 61 and 63 bytes
  • Improvement of the NVM management
  • Support of External PA
• MAC 802.15.4 :
  • MAC Promiscuous mode enablement
  • New MAC/PHY PIB attribute support (TxPower)

Firmware Upgrade Services Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in “STEP 5” of flash procedure.

Wireless Coprocessor Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in “STEP 6” of flash procedure.

Main Changes

Associated changes in Wireless Coprocessor Binary:

• ZIGBEE :
  • Introducing support of Zigbee FFD (Full Function Device)
• BLE :
  • Erase Flash while RF activity
  • BLE Initialization execution time reduced
• THREAD / MAC 802.15.4 :
  • New version of 802.15.4 Low Level Driver

Firmware Upgrade Services Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in “STEP 5” of flash procedure.

Wireless Coprocessor Binary Table: Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in “STEP 6” of flash procedure.

Main Changes

Associated changes in Wireless Coprocessor Binary:

• BLE Link layer : fix issues with pairing
• Reception of 2 pairing complete events after failing numeric comparison
• Slave_security_req collision with connection update made unstable security
• No timeout event after slave req pairing if link key was deleted @ slave side

• Blackout time should be back to 5sec after bonding OK

• BLE GATT : improvement of GATT Read event management for certain values of attribute length and ATT_MTU
• BLE GATT : Add ACI_GATT_INDICATION_EXT_EVENT
• THREAD / MAC 802.15.4 :
  • New version of 802.15.4 Low Level Driver (Tx Power management improvement + API alignment)
• MAC 802.15.4:
  • Updates on robustness and test coverage

Binary Install Address and version : Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in “STEP 5 and STEP 6” of flash procedure.

Main Changes

Associated changes in Firmware Upgrade Services (FUS):

• Add support for STM32WB5xE(512K) and STM32WB5xC(256K) devices.
• On STM32WB5xC and STM32WB5xE, it is mandatory to install FUS V1.0.2 before any other operation. Otherwise, the device might be locked in an unrecoverable state.

The following table provide the address to use in correspondence with the flash procedure of Wireless Coprocessor Binaries and the device to be used.

Associated changes in Wireless Coprocessor Binary:

• BLE System : fix stopMode2 race condition
• BLE Security : fix pairing issue with numeric comparison

Binary Install Address and version : Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in “STEP 5 and STEP 6” of flash procedure.

Main Changes

Introduction of the Firmware Upgrade Services (FUS):

• This feature is embedded inside stm32wb5x_FUS_fw.bin.
• This stm32wb5x_FUS_fw.bin v1.0.1 MUST be installed to use Wireless Coprocessor Binaries v1.1.0.
• This stm32wb5x_FUS_fw.bin v1.0.1 CANNOT BE USED with the previous version of Wireless Coprocessor Binary.
• All existing Cortex®-M4 user application are compatible without any update.

The following table provide the address to use in correspondence with the flash procedure of Wireless Coprocessor Binaries.

Introduction of the Customer Key Storage (CKS):

• All Wireless Coprocessor Binaries embeds this new feature.
• The FUS allows customer keys to be stored in the dedicated FUS Flash memory area and then to load the stored key to the AES1 in secure mode (AES1 key register accessed only by Cortex®-M0+ and data registers accessible by Cortex®-M4 user application).
• You can refer to AN5185 : ST firmware upgrade services for STM32WB Series.

Associated changes in Wireless Coprocessor Binary:

• BLE NVM : change behavior when NVM is full
  • Inform application before latest record
  • Erase and keep latest record when it is full
• BLE Link layer : fix issue when pairing fails with SMP_SC_NUMCOMPARISON_FAILED, no response from the slave if the master sends again pairing_req.
• BLE Link layer : fix issue Disconnection with error code 0x3D MIC Failure.
• Thread 802_15_4 radio driver robustness improvement with additional error checks. The application is now notified in case of radio error detected inside the wireless binary.
• Thread TxPower management improvement
  • New APIs provided on application side in order to control the Tx power :otPlatRadioGetTransmitPower() and otPlatRadioSetTransmitPower()
  • The default Tx power is now set to 0dBm

Binary Install Address and version : Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in “STEP 5 and STEP 6” of flash procedure.

Main Changes

First release

First official release.

Binary Install Address and version : Provides Install address for the targeted binary to be used in “STEP 6” of flash procedure.