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WHAT'S NEW

Featured FreeRTOS IoT Integrations:

Introducing three featured integrations for more secure IoT applications. See the blog post.

Extended Maintenance Plan (EMP):

Announcing the EMP for FreeRTOS, provided by AWS. See the blog post.

Delta Over-the-Air Updates:

Announcing Delta OTA updates. See the blog post.

December 2021 Releases:

Include MCUBoot demo and a new FreeRTOS download. See the blog post.

FreeRTOS LTS libraries:

The LTS libraries are now included in our partner toolchains. See the blog post.

C Development Tools
[RTOS Implementation Building Blocks]

A goal of FreeRTOS is that it is simple and easy to understand. To this end the majority of the RTOS source code is written in C, not assembler.

The example presented here uses the WinAVR development tools. WinAVR is a free Windows to AVR cross compiler based on GCC.

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