Roadmap

Release 4.1.2 ✓

This is the first release with the new directory structure and complete autotools-support for configuration and build.

• White-space cleanup (patches provided by Carsten) ✓
• partial cleanup of coap_config.h ✓
• Documentation:
  • Fix description in README and INSTALL ✓
  • Write a guideline how to use and implement the library (with a basic example?) ❌
• Build Environment
  • Switch the build environment to fully controlled by the autotools ✓
  • Change the library to symbols with versions ✓
  • Extended platform support ✓
  • Currently tested and working i386, amd64, armel, armhf, OS X … ? ✓
• Move to GitHub ✓
• Continuous Integration using Travis CI ✓

Release 4.2

• TLS/DTLS support
• TCP Transport according to draft-ietf-core-tcp-tls, c.f. PR #47

Examples

• Port the resource directory server to the latest specification
• Equip coap-server example with COMI-aligned Host MIB

Future Releases

• More cleanup of platform-specific code
  Move Contiki-specific code from net.c and coap_io.c to coap_io_contiki.c (akin coap_io_lwip.c)
• Separate public API from internal API
• Change internal representations of CoAP PDUs
  • organize CoAP options as list
  • serialize/deserialize PDU on send/receive

Retransmission Tasks for POSIX

The lwip and Contiki versions are able to handle retransmissions automatically. There is code that does this for POSIX as well, but it needs more testing and a fallback implementation in case the RT timer API is not available.