**New Features**
* Added location services with GPS and network-based positioning, approximate or precise accuracy, and live status updates.
* Added a Location Settings app to view status, control location access and accuracy, and manage GPS devices.
* Added location choices during device setup and a location toggle in the system menu.
* Added support for thread stacks in external memory when available, with fallback to existing memory options.
**Improvements**
* Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled states are saved when changed and applied at startup; separate “Enable on boot” switches are no longer shown in their management screens.
* GPS setup can stop promptly when interrupted.
* Improved device removal handling during startup and while references are outstanding.
* Updated several device listings to no longer be marked as incubating.
- Introduce "side" mode for system bar, versus classic statusbar on top with launcher bar below
- Automatic system bar mode detection with override by Kconfig/device.properties and secondary override by user via Appereance settings app
- Open a quick-settings menu from the status bar for available Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and power controls.
- Apps can display overlays with backdrop or Escape-key dismissal.
- Added focus-container support and improved keyboard navigation, including Fn+Enter on Cardputer devices.
- Power-off controls are available on supported device cards.
- Updated status-bar layouts, simulator display dimensions, and toolbar navigation styling.
- I²C scanning now supports selecting individual buses to rescan.
- SD-card mount status is no longer shown in the status bar.
- Implement ST7305 driver at `Drivers/st7305-module`
- Rename `cl32` device project to `cl32-v02-v03` and removed v0.4 drivers
- Implement CL-32 v0.4 device as `cl32-v04`: display, keyboard, backlight/frontlight driver and power supply
- Remove `TT_LAUNCHER_APP_ID` (it was always the same setting)
- Remove `TT_LVGL_STATUSBAR_COLORS_INVERTED` (unused since recent changes)
- Wi-Fi only refreshes once, so users can navigate with the keyboard through the results, without constently resetting focus/selection. After initial scan, manual scans can be requested via the toolbar.
- Themes: material and material_mono theme don't show post-selection border animation anymore. It looks weird on monochrome devices and it doesn't add anything on other devices either.
- Made `merge.sh` executable
- backlight driver API change: min/max brightness functions are now optional, defaults to [0, 255]
- Implemented themes with LSS: material, material mono
- Implemented grid-based navigation
- Added new Launcher
- Updated Appearance app to add theme configuration
- Updated various apps to improve UX/UI
- Added LVGL widgets: cards, badges, chips, icon buttons
- Added support for round/rounded displays
- Added the concept of insets to LVGL and implemented it in toolbar + statusbar
- Terminal app now hides toolbar by default, but tapping the terminal toggles visibility
- File browsing now opens the configured user-data location by default
- Added missing licenses to subprojects
- Updated README.md screenshots and intro text
DTS modules (device modules) often have a single source file with an empty `struct Module`.
The module's yaml file now allows a `dts-only` boolean to be set, so the source file becomes optional.
`devicetree.yaml` is renamed everywhere to `module.yaml`
app-module:
- Implement `AppStartContext` to reduce amount of `app_start_` and `app_exec` functions: replace them with `app_start_with_context()`
- Add support for environment variables when starting apps
- Implement support for environment variables for apps
graphics-module:
- Add this new module
- Move font-module code into this module
- Implement pixel_buffer
apps:
- Terminal app: reduce memory usage by only buffering a single row of characters, and try to buffer in IRAM when possible. Implement new pixel_buffer.
- App List: Mark apps as favourite to pin them on top. Use touch or press "x" key.
- App List: Add toolbar button that shows alert dialog with info about using favourites
USB Audio Class (UAC) output
Audio codec re-binding
Keyboard / Bluetooth HID
HID Consumer Control (media keys)
Symbol exports
Other fixes
IMU-based screen auto-rotate
See PR for details: https://github.com/TactilityProject/Tactility/pull/655
- CL-32 features added:
- Hardware revision detection
- v0.3 and v0.4 keyboard
- v0.4 power supply
- Inlined epd library (was a module) and made changes to the device definition (don't do full update after 5 small updates)
- Statusbar: add support for inverted colors
- e-paper driver improvements and warning fixes
- Implemented gpio_controller_get_level()
- Keyboard support improvements (unicode for tca drivers)
- Added POSIX desktop support for SDK builds, application packaging, and integration testing.
- Added POSIX filesystem partitions and improved application path handling.
- Added simulator support for loading and running applications dynamically.
- Improved simulator task stack handling and display startup reliability.
- Improved simulator display scaling, resizing, high-DPI support, and pointer accuracy.
- Fixed LVGL timers and input polling on POSIX. (fixes simulator with Linux on some Intel graphics platforms)
- Standardized data paths across platforms.
