Pi4J Version 1.0 - RELEASED!

Pi4J Version 1.0 Release

The much anticipated Version 1.0 of the Pi4J Library is finally released!

The road to release 1.0 has been a long one, but 1.0 offers many new features, bug fixes and improved stability over the earlier releases.  We feel that the project has been in incubation long enough and is ready for an official 1.0 launch.

Pi4J Version 1.0 is also available in Maven Central.  <<View in Maven Central>>

Notable Version 1.0 Changes:

• Released under GNU LGPLv3 license.
• Added support for RaspberryPi v2 Model B
• Added support for RaspberryPi Model A+
• Added support for RaspberryPi Model B+
• Added support for RaspberryPi Compute Module
• Added support for debounce logic on digital input pin events
• Added support for Button component interface
• Added support for Pibrella device
• Added support for SPI modes
• Added support for building pi4j-native project directly on the Pi (using maven)
• Added easy install/uninstall scripts (get.pi4j.com)
• Added APT package and repository support (repository.pi4j.com)
• Simplified native library loader to find embedded hard-float native lib
• Fixed JDK8 build errors.
• Removed support (and complicated builds) for soft-float ABI
• Updated documentation in preparation for 1.0 release
• Cleaned up build
• Enhancements Added: https://github.com/Pi4J/pi4j/issues?q=label%3Aenhancement+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A%22RELEASE+1.0%22+
• Bugs/Defects Fixed: https://github.com/Pi4J/pi4j/issues?q=label%3Abug+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A%22RELEASE+1.0%22+

Special Thanks:

Thank You to all the Pi4J users, contributors, testers, and tinkerers for all your help and support to continue making Pi4J the go-to library for Java access to the Raspberry Pi's hardware interfaces. 

Pi4J Related Links: 

• Pi4J Website
• Pi4J Github Repository
• Pi4J Google Groups/Forum
• Pi4J JavaDoc

Comments

[David Bellair]

I thank you for providing this pi4j Java package, for using Java with the Raspberry Pi and PiFace Digital boards.

Can I please suggest that your documentation prominently includes the need to set the Advanced Options of the raspi-config configuration program to enable the automatic loading of the SPI and I2C kernel modules.

When I first configured my out-of-the-box Raspberry Pi, I didn't know what the SPI and I2C interfaces were, so disabled them. This caused considerable grief a couple of weeks later when I tried to get a PiFace Digital board working. It was only when I started a new installation of Raspbian that I realised what I had done in ignorance.

Those options may well be enabled by default, but I like to simplify things to the bare minimum, and I don't like relying on defaults which I don't understand.

Thank you