This is the first major vexide update this summer! This blog post is focused solely on the new update to the vexide crate. To read about our summer plans and everything else included in this release, take a look at our blog post on that subject. I highly recommend reading it!

Now for the vexide changes!

Changelog

Added

• The startup banner and code signature may now be configured using parameters passed to vexide::main. (#102)
• Added the ProgramOwner, ProgramType, and ProgramFlags types for code signature configuration. (#76)
• Created new force_rust_libm feature to force the use of a slower, 100% Rust, libm implementation. This is useful for building on WASM. (#106)
• Optimized floating point math operations available through the Float extension trait. (#77)
• Added text metrics getters to the Text widget. (#83)
• Added alignment support for the Text widget. (#85)
• CompetitonBuilder functions can now return a ControlFlow in order to explicitly end execution. (#89)
• Point2 can now be converted to mint when using the nalgebra feature. (#91)

Fixed

• Peripherals can now be mutated in the main function (#75)
• Panic messages now output over serial even on display_panics feature.

Changed

• Updated vex-sdk to version 0.17.0. (#76)
• Renamed ColdHeader to CodeSignature. (#76) (Breaking Change)
• Renamed the entrypoint symbol from _entry to _start. (#76) (Breaking Change)
• Renamed __stack_start and __stack_end symbols to __stack_top and __stack_bottom respectively. (#76) (Breaking Change)
• Renamed the .cold_magic section to .code_signature. (#76) (Breaking Change)
• Made fields on screen widgets public. (#81)
• Renamed Competition to CompetitionRuntime, CompetitionRobotExt to CompetitionExt, and CompetitionRobot to Competition. (#87) (Breaking Change)
• Removed the Error associated type from the Competition trait and made all methods infallible. (#87) (Breaking Change)

Removed

• The no-banner feature has been removed from vexide-startup and must now be toggled through the vexide:main attribute. (#102) (Breaking Change)
• Removed the useless __rodata_start and __rodata_end symbols.
• Support for vexide-math has been dropped. (#78) (Breaking Change)