- Logging now works via separate task: this allows apps to write to log without it affecting their stdout (for apps that output text as relevant date for other apps, like the File Selection app)
- Fixes for app stdio
- Standardized keyboard input using Unicode-based key codes across supported devices and the simulator. Keyboards don't emit `LV_KEY_*` anymore.
- Refactored lilygo encoder driver into a reusable GPIO rotary encoder driver (see `Drivers/gpio-encoder-module/`). Added more features to the config file.
- Improved LVGL keyboard device management, including duplicate prevention and reliable reconnects.
- LVGL file mutex now registers with lvgl start/stop
- Improved LVGL startup/shutdown stability and memory allocation reliability.
- Increased simulator LVGL memory capacity and improved USB device-class handling.
Added the newest variant to the tab5, St7121.
Fixed variant detection reliability
Fixed tab5 camera WHO_AM_I failing sometimes
Fixed tab5 keyboard live rotation on boot and after stopping/starting lvgl
shadow_framebuffer records what the panel is currently showing, but both
refresh paths updated it before the refresh was confirmed, so a failed
trigger or a BUSY timeout left it describing content that was never
displayed.
That misdescription compounds: the shadow is sent to the controller as
CMD_DATA_START_OLD, so the per-pixel transitions get computed from an
image the panel never held, and draw_bitmap() diffs against it, so a
region matching a wrong shadow is treated as clean and never repainted.
Both paths now commit only after wait_while_busy() confirms. refresh_full()
also sends new data straight from the render buffer, which drops a
full-framebuffer copy from the path.
Adds sub-GHz radio support to Tactility as a first-class kernel device type, plus a
driver for the Semtech SX1262. Continues the radio work discussed in #342, brought up to
the current kernel driver model (rather than the deprecated tt::hal layer the earlier
prototype targeted).
- Split up `gps-generic-module` into:
- `gps-generic-module` that contains only interfaces/configs/bindings (Apache license)
- `gps-meshtastic-module` that contains an implementation (GPL license)
- Update `LICENSE.md` for changes, but also added clarifications
- Added licenses to directories where they were missing
- Changed license of some test projects from GPL to Apache.
- Replaced device_find_\* usage by device_get_\* variants.
- Removed deprecated device_find_\* functions.
- Improved reliability of Bluetooth scanning, pairing, connection, and HID host lifecycle behavior, including peer auto-connect handling.
- Improved Bluetooth/USB status indicators and clarified “Eject failed” alerts with the affected mount path.
- Added generic GPS/GNSS support with device detection, configuration, and persistent settings.
- Improved device and module lifecycle management.
- Added flexible filesystem locking support for displays and storage.
- Improved display-idle and keyboard backlight handling.
- Updated architecture, driver, module, testing, and licensing documentation.
- Removed old HAL device and related code.
- Created kernel driver for T-Deck Max & Pro display (needs work, doesn't refresh reliably on T-Deck Pro)
- Created T-Deck Pro device implementation (incubating)
Migrated devices to kernel drivers:
- guition-jc3248w535c
- m5stack-core2
- m5stack-cores3
- m5stack-papers3
New drivers:
- axp192-module
- axp2101-module
Fixes:
- Fix SD card LDO for P4 devices
- Updated PowerOff app to work with kernel displays
- Fix for `lvgl_try_lock()` timing
- Fix for touch events with slow updating displays
Improvements:
- `GuiService` now keeps trying to lock to prevent silent failures caused by drivers.
- `GuiService` now uses lvgl-module calls for locking/unlocking
- display driver now has capability `DISPLAY_CAPABILITY_SLOW_REFRESH`
* **New Features**
* Added native display support for ST7796, ILI9341, and ST7789 panels across supported boards.
* Added FT5x06 and FT6x36 touchscreen support.
* Generic PWM driver
* ESP32 PWM driver
* Generic RGB LED driver
* RGB PWM LED driver
* RGB GPIO LED driver
* Implementation of RGB LED for various boards
* **Improvements**
* Updated board hardware descriptions to use explicit display/touch/backlight device-tree bindings and disabled deprecated HAL usage.
* Improved display and touch-driver cleanup to prevent stale resources and improve shutdown reliability.
* Pinned esp-hosted library to a fixed version
* **Deletions**
* Obsolete placeholder display
* Legacy ILI9488 support.
* ESP32-specific LEDC PWM implementation
- RGB display driver added
- display_driver API:
- Added software-based display rotation for screens without hardware rotation support.
- Improved display capability detection across supported display drivers.
- lvgl_display driver:
- Improved framebuffer handling for smoother, more reliable display updates.
- Display gap and rotation behavior now adapts more accurately to hardware capabilities.
- Migration Crowpanel 5" basic & advance to kernel drivers
- Improve KernelDisplay app: brightness controls are hidden for displays that only support on/off operation
- device.py now allows for (non-ambiguous) partial device IDs
- TactilityKernel: Implement more tests
