v0.1.0-beta-25w43 | Minimum Viable Beta

Welcome to Minimum Viable Beta

Very exciting release to cut this week! As of October 24, 2025 we are now at a Beta release of the PROVES Core Reference F Prime Zephyr software!

What this means is that this is the absolute bare minimum a PROVES Kit user would need to send a satellite to outer space and probably hear back from it. Very exciting stuff.

Big features include:

• LoRa Radio Communications
• IMU Components
• Real Time Clock Component
• Watchdog Management

Known issues that we want to sort out before leaving the Beta includes:

• Better queue management
• Integration tests using the LoRa Radio
• Preliminary deployment sequence implementation
• Validation the software will continually operate for at least a week

What's Changed

• Use custom board definition by @nateinaction in #10
• Move closer to D as default by @nateinaction in #26
• works with radio in the v5d board by @ineskhou in #21
• Ensure watchdog integration test cleans up after itself by @nateinaction in #28
• Introduce ImuManager, Lis2mdlDriver & Lsm6dsoDriver Components by @nateinaction in #11
• Introduce RtcManager & Rv3028Driver Components by @ineskhou in #18
• Add BootloaderTrigger Component by @hrfarmer in #32
• Prune zephyr manifest by @Mikefly123 in #30
• Fix caching by @nateinaction in #35
• Automated Integration Tests by @hrfarmer in #33
• Added Bootloader Check by @Mikefly123 in #46
• Update ci.yaml by @Mikefly123 in #47
• Burnwire by @ineskhou in #12
• NullPrmDb Component by @nateinaction in #51
• Revert bootloadertrigger change by @nateinaction in #52
• Bringing over more from the radio branch by @nateinaction in #53
• Improve Zephyr environment management + improve integration test reliability by @nateinaction in #38
• Update comment in boot.py by @nateinaction in #57
• change order of zephyr target deps by @hrfarmer in #61
• Radio (LoRa) Integration by @LeStarch in #40
• Add comprehensive .github/copilot-instructions.md for coding agent onboarding by @Copilot in #43
• Antenna Deployer by @ineskhou in #14

New Contributors

• @ineskhou made their first contribution in #21
• @LeStarch made their first contribution in #40
• @Copilot made their first contribution in #43

Full Changelog: v0.1.0-alpha-25w35a...v0.1.0-beta-25w43